skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I'd say that logging should be text. Yes, SQLite DBs are hard to corrupt, but it can happen, especially in the sort of catastrophic failure you would want a log for. And when data corrupts, it's generally easier to extract some degree of data from a text file than from a binary.

Maybe as a log archive format, though...
So your opinion is that they are good, but why? "They have the correct number of safeguards," only provides me enough information to know that you think they are good because there is a number of safeguards (what are they?) greater than 1.

My point is shouldn't the burden be on providing evidence for why they are good? Why do we need them? Why are they sensible? What was wrong before that this will fix? What can go wrong that will be prevented?

Phrasing an opinion like this, to me, raises more questions than it answers.
I worked in Times Square for several years for two separate companies. I could make a long list of reasons why this is a disagreeable area to traverse twice a day, but that would be an emotive digression.

Instead I'll tell you what we locals do. You'll never be bothered by any vendor again. You do this : walk quickly, purposefully, scarcely making eye contact with your surroundings. Zig zag through crowds like it's destiny.

Perhaps I've made a terrible impression on the tourists I push past, but the signal I give off to vendors is, "I'm not in scope." I even act as a sort of sociopathic enforcer, particularly against those bus tour guys who stand in busy sidewalk areas with their signs.

I have intense familiarity with NYC Paris and London,having lived in all of these places. Being polite or nice or understanding to a random stranger on the sidewalk that wants something from me aggressively is to me a test to see whether I'm a sucker. Whether I'm vulnerable.

Save your politeness for people who aren't hustlers.
Those two screenshots are actually using different fonts (you can tell by the shape of the bottom part of the 'g', for example: in one screenshot it's the same width as the top part, but in the other it's wider).

Chances are, this is a difference in what the different browsers do with the "garamond-premier-pro" font family name and which font they actually end up using when that's specified. Any chance you could confirm that?
> Spend 90% of the time writing performance-neutral code in a modern high-productivity language

That's actually C++ now. I moved to it from TypeScript earlier this year and have been very happy. (Using Google's Bazel for builds has been really nice, too—I hadn't realized how much I missed having a non-OS-specific package manager.)
They already take some care with RISC-V to avoid introducing instructions they will likely need to a) supersede or b) deprecate in the future. A good example is the approach they are taking to vectors. Instead of adding a SIMD extension which will need widening or new infrastructure every few months; they are going to introduce a hardware pipelined vector extension which can work on vector units of any width.
>I am just an average, non-programming geek

Wait... Why are you on HN?

It's not a problem or anything, I'm just kind of curious.
> While on Firefox, Google only pulls that on you once

To this day, and for years, I continue to receive these messages from Google sites informing me to upgrade to Chrome. I've even had them pop-up on Chromium.
Consider hypothetical situation: suddenly "Brave" browser (referred to below) becomes popular. Will you renew your personal vendetta against Brendan Eich? Because the reasons you cited still apply.
Two civs probably need to be within half a millennium or so of technological development (human time) to have any possibility of communicating.

Intelligence seems to expand polynomially or exponentially by a lot of measures though (e.g. technology). The closest analogy for us compared to another civilization that could actually receive our radio communication I think would be chimpanzees using sticks to eat termites.

If I had to guess, I'd guess there's probably some kind of technological asymptote, but considering the scale of the universe (more importantly its complexity) I think we are probably nowhere near it.
On Windows, there's Cheat Engine[0]

[0]: http://www.cheatengine.org/
I've experienced the vegetables taste better thing, just be lowering sugar rather than giving it up. I currently get about 35% of my calories from carbohydrates, with about 6% of my calories from added sugars.

Before, when carbs were probably 60-80% of my calories, and added sugars were a big part of that, I could taste green beans and carrots, but they were very mild. Corn was a bit stronger, and peas were more of an aftertaste than a taste.

These were all foods that I would eat now and then because they were good for me, but I'd never want them.

