skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This describes the earth sciences about 5 yrs ago. People (around here at least) are seeing the light. A big driver of the change is the emphasis on data management and archiving that is coming from the NSF. Many research programs have to make data available post-publication or risk cutting off funding. Not sure if this is yet the case in the health sciences.
https://www.purevpn.com/blog/ddos-protected-vpn-purevpn/

A DDoS attack is dependent on flooding the users connection with traffic, so if this connection cannot be established, a DDoS is unable to have a significant impact
If it can differentiate between a child and an animal then it's smart enough to add move value judgments such as worth to society (maybe by age). I think the easiest rule is the owner of the vehicle is the most important asset to the vehicle.
Sure, but then how can you smear normal conservatives? /s
There was this awesome bug with AWS a while back too where you could accidentally sign up an account twice with the same email address, but no way of knowing you had two accounts without paying really close attention to your account ID. So if you went to log in and used your email and one password, you would sign into one account, but if you used the same email and a different password, you would sign into the second account (who knows what would happen if both accounts had the same password). Anyways a couple years ago I signed up for an AWS account to mess around with the free tier (doing a pluralsight course I think), and after a bunch of messing around didn't touch it again for a while. A year after I was going to use AWS for something and forgot I had already setup an account earlier (or thought it was on a different email or whatever), and managed to sign up for a second account with the same email address (which now became the primary account). Continue down a few months and I start getting billing emails for a few dollars a month but could not figure out why (and the invoice wouldn't show up in my AWS console for that email address). After digging I realized somehow I had two AWS accounts one the same email and the bill was on the other one, but I couldn't log into it as I didn't remember the password, and doing the password reset would just sent me a reset for the second account. It took a tonne of back and forth emails with amazon support to get it fixed and gain access to both accounts, the charges ended up being for having a few VMs created (but stopped) and my free tier ran out so it was billing me a few dollars for storage a month. I haven't really touched AWS since after that because the billing can be so obtuse if you aren't paying very very close attention.
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> Also prenups are typically worthless in the madness that is family court. Never ever ever rely on one.

Are you saying that prenups are worthless in the case of child support or that prenups are worthless in all cases? In the case of child-related issues, you're right. However, in the case of dividing assets, I think you might be mistaken.

I've read stories of super wealthy people with prenups who did not get screwed; i.e., the prenup held up. The best example I can find is a certain billionaire who got divorced, but I cannot mention his name without creating irrevelant political discussion. He had an ironclad prenup and it held. That's the point I want to make. Prenups still work.
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The post says "Idris is still primarily a research project".

So I wouldn't count on too much momentum. ;)
We-really-need-more-helpful-automation-testing-tools
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Fortunately, both of your arguments make clear the need for more research, and thankfully it's finally happening.
Man, haven't heard that name for years. Traffic Vance and others like them were all the rage when affiliates were big on "CPV" (cost per view) traffic where instead of paying on a CPM rate for pop-up and pop-under traffic, they would pay for each view. The CPMs were actually pretty high in many cases, but when you think about the computer savviness of the infected users, the shady tactics affiliates would use, and the potential payouts, the math definitely worked out for many of them.
AWS announces new areas of hardware acceleration including FPGA-based computing
They've published papers about it -- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/configu... -- they're giving talks about it -- Mark Russinovich was here a few weeks ago with a very long talk. Doug Burger and Derek Chiou are leading a lot of these efforts, and they're absolutely for real.

I'm not sure I agree with them that this is the right path forward (but they're smart and know their stuff, so I'm probably wrong), but it's absolutely for real.
Strobe is fine during the day. At night it's a stupid idea. Nobody can see anything anymore, including you.
Thanks for the explanation! I am not a heavy user of git stash, so not sure if git reflog could have helped you, but I am grateful that somebody steered me toward git reflog early in my learning git. With reflog and frequent commits, it's very hard to lose work, short of deleting the entire project or its .git/ directory. rsync+ZFS also sounds like nice combo for running around git in order to prevent future mistakes destroying work.
Interesting. For me the killer feature of Emacs is its customizability. That's not quite the right word, because Emacs's integration with ELisp lets you do things that almost nothing else does. The ability to modify existing functions live is central to its power, and the boundary between "The Editor" and "Extensions" is extremely fuzzy.

Xi seems to take a harder approach to customization, which means that customizers will always be subject to the limitations of the plug-in interface. There will always be a hard boundary between "The Editor" and "Extensions", and I believe that will ultimately limit its usefulness.
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Maybe, I'm not talking about Mongo specifically.

