skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is there someone among you HNers who has retained a positive outlook by believing that the universe is a bleak, chaotic place with no intrinsic meaning to the things happening in it?

I see many living things around me - kittens, birds, squirrels, lizards, dogs - who happily go on living their lives without bothering with such things as the bleakness of the universe or its impermanence or its meaninglessness. I then remind myself that I must appear just as wonderful a creature as a kitten, bird, squirrel or lizard to some alien observer. I would find it absurd if the three playful kittens in my house suddenly developed an existential crisis. They are kittens! Their purpose is to be happy. But the same principle holds for me too.

In other words, the problem of meaninglessness of life is a problem we create by fiat. It's a remarkable fact that we're fragments of this grand, ancient universe that have become sentient. That itself is enough of a reason to be thrilled at our existence and everything around us, including the good and the bad!
Carbs are like Lego blocks. The singular blocks are called "sugars" and include things such as fructose (fruit sugar) and blood sugar.

When fructose or glucose enter the digestive system, they are readily processed and enter the bloodstream as glucose. Here, cells take up as much glucose as they can, which can turn into a problem if decades-long oversaturation continues unabated. The only way cells can block glucose from entering is by becoming resistant to a key that unlocks the entryway, insulin. Thus, diabetes develops.

In any case, carbs can become extremely long chains, forming things such as chitin, the sturdy outer carapace of insects. If you ever failed to squash a cockroach, now you know why.

A type of these complex sugars aka polysaccharids is called "fiber". Again, this includes things such as cellulose, which you can see if you tear apart a piece of paper, or lignine, which are the strands seen when you break a branch off of a tree.

We can't fully digest this fiber, but there are herbivores and especially ruminants who can. For example, cows have a special digestive system consisting of several stomachs, where they chew some plants, digest them, chew them again, digest some more and so on.

Now for why that's important for humans. In our digestive system, the dietary fiber becomes partially digested, turning into a soft gel that travels down our 30-foot digestive tract and helps push things along. To date, the entirety of our medicine hasn't created a medication that cleans the digestive system with same efficiency as dietary fiber. Cats and dogs have a relatively simple digestive tract; they can live off of turned salami but we can't.

Also, dietary fiber swells up, giving you a feeling of fullness and slowing down the rate of absorption of sugars. You see, now the digestion actually has to work to extract food, which reduces the onslaught of sugar into the bloodstream.

The problem is that dietary fiber makes the food harder to cook, chew and digest. And boy, do food companies hate that. Dietary fiber reduces the throughput of customers. Why would a fast food company want you to eat a hamburger for 30 minutes? They want you chewing that badboy in 2 minutes, out the door and then back right away, since food without dietary fiber does not satiate. Do you see the situation?

Source: dietary writer
You're saying Linus's statements are "hugely misleading", but it's just that you wish git were designed to be used differently. So, your argument is "horseshit".

Linus could have designed a cryptographically perfect system such that he could pull Tytso's signed commit from anywhere on the internet - but he didn't

Linus used sha1 as a useful tool for an effective DVCS with an initially simple implementation.

He still depends on the security of the kernel.org servers, his work computers, and the top submaintainer's work computers. His git trees and all the submaintainers he pulls from are hosted on kernel.org servers. Security of the kernel.org servers is taken very seriously, especially since the well-known break-in a few years ago. Now even two-factor auth is involved in all git pushes to kernel.org servers. Sub-maintainers make pull-requests by branch name - "please pull branch for-linus ...". More peripheral contributors submit their work via patches on LKML, no commit hashes involved.

Finally, no well-known SCM previous to git was based on perfect cryptographic proof of source history, or anything like that. It wasn't a big issue, and it's not the problem git focused on solving. Before git, we all used CVS, SVN, tarballs, and patches. And a significant portion of developers did not use any VCS at all. How could any of us have trusted any source code before 2005?! Somehow we did, though...
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This should really be a top-level comment.
If most of the outlay on tooling changes is already paid out, it won't necessarily be a loss, but much thinner margins.
A nextcloud solution would be awesome to me. Would need a browser plugin to simplify the page and upload it to nextcloud, then nextcloud could work out what tags would be appropriate for it, and you could add some more if needed.
Engineers should stop telling other engineers what to do :)
Sacha Epskamp's tutorial has a nice section on this:

http://sachaepskamp.com/files/Cookbook.html

Also the section on penalized Ising models is great, I haven't seen anything else like it.
Subway publishes a list of all allergens in its products.

http://www.subway.com/~/media/usa/documents/nutrition/us_all...
It's a mistake. They used to list ECC but they rolled it back on the US pages. They missed the German pages.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5vlg7o/asus_updated_it...