Now they taste much stronger, and I often have for dinner just a package of frozen "steam in the bag" mixed vegetables (corn, green beans, carrots, peas) [1]. When I do have those with meat they are an equal partner on the plate with the meat now instead of just something there for their nutrition.

[1] https://www.birdseye.com/vegetable-products/steamfresh-pure-...
I think it is a bit like that curse "May you get what you wish for". So now after people got the global stream-of-consciousness in tidbits of 140 character with lowest bar for online participation, they are thinking "This is a terrible. Who would want this..."
From Hiroko to Susie: The untold stories of Japanese war brides
If your main concern are annoying ads, you can try BlockThis [0] which block ads with DNS or use their DNS in your WiFi configuration.
92.222.28.123
151.80.148.242

Also you can setup your own ad blocker DNS server with [1] PiHole (works on any linux machine)

Another option is [2]NetGuard firewall with a host file

There're options, nobody likes ads

P.S. All these projects are open source.

[0] https://block-this.com/
[1] https://pi-hole.net/
[2] https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/blob/master/ADBLOCKING.md
Quantrix isn't quite mainstream, but is very similar to Improv.
> Once you're on the housing ladder

You're talking about flyover country.

That doesn't really apply to the Bay Area, where most people are locked into whatever they initially bought unless they have stock options in the money, or receive an inheritance.
Good idea, but I see ads in that sector saying "Molds start at $4990".

I've seen people do things like this at TechShop. They carve a positive mold out of maybe a dense wood. Then use that to make an negative mold out of some pourable plastic like RTV. Then insert the device, pour in epoxy, and wait for it to cure. The negative molds wear out fast, but you can make more from the positives. There are lots of plastic options and books on this stuff. People use these processes to turn out stuff to sell on Etsy. All this is do-able, but usually messy.

Still, struggling through the process to have an MVP to show resellers is worth the trouble. If you get a big order, you can go out to Cavist or someone like them and have them produce in volume.
Burning Ship fractal
Yeah- I changed my wording to "scalable". And I appreciate the developers and community around SQLite. It has its uses, and I appreciate it. However, I think it could be better with concurrency.
I'm guessing he had a team of people working his twitter account at a16z. It was a good marketing technique for the firm.
> The Fundamental Limits of Machine Learning

Depends on the largely mathematical assumptions can bring to the data. What can be done with the variety of assumptions is illustrated with details beyond belief in the QA section of most research libraries.

For more, the OP has

> Almost all of the learning we expect our computers to do—and much of the learning we ourselves do —is about reducing information to underlying patterns, which can then be used to infer the unknown.

Ah, NOW I see! The OP has stated a relatively narrow problem.

E.g., consider arrivals at HN: Over each 30 minutes or so, they about have to be a sample path of a Poisson process. Why? The renewal theorem, as in W. Feller's second volume. Can say that without looking at "patterns" in the data, indeed, without looking at any data at all.

Then from knowing that the arrivals are a Poisson process, there is a nice stream of results can get right away, without the data and even more with the data. E.g., the sum of two independent Poisson processes is another Poisson process. Then more generally can have a continuous time, discrete state space Markov process subordinated to that or a related Poisson process. From that can have some, say, network queuing calculations good for capacity planning, optimization of capacity planning, stochastic optimal control, anomaly detection, etc. Have a good shot at using the strong law of large numbers and the martingale convergence theorem.

Can say nearly all of this, and more, without looking for "patterns" in the data or looking at the data at all. Again, looking at the data can say still more.

There's a lot in the QA section of the library!
Adobe's research group in Seattle is pretty separated off from the core of the company down in San Jose. The researchers there don't have academic professor levels of do what ever you want freedom, but a lot of their work doesn't look like it even comes close to being associated with any of Adobe's products.
OMeta#: Who? What? When? Where? Why? (2008)
Use a potting mold with a tube sticking through it and down to the button, and a button with a long plunger.
"The building is home to the city’s Domain Awareness System, which collects and analyzes information from police cameras, radars, license plate readers and more. The Domain Awareness System was built in partnership with Microsoft, which is selling the software to other cities, with New York getting a cut of the profits."

