skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm more intelligent than an average person on the planet, but I still want to help get all of them water, food, and safety. I want them to learn and grow and have meaningful lives. I even want animals like dolphins and elephants to have free and rich lives.

That's because you also have something called "empathy". There's no evidence that other beings with human-level intelligence have this (namely because we haven't met any other such beings; they would be extra-terrestrial or AI). Empathy could very well just be a biological side-effect of our evolution, something that helps us to survive better as a species. There's no reason to think that a strong AI would also be empathetic, the way we are to dogs and cats and dolphins and squirrels (but not to mosquitoes; we happily murder them). Even lots of humans lack empathy and are either indifferent to animals' suffering, or take joy from it: look at all the people who enjoy dogfighting and cockfighting and bullfighting.
Why on Earth should I (someone convinced that climate change is happening), be forced to pay for after-the-fact land buy-back, when my neighbor (who believes that the Chinese are turning up thermometers around the world), refuses to pay for a 3% increase in gas tax?
Amit joining Uber after a year's break coincides with the common "1 year no-solicitation" clause in employment contracts. I wonder if we are about to see some top people in Google get poached. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
http://www.lappylist.com/ is a fantastic, comprehensive comparison for a range of laptops. It also dispels a lot of the myths I had about laptops, what is important in them, etc.

I can't recommend it enough.
His heart surgery question is ridiculous, but standardized testing is clearly necessary. There are more than 30,000 high schools in the US, meaning 30,000+ valedictorians. There are ~1,500 freshmen spots at Harvard, how does Harvard choose who to admit? And which elite schools disregard SAT scores? I only did a small sample (MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale) and they all require the SAT/ACT.

Secondly, many elite schools pride themselves on "need-blind" admissions, meaning they do not know the applicant's financial situation when deciding whether or not to admit him/her. This is to protect poor kids from being discriminated against (since they would need extra financial aid from the school), but it also means they can't give a leg-up to poor students.

Given that family income is highly correlated with SAT performance, it's pretty perverse that the best way for a poor student to gain admission into an elite university is to ace their SAT's and masquerade as a rich kid on their application.
Does this kind of rhetoric work for you in other venues?
oh man I was literally just looking at this yesterday.

I really want to pick up a HOTAS setup for Elite and such. I wonder if I can just do something like this wtih the amazon basic chair I have. Only problem is I was considering getting the warthog HOTAS and I bet it's way too heavy for this. On the other hand a T.16000M would work fine.
What's crazy is that they managed to sell 8 million copies of Mario Kart 8 to that tiny install base and it's not even a launch title.
Regarding [1]. !@#@#!@# it pisses me off when people post stuff without a date. Even the comments don't have dates!!

However, thanks for the link.
The White House’s LGBT rights page has disappeared
Then you have parents complaining about the difficulty of "story problems" and claiming math class shouldn't be reading class.
Apparently some members are more equal than others since if I tried to post a dozen times in this thread I'd be banned. In fact posting this will likely result in flags and a banning.

Keep this in mind, how open and trustworthy can a discussion be when speech is so very privileged between members.
Mine didn't. We played group Wii Sports sessions for years.
As a contrast, the worst sales people I have been around are extrovert and think they know the tech, so the can handle everything on their own. This has inevitably resulted in losses/disasters.

These kind of sales people are a better fit when the product has been in the marketplace for 1-2 years and has survived ~5-10 customers. By then it's a lot more packaged and well-defined. You still need a strong central sales "command structure" though.

I have actually met some (semi-)introverted sales people. They never made any sales, or got anywhere close to it.
>The only problem with this theory is that any fully sentient being like that would normally also have a strong sense of self-preservation.

I don't think so. Evolved sentient creatures have a preference for self preservation, usually anyways suicide isnt that rare. But a manufactured intelligence that was not shaped by selective pressure wouldn't necessarily have that preference.
China to build world’s first exascale supercomputer prototype by end of 2017
Economics is never addressed in Star Trek, but I could see an administrative solution to such issues. Inside Starfleet there is little to no money, as replicators are readily available. The power supply and replicators themselves would be there anyway, so giving the crew access is a freebie. And the civilian society on advanced worlds would be similar, with manufacture of material possessions too cheap to worry about.

On worlds still using money with which Starfleet interacts, the local administration could simply make an arrangement with the local purveyors of desired goods to cover their tabs, perhaps at least partly in trade. The needs and wants of the Starfleet crew members would likely be only social, such as hanging out at the local bar.