Even if you can run with ECC RAM, I doubt you can enable the ECC functionality, it will just be running in non-ECC mode.
Fuckoff Markoff.Give it a rest already. It is OBVIOUS that you are affiliated with the site you keep whining about. You are worse than a spoiled toddler who doesn't want to share his toys. This guy is just trying to do something nice for everyone. People like you are the reason IMBD killed its message board. Go troll somewhere else.
I'm currently using a PuTTY fork called KiTTY and it has that feature as well: https://www.9bis.net/kitty/?page=URL%20hyperlinks
Are you suggesting that the article is mistaken for calling this amount a basic income?

> The nonprofit is in the process of registering roughly 40 more villages with a total of 6,000 adult residents, giving those people a guaranteed, 12-year-long, poverty-ending income. An additional 80 villages, with 11,500 residents all together, will receive a two-year basic income. With this initiative, GiveDirectly — with an office in New York and funded in no small part by Silicon Valley — is starting the world’s first true test of a universal basic income.
Embrace it like Philip Greenspun. The tag line to his blog: "A posting every day; an interesting idea every three months..." (Which is about right. Most of his posts these days are trolling but there are still gems in there.)
With dplyr & purrr, if you can't find a DSL in R that works for you, the odds are you'll need lisp or Haskell to satisfy you.
That's caught my eye as well... will be interested in seeing how the 1700 compared to my current i7-4790k, as I'd like to stay/get lower on the power usage... though 95w wouldn't be too far off if I can get what I want out of it.
> who designed the self-driving AI failed to properly implement red-light detection and braking.

From the article it sort-of seems like that error is actually in the mapping software that didn't mark that intersection as having traffic lights, so the car didn't look for them.
When I was doing my 10 year work through Europe thing with my young family I think our favourite time was the 2 lots of 3 months I worked at Bank of Valletta. We lived in an apartment opposite the beach in Sliema.

The island was quiet, the people fantastic and the lifestyle amazing. Even the massive storms smashing the water over the road and ground floor apartments were incredible. We were also there when Etna went up, and had mounds of ash banked against our balcony door.

Although looking at that photo, it looks like there has been more than a little bit of development since were were there in the early 2000s. We left just as they agreed to join the Euro zone, so I suspect the lovely old buses and quaint roads may be gone.

Still, A+++, would live there again.
> I'm going to bet the AI for bikes is intractable because they are fast, virtually invisible at some angles and travel in between the traffic in strange ways.

If this is true, do you think humans can handle it any better? What you just described would be a nightmare for any human driver as well. Is it reasonable to allow self driving cars that are only marginally safer than human drivers?
Does 50% chicken DNA means it's proportionally made of 50% chicken? I would be very surprised if DNA concentration was in any way proportional to actual volume or weight concentration, especially if you compare plant DNA to animal DNA.
Are stronger passwords safe in case of a breach?
Would make an interesting random number generator (which are tough to find on some systems). Waterbears are rad hard as well :) Would be tough for Mallory to "reduce their entropy."
epub is the way to go I think. PDF is an overengineered abomination. It nicely serves the purpose of "there is only one and exactly one way to render this", but then again, just about so does an image.

I also think that, with more love, epub could get there too. It's not an easy problem, but if we can crack SHA-1 I'm sure we can crack this one too :)
The idea of a "notice me" transponder is an interesting one, but runs into problems with reconciling your own margin of error for location with the receiver's margin of error for location.
Actually true random number generators are cheap and to integrate into Silicon. The question is do you trust them? :-)
Yes it can just be a Greasemonkey script, but you need to tell people to install another extension first to use your script :), so I thought an extension might be much easier.
> It's easy to be self-effacing when everyone views you as the investing messiah

He was making critical comments about himself before he got famous.
I can say I don't miss the $/power from my electric bill when I shut down my 8350 home server/nas box.
Some info about criminal penalties under UTSA and DTSA here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_secret#United_States

I think that DTSA may not hold here because it wasn't signed until the events occurred.

I went looking into this after a comment from Animats in yesterday's thread struck me as odd

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13719070
Jeez, when did Bitcoin fees go to $0.3? Wow.

I've donated, thank you! Seems like a great charity.
If I understand you correctly you are comparing Markov Chains on words to a RNN over characters. That's not fair.

This paper shows a large LSTM outperform n-gram models:

"In this paper we have shown that RNN LMs can be trained on large amounts of data, and outperform competing models including carefully tuned N-grams. [...] Unlike previous work, we do not require to interpolate both the RNN LM and the N-gram, and the gains of doing so are rather marginal."

https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02410
"maybe the 1 in a million collision chance for a few million hashes is too high"

Well, let's look at what the actual numbers are. There's a nice table on this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack

For a 64-bit tag, even with 6,100,000 objects we'd only have a 1 in 10 million chance of a collision, so a 64-bit tag is more than sufficient to meet your stated requirements.
Shouldn't a self-driving car always be passively looking for red lights?

