skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>largely because I can see it operating as a black box and leaving no options for review.

Here's a fun story from my experience with the US' immigration system's black box:

I'm a citizen of a country that gets ESTA. I have reapplied for that thing a few times as I travel to the US about once a year for conferences. Every time I enter the US, the border agent does a double take at my passport and asks me what my birth-date is. Turns out, in the black box of the US immigration system there's a number switched in my birth date, it's correct in the ESTA paperwork and passport. I may have messed up in my first ESTA application - my country may have transmitted the wrong data when the US requested it for the first time (my country and the US use a different date scheme, it's not MM/DD/YY).

Every single time the border agent says they put in a request to fix it (who do I even ask to have this minor thing fixed?), but I know the next border agent will ask again, the requests go nowhere.

So keep in mind that every 'minor' thing the US saves about you will be set in stone, even if that minor thing is wrong. I can only see bad things to come the more US immigration collects, they seem to have no direct way to correct false information, even internally.
Accumulation of wealth may not be the ultimate goal, but it shortcuts your way to achieve the goals of other pursuits.
Apart from reducing the cost of the welfare system, that doesn't fix the poverty problem.
For anyone reading, really feeling lonely and having the means yo affort it. Come and visit a country like Colombia, we love having people over and making friends (really honest and helpful ones) is what we do best. I met an Austrian girl last week who told me she never felt as much in home as the next day she landed here. She now quit his tech job in Europe and moved here.
1 - it isn't obvious what it does (if a file has a symbolic link, then is the link the same file? what about a hard link?)

2 - it offers no performance benefit on sensible compilers (which have a special case in them that can detect the typical header guard pattern and so avoid reading a header twice)

3- it is non standard, and the feature it provides is one which is easily implemented within the standard, where the only disadvantage seems to be that you need to type more characters.
Worth a read, or at the very least a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(programming_language)
Reminds me of the slogan on the trucks of Sunset Scavenger Company, the predecessor to Recology: "Satisfaction guaranteed or double your garbage back".
I don't want to be that guy, but I think the design needs work. Especially since the title is saying "has a new design". I wonder what it used to look like. It looks like a nice piece of technology, but like the other guy said, the website is too busy and I don't know where to look at. It took me a minute to find the github link. It's almost like it's hidden purposely.

Also the "Books" section is kind of misleading and made me think they're taking credit for something that they didn't do. After taking a look at the page for a while finally realized it's like scheme/lisp, and the books section kind of makes sense, but still it's still very confusing.

This may be too harsh but the design almost reminds me of those parking websites that make money off of adsense. Hope they put some more effort into the design so the website can actually do the language more justice.
It's barred from flight by the FAA, presumably because it's known to... you know... explode...

So I guess it would count as carrying a dangerous explosive device.
I had the same thought, but on further reflection, while it's very doable to get a computer to figure it out, it still seems like quite a bit of work to have it read, parse, analyse and play the move for this specific page, on this one website for a low value payout. Additionally there is natural language question that has to be understood for what you are supposed to do - it doesn't necessarily have to be mate.

Since security is fundamentally increasing costs enough to outweigh the prize, I feel like this makes it.
I've occasionally written code like:

char buffer[16], *ptr = &buffer[0]; // declare an array and a pointer into it
This is true, but I assume you are referring to the Baby Boomers. That generation wasn't so much a bulge as it was a boom, meaning the boomers also had at least as many children as they were (average 2 kids per couple). When the next generation goes to retirement, it will be just as large.

I guess what I'm saying is if you believe the participation rate will increase because a large group of people are retired and the next generation is smaller, it isn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State...
That's the very definition of introversion, and it's perfectly OK.

But even introverts need some social interaction.
To become the Tiger King you must overcome the entire population of tigers.

To become the President, you need only overcome a thousand Florida voters.

To intern the Japanese, you need only overcome two members of SCOTUS (Korematsu v. US)

It isn't necessary for Hawking to be able to trick the average cat into a box. It's sufficient to trick a handful of cats in total.
It might be the case, but I should would prefer being able to stick to just one messenger in the end. And I don't see why it wouldn't be Matrix as opposed to WhatsApp. (If we ignore the networking factor, of course.)
> There are more high level players on ICC because that's where the high level players are

It appears this is not the case, anymore. I logged in to both servers this afternoon, and counted the number of players rated over 2350. Lichess had 50, ICC had 6. I logged in again tonight and saw roughly the same ratio.
I'm not sure about the quality for standard, but the overall chat community is more like modern-day Reddit than 00s ICC. That place was a garden.
The reality of Zuckerberg's own home AI “Jarvis”
Pick and Match Hair Style and Fashion Combo
A similar situation existed prior to the Apollo 1 accident. After that they renewed the focus on safety, which lasted a while until they started to lose it again, culminating in the Challenger accident 18 years later. Then exactly the same thing happened culminating in the Columbia accident 18 years after that.

