skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is similar to Kevin Kelly's technium theory: http://kk.org/thetechnium/

Technological innovation is an extension of evolution. Whether that's the invention of the alphabet or a computer, we are a part of this system continuing evolution.
Integer percentages as fingerprints of electoral falsification
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If you're looking for some interesting surgery tech, check out this fairly simple concept for handling battlefield trauma situations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBauDwhGlzg
"If your company's web presence is MySpace, your company doesn't have a web presence," said someone smart 10 years ago.
Some concepts have an implied prefix "digital computer-aided" to distinguish from related concepts. We all know we are intensely interested in the computer version.

Another example is "virtual reality" which existed since cavemen made up campfire stories and drew wall pictures.
And he did that trip twice, with two generations of original systems - Wonnebago and Behemoth.

Yes, Steve is indeed really cool. No contest.
The field was trampled, but now I see the rye righting.
I use a 32" 4k monitor about 3-4 feet back on my desk. I run it at native resolution and it fills my field of view without requiring I move my head nearly at all.

Compared to what you're considering, I'd be really worried about how squatty it is - for about the same price, you'll only get 2/3 the height of a 4k screen, which is way less useful for coding.
The headline is very misleading.

1. This was a meeting of the G20; it's LARGE nations, not RICH nations.

2. Poor nations are responsible for the overwhelming majority of fossil fuel subsidies. The worst offenders are China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and Mexico. Someone else noted that Saudi Arabia was a major blocker of an agreement to cut subsidies, and someone asked why "we" (ie, the US/Europe) don't just ignore them and go ahead and cut subsidies ourselves. The answer is because Saudi Arabia is the one doing the subsidising; only they can cut their own subsidies.

3. What subsidies rich countries do provide tend to be highly contentious, and depending on how you measure them are either small or non-existent. A poor country might sell petrol and heating oil for a fraction of its cost of production, which is an obvious subsidy to the oil and gas industry. For, eg, the US, most if its "subsidy" is stuff like IRS rules that say that a petroleum company can count most of a fine for an oil spill as a business expense. Should a fine be classified as a business expense? If you think it shouldn't be, the fact that the IRS (partially) disagrees represents a small subsidy. Then again, a lot of fines do get counted as expenses, and the US is hardly alone in having rules like that. Similarly, a lot of coal is mined in the Powder Basin Region, which is not designated as a coal producing region. Under US law, land in coal producing regions is subject to slightly higher leases than land outside them, which means the coal companies who lease land in the Powder Basin are paying slightly less than they "should" be paying. Or alternatively, coal companies who lease land in other coal regions are paying slightly more. Or maybe coal companies should pay whatever the law specifies; it's not like there's any global standard on what the right cost should for leasing coal reserves. But if you think that the US has magically set the perfect price for coal producing regions, AND that the Powder Basin Region should totally be designated a coal producing region, then sure, that's a small subsidy for the companies who lease land in the Powder Basin. And so on.

In short, better headline: Poor oil producers say "no thanks" to suggestions from rich countries that they should cut their subsidies for domestic consumption.
As a Kirkland resident, I think that's a fair criticism, but I'm also reticent to say that each city should try to build their own infrastructure to deal with the problem.

I definitely support the Seattle-area cities working together, though.
Sometimes it is not just individual words, but grammatical structures which make things more succint. Latin has lots of such like your gerundives or your supines where you can express with a simple word ending what would take a bunch of words in English
What was the name of the company?
I think you're missing the point.

The idea is that artificial intelligence will prevent us from having to understand a lot of things in order to accomplish them, but that effect is no different than any other technological innovation we have made.

The definition of AI has also changed plenty in the past sixty-something years we've been developing it.

A couple of good Wiki links on the subject:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intellig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
A much better question is whether Tesla will be able to keep up with the new autonomous features that everyone else are doing. The new Mercedes E-class is the first to be approved as an autonomous car in Nevada, so they do have a technical edge on Tesla already. And with next years S-class, they'll start putting LIDAR on their cars. This isn't even on Tesla's roadmap.