Weren't we supposed to be panicking about Palantir being used to report fire code violations only yesterday? Now I don't even know where to direct my outrage and paranoia!

Still, it seems unclear to me what people thought a "Smart City" was supposed to be. That this data would be generated (very expensively) and simply not utilized by law enforcement? It says the author's goal is really to generate curiosity, and based on this article (plus living in lower Manhattan) I think I might need to run out and get a copy.
I asked about this years ago, I think it was PairNic. They said file a legal document and send them a copy.

So, there's the technical route, whoever has the passwords wins.

But if it matters, and you don't want your technical heirs to be fighting each other, you should probably establish ownership and succession with a lawyer.
That's the benefit of owning land.

I own my house. I doubt the building appreciates. Its nominal value will go up, sure. But I also have to pump money into it. Stuff continually breaks and rots. Appliances need to be replaced. Carpet gets filthy. Gutters need cleaning. Plumbing breaks. The list goes on and on and on. After all of that, I'd be stunned if I break even on the building.

No, the great part is the land. That's how I capture the value of others' investments. If the government improves the nearby highway, my land value increases. If new jobs locate nearby, my land value increases. More nearby population, more shopping, better schools, more parks? All make my land worth more. The trick is I didn't have to spend money on any of those things--maybe my taxes paid for a small portion of some of them.

Is this fair? Well, I suppose property taxes are part of the answer to this. I gain value, so I have to chip in more.

There's the risk, too. Maybe the government doesn't invest much, all the jobs leave, and my land loses value. Much to the consternation of many people there, I just point to the usual example: Detroit.
I recently switched to Firefox on Android as well, specifically for uBlock Origin support, which has significantly improved browsing overall. Only issue I have is that default apps won't open for links. Otherwise I've been very happy with it.
Not AFAIK.

SQLite is the Samuel Vimes of software: It's not the fastest, or the strongest, but it's solid as a rock, and entirely dependable.
Firefox downloads OpenH.264 blobs and are working on supporting EME blobs.
As far as I remember, it was around when Google+ came out.

Google started as a technology company for nerds. Remember when Google broke all "rules" when their website was a simple image, input, and two buttons?

Then they were into open standards, tech innovation, and where the company was run by engineers, and not media people (see Yahoo).

The result was a focus on UX and not design.

Unfortunately, around when Google+ came out, they decided they're done with that, and became a "company for the masses".

XMPP integration - dead
Open Source apps - dead

They're back to bloat (just JS instead of animated GIFs and Flash), "beauty" over "UX", closed source apps (remember when most apps put out by Google were open source? Remember the shock that Picasso wasn't?)
Best one ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmKtS-k12b0
The Veil of Ignorance – Design and Accessbility
The article is about the distinction between the financial economy and the real economy. Everything you wrote seems to lump them together, and then make inferences assuming both economies are one in the same. (Missing the point of the article, from the title down)

I feel that you're the one "pushing on a rope", when the best you've got in your framework of the world is that some components of monetary policy correlated to asset prices sprinkled with some vague ideas of government spending.
> Last fall ( october 2015 ) twitter started mandating your real mobile number (sms confirmation) to logon

Can you provide more info on what you mean? I use Twitter every day and I've never given them my phone number.
> The better you become as a programmer the less value you derive from it.

This has been my experience exactly. I'd been coding for 20+ years before Stack Overflow even existed. I nevertheless find many good answers on SO via Google searches.

But virtually all of my questions are either downvoted to oblivion or closed as "duplicates". I spend hours trying to solve the problem myself and spend even more time reducing the problem to the smallest reproducible test case before asking.

And then some moderator closes as a duplicate because it looks similar enough to some other question he's seen before. It's incredibly frustrating, to the point that I've stopped participating at all other than to upvote good answers.
> Suppose an octopus stacked rocks in piles of prime numbers (not including unity). Would we care beyond possibly putting it on display in an aquarium?

