skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always hesitate - some people hate it, others appreciate it. I think it's worth cross-connecting previous conversations, because I see the HN discussions as a resource. Others seem to think it should all be ephemeral and throw-away.

Having said all that, I hope this gets some new discussion.
I'm looking at http://www.epilepsy.com/learn/triggers-seizures/photosensiti..., and it seems it's not just the framerate that matters. In particular, 5 to 30 frames per second might be enough, and it depends on the actual image contents. It also makes it sound like static images might also be triggers.
Is there a source somewhere that says Mysql is used behind DynamoDB? As far as I know Amazon is very silent about what is used underneath.
I'm not arguing that government action can prevent prices from rising and that such activity can cause shortages. I agree with your arguments about the doctors.

What I'm arguing is that, because many goods (in particular labor) aren't fungible and liquid, that an increasing price doesn't (in the short term) solve shortages with these types of goods.
it's full of bullshit and they did some bad things but there are some good points:

- generally high moral standard and ethics are valued a lot - it pays back long term in business

- focus on drug detox, exercise, being fit in general - you can argue it's not business advice but on the other hand it's very practical if you think about it

- focus on understanding things, misinformation is very bad thing (like a sin)

- state of flow - this is quite interesting in context of programmers - we all know it's there and it would be nice to be able to train yourself to go into this state when you want.

IMHO you can't say it's good or bad, it feels more like opinionated, almost randomly, cherry picked things from religions, psychology etc. glued together with a book by sci-fi writer - some things will be correct, most not.
A fitness/diet food that is as cheap as fast food would be amazing! Often my issue is getting sick of a small selection.
Another limited duration trial (two years). What's the point? It's not going to measure the real effect. People will know it is going to run out and behave differently than if it was permanent.
You are implying that it is Eichenwald's fault and the attacker should be exonerated. Right?
Yes, good point. It considers only one aspect of things.
This is awesome. I thought it's closed source. I wonder how close it is to the hardware.

Can I assume that whatever is parsed by XED is going to be parsed in the same way by real CPU's?
No. Please avoid two-dimensional thinking. The attacker is still responsible.
You could, however what happens if an author does not post a hash? If I found someone else's paper without a hash, I could generate a hash of my own and claim authorship.

This idea would only work if everybody started securing some form of proof of authorship before sharing papers with anyone, which I don't quite see happening.
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A difference is that Freud didn't put any particular stock in the scientific method. He said that his theories were proven by his "cures" (many of which have turned out to be bogus).
Of course you can. And to the point, the rental car is insured by a company with no driver license.
I worked at an ice cream shop. Chocolate + vanilla in a shake is called a black and white shake and in a cone is called a twist cone. It's a common enough combo it had its own name.
Why is it impressive (as a person who doesn't know anything about such stuff)? the coordination, etc.?

Edit: The only kind of forging and smith work I've ever seen (live) is of Indian itinerant blacksmiths in villages (like at fairs) doing their stuff. Used to sometimes get iron garden tools made by them.
>>> It's strategically foolish for the major economies like the EU, Russia & China to depend on the US's goodwill in maintaining a system that drives a huge part of their economy, GPS is used pervasively for everything, and that's only increasing.

Exactly. For this same reason, India recently deployed its own satellite navigation system NAVIC[1][2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Regional_Navigation_Sat...

[2] http://www.isro.gov.in/irnss-programme
So to be clear, you want someone to be imprisoned because they sent a tweet.
Night owls are likely just more accustomed to focusing at night, both with and without a full night's sleep prior. No doubt a morning person could become a night owl with an adjustment period.
What you say about anthropomorphizing animals is true, but it doesn't mean biologists are not examining the ideas. Maybe we don't yet have the power to explain consciousness clearly enough in humans, and perhaps it will always be limited.

I think human hubris plays a role, by keeping a strong mental barrier between the behaviors of our species and all other vertebrates. Obviously there is something by virtue of our much larger brains, but we don't really understand enough about how we or other animals think, yet. We are inclined to disbelieve there may be more in common than we think.
Yet you don't find chocolate vanilla ice cream pre mixed.
And taking a job once should not permanently disqualify someone from long-term aid programs like social security.
How much PostgreSQL do you run? Because I am a primarily PostgreSQL dev who occasionally uses MSSQL and MySQL. I always get annoyed at missing features when I have to use another database, while I do not know as well what features are missing in PostgreSQL simply because I know PostgreSQL way better than I know the other databases. It is easy to be blind this way.

Some features which PostgreSQL have which I believe are missing for MSSQL. This are features I use all the time in my every day work.