However, the shuttle design (which placed the crew compartment right next to the giant explodey bit, to use the technical term) was also inherently much less safe than the rockets that preceded it. (That it was chosen anyway was due in part to the degradation of the safety culture in favour of other goals.)

It's really, really hard to keep an entire organisation laser-focused on safety when they haven't seen an accident in nearly a generation.
I'm not self-censoring because my account is pseudonymous.
The title is a bit misleading. The Raspberry Pi foundation is just releasing their own, custom desktop environment (called 'PIXEL') for PC and Mac.

They're also providing a Debian-based x86 distro (i.e. Raspbian) with the PIXEL DE preinstalled.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pixel-pc-mac/
On the other hand, it's rare enough to find good fits for those roles, the scenario you described is unlikely.
> US citizens of Pakistani origin need to jump through hoops to get an Indian visa, for example. That's far more intrusive and harmful.

With good reason, after the 26/11 Mumbai attack, which had the extensive involvement of an US citizen of Pakistani origin[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Headley
> move to a place that will make me happy

I'm sorry, but that is not how it works.

You are what's making you unhappy, and that's what you have to change. The good thing is you have plenty of free time to do it in, and all the power to do it.
Here, from Warren Buffett:

http://fortune.com/2012/02/09/warren-buffett-why-stocks-beat...

> Today the world’s gold stock is about 170,000 metric tons. If all of this gold were melded together, it would form a cube of about 68 feet per side. (Picture it fitting comfortably within a baseball infield.) At $1,750 per ounce -- gold’s price as I write this -- its value would be about $9.6 trillion.

He then goes on to say why he doesn't care for it: it's not a productive asset.
I called it an explosive device because we now know that they literally explode.

I grant that basically any large lithium batter can do the same (or be induced to do the same), but this one was both common and could go off accidentally, making it a more common and therefore likely threat.
... giving long time spammers a brand new market.
Gee, Spooky23, why should they be different?
> According to our system, the will of the people is determined based upon electoral college votes of individual states

No, according to our system -- conceived to protect slavery, and sold to New Yorkers as a protection against the people falling for a dangerous demagogue -- electoral college votes decide the outcome instead of the will of the people being respected. Not even in theory does the electoral college determine the will of the people.
I loved Metallica until the whole Napster thing. Who am I kidding, their music is still great for hardcore heads down coding. Nine Inch Nails too.
That was an excellent book. It was also a prescient book as it predates social media and the smart phone.
Yes, of course. But in parallel I write code in TypeScript (frontend) and after few months performance is equivalent in both languages. Only difference - no runtime errors in Rust.
Shading, petroleum product leaks, dirt, grime, accidents, etc....solar roads are a fool's errand.

Rooftop, desert area, vacant land,...stick to a proven model. By the time solar roads are figured out, we could offset some large percentage of our existing stupidity.
Thanks for the link. I understand the rationale, it's definitely not a simple decision, but if these improvements can be made at the application layer then by all means go for it.
Press Statement: Panasonic hits back at IFE system security claims
> do you really expect a nation state to say "hey, this is exactly how were are damaged ...

Yes, if they want any rebuttal to Snowden's accusations. Snowden brought proof. If the state wants anybody to believe an alternative explanation, they need to provide at least some evidence. "Just trust us!" is not a useful defense.

> it's hard to provide proof of damage without causing further harm.

That isn't always true, but potential future harm hasn't stopped the government in the past. If revealing sensitive information is politically useful, the perceived realpolitik benefit can outweigh theoretical future harm. This is especially true in today's hypernormal "narrative based" political climate.
I'm the same, except I actually found such a place: a 38-person student cooperative during my last year of college. I'm convinced living in a creaky old house with a varied cast of characters is the way to go for a happy and socially fulfilling life. College is almost a decade behind me, but I hope to find such a place again before I turn 30. (And one that's hopefully not 100% filled with startup folks... we need artists, writers, researchers, educators, and everything else -- not just programmers.)
at the time of my last writing, i was sure as all accounts are working fine. But today, it started acting up again. Now I had to change up to different wifi to login with Instagram.
But at what cost? Certainly you could work at a Biglaw firm in NYC (or whatever) and get rich if you're willing to trade your youth and your health. But is that smart?
As a frequent internationally traveling U.S. citizen I understand your newfound reluctance to travel but in light of the NSA reveals this is mostly just theatre in my opinion. With how much data is already collected when you pass a U.S. Border this is more just formally doing what they likely already can do. When you cross you scan your passport several times, pose for a new picture of yourself for a database, present you itinerary on how you got to the border, and non-native citizens get 10-printed on site by digital fingerprint readers.

