skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd imagine it's also influenced by our stomach acid which plays a pretty substantial part in killing off most of the nasty things that could make us ill, although most of those same nasty things have defensive mechanisms that can help them survive the initial onslaught of the acid (high protein foods seem to provide some refuge [1]).

Your comment reminded me of a YouTube channel I find weirdly (perhaps morbidly) fascinating [2]. Once your body is acclimated to eating dubious quality materials, even in modern society, it seems that you're less likely to get sick provided you're still relatively careful (not that I'd recommend it). Steve1989 has gotten sick from his adventures, although surprisingly it was from a more recent Ukranian MRE contaminated with E. coli, and not from some of the more expected sources. It's worth watching a few of his videos if you can stomach it, if not for the surprise at what questionable materials he actually gets down, but for the unusual number and types of things that have survived (he's eaten a cookie from 1951, 61 year old peanut butter, and even Civil War era hardtack).

I guess my memory was triggered by your mention of numb lips. As I understand it from the channel above, rancid nuts are particularly bad at causing numbness and swelling. I certainly wouldn't recommend trying anything of the sort unless you were absolutely desperate!

Definitely check out his channel. It's gross, I'll warn you, but it's also fascinating.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC106573/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et1JkidnnbWgJFiMeHA/vid...
What's wrong with writing JSON by hand? I've never touched YAML before, but JSON seems pretty clear to me - doesn't feel much different to writing a list naturally.

Is YAML one of those things that proper professional programmers need but us amateurs can botch our way around?
Use the Symfony Workflow component
I don't know. That would make a lot of sense.

One time, I had a package coming via Amazon Logistics. It was marked as delivered but was not there. I asked for it to be sent via a different carrier but their customer service said they couldn't control that.

I guess nobody has built that feature yet. :(
It's not physics, it's biochemistry.

But it's more complicated than that. Genetics cause one's predisposition as to how responsive a person is to cardio; see the University of Bath study and/or Michael Mosley's "The Truth About Exercise".
Depends if its senior with a specific technology (ex: senior rails programmer) or generally senior programmer.

I consider senior someone who:
- knows how to mentor juniors
- knows his way around tech, even if he never used a particular product
- most important, can communicate effectively with stakeholders and devs.

The best "senior" is the one who nags everyone to get stuff moving forward. Doesnt mind getting his hands dirty and going by people's desks to make sure the team delivers.

You may need to brush up your marketing skills in order to promote yourself as senior. Don't get impressed by people that know stuff.
oh, those 1000 lines of C...

If you think small code/functions are the just the result of "short term decision", that is wrong. Small and short doesn't imply ill-developed, short-sighted nor a lack of whole picture.

Small and well-thought code often contains an abstraction. And compiling such an abstract-level code takes even shorter time, still do some syntax check and (optionally) checks types. If you fix the abstract layer then you proceed to the details.

"Close your eyes and visualize the program"? Why not just draw the image as an abstract program on the screen? You know, Hackers and Painters is a real thing. Good abstract code describes itself on the screen, you don't have to imagine the behavior in your head. Code is much better than your volatile image in the head that may go away if you go to sleep.
Chicago culture is nothing like New York, however, so the comparison is a bit moot. Chicago is very much a Midwestern city with a Midwestern culture. And in my years living in Chicago, I didn't know a single person who didn't own a car, and most of them spent lots of time driving.
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Change it to "can walk the business analyst through requirements generation etc"

(Yes, I am currently frustrated with our product management)
…to someone who spends a lot of time writing C code.
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> Crudely, apes haven't gone away because there are humans.

Humans _are_ apes. That's how much apes have changed. Other currently existing species of ape have probably changed about as much from our common ancestor (who was also an ape).
This article promised a "sincere apology", but what followed instead was

> We updated a cartridge authentication procedure in select models of HP office inkjet printers to ensure the best consumer experience and protect them from counterfeit and third-party ink cartridges [...]

That's insincere as hell. It all paraphrases to "We did this for your own good and we're sorry you got upset".
There's a lot to be afraid of even if you don't believe that AGI is achieveable. For example, Google has openly talked about manipulating search results to steer potential ISIS recruits away from ISIS. That's a power that they are using without oversight, and who's to say that they aren't doing similar things to influence the outcome of the US national election (they have a vested interest in seeing Hillary win - Hillary is much better for their bottom line than any other candidate).

The giants are unparalleled in terms of their access to data, and that's something alternatives and competitors can't compete with. It's also clear that for machine learning, having more data is the most effective way to get better results. Stronger algorithms are only going to go so far if your competitor has three or four orders of magnitude more data and computational power.