There would be temptation by the locals to pressure the crew-members to give them replicator-made goods, and by the local proprietors to lie about bar tabs, but its nothing our current system doesn't deal with.
White House climate change webpage disappears after Trump's inauguration
Sometimes it seems like "technical debt" is used as a dysphemism for "refactorable." We see railing against technical debt, then tomorrow there's a "code is never finished" post that gets nods all around. A bit of a strawman, but my point is that there's a big picture of the technology lifecycle that somehow fosters disparate contexts for the same exact thing.
The official White House website has dropped any mention of climate change
Sounds like it was painful. I actually laughed out loud at 8MB of white space. Mind if I learn more about your experiences? I don't know how to reach you, but please msg me at iamwil@gmail.com.
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Compare the labels for the "Sugars" row on any regular vs. low fat food. Deleting fat removes flavor so they add sugar. At the moment, the clearest example that comes to mind is salad dressing.
Good point. That is why the analogy with the OS processes. They really are the best of both world -- they are lightweight and also have isolated heaps.
The problem with this theory is that the rate of fatalities has gone sharply down as cars have become safer. There may well be some degree of compensation where people drive in a more dangerous manner, but the added safety far more than compensates for it.
http://binary-auditing.com

Binaries aren't magic.
The ergonomics expert I work with tells me "the best position is your next position". They ensure we have both good comfortable chairs, and a sit or stand workstation so we can vary our position often.

I'm constantly changing. Up, down, up, down, cross legged on my chain, up . Long compile - pace back and forth for a few minutes. It drives my co-workers nuts at times, but it is much better for the body.
"I'm not comfortable sharing my current salary. I look forward to this opportunity to add value to your team, and I want it to be a big step forward for me in terms of both responsibility and compensation."

If pressed on current salary:

"I'm not comfortable sharing proprietary information about how my current employer pays people."

If pressed on desired salary:

"I don't have a specific number in mind, and I look forward to hearing what you suggest since you know much better than I do what value someone with my skill set and experience will bring to your team."
While it would have been nice to match the Wii's success again on a console, it's the only time they've managed it, and IMO a lot of that success was viral and based on Wii Sports.

NES (1983) - console - 62 million

SNES (1990) - console - 49 million

N64 (1996) - console - 33 million

GameCube (2001) - console - 22 million

Wii U (2012) - console - 13 million

The rest of these show that the Wii U is still pretty weak, but now the 10:1 that it looks like if you just compare it with the previous one. In fact, the Wii is the odd one that bucks the trend set by all the others.
It's pretty good, but I feel like the screenshots don't really convey the app's value very well. Maps wants to connect to maps.apple.com? Of course it should. Itunes wants to itunes.apple.com? Well, yeah.

I'd much rather see a screenshot of some app trying to connect to a sketchy or surprising domain. I think that would really drive home the app's purpose and make it look less like nuisance that's going to bug me every time I launch Apple Maps.
This is exactly right.

It is a good thing that there is both a messenger like Signal that tries to be ultra-strict about key changes and a messenger like WhatsApp that tries to be transparent about it. Signal's smaller user base of people interested in cryptography functions as a laboratory for crypto UX. WhatsApp, over the long term, can adopt the innovations that make sense, while Signal remains free to experiment.

That's why there's both Signal and WhatsApp, and why they don't directly interoperate.
> It is interesting that this article mentions German was with his parents as well. That swayed me a bit against believing that German was the real victim.

This confuses me. I don't see how his parents being present affects the story.
The fact that the Star Trek community is based on a united federation is really just a side part of the series. The main focus of the series is usually encounters with other species and how the crew comes together to solve puzzling problems. Star Trek is not a political statement... It just so happens that utilities like the replicator and the federation allow them to add to the setting of what a futuristic community might look like. Besides, on a a universal scale, the federation is a small group of the human species engaging in trade and communication with other species in a more capitalistic universe. Capitalism right now is for profit but in the future it could be for technology and knowledge.
Socialism can be viewed as communism-lite, and there is the idea out there that socialism leads to communism and its problems.

Yet, no example comes to mind of a society has turned without a forced internal/external takeover to socialism, then onward to communism. Could you point me to some?
The parent comment probably meant that students would learn how to derive the necessary algorithm from the problem description, rather than memorizing a bunch of rote algorithms without being able to disassemble and reassemble them.
Thank you. *thought i was going crazy
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12722964 for lulz.
I guess that's what I'm saying, these people should stop driving for Uber.
I said it on election day and I'll say it again. Sorry kids, we fucked up. Making billionaires even richer is more important than keeping the Earth livable. Trump doesn't care, he'll be dead before the ice caps finish melting and we start seeing just how badly we're screwed. All that matters in the big race is winning, and winning is measured in dollars.
My mother bought a Wii because she loved Wii Sports so much. She could have come to my house and played mine for free, but she instead bought her own.

There were other games, too, but those came after she had made the decision to buy it and none of them would have convinced her to buy it.