I mean, take a school bus for instance. They don't have permanent red-light fixtures, but if you're behind them they could enable the red light sign at any moment. If the self-driving car isn't always looking wouldn't that be an issue?
I entered my domain and nothing happened?

>curl 'https://api.bleed.cloud/check' -H 'origin: https://bleed.cloud' -H 'dnt: 1' -H 'accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, br' -H 'accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.8' -H 'user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.59 Safari/537.36' -H 'content-type: application/json;charset=UTF-8' -H 'accept: application/json, text/plain, /' -H 'referer: https://bleed.cloud/' -H 'authority: api.bleed.cloud' --data-binary '["budhajeewa.com"]' --compressed
I don't think bicycles are that unique of a computer vision problem. If self-driving cars have a bicycle problem, they probably also have a children problem, a wildlife problem, and a road debris problem that's simply masked by the relatively low frequency of those things compared to bicycles on the road.

Another comment mentions motorcycles, i'm very curious to see the detection data for them: they should have roughly similar characteristics to a bicycle, but at a similar or higher frequency.
This computer programmer solved gerrymandering in his spare time

By Christopher Ingraham June 3, 2014

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/06/03/this-...
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If like reading about Buffett you should definitely check out buffettfaq.com
But what they're really saying, though, is we don't know enough about the GMO foods to introduce them into our diets. That using us as guinea pigs is not a good idea.
The phenom lineup was very competitive (even slightly better than Intel's) for most of its lifetime. It wasn't really until a couple of generation into the Core 2 Duos that Intel started taking the lead.
From what I have read, North Korea had motives to have Kim Jong-nam killed because he was friendly with China, which is very unhappy with North Korea.
Interesting (particularly the extra effort that has been put into analysis not just data capture). Does it manage somehow to gather data on all your interactions on FB, or just the ones through the desktop browser?

I ask because, although I don't have an FB account myself, I've observed that most of my family interact on FB using their phones, rather than a desktop computer.
Little rich coming from an ex-hedge fund manager...
They were all 'created' by one person without a team. They're now maintained and perhaps improved by teams but that's a different story.
Re your last point, this leaped immediately to mind.

http://souvenirsfromaprogramme.tumblr.com/post/44133459703/t...

David: The Robo-Cup Federation hope that by 2050 a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players will win a soccer game, complying with the official FIFA rules against the winner of the most recent World Cup of human soccer. That terrifies me. If they can run around and kick a ball and beat us at football, what else can they do?

John: Bring us breakfast in bed!

David: Yes, and then strangle us.
While I find value in writing things I don't ever intend to publish, that's a different sort of writing. For me, at least, a post written without intent to publish will be very different from a post written with intent to publish.

Writing a post without intending to publish is similar to writing pseudocode, never intending to compile. With great discipline one can learn to write good quality code without compiling it, but if you intend to compile, you actually think differently and produce better quality code.
> Before git, we all used CVS, SVN, tarballs, and patches

Yeah, and that sucked.

Git is this close (I'm holding my fingers very close together) from providing cryptographic proof of source history. And that's why people think it should be included.
Yes. The region of Kenya described in the article is the Western part of the country near Lake Victoria. The national average monthly consumption per person in Kenya is 9,237 shillings.[0] 42% of the population of Kenya lives below the poverty line.[1] It is not a stretch to say that the poverty line in Kenya is going to be at least 6000 shillings a month, most likely closer to 7-8000 shillings per month. The 2280 shillings per month is great but it isn't a life-changing amount for a region where average monthly consumption is in the 6-8k shillings a month range. [0] It will most likely bring the poorest in this region up to the median level of wealth enjoyed by their neighbours.

[0] http://www.nation.co.ke/newsplex/counties-purchasing-power/2...

[1] https://www.unicef.org/kenya/overview_4616.html
After Nixon was done some boomers were more damaged than scared, others the reverse.

Lots were scared and damaged by the immediate situation, but others had also traditionally inherited both feelings which were passed down by their grandparents to their parents to them over the 70 years leading up to Nixon.

Uncautious boomers who were caught by surprise by the finality of the 1970's were the most unprepared for increasing opportunities to no longer be generally available to themselves or future generations.

There was widespread superstition that this can't really be happening in the USA and that is an element of the boomer groupthink that still colors their understanding of more recent generations.

For boomers whose parents had the opportunity and successfully used it to achieve financial prosperity from scratch without the benefit of any family resources beforehand, it was very common for their grandparents to still be existing on the same type of survival rations that got them through the Great Depression, even while the boomers themselves were growing up in a priveleged community.

Yes, that's the last generation to be able to arrive that much better off than their grandparents, but it's not their fault.
Forget about desktop processors and buy yourself a double-socket LGA2011v3 board and some engineering-sample Xeons. Then you can address that kind of memory and run ECC.