And that's the scale we are looking at with companies like Facebook and Google.
From an acquaintance who lived there, it's a bit of a nanny state, neighbours will complain about anything.

She was walking home one day and saw a couple watching television in the house wearing headphones, presumably so as not to disturb / annoy the neighbours!
Unfortunately there will always be those for whom this modern day slavery is better than the prospects they have at home.

You do them no favors by keeping them out because they never had access to "benefits" in the first place
Echo is fast largely because it is based on Go's standard library net/http server, the same as Caddy.
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I joined the Swiss office when it was still pretty new, only about 70 people in total (today: over 2000). That was prior to the Endoxon acquisition. I don't think their technology was actually better than Google Maps even at the time, but they had basically matched it with far fewer resources and the team there had easily proven their competence at mapping, so joining forces made sense. I worked with a Swiss guy who came from Endoxon: quiet, intense and very competent, like so many Swiss people I know.

With respect to the office being located there in the first place, the story I heard was that it was basically a combination of Urs and ETH. The office was never intended to be huge, but it was successful in attracting candidates at a much higher rate than other European offices and thus quickly became the largest, making it the de-facto European engineering HQ. And yes this was very expensive for the company indeed, but luckily Google prints money so it wasn't a big issue. Other less fortunate companies would have had to impose hiring caps or quotas I think, to avoid Swiss salaries becoming dominant.

I don't think unlimited or limited EU immigration has made a huge difference. It's always been true that most employees in the Swiss office are not Swiss. When I joined Switzerland required visas for EU citizens as well, I had to prove I had a job and a degree to get in, and the Swiss office is full of Americans, Russians, etc. Local kantonal control is very strong in Switzerland and Kanton Zürich very much likes having a local employer with bottomless hiring needs and a bottomless bank to pay them with. I guess Google Zürich is closing in on employing 1% of the cities population, so they can usually get the visas they need.
many comments here, still my argument that there were no major projects and IT giants building important stuff with VB holds. Downvotes or not, you can't compare these two languages.
> World-Class
> 250mb cap.

Haha. Practically every free Wi-Fi network over here in the UK is unlimited.
I think a better solution is to have ISP s work together to warn and cut off access to botnet infected computers. They have the technical ability because they have strikes for copyright. Perhaps it could be a soft ban like an hour long ban or something.

But if two billion people decide to stay at home and continuously press F5, you should get freedom of speeched. I think that's the equivalent of a picket line. Not talking about automated tools other than "refresh page every second".
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Another Melbournian here - for the little it's worth I'm disappointed by the Government getting involved in something it oughtn't (from the perspective of a minarchist-Objectivist), and it's also an awful network from a technical perspective.

I really wish the Government would just limit itself to, you know, Governing, and stop a) breaking markets and then b) appointing itself to "fix" the resultant problems with public money.

Finally, calling it free is misleading - taxpayer funded would be much less like propaganda.
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I stopped taking it seriously when they said "250mb cap". What the hell are you going to do with that?
Well, yes and no. You are absolutely right that a complete implementation of TeX would be difficult, but you could read a subset of the language that is big enough to be useful, including simple macro definitions and commonly used commands, which is exactly what pandoc's LaTeX reader already does.
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JSON for configuration is a cute idea that doesn't scale at all. I've personally experienced this in a project at my job. Once the config gets substantially large, it becomes a headache. The real pain is when a sysadmin without any experience in JSON screws up the formatting or tries to change the config and can't decipher the parse errors.

JSON for config is a bad, bad idea - especially if your config will get large.
In London we have stations where there's over 150MB throughput on a device uncapped. Hardly 'on par'
[{[[{[{[{[{}]}}}]}]]}]

Spot the typo!

If you think this is stupid because surely everyone uses an editor with automatic scope highlighting etc, I don't think that is the case when you are remotely editing config files via SSH.
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Windows 10 can _definitely_ do that (I do the exact same thing with bluetooth/wired headsets frequently; I'm "fairly" sure I used to do that on Windows 7 too -- I remember being quite amazed when my Ubuntu machine "finally" caught up and was able to do the same thing.)

In fact, I quite often start music playing on the laptop (chrome/Google Play Music) and then power up my bluetooth headset -- it initially uses eSCO when it routes the audio over (mono) and then switches to A2DP a few seconds later

Maybe the issue is something to do with the SW (chrome/firefox?) you use for GVoice? Or maybe there are some edge cases that I'm not triggering (in particular, a USB headset is effectively a new soundcard and not just an audio sink; I can completely believe windows is flaky with them especially with third party drivers)
AI is not a genie that can be kept in a bottle. Making a nuclear bomb is a huge engineering effort. You need to build huge facilities, acquire rare resources, and potentially test it somehow. It takes a lot of energy to get there.