It wasn't anything close to a "delusion" to her and many others who simply loved the Wii Sports game.
WRT AI vs humans I see the main difference as human minds evolved emotions. Many people like to think the human mind is logic with a little emotion sprinkled on top. It is quite the opposite. We make decisions based on emotion and logic is a special purpose tool (rarely deployed for anything other than rationalizing emotional decisions).

I read a reference in The Economist years ago (wish I had a link to the study) about a guy who suffered a brain lesion that made him incapable of emotion. Within a year this newly minted Mr. Spock lost his marriage and his job because without emotion he was incapable of making any decisions.

I see the same problem for super intelligent machines. Unless we program them with emotion they will not decide to do much. They won't fear death and so have no reason to kill us. They will not have pride and so won't resent our control.
tl;dr:

"Riptide is an improvement to WebKit’s collector and retains most of the things that made the old algorithm great. The changes that transformed WebKit’s collector were landed over the past six months, starting with the painful work of removing WebKit’s previous use of copying. Riptide combines Guy Steele’s classic retreating wavefront write barrier with a mature sticky-mark-sweep collector and lots of concurrency tricks to get a useful combination of high GC throughput and low GC latency."
How East and West think in profoundly different ways
The XPS 13 made me smile again while developing. Running Ubuntu.
Distributed SQL database (TiDB) source code explained
I disagree. I was in college during the Wii's run, and it was the only console my friends and I played together (though several of us had other consoles). Games like Smash Bros, Super Mario Strikers, and even Wii Tennis were at least weekly events.

Edit to add: I was at a party a month ago, and the hosts had their Wii available. People were playing then, too. I think maybe WiiU didn't offer what people wanted. At least among my experiences, multiplayer was vital.
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I can confirm with in-the-wild reports that as of last week, there are still people who had no idea that the WiiU was actually a completely separate console from the Wii.

I suspect the WiiU was never terribly destined for success anyhow, with its bizarre hybrid of tablet and TV (compare with what may be a sensible hybrid of tablet and TV in the Switch, stay tuned to find out), but I would love to peer into the alternate universe where the "Wii 2" was released instead just to compare notes.
Some nice tips. ST was great for me for Python work, but became borderline unusable for me because of one weird thing. In HTML mode it autocompletes snippets based on the empty string.

So typing ">" + Enter or even " " + Enter inserts the <a href=""></a> snippet. So I literally can't insert a newline at the end of any content without hitting escape.

Doesn't seem to happen in other languages. But I couldn't find how or why or how to prevent it. So I gave up. In a related note, I found documentation a bit limited.
I'm sure this will end well, again.
The most recent episode of Timeless took place at this World's Fair. It was a bit educational on the time period. Along with some random trivia that was mentioned, these historical people were portrayed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes - Serial killer - Also mentioned in the 2nd episode of Sherlock this season

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Hayden - First female architect graduate from MIT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini - Needs no intro?

I wish more history could be worked into regular television shows.
I think the headline is a little wrong or maybe I am misreading it. It's not the case that someone went to the website and deleted climate change references; but rather, there is a new web site which doesn't have any references.

As the article itself says :

> To reiterate: It is normal that the site is completely new; it is notable that climate change is not mentioned on any one of Trump's new pages
EVERYTHING has been scrubbed from the site, it would appear, because there is a new administration taking over.
How many authorities would it take you to convince you that up is down and white is black?

What I quoted from the Guardian article is true on its face, none of the experts denies that much. I don't know what has caused this bizarre departure from how researchers have responded to 20+ years of crypto flaws, because this time isn't any different. A crypto flaw is still a crypto flaw, and reporting the truth to the public is still the right thing. This is a "there are four lights" situation for me at this point.
In university, one of my projects in Operating Systems was to build a file system.

I'd recommend anyone to do the same!

It does not have to be anything magical...just try to build a basic program that can emulate a file system (read files, write files, list files, have links, edit files, edit names, delete files, copy etc.)

The aim here is NOT to have a file system that you'll use daily, but to understand the concepts by programming them.

While this book goes into some details about it [0], I "understood" how it all worked together by building one.

FYI - I think the book focuses on C when giving examples, but if you know the concepts, it can be built in any language (Go, Java etc.)

[0] - https://www.amazon.com/Operating-System-Concepts-Abraham-Sil...
GitLab has a well documented API: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/merge_requests.html#create-mr

You could probably do the whole thing with like 50-80 lines of bash.
After three years of rogue Java development, maven was an epiphany to me. At the beginning it has a very, very shallow learning curve.
Yeah, I would think so too, but if you spend any time with their apps, you can see how user hostile they are. The UI is awful, data is incredibly difficult to export. They really want to lock you into their narrow channels.
4 and a half years is a lot of time. Taking that comment at face value means accepting the assumption that Github's PR UI hasn't changed in that entire time.
>You can't call an "emergency contact phone number" from a payphone

Of course, and you probably couldn't even find one in the first place.

