jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Exponential improvements aren't very helpful if you're working on exponentially hard problems.

Exponential growth of technology hasn't solved machine intelligence (by direct simulation) for essentially the same reason why it hasn't solved numerical weather prediction or made quantum computers pointless.

To expand on weather prediction: you need an order of magnitude improvement in computer speed to make weather forecasts with the same quality one day earlier. So exponential growth of computing power means linear growth in terms of subjective benefit.

To be fair, we don't understand the difficulty of modeling intelligence anywhere near as well as we understand the difficulty of modeling the weather. But, given the limits of our current abilities to simulate the brain, it seems reasonable to guess that similar principles could hold.
Sounds like a badly optimized install then. Unless you are running a disk check, or have a hardware raid controller, on every boot, getting a kernel and the minimal environment to run a web server up should take under 1/10 of that.
Yes I meant Brand.

But what about philosohers. Slavoj Zizek is really well known in the US and he's Slovenian. He's published more books with US publishers than he has at home.

University professors are also a great example of a high profession that is ruled by immigrants.
I've tried this with my website thinking it would be a quick way to expand my income, but it was not worth it. My SEO "juice" didn't translate much to my /de and /en pages. In my experience, you're more or less starting from scratch when you do this. And getting word of mouth and press coverage in a language that's not yours is not an easy thing. That said, what is your app about? I am a native French speaker and perhaps I could help you out.
I never get tired of watching this video of a "vodka burner" using every inch of runway for takeoff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLxEHIbHUlY
Affected Areas: Account Services, Check 21, Check Adjustments, FedACH, FedLine Advantage, FedLine Command, FedLine Direct, FedLine Web, Fedwire Funds, Fedwire Securities, National Settlement
OK but historically the policies were rooted in racism if you continue reading:

> The city was the first in the nation to enact single-family zoning, in 1916, which had the effect of pushing nonwhite people to more crowded, impoverished neighborhoods in the south and west. Berkeley also used racist covenants to restrict who could live where – Claremont’s inclusion of “pure Caucasian blood”-residents, for instance – and with redlining maps that praised exclusive neighborhoods like the Elmwood for their lack of “Negros” and “foreign-born” inhabitants. (These maps, which banks used to deny loans for residents of nonwhite neighborhoods, have to this day been linked to premature births and low-weight babies.)
Meanwhile at home, Canada tortures people. [1]

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/93wj78/canada-is-torturing-i...
I know nothing about this, but could it not be things such as patrolling? Lots of hours in the air with little expectation of combat, but with readiness if need arises?
There are so many great things on that site, thanks for posting!
Not dropping radioactive bombs = toxic.
You can do the same with GCP
I find myself agreeing with you and at the same time thinking that your position is absurd. Let me try to put this into words. I might be missing parts of your point.

If we measure out the cost of avoiding total environmental collapse - which also implies human extinction - and we put a finite number on it, we've said 'the survival of human life on earth is worth this much and not more'.

It's really hard for me to get my head around the idea that we would find a dollar value that has any meaning that would properly describe the limit of how much humans value their own survival. I wouldn't know where to start, what to measure, or what to exclude. I'd personally be loath to excluding anything, as a fan of existence.

I'm not convinced I'm right to think putting a dollar value on existence is folly -- but I can't conceptualize what it would mean.
Over the past year, even in the little time we've had to
work on the paper, we've learned a lot more about parsing
with derivatives.

In the week after the community found it, you all taught
us ten times more than that. Thank you!

Why isn't all computer science research done like this?
This happened a month ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1897648
Mine went to SPAM. Technically, it is.
> if we lose control chances are we can't make a living - which is why the law enforces your property rights

That is a circular justification. People can only make a living from IP because of the law, so one cannot then justify the existence of the law because it helps people make a living.

IP law, by definition, invents an artificial obstruction of other people's rights to copy. There must be a good reason for that.

Consider if you made a living selling tea, but then a personal tea-making gadget is invented. Are you then justified in stopping people walking home with their newly bought tea-makers and removing them -- because they are impeding you in earning a living? No. You just have to make a living in a different way. People's general fundamental freedom trumps your right to particular commercial advantage.

