skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We now have pretty fast internet. I'm on 100mbit with unlimited data for $79/month, and could have 1Gbit for $129/month.

International speeds can occasionally be a bit slow, but the widespread use of caching and CDNs limits the impact of this. It's mostly pretty good.
He addresses this as that AI would be a poor hunter-gatherer, but is actually quite good already at specialized low thought jobs, and there are enough of those out there to cause some economic instability.

Furthermore, AI doesn't have to be 100% error free and spectacularly outperform every human, it just has to be cheaper and as-good or better than the average worker. I can think of a good number of coworkers in past jobs that are ripe for automating away - its just a matter of time when it becomes cheap enough to implement. These jobs are not high thought jobs but the ones where the rules are already set and they just follow them.
I didn't have much trouble at all getting a pre-order...I just used nowinstock to track all the stores in the US that were accepting preorders and jumped on one as soon as it was available. Took me maybe 3 or 4 days of trying.
You give up your privacy when you enter an Uber vehicle.

If the two ladies are upset, they should address the issue with Travis the next time they hang out.
the new "topics" feature is basically just tags as far as i can tell.

you can use the "user:" search operator + the name of the topic to filter your repos and then just bookmark the searches that youll be using often. its better than nothing for now
Why? Because: (small amount works, chewed is better)
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When the edge server dies player will reconnect to another node (load balancer will select a healthy one this time). In the same time RMS will detect that the session got lost in an abrupt way and will buffer any outgoing messages addressed to that session for a short time, just in case when player reconnects.
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> Nothing improved for me as a consumer

Improved with respect to what, then, if not the current "right now" Office?
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Some website being Slashdotted is not in the same class of issues as users' (possibly encrypted) page content being spread all over the web. Also, the notion that you either need to use some super-centralized platform or be susceptible to Slashdot effect or loosing backups is a false dichotomy.
Not so fast! Lyft has done something rather similar: http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Lyft-Plus-changes-ups...
I think it's also hard to overstate the parental appeal of "you can get the TV back at any time without the kid whining about an interrupted game".
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The most commonly used variant uses 2 arrays, indexed by the two hash functions. Or one array twice the size.

While the current trend is to reduce the size of this array by using size-compressed indirect indices, e.g. the new ruby/python hashes.
This is true.

On the other hand, our society is getting more and more complex, and tasks are getting more and more specific. At the same time, organizations are structuring themselves so that employees are hyper-specialized and are only allowed to perform the exact set of tasks that they need to.

This is where AI can thrive.
I couldn't get hardware acceleration without recompiling the kernel.
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The difference being...perception right? Currently we have a huge amount of information but the same limits of comprehension. We didn't suddenly get new anatomy when the internet came online. Its apples and oranges. If you are able to understand things at great depth, you are able to understand information at great depth and know the difference between bunk and not. Myths and legend-type information becomes harder to rationalize as truth because the origins of it do not result in a high probability of accuracy in which you are highly capable at that point to determine in a sub-microsecond.
Most smartphones in Iraq probably have 4–16gb of storage, and 64gb flash storage would be prohibitively expensive for most Iraqis. The English Wikipedia is 60gb, but that's without _any_ multimedia. The total size of all media in Wikimedia Commons is 23 terabytes.

We could create a minified version of the Iraq Wikipedia that could be around 40gb, but many will not want it, so we'd have to sell Wikipedia phones and non-Wikipedia phones.

You could sell copies of the minified Wikipedia on microSD cards, but a 64gb microSD card still costs about $20, but that price is out of reach for most in the war torn country.

Then there's the issue of updated content. One of the main uses for Wikipedia is learning about current events, current status of crises, recent elections, recent deaths, etc. You wouldn't really be able to do that with this system.
Right, ALB were introduced after we built RMS. We would have to re-evaluate the ALB stability/cost/scalability - but definitely something to consider.
Hate to break it to you, but for high performance only specialised hardware works. Sometimes even only local hardware.
Or even a full cluster that only uses VMs or containers as a nice migration of availability layer.

Internet bandwidth and latencies kill clouds while there is no real gain to be had by running multiple heavy compute services on one machine. (as much as certain gpgpu companies want you to believe)

Bare metal superceded, ha. It is just augmented with an availability layer.
That and a $50 price drop...
Can someone please explain what is going on here?

