skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There isn't enough discussion of the difference between cause and root cause.

Clearly, technology can't possibly be the cause of old people getting agitated about how young people are destroying the civilization left for them. That complaint has been circulating as far back as we can find records.

I suspect we'd be getting closer to root cause if we examined how people observe other people.

Heinlein has a great idea for a profession in "Stranger in a Strange Land". There are Witnesses who go through painstaking training to ensure that they can actually, truly, literally be impartial observers of events. For example, if asked "what color is that house" they would reply "this side of the house is white." Most people aren't even aware of all the simplifying assumptions they're making when they observe the world, which means they can't account for avoidable mistakes when they think on their observations.

The image of kids looking at their phones instead of the painting is just that. It's a picture of kids looking at their phones while in the vicinity of a painting. A single picture tells you nothing about the context in which that picture was taken, and that's before you start worrying about image manipulation. I suspect the vast majority of the times when old people get annoyed at young people are really just people failing to remember that their observation tells them much less about the situation than they assume.

This framework seems more powerful because it helps explain other things. For example, I think the reason the "social justice movement", such as it is, is struggling to be taken seriously is that it's impossible to photograph. The civil rights movement was easy to explain. All you needed were pictures of burning crosses, or nooses, or whites/coloreds signs, or police dogs, or fire hoses. The message didn't get lost in the aggressive filter everyone applies to their observations. The social justice movement is about much more abstract things like the 2nd and 3rd order effects of obscure laws or accumulated subjective experiences. So the only parts you can photograph are people shouting and/or crying. The message is guaranteed to get lost in the filter, so it's basically impossible for anyone who's merely observing it to get the truth.

In the same way, it's impossible to capture what someone is thinking/feeling when they're using technology. The experience is subjective. You can't tell if they're asleep with their eyes open, or mindlessly poking colored squares, or doing homework, or falling in love, or discovering a new perspective. All you can observe, over and over again, is just a person staring at a screen. The truth of the situation is not observable, yet we continue to base our understanding of the truth on our observations.
It seems like Uber and Lyft are currently doing deals like this as big special one-offs. At what point do real world services like this become plug and play via APIs?
I love Opera Mail but now that Opera is in Chinese hands I don't feel comfortable using it anymore. If Vivaldi does the mailer right, I will welcome it with open hands.
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What Do Physics, Bacteria, and Tai Chi Have in Common?
I currently want to put together a cut-down, minimal userspace rootfs that boots a VNC viewer for some old laptops. Essentially busybox+wpa_supplicant+Xorg (for synaptics touchpad support >.>)+tigervnc, and a bunch of hand-written init scripts to boot everything.

I could go hunting and take my existing system apart until I have a bunch of binaries and libraries that coexist and don't cause nuclear explosions, but I can't help but think that rebuilding all the bits I need from scratch might get me a smaller initramfs image. (At the very least I could compile out all the features I don't need.)

My question is: how best could I build everything (on Arch Linux) in an isolated way, such that gcc/clang figures out that I want everything to link together, without going full crazy and building gcc inside a chroot (like LFS does), etc etc? I figure I want lots of PREFIX and manual specification of libraries to ./configure, but is there anything else I should take into account?

I also vaguely recall a single-floppy Linux distro from years back that came with a random shell or Perl script that would do code analysis for you and strip out never-used function calls in libraries so that the resulting library build was smaller. Is anyone aware of anything like that that's a proper application?
A Vickrey auction is much more interesting (and complex) when there are dozens of bidders, each with their own budget, and multiple products. Then the solution turns into a profit maximization algorithm, with the highest bidder not necessarily winning each item.
When we remove the pesky wetware
My focus was on mobile, not desktop GPUs. However, I've noticed that energy and area efficiency are starting to become more relevant in desktop too.