It's beginning to look like Tesla saw there was a niche where existing hardware they could license would quickly give them a more "advanced" "Autopilot" system simply by being less conservative wrt. safety than other carmakers. Will this come back to bite them? Time will tell.
"Big Mac is Big Mac, but they call it Le Big Mac" (C)
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In the context of my comment, I meant someone deeply involved in the technical implementation of collection techniques or strategy. The interviewee comes across as someone who is skilled at a small process but doesn't seem to be the person who discovered the exploit or did a significant part of the creative thinking involved in the exploit.
I completely agree, though I do give them a touch of credit for usually voting for (and paying into) the social services that Seattle, City of provides. And a homeless person in Wallingford is still much less likely to be arrested and hauled off to jail on another citizen's having called the police than he or she would be in Woodinville (or, FSM forbid, Medina).
I don't remember where, but I saw dentistry compared to carpentry and the metaphor really stuck.

Take out the old thing, glue in a new thing, spackle, etc.

Hell, dentists even occasionally use brute force to get things to line up better (<-that's an inapt description of braces).
I work fulltime + have a side business ( freelancing and actually the same as my fulltime job)

I save all my extra money ( most of my expenses are in the weekend), have some recurring income ( in the form of hosting + some subscriptions on ledenboek.be ) and now starting a ecommerce for additional funds in a niche market
On the other hand, maybe having multiple cultures might be a good idea if it provides firewalls against the spread of bad ideas, and allows competition between groups pf people with different cultural outlooks.
"Wisely shipped an MVP that accidentally crashes in corner cases," is that what you're saying? Because, unlike most software, people actually die in this kind of crash (Remember Therac-25? Of course not: way before agile development and MVP, ooold, booooring). Still insisting that it's wise? I would consider that position repulsive: never mind the corpses, we have a product to ship.
Are the leaks redacted originally? If not, all someone would have to do would be cross reference the linked slides with the originals.
So for the next five years there won't be another fatal accident in which automatic driving is at least partially responsible and will generate significant press coverage?

You want to make a bet on that?
The price LEGO had to pay for going down the lucrative movie franchise / merchandise road... btw, is the main audience still kids?
English had all of these, exactly.

Every child knows poltergeist, from Harry Potter. Every teenager knows angst.

The others are less universal, but I'd expect a university graduate to know them.
Dave Beazley! Yes, it was some of his work that inspired my research. Thanks for the reminder!

Edit: That's a beautiful solution to the problem, too. You're still not going to get a performance boost from multiple cores, but you're not going to have it fall flat on its face either.
Plus there is gene of unknown function called DUF1220 which seems have something to do with brain size.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUF1220
There are more copies of it as brain size increases in mammals and apes. The Neanderthal genome has more of it than Sapiens.
To be further semantic, one could say you're referring to AI automata, not just AI.
Tl:dr they have an unproven process and a pretty animation and are basically fishing for founding
how does this compare to youtube-dl?
How to demonstrate empathy? Easy. Conduct experiments in which the caged rats undergo a range of living conditions from idyllic to neutral to outright torture. If the free rat favors freeing the tortured rat over the idyllic rat then it shows greater empathy.
Well two ways. Either launch 32 or 64 copies of the process using multiprocessing, or 1000 threads with geventlet.

I have never found a box I couldn't peg :)

I guess if you had 1 gb ram and 16 cores it would be challenging in python.. but a few gb of ram and we are on.
Can someone explain the following to a relative layman to the science of radio astronomy?

a) How much more can this accomplish in comparison to the well known Arecibo Radio Telescope?

b) How is a fixed parabolic dish radio telescope different from a radio telescope array like Karl. G. Jansky Very Large Array? What are the relative pros and cons of one over the other?

c) How do you 'steer' the telescope to look at different parts of the sky? I understand the dish is fixed, but the feed horns can be repositioned, but I don't really understand the physics/math behind it, other than the focus is changed.

