skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because there are different experiences with different Google products. Apps for Education Customers, for example, get a working product but very little in the way of support. You can submit whatever you want, but whether Google chooses to answer is another story, not always with a happy ending.
this is a good point, although does not provide large hard drive with cheaper price - I might need to mix it with other solution.
ideally I want to keep it running forever - so it need to be cheap enough
The European way, in many ways, was a consequence of geography and, to a lesser degree, climate.

The US is a car-centric culture that is fueled by (relatively) cheap gasoline (energy prices).

Take for instance shopping malls. Shopping malls in Asia (usually in urban centers) build up vertically while in the United States they are build out horizontally with acres and acres of parking spaces.

Some of the best US cities have European-like features (NYC with Central Park and its other parks like Union Square, Tompkins Square, traffic shut down on some streets or at least seating that takes up part of the street).
But there's a whole spectrum of responses between the two, from "I don't like that noise" to "I don't like seeing that other rat in pain" to "I know if I don't do something about this, I'm going to feel bad later" or "It's wrong to let another animal suffer, therefore I should help him".

A small mammal doesn't have to have the exact same nuanced understanding as a human would in order to still be 'feeling empathy'.
Thanks for your quick and honest answer. I was over-weighting the effect of AWS as the cash cow for revenues (60% of profits) and forgot about how Wall Street punishes earning misses (the eternal treadmill of expectations).
It's really too bad that the ASCII codes 29, 30, and 31 (Group, Record, and Unit separators) never took off, as this is exactly what they were designed for.

When implemented, they'd let you include commas, line feeds/carriage returns, etc within your data records.
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As long as you know the difference you can throw all the darts you want.
Very true. I learned this the hard way, in my case I ended up with a stress fracture. My mind was actually refusing to get the memo, even when I started feeling pain.
I'm not saying things should be consistent, but dealt with case by case. Definitely not a blanket ban things that cause harm primarily to the people who do them. I'm talking specifically about smoking.

In the case of smoking, we have an industry that sells addictive items that kill you, and has a history of lies and cover ups. I'm not sure of the benefits, as I don't smoke, but I hear from people who have smoked and quit that they are happier not smoking. I'm no expert, just someone who's interested, as I said. Growing your own tobacco and smoking it would be a different thing.

If tobacco smoking was introduced today, I think it wouldn't get past the FDA and similar. Can we "turn off" a legal industry that is grandfathered in? Should we?

Your slippery slope question of sodomy is different. There are no large multinationals marketing and selling it. Just free individuals engaging.

The sale of tobacco products does seem to impose quite the externality on society. Are we willing to put up with it long term? That's the question I'm interested in.
If dense housing is available, this drives down the cost of living/price of houses. If suburbian homes are less valuable, it is cheaper to convert.

Also, driving down the price of housing prevents EXISTING public spaces and parks from being converted into homes, as cities will be less incentivized to do so.

There is already a lot of public spaces that are being converted to houses, so preventing a conversion to urban sprawl is equivalent to converting back to a public space.
Does it? I think it just means that there's a fair number of things to learn before the dialog makes complete sense. Context fills in many of the gaps, I know that I still miss some cultural references, rhyming slang, and such, even after watching a fair number of British shows.
This sounds promising.

Is anyone already using Matrix as an event server/queue for interactive environments and/or sensor networks (similar to the Stanford Event Heap [1])?

What is the minimum latency for Synapse/Ruma?

[1] https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/eheap/
No, it's not clear at all that autopilot is safer. Tesla has stated that it's safer by comparing the miles autopilot has driven vs the overall average for a human.

But that's an unfair comparison.. because humans drive in all conditions, while autopilot is more likely to be used on highways (and in good weather). Even human drivers are 3x safer on highways. So until Tesla is willing to compare like with like, we do not know how it compares.

It's also too early to waive off the damage that Tesla may cause. It's been 6 months since they rolled this thing out.

Over the next few years, they're going to give 300,000 cars to consumers with this enabled.

The few incidents that have been reported may just be the tip of the iceberg. We'll see how bad it gets when you have a few hundred thousand people driving around with what they think is autonomous driving.
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Run pfSense on it as your router, using VLANs to make use of the single NIC on it.

I've done this myself, and it was a great learning tool.

You get the benefit of having a built-in UPS too. Note that you'll need a switch capable of supporting VLANs too, but you can pick these up very cheaply nowadays.
Would you say the Matrix specification is intended to compete more with messaging (Slack, Skype, etc), email, or both? What do you think people would use this for, and what's the value proposition?
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Oh they certainly aren't fungible!