At the end of the day, I guess it's all about finding the right balance for your target application.
That would be very nice and reliable! For extra reliability we could wrap the installation instructions into scripts (to save people from making typing mistakes) and provide them as part of the package download. Ideally the scripts would be able to handle deinstallation too, in case people want to experiment with newer components. And it would be good to provide some convenient central user interface for atomically managing which packages are installed - a "package manager", if you will...
The 'Tunein' test
If so, the UK is different from mainland Europe in this regard.

I do find it peculiar, though, that "neo-liberalism" is of a different form than "liberalism", and hence not really "new liberalism":P
I can't say this is true in all cases, but I believe that fopen()/fread()/frwrite()/fclose() all cover this for you.
You can get the file number for an opened FILE * block thru something like fileno() or filenum() or something.

The f() calls all buffer for you.

The problem is that write() is entangled in the ioctl() universe in many implementations of 'C' and that gets funky fast.

Beyond* that, reading and writing may involve making your own furniture to hide the ugly from dealing with peripherals.
Ironically, if all these traders paid for the app, they might not have been scrambling now to find a replacement.
Fast Deterministic Selection
Doing 1) AND 2) is perfectly possible. If you're writing it in a performant language. Opera has proven that by still being faster (qualifier: on windows and when excluding JS-heavy tasks) than either Chrome or Firefox. Just a simple thing as switching between tabs is immediately noticably faster in Opera than either of those, even when you have 100 diverse tabs open.

Vivaldi's problem is that they're building on top of chromium in all JS, which puts certain limits on just how efficient they can be performance-wise.

Additionally they're constrained in what they can implement by being tied to chromium, anything they can't do with chromium as it is, they'll have to implement changes in chromium and either live on a fork or try and push them upstream, both of which have high organizational costs.

Also, as a sidenote for the Opera email client: I'm curious how you think it was weaker than Thunderbird?

I've been using it for over a decade and technically i find it far superior, just with its ability to set up mutually inclusive folders that automatically sort email into themselves based on the same bayesian patterns that work for spam, and can be taught simply by dragging things in/out. Additionally, the comment about it "taking up room" is senseless, since it only uses any CPU/RAM if you actively enable it, and Opera's installer has always been tiny.
You're completely missing the point. The 'cost' of voting is the same no matter who you vote for and even if you chose not to vote someone will become president. So for many people they see the choice as being between someone who might fuck them over and someone who will fuck them over. I'm not a Trump supporter, but it's not that hard to see his appeal.
Would be interesting to know how and who shoulders the liability here?
The UI looks very similar to the Cosmos project (https://github.com/skidding/cosmos).

Could you outline the main differences and the motivation behind creating a different project in favor of contributing to an existing one?
Is resource redistribution the only way to solve income inequality? I always believed we weren't playing a zero sum game. It's likely that when we are all working for a living and prospering then we all prosper a little more. I don't believe that means someone rich has to lose a little more so someone poor can win.
I'm making the oversimplifying assumption that costs are fixed. In SaaS business, a disproportionate amount of the costs tend to be. Look at the SG&A line of Qlik, in the news for their recent sale. [0] SG&A at mature companies can be 20-30% of revenue. At Qlik it's almost all of the revenue. This is ok, because they get the revenue over time.

It's possible to create a more realistic model, but the core idea is "If you have a great company, it still can be ok to get VC money to grow it even faster."

[0] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AQLIK&fstype=ii&ei=...
This article alludes to, but never actually brings up, something much more interesting than the project in question:

How can copyright coexist with human-level automatic analysis and synthesis of works of art?

For example, Spotify is flooded with "covers" of hit songs that are made to sound as similar to the original as possible. In my understanding, it doesn't matter how similar it sounds, as long as it's "remade", it's considered a new work of art. So what happens when the cover song process can be automated? It seems likely that courts and lawmakers will need to define a sphere of similarity around each work of art, within which all points are considered copies.
SPOF: what if your website got down because of third-party content?
I don't follow your thinking here. Isn't it routine for there to be multiple possible explanations for human actions, in the absence of complete knowledge?