I also assume there may be some massive supercomputers doing the data analysis of the vast amounts of data collected. Any details of the back end computing infrastructure dedicated to this effort?
Correction: screen is terrible on the ground of splitting terminal in several pieces. dvtm fills this space elegantly.
Selfishly, this reads like a great ad for life on the Eastside. I don't know what the solution is, but if the individually-rational choice is to take advantage of communities with nice parks, good schools, etc., seems unlikely things will change.
This is like a blast from the past. My first interaction with programming was with Borland Delphi 6 which had its own dialect of Object Pascal. Poor internet connection and no stackoverflow had me figuring out programming on my own, mainly by using Delphi's help books and looking at code examples. Which is probably why I eventually lost interest - I couldn't figure out complex OP concepts on my own at that age.

Fast forward to the present, I really envy the people learning programming today for the first time. The amount of possibilities and resources now is many orders of magnitude bigger, making learning so much more enjoyable.

Edit: grammar
Do they have another agreement with Microsoft which establishes a better price for Windows if Microsoft gets to be the OS gatekeeper (as seems to be the case)?
Samsung JU6700, 40" 4k, curved is what I use. It's something like $900 so same price range with more pixels. Use hyperdock or similar for docking. Ultrawide seems like it would result in lots of head twisting and neck pain. I went from a quad stand to one monitor and it has worked out. Instead of four cables and two GPU's it's just one cable and one GPU. I really don't know who ultrawide is supposed to appeal to. Perhaps video or audio editing? Curved is a must if you want to sit close enough to the screen to use it as a monitor. It also distorts reflections so they are not as distracting.
> Thanks for informing me of what I was talking about!

That's what the line you quoted said. If you were replying to something else, you screwed up quoting. I can't tell you what you meant, but I can tell you what you quoted and said 'is this true?' about.

I'm not trying to shape the discussion as a whole, I'm trying to say "that one line? don't do that"

I did reply to an off-topic line with an off-topic line. I wanted to be clear what I was downvoting, and that it wasn't your opinion.
Real life coding is not a loop.

Try that on a Websever or an image processing box.
Where does Whisper get all its pictures from?
Hi,

Whisper (https://whisper.sh/) has a great UX thanks to its pictures database. I was wondering where do they get them all from? I guess there is no copyright infringement.
The real bad trend is the use of more and more single use pieces instead of building stuff from the common set.
A PEP? python needs to be rewritten completely.
cython, pypy or mypy are good starts, but their op and data layout is still suboptimal and not best practice.

And I have no interest in python as language, only in fast dynamic VMs. e.g. potion could just add a python parser and get a 200x function call speedup, just as done for ruby or perl. The problem is the library.
You can create filters using the FB Purity extension.

There's a couple of issues with it though, namely allowing an extension to view / modify your account as a security risk, and it breaks periodically as Facebook changes layout / css names
Part of the reason is that in the Pacific NW, the elements don't threaten death in the summer and/or winter. You can sleep outside without dying to subzero frost, or heat stroke in the day.
And there are drones killing civilians in the middle east. Though we benefit greatly in the private sector from this relationship, some of us consider the harm it creates much greater.

I had a very interesting talk with Vint Cerf about this a while back btw. It's a sad situation to be in.
ah, thank you. that's clearer now!
It's obligatory for me to point out that the same engineers built a proof-of-concept component for Diego[0], the scheduler/manager system in Cloud Foundry. This is using the same pathway that allows Cloud Foundry to support buildpacks, Docker images and .NET apps under the same scheduler.

So if there was enough demand, this is a viable pathway to having unikernel software managed by a fully mature cloud platform. Personally I think that the OSv/Java unikernel stuff is probably in the sweet spot of industrial demand and plausibility, since programmers on the JVM are accustomed to operating at a fair distance from the OS's APIs.

