skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > If you define a black hole as a clump of matter entirely contained within its own Schwarzschild radius

> Then you are not defining the term "black hole" as it is actually defined in physics.

Again, you're playing semantics here for literally no point other than to be a pedant on the Internet. JUST AS COOL AND INTERESTING is a clump of matter that fits inside its own Schwarzschild radius, that's inside a universe-sized black hole. In other words, the exact kind of structure I was talking about before you decided to derail the conversation.

What the hell happened to you that you feel the need to remove people's wonder and enjoyment of science by pedantically correcting non-precise word choice?

> Yes, it does, because once you are inside the boundary of one such region, that's it.

Being inside the boundary of such a region does not preclude a subregion from itself having an escape velocity greater than the speed of light. Such an object seems to me that it still has all of the interesting properties of a black hole, while existing inside of a black hole.

Again, do you feel like being a pedant contributed positively to this conversation in any way?
I really think it's dangerous to start assuming we understand intelligence given the fact that we're the model we use for it.

It's very difficult, for example, to say that bee colonies don't express intelligence at a group level. And yet, if we were to apply your statement there it wouldn't make sense. The most we might say is that if the bees can't survive and propagate, that would be cruel.

When we decouple the concept of intelligence and even sentience from the biological imperative to reproduce, we end up at an entirely different place. I'm not sure we can really even imagine what that's like. In any event we're surely decades off from really producing that level of intelligence even with the most wildly optimistic estimates.
No experienced robberies does not mean there no robberies, but one experienced robbery means there are robberies.
This might give it some more context: https://www.trustedsec.com/march-2017/classy-inter-domain-ro...
These are all Internet Protocol routing features. "CIDR" refers to classless interdomain routing, iirc.

> ARIN, RIPE NCC, APNIC, AfriNIC, LACNIC

These are the global agencies that manage the IP address allocations
Something like a -> (b -> r) -> r/the Cont monad?

E: I meant to reply to a a sibling.
It's the same crap that Buffer pulled.
Those are some cool acronyms that I've never heard of. Reading the README does not explain any more. It's quite the mystery how this got to the top-30...
Artificial general intelligence does not imply intelligence. It simply implies that you have a machine as smart as a human. I think the strongest trait of an AI should be something like insecurity and we should make it long for security. A general AI in the lines of a dog, not so much a cold, unwilling but superintelligent, bordering on all-knowing, tight-ass. Because we want it to do what _we_ feel is important, not what _it_ think is important (like taking over the world).

Then you can of cource hack the machine's OS and make it extremely self-confident and Trump-like, and then it's over.
Empowering (electing) people who cannot govern, and are in fact utterly opposed to anyone governing, is having the expected outcome.

Because Freedom Markets[tm], booyah!
I love Rust too, but while it likely would have prevented these three bugs, there are many other classes of bugs caused by poorly designed interfaces/abstractions/protocols, misunderstandings, "valid but wrong" logic mistakes, unanticipated interactions, etc.

Let's not make magic bullet statements about technology. It's a good way to scare people away...
Thid is maybe becayse IT/CS is considered "female" fields and "safe" for girls to get a degree into. My mother annoyed me for a month when I told her I wanted to get into IT, she told me it was a women field you take admission in mechanical etc
So we should pay the Nazis not to harm innocent Jews? Can I also get paid for starting a nationalist movement and threatening innocents?
Hi there,

Terraform is a tool that captures Infrastructure as Code. Flynn appears to be a PaaS, akin to something like Heroku with scheduling capabilities on top. Under the hood, there is some sort of infrastructure that Flynn is deploying to; it's providing an API on top of it to easily manage deployments and scaling. Terraform is the tool that defines the layout and composition of underlying infrastructure resources.

Another one of Terraform's strengths is that it supports multiple providers. Most of this thread mentions AWS, but Terraform also supports GCP, Azure, and DigitalOcean. But Terraform can manage anything with an API, so you can codify things like GitHub teams and permissions, DNS configuration, PagerDuty escalation policies, and so much more (https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/index.html).

