jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
@pg

I built electronic parts for Westinghouse's Nuclear Reactor Simulators (near Monroeville PA) in the mid 1980's. There were a ton of intelligent people working there and since every reactor built had to have an identical training simulator, there was quite a bit of knowledge required to make the systems realistic. Sometimes simulating the required behavior of a nuclear reactor was more complex than what occurred in the real reactor (simulating the pulse shape and randomness of a Geiger counter or driving a synchroscope with hopped up audio amplifiers).

In any case, those guys provided a lot of on-the-job education for a young engineer ... thank your dad for me as I might not have interacted with him, but surely some other "youngster" did.
>with tests like throwing metal chips (nuts?) into pumps

SpaceX did this test with the Merlin engines too. http://www.airspacemag.com/space/is-spacex-changing-the-rock...

The chamber pressure (and therefore Isp) are both dialed back for the sake of reusability. They're stated multiple times that they're not running those engines anywhere near their physical limits.
FYI, you can also add those features (lazy mouse, curved lines, isometric and perspective constraints) to any art app (including Photoshop) with the Lazy Nezumi Pro app.
http://lazynezumi.com
I may have some dumb questions, here. But I'll stab at one or two anyhow of them, at the risk of looking even more dumb in this thread.

Is there a possibility, or likelihood, that hard AI could diverge into at least two major dichotomies depending on how those systems form and interact? In how they attain, analyze and process information? In how it is shared? In deciding what should be shared? In how information is used and grown? In how to manage ethical questions that are often very two-sided, and difficult to model with tools like mathematics and logic?

Things like that. And what kind of outcomes could that bring about? AI debates? AI "wars?" AI manipulating other AI?

I guess I'm simply confused and ignorant as to how the playing field is shaped, generally and specifically.

I'm probably not even qualified to put these questions out there, because I have so little intelligence of AI, but the patterns in human thought that strike at me over and over in life is that a "yin/yang" of opposing perception (and resulting in oppositional thinking) almost always occurs in naturally intelligent beings. Further, those inevitable disagreements often turn out in generating new knowledge, which, in-turn, often splits into two (or more) "camps" yet again... ad infinitum.

First, is this a valid question and perception of intelligence? And secondly, is it fair to assume this might apply to other forms of intelligent systems? Or maybe I am missing a big part of the discussion in AI, which may already be addressing this (or is disregarding as simply academic or even dead-wrong.)

To me, at least, it seems counter-intuitive that AI would push in one general direction (we can debate what we mean by "direction", too). My sensibilities hazily point to a more dichotomic outcome, perhaps.

Or maybe I'm the one with the intelligence issue! But I'm very interested in these concepts, and even more interested in what we may be blind in seeing as this technology continues to evolve and take on new meanings in both our biological minds, and non-biological minds alike.

Maybe someone can help me out? I think I'm missing something, here. Machines may identify with a certain idea of "certitude", but I have trouble with that, myself.

And if AI scientists have trouble with that, themselves, because I would hope they recognize and practice humility in their thinking and interpretation of meaning, what does that mean for the scientists working to build such a powerful and mysterious type of existence?

Sometimes finding the questions to ask, and learning how to ask them is the harder than teasing out the "solutions", so to speak.

Time for a stiff drink ;)

Edit: Looks like I need to read this, among other texts: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/the-mi...
I'd certainly expect worldwide sales of Cisco routers to decrease as a result of this. Furthermore I'd expect a large number of Belgacom customers to walk too.
Any source about which federal law is? or if it does apply to other universities such as MIT or Harvrad?
Funny how humans were somehow able to reproduce just fine for millions of years before surgical deliveries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YruT2ROEUc
I should be happy FB was penalized, but

>courts agreed that Facebook had stolen its concept and format, changing only its graphic layout

> court declared that Faround was a database implemented in the form of a computer program and so was protected as a creative work under copyright law

this is a terrible ruling. They were fined for _copying a concept_, not for being a monopolistic bully.
As a person who lives in Portland, I can tell you “burned down” is an incredible exaggeration. Somebody did set a desk on fire, though.
> Surely, a sitting US president can talk to the public without begging a private company to publish his words.

