skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I suspect many things regarding health are outside of anyone's control. Ie. if you're a living organism in 2016 on planet Earth, then you probably are negatively affected due to pollution caused by humans, let individuals hope they're lucky. There's lot of nasty stuff out there that we've made and let loose on purpose or by accident. You can't have an ideally healthy lifestyle when all up and down the ecological chain our handiwork is present (people like to make money with the least amount of effort on their part).
IIRC there is no ergonomic way to define typed records for Immutable.js ?
Use meetup.com and make an effort to go out and talk to people. If you're going out and meeting new people the main thing is to keep asking them questions and keep them talking about themselves. Then gradually find out which people you like and like you. Just to re-iterate, make sure you make a real effort, it doesn't just happen easily or naturally for a lot of people.

The article doesn't seem to mention that while online meeting isn't as good the internet can make meeting people who want to meet people much easier.

If you live in a modern city and have moved you often don't have the friendship and family groups that people used to have by default. Prior to the internet this was a lot harder. With the internet you can find people who are going to a bar, going dancing, going climbing, playing board games, going to listen to speakers or whatever much more easily.
This was a great talk, and was presented to a packed house (see below). If you don't want to watch the whole video, the issue really boils down to this:

1) Lot's and lot's of fine grained locks. One on every collection. Oooof.

2) All that locking and unlocking absolutely thrashes the cache with Larry's current prototype implementation. I was surprised at how little time was spent doing the actual locking/unlocking itself. I was blown away by the performance impact of maintaining cache coherent locks (at least in Larry's current implementation). And for reference, I was a logic designer on mainframes in the 1980's where we paid attention to making locks perform well across independent caches, so I'm no newb around this issue, but it was still striking to me.

(packed house) Larry's joke at the beginning about "practicing for getting on your plane later tonight" is a reference to the packed seating. The Portland convention center staff were taking the Portland fire marshall's directives quite seriously. We spent several minutes making sure every seat was occupied, and then the staff evicted the standee's :/
> See also: iOS jailbreaking, Android rooting, console homebrew, etc.

Let's go back a step: Why do all of those things exist?

It seems like it would be fairly easy. Use ARM TrustZone or Intel TXT trusted environments to host a non-writeable firmware, with one-time-programmable key storage, verifies that the contents of the boot memory are correctly signed by the key. If it is, then boot. If not, don't (copy in and verify a last-known-good backup image or something).

If the manufacturer wants to create an update, they take the code to the CTO's office safe, and compile and sign the image with the air-gapped machine that holds the private key.

If the private key is not leaked, jailbreaking is impossible. Doesn't seem that hard.
The stack unwinding was such a sad thing to me. Reading about CL condition system made me smile widely. You have more data to treat the exception. While reading the abstract, suddenly the word Exception felt absurd. It's rarely an exceptional condition, it's really a parallel planned error checking.

Also, being from the Java era, an Exception was mostly a boring way to ensure error checking, while lispers did use exception as cut / tree jmp to provide solution values to an algorithm.

ps: funny today youtube suggested this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp0OEDcAro0
The university/college campus thing is interesting, because it's kind of like a state in microcosm. It feels to me that one of the goals of an academic institution is allowing the free exchange of ideas; it's fine to not invite speakers, but maybe it becomes a problem when the institution itself (or student government) intervenes to disallow students from hosting them. The difference I suppose between "I don't want to hear your views" and "I don't want to allow your views to be heard."

I'm probably worrying about nothing and it's not that big a deal in practice. It still makes me uneasy that the concept of banning speech is so readily accepted by so many people, when I'm convinced that the best way to tackle extreme or prejudiced views is to allow them to be openly aired, and openly challenged so they can be exposed as wrong.
> Renting is, unfortunately and quite inaccurately, viewed as "throwing money away."

I hate this mentality, and it seems pervasive worldwide. As I said in another comment in this thread, I like to see rent as paying for a housing service: I pay a monthly amount in exchange for a roof plus a lot of annoying things I'd have to take care of myself (and spend money on) if I were a homeowner: broken appliances, water heater issues, heating issues, etc. It's quite a list.

"Service" is sort of key in the way I see it, and is the reason why I only rent from apartment companies and not from landlords. There are so many stories about downright insane landlords out there that I don't want to take my chances dealing having to deal with those.
Ponsoldt family appears to be exceedingly dumb, based on this article
> one even took his own life after Jake stole his research

Who was this?
People in your 20s or 30s, plan on retiring at 50 because you'll have to
There is no such thing as `next stage of evolution'. Evolution doesn't have stages.