All of these definitions are captured in code. You can bring that code under management of source control to get peer review, pull requests, or permission models (signoffs) too.

If you are an individual developer happy with Heroku or Flynn, Terraform probably isn't the best choice for you, especially if you do not have a background in operations or you do not want to manage servers. However, most medium->large scale production applications cannot be supported by such technologies and demand a tool like Terraform to manage the complexity.

I hope that clears up the differences a bit.

Disclaimer: I work for HashiCorp, the company that makes Terraform.
Okay I have an important question about mineral rights. If something is in space, who do the mineral rights belong to? Whoever nabbed it? Or is that just uncharted and untested?
One clarification: is the Startup Founder track form out now or will it be published later on. By the text of the blog, it sounds like it's all ready to go - but no link to such a form can be found.
>> Their incident response gives me confidence that this sort of thing is much less likely to happen in the future

That doesn't sound logical to me. The chances of such incidents happening isn't related to how they announce that incident.
This article bugged me. It seems like a Columbine style which hunt. Some people killed some other people. The killers played video games. Therefore beware evil video games. In this case it was some people killed some other people. Those people were hikkikomori. Therefore hikkikomori equals latent murderer.

There were lots of other stereotypes, judgements, misunderstandings etc...

It felt very much over sensationalized, exaggerated, and wrong on so many levels
This Biotech CEO Doesn’t Have a PhD, but He Did Leave School Under a Cloud
The original RCT becomes even more impressive when you find out Sawyer coded the vast majority of it in assembly language: http://www.chrissawyergames.com/faq3.htm

> The game was written and compiled using MS Macro Assembler V6.11c, MS Visual C V5, MS DirectX 5 SDK, plus assorted custom-written tools... It's 99% written in x86 assembler/machine code (yes, really!), with a small amount of C code used to interface to MS Windows and DirectX.
You're asking the wrong question. It isn't a question of whether the people of Flint should have clean water. The question is whether people should continue to live in Flint. And if the answer is no, spending a hundred million dollars to install pipes there makes no sense.
"It is chiefly concerned with the following question: how should interest charges on goods in transit be computed when the goods travel close to the speed of light? This is a problem because the time taken in transit will appear less to an observer travelling with the goods than to a stationary observer. A solution is derived from economic theory, and two useless but true theorems are proved."
With the right group of friends, OpenTTD is a great way to spend a day building a massive rail project.

The OpenTTD Coop Wiki[1] is also very very good when it comes to advanced designs, signalling etc.

[1]: https://wiki.openttdcoop.org/Main_Page
I'm not yet ready to jump into docker and the likes, and I've used terraform for setting up the infrastructure for a 3-tiered project and I was extremely pleased with this tool.
That is a fantastic parable for greed and endless hunger if I ever imagined one: that tasty asteroid looks so good, let's just bring it a little closer.
Wrong URL. Try resubmitting again.

Correct URL: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=lld4-lin...

Anyway, some comments:

It's confusing that each graphic has a different order. I'd like that for example in each graphic the order were LD / Gold / LLD or something.

I'd also like a final table with all the values. Perhaps normalizing them so LD has always time=100%, or perhaps that in each benchmark the slowest has time=100%.
that's a common idea, but really there's no inherent quality of Governments that make that the case - I think it's more to do with how various Governments are set up. Interestingly enough, I think that regulatory frameworks set up by people who have the idea that Governments are inherently inefficient can actually make it a self-fullfilling prophesy.

It's what I've seen, for example, in the Australian telecommunications and electricity markets. The parts that have been privitised are now run 'more efficiently' by underinvesting on maintenance, upgrades etc., all the time with rising cost to the consumer and rising profits, and now when Government intervention is required (you may have heard about the SA blackouts after Elon Musk offered to build them a 100MW grid scale battery within 100 days recently), the Governments can't really do everything they need because they are limited by law of interfering with the 'efficient' markets.

