skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chinese are human too. This includes greed in all its forms, the will to power, the construction of awkward systems that get repurposed and only vaguely serve their original goal, and are subject to Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy [1], and everything else that goes with it. The differences between China and the West only seem so large because we are all so similar in the first place, being all humans.

[1]: http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
eh quite sure flowers, because they can be pollinated without butterflies, butterflies however do need nectar (afaik)
Renaissance Technologies Wants to Use Atomic Clocks to Beat High-Speed Traders
I don't believe that serving up malware is a legitimate business practice to make money.
It's tnteresting to note that Priceonomics – with excellent long-form content such as this – is doing something very similar to Michelin.

Also, http://www.viamichelin.com is a great way to plan your travels. Especially in Europe, the map planner is very handy, as it allows you to estimate costs, including petrol and tolls. And of course, it has points of interest.
Back when I ran windows enough to worry about av software, I had good experiences with "nod32":

http://www.eset.com/us/products/nod32-antivirus/

I'm not sure if it's grown up to be a bit bloated like the rest now; but it used to do what av should do: scan for signatures fast.
I use my iPad Pro with keyboard to SSH into a Mac and use vim or Coda to develop.

Better battery life than most laptops and built-in SIM card means I can work almost anywhere. Plus I also get to draw sketches whenever I want (both UI designs and for fun). And I really like iPads.
You're still served ads with a paid NYT subscription?

edit: well, I had been thinking about a subscription. I suppose not anymore.
Lack of Data Is Hampering Afrika's Fight Against Malnutrition
I am not able to see the article on mobile, can someone post a tldr?
Some apps don't use the builtin notification system on Android. I get sound notification from Line (a big square pop-up that blocks any current activity!) and my friend get quite noisy notifications from some of her game apps even when the phone is set to silent.
The ramifications of Brexit look more and more complicated as time goes by. Crazy.
I'm guessing tesla's don't use a LIDAR?
A viable shot at a better NHS has been killed off by privacy paranoia
This is the reason why I haven't visited Wired or Forbes in months. And it's not that I couldn't figure out a way past their ad-block detectors. The idea that I must disable what is inherently a security feature just so they can satisfy their marketing goals is antithetic to an open web.

I noticed Wired no longer blocks uBlock Origin (or more humorously, uBlock Origin has now began filtering out anti-adblockers) but I continue to see no reason to frequent their site.
Is it not more a case of space-time being influenced rather than light?
Did you ever look at Oberon?
Yeah, it's a shame that we only have the Internet of Shit right now. But it's not baked in the technology. You can have secure IoT devices with custom builds, so I'm sure that there will be secure e-ink wallpapers (although maybe not on the mass market).
Google's plan on mass surveillance
> Usually people are concerned about maximising prediction accuracy, and never stop to think about what correlations is the model finding down below, and the human biases present in the data annotations.

Because maximizing prediction accuracy is inherently unbiased. Bias is when the predictions made are inaccurate to the detriment of a group of people. If you had a prediction algorithm that functioned using time travel to tell you with 100.0% accuracy who would pay back their loans, there would be a racial disparity in the result, but the cause of it is not the fault of the algorithm.

And you can't fix it there because that's not where the problem is.

Suppose you have a group of 800 white middle managers, 100 white sales clerks and 100 black sales clerks. Clearly the algorithm is going to have a racial disparity in outcome if the middle managers are at 500% of the cutoff and the sales clerks are right on the line, because it will accept all of the middle managers and half of the sales clerks which means it will accept >94% of the white applicants and 50% of the black applicants.

But the source of the disparity is that black people are underrepresented as middle managers and overrepresented as sales clerks. The algorithm is just telling you that. It can't change it.

And inserting bias into the algorithm to "balance" the outcome doesn't actually do that, all you're doing is creating bias against white sales clerks who had previously been on the same footing as black sales clerks. The white middle managers will be unaffected because they're sufficiently far above the cutoff that the change doesn't affect them, even though that they're the source of the imbalance.
I think you don't realize how loud these things are. The whole street becomes painful to walk on.
another CF ad..
Hey, someone found those noise functions I ported to JS a few years ago!

Sorry for not referencing the original code. The java version I translated from is here: http://webstaff.itn.liu.se/~stegu/simplexnoise/SimplexNoise....

And the paper describing the algorithm is here: http://webstaff.itn.liu.se/~stegu/simplexnoise/simplexnoise....

Glad it was useful to you!
Might not be the smartest decision to criticise the one who granted him asylum.
The more I look at these numbers in the tech world the more I see the huge divide in humanity. Even if they have sold 10 million units it's still a fraction of a water drop of the sea of humanity, more than frigging 7 billion.

100k is just 0.0014 % of humanity who got a Vive.