Also, we are only interested in curing cancer in humans (and perhaps at most livestock). Wild animals will still get cancer.

(Do plants and funghi etc get cancer?)
No, we can go further, like: "Or v the letter".
WW3 UK USA EATING BACON
Moving the goalposts a bit there, aren't you?
OMeta's successor library has been linked here, so that's not a problem. IMO it's a shame that Professor Kay never fully adopted OSS. Their new way of doing a whole OS sure is inspirational - I could even see it as a very interesting basis as a successor to Linux.
Personally I think it's great. Coordinating 57k people is very very hard. If you had to ask 57k people "Hey, I'm going to work on this, anyone else already doing something similar" the entire company would grind to a halt.

Sure there are mistakes but I don't think it's top down "team x" compete with "team y". It's more like both teams don't know about each other until the projects are far along. At which point might as well see which one does better... Or at least that seems to be the attitude at google.
Its a factor. Not the only one by far.
Rust offers almost everything that Go does, but with a (much) nicer compiler, tooling that makes me drool, memory safety, and all with zero-cost abstractions that keep Rust as fast or faster than the naive C++ equivalent.

So even though I work in a majority Go company, and I feel like Go is quite mainstream, I firmly believe that Rust is the future!

Btw, sorry if this Rust enthusiasm comes across as a bit over the top, I'm quite tired. I just really like it is all.
Pretty obvious, although not my story to tell. Hint: not aaronsw. Fortunately the set of hackers/computer security people in this social circle who have killed themselves in the past 15y is still fairly small.
As you're by all appearances unaware of the concept, a bit of light reading...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience

and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory (with an emphasis on the "well substantiated" bit)
Not Indian, but I have had too many awesome co-workers, while offered full salary and great benefits, not being able to get the H-1B, because scummy shops like these take a huge chunk of them.

I'd rather have a great engineer, employed by a good company, with a good salary, pays taxes, etc... then a desperate not so good engineer, that gets half of the salary, and pays half the taxes, while scummy employer skims off some of his pay.
Every STEM grad from a US program should get a greencard/visa stapled to their diploma.

Why isn't that happening?
Guess what the user meant is to make it easy for people on H1B to switch jobs which currently isn't. This makes so many employees to be at the jobs though low paying so as to keep their status in US.

Edit: for grammar!
Depends on how its implemented: one that is implemented as suggested in the source article here (below poverty level and replaces existing poverty supports with aid that is in many cases less valuable in total -- including replacing programs that are federal/state cooperative programs whose value currently is sensitive to local, or at least state-by-state, costs) may well not do so, and indeed may make it harder (as well as making it harder for the poor to even survive.)
> I find that rather odd, any ideas why it is that way? Is there really so few flats on the market? I would think that estate agents would be happy to help anyone find a home...

Vacancy rate in Geneva proper is about 0.4%. As usual in such situations, why bother with a foreigner who isn't going to stay long when you likely know friends/acquaintances (Geneva is a small world :) looking for a place?
I have a huawei $60 android which is 2 year old. I don't have a data plan nor a SIM in it, I just use it for offline openstreetmap data with OSMAND and for watching youtube video. I'm not so rich so I use a nokia candybar cell phone for my calls.

I was at this park, and my battery was nearly dead. At the 20% mark, I noticed that the battery drained very quickly, and it lost 1% per 10 second. Maybe it's a battery physics issue, or maybe it was emitting my position/recording to a GSM antenna... I guess it was defintely a battery physics issue.
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That does sound similar. One difference I notice - my friend's boss met routinely with executive staff and senior managers at HP to go over future projects. They all made an effort to keep their entire organization secret - even renting offices to do the development off-site in the Bay Area. I have no doubt that HP's use of tourist visas for staffing was well known to all their executives. I do know that HP was working on a lot of secret defense department programs at the time - I wonder how many of those secret military programs were actually implemented by foreign nationals hidden away at HP?
Alphabet is basically a name to do things with Google money that people would have approved of if they immediately knew Google was associated with. It's a way to fool most people who probably won't bother figuring out where this "new" multibillion dollar corporation came from.

Hopefully the media keeps reminding everyone what Alphabet really is...
Iridium came out in the time when cellphones weren't quite yet ubiquitous, and the military saved them from bankruptcy. However, today the demand for their services is much higher because there is so much greater demand for mobile data services. There are 4.5 billion mobile phone users in the world, for example. And tons of companies have built out various systems and infrastructure that depend on mobile data. Enough of them need data links even in remote areas to justify the expense of using Iridium.
He's on HN (pg confirmed this a few years back) but most people don't know his handle. Incidentally, I'm 99% sure I do, but I guess I won't out him.
That's what I thought while reading the post. Microsoft was infamous for internal divisions basically acting as separate companies, with divergent roadmaps, duplicated features and so on.