Um, are television companies not private in the U.S.?

Do you regularly check the White House website?

Would it be appropriate to make ordinary statements on an emergency broadcast?

This is just completely ludicrous. Broadcasting where there are no listeners is useless.
Also https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
Precisely the reason why next time you would consider debating what's in it for me, prior to blurting out a solution.
Thank you for sharing Chuck!
They still commit the abuse in person, not via Tor. Tor exists on the periphery of a situation where harm takes place, not as a tool or cause of harm itself.

People who do bad things can use Tor to hide better, but the same is true of a hole in the ground. That is not in itself a harmful thing.
Or, if you don't want to pay for the privilege of not having your work public, go use Bitbucket.
NOOOOOOoooooooo!!!

Wrong thinking! just make it load quicker!
As I understand it, there are fins that deploy in order to steer the rocket on the way back down (the first stage). They are really cool "Grid Fins" [1] that work even in supersonic flight. In particular, they are used to prevent the rocket from spinning, and to keep the rocket upright.

The rocket can also steer by "gimbaling" the motor (pointing it in different directions), but that has limitations; changing the rocket's orientation will also change its velocity (like balancing a broom on your hand).

In this case, the hydraulic fluid is used to rotate the grid fins and therefore keep the rocket upright. When the fluid ran out, the fins wouldn't work, which is why the rocket comes down tilted.

Hope that helps!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_fin
I noticed the same thing. They're so petty they'll cancel the video mid-stream when you choose not to let them cookie themselves all over your browser. Think about it: Some engineer (maybe even someone who reads HN) programmed that business logic. Thank you, developer #48814 for being part of the problem rather than part of the solution.
With little to no repercussions financially to the department or employee and no major career punishments, what do you propose instead?
Thank you for your kind words and the links!
I’ve seen scholarships/tuition discounts to men who go into nursing programs.
What's your budget?

My home server is mainly a file server and automated backup server. I also use it to host dedicated servers for some games my friends and I play (minecraft, KSP dark multiplayer, halo ce, etc.). It does PiHole and steam/origin/blizzard/uplay download caching (steam game install from a bonded dual-10G server is fun) as well.

I picked up a SuperMicro mini-ITX 8 core Xeon-D based server board on eBay for ~$400. The idle power is <10W and it runs off 12V DC and has dual 10G ethernet, 6 SATA ports, IPMI, A x16 PCIe slot, and an x4 M.2 slot.

With 6x 10 TB WD Red drives and 2 NVMe disks it pulls about 25W at idle (mostly the drives). If I wanted to run the Kodi or Plex on demand video transcoding I'd probably throw a used quadro in there (or, hack around the transcode limit on a GeForce card).
First of all, scores are normalized to age (you never compare 90 to 30 years olds. Only 90 to 90-ish year olds).

No serious IQ test claim to measure much more than 2 standard deviations up and down (meaning they all break down somewhere above 130-135 or below 70). I have done WISC/WAIS three times (as a part of a psychological assessment) and the conversion to IQ scores were within 3 points (the WAIS/WISC scale measures many different abilities, and can be converted to an "aggregate" IQ score). I asked about this and when people are healthy the tester said people tend to score very similarly on tests, even many years apart.
Ah yes, the assured shorthold tenancy, the default form of rental contract in the UK since the mid-1990s. That was an attempt to goose the housing market in a stagnant economy, together with buy-to-let mortgages. It was embarrassing to see the national newspapers promote the scheme enthusiatically.

