jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I see Neuralink as just a next-gen version of deep brain stimulation where we could have a lot more stimulation nodes than 1 or 2. Just that could be quite exciting as it is already known that targeted electric stimulation in the brain can do a lot of positive things for those who can benefit.
Okay I have a legitimate question: for random things you need to do in a long timeframe (ex. Change the Air Filters in 6 months) do you add it to your calendar? Siri for example would add it for exactly 6 months to the day from now, and what if that is a Tuesday and you'd rather do it at a more convenient time?

Adding it to reminders would have an enormous number of pending reminders it feels like
Also, CloudI (http://cloudi.org) provides supervisor functionality for Python services to help keep source code in Python fault-tolerant. There have been no problems handling large quantities of data there.
Maybe it's just being properly diagnosed more often. In the 1800s, it was just called "consumption."
I agree that privacy is important, but whenever I hear people talk about how hard it is to abandon Facebook or similar services, it seems to me that there's a missing middle ground.

Posting to Facebook, even messaging, is publishing. People just need to remember that. There's nothing wrong with publishing. It's something that people used to work hard to achieve and only a few could afford. Now anyone can publish. This is great progress. Publishing has never been private and doesn't need to be. There's a place in society for public tools and a place for private ones as well. The problem occurs when people try to use publishing platforms as private communication. Of course that causes problems. It's a matter of using the wrong tool for the job. I think what we need is to continue to develop private communication technologies side-by-side with the public ones.

I am fine with living with tools like Facebook outside my control when they serve a purpose. We control what information we give them. There's a big problem with relying on them for all of our communication.
pthreads. You know them?
As already mentioned, Sedra is quite heavy on theory. I would recommend Rezavi instead. It's tone is much more casual and backs most of the theory with practical applications. Even so, it is quit rigorous and does not lack in examples both solved and not.
Everything is way more accessible than pre-2000's, but I would argue that the overall quality of the user-experience is probably worse. If you buy a TV today, you get amazing image quality, but you also have to live with the fact that the TV spies on you and that the software it runs on will discontinue in 5 years. (this of course doesn't matter because it's been designed to break before that point). I would gladly take an old CRT over a modern smart-tv.
Lot cheaper than getting a cop/bomb squad person killed, preliminary investigation with risking a human is where these would work well I think and better than the tracked robots in use
This is a very elitist and condescending ran. Assuming everyone who disagrees with you is being manipulated is not going to bring anyone to your side and will further distance people who disagree.
> If google is making false statements on the matter they will be in for a world of hurt. Its just not likely that large, publicly traded, heavily scrutinized corps like Google are going to lie about matters soon to be litigated.

The potential lying from Google is also done by individuals who have no obligations to tell the truth. To me it seems incredibly rare that a human being (the person(s) doing the lying) gets any significant punishment for actions credited to a company. In my observation the more common scenarios are that the company and employees either fully get away with blatant lies or the company has to pay a small fine in relation to its profits.
Google isn't some dangerous smelting factory of low paid workers.

These people were using the notion of unions to further their desire to push their POLITICS. They didnt care about safety or pay. They wanted to force the company to stop working with the US government on various contracts.
+1 for this package. Total game changer.
According to this page, the SMART hour counter is only 16 bits, and rollover should be harmless:

http://www.stbsuite.com/support/virtual-training-center/powe...

If you look elsewhere on the Internet, you'll find people with very old and working HDDs that have rolled over, so I suspect this bug is limited to a small number of drives.

(What that page says about not being able to reset it is... not true.)

Likewise, I'm skeptical of "neither the SSD nor the data can be recovered" --- they just want you to buy a new one.

Tangentially related, I wonder how many modern cars will stop working once the odometer rolls over.
Author here. This is the same journey I went through and I 100% agree! It can be intimidating at first, but FFmpeg is a a worthwhile utility to begin learning.

I've also added some shell functions[0] to my dotfiles to make it a bit easier to use when switching between several different machines.

[0] https://gist.github.com/devadvance/03d3c8f57b3e0254fb989e946...
>Not having an gifted program is like having wrestling matches without weight classes. It's no fun and no good (for anyone).

Agree.

My company had a Diversity and Inclusion series, and the one thing that resonated most with me was the concept of Equity vs. Equality. It was accompanied by a picture of two kids trying to watch a ballgame over a fence, where one kid could not quite see over the fence and the other was far too short.

In the part labelled "Equality", each kid has a 6" tall box to stand on. They get the same things, but the result is that the too-short kid still can't see the game, and the taller kid simply gets a better view. For the part labled "Equity", the tall kid gets a 2" box and the short kid gets an 8" box, resulting in each having an equal view.