- Transactional DDL concurrently with snapshot isolation
- Exclusion constraints: a generalized form of unique constraints
- "Writable-CTEs": the ability to use RETURNING from an UPDATE, INSERT or DELETE in a CTE
- Regular expression support (I think fixed in 2016)
- JSON support (I think fixed in 2016)
- Many small things like lack of DISTINCT ON and array_agg

I think MSSQL is a pretty good database though, unlike MySQL which lacks too many features to be a competitive general purpose RDBMs (InnoDB has some nice properties though).
I suppose one solace free citizens have is that this scheme is much like the weakness of the proposal for a big hulking border wall at the Rio Grande- both ideas presume the existence of governments that are efficient and capable to carry out such widely ambitious schemes. Would the PRC really be capable of such an unprecedented creation, with a population so large and a country so vast?
> Who cares if the trains are the fast/most comfortable if you can't afford to use them regularly.

People who don't need to travel 500km regularly.
It's impossible not to reference Snow Crash by Stephenson. I wonder how much "physical" damage can you deliver with an electronic message or image.
A well written piece of propaganda tailored for Western readers to momentarily escape from the bad things that happened in 2016. We are doing badly, but look, Chinese are going to be way worse than us, how comforting.

Seriously though, there are good amount of facts in this article that can be very educational, but I don't think the author's intention is to inform the readers about these policies. Instead a wide range of topics and past events regardless of relevance were thrown into the article to remind the readers again and again how bad China's past records are (and how fortunate "we" are compared to the dissidents in China).

Yes, these policies can be used in bad ways, but rest assured that CCP is smart enough to the know the will of the people and majority of the people will still be happy with the eventual outcome of these policies.
"Intent" is the operative word here.
"Exponential price drops" are less of a miracle when they are produced by large subsidies as well as dumping from the production side
Yeah, you could substitute a lot of stuff for espresso there: chocolate, for example. Basically the curdling reaction is the key there.
With the intent of harming someone.
Yeah. That's what I thought when I read that.
>>Trump wants NATO countries to pay their fair share, how long until he gets the idea that all countries around the world should pay a GPS licensing fee least GPS regional denial be turned on?<<

Now now, do not insert political commentary into this discussions. I got yelled at for doing that. [1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13197536
> By 2020, Chinese officials say, it will “allow the trustworthy to roam everywhere under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step.”

I think that line says it all.

And before you say, "this will only apply to bad people!" check out the next paragraph:

> The project is a response to the party’s biggest problems: the collapse of confidence in public institutions, and the need to keep track of the changing views and interests of China’s population (without letting them vote). It seeks to collect information on the honesty of ordinary citizens, public officials and companies alike.

In the US, ex-convicts have major problems starting over and getting on their feet but this is a whole other level. This is punishing/excluding people solely based on their opinion, not based on actions or crimes committed.

No wait, disagreeing is the crime.
<sarcasm>Us MBA's have stuff figured out. When I run your code through my mean-time-between-failures Excel spreadsheet analyzer, I can predict with 95% confidence how long it will be before programs running your code will crash. I'm also able to manage you as a knowledge worker, because like you, I am a developer; I wrote one of the VB macros in my previously mentioned spreadsheet. Lastly, you'll benefit from my ethics & morality training, as it's not clear to me that you have a strong enough foundation in how to make decisions that impact the lives of others.

Before you return to your station on the digital assembly line, can you help me figure out how to check my voicemail? The red light on my VOIP phone -- do you know what VOIP stands for? -- has been on for a month.</sarcasm>
RunKit generates a shrink wrap on the fly. In that sense it is the same as yarn.
You can't have a single virtual particle appearing, it's always two, due to conservation of momentum, charge etc

So it'd be a quark-antiquark pair popping up.

The proton is the lightest Baryon (3 quark particle), there is no lighter Baryon it could decay into. The decay products have to be lighter than the original proton, by at least the mass of the virtual quark pair, to repay the energy 'borrowed' from the vacuum to create the virtual quark pair (because energy is always conserved). So the proton remains unaffected by the virtual particles popping in and out of existence around it. The virtual particles have no choice but to effectively to annihilate with one another and disappear, to pay back the energy debt.

Heavier Baryons (Sigmas, Lambdas) are indeed destabilized by virtual quark pairs, that is the mechanism by which they decay, almost instantaneously, on their own.

You could have an up-anti up quark pair that pops up close to the up quark of the proton, the up quarks could 'swap places', and then the up of the proton annihilates with the anti up of the virtual quark pair, but the the result is still a proton.
A machine that mixes it for you doesn't count? Or this: http://www.breyers.com/product/detail/113883/vanilla-chocola...