I have an AGPL project on Github with close to 1,000 stars, multiple contributors, and a CLA.

Is my project affected by this? Does this change somehow endanger the copyleft clause of our AGPL license?
Depends on what kind of project you're working on. Creative Commons is not especially appropriate for software licensing, so it's perfectly sensible for GitHub to avoid recommending it.

This isn't just my personal opinion, by the way. The CC FAQ specifically says:

> We recommend against using Creative Commons licenses for software. Instead, we strongly encourage you to use one of the very good software licenses which are already available. We recommend considering licenses made available by the Free Software Foundation or listed as “open source” by the Open Source Initiative.

-- https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...
See guelo's comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13767782 )

Just because Wikimedia is not seeking profits or even looking to somehow "stay ahead" with this deal, that doesn't mean it isn't against neutrality.
I'm confused. I read that TOS and I don't see anything that does anything like this post describes. I think this may be FUD.
> Latvian for "independence" is "neatkarība" which itself is wrong pair, because "independence" means not being dependent, and therefore free, while Latvian word means more like "impossibility to take by force".

"Ne" is a negation (= "in" or "not"), whereas "atkarība" is simply "dependence". Thus, (in)(dependence) is the equivalent of (ne)(atkarība). I don't see where you got it to mean "impossibility to take by force". Independence can be lost, it's not an impossibility. Source:

https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/neatkar%C4%ABba

http://www.tezaurs.lv/?w=neatkar%C4%ABba#/sv/neatkar%C4%ABba
In Sweden, there was a campaign to drop titles and respectful pronouns in the late 1960s, and instead use "du" - "you" or "thou" rather - the singular form, which was considered impolite.

It worked out to be a success, and when I was a kid in the 80s I can't remember anything else than the new system, except perhaps on film and maybe by some rather old conservatives.

Interestingly, and somewhat both ironically and telling, younger people, those younger than 30 perhaps, have reinvented a NEW formal address ("Ni" [you]) that was previously considered to be rather rude. I must say that although I'm not old enough to really know the old system, I still get a bit annoyed by just that failed attempt to be polite.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du-reformen]
This comment chain is now sufficiently deep for next week's summary to be something like "A Hackernews finds n-gate.com, despite its inability to use a computer. Frantic discussion ensues from their mother's basements on whether humor should or should not be allowed in the post-enlightenment, intelligista society they are all building. One Hackernews wonders whether a joke's ability to work harder than other jokes gives it a worthier position in such a society. Other Hackernews try to create humor from first principles."
I'm the same person as the other two, sorry about the confusion, just temporary account per session - still setting up after reinstalling my OS again.
Exactly this - each publisher can encode their own payload, including protobufs, JSON, plain text or base64'd binaries. RMS itself is completely oblivious to the format of payload used in the message.
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> Constant weather is a bummer, but the cold and snow doesn't really bother me.

I might be misunderstanding what you're saying, but it doesn't snow in Auckland.
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AKA "Blueprint blue," source of the term "blue movie" and "working blue."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader was one such attempt. Though reading the limitations, it seemed to do some heavy processing that threw away data to save space.
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Yeah, I think this is a big reason it feels like I'm spending a lot more mental energy to solve these captchas than the old ones.
How we built non-annoying notifications in our tiny mix of Slack and Post-Its
No proper term in Latvian can be found in this example.
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Clickbait, it was a human dishwasher.
The graph is supposed to gauge a progress of a new technology, but a single line is not enough. The progress is nonlinear, with jumps and more.

Waterfall is strictly superceded by heavy iterative procedures.
Your quote only covers section D.5, other users. You still need to grant Github themselves that right, even for private repos, in section D.4
> it either
A)has infinite density
B)drops off as 1/r^2

How did you arrive at this? Which force has infinite density and where? k/r is finite except at the point where the source is, the formula is invalid there.
(Disclaimer: I'm not Latvian. I just happen to speak the language rather well, run a small business in Riga and spend about 1/3 of my time there.)

"Latvian as a language never lived better under the USSR". I've seen such a rich cultural heritage from the Latvian Soviet Republic era. Have a look at wonderful things like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kzsO_w8XIQ . Often a very poor cultural landscape afterwards.

But one can't deny russification during the Soviet era. 10.5% to 34% (1934-1989). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_Latvia .