In fact, urban apartment complexes in dense cities are much much MORE valuable and desirable than suburban homes. There are 10s of millions of people who would rather live in a desirable place like downtown NYC than the place they are currently living in, if it was as affordable as suburban homes.

The facts that back this up, are housing prices. Housing prices in cities are 4x higher than they are in the countryside, which, due to the laws of supply and demand, means that lots of people prefer city living to suburban living.
WIN buttons?

I am currently reading Sumner's book about the Great Depression ("The Midas Curse"). Seems pretty interesting so far.

Now, I just need to find a country to migrate to that does nGDP targeting and finances itself via land value taxes alone.
I'm using a 2009-era laptop as a server (ssh, http, irc-bouncer). Having tested the power consumption, (with the screen off), it sits at 6.5 W in idle, according to powertop, so it's very convenient. (I'm quite surprised by this figure, as I doubt modern Core M cpus can be much better than that). It's a P8400 cpu.
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Toddlers learn vocabulary and grammar from context. Here's one (somewhat limited) technique for teaching adult learners in a similar way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6De52Pzr8c It's called TPR (Total Physical Response) and relies a lot on tying physical actions to each concept. You can see that with the physical actions it is quite easy to create a context which is understandable for things like commands.

You can imagine that TPR can not teach all kinds of grammar or concepts (for example, how would you explain government). There are other techniques for creating a context that allows comprehension of these kinds of things. One of the keys is to teach yes/no questions early so that you can probe your student's understanding without them having to speak. It takes time for students to acquire the language well enough to produce.

This is quite an involved topic and many of the teaching techniques are quite new. I have used TPRS (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling -- not connected with TPR) in the classroom quite effectively.

If you are interested in modern theories of language acquisition, I recommend reading "Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition" which is available for free download from Krashen's web site: http://www.sdkrashen.com/

Although it may have escaped your notice, I've tried to point out that this is not the only competing theory in language acquisition at the moment, but it is the one which has the most acceptance now (or at least 5 years ago when I was actively reading up on the subject). Learning language primarily from grammar rules has been discredited as an effective technique for at least 50 years now. Unfortunately educators have not kept up with current research. Having said that, my experience is that some knowledge of grammar can be useful as a supplement.
The example shown in the photo with the writer of a detective model is a crude version of mind map. There are a few tools to handle those well, but none integrated with a good word processor.
That's a rather poor mischaracterization of the argument. Of course it's not a one dimensional problem, everyone knows that equality is a complicated problem.
I use ublock, Wired has not bitched at my usage of it. I agree with your request, but I haven't seen Wired do it.
... "says De Raadt"

Maybe there is a group of people out there that don't want to deal with that ... guy.
The "cloud" ones are very expensive, some cheaper alternatives are like hetzner.de ovh.com online.net soyoustart.com but they may not come with the same level of support/uptime.
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"The brain makes up 2% of a person's weight. Despite this, even at rest, the brain consumes 20% of the body's energy. The brain consumes energy at 10 times the rate of the rest of the body per gram of tissue. The average power consumption of a typical adult is 100 Watts and the brain consumes 20% of this making the power of the brain 20 W."

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/JacquelineLing.shtml
"Your body is lying to you!" is the nicer and actually correct thing to say :).
How would an open source version be any better for this? Given the choice, people would still build their own filter bubbles.

(I do think an open social network would be better for a whole bunch of other reasons, I just don't see that it would help with this.)
Bribes. The cops here used to find the most chronic bums who caused disturbances and offer them cash and a bus ticket to leave and never come back. Effectively makes it somebody else's problem but what can you do. Your block could all agree to pitch in and bribe him to leave then make the area less desireable for new replacement hobos to move in.
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My mother-in-law is from an island off the coast of Honduras. She's a native English speaker, but has a strong accent, and the dialect of English that they speak has grammatical differences, along with some different vocabulary. I suspect that some comes from Spanish and some from Garifuna.

Without modern communications, their dialect of English would've continued diverging, and eventually be considered different enough to be a new language, rather than just a dialect.
Let me give you just one example adding to the other comments. In Turbo/Borland Pascal, you could declare global variables (including arrays) allocated at a specific memory address, e.g.:

var video: array[0..4000] of byte absolute $B800:0000;

It also had a special modifier for functions, that made them work as interrupt handlers. And inline assembler with nice, readable syntax that allowed addressing variables directly.

Consequently, it was actually easier to do most low-level DOS hackery in Pascal rather than C.

