skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not everyone is affected to the same degree by cork taint - you might be one of those lucky people that are not sensitive to it. If you have never had a bottle of tainted wine then this is quite likely.

You can really notice cork taint when you are drinking the same wine/ vintage regularly. You will open a bottle and it just tastes "flat" compared to what you are expecting. Open another bottle of the same wine and it tastes fine. This is cork taint.
The general form using the unspecified Hamiltonian operator is compatible with relativity.
I'm not sure if this works, but let's try:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207140470964842&se...
Does free speech have the power to corrupt other minds at a level that that free speech should instead be controlled? I get the general sense that a lot more people answer "Yes" to that question than has been historically true (at least, post-1776 American true).
What makes this even more concerning is that the driver's insurance company may decide he is carrying passengers for hire and, therefore, that the regular car insurance offers limited or no coverage.

My policy says it does not apply:

"To any vehicle used to carry persons or property for compensation or a fee, including but not limited to delivery of food or any other products...However, a vehicle used in an ordinary carpool on a ride sharing or cost sharing basis is covered."

The question would be whether this is an "ordinary carpool on a cost sharing basis." Lawyers are paid to argue about these things.
>>Probably less surprising is that they might be insured, but have taken out the minimum required for passengers.

In EU any car insurance, no matter the premium, has to cover minimum 5 million euro for bodily harm and 1 million euro in property damage, so this is not an issue. But lyft does not operate here so it does not matter.

>>Pain and suffering, lost wages, cosmetic surgery.
Yeah, I can agree with those.
I think you put too much emphasis on the vast gulph between most players and Lee Seedol. This is true of pretty much any game/sport where there are professionals. Most footballers will never be Messi, most hockey players will never be Gretzky, etc. This is true in every field where you have that kind of power-law distribution.
This looks really good. I've seen quite a few half-baked internal implementations of this kind of thing, it certainly seems to me worth paying for for a well-built, drop in one of these. A couple of questions..

How does the pricing work? If I sign up for the $199 tier and suddenly get 10058 users, does it block new referrals, or do I suddenly owe you $400?

Are the contacts shared between installs? e.g. does my install "learn" from other company's installs?

I tried it out and it picked some pretty bad recommendations, one was a well-known blogger who I had emailed once years ago, one was one of my other email addresses with the same name, and only the third checked suggestion was a good suggestion, a friend who I might actually recommend something to. A lot of the unchecked items on the "top" list were weird emails that I wasn't even sure why they were in my address book.

Still, the invite interface was nice, and even with odd suggestions this is something I'd use. I'll keep it in mind. Thanks!
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I've attended quite a few national conferences and all of them were higher priced.
I have dropped all anxiety medication after starting a very regular and strict meditation routine. today I was in a large meeting/workshop with mostly unknown (to me) people. This would previously have caused major anxiety symptoms, possibly even an full blown panic attack hours ahead of the meeting or during.

Yet I felt happy and energized by just being with these people and being mindful at the same time. Any racing thought quickly identified and dismissed. Never experienced anything like this before. I now truly think anxiety can be blown to shreds by applying what you learn in meditation in your daily life.
Fair but OTOH I don't mind walking 5 minutes for a free ride into the city.
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Well that's certainly a more nuanced position compared to your response a few posts up. I know I called you on it (though hopefully politely) and am glad to read this response now.
> 2: Whose elaborate safeguard procedure failed?

Since Windows was never intended to serve a life support/saving function - it was the fault of whatever OEM chose to use it in that capacity. They took on the onus to have it work correctly when they chose it as a platform.
https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scope
Yes. TypeScript doesn't have a sound type system and it comes with a lot of baggage:

* Using hashtables in TypeScript relies on the representation of JavaScript objects with strings as properties. Emulating JavaScript's in-memory representation in an ahead-of-time compiled language isn't a good idea for performance reasons.

* TypeScript only has a single number type (double) which is pretty slow if you actually need to work with integers. JavaScript VMs do a lot of work to figure out which numbers are integers using information that's only available at runtime. Using explicit integer types means the generated code is a lot tighter.

* A lot of existing TypeScript code uses structural typing to model dynamic type contracts present in today's JavaScript code, but this is usually a loosely-typed approximation and not something that a compiler can rely on. It's more just to improve tooling for developers.

* TypeScript uses exceptions which are hard to emulate efficiently in native code.