Disclaimer: I work for Pivotal, we donate the majority of engineering to Cloud Foundry.

[0] https://github.com/emc-advanced-dev/diego-unik-release
> This is the immediate cause of the fatal accident involving under-running the semitrailer.

Rear ending a semi is one of the most fatal types of car crashes. People should definitely not trust automatic cruise control when driving behind a trailer. And regular drivers should give themselves some extra space when driving behind a semi.

https://youtu.be/bT3G-kcKN70?t=1m9s
How is it possible that "managers and knowledge workers now spend 90% to 95% of their time in meetings, on phone calls and emailing". Do we just have a shell economy where people are making up communications that need to happen and calling it work? What a strange world we live in.
That would fall under "Senior Front End Engineer", I believe.
Eu também gostava de ver este tipo de coisas publicadas. Infelizmente lá teremos de esperar mais algumas décadas com o povo tuga a pensar que o seu sotaque mudou da noite para dia por "magia".. ^_^
tl;dr - researchers are a scared of increasing trend of 'violent' Lego toys mostly because of movie sets - Star Wars, Lord of the Ring, etc.
I learned Pascal in 1999 and it had classes then. I don't know why the author pretends otherwise.
Thats only true if you have simple issues, I've had a molar silently split into 4 pieces (likely) because of a non-perfect filling (one of the only two I have/had). Apart from the non-fix of removing the tooth, there was a tremendous amount of 'umm's and 'maybe's from a competent dentist, and the attempt at root filling and gluing the tooth together ultimately failed.

So now I'm stuck with a molar less, or filing down perfectly healthy teeth to make a bridge, or an implant which might not work because the bone was affected by the previous broken tooth - and molar implants can be problematic in any case - or so I've been told.

Dentistry might not be a dark art anymore, but we appear to be much better at fixing broken bones than broken teeth.
Oh my. AMS's point is that the market can't be moved more than a fraction of a percent if we yank subsidies. We could double our subsidies or 10x and it wouldn't matter, its just too small.

Now in SA, to keep the population calm and quiet, they subsidize petrol to be (well) under 1 Riyal per liter. Last time I checked a riyal was about an american quarter. So the subsidies are so incredible in SA that gasoline is less than a buck per gallon. At least last time I checked.

Now if we get rid of subsidies nothing will really change in the USA as the day to day noise level in prices and stuff is way higher than the tiny level we have. But if SA got rid of subsidies, I bet you could estimate the lifespan of the kingdom in hours. Minutes? It wouldn't last long.

Its very much like people arguing about American foreign aid spending and Americans think that foreign aid spending is like 20% of the federal budget whereas reality is its more like 1% and almost all of that 1% is sent to Israel and "the rest of the world" gets like 0.01% of the federal budget in aid.

Without subsidies the government in S.A. will fall.
I use Python whenever i can, but had some Jobs where i was doing mostly Ruby on Rails.

For me some of the differences are:

* gem > pip

* Ruby on Rails is much more mature than Django. The framework itself and the surrounding gem ecosystem... it's like its 3 years ahead of Django. Don't get me wrong, you can get anything done i either framework, but Rails just gets it right more often and is better suited for modern web development. You get a testing/dev/production setups, a asset pipeline and a lot of other stuff right out of the box, where as in Django you find yourself fidling with third-party packages of varying quality.
* you can build very neat DSLs if you are into that

On the other hand:

* Outside of web development; Python seems to have a broader selection of high-quality libraries (especially in the analytics/datascience category)

At the end of the day, i think both are pretty much equal suited for most tasks.
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The Murray Gell–Mann Amnesia Effect, which was actually coined by Michael Crichton.
First I make sure I ~2 month pay available in 'cash' in a separate bank account, and top that up if I had to take anything out of it over the past month. Then I move 20% of my after tax income into index funds as soon as I get paid. Then I pay my bills and just spend whatever I feel like spending for the rest of the month and then before my next paycheck I move whatever I have left into index funds. I've found that I have a pretty good 'feel' for how much money I have and what I can afford to spend so I've never felt a need to track my spending.
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A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
> all accents are all a product of geography

not necessarily, there is often a clear split between social classes of groups of people (i.e. consider the association of "cockney" with working class, or the discussion around "ebonics" for african-american-english)

And there are cases where specific communities evolve their own sub-languages (e.g. cants and argots).