So yes, I'd expect it do just fine for drivers, as well.
How do you work out 'inflation adjusted' numbers? I've always wondered.
Could you offer an abstract definition of "life" and "intelligence" (or maybe even 'thinking' or 'consciousness') ?

For example, if you're trying to figure out whether something is 'moving', you would define the term in such a way that it could apply to planets or animals or other things/systems. If you define 'motion' = 'humans putting one leg in front of another', then of course non-human animals or anything else couldn't move. But, that definition is too restrictive. If you're trying to say that animals can't move, then provide a more abstract definition of 'motion' (e.g. 'change in location') and then you will see animals and many other things start moving.

Here is a video with a good explanation of how a lack of an abstract definition results in confusion:

https://youtu.be/_Wvv-bt9SzI?t=11s
As a large pandas user, I don't agree with the len() comment. Can you give an example?
Sounds like the author's been using the wrong programming language or doesn't understand at all the purpose of static typing.
Matrix itself is a fairly flexible building block for decentralised communication of any kind where you care about decentralising the conversation history. You can use it for messaging, VoIP, IoT data - and once threading lands it'll be good for email and forums too.

Right now most of the clients are geared up for the messaging and VoIP use cases.

The value prop is to provide a meta-network which connects together all the existing communication silos, so users can talk to folks on other platforms (eg Slack, IRC) without caring what service or client they are using. Ideally someone on Slack could end up talking to someone on IRC, bridged via a decentralised Matrix room, without even realising they are using Matrix. Alternatively you could use a native Matrix client like Vector.im or the Matrix API to get at the data. The key thing is that no single silo ends up owning or controlling the data - it is replicated over all the participants, who thus own the conversation equally.

The end goal is to let users select which communication apps and services they want to trust with their data (including running their own, if they so desire), rather than the communication and contacts being fragmented over hundreds of different apps.
It's hard to read this and not get the impression that firms used to lucrative government contracts are simply not keen at new competition and are lobbying to protect their privledged position. Despite the fact increased competition benefits the government and tax payers.
They fill similar conceptual roles, but the details are different.
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Your adblocker can already do this.

uBlock Origin comes with extra filter lists that are disabled by default, among them is "Anti-Adblock Killer | Reek". Go to the extension settings then "3rd-party filters", when you're done click the yellow "Update now".
donate it to me. im a poor high school student who is looking to get a mac computer to sart iOS development.
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Initially I thought apatters was being dickish, but Wired actually shows you the content momentarily and then blocks it - totally obnoxious!
> Yes newspapers in the past had a political bias, sometimes.

I'd argue that newspapers still very much follow and propagate their own political agenda through the tone and treatment of news items.

The sentiment and tone of tabloid* headlines, for example, will be squarely focused on reinforcing their core readership's existing opinions rather than simply informing them of interesting and relevant events, or challenging their viewpoint.
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I'm doing rather exhausting martial arts, which includes doing all movements at exact the speed in which the trainer counts.

There were moments where I felt I couldn't proceed and was exhausted. When telling that to my trainer he, correctly, said: well your muscles aren't shaking under load, so you can't be out of energy yet. After a pause of 10 seconds I was able to go on.

In my experience most physical fatigue can be countered by proper, regular and deep breathing during movement. It seems to be an oxygen-distribution problem.
Maybe so. But it arguably reflects increased freedom, which is a good thing.
From a technology perspective, it could be used for either instant messaging or email-like conversations. The common use cases right now place it more in line with realtime messaging like Slack. We just launched some documentation about Matrix[1] on the Ruma site that explains pretty thoroughly why someone would want to use Matrix, why someone would want to run their own homeserver, and quite literally "Why Matrix Matters"[2]. In short, the value is being able to (eventually, once the software matures) use a single client application to chat with all your contacts across all the various chat networks, and to maintain ownership and control of your own data.

[1] https://www.ruma.io/docs/matrix/
[2] https://www.ruma.io/docs/matrix/why/
Well, whatever the problem is, setting up the processing, parsing input files, checking inputs might not need to be fast but much more secure and user friendly.

This -at my experience- often requires very «dynamic» structures in the form of intricated hash table/dict that requires to be correctly set, malloced, modified. JSON like stuff.

You may do it safely in python/perl/php/tcl way more than handling your memory in C/C++/ASM. It is easier, more error prone, and faster. And no real speed is required.

Sometimes what we search is the right tool for the right problem.

Setting up a software is often a big part of the code that consume a lot of lines of code, while often a small part of the execution time. And the priority is often on correctly handling/checking the input without buffer overflow/undefined behaviour much more than speed.