Considering that a lot of research is done on animal communication, I think that's a poor example.
I can tell you aren't trying to be malicious, but this implies that HN is only for 'programming geeks' which is ridiculous.
They can't. We all know the extremely low quality of patents granted - the fact that the companies have them means nothing.
it never occurred to an 8 year old me how game genie worked and 25 years later, I had sort of forgotten about it.
It, like the Virtual Boy and the camera/printer peripheral were a few game boy accessories that were totally ahead of their time.
Ant 1: "Man, how do we get all these strange food deposits without plants?"

Ant 2: "Who knows? That's just the way the universe is."

Man 1: "Man, how do we have all these strange gravity deposits without matter?"
My NYC friends like to point out that they've had all these on demand services available for decades. The key is having enough people who value their time more than their money at some ratio where the service had enough volume to support itself.

NYC naturally had a high concentration of such people. Sf bay area has Leveraged phones to make things work with a lower density of such people.
Ruffled Feathers
Twitter recently OK'd it again--Politwhoops. Unfortunately the group that runs it, the Sunlight Foundation, is itself in the process of shutting down.
Not really sure exactly what you mean, but unless I'm mistaken, all FBA items have all shipping methods Amazon offers, since they're being shipped from Amazon's warehouses just like all of Amazon's products.
> On the symptoms side of things though, I now have to go to the doctor. Again. Reading about the buzzing in the right eye and the tingling was terrifying because I've been feeling something similar for the past few months. So onto my 4th brain scan in the past few years... Sigh. Hypochondria is a bitch.

I really hope you find a way to handle this that doesn't involve very expensive reassurance from doctors. I experience something very similar when I read about heart conditions; I go into a spiral of anxiety where I believe my heart is failing, even though countless doctors have assured me that I'm perfectly fine there. Isn't the human brain just a ton of fun?
Here is the 'plan' as outlined to me by an old dust hippie outside of Gerlach (Warning: totally crap, light speed remains the limiter, but entertaining still the same):

>Humans figure out this brain and AI thing sometime in the next 200 years. So, now 'you' don't need a body or any of that jazz anymore. Brain uploads, that whole shebang, fun times ensue, maybe

>Great, now we start ctrl+C and ctrl+V'ing ourselves a lot, we start getting into the real nitty gritty of physics, chem, bio, math, etc. We get limited by the amount of computers, matter, and energy we can muster. The Earth turns to computronium and heat.

>You know how this ends: We deconstruct the Earth and solar system, send the sun into brown dwarf state and 'colonize' other systems to do the same. The issue is still light speed. More computation is great, but it is the flops that matter. This means that other systems are effectively useless and on their own as it still takes centuries to distribute the computations. You need more plain-jane matter and energy. Bigger systems are primo then. If we go to interstellar war, it will be over very large systems. Still, it's unlikely because...

>Black holes. You fall into one, and time slows down. Boom! You have more flops for no effort. All you have to do is fall into one and have your 'puters on the outside do all the work faster. We super-engineer some craziness and make tiny ones to orbit about. (Note: Now things REALLY fall off into dust hippie-land).

>Cosmic eggs. The black hole is the egg and we are the sperm (yes, this is nutto but fun). We all merge our individual black holes and then we make the 'great journey' to the center of galaxy to all merge with all the other AIs out there. He said it was the only real option. The horizon of the super massive one in the center is the 'flattest' and therefore easiest to orbit and 'choose your time dilation' (I think he meant that it had the smoothest gradient as it was the biggest).

>We are then the first to be intelligent. Dust Hippie then said something that, by this super crazy funland logic, was pretty good. Assuming these time dilation and systems turned into computronium ideas kinda hold water, then we know there are no other super-AIs in the galactic core. This is because we can see many massive suns in very odd orbits about the galactic super black hole. If they were there, went his thinking, then they would set them in better orbits with a constant 'power feed' into the AIs orbiting closely to the black-hole, also they would not be visible to us as they would be enshrouded themselves by computronium, with no radiation wasted on the way out. Not a bad extension of crazy logic, I'd say.