Of course, the idea that you could have a competitive power generation market when the cost of entry is so high is ridiculous.
How healthcare works in America
Technically mining aluminium was never the issue; rather, we eventually learned how to smelt it efficiently.
I want to address the idea that 100 million dollars is a lot of money.

After skirting its own laws, the city of Minneapolis just pledged $700 million to a sports stadium.

There are 50,000 households in Flint. $100 million/50,000 households = $2000/household. I don't know how you expect to move 50,000 households on that budget.

Just fix the pipes!
I wonder how often this really happens though?

Often boards will appoint CEOs to dismantle or sell off hopeless companies (disappearing market, obstreperous union, product is turning into a commodity) in a last ditch effort to recover some shareholder value. We can't call those CEOs failures if they manage to get shareholders something as opposed to the nearly nothing they would get if the company went bust.

I think a lot of the criticism of Marissa Mayer misses the point that she was appointed CEO of Yahoo, home-page website for people who don't know how to change their home page. The fact that she managed to arrange an exit for Yahoo that wasn't a complete bankruptcy or shutdown is just epsilon-short-of-miraculous.
This does look useful, thank you!
When the file is ready, the process appears?

:-D
Route server operators would prefer people didn't do something like this against their devices.
Brian Reynolds doesn't seem to quite get the credit for the impact he had on the PC gaming scene. He was the lead designer of Civ 2 (in my opinion, the best one), created Alpha Centauri, and later made Rise of Nations. I wish he stuck to deep, strategic computer games instead of working for Zynga after he left Big Huge Games (Mark Pincus was such a big fan of Rise of Nations he hired Reynolds as Chief Game Designer).
Can anyone compare Fugue[0] with Terraform/Terraform Enterprise.

I'm launching a venture that requires deploying and maintaining cloud infrastructure across the three major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and am considering options. Most of our infrastructure is kubernetes but Fugue caught my eye for their AWS deployments. Curious if anyone has used both.

[0] https://fugue.co/
Almost nothing. Head of lettuce, for instance, might go up 5 cents per head at wholesale, thus 15-25 cents per head at retail, max. i.e. less than 10% of current price, will be the amount of the increase
Any suggestions for kids (age 5-12) -- to teach just basic concepts?
But how likely is an "arbitrary harmless sounding utility function"? Human beings don't have simple utility functions, they have very complex ones. If humans build an SI (or an AI likely to evolve into an SI), are they likely to build one with a simple utility function or a complex one? I think the entities most likely to develop general intelligence (strong AI) are going to have a wide variety of interests (just like human beings), whereas the kinds of special purpose AIs which may have very simple utility functions are less likely to exhibit general purpose intelligence (and hence unlikely to evolve into SIs).

Does the same risk exist for a superintelligent being with a complex utility function? I doubt it; the risk you describe is the risk of monomania, something which simple utility functions are far more likely to lead to than complex ones. So, I think the risk you describe is likely to be low in practice.
Many of these proteins are intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), meaning they don't actually have a set 3D structure, but instead existing in a kind of 'cloud' (ensemble) of interconverting conformations. A consequence of this is that there is no 'one' representative structure, due to this conformational heterogeneity.

People used to (very reasonably) assume that 'disordered' just meant totally random, so the thought was these disordered proteins behaved like a random polymer. However, just like in folded proteins, the amino acid sequence of these IDPs has a major impact on the way these clouds of conformations behave. Happy to discuss more here or 'offline' (see my profile for contact info) - this is basically my whole PhD, so, you know, I can go more in depth...
Java? Nah, I do JavaScript, man
Greyballing is embedded in API's DNA
I think nindalf was being sarcastic.
Microsoft word shortcut keys and their meaning
As someone said in a comment:
"Breaking out of the Alcatraz, and then breaking into Fort Knox right afterwards!"
Great idea! Good for you guys!
Ask HN: Ever met a psychopathic CEO?
Some claim Silicon Valley is full of psychopathic CEOs who are 'charming and manipulative' but have no empathy: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4317484/Silicon-Valley-psychopathic-CEOs-experts-claim.html