Bubbles, bubbles everywhere.
Scrapely: The brains behind Portia, our visual web scraping tool
A real estate bubble in disguise? Yes! But considering that young people in China don't have the luxury of garages, any rent-free office space can be of great help to them. At least the empty buildings are now put to use.
Yeah, I brought that up when I called to cancel and they said "well the ads help keep the cost of your subscription low!". But that's not the point! I pay to remove ads, I don't watch ads to keep the price low!
BURN_BABY_BURN--MASTER_IGNITION_ROUTINE.s - https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/dc4ea6735c4646...
> I think my consumer-grade Intel S3500 SSD have some kind of power-loss protection.

The fine-print is important here. Crucial (IIRC) advertises some of its low-end consumer series with power-loss protection… against internal data corruption of the Flash Translation Layer. AKA "We won't completely brick the entire device if you pull power!" Err… thank you? Why are you advertising this as feature?
Tail call optimization included?
The discussions are content.
Adding Classes and Content, Resurgent Libraries Turn a Whisper into a Roar
Certain websites have had unintentional incidents regarding malware served by 3rd party networks. Using that as an excuse is perverse.
I have to agree on this one. I have lots of respect for Nicolás and his work, but I think this article shows a little bit of arrogance towards users who don't use Chrome as their primary user.

On top of that he disabled accessibility on Firefox entirely in favour of design preferences. Many developer might not care, but it's an attitude which needs to stop.
The worst sound ever made by a computer: http://youtu.be/MfSfpZooiu0
That's always the problem. They had an app before (maybe they still do) that worked great for me for calls and texts, but I know knew one person who had it. I'm better of with Signal, but even there I only have a few contacts on it.
I run with NoScript because I don't like the crap that a lot of these sites do. But if a site is broken for me and I'm not that interested in chasing it down, well, the Back button is a tiny mouse movement away.

The mods already have enough to do without having to curate a blacklist of sites for lazy users.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048735
Meet the Hero Who Commutes to Work in His McLaren P1
Yes, and WSJ does the same - shows ads even if you are a subscriber.

I'm not sure why they do it though - since not annoying their paying customers seems to be worth more than the few extra cents/a couple of bucks they generate per year off us.
Other than gaining satisfaction from the historical importance of this code is there any conceivable way we can get some use of it - like try it out.

Even setting that aside, what is it I'm looking at? Assembly?
I'm not sure I follow your point. Your statement could be applied to when the internal combustion engine was first used in transportation.
If you disagree with me, say why. HN culture has always been to reserve downvotes for comments that don't contribute to the conversation. If you think my comment didn't contribute, I'm curious why you'd think that too. (Yes, I realize this one doesn't, so downvote away.)
Well the reason they are negative traits, is because that's the ones we keep track of in medical records.

Anyway all these traits are only slightly correlated with those conditions. Just because you have the depression genes, doesn't mean you will even likely have depression. It looks like only 2% get it.

They could also be reactions to modern environments. E.g. people get less sunlight, which means less vitamin D, which is linked to depression. Similar things with obesity, that would have been less common in prehistoric times, and is linked to many other conditions.
But it's hard to go full tinfoil without owning the device. I applaud their effort, but there are just too many interests vested against it.
The simulation in question was created using Lattice QCD (which many people in the HPC world mostly know as a benchmark to optimize their compilers/systems on, but it's also a useful physics technique).

Basically what you end up doing is discretizing spacetime on some grid, maybe e.g. 100x100x100x100 (not much larger than that last I checked or the problem becomes intractable even on very large computers) and then sample field configurations monte-carlo style (the way to do it is actually really clever - it turns out that there is a mathematical trick that can take you from the description of your theory right to a distribution from which you can draw your field configurations). The number of fields is decently large (some discretization introduce extra auxiliary fields for every physical one) and in general you need to consider the entire field configuration to compute an observable. Then do that a few billion times (to bring down statistical error) at a couple different lattice spacings (to be able to extrapolate to the continuum limit) and you quickly end up with a very large computations.

There is a number of clever ways to reduce the amount of computation required, but in general it's a very different problem.

Hope that makes some sense. I had looked into this in detail about two years ago, but looking back, I feel like I only know every other word in my write-up ;).
What we need is a little plugin that puts a * or some sort of symbol next to a link to a site that blocks content for adblock users.
And this:

GAINBRAK,1 # NUMERO MYSTERIOSO

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/LUNAR_L...
That's what the community has been missing all these years. Writing documentations are boring activity, so contributors tend to give only demos, examples and sometimes unit tests. How the system works is actually documented in a simplified diagram here: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Overview_of_Free_Pascal_a...
TL;DR: yada yada yada, political correctness, blah blah blah, race quotas,
lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, no ingenuity to create new superheroes (or maybe
the audience is full of the current set already).
BBC Micro:bit Bloodhound Rocket Car Final
Rendering animated GIFs on a Commodore64
> I'm not sure that neural network based AI can do that though.