Asset inflation is great when you hold assets, but the husing bubble is one of the ways the establishment pulled the ladder up from the Millennials and later.
Amazon FireTV remote is pretty good, latest gen added a volume control inc. mute button (so you don't need your TV remote). Source switching uses CEC over HDMI. You don't need to point the controller for most tasks as it's Bluetooth. If I had a TV that used CEC I wouldn't need the original remote at all.
> Enjoy smooth and fluid high-frame-rate gameplay at up to 240fps for ALL games, with support for 240Hz output on 4k displays

It does sound like a very well-executed joke.
But if you don't have a FB account, how will customs ever let you into whatever country you are trying to enter?
I wanted a fast way to organize my uni work and my personal stuff. So I created this little tool in c that can arrange by extension type or part of the name a folder. I actually have found it to be useful when organizing pictures from my cellphone besides the other things I've said. I hope that someone finds it helpful.
But aren't all those youngsters using instagram (which is relatively more 'intellectually demeaning' IMO, and still owned by Facebook)?
I personnally see work-related accounts as not mine. I'm in the process of de-googling myself, but I don't mind my company still using it that much because in the end it's not mine, and they actually have read and agreed with the Terms of Use. None of my personal info is reachable from my work email.
that gives a whole new meaning to adding chips to your meal
Fun story, but the numbers don't add up for me:

Wouldn't the signal have to do a full round trip within the timeout of 3 ms, meaning it could not go beyond 580 / 2 = 290 miles?

Additionally, the connection from A to B is usually not a straight line, and at that time fiber lines were much less widespread. All these factors combines make it unlikely that even 200 miles could be reached...
Giving up emails or phone numbers can be risky since someone else might take it and do something unpleasant with it.

Facebook accounts cannot be taken that way.
That’s a good observation: I think you’ve observed not a change in programming itself, but a shift in the kinds of things large numbers of programmers are building that get talked about on sites like this. Other forums that I track still talk about the deeper aspects of programming, which reflects more on the community and it’s interests than it does any fundamental change in how hard programming is.
The problem is: Signal already relies on SGX for lots of other features (Signal PINs & Secure Value Recovery, contact discovery etc. etc.) and these depend on SGX working as advertized.
I've been using Django since 2010, I recently hit a roadblock with it that forced me to switch to Go for one of my projects. That's to say, it's not for everything. Especially may not be suitable for advanced SaaS services.
Doctors have to take board exams every couple years to stay licensed.
If you write `y = x + 1` and say what about `y = 42` and `x = 0`, `42 = 0 + 1` doesn't mean math/equation is absurd, does it?
Multiple reasons why MOB over monero but I will state only the most practical one, using the stellar consensus a tx takes 3-5sec. With monero that's more like 1-2mins if Im not mistaken which is a big no-no for the usecase of instant mobile private payments. Fees are also super low w/ mob (0.01)

TLDR: UX
Some of the other comments above have touched on this, but I think there is also a bit of latent anti-Intel sentiment in many people's minds. Intel extracted a non-trivial price premium out of consumers for many, many years (both for chips and by forcing people to upgrade motherboards by changing CPU sockets) while AMD could only catch up to them for brief periods of time. People paid that price premium for one reason or another, but it doesn't mean they were thrilled about it.

Many people, I'd say especially enthusiasts, were quite happy when AMD was able to compete on a performance/$ basis and then outright beat Intel.

Of course, now the tables have turned and AMD is able to extract that price premium while Intel cut prices. Who knows how long this will last, but Intel is still the 800 lb gorilla in terms of capacity, engineering talent, and revenue. I don't think we've heard the last from them.
No it doesn't.

The messaging is run on a decentralized network that uses the Waku protocol.

Currently the clients (mobile and desktop) use Waku v1: https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/6/

But work to transition to Waku v2 is underway: https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/10/
I don't like crypto, but I especially don't like random shitcoins that I've never heard of because they generally are only used for pump-and-dump schemes.