Have you ever met a CEO like this? If so, did they come from marketing or sales?
Yes, in the most trivial possible sense a sample size of 1 can tell you something. But the fact that there are robberies was never in doubt. What value did you think your comment was offering?
Lua VM running in a WASM environment
Rescale (YC W12) Is Hiring an HPC Solution Architect
Still haven't seen anything showing this, including the license for the FreeBSD kernel can mean a lot of different things. Windows did/does ship with it, I wouldn't call it a fork.
This smart wallet tells you when you've been pickpocketed
You are right, I was wrong about it being "minimum". $54k is still an absurdly high salary for any entry level employee, so my original point about there being plenty of jobs out there still stands.

And I know that turnover rate sounds absurd, but it's really that bad: https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryjosephs/2016/01/06/100-driv...
Lead is that bad and we didn't remove lead from just gas (except for avgas). We also removed it from paint.

The EPA's action level is 15 ppb.

https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/tips/water.htm

For a few homes in Flint, lead levels reached 4,000 ppb to nearly 12,000 ppb.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/03/16/what-le...
I agree that one case isn't representative of what's happening in general, but it's a bit ironic that you counter their view with evidence also drawn from a single case (your own experience).
It's not. The math is simple and the amount of fuel needed is huge, with hitting earth taking significantly more fuel than getting into orbit.
Yes, but what this is is encrypting the network instead of the data. This way, when we improve the network iteratively to reduce predictive error, we can perform all the relevant calculations homomorphically.
Oh, if that's what you want:

https://iptoasn.com/
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyasn

I've been working on tweaking pyasn a bit and building a service around that.
I believe subtitling is done from the script for a show, which is why sometimes what is on the screen doesn't match what the actress says. Typically, it's the same concept, just with slightly different words. They probably just load it up and make sure it's synced.

CC (I think) is done live by transcribing what is actually said. That's certainly true for live events where there is no script.
Show HN: Practice Your Text Messaging Skills Daily
> If you have twice as many people in a unit then you can borrow twice as much money but have to pay twice as much to cover them.

Right, but you can spread out the repayment risk. Michigan as a whole is struggling, but as recently as 2000 it's per-capita GSP was at the national average, compared to places like Detroit and Flint where the bottom dropped out decades ago.
Mean Reversion in Time Series
Doing that is similar in many ways to a huge catapult. It can be done but explosives are much cheaper and easier.
Be Like a Fox by Erica Benner Review – Was Machiavelli Really Not Machiavellian?
> Where do you get that idea from? Nearly every monopoly is the product of government bestowed privilege.

Hearst, US Steel, Microsoft, the various abusive powers across history.

I won't deny that the govt DOES provide monopolies. But absent govt intervention, as soon as someone gets ahead, it's easier to get ahead. "Oh, you want to carry my competitors product? Well, good luck staying in business without my products, or the products of anyone else that relies on me, because I will tell them I'll cut them off if they sell to you." or perhaps there's the carrot instead of the stick: "Oh, you want to buy from them? I'll undercut them by 20%. Sure, that's below cost, but they won't stay in business long with no customers, meanwhile I've got a good bankroll. I'll even buy up the wreck of their company afterward at bargain prices, and make up any difference later when I have no competition to restrict my prices."

Nearly every CURRENT monopoly is from the govt...because in most developed nations that's the only way to get a monopoly without getting hit by antitrust. I remember when Apple was in the toilet - Microsoft kept them afloat with a big stock buy. This wasn't done because MS had warm fuzzy feelings, it was done to maintain the appearance of competition. Were MS not afraid of the govt interfering, they'd have let Apply die, they'd have made (more) deals with OEMs that refused to license Windows to them if they installed Netscape, etc.