Now, that's a pretty simplistic presentation, but does highlight that simply giving every person the same thing is not a solution. Needs will vary across the population, and that's what we should be targeting.
My BBB has been going 24/7 as my Pihole for almost 1 year now. The only thing I have to manage is the Pihole logs because of the 2GB eMMC of my older version.
You really think so? Here's their description of how it works:

> Here's how it works:

>

> MZqFpD='

> BIOS BOOT SECTOR'

> exec 7<> $(command -v $0)

> printf '\177ELF...LINKER-ENCODED-FREEBSD-HEADER' >&7

> exec "$0" "$@"

> exec qemu-x86_64 "$0" "$@"

> exit 1

> REAL MODE...

> ELF SEGMENTS...

> OPENBSD NOTE...

> NETBSD NOTE...

> MACHO HEADERS...

> CODE AND DATA...

> ZIP DIRECTORY...

Ok well that clears it up. MZqFpD='. Of course!
I wouldn't be surprised if the long wait increases profits -- as you wait, Rockstar shows you ads for on-sale items.
i generally agree with this, except when there is a serious information asymmetry between the publisher and the consumer. Sometimes the loudest voices are the ones that are heard and believed, if you have the information to level that asymmetry, why not share it. that is also what the interent is about, no?
Banks seem to encourage people to make really terrible passwords. Why does my password have to be 6 characters and only alphanumeric?
The two main points of the cluster compute instance were 10 GBit/s full bisection bandwidth networking and high end hardware. Now you can add GPUs as the third reason to use cluster compute instances.
I often feel like other people are frauds. I call this Taleb syndrome.
I'll be listening to a theme or genre of music and it adds songs that don't really work outside the context of their album.
> We agree that kids become adults at 18 and no one has a big problem with this.

We don’t, though. Can’t drink until 21. Rental cars and credit cards have extra restrictions until 25. Etc.
If we ignore the issue of powering them, a CV cable is enough for a half-duplex serial connection. you don't need to transfer a lot of data to establish the topology. i think (hand waving!) every module could re-broadcast all the broadcasts it hears (that don't include itself) with its ID appended. those will make their way to the edges where they can be picked up, and would describe all the possible paths through the system.

Not too hard. 1-Wire, a very low end LAN from Dallas Semiconductor, would be good for this. The parts are cheap, low-power, and powered over the connection cable.

(1-wire requires 3 wires. You could use stereo phone jacks.)

There are probably musician applications for this sort of thing. Some people like cables.

A similar form of fakery is seen in DJ systems where you have vinyl records that contain not music, but time code.[1] The DJ can do DJ turntable stuff as if playing analogue records. They're just sending time code info to the the control unit which has the audio in memory, and the output is the appropriate audio for the time code.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_emulation
There have been more local bodybuilding sites and magazines since the 90s where professionals post too. It's more of a cargo cult mentality. Sample size of one genetic freak on steroids and growth hormones got huge on this program so it must be generally applicable.
My employer (Google) has been giving me add-on grants for as long as I've worked there (over 11 years). The number of pre-vest shares have increased over time (they give me larger add-ons). The biggest hit I took was leaving to work for a startup for a year and then returning, because that reset everything. I walked away from some absurd amount of pre-vested shares.

I think my experience is fairly typical for senior/staff level employees with a long tenure, based on what I've heard from friends, coworkers, and HN comments.
4Head??
It's the Quickbooks of websites. Intuit probably owns them.
It’s really difficult to know whether that’s true or not when we have a sample size of 1
>As he reaches his 50th birthday, MJ is still looking for one more ass to kick

He can start with kicking his attitude into shape.
I'm one of those people who failed as an undergraduate. You know what's not pleasant? Being under constant stress to perform and "progress". Maybe, just maybe, that has something to do with learning in school. By the way, that's entirely a product of the academic system.

"The opposite is true: a good course is one where you always feel that you will barely make it."

Because making people stress necessarily means they're learning more? How do we know that? My experience suggests the opposite.

"It might not be a pleasant course, but it is one where you are learning. It is by struggling that we learn."

Yes: struggling with the material.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9265817
TL;DR: The real problem to solve is the time to iterate.

I think it's a straw man argument. An unfair comparison. Buildings & bridges etc have been designed and improved for literally thousands of years. Software is a half a century old.

Aza Raskin's blog piece about human powered flight which bubbled up on HN has always stuck with me[0]. "The problem is we don't understand the problem".