Anyways, my trust in Signal seems to be monotonically decreasing over time. Such is how it works, unfortunately.
Now that it has become such a media item, how many shooters in the past few years do you believe had a partial motive in a near certainty they would achieve broad recognition in their otherwise meaningless and miserable lives? When you read the news and Wikipedia on the latest shooter, you’re contributing to future shooters in about the same magnitude as being a single voter.
Well, one amino acid change can render someone’s whole life into a suffering, so I don’t see how the 99.9% mean anything. If the difference is only in a few genes, it can already have a huge effect.
This is a double edged sword:

1. Expectations are vague in analytics work so most people can't tell if you're doing well or not.
2. Expectations are vague in analytics so if you're not delivering magic people will think you're lazy.
In particular PGP running on email or XMPP doesn't have this problem. The advantage comes from the base federated messaging system.

Don't get me wrong. PGP is great as a simple standardized cryptography protocol intended for messaging. It should be used just for the standardization. The cryptography of encrypted messaging is an easy problem and has been well solved. We need to move on to the problem of how to explain it to the rest of the world well enough so they can use it.
> easy backup when you get a new phone

I just recently got a new phone, and used the new feature to do this (uses wi-fi direct) and I have to say it seemed like it would be easy enough for non-techy users to use.
Trevor Perin created both protocols. Noise isn’t an asynchronous messaging protocol. So it won’t replace Signal. WhatsApp use Noise and Signal together.
Yeah. Any press coverage is good press coverage with this thing.

The thing is so outlandish, like something Philip k Dick dreamt up, you'll either love it or hate it. The outcome seems determined by your taste, to me it is not influenced by what happened in the demo.

As an aside... What a fucking cool car.
Google is another "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." What do you expect?
That foolish sway dev, angering his paying users?

RTFM is not going to make for happy users, but volunteers for free projects have the luxury of being able to ignore disgruntled users. If they don't want to maximise their user count then they have the luxury of being able to do whatever they like up to and including not having a bug tracker and literally hurling abuse at people who ask them questions.

We aren't entitled to professional and comprehensive support just because the project happens to look well run.
The most cynical of us follow it down the rabbit hole to Foucault:

"The university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class in power; and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class."
I remember calling my local minicab company and usually getting a ride in 10 or 15 minutes. Or grabbing a black cab. Never used Uber.
I'm just perplexed. What are you even commenting on? Uber isnt the one vetting private drivers, they just check if they have the private driver license or not. This is up to tfl.
There's epistemological solipsism (which is what you describe) and metaphysical solipsism. The latter says that "only I exist." I don't understand the grandparent's objection in either case.
Sure I could but then you'd just point out exactly why that looks wrong to you

Which is perfectly fine because just because you have an opinion does not make it objectively true. In return, you can freely critize the opinion of others. Being ready to listen does not imply to thoughtlessly accept all and everything.

I also think that heresies should to be vetted carefully to filter out what's wrong and let remain only what's actually true.
I see a lot of people bashing Yegge, bashing Tiobe, praising Clojure, and praising Rich Hickey. All of that is strawman bullshit though as far as I can tell.

Virtually no one seems to be addressing what I think is Yegge's core point: neglect.

Is it true that there is a considerable body of extant patches/libraries/fixes out there that are being neglected so that a sizable portion of Clojure's user base is feeling neglected.

If so, then Yegge has a valid point. If not, then argue why he is wrong about neglect.
LAC: Location code
CI Cell ID
MCC: Mobile Country Code
MNC: Mobile Network Code

I cant see primary on my db copy, and my wifi location also contains 33000 MAC addresses.

Indecently, couldn't get the py script up and running on win7, but if you sort by date modified, the size is around 5 meg and you can open the db directly in an sqlite viewer
The score's based on your use of GitHub, who follows you and your projects, as well as (this is where BackType comes in) how much they are shared on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Hacker News, etc.
Here's an example (or you can click usernames on the frontpage):
http://cl.ly/232U2o2t0C2y3V0J0r10
We have been testing this over at MNX Solutions, and really like the implementation.

Central account management, logging, etc. is one area that is quite nice.