Generating human-readable explanations from a machine learning algorithm or NN is probably an impossible problem to solve in full generality.

However, for many particular systems, doing so should be feasible.
In some of these lines I feel like I'd prefer to see more parenthesis. Sure, I can figure out what is happening here:

} else if (D < 2048 - 2 * 256) {

but if it were grouped with a few more parenthesis it would take a little less time for me to grok it.
The loudest sound in the world would kill you on the spot
I'm pretty sure there is a website that simulates this computer 100%

/e http://svtsim.com/moonjs/agc.html
Yep - http://i.imgur.com/76xzA5X.png
Lean Startup Pioneer Steve Blank: Venture Capital Is “Liquidity Ponzi Scheme”
I wonder how much of this is cultural, with respect to newspapers like NYT. In the early days of print, newspaper ads were both unobtrusive and useful, such that paying subscribers had no problem with the double dip model. Advertising has always been a thorny ethical issue for papers and it would be great if NYT, WaPo etc. could get out if the ad business altogether and support themselves entirely through subscriptions. Maybe we'll see this in the coming years as more and more people switch to ad blockers.
I see this as a double-edged sword. I think people should have the right to block ads, but sites should also have the right to block your access to their content. It's the same no-shirt no service rules for businesses. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but no one has a legal right to gain access to the data on a website. If that website chooses to restrict access that's their problem. I and others will just go somewhere else.
I don't trust "make uninstall" anyway. Instead, I usually put self-compiled packages into separate directories, such as:

make install INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/lzfse

or

make install INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/.../lzfse

Uninstalling is then as simple as:

rm -r /opt/lzfse

For convenience, I either add /opt/lzfse/bin to $PATH, or create a symlink from /opt/lzfse/bin/lzfse to /usr/bin/lzfse.

More generally, I believe that uninstalling, upgrading and related operations are the task of a package manager, not a build script.
I don't necessarily agree with the article as a whole, but I do like this bit very much:

> Humans will seldom use different browsers. Unless there are gross differences across browsers, like using entirely different sets of font faces, humans are not going to care. We need to learn to let go.

Sometimes, the cost/benefit calculation comes out so squarely in the "let's just not" column that even though it may feel wrong to discriminate so blatantly, the economics are just not there. Important to consider whether this discrimination amounts to technical debt which proves costly over time, or whether they are in fact tailored experiences that makes sense to keep around. In any event I agree with the authors sentiment, that chasing the identical look everywhere unicorn often just isn't worth the bother.
See also https://github.com/martinkirsche/wired-logic which isn't a cellular automaton, but was inspired by Wireworld.
Have you tried Brave? Whenever I have to view a website with a particularly onerous anti-adblock system, I use Brave. It blocks the ads and loads the pages fine.
Please don't try to prevent me from using things because you don't like them.

Sure, some sites limit who can view them based on visitor preferences. Analogy: Some restaurants have a "no shirt, no service" policy. It would be ridiculous to impose a blanket ban for all people on such restaurants just because you refuse to wear a shirt.

If you want to pick a more sensible fight, try going after links to paywalled sites (whose content is blocked through their decision rather than mine). However, bear in mind HN policy already has those covered: "It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds."
There are many different types of virtualization. Most of them use disk images, meaning someone can read (or even write to) your disk without you noticing.

Some of them are lightweight virtualizations where a priviledged outside user can run processes inside the VM without requiring authorization or without being logged.

How is this a meme that needs to die?
No one argues that. It's much more dubious whether the consumer has the right to patronize a business in explicit disregard of the terms that business sets. If you don't want to see ads on Forbes, you can not go to Forbes. I'm not so sure you're entitled to just read Forbes without the ads.

I use an ad-blocker too. I'm just not so sure I'm defending some principled public good in doing so.
What type of virtualization is it? OpenVZ?
I find it amazing that some revisions (e.g. KALMAN FILTER) are date stamped as July 14 1969.

Were critical routines being patched 2 days before launch?
Because the guy in the park forgets. And because the guy in the park only sees you a few minutes everyday, he doesn't have a complete listing of your browsing history, your calendar entries, your call history, what apps you use etc.
Simple passwords are mitigated by salting and slat modification. The guide covers both of these and hashing. This should be sufficient even against thousands of GPUs.
I would have a hard time with that, the long names hide the structure. Know your audience. Do you expect future maintainers for your compression algorithm to be people with knowledge of compression algorithms? Or do you expect them to be random programmers off the street?
> Are you saying that most SSDs lose data they claimed was saved to stable storage in the event of power loss?

Same with HDDs. That's why battery-backed hardware RAIDs (+ disabling this cache on the connected disks) are a thing in the first place.

> What is the point of all that complication if the block device is just going to throw away those guarantees?