* I want to be able to add certain things and extend the language, so I don't want to limit myself to TypeScript. For example, I'm considering a preprocessor for conditional compilation and something similar to C#'s unsafe syntax for pointer manipulation.
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What? It's well known that both Uber and AirBnB long relied on their users to operate unlicensed jitneys and unlicensed, uninspected, uninsured lodging houses.
It has nothing to do with the popularity of the repository, really, but more with the quality of the issues.

>>> I would hate an automatic reply for filling an issue for a small library or such.

If the issue is lets say not reproducible because of lack of information provided, does it really matter if the response was typed out by hand? The response would be the same, give or take a couple of words.
If you're asking what we're storing in the database, that data is a plain string with some special delimiters in it denoting line types and metadata about the content.

At the application level, we're typically working with a version of that data that's structured a little bit more like this: https://usecanvas.com/about/canvas/55h8GVkBfi5Lnr2Becv5tB.js...

Currently, exporting your canvas will give you the format above, or `.markdown`, or `.html`. To answer your second question, we use operational transformation for the collaborative part of the platform, so we do have some history of operations on a canvas, but haven't quite decided for how long we'll be retaining that history and how we can best make it available to users.
link #11 to that article: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=How%20I%20got%20a%20game%20on%...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11383806
Funny, I use the opposite approach. If I can't configure and manage something via the filesystem, I usually stay clear of it.

Specifically, not relying on the filesystem means I can't easily browse configuration, I can't have version control, and I can't use my configuration manager to have events trigger when things change.
I disagree. If you really think about each decision you make on a day to day basis, your state space is actually quite limited. In most cases, I don't have to sort through 64 different states to make most decisions. Even decisions that are "difficult."

For example, My Air conditioner was not working correctly last week. These were my considerations:

1) I can investigate

2) I can call someone

3) I can investigate and try to repair

4) I can ignore it

5) I can destroy it

6) ???

Apply to college or go to trade school... Move to Silicon Valley or stay put... Decide to have children with my wife...

All of these would start off as large state spaces, but would inevitably shrink as each state is considered. At least, that is how I solve my decisions. Lots of lists that get worked down...

The real dilemma in decision making the determination of the outcome you desire, or better yet... the probability of attaining the desired outcome. If I am not mistaken, I read in _Thinking Fast and Slow_ that humans are pretty terrible at prediction, probability and remembering exact details. Furthermore, humans brains would meltdown if we sorted through 64 state spaces for every decision. We mostly live by rules of thumb and easy thinking...

I think AlphaGo could make me a better human.
Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes.

We, unfortunately, don't talk about plans for Google Container Engine (GKE), but given that this is already available in Kubernetes, I'll let you jump to conclusions :)

Stay tuned!
Apple: Enemies of the State.
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"One of Node.js’ core strengths is the community’s trust in npm’s registry. As it’s grown, the registry has filled with packages that are more and more interconnected."

IMHO, at the current state of Node's maturity I'd consider relying on a private and for-profit organization for package delivery a weakness, not a strength.
Excellent answer. Thanks.
http://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/1200BC_abstracts.pdf There are quite many theories linking this period with global scale climate changes.
I plan to do it eventually. I've implemented generics before so that's not the issue. It's just hard to get the design of generics right when the compiler has multiple targets. You want to emit compact JavaScript code and at the same time support the generation of efficient machine code. C++ does generic code through template expansion but that ends up generating a ton of code, which is bad for code delivered in a network environment. It may make sense to make different tradeoffs given the context of this project. I'm planning on putting off generics for a while though until more pieces fall into place.
I get the exact same features from my configuration manager, as long as there is a command I can run to validate the configuration file(s).
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Echoing the other sentiments here - the connection to Truecrypt is what made this story interesting. As rewritten, the title is basically meaningless.
Many normal people would say that it should be limited. But this seems very contradictory to the idea of freedom of speech. Its like you can say what ever you want, as long as the ruling body of people is ok with it. Freedom of speech is not meant to protect what most people think is already ok to say. Freedom of speech is to protect unpopular opinions like Moldbugs from the masses. I for one am very comfortable going to a conference with communists, reactionaries, and anarchists. Not that I am saying individual action is the same as state sponsored opinions.
I work and play in data. By far the best resource I've encountered is https://app.enigma.io/

Signups are free. The aggregated public data is plentiful and easily discovered, indexed, filtered, and exported.

Free account have API limitations, but as far as govt data is concerned, I don't find that its updated often enough to peg my API rate limiter anyway.
Talking to customers is critical, but you need to do it in an intelligent way. Just asking customers what features to add will have you end up with a monstrosity with each customer asking for something different.
There are other initiatives in the ember-verse for solving the 'universal app' issue.