And either way, the challenge would allow chocolate topping to a vanilla icecream base, or chunks of chocolate in a vanilla ice cream. Both of which are extraordinarily common.
No authoritative source, but it's been leaked in enough places by enough people that I assume it is truthful. Here's a recent HN thread for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13173927

I'm a bit dismayed by the downvotes on my original post above. The parent asked "who would choose Microsoft or MySQL over PostgreSQL" and I answered factually and literally with who chose MySQL :/
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My favorite is from Bill Gates:

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”

It's appropriate on so many levels. Lines of code can be part of a measure of what has been accomplished, just like a heavy airplane is a great accomplishment so long as it flies. Yet we would never consider adding weight to be our goal.
The target could have died. The actions of the attacker were deliberate in trying to induce a seizure that could have killed him. That's attempted murder, and whether it's via a tweet or not is irrelevant.
I think it's irresponsible of Eichenwald when confronting notorious trolls which he condemns in his articles, to not take precautions and I think you're quite foolish for buying into his victim card.
Well it's probably better than just instituting a program and hoping it works. Ideally, all government programs should be subject to measurement and re-evaluation.
Yes. This is akin to shouting fire in a crowded theatre [1] or phoning in a bomb threat. In the United States, freedom of speech is limited in certain cases where the harm caused by the speech outweighs the damage of limiting freedom.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
this is an interesting perspective on tech and women in tech.
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Where is that 5% coming from? They don't have the money. They don't even have the money to pay the expenses they're committed to.

Inflation is a tax on people who hold your currency. That's where the money to fund government programs is coming from.
You should watch the entire video, or just skip to the end and see the stills that show the milling stage.
How long do you expect to maintain BeOS binary compatibility? I see in the trac roadmap that R2 is slated to be the deprecation point; is that still likely to be multiple years away? Has there been talk of an abi compatibility layer that would allow the kernel to move forward independently from the legacy platform?

Sorry if these are repetitive questions btw. I'm just curious.
"As new instructions are made public"? WTF does that mean? We're not even allowed to know the full instruction set of an X86 CPU?
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I certainly wouldn't want to trust my life to the integrity of a -130 dBm strength signal. Particularly if I'm traveling in a tunnel, or heck, deep forest.
Are you saying that Amazon drivers have to bring their own cars and handle the maintenance themselves.

A news like that would be worthy of some major headlines.
Grand mal seizures can be deadly. Intentionally attempting to trigger one in someone with epilepsy is assault at a minimum.
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I'm saying deduping is to save disk space. Sennmver ranges combined with deduping generate this behavior.
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Will Finland admit publicly when it fails or will they just hide their idea as if it never happened?

Remember Bio-Fuel? How progressive and wonderful it was suppose to be? Until it caused a global food shortage and suddenly none of the media ever talked about it again.
I once read someone theorize that the terms "consciousness" and "artificial intelligence" are much like the dragons & sea monsters that used to be drawn on ancient maps. "Consciousness" is what we don't know about how the human mind works and "artificial intelligence" is what we don't know about how to get a computer to work like the human mind. Once we learn something new about the human mind or getting a computer to act like the human mind, it is no longer "consciousness" or "artificial intelligence", but is filed away as psychology, neuro-biology, machine learning, or some other field of study.

Basically, because science can not define terms like "consciousness", because the term represents what we don't know and we can not define what we don't know.
Couldn't the other military jam the military GPS/Gallieo/etc bands too?
> Still, GPS can't hit sub-meter accuracy any time soon

GPS has had sub-millimeter survey grade accuracy for quite some time. However, these require post-processing which takes maybe a day, read that as not realtime.

WAAS+GPS currently gives 2-3 meters.
I was mostly joking last time I posted this (and as perhaps should have been, was downvoted) but this is the third or fourth major earthquake on the pacific rim in the last month or so. Couldn't these be signs of a very strong earthquake to come?
One of the things it does is to tell you where something went wrong, and why. Assuming you've provided a spec for it to use, that is.
So is physics. Perhaps this is already the next middle ages without realizing it.
There's focus and there are killer apps.

For the Apple Watch, I use it for 3 main things: 1) fitness - it's a great motivator in addition to Strava (I don't record all my activity like walks in Strava). 2) Wunderground complication + timetravel is fantastic 3) Duologin for 2nd factor is much easier than the iPhone.

Pebble failed because Apple made the watch into a iPhone accessory and Apple Watch was better integrated than the Pebble.
So precautions for preventing a death for a health condition you have are supposed to be put on everyone else?

No one forced him to watch the gif. If anything it's twitters fault for autoplaying the images.
So UBI is fundamentally a safety-net; insurance, if you will.

The "universal" quality is that all people will be eligible for UBI. Everyone will receive the difference between what they make and what UBI guarantees.