The clocks are a little lower than the retail Xeons, and you do need to pay attention to compatible boards/BIOS versions, but you can get a big Xeon E5 for like $200-300.
These are good questions, I have no idea about answers to them. Turning it around a second, do you think it's acceptable that all self driving cars could be as bad as current humans are?
> - Post-quantum, this means there will only be 80-bits of preimage resistance

Post-quantum, it's only ~2^53 work to find a collision. IMO that's worse.
It is solvable in simplistic terms. It is not solvable by throwing money at it. It just an dumb attempt to guilt people and further this constant bemoaning there are some super rich people in our world.

Most people are poor because of their government. Either through corruption, lack of property rights, or wars both internal and external. We cannot fix poverty in this world until people are guaranteed freedom and safety of person and their property.
I moved to San Diego the day working from home could pay the rent. Haven't regretted it at all.
I make bread with 10 grams or less of sugar all the time (usually pizza crust where I'm headed towards 0 grams being the standard).

Also, there are breads in the stores I shop that don't list sugar (or the various substitutes for sucrose) as an ingredient.
> That doesn't answer jitter, reliability, packet loss...

But what answer does?

My question is sincere.

When I ask someone -- friend, coworker, ISP -- about internet quality, what's the answer I should be looking for? Always seems like a crapshoot to me.
That's what I use on my Chromebook, works well so far.
"Hey, the Ara is going nowhere, but it would be a shame to not get any return from it... Lets see how many click bait blog articles we can generate from it!"
His daughter said that he does not drink water, he just drinks coke. He also eats lots of burgers and steak, I dont understand how his body remains in good health with all that junk food.
Buffett's main deal is Berkshire Hathaway, which is a conglomerate holding company and has little to do with hedge funds. So you wouldn't have to be a qualified investor to put money in BH, for example (although you would have to afford their stock, which is incredibly expensive). BH did own a part share in a hedge fund at one point, but Buffett never did anything like, say, charging 2 and 20
The test driver failed to intervene, that's all. This is a non-issue, obviously Uber's autonomous vehicles are a work in progress.
Why go through all the effort of securing kernel.org etc etc etc when a simple s/SHA1/SHA512/g on git would suffice? (Ignoring the non-git infrastructure there, for the purposes of this argument.) Not just for him, but for everyone in the world who can't download directly from kernel.org?

What's the point of GPG signing tags and commits and adding these as git features, when SHA1 pointers make it pointless?

If the cryptographic strength of the hash doesn't matter, why bother even talking about changing the hash from SHA1 to SHA3-256?

It's a huge shame because git is very close to being a cryptographically perfect system, but the original creator can't get his security reasoning correct, and does so so badly yet so publicly, and minions who don't know what they're talking about come flocking to defend this.
I've seen projects fail for a variety of reasons. A few fall under scenario you described. But, I've also seen quite a few projects succeed by making use of in-house developed libraries and frameworks. It probably more depends on who is on the team than whether or not the code is written to be generic enough to apply to other problems.

e: fixed typo
I don't understand this logic at all.

We are supposed to be terrified by robot soccer players strangling us in bed? Sure it could happen, but there seems to be easier ways to die.

Apparently one of them is riding a bike around self driving cars.
Can someone summarize the results?
(that is, the crux of his argument has always come from the fact that he was always an thoroughly a cheap cheap person when it came to buying equities and he got real good deals by buying when everyone else had no money: he is the greatest and biggest value investor by far)
Ok, I'm kind of cynical when a recruiter says "You should blog! It will make it easier for us to find you." It sounds like the hunters suggesting to the game wardens that deer would be better off if you painted them international orange. :-)

I certainly agree that public comments on the internet can help people get a sense of who you are, but just like sharing on Facebook or any other infinitely long lived expression of opinion there is also a huge down side to it. A number of good engineers have been fired over the years by blogging an opinion that their manager didn't like or mentioning an activity that their employer felt violated the inherent NDA in place in any employee/employer relationship.
It is indeed a crapshoot. I'm lucky enough to work in network engineering in an area where I can contact the tier-3 support for most of the local last mile ISPs if something has gone seriously wrong. But there is immense variation in residential internet quality even within the same company and AS. Some parts of the Comcast network are rock solid, others are shit. Same for many adsl2+, vdsl2 and docsis3 operators.

The other problem is that one person's perception of shit internet is very different from another's. Less than 0.1% of ordinary internet customers know how to use tools like smokeping and test to their own wholly controlled iperf server on a 10GbE connection.
they feed whole chicken carcasses through grinders and strain out the bone/feather/etc fragments.
My problem is that programs like this does not change anything except making us first world citizens feeling comfortable about not having the power to stop exploitation of a whole continent. It is like a drug for the society making us feel good when we should feel bad and ashamed.

And calling it "basic income" is just propaganda.
One of Google's demos was recognizing a hand signal made by a bicyclist in front of the car.