In this case, however, given the prominence that was originally placed on the acquisition (at a time when Google had no direct presence in home automation), I suspect that the original vision was to actually merge the two worlds. The Google rank&file probably learnt very quickly how toxic Fadell was, and then proceeded to keep Nest at arms' length and do their own thing, basically writing off the acquisition and hoping it will eventually go away.
> and the solution is obvious: don't remove all the social security besides UBI.

I think that's where there are two camps within UBI supporters: those who want social security + UBI, and those who want to replace all or most social services with UBI. You can probably see how that maps to the political spectrum.
How do you think we make roads, energy?
Humans evolution can be characterised into major stages from ape to homosapien.
Conversely, the government represents one of the biggest threats to Google-sized companies, so it's not at all surprising that such companies preemptively maintain influence with governments with applicable jurisdiction.

If there wasn't a steady stream of new threats (ranging from minor to existential) coming out of government, there'd be less need to maintain influence within it.
GNU projects are really awesome until people start implementing them.
If your are equip like me with a EMF meter, then its easy to confirm what your phone is doing when in airplane mode, with normally is nothing. A mobile phone is after all just a computer with a radio modem. It can't do shit without sending out RF.

I would recommend something like the 'Cornet ED78S RF Meter' to every technician with the tiniest amount of AU in circulation.

The reason I got it was because I have become electro-sensitive, and that's almost a death sentence in the modern city.

Those pictures of Stallman sitting on a mountain top and not a mobile phone mast in sight looked very appealing...

My phone LG-L80 99£ is GSM only, all else is off, apps downloaded on wired PC and installed via ADB interface.

Currently used as book reader for C++11 fourth edition and as Wikipadia offline reader(Kiwix) 12GB on SD card - music/mp4 player and the battery last for a week or more.

I feel I'm in control of my phone, don't know if that is justified or not?
I had a weird experience some time ago. I stayed with my family at a hotel and our room had an unusually shaped tap in its bathroom. I never looked it up online - in fact, I didn't even mention to anyone that I thought that was a very peculiar tap. But a few days after we came back, Amazon showed me that exact tap as a shopping suggestion. It felt a little creepy. I could see no connection between the site where I booked the hotel room and Amazon, but there must be one somewhere.
This seems analogous to complaining about internet protocol for failing to address reliable delivery; reliability is not part of the protocol, so it would be odd to expect it. And when you do need reliability, you can elect to use TCP, and then you have that function. If you want outside observers to not see the connections you're making, then use a VPN. But the vast majority of people don't care enough about hiding the destinations of their internet traffic to bake that in to the more fundamental protocols.

I'm surprised to see this posted on such a tech-oriented site.
It's definitely not as active as the mainland but there is a small startup community worth checking out around accelerators like Energy Excelerator and Blue Startups. I think Energy Excelerator has done a pretty good job of tapping into the defense and hospitality industry on the islands for capital and launch markets for their startups, and then finding roadmaps for their startups to break out later on into larger consumer and enterprise markets.
Why should one always expect a thread to be interruptible? If I don't run my thread within an Executor or some other framework that could interrupt my thread, then I should be able to consider that an illegal state.
Is there anything inherent to the language that makes this global lock thing difficult to be without in Python, but not in other languages?
The University of California system is exactly what I was referring to.

They increasingly admit more out of state and international students to deal with their increasing budget problems and to counteract otherwise necessary larger tuition increases.

I'm not saying this is good or bad. Just stating that this is happening.
You can rent land to farmers. Depending on the land and location in NY, you can rent it for $20-$80 an acre.

USDA agricultural statistics service

https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/results/E0F5EB36-3313-3D7B-...
But his Twitter account was setup in 2009. In 2009 password vaults were poor and definitely weren't easy. That's what I was talking about.

We're talking about accounts that are years old, not something he set up last week.
I like the concept but I can see a few potential problems with the idea.

Firstly this would give universities the power to print green cards. That's a power they probably shouldn't have.

Secondly I really don't think there is a shortage of scientists or mathematicians so STEM is probably a suboptimal group to apply this policy. I personally know a person with a masters in geophysics who drives for lyft. Ask a recent biology major about their job prospects, etc.
If an AI is an algorithm, then it will be unable to produce "answers" to what we observe. That is the relevance. One would need to show a contradictory example to the theorem to ignore it.

>There is nothing whatsoever in the paper that stops an AI from having whatever ability to choose freely humans have.