And clearly there is a minority of Russian speaking people in Riga neither able nor willing to speak even the most basic Latvian. Clearly, there are idiots on the Latvian speaking side too. I'll spare you the anecdotes.

But when it comes to cursing, they all seem to use Russian :-)
I don't share the disgruntled feeling toward the color.

The new color is #0366D6, while the old color is #7FA5CF. The new blue color is far more saturated and is much less light, but is actually still a pretty big step down from ultra-hard blue #0000FF. IMO, it's much more readable than the previous blue and stands out nicely.
> One can become engrossed in a movie without constantly thinking about one's place in relation to the movie.

Being engrossed involves a suspension of awareness.

> I'm afraid this just makes no sense to me. Aren't you subjectively aware of the computer in front of your eyes? If you claim to not have "true subjective awareness", I'm curious what "true subjective awareness" would amount to.

True subjective awareness requires ontologically committing to dualism, because subjectivity is then irreducible. By which I mean that no account for true first-person experience is possible using only third-person objective facts.

> An illusion is when our subjective experience of reality does not match actual reality, but to claim that our subjective experience is itself an illusion? That seems like a contradiction in terms.

That definition of illusion begs the question, like I said, so I categorically reject it. If you eliminate the dependency on "subjective experience of reality" you get "perception of reality does not match actual reality", which is exactly what I said.

> For me, the knowledge that I have true subjective awareness is a basic first principle, along the lines of "I think, therefore I am".

Ah, but this too begs the question! The fallacy-free version is "this is a thought, therefore thoughts exist".

> Also, what "weak thought experiments" are you referring to?

P-zombies, Mary's room, etc.
I don't think the ToS would be different on paid repos. But I would expect there to be separate provisions for private repos.
Just by reading the headline, I thought robots are starting to rule to world.
It's "blueprint blue" - a reference to the cheap printing process used to make the posters for pornographic films, and also the reason they got the nickname "blue movies."
Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds
https://www.logojoy.com/ seems surprisingly close to this. If I were starting a small business I'd probably just get my logo from this type of automated service.
Cloudflare had nothing to do with ending slashdotting. This stopped being a problem years before they existed.

Slashdotting was mostly a problem caused by Apache's incredibly inefficient design. It consumed huge amounts of memory per connection at a time when most of us had very slow connections. A link from Slashdot was, in effect, a Slowloris attack on your server.

The big change was moving from a fork/thread-based webserver (Apache) to an event-based webserver (nginx), which was made even more efficient by kernel features like epoll.
I lived and worked in France for two years in my early twenties and really made an effort to make good friendships with local French and try to adapt to and understand the culture. Once in awhile people would hear me speak to people back home in Canada on the phone and on several different occasions they commented to me that I speak much more loudly and boisterously in English. It was very unconscious to me.

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Originally we had it all lumped together as 3 weeks, but then when we hired in California we had to split it out and have at least 3 sick days. That was done before we were profitable, so we may still increase it. Also since people work flexible schedules from home the sick days just don't get used very often.
I love that textiles.com exists
I really wish someone would step forward and do what Mike Pall did for Lua with LuaJIT. Phenomenal performance gains he achieved with Lua. Essentially runs equal to C performance.

And no, just because Ruby is highly dynamic - that's not an excuse for it being slow.

To quote Mike:

"
tl;dr: The reason why X is slow, is because X's implementation is slow, unoptimized or untuned. Language design just influences how hard it is to make up for it. There are no excuses.
"

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/19gv4c/why_pyt...
Except in Python where indentation changes are meaningful.

def coalesce(*args):
while args:
next = args.pop()
if next is not None:
return next
return None

def coalesce(*args):
while args:
next = args.pop()
if next is not None:
return next
return None
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I don't care. It's a happy story and with all the sad news going on re. immigrants, it made my day.
Maybe they should have dubbed this ReNotBreakCaptcha?

> I’ve testing in 3 examples, and none had the correct answer: first one only detected 3 out of 6 numbers, the seconds had 10 digits, one of them wrong, and the third couldn’t recognise.
> Also, it seams that google implement a max number of retries for audio challenge."
For sure! I always want to know the details.
> The labor laws are out of control

There are two sides to this. The advert is for a job, and as an employee you're relatively protected against bad employers. Not protected enough in my view, but for those from other political environments it might seem rather alien. Given that most are employees and not employers it's a perspective worth considering.
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