There's a very tiny leap to connect that to the already publicly available information, which likely already has a few thin threads connecting you.

I would suggest that you shouldn't let it intimidate you from traveling if you are lucky enough to be able to. The government will do what it will do regardless. If it assuages your fears slightly, all through the Ukraine crisis and the standoffs with turkey and with the U.S. over Syria, I traveled to and from Russia. One time I was held for extended questioning, but it was mostly corroborating my story I think.

The more paranoid side of me says this is to try to discourage people from travel and spending money outside the U.S., so the best "up yours, Uncle Sam" to me seems to be travel as much as possible. And while rogue or borish border guards do happen, most of my experiences with border guards are employees who wish they were doing absolutely anything else and just process as they're required.

It is a scary precedent happening, but nothing they're doing is new, it's just ou in the open now. So do as you would, but I'd not give them the satisfaction of me not traveling.
Don't Be a Sucker[video] (1947)
No, according to the rules, the will of the people is irrelevant; the rules don't determine what the will of the people is, only whether it has any relevance to the outcome.
Arguably, society could not exist without self-censorship. And of course lying.
I thought this was a valid question as I am curious how you you able to run databases using K8 on GCE.

Why would somebody downvote asking a question?
Yes, the first chapter or two is dedicated to the basics of R (syntax, etc).
What about consciousness or intelligence implies that it would be 'pure' in the sense that you describe? Wouldn't a fully conscious being have a great deal of complexity that might render it equivalent to the roommate example? Couldn't it get offended after crawling the internet and reading that a lot of people didn't like it very much?

The idea that 'intelligence' is somehow an isolatable and trainable property ignores all examples of intelligence that currently exist. Intelligence is complex, multifaceted, and arises primarily as an interdependent phenomena.
Much of this resonated with me.

One of the biggest lessons of my Ivy-league education was, paradoxically, that it wasn't sufficient (or even necessary). At least not for the goals I wanted.

If you want access to the elite Wall St. or consulting jobs, then yes, you need it. Once you're in, it's almost impossible to be kicked out. Finish, interview, and you're on the path.

But I had longstanding doubts about the state of my actual education. Despite numerous engineering classes, I couldn't, for example, work out i^i in my head instantly.

Imagine someone asked you "Roughly, what do you think 2^512 to be?"

"I don't know exactly, but it's an enormous positive number, probably more than the atoms in the universe."

Ok. You should spit that out instantly. Now imagine someone asks "Roughly, what do you think i^i is?"

Is it positive? Negative? Real? Imaginary? Close to 1.0? Microscopic? Even if you eventually work it out after a minute, does your long delay mean you understood exponents or imaginary numbers? Is this something that should be solidified before, say, studying the Fourier Transform?

Despite scoring well in classes taught by famous professors, I couldn't answer such basic questions. This was literally middle school operations (exponents) used with high-school parameters (imaginary numbers). I was stuck -- and it didn't seem like anyone thought this a reasonable thing to understand.

It led me on a journey of self-education, but I needed to see firsthand that even in an Ivy-league environment, the basics could still be missed. It ended the fantasy that things were transformatively different in some other place -- it was up to me to fill the gaps.

ps. If you want to work out i^i in your head: https://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-understanding...
I don't think your concerns are founded, I just deployed GitLab for personal use on a virtual machine with the omnibus image (gitlab-ce:latest) and it worked flawlessly. And since they released an update today, to upgrade all I had to do was:

docker pull gitlab/gitlab-ce:latest
docker stop gitlab
docker rename gitlab gitlab-old
docker run --detach --publish 60100:80 --publish 58432:22 --name gitlab --restart always \
--volume /var/volumes/gitlab/config:/etc/gitlab \
--volume /var/volumes/gitlab/logs:/var/log/gitlab \
--volume /var/volumes/gitlab/data:/var/opt/gitlab \
gitlab/gitlab-ce:latest

# after verifying the new image works, docker rm docker-old; docker rmi [old image].

It took less than an hour to configure it for external SMTP relay, external auth with two factor authentication, etc.

I did just get started with it, but I have to say the omnibus install was fairly easy.
Does this law also make it possible to prove a negative?
Those data points could be valid, but it's important to note that chess ratings work relative to the players involved. A site that only allowed pre-schoolers, for example, would still have 2300+ rated players.
WHAT ratings though? Ratings are not comparable across different player pools.
Lol. I would pay for a video of him driving through SF with a deer on the bumper.

I get looks every season and I'm in Illinois.
Saudi? Have the Wahhabi rulers invested a lot of money into Uber? Since when was this a thing. That is quite alarming.
So in order to get away from elitists, he moves to VAIL hahah.
Nearer term risks:

- AI as management. Already, there is at least one hedge fund with an AI on the board, with a vote on investments.[1] At the bottom end, there are systems which act as low-level managers and order people around. That's how Uber works. A fundamental problem with management is that communication is slow and managers are bandwidth-limited. Computers don't have that problem. Even a mediocre AI as a manager might win on speed and coordination. How long until an AI-run company dominates an industry?