There is surely less separation now then there once was, but it never was only geography, it's just that geography is the strongest separator.
Seems you skimmed the article.

I did not skim the article. Show me where it clearly says that they have an "innovative procedure" that noninvasively triggers human dentin stem cells.

They alluded to other noninvasive uses, but this wasn't one of them.
Nice work. It's interesting they used Russia as the source of election results data. Did I miss an exlaination of their data selection criteria in the paper?
He's a designer. Lots of designers come in on O-1, most of them with far less impressive portfolios than his.
This must be a very complicated space to work in. I hope the quality of public discussion improves over the years.

edit: another poster dug up the effect before me :)
Indeed. And why have multiple OSes - imagine the utilitarian value of having every computer in the world run Windows.

The claim that different computer languages are easier to learn than different human languages betrays an incredible lack of perspective - 99% of humankind cannot manage even a single programming language while the majority worldwide are at least bilingual.
Yes, but then it's not python anymore.
You will get a similar speedup for a fully dynamic python with easier optimizations, as done with v8 or lua. Even without types. types and attributes (like closed classes) do help, but a proper vm design is more important.

But not within this community. It needs to be a completely separate project, as cython, mypy or pypy. pypy is pretty good already, but a bit overblown.
Secure Boot is designed to prevent malware from tampering with the BIOS by verifying bootloader (and sometimes kernel-mode driver) signatures.

In this case, it looks like Lenovo either accidentally or intentionally borked the implementation of Secure Boot, because you are supposed to be able to turn it off when using non-Microsoft operating systems.

FWIW, I believe Fedora supports Secure Boot by signing a static bootloader ("shim") that loads GRUB after checking its signature[0].

[0] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html
I read a fascinating new biography of Faraday recently. I didnt know he did a lot in chemistry also, like these lectures.

We are approaching the 200th anniversary of his invention of the continuous electric motor in 1821. We have a specific origin-story in his notebooks as how he presented it as a novelty to nephew.
This is not a new phenomenon. My glory days of Lego were in the early-mid 90s, and literally every set that my friends and I were interested in were either explicitly martial or violent in a GTA-esque, drive-fast-and-crash-into-stuff way. Catapults. Castles. Dragons. Knights. Space fighters. Giant robots. Drag racers and police cars, in realish life or in space. Factions of undersea divers with monstrous submersibles at war over glittering crystals. Pirate ships, with cannons and crocodiles and angry natives, etc. Every good Lego theme set up at least two factions which were at least implicitly at odds, if not explicitly at war.

This is the shit that sells to little boys - Legos are just better army men. Ironically, the pacifistic stuff tends to sell better with the AFOLs, as witnessed by the resurgence of the line of modular town buildings, and architecture sets explicitly marketed at adults.

The more disturbing trend with Lego is the continuing rise of licensed themes that has completely gutted their product lineup. Star Wars has been a cash cow for them, but has meant that that is it for space-themed Lego sets for around 15 years now. Likewise, two of the other of the four classic System themes, Pirates and Castle, have been on ice for years, due to overlap with Tolkien and Jack Sparrow-related licensed themes.

They seemed to be trying a little harder three or four years ago, but I've not seen anything really exciting the past few years.
End part is tough to watch. It's cute tech, and for that context very useful. In civil surgery I want the organic equivalent of this.