You can find 'equivalents' to CPU data structures for FPGAs and speed up operations on/with them while still saving power.
There's lots of trouble with how buffers are used and memory is accessed. So it's not a trivial task, but IF you can optimize generic data structures and replace the existing ones you basically have 2x the speed or half the energy consumption for any DB.
Silicon Valley, MIT, et al in the 60s, 70s, and 80s was the American Renaissance.
Jason Scott, Internet Archive. We've recovered from the fire in terms of book scanning and operations. We have not rebuilt on the spot where the building that burned down was - several possibilities have been floated but nothing has happened in that direction. And of course there were some nice awards and mementos in that building that are gone. But on the whole, we're good regarding that. People were kind and we worked hard to replace the lost resources.
> All encryption is performed on the device itself

Mm. This could be a MITM/"tap" attack vector, I guess?

[*] https://aws.amazon.com/snowball-edge/details/
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To me this is what's important. I mainly use VPSs because I'm lazy! I have a bunch of 5$ droplets that I use for development, and even sometimes just to move things around the net more easily... For my particular use case, I don't need to change unless Lightsail offers me a less crowded core.

Really, it just seems like AWS is fighting DO on this one, to get a share of their profits. My impression is they're looking for DO & AWS customers to stay on an Amazon-only stack. The comparison made by the commenter above actually makes me consider Vutlr and Linode :)
Got any recommendations for the LEDs, power sources, or PIRs?
That's an even more different category, they're complex hardware product so the average pledge is inherently very high, the lowest pledge for a Rift was 300 (or 275 for a lucky 100), and that was more than half the under-10k pledges. Ouya was similar (though lower priced, with $99 for the "unlimited" ouya pledge level)
True. Though we knew about it immediately and could apt-get remove that stuff quite easily too.
Jason Scott, Internet Archive. We do archive Youtube videos but not, you know, every single one.
The story does not add up. What kind of person decides to go on a "beach walk" after finding documents that says their husband is worth 300M dollars? My reaction would be to get the document, and at least take a picture, and get the fuck out.
I was trying to figure out an affordable way to send "Read Later" articles in voice to mobile device, either as podcast or other format, to keep myself relevant while driving to/from office.

I realized this tool might not be cheap, since it may take the voice actor/actress 2 hours per day to produce my content (2-hour driving commuting per day for me). To get familiar local accent, it costs ~$36 in Australia, and maybe slightly cheaper for US accent. The value it brings me can hardly justify the cost.

Now, with Polly, things changed - it produces reasonable voice, and 2-hour content would only cost ~$0.3. I decided to launch my service as soon as Instapaper approves my API request.

At the same time, put your email here: http://readlater.launchrock.co/
It's hard to reconcile "ugly hack" and "magical".

All magic is ugly hacks!
It depends on the processors the machines use and the actual sharing of these processors. I agree it looks more expensive but it might not be upon further analysis.
In a related discussion, it's interesting to read this overview of work required to get Emacs to support double-buffering on X11. Interestingly, it's by the same guy who proposed the new dumper patch, Daniel Colascione (who lurks around here)

https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel-colascione/buttery-smo...

(Notes are Facebook's newish blog format)

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12830206
Could you link any simple examples on calculating a type or TypeRep based on incoming JSON data?

One of my bigger interests in Haskell right now is the Frames library but I've honestly been struggling with using and understanding Template Haskell to generate Types.

I haven't had a ton of time so it isn't all TH's fault either. I've also read the Template Haskell paper and the entire system seems well thought out, I suppose there just aren't enough practical tutorials I can mess about with until I understand.
> Haskell's purity (there are simpler languages with similar type systems)

For my own curiosity, to which languages do you allude in this statement?
Just everyone having a common share in the same pool of capital from which to subsist. This doesn't mean you can't have personal property

Actually that's exactly what it does. As soon as you can have "personal property", aka private property then whatever was supposed to be in that pool isn't there and can grow on it's own.

it just means you can't plant a flag on some land and declare "I am the king of my own kingdom" as it were

You seem to be describing the obscure philosophy of georgism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
same, backed the project as well.
> For complex designs the simulator that comes with the Vivado tools (Mentor's modelsim) is not going to cut it.

It's now called QuestaSim I believe. But are you sure it can't handle simulating large designs? If yes, what is the full-featured software from Mentor that can?

> Heck, maybe they can drive adoption of one of the up-and-coming HDL's like chisel

Chisel isn't a full-blown HDL from what I understand; it's only a DSL that compiles to Verilog. In other words, you'd still need a Verilog simulator to actually run your design.
I wasn't complaining about that. I've had 2-3 day turnarounds on "everything is broken" events on normal AWS VPC. Always factor their support offering in as well.
VictorOps raises $12.2M in new funding
Anyone else notice the SysV subtlety on the bottom?
So the question then is what are those services for?
"There's no reason why capital gains couldn't be taxed at the same rates as income."