"Why did X have an omelette for lunch?" Many possible, non-weird explanations.
I think open365.io sounds quite interesting - in particular the self-hosting option.
It is a lot of money, no disagreement.

I know developers who have saved up that kind of cash in about 6 or 7 years, working in relatively low cost of living areas.

You simply have to save and invest half your income. ;)
> I can only use YouTube on my Desktops because that's where the ad blocker works.

Why? The ads aren't that bad.

> There are wrong defaults like showing annotations or autoplay.

From a business perspective, autoplay is good as it leads to more videos being watched.
I only really care whether the singer is able to convey the emotion behind the song. In reality I don't even know who writes a given song most of the time, only the performer.

We can argue whether, for example, Adele is better at conveying emotion because she wrote the song. What we shouldn't do is claim that it's impossible for someone to do so if they didn't write the lyrics themselves.

Now, once you abstract that, does it matter whether the original writer was human as long as they produce something a singer can then connect with emotionally and then project? I don't know. I feel like ignorance would be bliss.
> The average person listening to Taylor Swift is thinking about Taylor Swift, and not what they're listening to.

I think this is a grand oversimplification. Personality certainly _contributes_ to pop stardom, but the music is still #1. Before anyone knew who Taylor Swift was, they connected with her through one or more song.

> A lot of creative detail goes into the production, arrangement, and the vocal performance. Not the MIDI file.

Of course, but even having an autonomous "songwriter" that could write _a_ hit would be a gamechanger for music (though obviously most immediately applicable to top 40 / pop)

> You need a model of mind to do that last one

I disagree. Machines already produce what would otherwise be considered "experimental" music, you just need some deep reinforcement learning to know what has mass appeal.
> I like the idea of LFS, but if you are going to present a tutorial on anything that depends on external resources, then that tutorial should be maintained so that as long as the end user follows the instructions, it will always work, all the time.

This is a pretty tall order for a niche project like LFS, which is most likely maintained by a bunch of guys on their free time. You really can't expect them to be able to keep it up to date all the time.

Fwiw. it's not too difficult to build a small bootable linux distro, but it might be easier to use e.g. Musl+BusyBox rather than GNU userspace. I've put together a small bootable Linux from Git repos, it takes about a day or two to build binutils and GCC for cross compiling, then building kernel, libc, busybox and making an initrd image that boots.
Defining and expressing "coolness" is an essential part of articulating an identity. As is curating your relationships to different audiences.
> If that were the case, why can't I simply design an artificial brain, a cyber brain, and upload myself in 1000 bodies?

What makes you think you can't, at least in principle?
Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware–and Still Out of Control
I'm aware of at least two (actual) MPEG-4 lossless formats (MPEG-4 ALS and MPEG-4 SLS). ALAC is just a random format worse than the existing one at the time, stuffed in a .m4a container. (Apparently .caf as well.)
In the UK, "the liberals" (a.k.a The Liberal Democrats) are "social liberals" (indeed, we usually claim to be the largest Social Liberal party in Europe.)

In the rest of Europe, it does tend to break down in the way you describe. In 2009 (not sure if still the case), Denmark had a centre-right party called Venstre in government ("The Liberal Party"), and a much smaller party Radikal Venstre in opposition ("The Social Liberal Party"). This pattern (with or without the smaller one) tends to be the pattern in most of Europe I believe.

However, the article is discussing US Politics, so that is where the confusion arises.

I would like to argue that the {Liberal => Social liberal} mapping comes from JS Mill in the UK in the late 1800s, but I'm sure it originates before then.

Note also that the Lib Dems, a merger of the Liberal Party and the SDP, were not right wingers (Liberals) and left wingers (Social Democrat Party) merging, they were a historical Social Liberal party (Lib) merging with a relatively right wing spin off from Labour (SDP).
I don't think you have the option to say "this app needs Read and Change for just this one domain," it's pretty much an all or nothing sort of deal. This one uses it to edit the page on YouTube, so it has to require it for all.
> Why is a browser vendor spending precious time and money adding a mailbox to their browser?