Specifically, ember-engines provides a way to separate code into logical apps, but having them appear to be a single app. It's currently 'experimental', but in very active development.

https://github.com/dgeb/ember-engines

For us, it provides the best-of-both worlds... a single interface to the customer, without having to load up all of the code, services, etc that are used in every corner of the app.
...did you just call yourself lazy and incompetent?
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Mundane stuff is going to be the window to our current time from centuries in the future.
I'm glad it did though—this is awesome! Good luck with it, and perhaps I'll contribute something (do you plan for it to be garbage collected?).
I use a lot of Golang. I write a logf() and a recoverFrom() function that only has a body in debug builds. Then I pepper the code that I want to debug with panic()s and logf()s. After it's done, it goes into a test file.

I also output my code to .dot format to visualize the flow of data quite a bit. This is extremely useful in statemachine like stuff - I basically can create animated gifs (well, not really, it's more of me pressing right on my image viewer) to watch how my programs execute.

Why not Delve? I do actually use Delve. Just not as much as logf()s and panic()s.

Hmm.. in retrospect, I also dump a lot of data (neural network weights for example) into csv for debugging
Yeah that doesn't really make any sense. Comparisons to unrelated things can be helpful just to get a sense of how much money that is, but it doesn't do that in this case.
Yea that's gonna keep happening. Canvas is not an obscure metaphor in computing.
Less was unsafe? How so?
> If your train of thought is interrupted every time you encounter them, you are way too novice a programmer.

You're unimaginative.

This conversation is finished.
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7M Americans are now at risk from man-made earthquakes, says USGS
An interesting titbit of information from LambdaConf's organiser: "In the past few days, we’ve also seen a huge bump in the number of people applying for our diversity scholarship program (49 applications so far), and we’re doing everything in our power to give out as many scholarships as possible." [0]

It's good of Julie and Chris to continue supporting the conference, and (I think) a real shame how quick the other sponsors were to bow out. Hopefully in future people will try to think more about the positive work they can do and less about how they look. (Obviously, for those that really have strong moral reasons to exit, it's a shame but completely understandable.)

I guess one of the positives is that we now have two conferences [1], so those that can't stand the idea of being in the same room as Yarvin can be around other people that think exactly the same.

[0] http://degoes.net/articles/lambdaconf-controversy

[1] http://moonconf.org/
My point is that if they DID provide an official AMI then they would possibly see even more adoption. I know for myself, I am going to go with the company that provides the best support on AWS, which at the moment is Ubuntu.
Maybe integrating issues search with SO would be a good idea?

Personally, I create an issue if I strongly believe that it is a bug in the project or I want to suggest some improvements (e.g. found some strongly outdated docstrings) and head to SO if I believe that it's me doing something wrong.

But I can easily see how the distinction is very subjective and blurry.
> More likely, the digital file would come to be erased or rendered unreadable by changes in technical standards.

No one likes to admit it, but the solution is simple:

1) Plain ASCII text and

2) Distributed version control.
Fight the power! Encourage people to set appropriate access controls on their printers! Stick it to the man and encourage him to use proper security!
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Is there a way to verify that OpenBSD controls that Bitcoin address?
"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2FB1P_Mn8
Yep -- would be neat to see it play out, and what exactly happened. That time coincided with a Bond event -- the next one was in 400-500CE (which coincided with the 'Great Migration' of germanic and turkic tribes, the huns, the fall of Western Rome).
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That would be also a pretty useful feature also for publishing your own branch of a package in npm.
at a cost of $4-10 per ride (I read correctly I hope) does it make financial sense for commuters in bay area?
The state space of Go is essentially infinite as well. Computers could improve by several orders of magnitude and still not have a chance in hell of computing more states than there are atoms in the universe. For the purposes of computation, that is infinite. So Go is a fitting representation of the complex and "incomputable" problems of daily life.
I'm not sure it has to be that way, though the more complex the regulations are the easier it is to influence regulators.
Eh... I don't know how confident I am in that.
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I don't recall any snow, but my memories of that old monitor from over two decades ago are foggy.
I think there's some confusion. The actual config you send to a Concourse server is on your filesystem and ideally it's checked in.