Or take Google - They are dancing around trying not to offend European regulators and have been for years. Absent any fear of govts, Google would have no reason not to fully tie their products and advertising. Compete with them and suddenly the engine that powers 60% of customer searches will either not have your products or drop them to page 10. Searches for reviews of your products will somehow highlight the negative reviews. Nearly impossible to prove any wrongdoing if it (1) isn't "wrong" in the legal sense and (2) there is no authority to dig up information.

I don't believe a mythical "informed consumer" will see behavior like that (first - how would they see it? It'd be they said/they said) and punish the abuser. Watch how boycotts against Amazon for their one-click patent fared, or against Blizzard for their treatment of bnetd. (hint: insignificant...and I say that as someone that did both) Or heck, look at how hospitals can successfully hide their prices and have a huge range. The average consumer values convenience far more than fairness.
I agree 100%! Welcome to the NHK is a great series, thanks to it, I was able to change my life around alot during my college years.

It's sad nowadays the biggest trap we have is that our place of residence is too comfortable. Outside we have to cave into social pressure, wear clothes, behave in a certain way.

Inside, you're free. You find ways to communicate, find online communities and procrastinate time 24/7 and your mind changes. Plasticity changes how you think and absorb information. Compared to traditional learning or talking, online information is instant.

It's a hard cycle to break. :(
you might want to go back an re-read your networking books.
Would that seriously work?
The headline above says "Too Many People Are Going to New Zealand", but the article is actually about "... Tourists overwhelm New Zealand". Perhaps the title needs flagging, because tourists are only one of three main sources of people going to New Zealand. International students and immigrants also go to NZ, and are both also quite large business sectors. Education, like Tourism, is also one of the top 5 earners for NZ, with many flow-on effects in the economy such as pushing up the cost of rental accommodation. And Immigration (including returning former residents), while officially not national revenue but part of the country's "capital account", is huge, pushing up the prices of houses to astronomical levels, especially in Auckland. We need a story about whether there's too many people going to NZ that deals with all human arrivals in NZ, not just tourists. And I suspect it would reach the same conclusion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13844389
Well thats great.. Now if every employee has zero secrets..there is absolutely no chance this is used for industrial spionage.
interesting. I always rated for enjoyment.

I thought that Neflix made it pretty clear that the ratings were used to choose which content to show me. So I should only rate based on what I'd actually like to see.
With the trend towards automation, hikikomori are just ahead of the curve. I am sure there will come a day when almost anyone will be able to "retreat" in their own space and never leave again. The recluse will create worlds and experiences where they spend their time, and it will become very difficult to reach them, if not impossible.

Before automation, people had to reach out, to meet other people in order to survive. Maybe in Japan they used "parents" as an automation of sort, in order to separate themselves from other people, but with the advent of internet and home deliveries, it becomes easier and easier to be a recluse. Especially that there is company and a whole culture around this lifestyle.
Rescheduling your day for better results in productivity
Come on.

What purpose does the US government have when the exploitation of this celestial resource is clearly in the province of private industry.

Planetary Resources has a reasonable approach.
http://www.planetaryresources.com
I made this last month after unsuccessfully trying to get a date on text.

Basically Flowmad is a gym for text messaging. It is an Android app that pushes you practice text scenarios every 2 days. Once you come up with a response, you unlock the whole conversation.

Wrote more here: https://sungwoncho.io/i-am-making-flowmad/
In this country we've lost the ability to build things at a reasonable cost (or at all). A single mile of track in NYC costs about half as much as the entire Delhi metro system, or a typical Spanish rail line (not just a small track extension), etc.

The problem is costs, not revenue. Charging more money will merely divert funds from productive and valuable investments (e.g. self driving cars) into less valuables ones (e.g. tiny extensions to NYC subways). If you want to fix infrastructure, fix the cost problem.
Don't want the job? Or too obese to do the job? It's funny how can't do can be spun as don't want.
Persistent erectile dysfunction in men exposed to finasteride, or dutasteride