There is if an AI is dependent on deterministic methods. I agree that AI is not a well-defined term, but all proposals I have seen are algorithms, which are entirely deterministic. This is entirely at odds with the human conception of free choice. An algorithm will always produce the same choice given the same input. Any other behavior is an error.

The SFWT says that observations can be made that cannot be replicated through deterministic means, which would seem (I agree there is a very slight leap in logic here) to rule out any AI from ever being able to understand at least some aspects of our reality (and also reveals them to be simple, logical machines, with no choice).
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Not that kind of Storm unfortunately.
Who says they did it without leaving evidence? I'm sure there's security camera footage somewhere (presumably deleted by now, but maybe not). It's not like they're going to put out an INTERPOL warrant based on some grainy security camera footage of just-another-dude-with-a-beard walking into a hotel room.
Inherent? No. Neither Jython nor Iron Python have a GIL.
> Inevitably, it wouldn't be long before you start insisting that everyone help out with farming or hunting or repairs or something.

Perhaps it would help understanding the other side if you were to look at it not as "insisting that everyone help out" but making trades with other people instead.

You start trading them food in exchange for shelter, etc. Rather than expecting everyone to deserve equal shares of all output.

Certainly this has happened many ways throughout history. The way you're suggesting is only one, and not only that, it's one which eventually falls apart as it scales up.

> Taxes are moral so long as the taxed individuals consent to be part of the entity imposing the taxes, and there are very few individuals throughout history who have actually been willing to opt out of civilization.

I'm not going to argue the "moral" aspect, but I think many people simply want to see the trade benefit of society and don't really care about much else. They're willing to tolerate the taxes for the sole reason that it's the only way for them to get access to wide trade networks currently. That trade benefit doesn't necessarily rely on much of what government provides and could, theoretically at least, operate completely without it, given the opportunity.
Classical music is the foundation for understanding music production
You can switch jobs on an H1-b visa. The window is too short yes but plenty of people with skills do it in SV.
The political system in Switzerland is known to increase stability, not reduce it.

The way I see it, this is down to two factors:

1. Since Switzerland does have multiple parties and all of the bigger ones a represented in the federal council, there is more compromise and decisions made by consensus. This in turn leads to less dramatics shifts after a term is up and some politicians are replaced.
In contrast in the US, where you could have a democratic president and parliament coming in after a term of a republican majority and president (or vice versa). It seems likely, that the new powers to be would set about undoing some decisions made by their predecessors. At the very least you'd have a rather dramatic course change at hand.

2. It is very easy to collect enough signatures for a referendum (50000 signatures within 100 days of the law being passed in parlament) and for every change to the constitution there is a mandatory referendum (no signatures needed, it will brought to a public vote).
This means that any controversial law can be brought to a public vote. Which more or less prohibits sudden drastic changes and promotes more incremental change, which brings more stability.

On the other hand, there might be something to the Idea, that direct democracy reduces stability. Basically it is the flip side of 2. above: it is also quite easy to gather 100000 votes to establish a popular initiative.
The parties have picked up on that and often introduce controversial initiatives to further their election campaigns.
There are not many safeguards in place, so unfortunately there was an increase in badly drafted amendments in recent years. Different parties have brought forward initiatives that contradicted other parts of the constitution.
The daughter's political views especially.
The Outsized Life of Muhammad Ali
Thanks for sharing.

I left a sociopath 10 years ago... and I still have angry feelings towards him. That bastard would be so charming and nice to your face; meanwhile, he was sabotaging my career behind my back, while I trusted him completely. His goal was to replace the CTO of our small company; and he knew that as long as I was around, the CEO wouldn't give in to his blackmail. So he set about poisoning the CEO about me.

We worked mostly on government contracts. The CEO had cofounded another company (with blessings of the directors), and wanted some source code that we had worked on. I wasn't sure if it was legal to share the code, so I went to the Sociopath and asked him (since he had been there longer than me). He told me, in clear terms, that we were not supposed to share the code. So I tried to ignore the CEO's order, buying time, putting him off. Little did I know that Sociopath had gone to the CEO and told him that, for whatever reason I did not want to give him the code, despite his repeated requests for me to do so. Things simmered for a few weeks, until one day the CEO dresses me down in public: why are you not giving me the code, when Sociopath has also told you to? I was shocked; and then things started falling into place. I realized that for the last year or two, he had been slowly poisoning CEO against me. Little incidents that seemed strange now suddenly started making sense.

Fuck this shit, I said, and quit after a few weeks. After taking some time off to heal, I found another job and washed my hands off that shitty gig.