Because IP is so long-standing we have become accustomed to expect it, to assume it as a fundamental right. This is mistaken. It is provisional and must answer to real fundamental rights.

There is a rational case for IP: that it is pragmatic. It does harm by restricting people's freedom to communicate, but overall it increases production and so serves the public's interest -- that is the proposition at least. This is the only argument for IP. But given the changes in technological circumstance it must be radically reassessed, probably best replaced.
I would call this a bug tracker fail. Having a 20,000 issues in the database is going to lead to a lot of data duplication.

Searching for "mouse wheel scroll" produced 111 results. The chance that I will read through all 111 of those if I am only slightly interested in the project is: zero percent. Instead I will submit a new bug as a bit of volunteering and leave the sorting out to the maintainers.

Not like one more dupe on a 20k list will make a difference. Broken window theory.

At the very least they could have a prominent top 10 trending bugs list or something. It would help keep the system from being flooded when a new build introduces an easily triggered bug.
They didn't. That's why it killed tens of millions of people back when the global population was about 1/4 of what it is today, and mobility was much more constrained. No jets in 1918.

The expected death toll from Covid, assuming an overall mortality rate of 1%, would be about 75 million people. So far the death toll worldwide is about 13,000. That's a big number, but only about 0.02% of the expected total without intervention.
That was least of China's worries. They clearly focused on pandemic resolution at the expense of everything else.
>in France 50% of ICU patients are under 60

This number is meaningless without knowing the age distribution of infections. If many more young people are infected than old people, we'd expect the absolute number of young people hospitalized to be higher, even if old people are way more likely to require hospitalization.
> Some people genuinely believe that God will protect them.

I worry this kind of "faith" blinds many to the way their God may be protecting them.
https://truthbook.com/stories/funny-god/the-drowning-man
Right, within every even/odd group of seven pixels, the even/odd colors for each of those pixels were reversed. With the high bit switching between different sets of colors. And on top of that the vertical scan line interleaving.

So many levels of owch! And punching through all that with an 8 bit 6502. It's really hard to appreciate how fucking hard any Apple ][ game that uses hires graphics had to work just to put a dot on the screen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_artifact_colors#Appl...

Even more amazing were the text/hires graphics adventure engines that stippled together different colors to get a wider palette. It was so hard for the poor 6502, that part of the visceral pleasure of the game was just sitting there watching it draw each scene.

And all the visible text (IN UPPER CASE OF COURSE) must fit in the characteristic four lines at the bottom. Since it drew the scene so slowly, there was enough time to read the text before it scrolled off the top. Talk about making lemonade out of lemons, due to technical limitations!

Hi-Res Adventure #4: Ulysses and the Golden Fleece for the Apple II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTFNKbkxeY8
As a regular backpacker, I've been pretty happy using my phone as a primary source and paper maps as backup. On my phone, if you use the right settings (aggressive battery saver, airplane mode), turning GPS on only when checking location, and turning it off at night, I can get a solid week of battery life. (A backup battery pack does not weigh much.) Clearly, I'm not using it for much else than reading a bit before bed and taking many pictures.

If you go this route, practice using whatever app you're using in off-line mode to verify your map cache data!!!

That being said, definitely practice with paper maps and maintaining a sense of direction. This sounds easy but in an emergency situation this can be a weak link. Nothing sucks more than hiking down the wrong trail for a couple hours when you're racing against sunset. I've also been in many canyons and valleys with screwy GPS and heading readings so it's good to be able to recognize when that tool is going awry.

As far as apps, I mainly use the original Backcountry Navigator. Not the prettiest but it's been solid for me and the author was responsive back in the day when I messaged them.
Christian Switzerland doesn't have a history of honor killings.
Classy! Hope you feel better after that rant, it seems you've got something bothering you.
I know somebody who is close with one of the people mentioned in the article. It's strange to me that people can even be so devoted to Apple to start with, but beside that, it's terrible to see how Apple's callousness is disillusioning even their most loyal developers. It's not a good situation, and when I ask "but why?!", nobody has any answers. It just seems senseless.
Joyent has solved some really hard problems to make this work. I was lucky enough to get the chance to sit down with Bryan last week and talk with him about what this took. It's essentially reimplementing Linux on top of Illumnos, which is no tiny feat.