So I totally think that the idea of using the right tools for the jobs is a good idea. Imagining one language can do all, is pure religion.

I wouldn't even be surprised that one day we have a description language used only for setting up and distributing messages à la VHDL instead of trying to "integrate it" either in the OS with "dynamic buses" or with "runtimes".
What really struck me when I was seeing a presentation about self-driving cars was that Google might have over-engineered it.

If Tesla gets its system right, Google will have a really hard time. Their desired lidar data monopoly would become a big pile of useless data if simpler systems could do the job at a similar safety level.
Babies are born with the ability to distinguish between any two frequencies that are important for a phonetic distinction. Within the first year, they begin to lose that ability and only retain frequency distinctions necessary for whatever language they're exposed to. So, when an adult can't tell the difference between two phonemes or has difficulty articulating it, it's because they weren't exposed to it early enough. So, the difficulty you describe would apply to any lingua franca. In the bullshit, completely impossible scenario where everyone in the world speaks one language, this wouldn't be a problem because there would only be one set of phonemes.
Still has the same connection issues with telecos being asses just like then though. Or is your connection reliable?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11991479
I don't think it's magical syntactically. Semantically, maybe?
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Reading the article and comming accross the obviously true line of “Don’t think companies haven’t studied how far they can take things in providing the minimal level of service”
this came to my mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfkPcTNnGNk
True AI would learn and teach itself new stuff. Something a central heating, burner, car or wifi cannot do.
The Fed provides estimates on the devaluation of the dollar over time. You'll find all sorts of other well known institutions and individuals that provide their own formulas however. The spectrum is pretty wide, from those that agree with the Fed's numbers, to people that think the Fed is intentionally significantly understating inflation.
Would love to know how you're testing it .. can you describe your rig?
Work/Life balance is bullshit
Here's a great interview by John Batchelor (free podcast):

https://audioboom.com/boos/4073570-mass-extinction-and-the-s...
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Interesting thought. Do not say you know it/understand it untill you experience it.
I thing there a thin line between these two categories, those things we ca understand without experience, and the rest. Is there a research paper about this aspect?
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Drawling on with small examples that seem obvious to you is worthless. It's not articulating anything, it's only proving the point that there is no real distinction other than one method of paying the legally required amount of taxes feeling more icky to you than another.

Is your line in the sand the involvement of accountants or lawyers? Any publicly traded company needs both of those anyway even if they have extremely boring returns. So what is it that draws the line for you?
home-assistant.io is a pretty fun little hobby. I run it on the same core2 duo laptop I use as my media server. Old laptops work great as home servers.
I'm not afraid of AI because intelligence has diminishing returns. 1000 times smarter entity might be only 2 or 3 times better at predicting the future than human is. So 1000 times smarter superhuman AI maybe could tell weather two weeks ahead instead of one. And the physical world is inherently like weather, chaotic in mathematical sense.

Our upper hand against even very dumb animals doesn't come from our intelligence. It comes from thousands of years of infrastructure that we built to amplify ourselves. AI would have to build its own, which we won't let it (at least initially) or steal ours in which having ability to see just a bit farther in the future doesn't help that much with.

It won't get much ahead of us with science because science is limited by technology. 1000 times smarter physicist won't figure out new universe laws without getting his hands on data from new accelerator, larger than any other built before.

That's some reasons why I think run-away AI won't be dangerous to us unless we let it build or take over our physical world which won't happen given our current caution towards subject.
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Netflix is a shining bastion of usability compared to the VOD services in my country. When replaying tv, the better one has unskippable ads (for only twice the price of netflix!), the worse one doesn't have a fast-forward and starts the replay ten minutes before the actual show.

I think the problem is due to being tv companies to start with. They're not geared towards an interactive experience with viewers and have no idea how to provide it.
That's extremely unlikely. Microsoft had been using email since the late 1980s and Gates was famous for being deep on technical knowledge. Like most, he didn't expect the Web to take off as quickly as it did - that's a completely different matter from understanding how email works.
The problem here isn't so much that Facebook are doing it, but that people want it. It gives positive reinforcement of people's own world view, whilst reducing the amount of media someone has to see that runs counter to that.

In essence, it's a safe space for everyone, whatever their views.

I'd be happy to state that this isn't a good thing, but it's something that people like and want. I worry that Facebook actively pushing something counter to this wouldn't have the effect of increasing people's breadth of understanding, but instead of making them seek out something else to provide that space.