Quite simple: They want to have an email client with features that are currently not offered by any other email client.

I may of course be ignorant, but beyond being integrated within the browser, can you tell me of an email client that uses mutually inclusive folders that automatically sort email into themselves based on the same bayesian patterns that work for spam, and can be taught simply by dragging things in/out?
Also there is the Map of Metal, restricted to metal: http://mapofmetal.com/#/home
Reasonable point. There are lower cost sources of capital. My impression is that many banks are still nervous about lending to SaaS startups if the GAAP metrics don't look great.

This may be why PE companies are getting into the game lately.
Call me old fashioned but I still would trust UPS/FedEx more with my packages - as opposed to contracted amateurs. Granted, last mile delivery is always a challenge...

How long until you can get a freight van through uber's subprime leasing program?
Less so for the last several decades than any time in the past, due to the establishment of first as hoc (e.g., ICTY) and then standing (i.e., ICC) tribunals not directly tied to a particular belligerent's military.

But, yes, that's still an issue, particularly with the US electing not to ratify the Rome Statute.
Not only that the FBI continues honoring his memory with his name on their building. That they keep up that public honor to his memory is consistent with their continued behavior.

It is sad we continue to elect people that allow that type of thinking to direct behavior of such a powerful organization but it is pretty clear we have elected very few people that are interested in changing the actions they continue to engage in.
Don't understand the "...One of the (mostly hated) features of the (mostly hated) language was that any statement required a line number...". Basic was a wonderful entry level language - user friendly and understandable. It introduced countless kids to programming. It never pretended to be some enterprise level, hardcore language and it was certainly more readable than the code accompanying the article:

cmd=$(sed -n "/$label:/{:a;n;p;ba};" $0 | grep -v ':$')
If anything, it's very old Liberalism.

Way back when, (Whigs and Tories era), the "Liberals" we're the ones arguing for free markets as opposed to Feudalism. This is where attachment of the word "Liberal" to free market-ists originates, I think.
There is! In extension's manifest.json you can mention for which URLs your extension needs permission. This extension is asking for "http://*/*", "https://*/*". Which is all of them.
Check out Yocto Project. I've used it to build a minimal distro for Gumstix boards, but it also supports generic x86/amd64 targets as well.

It's built on top of bitbake and you essentially enable recipes for packages you want to have installed.

https://www.yoctoproject.org/downloads/bsps
Google talks of China return, six years after exit
Hmm.

That sounds sort of like https://buildroot.org/. It's a bit full-on, and definitely provides a superset of what you're describing, but sort of wanders in that general direction.

I think that LFS is intended for people who want to really understand how Linux works, so there's no automation, and the user is required to have a hand in every step of the process. I mean to follow up on LFS at some point, but to deal with the intricacy and fiddliness I'd go very slowly, and the process would probably take 3 or 4 months. But the finished system would be better configured than anything else I've ever set up... lol

It's useful to know about issues like this though, now I can prepare to expect that.

About versioning, that's difficult - since this is entirely manual, the instructions have to match up perfectly with what the software actually requires, or confusion will result.

As someone who used Slackware for a couple years, I definitely appreciate the ability to easily install new software. :D:D:D
I'd be ok with it if the package had a security seal on it...
>>"...the most beneficial part of higher education isn't the knowledge gained but the way you are taught to get it - Through research and critical thinking."

This isn't necessarily the case with college grads of the past few years, who are more self-centered, self-absorbed and coddled. In fact, most of the 'noise' coming out of colleges today are the b*tching and moaning that someone said something that offended them. Not exactly 'research' oriented or based on 'critical thinking'. Its more aligned with the environment they've decided to surround themselves in, while those who are 'less-formally-educated' get their 'education' through elbow grease and busted knuckles (also known as 'life experience'.
Hmm. Interesting, thanks.
It's not necessarily when/how they're made (although that's part of it), but how they're marketed. Take soft drinks for example.