Ask that storage manufacturers.
Thats kind of what I thought when it came out. Zstd is closest to it both in terms of characteristic and concept. It would be nice to have a head to head comparison between the two.

Zstd & LZ4 being the work of single developer is amazing though.
When I wrote it I ran that JS code through several rounds of benchmarking to try and eke out some more performance. One of the tweaks I tried was collapsing all the calculations together to use fewer variables to see if that would make it faster.

Performance was totally unchanged either way. Looks like V8's optimizer eats those vars for breakfast.
Watching Plants Grow Is One of the Most Exciting Things in Technology
Parallel programming made easy – New chip design
Wired was suggesting I needed to whitelist their site but I had disabled and removed ghostery and adblock some time ago. WTF. I haven't been back since.
Hacker News is filled with ads. It's run by Y Combinator, and you'll notice there are some "articles" you can't comment on. Those are sponsored ads from Y Combinator companies. Posts made about Y Combinator companies often skyrocket right to the top as well.
Sound is particularly impressive when you have low pressure voids in your body, as we all do, with gas in our organs. Long before you'd be linebacker tackled, your intestines and lungs would rupture.
Thanks, super interesting post.

What tools do we currently have to map neural signaling and structure?

Are there ways to automate the measurements on a large scale?

Are we able to feed digitally modeled neural signals mimicking real signals to live neural structures - ie. feed complex input signals and record the outputs?
Here's what will happen when 30B devices are connected to the internet
This is the solution.
Easy to Learn, Hard to Master – The Fate of Atari
Because OCZ SSDs used to have a failure rate of more than 50% caused by powerloss.
Guardtime Named a Gartner Cool Vendor
Anything that's been known for weeks can be stopped at the point of ingress such as the email server. They don't require a process actively taking up resources on your machine monitoring disk activity.
The Weissman score is the most moronic compression "metric" ever devised. I put "metric" in quotes because from a mathematical perspective, it is practically gibberish. I'm tired of seeing it mentioned in every HN post on compression.
Honestly just personal experience as someone who's heavily in the more "cutting-edge" JS world.

While Angular 1.x is still big, most new things are made with React. Mongo has gotten a ton of bad press over the last few years that it's hard to find positive things about it any more. This has more of an effect that you'd think. Express and Node are fine though.

What I mean is that Rails, though older, is still much more popular than MEAN.

Ironically my work place uses Express and Mongo, but React!
It's been 15 years since Lazarus (and thus LCL) was born and the following changes has happened:

- GTK1 interface is obsolete (was mainstream), GTK2 is mainstream, GTK3 is on the write
- QT4 is mainstream, QT5 is on the write
- Carbon is mainstream, Cocoa is near completion

I believe legacy already shows how the project can keep things up to date. It's the power of full community driven project, there's no necessity for a single maintainer to update everything on his own. Contributors may come and go, but they're there to update things.
Serious question: what are these publishers to do?

I look at a site like Reddit: no tracking, no flashy ads, no sound, significant investment in their own custom ad serving software to try and make things more targeted and relevant, clearly marked ads, etc.

They are doing _everything_ that our community continually says that we would like more publishers to do and they are severely struggling despite being one of the most popular sites on the entire Internet.

If you have even a semi technical audience for your site, you're today looking at a rapidly growing 30% of your audience using an ad-blocker.

Except in very few cases, most people aren't willing to pay for content and more paywalls (the non-advertising business model) further fracture the open web.

I feel kind of scared for where we're going.
Indeed. Having spoken to a fair few "out" voters in the last week or so, none of them seem to have thought of the wider implications of an out vote other than one or two narrow issues they have concentrated on. One voted out because there have been two EU regulations which he sees as unfairly damaging his business - one about being unable to sell electronics with a high lead content, the other to do with the deactivation of firearms. Nothing else mattered to him, despite being completely unable to articulate what "out" actually meant. Same goes for all the others - they don't seem to have thought through the practical implications of their actions, other than "well, we won't have to put up with those EU *s" any more.

The implications, purely from a paperwork point of view, seem immense. While there may be a strong, independent future for the UK (or, more likely in the future, England and Wales), it won't come without some considerable cost in areas that people didn't think about for a second. I'm staggered that the "remain" campaign made such a bad job of pointing all these issues out.
From the article:

"The result: like steel mills, theme parks and housing before them, the country now faces a glut of innovation centers as another top-down policy backfires to leave white-elephant projects and a further buildup of debt."

Western media have always had a skewed one-sided perspective on China and today that perspective is predominantly negative. So negative that it is almost silly.

The other side of the story is: No other place has a middle class of that size growing that strongly. Internet giants Facebook and Google are excluded from the market leaving big room for smaller companies to innovate. Electronics are produced right next door opening for all sorts of crossplay innovation between hardware and software.