There are still messy hurdles to running Docker in production, but it's clear that Joyent has really tried to make something awesome here.

As someone who works deeply in the future-container space, I applaud folks who are taking us deeper down the rabbit hole. I think it's clear that this whole 'back-to-the-future' isolation technology is really cool stuff. Jails/zones/containers have been around forever and I think it's great that we're finally taking advantage of this technology.

Edit: at Terminal.com, we want people to push Linux forward, and this is a great example of taking Linux to new and intriguing heights. I did not think we would have Linux on Illumnos in quite this way in 2015 and it's delightful to see. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants and it's great to reach new vistas.
I find biased views too often at the top of HN stories, so it is rare for me to read them.
Please note that when she says about different culture she doesn’t mean even she respects it, in any other way that you might „respect” a bully. It’s not about destroying her connection with family, it’s about avoiding violence against her, her mother and her sister.
I know that the parent replied already, but I want add that using node for static content is a good idea. I/O is what Node excels at. As long as you use the non-blocking API to load content, you should get good throughput. What Node is bad at is processing dynamic things. If your templates are CPU intensive, you'll block Node.

This is why I'm, to this day, confused about building whole websites on Node. Dynamic, templated web sites are computation intensive (without result caching). Sure you can have N-Nodes running for N cores. This will minimize blocking. I/O for DB is time intensive so Node will pickup other workloads while it waits. So everything averages out, but it still an interesting thing often overlooked.
For some of the more notable bloggers, because everyone knows they're on Team Apple. They aren't just people who have a lot of Apple products, they're people who have significantly bought into Apple's worldview and culture. Since tech punditry as a whole is very tribal, trashing the other teams regularly is par for the course, but trashing your own team is seen as a betrayal, an extraordinary event, a reaction to the company's own betrayal of the pundit's heightened trust. The latter is newsworthy, the former is not.

(While this mentality is strong in Apple-land, it certainly has its place among Google partisans as well, among others...)
But there's no arguing both consistently run faster than anything this side of assembler.

FORTRAN is faster than C++ and Java but you don't see it used much in enterprise anymore...
The GitHub : https://github.com/humanarity/ideas-for-startups

All this was inspired by this PG article about how little ideas are actually worth: http://paulgraham.com/start.html

Well, now you can create them at zero cost, using randomness. Enjoy!

[doesn't work on Firefox, no plan to support, feel free to fork!]
Response time is useless if it still takes 7 days to deploy a patch for a simple XSS issue.
The official reason was along the lines of "I don't want to host another Project Chanology," but it probably had more to do with the fact that moot was closely involved with at least one Gawker Media employee[1] and spoke at XOXO[2] alongside numerous companies and organizations that the Gamergate movement is adversarial towards.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2gvtrp/

[2] http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/833450-gamergate

EDIT: Downvote all you like. I'm not making any judgement pro or anti Gamergate in this post, I'm just pointing out a rather large conflict of interest.
There's a good reason near-term rewards are overvalued relative to long-term ones. Long term rewards might never happen.
OT: I feel for this guy; the only people looking at him are the photographers.

I'm no fan of putting blame with the audience, but I'm glad not be presenting in his place...
I'd imagine the 'food' part of that label might be required by law because the amount of actual cheese the 'food stuff' contains is minimal :)
That’s funny, SiFive just announced a 3-way OoO RISC-V core. A73 performance, but half the die area. Pretty awful, I guess.

https://www.sifive.com/blog/incredibly-scalable-high-perform...
Yes, I'm in France, I contacted the Italian reseller for this company:

https://www.freedomwon.co.za/

I got this instead of a powerwall because
1) price per kwh
2) tesla will not let you install your own powerwall, you need to go through an installer and attract all those associated costs (which are significant)
3) better integration with a mixed solar equipment install and pv array
4) powerwall does not support an offgrid installation, or at least did not when I looked into it
5) has canbus to a BMS, you're never obligated to connect to the internet
Happens a few times. For the Endless Space/Legends series of games, we made their community manager a mod (they are essentially running the subs, but don’t have founder status and technically we could intervene if they behave in questionable way). It usually depends on who created the sub. Some of them are set up as official channels, others are community-run but with good relationship with the company (an example for the latter would be the paradox subreddits, they are independent but have a good relationship with Paradox).
Yes nginx is great to bundle in early
"Every type of video authentication system I've ever heard proposed can be defeated by simply pointing a 'trusted' video camera at a screen playing a fake video."