[0]: http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-wrong-problem/
What share price is higher? The lemonade stand, or the identical lemonade stand with a huge bag of money kept beneath the table? If you are a shareholder you only care about one thing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26698242
Why is it necessary for it to be free? Wouldn't you want your AV provider to be incentivized to keep it up to date? Some types of products should be paid.
Isn't that just called a dividend? Or are you suggesting that shareholders owe tax liability for all earned corporate profits, regardless whether any of that is paid to them as a dividend?
>I posit that the problem is that an overwhelming volume of our national speech (and indeed international speech) is completely at the mercy of a tiny handful of corporations. Further, these corporations have demonstrated an ability to steer public opinion and credibly even unilaterally influence elections

This is the Democratic party and Mainstream Media line. I vehemently disagree with that. So OP was correct. We can't even agree what the problem is. One half of the population blames Russia, Twitter, and 'misinformation' for their nominee's election loss and now wants blood and openly advocates for censorship of their political opponents.
I’m going to personally flog any researcher who titles their next paper “Predictive Coding Is All You Need”. You’ve been warned.
> health conditions are not problems to be "solved",

What does this mean? Of course they are.

Leprosy was a “health condition” — something millions of people lived with and managed — until the invention of effective antibiotics. Then it was suddenly just another treatable disease.

Cataracts were another “health condition” to be managed — and then Intraocular Lens (IOL) implants were developed.

Lactose intolerance is being solved right now with gene therapy. (Pretty easily, apparently.)

I agree with you about the article’s title — that a management therapy is not the same thing as a solution, and that it’s editorial malfeasance for the article here to claim that its management-therapy tooling is part of a solution.

But that doesn’t translate to this broader claim you’re making here, of certain conditions having some inherent property of insolubility, such that even considering finding permanent treatments or prophylactics for them would be wrong-headed somehow.

“Health conditions” are just problems that don’t have any known approaches or promising avenues of research for “solving” them yet.
Those cases generally aren't entrapment. They get pretty close, but they don't include the final push. The other party is free to walk away without taking the bait. Granted, I've only read the details on a few cases but in the ones I read the FBI is clear to not cross the legal boundary.
I agree.

Libertarians are the original Gay Rights and Abortion Rights supporters, going back to the 1970s. When Obama and Hillary were still anti gay-marriage (in 2013, before it became something they couldn't ignore) and when Bill Clinton was signing the "Defense of Marriage Act" along with 3/4 of Congressional Democrats approval... and for two decades even prior to that, Libertarians were in favor of getting the government out of marriage.

Notice the Libertarian position is not the same as the mainstream "Gay Marriage" position. Libertarians would legalize Poly marriage as well, while I've had Gay Marriage Advocates give me a list of reasons why that shouldn't be legal.

While some Libertarian candidates are personally against abortion, they would be laughed out of the movement if they advocated actually passing laws at the federal level to restrict it. Hey, I'm even personally not a fan of it (though I paid for one once) but that is completely different from being willing to support their bans, and I wouldn't support someone who wanted to ban them. (And yet I work for the Michael Badnarik campaign for a little while and he was "anti-abortion")

Rand is going to have a tough time getting the republican nomination because that party hasn't quite realized that it's being to conservative and not responsible enough.

So I don't mind that he's not taking a stand on these things.

In fact, if we were in a climate where gay rights were being restricted (increased restrictions) or abortion were being fought (at the federal level) then I might be more worried about it. But we are not. W ran on a strong anti-abortion platform and nothing really happened during his term. He didn't even try. He knew it was a wedge issue, more than anything. Only at the state level are Abortions at risk.

The real crime of our time is the out of control federal spying, adventurism and rights violations.

(this is not a rebuttal to hackinthebochs who said nothing I disagree with.)

EDIT: My statements are historical fact and consistent with what's known about libertarians: They want the state out of these kinds of decisions. Yet I'm downvoted. Is it because I'm pointing out that the Democrats don't really support gay rights? Sorry, but it's true. When clinton signed DoMA with broad democrat support, I was out. Sure the republicans were worse at that time, but I'm not going to compromise the idea that I don't have a right to get married!

Even in the 1990s the Libertarians were the only party that was clearly pro gay rights and so I joined them. The past 20 years have proven me right. I take down votes (without comments or rebuttals) as merely an admission of the frustration at this truth.
From research done by folks at our company this apparently does not eliminate the nexus issue. I had high hopes for this approach but it didn't pan out.
Would you recommend any references on this topic (words as reference vs. experience correlation)? Are there benefits to people who use permalinks and other citation-like references in online conversation? These may differentiate a static reference (e.g. a paper) vs. a dynamic one (Wikipedia or web search).
There was a research paper about how being ignored is worse than an argument. Can't remember the details at the moment.
You've exactly proved my point - "future integrations with the GPU/SIMD" - they're not the future - they're now. If you want to leverage them, don't write javascript. Or at least, don't write pure javascript implementations, call down to a C or Fortran implementation - which as I said, are hard enough to tune.

If you do want to write javascript however, why not write something more application based, why does it need to be raw linear algebra? Like an image processing library, or a linear-transforms-for-svg library[0]? Why do you need the raw linear algebra primitives, such as being able to map across elements?

Your snark towards my criticism is also absolutely ridiculous - no offense to the author, I think this is quite cool, but it is in no way "forward thinking". I could link to tens of other javascript linear algebra libraries, so why is this one the best? And more importantly - why should it be shielded from criticism?