Sure there is -> risk.

It's why everywhere in the world cap gains are taxed lower than income.

Cap gains + income tax at 90% and economy would collapse instantly as risk premium goes up, most equities and probably most bonds would drop quite a lot and people moved into real-estate, cash, commodities, gold. etc..

But maybe there could be some improvement.
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'Tennessine': Element 117 officially named
Because that's the part that needs to interact with the OS at a low-level. Think of it as the "OS bindings" if you will. C is the lowest-common-denominator to do that.

Edit: I'm wrong, see avar's response below. It looks like it's for performance reasons.
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That's not just Amazon's strategy, that's most cloud providers.
A fraudster-millionaire shares a fictionalized account of her side of a soap opera story too wild for television but just right for NY Times magazine
Show HN: Emacs-Bootstrap
People have committed suicide over debts too. I'm not suggesting Amazon gets rid of unlimited liability accounts, only that they give customers the choice.
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And yet comma ai were definitely testing their products on public roads, products which were presumably running this code.
> in case you want to install a custom OS

Do they let you do that? They don't say that in the purchases page.

Also, how is uptime relative to vultr?
HN hug of death might be throwing it off. I'm getting a '500 Internal Server Error' when I try to visit the link.

Here's the GitHub page:
https://github.com/vuvuzela/vuvuzela
How about not marrying? You could live a life as a committed couple including merged finances, co-living, even having kids. But without an actual marriage, you would never be at risk of losing in a divorce.

The only benefit to get married, legally and practically speaking, is perhaps for tax optimization.
I could easily claim the same about the left after their golden child lost.
To me, the dispute is coming from what appears to be Zaretskii wanting nothing less than step 3. I can sympathize; I don't think I would want to receive a big pile of C were I a maintainer. It seems to me that temporary hacks tend to become permanent.

However, I think he's mistaken. As you said, that list makes a decent roadmap. IMO, the best approach to hand is to take the currently offered patch, and continue to work towards specifying and implementing optimizations to the elisp loader.
There are quite a lot of things that can cost a meaningful % of $200M. Artwork, property, vehicles (planes, yachts, expensive cars), upkeep and potentially staff for all those things, etc. The impact to your net worth is thus 50% lower if you can double your net worth.

Also, if you get to that level, I imagine there reaches a point where those things become much more realistic to obtain, and your expectations for your earnings go up. Why settle for $200M when you can have $400M like your friends? Why settle for $400M when you can reach the three comma club?
Sounds like a good business idea. Pay $10-50 a month for us to automatically disable your services which go over your stated budget. Free tier at 1 service.
I've been using Emacs for over a decade now. Every now and then (say, once a week), I feel the need to fiddle with some ELisp code.

I read Stevey's Emergency Elisp guide:
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/01/emergency-elisp.html

I reached the part about the then clause of if/then/else needing a (progn ...) if it was to be a multi-statement clause, but the else clause doesn't. But you can avoid the progn if you don't have an else clause by using when instead of if!

I facepalmed so hard I needed reconstructive surgery. I haven't fully recovered from that. (in reality it's because, though ELisp itself is bad enough, Emacs' API is daunting)
Sure thing, we've updated the title.
And element 118 is now named "Oganesson": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oganesson

oh look at that '-on' prefix!
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Personally, as much as various editors talk about "modernity," there isn't really one that's surpassed Emacs yet. My requirements are fairly simple:

-Text interface: I don't want to be unproductive when I'm without a GUI

-Consistant abstractions and scriptability: Your editor needs to be customizable for whatever task I may need: that means scripting anything that can be done with a UI, customizing pretty much any aspect of editor behavior, the ability to embed curses-style UIs into the editor (when in nongraphical mode), and interfacing with external programs. And yes, these are all features I use. And not just for playing tetris, either.

In order to do this, you need consistant abstractions. For instance, if every window, from your obtions window, to your editing window, to your tetris window, aren't treated the same, aren't fundamentally the same object type, then you've failed as an editor designer.

-Ecosystem: this one isn't so much of a requirement, but it's nice to have a good one. That means lots plugins and other tooling.

The only editors that have these are vim, emacs, and, to a certain degree, acme.
In that case (based on minimum wage in the US), either you're getting five dollars worth of quality, which is probably even less than this because this process allows extremely fast revisions, or the person doing it is getting massively underpaid. Or they live somewhere that cost-of-living and a typical wage are low enough that $5 for the work makes sense. Or they're using an automated system with an even lower cost-per-unit, which probably overlaps with the first possibility.
It part of the "lie" that kickstarter has become.