It's sort of like the popular phrase in the U.S. - "everyone is guaranteed the same opportunity but not the same outcome". Thus, while all will have access to UBI, the payout will be determined by individual circumstances.

Regarding Finland's program, it's likely they had to choose a group of individuals who were easiest to justify paying UBI under current popular-thought. Therefore, they chose a group already receiving or eligible for unemployment/assistance and argued they were simply replacing one for the other. That is of course just an educated guess on my part.

So, yes, UBI itself is in fact universal although the initial rollout, or test, is highly compartmentalized.

Edit: As someone pointed out, I'm probably confusing UBI with GMI - Guaranteed Minimum Income.

It's starting to feel like we're discussing rules on laying a foundation while others are already fast at work on their fourth and fifth floor, i/e, what's the point of giving everyone a ladder if the roof is consistently growing out of reach?
The AssociatesMind article[0] on this is much better than the ArsTechnica link, and goes into detail in the legal dimension of this question. In this case, Kurt's situation likely constitutes assault; and this would also likely be considered assault even if you believe that Eichenwald lied about having a seizure, as I've seen some people question.

Here's the conclusion of that article:

"Just as someone can be held liable for a spring-gun despite being miles away, there is no reason to think that someone cannot be held liable for assault delivered electronically across great distances."

[0]: http://associatesmind.com/2016/12/16/can-you-sue-someone-for...
Read this as "as upcoming instructions in new chips are documented"
Great comment! Thank you for posting it, I found it useful and informative, and I am sure others have as well.
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The premise of the headline is immediately flawed. He promised a lot of things. And like Obama before him and every other challenger, more than half of those promises will be moot since they won't be delivered. And it's hard to ask for something in return for nothing.

Of all of the high profile things he promised, I don't think tech appears on that list at all, so I'm not sure why any one is expecting any substantive action either way.

And before you claim I'm wrong because of this or that thing he said, are you sure you want to take the man at his word? Because anyone here can trot out all sorts of crazy things that have been said bearing no connection to reality.

The reality as far as I can see it is that tech isn't in his top 20 priorities.
I have forever felt bitter about Haiku OS, ever since I realized they don't write all their code comments in haiku form.

Sigh, so sad.
I really like the stuff sect cyborg comes up with, the implementation is always really well done and the info made available is great if you want to try to replicate it.
Agreed on Qt.
Start? This is a skill they've developed for years and years. The company that inspired "I was a warehouse wage slave" no doubt can transfer a few lessons to delivery...
Using web workers in Angular web applications
About time they open sourced it. Funny how it is Python according to github :)
Immutability was what I had in mind calling it opinionated, and it's an opinion I agree with. After learning Clojure, I now hate working in languages with mutability. It obviously isn't necessary to make working applications, but I like not having to think about where else I'm passing this particular data structure, and the language has enough escape hatches for places when it really would get in the way.
Sometimes a headline makes me go "well, duh" and I wonder why it would need to be said at all.

So, it makes me sad when a well-intentioned organization has to spend its time arguing something so overtly obvious, at least to me, rather than handling the fringe cases that need more attention.
There's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS
> you can switch to GCC5 by typing "setarch x86" in any shell

Awesome, that worked. Thanks!

It's also great to hear that Haiku will eventually improve the security model. That is its biggest weakness IMO, and removing it will open a lot of new doors.
Prominence of that setting is debatable.
Ask HN: How could one monetize an open source hardware project?
The biggest problem with pilot wave theory is that extending it to field theory hasn't been done (or at least there's several published formalisms with no approach that everyone agrees upon). Right now its useless for practical physicists at the LHC to compute anything about collisions. Its mathematically equivalent to the other mathematical formulations of QM, but the only utility it offers so far is entirely philosophical. And at some point physicists don't spend their entire lives noodling on the underpinnings of QM and need to move on and really try to compute the g-factor of the electron, or analyze the collision data coming out of the LHC. There needs to be a Lorentz invariant field theory model of pilot waves that can answer some question easier than the other mathematical formalisms for it to catch on.
We demoed a device at work, and tried to get source. This was a little while ago.
>It will give them benefits automatically, absent bureaucratic hassle and minus penalties for amassing extra income.

That last part is huge. A disincentive to work by cancelling benefits is a feature of nearly every current system. It is extremely important that someone test a system without this in it to see how a people react.

This looks like a very important test for the viability of UBI.
to be fair, china also has a storied and generally successful history with massive walls
If you think that is what is happening here then you should probably go back to using your crayons. This is entirely different to sending a normal tweet, or even an offensive tweet.
Anything that would kill you 3/3 but would be arguably palatable for all 2/3?
In that sense the original UNIX kernel was not very unix-ish either. The unix philosophy to a large degree exempts the kernel, as few people will be directly interacting with it during daily usage.