`fly` is the CLI you use to tell the server "hey, here is a pipeline config", or "hey, I've changed the config, here's the new one".
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Whats funny about this is that by pulling out as protest for Moldbug they are making it harder for the conference to subsidize diversity.
I'm planning on experimenting with either pure reference counting (Swift), reference counting + cycle collection (Python), or garbage collection. I'd love to hear about what people are doing for emscripten actually. I've read that Unity uses IL2CPP which uses the Boehm GC but I couldn't find anywhere that described how that actually works in emscripten. Local variables correspond to "registers" in machine code, but how does the garbage collector read them so it can scan them during a collection?
About the worst I ever had to do was hooking up a logic analyser to the address bus. (This was pre-instruction-cache days.) The software detected a certain error condition and wrote to an unused address decode, which triggered the logic analyzer. We scrolled back through the addresses to find out how we got there! (This may have been during the process of bringing up a board, so we may not have had a UART available to shove debug messages out.)
Print statements and assertions. I rarely use a debugger, except coupled with something like Valgrind ("drop me into GDB if I use uninitialised memory") or to examine a core dump generated by a failed assertion.
So you use your own BGP tables or use HE or some other service to do it for you ?
250 mil requests is just ~2800 req/s. Serving 90% of them in 10 ms using api is not really any achievement, considering what kind of data you are serving. I've worked on api with 1 bil requests a day and 97% of them are below 10 ms (And the best is that only 2 machines are needed for that).
Ship sooner by pausing for Design Spikes. Wait, what?
>If you have the discipline to thoroughly test your code

This isn't the issue. I, and I suspect many others, simply don't have time to thoroughly test code.

It's the age-old issue of "Business doesn't rely on good code. It relies on delivering the product of that code." Up until the ship is both on fire and sinking - nobody cares about sailing a good ship. They'll settle for the shoddy lake boat and ride it out as long as it will last.
This doesn't actually excuse the lumping of people together, and doesn't make the generalized observations about those groups of people any more or less true...

Anyways, this bit of real politic is completely immaterial to my original point, which is that it's stupid and inconsistent to complain about other people's complaining. In particular because your observation about perception works the other way as well.
As we see, the OP has

> We have learned to use computer systems to reproduce at least some forms of human intuition.

Hmm .... Let's examine that claim:

To set aside the game of Go, we start with an analogy: A human can walk 10 miles to town, and a car can help one drive the same 10 miles to town. But what a car does to get to town is very different from what a walking human does. Both approaches get to town, and the car is much better in various ways, but this does not mean that a car walked like a human. To be clear, specifically the car did not "reproduce" the way a human gets to town; e.g., the car did not have two legs. Both the human and the car got to town? Yes. The car "reproduced" how a human got to town on two legs? No.

Similarly, a motor boat does not "reproduce" some forms of human swimming.

This pattern of using science, engineering, etc. to get results comparable with those of unaided humans is very old with many great examples from especially the last 100 years.

Further, on "intuition",
there are many tasks that humans do with human intuition where science, engineering, and computing do comparably well, but that does not mean that the science, etc. has "reproduced" human intuition.

Similarly, on the game of Go, AlphaGo got some game successes that humans get via human intuition, but that does not mean that AlphaGo "reproduced" human intuition, not in general and not even in the specific case of the game of Go.

Early in IBM's mainframe computing, in the common publicity, there was a related claim that IBM's computers were "gigantic electronic human brains". Those computers were no more "human brains" than Henry Ford's Model T was gigantic mechanical human legs. A car is not human legs, and an early IBM computer was not a human brain.

IMHO, there is an important point here: From the publicity about IBM's early computers to the claim in the OP I quoted above, there are claims that computing and computer science are reproducing some of how humans do things. But so far this claim is false, seriously false, not even close to the truth: Computers are no closer to reproducing human intelligence or "intuition" than Ford's Model T was to reproducing human legs.

Instead, apparently AlphaGo is a some high dimensional data fitting to yield a classification system, that is, given a board position in Go, AlphaGo reports 0 for bad for the AlphaGo player and 1 good for the AlphaGo player. So, they have a classifier.

But classifiers go way back, to Leo Breiman's random forests, classification and regression trees (CART), logistic regression, a huge range of statistical tests, e.g., in some cases of advanced radar target detection, and much more. Many such solutions have been very valuable, and maybe AlphaGo or its techniques will also be valuable, but none of this in any sense reproduces human intuition or really anything about humans -- not yet, not even close.

Net, while it's a free country and people can disagree, which is one role of HN,
IMHO, the quote I gave above from the OP is scientifically irresponsible. It just isn't really true. At best it is just hype.