That's a good point. But I'm imagining situations where the camera itself is a reasonably secure device. For example, a city CCTV camera or a police body worn camera.

If a video stream can be securely (cryptographically) matched to a particular device, with an unforgeable (blockchain?) timestamp, it would increase confidence in video evidence presented in court, for example.
> I think males are more likely than females to become obsessed with narrow domains.

I don't think this is the case. Males just have low visibility into typical female 'obsessions' (or just don't care all that much about them), but the reverse is also generally true. Females tend to obsess about things that have a 'social' side, like their shoes collection - whereas males are more into physical, material things that can be played with.
You can do all of these things just fine on a bicycle or with public transit.

School drop off and pick up is even easier because you sail right past the massive traffic jam at the school from everyone trying to do this in their personal cars.

I would even go so far as to say that this whole "kids demand cars" mindset is a part of the problem.
While I appreciate the contrarian view, it’s not either/or. Cars are a wonderful thing and facilitate independence and long distance travel. Electric cars are even more wonderful things. And Bikes are wonderful for active transport and but not a substitute for cars
How degraded do EV batteries need to be before they cannot be used as EV batteries any longer? 70% capacity doesn't seem like much degradation.
It sounds like you bike for most of your transportation in your city? That's what "anti-car" people (speaking as one myself) want: to emphasize infrastructure that enables and encourages that. The "anti-car" thing isn't "ban cars entirely in all cases", just "stop assuming everything needs to be car-first at the expense of every other modality".
I'd love something like this for my kids...

Maybe have a board with lego slots for blocks that represent flow and maybe a little bit of interfacing with a computer to assign graphics to an object, say a sprite then the blocks tell it how to move, you could maybe have blocks that represent data and you can name it but the data stored is just json so no real schema for simplicity....

You could create interactive stories from a board of legos, or game like have a squirrel escape a yard without running into the dog, etc...
The word is often taken to denote a violent uprising. The Capital protests weren't particularly violent - the protesters didn't kill anyone (not to mention they were hardly an uprising).

>Your claims here are like saying that the civil war wasn't an insurrection because the confederacy didn't want to overthrow the US government, they just wanted to form a different government.

There's not that much of a parallel. The Capital protesters wanted to show resistance to the election being stolen from what they saw as the legitimate winner. The Civil War was, like, a war, and way different in every way.
If you extend to the states, it's not that exceptional:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-panthers-california-196...
Slippery slope arguments only retain validity of each link in the chain is demonstrably probably.

Even then, for something like resisting dangerous speech, what does the slope matter? If the original thing is good to do, don't worry about the slippery slope, just make the right decision. Then of it goes to far and you're on the edge of a slope, that's where you fight.

If guidelines about violent speech are abused, then fight to fix it. Don't avoid the correct decision just because doing it right will be hard work.
> A materialistic interpretation may be that spirituality is nothing but a personal physical experience.

"This very place the Lotus paradise,
This very body the Buddha."

> However, a non-materialistic interpretation could be that the robot is considered to be an extension of another person that created it.

See "dependent origination" in Buddhist theology or, less officially, "a level of interconnected that you just can't shake."
This is correct. I don't know why its flagged.
This comment should not be this highly rated on Hacker News. The entire content of this comment is: I read a bunch of stuff somewhere that said all these alternative companies are bad.

There are no links to sources, there's no evidence presented, there's nothing to dispute. There's no substance to this comment.

Hacker News has a bias towards Google because Google offers a bunch of services for free that are useful to HN's audience, so HN users would rather not have reasons not to use Google services, which is why comments like this get upvoted, despite their lack of substance.
Sounds like it's time to revise some of the advice web developers get about optimizating page sizes for developing markets.
I use Here WeGo for maps and I'm quite happy with it.
PSA: Don't use docker run -p xxx:xxx lightly. Even (or especially!) not in examples and documentation. It will listen to connections from anywhere in the internet and go out of its way to manipulate firewall rules on your machine to make a hole for it.

Instead, use: docker run -p 127.0.0.1:8888:8888