[0] I will admit, there is something similar to this, based off this library: https://github.com/mateogianolio/vectorious-plot which slightly detracts from my argument, but also bolsters it - as it proves that this library is only really useful with an application library wrapped around it.
https://splendidbacon.com it is!

Now I don't feel so bad for being utterly unable to recall the name.

But at least it was charcoal and last fall (Monday, 18 October 2010).

(Better Means looks like an intriguing concept for certain projects -- thanks for the pointer.)
For anyone that didn't figure it out from the title, you run the official Android emulator and select 3.0. Not a big surprise.
a: he just did, and b: let the users here decide what's suitable or unsuitable to comment here. This is exactly what Andy Lester is talking about.
You seem to suggest that the brain is a zero sum game. It may be so, but it is a mere assumption.
I suspect the idea behind the library is not performance optimization, but convenience. It's sometimes much more convenient to let someone track allocation dependencies than doing it yourself.
I am neutral. (I don't grok either right now is the more accurate answer)

Language wise - I like being able to keep stuff 'typed' once the code base stabilizes a bit. Steve Yegge apart ;)

ORM - major issue has been migrations with .NET stuff.

What has been your/community's experience with migrations?

I am assuming that Ruby => Rails and Python => Django
(Please correct me)
Here's the problem with the "Let's just agree not to do this research!" plan that everyone seems to suggest when they start thinking about existential risks: when we're sitting around in 2030 with a million times more computing power at our fingertips than we have today, constructing a workable AI just isn't going to be that difficult of an engineering problem. We already know the equations that we'd need to use do general intelligence, it's just that they're not computable with finite computer power, so we'd have to do some approximations, and at present it's not realistic because the approximation schemes we know of would work too slowly. Pump up our computer power a million times and these schemes start to become a lot more realistic, especially with some halfway decent pruning heuristics.

It's bad enough that (IMO) by 2040 or so, any reasonably smart asshole in his basement could probably do it on his laptop with access to only the reference materials available today; I have no idea how you avoid that risk by making some political agreement. Hell, ban the research altogether on pain of death, and there's still going to be some terrorist team working on it somewhere (and that's even if all the governments actually stop work on it, which they won't).

The only positive way out of this is to go to great pains to figure out how to design safe (friendly) AI, and to do so while it's still too difficult for random-dude-with-a-botnet to achieve (and preferably we should do it before the governments of the world see it as feasible enough to throw military research dollars at). We need to tackle the problem while it's still a difficult software problem, not a brute-force one that can be cracked by better hardware.
You'd recommend MySQL over SQLite? The latter comes "baked in" to Python, so no installation required, and I was planning to go with that as a starter to avoid any problems with installation and configuring.

It would be easy to write a command line for that so I could then experiment. Thoughts?

And any suggestions for guide to SQL syntax and semantics?

Many thanks.
Having written a SQL->SQL compiler (), I can state that the language is a mess. I still like it better than the NoSQL tools I've used, though.

() The company's product was, broadly speaking, a specialized analytics engine, with temporal features. The analyses were written in a dialect of SQL-92 (just SELECT statements, plus extra features for temporal logic and currency conversion), which I had to compile to PL/SQL and T-SQL to run as stored procedures.
In a perfect world, it would lessen the impact of phishing by disclosing only a crackable password hash to a phisher. In the real world, phishers will just construct phishing sites that appear to use the "secure" password type but actually don't.
I don't see traditional counterfeit goods like watches and perfumes being printed any time soon.
To add on to this, every search engine is generally pretty bad at math related searches. It may be something worth looking into.
Interesting, if somewhat standard issue, article - however, it seems to me that the author wasn't really building an app at all. A shopping portal with a search function - whoop dee doo. Might be an interesting business, but at this point that doesn't qualify as an app so much as it qualifies as a remedial exercise any halfway competent webdev could throw together in a day or two. It seems to me the "build businesses not apps" crowd tends to confuse businesses that use technology with businesses that ARE technology. The two are very distinct businesses with very different sets of requirements.
(I didn't say smartcards don't need passwords..)
Maybe with that naive formula.
Disclaimer: I'm one of Nu echo's founders and lead architect for our IVR testing and monitoring tool suite (NuBot and Mirador).

Thanks Adam,

That is surely yet another point in favor of Tropo. They test. Using our NuBot Platform, we have load test their infrastructure with several concurrent calls. A few issues came up and Voxeo promptly fixed the issues. Case closed. Tremendous support.

I don't know about Twilio in such regard. A few months back, I have offered Twilio our load testing services but I haven't heard of them so far. Danielle, Jeff, if you read this, drop me a note (pdeschen @ nuecho dot com) and we'll be pleased to load test your infra! :-)

Pascal