Now, these are all predicated on our current physics know-how and that light speed is as slow as it is. We have great suspicions that this is not true, as our form of matter is ~5% of the total mass-energy budget of the universe and it seems most of the universe is not 'positive' energy (the universe is accelerating in its expansion). Still, its a fun, if likely LSD fueled, theory.
Amazon’s Algorithms Don’t Find You the Best Deals
Are you running the multiprocess Firefox build? The speed improvements with that version are insane.
Suppose I have a house I bought for $1000 (2015 USD), but the realtor tells me I can now sell it for $2000 (2015 USD). When I sell, that $1000 eventually comes from someone else's productive labour, which will be transferred to me.

As the buyer, I can pay the $2000 by borrowing from someone else and servicing that debt from my income.

The $1000 capitals gains that got pocketed are of course the buyer's future income.

So we can have ponzi asset bubbles in housing all we like, but right at the heart of it, the drivers are how much actual working people are willing and able to borrow, and how much they can pay to service their debts.

Put another way, their statement is that when everyone is maximally indebted and has no disposable income, the music has to stop.
I looked up these links so I might as well paste them here:

Spider: http://27bslash6.com/overdue.html
Monty: http://www.419eater.com/html/bigman.htm
Not always. I used to walk 25 minutes to work from one part of DC to another. Walking along a busy commuter road, crossing several busy streets with turning vehicles and others that run red lights, passing the graffiti-tagged building and homeless people in a tunnel under the railroad track, too loud to listen to anything through most headphones, but you better not turn your headphones up too loud because you have to keep your wits about you. And that's when it's not raining or snowing--snow? Of course people don't shovel snow and the plows push it onto the sidewalk. I bought a full rain suit for wet days.

I now have a longer drive and I am much happier. Having been to Manhattan I doubt walking there is much more pleasant either. Walking in a small town would be nice. Not in big cities.
Original article: https://www.propublica.org/article/amazon-says-it-puts-custo...
They were ending up on sidewalks or in the street. You can't put a 6'x8' home on public land without permission.
I would think there is a high chance that if aliens are capable of listening to us, they would be using AI to do so. After all, within decades of starting to listen for Aliens, we've already made significant progress in AI development.

However, once their AI deciphers what we're saying to them, they'll probably just get annoyed like the FCC and HAM radio operators get annoyed with people mucking around with radio transmissions before knowing the rules.
I believe Google only requires a phone number if you're using a proxy, and for good reason: they've had a ton of abuse from proxies.

You can buy some PVAs from someone on Fiverr using bitcoin if you really want to stay anonymous, or if you try hard enough you could probably find an unblocked proxy, or use a library or something.
IBM announces next implementation of Apple’s Swift developer language
This is... What?

I'm not all in on what I call "Poirot's doctrines," but there is almost always room for method. I grant that some methods aren't needed and speed is always of high value.

However, speed of bouncing from beep to beep in your tools are not always faster than stepping back and thinking.

As an example, no amount of fast feedback will help you complete all of the Euler problems.
Those arguments is pretty similar to the candle industry extinction. Some may argue that electricity has killed thousands of jobs in the candle industry, including those who had to light the candles every night in the streets.

In Sao Paulo, the largest city in Brazil, is facing a boom in the Uber offer. Many people who used to drive particular car are selling them and using Uber has main transportation. This is particular good for the traffic and a good alternative in a city where there is a lack of Subway lines.
Joint R&D Has Its Ups and Downs
Seems like a good outlet for googlers. ;)
I thought it was going to be a much more deep article on how we are going to 'create life' and how we might discover it is amazing and will blow our minds.

(Rather than AI just being our servant)