Of course jonoberheide mentions some others that are pretty compelling -- authentication methods, integration points and supported platforms.
I am profoundly skeptical that she never knew about it and the cynic in me suggests that this is a matter of trying to salvage a PR mistake.
Since we're using BackType as well to calculate the score, it was easier to do both requests server-side. We pre-ran a long list of popular users and all of their followers, but guess we didn't reach enough people :(

If you leave the tab open, it will finish.
I do. I love it.
> The real "enemy", if we need to use war-inspired vocabulary, are editors like nedit, Kate, ScITE, and maybe even Textmate (boy am I going to get told off for this!)

Don't forget Eclipse.
I happen to like writing web apps using .NET. I came across AppHarbor yesterday, got a beta invite and started playing with it today. Yes it's very early, but I thought there might be people here who would find it interesting still.
I suspect that this may be merely a problem of granularity. Countries have been located on a permanent continuum, not on many discrete little movable platforms. If a seasteading nation failed, the pieces would just get sold off and towed away to simplest that is civilized.
I don't (anymore).

About two years ago I went through about a six month period where I spent pretty much every day in a revert war with various people who definitely didn't know anything about the field/area I was trying to provide some information on.

I happen to have a fair amount of expertise and experience in a certain area (Music Trackers) and at the time thought I would lend a hand to flesh out the still woefully inadequate content to that part of Wikipedia and started or fleshed out dozens of pages of content. I probably spent north of 100 hours on content creation even going so far as to setup emulated environments in other OSs so I could get screen captures of some of the software. I spent dozens more cleaning up missing or outright incorrect information.

Every time I did something, the change was reverted. To this day, not a single edit I did ever stayed on Wikipedia longer than a week. Eventually, tired of endless arguing with editors who just wholesale reverted entire sections of material rather than edit or augment what I put in there, I just gave up.

Particularly egregious were the endless arguments over notoriety of this or that. Responses to the editors demonstrating conformance to Wikipedia's notoriety guidelines were met with silence and further reverts. One in particular, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Sega, actually has a page now anyways -- but it's not mine. Fascinatingly, I think that two of the editors causing most of the problems didn't even know what the demoscene was! In a bizarre argument from one of the editors, I was called unqualified to write about the demoscene since I myself was a 'scener!

I think I'd still be contributing if the editors had...I don't know..."edited", instead of reverted. I would have happily participated in ensuring things like objectivity and article organization were well followed, but wholesale deleting information? Nah, I'm done with participating in Wikipedia as a contributor.
I did refrain from asking whether this particular navigation technique contributed to the prejudice that women can't drive...

> what I believe to be true is very far from accepted/conventional wisdom on such topics. It often gets either ignored or downvoted here. :-/

I had a weird experience on HN some time ago when I tried to argue that death was actually a good thing and was immediately downvoted.

It seems people downvote comments they perceive to be "contrarian", ie insincere and artificially opposed to mainstream; the problem of course is that it's very difficult to discriminate ingenuous from disingenious contrarian opinions.

Just because one thinks different does not mean they do it on purpose. And in the end, only the truth should matter; even if a point is actually being argued disingeniously, this fact alone doesn't make it wrong...
http://crossfit.com/

Run, jump, lift heavy things. It's fun as hell and your body will thank you.
A good point. It is still not exactly encouraging that these two figures should be anywhere near each other, considering it is not only young people that should be going to college.

EDIT: I wonder what would happen if you injected the racial makeup of the prison/university management and staff into the calculations.
- Start to meditate regularly.
- Read more books. (Mainly philosophy, then non-fiction in general.)
- Feed my curiosity more effectively, i. e., instigate a more persistent 'truth seeker' mentality across my life. (I have little to no idea how to do that, but I guess start a diary and document every effort might help.)
- Exercise constantly two and then three days a week.
- Leave the idea-guy mindset more aside and start to work as the execution-guy more often.
Harvard could easily do that. They have financial info on the parents family.