- Related to this is "machines should think, people should work." Watch this video of an Amazon fulfillment center.[2] All the thinking is done by computers. The humans are just hands.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/vital-named-to-board-2014-5
[2] https://vimeo.com/113374910
Reading my comment again I should have worded it better and more clearly. Thanks for pointing out what you did. My comment was specifically meant as a response to the portfolio recommended above, that was linked to and that appears in Tony Robbins' book. That portfolio is broken and outdated in that form.

I should have said more clearly, it is hard to recommend that portfolio at this time because the creator of the portfolio, Ray Dalio, has subsequently said there are problems with it and he is still working on fixing those problems.

Especially considering the portfolio is described to regular non-professional investors as a type of "set it and forget it" longer term investment portfolio. One that doesn't need active monitoring and works all market conditions. It is dangerous to recommend as is.

For sure there are merits to the all weather portfolio! Its risk parity structures were a ground-breaking, genius move by Ray Dalio that made him rich and famous (famous in the investing world at least). I have a ton of respect for Dalio, I've read his principles more than once. He is quite private, his achievements and contributions are not as well-known as some other old billionaires of the investing world but he is just as skilled.

Basically, the Tony Robbins/Ray Dalio portfolio has potential. In its current form it offers many lessons to a lay investor just by reading about it and the theories behind it. But before one invests their hard earned money in the portfolio, consider that some major changes have happened to the portfolio recently and other major changes may be in the works. It could turn out great or it could be scrapped and turn out not to work as thought. So a potential investor might want to hold off following that outdated portfolio strategy and re-evaluate once more info about an updated version is available.
Tangent: What's the tech scene like in Zagreb?
> as powerful and performant?

as the C preprocessor? Are you kidding?
that kind of thing might be fixable by DHS.

https://www.dhs.gov/dhs-trip

I was constantly put into secondary inspection when i was on F1, and they were quoting that my visa from 4 years ago (j1) was inactive/expired. Well, of course it expired, it was a different visa.

I put in a TRIP/Redress request, got contacted by them, and provided them some paperwork (passport, visa scans etc). It took 2-3 months of waiting, but at the end it got resolved.

Now, they never send me to secondary inspection, except that first time after I got the greencard (but had to enter using EAD since the greencard was literally in my mailbox in the US).

tl;dr; if you care about it, try putting a dhs request, it may be well worth it. It saved me hours at the border.
Thanks for the recommendation. The art direction on that reminds me a lot of absolute drift. I like how many games are getting back to isometric but using updated graphics, rather than going for the full-retro style. It seems like it makes it easier for developers to achieve their vision, and I feel like isometric games tend to flow better.
As somebody else on the spectrum, how did you get to understand dating? I find that I miss so many cues, and there's a lot about human interactions that I don't understand.
Where "the singer is in the process of developing four houses on his 40 acres of property."
Ask HN: Have You Seen Rubber Duck Debugging at Work? Awkward or Acceptable?
It is a useful technique for me. It also reminds me of the "Feynman technique," which posits to learn, one should pretend to explain an idea to a layman.
> if you are given a strong AI randomly selected from the space of all strong AIs

Why would this ever apply? We're building them, not picking them out of a hat.
Actually, no, Gen X was a bust compared to the Boomer generation, followed by another boom with the Millennials, which is why there is a transition directly from Boomers to Millennials as the numerically dominant generation. Fertility dropped starting in the late 50s and more sharply after 1964.
For that kind of thing, I believe one of the escape route is getting something like Global Entry, and ideally getting these checks ahead of time instead of at the border after waiting for hours in the line.

It may not make sense for you if you do not often travel internationally, but as someone whose family is living abroad, it's one big timesaver.

edit: grammar.
>BTW,you are the first person I know who admits being a Compatibilist.

Not really - I'm determinist, but I just know the difference between "Things are technically predetermined" and "I'm being forced to do something, like at gunpoint." As in, it's not demoralizing because that makes no sense.

I like it when my brain makes a decision, and I don't care that my brain isn't pulling decisions magically from a mysterious dimension full of floaty ghosts.
RSS on the Touchbar like Shinkansen
Great, I'm glad it worked for you. It didn't work for me and other people, as per the issues linked. When it doesn't work, there's no clearly defined debug path, and very little response.
>but at least they'd be faster

The problem with microkernal's isn't compatibility, it's speed.
I was thinking that if you were _dropped_ onto an island full of tigers you'd have no chance, but that you could figure out a way to survive if you had some time to figure out a plan. Maybe you could find a way to coexist with the tigers. Become one of the pack, y'know?