The "goal" is raising $30k, yet they're willing to spend half that on a video.

There's no incentive to have a high goal, in fact the lower the goal the better, you get to look better "We raised 50x our goal!" and it secures the kickstarter is a "success".
> AIXI is a pretty deeply flawed theory of "universal intelligence"

What would you propose as an alternative? If nothing, fine, but how can we relate, when we only have a single best (or if you prefer: flawed) thing?

> It can't handle modelling itself

It can add its internal states to the environment, and hence model these internal states.

> the large dimensionality of its hypothesis space

Its bounded by how many compressors / programs are available to it. Calculating the length of these programs that are consistent with the environment is feasible.

> handle imprecise stimulus information

I'm not sure if you mean imprecise stimuli here or imprecise sensors.

> can be made arbitrarily "stupid"

This can be seen as a flaw, or as a simple property (or even a feature). Something that can be optimal, and "stupid", does not detract much from its ability to be optimal.

> before we get to mere computational limitations or the uncomputability issue

Just because it is uncomputable, does not mean the theory is flawed. Sure, it is not practical, and we like practical things, but it is still valuable to have such a theory. Especially when approximations do yield practical applications.

Marcus Hutter on these issues: http://hunch.net/?cat=14
Your question seems to be more about learning than note taking, so here are some of my notes learning to augment what others have said:

To aid recall, use the quiz and recall method: "The idea is to study by lecturing out-loud, to an imaginary class, about the key concepts you need to learn. Something about articulating arguments in complete sentences cements them in your mind like nothing else"

from http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/08/02/the-straight-a-gospels...

Also the book How to become a straight A student by Cal Newport is thin but packed with actionable information. Highly recommended.
...I have never had that problem.

Well, okay. I did once. But still, it's uncommon.
If anyone is wondering how the FPGA board looks like

https://imgur.com/a/wUTIp
TIL Cognito!

That completely flew under my radar, not sure why I didn't see it before (oh that's right I was heads down in Azure).

With Athena the circle is complete for me.

That fast exit ping thing is pretty cool, any more information regarding that?

Your comment is probably the most valuable one I came across to date since signing up, I wish there was a way to award a gold star like on reddit :D

There's very little objection at this point in moving to a Serverless architecture = Athena (SQL) + Lambda (CPU) + Cognito (User).
And this is exactly the problem. I'm a democratic-leaning voter in a blue state -- clearly I have to trust and love outfits like the NYT and WaPo. Nevermind that both were obviously out of touch throughout this year's election.

I'm honestly not sure how I escape the bubble at this point.
Eh, I mean this is a similar idea to a non-profit using fund to advertise itself to gain a larger war chest. On the surface it sounds wrong, when you donate to a charity you want the money to contribute to the cause. However If you care about the cause, and greater funds can improve it better... then doesn't it actually make sense? In for-profit business, people don't blink an eye at spending money to grow it...
I'm working for a startup called Boost.ai where we have decided to build our own deep learning model and create our own training data. We use several models that predicts what word comes next, take care of mispellings and dialects. We also have memory so it can remember contexts when you ask a new question or it predicts that you want to start with a new context.

If you want something kick ass, I highly recommend building it yourself. The bar set by IBM's Watson, Nuance's Nina or IPSoft's Amelia isn't actually very high. For non english languages, anyone who has some knowledge about NLP and deep learning will easily surpass them.
Why can't Silicon Valley solve its diversity problem?
Unless the arm managed to quickly generate enough organs to crawl around an feed itself, it would suffocate/starve before it could generate a body.
Pure speculation, but backend tidying?

if ( days between acct creation and last check-in > N Days ):
archive record;
rm prod record;

There may be less identifiable means for these boring operations though. Just the first thing that popped into my head.
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It's a price ceiling, not a floor. If prices go up high enough, it's worth turning on EC2 instances and paying for them with the mined cryptocurrency until prices fall. There's some wiggle room above the break-even point, since there is some delay between turning on miners receiving USD, and the miner has to eat that risk.
It's not expected... until your site get unexpectedly featured on HN, reddit or any news site.
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The best place to start is a substituted phenethylamine rather than a tryptamine, as these compounds tend to be gentler, more euphoric and less reality-shattering. Some research chemicals that are good options:

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/2C-C
https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/2C-E

In terms of consciousness expanding, DMT (in the form of Ayahuasca) is probably the most potent psychedelic. It can be emotionally intense though, so not the place to start.