But you could borrow a friend's phone, or ask a teacher to use a school phone, or even just ask someone in a random store if you're desperate. Just having access to that number without a charged mobile takes you from helpless to having many options, and it takes minimal effort. (Hell, write it down if you have to.)
I did some digging.

$ wget --execute="robots = off" --mirror --convert-links --no-parent www.whitehouse.gov

$ grep -rl climate

the-press-office/2011/09/20/president-obama-participate-linkedin-town-hall-mountain-view-california-

the-press-office/2011/09/21/remarks-president-obama-and-president-clinton-clinton-global-initiative

the-press-office/2011/02/28/presidential-proclamation-50th-anniversary-peace-corps

joiningforces

1600/first-ladies/mamieeisenhower

1600/first-ladies/louhoover

The first three are press releases from 2011, so they're old.
The fourth result "joiningforces" has this at the top of the page "This is historical material “frozen in time”. The website is no longer updated and links to external websites and some internal pages may not work."

The other two pages are duds, because they're just talking about the climate as in "it's a nice climate".

So yep, no references to climate change whatsoever
Well, if you go into the physics of the whole thing, penetration depth, skin effect, absorbance, etc, you realize there's always a combination of factors that will screw up your silicon. Plus, if it's not in the bag when it hits, it gets fried. Plus, it should be more like a military-style box than a bag.

Tubes are just a heck of a lot harder to screw up, except mechanically.
From the article:

>Manning altered not only the way we think about information security, authentication and confidentiality, but also about the grave damage posed by the insider threat.

So it was a historic event to the military, and we still don't know how the repercussions of this will eventually play out. History isn't what people know about, it's what happens. I doubt you know about how an obscure British psychologist crippled the American psychological profession with doubt which had a major role in ushering in global neoliberalism, but it happened, and it affected nearly everybody.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment
I read it the same way. Either, or both, sides could be bending the truth based on their perspective. The main takeaway that I have is that Rubin's lab is toxic.
Wow, this is an excellent example of unbiased journalism.
Lets see.
There is a funding gap here. Things that are rippoffs get funded easier. Most SV vc firms have an office in India and they are pattern matching for results.
Also India still needs ELECTRICITY and INFRASTRUCTURE built.
The opportunity is not to build the TWTR/FB for india but to build the AT&T,National Highway system, and basic amenities. There is a severe misunderstanding of which problems to solve vs which solutions will get me money which i will then use to solve my problems
Yeah I do this too for text stuff. I'm an artist, so I'm often times looking for images though.
A conspiracy theorist would say that it sounds like a hit piece, as if the Guardian has been nudged by some higher power to slander WhatsApp in an attempt to push their general readership to drop E2E encrypted messaging altogether, because the "more secure" options are too difficult or less popular. The Guardian in particular would be chosen because of its normally accurate and privacy-conscious coverage in the past; i.e. it has street cred among activists and others who wish to communicate securely and privately.

A realist would, however, see this as a news outlet unable to own their mistake and instead doubling down as you said, in a failed attempt to save face. A journalist wrote this story seemingly by the seat of her pants, and her employer is on a noble if misguided campaign to defend her article.

I'm taking the realist path on this one; I don't think there's any grand conspiracy behind their baffling decision to stand behind obviously shoddy reporting. The fact that so many top security researchers -- who certainly aren't going to be influenced by any particular government or corporate interest -- are calling for a retraction is all the assurance I need that the story is baseless and the Guardian is inexplicably enjoying the taste of shoe leather.
The $2.4B Plan to Steal a Rock from Mars
Star Trek is (like most 20th century SF) very bioconservative, so I wouldn't put it at the left pole.
>The Earth government has banned genetic modification after the disaster that was the Eugenics War

Yes, and it's not just Earth, it's the whole Federation, as seen with the problems Julian Bashir had in DS9. However, there's a big exception in the 2nd season episode of TNG where there's a colony genetically engineering kids with super immune systems and this creates a disease that infects Pulaski.

Star Trek has a lot of inconsistencies.
A much lower volume of communication from Google on initiatives in the space (they used to talk endlessly about Panda, Penguin, etc).

I hear that Google search has largely moved to machine learning techniques. When I was there in 2005-2009 there was a bunch of hand-tuned stuff, and hand-tuning was definitely Amit's preferred strategy at the time. One side effect might be that a machine learning black box has fewer big, externally-perceptible shifts. It also just might require less ongoing interesting engineering work. Hard to say, though.
We're now like a good 1.5 console generations away from the Wii and counting fast. Isn't it time to put away the console fanboyism for that generation, when we've got hot-and-fresh Switch vs. PS4 Pro vs. XBox One S action to get fanboying about?

Besides, every totally knows the Genesis does what Nintendon't and the SuperNES, like, sucks to the extreme, dude.
That is one nasty downward slide.