Software on the other hand, my computer is running tens of millions of lines of code right now, and for stuff with heavy utility there's not much the government can do to get in the way. Cryptography is a great example of this. Cryptography used to be regulated, but because it's easy to pass around code + binaries + keys there was really nothing the government could do to stop people from using it. So it was deregulated, as an admission that if you banned cryptography, you get a population without it pitted against criminals who do have it.

I'm guessing that AI will end up much the same way. You do need a lot of data, certainly a lot more than you need to get strong encryption, but data is ultimately easy to move around compared to nuclear manufacturing facilities. And it's even more open when you consider how much data is available that might be useful to an AGI. If you give a human 500,000,000 hours to read + process + innovate using just Wikipedia, you are going to get something impressive. An AGI has access to any page that's reachable from a URL bar, and that data is not something that needs to be passed around with the AGI codebase.

Granted, I personally believe that AGIs are 30+ years away, and I don't think that Wikipedia is enough data for something like a competitive NLP machine using modern technology, but I think that's the direction we will be moving in. We should accept today that AI will be a part of the future, and prepare for the inevitability rather than try to run from it.
Except DJB's software was often not right (Qmail was a major offender against
SMTP protocol specification for a long time, until it finally got forgotten by
most of the sysadmins) or otherwise sub-par (djbdns lacked sensible zone
transfers, even non-incremental ones).
> Also worth noting is that the network is completely insecure - the entire network has no password on the WPA2 SSIDs

FYI, even if it had a password, if everyone knows it, they have access to all your traffic anyway.
The YAML spec is huge, too large IMO for config files (you can use it while knowing only a subset, but you'll be lost as soon as someone uses a feature you don't know).

I think TOML strikes a good ballance between simplicity and features for config files. It ends up being easy to read and write.

https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
https://github.com/wireapp/wire#proteuscryptobox for info on Proteus/Cryptobox that Wire uses.
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If you want to take that approach, then why not compare Skåne to Staten Island, Zuid-Holland to Manhattan etc. These European countries aren't homogeneous blobs either.

You shouldn't feel competitive (pun intended) about this kind of lists anyway, it's just a score on criteria some organization called "WEF" values for reasons that are their own. You don't have to 'win' every ranking, if you "win" one, you're going to lose another that uses different criteria.
I wouldn't be too keen to pay for a feature that works only half the time. Fix your sh*t before trying to sell it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=app+store+apple+blank+screen
(Notice how the results spawn from 2012 to today)
Heh. Political bias much?

I'm a Brit who lives in Zürich. I would not describe Zürich as being anywhere near as glamorous as New York nor as being the "new London". It's a lovely city to live in, but it's tiny - the entire population of Switzerland is smaller than the population of London and that reflects in the variety of things to do, things to see, services available and so on. My brother lives in London Zone 1 and I am often envious of the fantastic things that city has to offer.

The Brexit vote was three months ago. So far nothing has changed, and the financial industry is certainly not moving to Switzerland - which is also not in the EU! Moreover, the Swiss voted against freedom of movement as well in 2014 and the implementation deadline is in February. The Swiss Parliament are busy demonstrating exactly how compatible the EU and democracy are (not at all) by attempting to push through local hiring preference laws when the referendum, which is constitutionally binding, stated explicitly that it was a vote on imposing quotas. The SVP is not happy and a fight is looming. Quite possibly the Swiss will chicken out given how evenly divided society is on the topic of immigration, but if attitudes have hardened since 2014 or if the SVP is able to turn this into a fight on the topic of democracy itself, Switzerland may find itself on the same side as the UK very quickly indeed.

I don't actually want the Swiss to impose immigration quotas on people like me, that can only make life more complicated, but Swiss direct democracy is an admirable thing and I am 100% convinced it's a part of the reason Switzerland is so successful. Watching the EU systematically tell voters in the most successful European countries to bend the knee is not impressing me one bit.
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Can somebody actually comment/back-up the comments about how open or not this effort is?

I could see legitimate benefits from this kind of collaboration (it's ultimately about the ability to process data, not the data itself, after all) But I do also wonder if this reduces to the banal abuse of personal data that is suggested here.
> Our calibration team has found that with current processing these surface brightness temperatures are accurate to within ~±1 K for many 15 – 35° C targets, e.g., growing season vegetated targets.

Wow, I would have never expected that!