Brand-name: Dr. Pepper
Off-brand: Dr. Perky
Unbranded/Generic: "Soda" in a white can
http://caniuse.com/#feat=opus

Strangely absent across all mobile platforms at the moment. And even Firefox won't play it as .webm only .ogg. (Huh?) Man, why is audio always so wonky?
And your VR example simply assumes the conclusion:

> Maybe Doug Lenat and Geoffrey Hinton collaborated and developed an AI as intelligent as a person, and that's what controls them

How do you know the AI isn't conscious? You're simply asserting that it isn't. For all you know, "AI as intelligent as a person" literally isn't possible without consciousness, which makes your assertion inconceivable.

Which is why the whole p-zombie thought experiment doesn't convince anyone: if you already think consciousness is physical, then p-zombies aren't conceivable and the thought experiment isn't convincing, and if you already think consciousness is not physical, then p-zombies merely assert the same conclusion you already hold and you're "convinced".
You do have that option. WikiTube, mentioned elsewhere in this thread, only requires read & change permissions for "all wikipedia.org sites".
Very off. I didn't want to create a spreadsheet. :-)

But the idea is that $95M of the costs are fixed, so whatever you add goes to growth. So on 100M of revenue you have 5M to invest in growth, which will get you a 5M revenue stream the next year. On 120M you have 25M to invest.

This sounds far-fetched for traditional businesses, but isn't so off for SaaS companies. Once you get through sales, general and administration and fixed R&D costs, the margins on great SaaS companies is very high. It can be 80 or 90%. This is why GAAP metrics can look bad on them for a while (have to get over the fixed cost hurdle, and sales costs can be very high) but once you're profitable, it's a huge cash cow. This is one reason why Salesforce and Bloomberg do so well. They make tons of cash, and any competitor will need to lose money for several years to catch them.
Agreed, but to be fair that was how I felt about having Uber driving me around when I first heard about it a few years ago.
It's not about privacy directly, but about the expectation for their old posts to be "forgotten." This is why the so-called "right to be forgotten" is/was a big deal in Europe.
Walmart has all the reputation risk.

Which whatever anyone wants to say about Walmart's reputation, it's pointless to offer the service if they let it suck.
Recommendations are mostly awful

Yup, it's amazingly bad. 'Related' videos are mostly OK, but reccomendations seem to be just a 'related' video based on something you watched ages ago. I guess most youtube viewers are browsing omnivores and don't really care how bad the stuff is as long as it makes the time pass.

At least Amazon let you fix their reccomendations.
...and history is always written by the more dominant force - not necessarily the morally correct one.

everyone from person to country tries to justify their actions to be morally acceptable - depending on what 'morally acceptable' passes for at the moment in time.
Framework for Keyword-Driven Test, 0.0.3 released
How can I crack a window 7 password?
I want to know about the ways with which I can crack window 7 password.
this time it's real, shipped code

WinFS was real. Before the project was cancelled, we released a beta and a "beta refresh" - both installable on XP.

(Disclaimer: I was on the WinFS team.)
I'd read a lot about the incident but never seen those photos, pretty gruesome.
For me, the legends do not correlate well with the visualizations and made it difficult to interpret the data. I only saw two sizes and these did not correlate well with the sizes on the visualization. Maybe it's a function of my using other sizing parameters than land area?
Well, there always is (slightly nsfwish url) http://twoyoutubevideosandamotherfuckingcrossfader.com/
Re the 9/11 thing, if you are someone who dislikes the killing of innocent people it seems reasonable to be horrified by the original 9/11 killings of three thousand odd people and also horrified by Bush/Cheney using that as a justification to do stuff leading to the deaths of many times as many innocent people. It seems quite reasonable to avoid condoning that.