Dump European question: ±1 K is the same as ±1° C, right?
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Perhaps, but at least in London free Wi-Fi is hardly ubiquitous. I found that walking down an avg. street in London I did not av access to free Wi-Fi. If they can blanket the city with this then that would be pretty handy even with a 250MB/day cap.
I own a Priv and this news makes me sad. The Priv is not perfect, but it's the only phone that allows me to run my company for most part of the day without a laptop.
"Some cheese"? All cheeses worth savouring are cultured. All cheddar (probably the most popular cheese globally) is cultured. The only cheeses that aren't cultured are things like uncultured mozzarella or queso fresco.
Get high so someone else can go high?
> DevOps is something that we are still learning and developing as a profession.

Not really. DevOps is simply a modernish label for system administration that
we have for dozens years already.
Yes, tax evasion involves lying to the tax authorities.

Tax avoidance does not. It involves complete honesty with the tax authorities, who then charge you less tax, as the rules state they should. The definition of "avoidance" is therefore intensely political - avoidance tends to be defined as lawful behaviour by other people the speaker would prefer paying for government instead of them!
What are you doing with your phone? I have a 1.5 GB a month data plan and only very rarely go over that.
There's a difference between "concerned with personal privacy" and "privacy-conscious". Europeans, like people pretty much anybody in the world, are oblivious, ill-informed or simply don't care about what goes on above their heads or behind their backs. People just want to live their lives.

But when revelations and news reports bring up issues concerning privacy violations – by the state, other countries or companies – it does invoke memories and provoke visceral responses. A lot of Europeans are not totally apathetic to privacy concerns, especially when brought to their attention.

And Europeans are somewhat irritated with the freedom given to big corporations and (lack of) free market regulation in the US, lumped in with Wall Street and banking systems. In a sense, simplistically put, our current governments are (with) us, while some of those internet giants are billboards of unfettered capitalist excess, trying to exploit us.

In short, I do think a lot of Europeans are more concerned about privacy than Americans, once it gets on their radar; and it's always worse when it's done by somebody far away.
Except that in the meantime the state collects revenue.
The swiss are very strong in biotech. Consider that Genentech, Silicon Valley darling of biotech, is now owned by a Swiss company.
> That's why you get things like schools sending children home at lunchtime or on Wednesday afternoons: the school schedules are deliberately set up to be incompatible with working hours, in order to reinforce traditional family setups.

Just an anecdote: We are (expat) remote workers raising kids on the Swiss countryside. Our fellows haven't started school yet but we are really looking forward to having them come home for lunch. The motivation for the system may well be to suit traditional family setups, and make it hard for both parents to work in an office, but it also seems tailor made for self-employed people who work from home with a flexible schedule and want to spend time together as a family. (ask me again in a few years.)
Not really. Look at the comments on just about any tc article. It's a marketing website disguised as news.
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That's quite an assertive comment given we have no information on the specific domain, nor of the personal network of the op. I might be wrong but I've understood both of these have quite specific requirements for the most lucrative contracting jobs.
All of the rendering would be server-side, so you won't even see the muzzle flash until the server is aware of it.

With client-side rendering, the client draws a muzzle flash as soon as you fire, and there could still be an enemy in the line of fire at the time the muzzle flash goes off, and the shot still not hit if the enemy has already jumped out of the way.
It may be a focus for people who are not actively working on the machines, but for people who are actively innovating in the AI space, the most powerful machines will be created by the people who are spending the least amount of time stressing over the ethics of various decisions. More powerful AI means a more competitive business, so the industry will self-select for those with lesser concerns for the ethical implications of AI.

We already know that we are unable to hold industry accountable for unethical action. How many times did we scream about Facebook's increasing privacy abuses? How many times do people talk about being uneasy because Google knows where their flights are, where their home is, where their favorite restaurants are, even if it was not told explicitly. And, despite all the complaints, the industry giants committing the worst atrocities remain the biggest giants. It's because violating the rights of your users makes you competitive, and the users can't tear themselves away from the increased power that it lends the features.

We need to accept that when AI arrives, we're not going to have very many controls over what it does. Regardless of how terrible the implications might be, we're going to be about as effective at stopping the arrival of AI as we have been at stopping the arrival of global warming. We need to prepare for a post-AI future and just accept that it's going to be invasive and have relatively little regard for human ethical concerns, and instead be focused almost entirely on the things that make it competitive.
The point is you can't assume it doesn't matter because it seems harmless-if-false. The grandparent asked "why do you care [whether the things Musk is saying are true]?", but the answer is that you have to care about anything that's likely to influence a large number of people.
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