skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, you don't need the engineering, or even artificial selection to make this analogy. Species is just a human-invented term to categorize and only roughly matches nature.

What is a species? Organisms that can interbreed? Well we have Ligers. Percentage of similar DNA? Well what percent? Morphology? It all boils down, eventually, into what we think it is.

That is, there are no two identical animals (ignore identical twins for the moment). Attempts to resurrect/restore things as they were (for moral posterity or whathaveyou) are futile. We can only hope to restore some sort of balance that helps ourselves.
New Zealand is the world's third largest producer of lamb, what do you mean by "scale"? This is done at scale.

Without those animals, that land would have been literally useless for humans to produce food.
I am a bit more on the pro-conspiracy side of the spectrum but good sources are important.

According to the New York Times in 2002, David Rockefeller was the banker of the worst leaders of the world while expanding internationally the Chase Manhattan Bank.

"He spent much of his career at Chase doing business with tyrants -- paying homage to oil-rich dictators, sitting through long meetings with the Chinese perpetrators of the Cultural Revolution (an associate once handed over a suitcase with $50,000 in cash to the Chinese so Rockefeller could have a meeting with their ambassador), holding court with Soviet party bosses. The contacts often led to profitable deals for Chase. They benefited the ruling cliques in those countries. But in ways he is oblivious of even now, Rockefeller was soiled by his close embraces with these thugs. While the forces of democracy squared off with the forces of authoritarianism, Rockefeller was perpetually in the room with whoever happened to be in power."

That's enough for me to think he's a horrible monster, but what do I know, I'm just into conspiracy theories...

Between him and kissinger, it would be tough to figure out who knew more war criminals.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/books/review/david-rockefe...
No, seriously, it isn't a taxi service.

A taxi service can pick you up from the side of the road when you hold up your hand and whistle.

A car-for-hire service is where you call a company and ask for them to give you a ride from place A to place B.

It should be obvious from those two sentences why taxis are more regulated.

Now, with increasing technology (primarily universal smartphones), the need for taxis cruising the streets at random looking for hails has dwindled significantly. This still doesn't mean car-for-hire services are taxi companies.

It might be how you understand "taxi" but that's not relevant, any more than if a robotic factory was doing work with a lot fewer people and a critic can't understand why minimum wage laws don't apply to the assembly machines. In his mind "factory" is something that uses labor to produce goods so there must be some scam going on. But he just doesn't understand.
Well, this is a simple and slow Mark & Sweep.

Much simplier and much faster is this simple copying collector from qish, which has ~740 lines of code. http://starynkevitch.net/basile/qishintro.html
This one beats BoehmGC in every benchmark, which is the optimal implementation of the slow mark & sweep GC.

The caveat for this fast copying collector is that you have to use volatile, as registers are not dumped to the stack, you cannot use stacked calls (same reason), and no threading.
Most of them were White Christians for the longest time. Are people of that even temperament that you can't see differences between them?
Do you not believe that ideas are inherently valuable? You think they only have value in a capitalist society?

If you find a copyrighted work valuable enough to use or share with your neighbor but you don't think you should have to pay to support its creation, you're a freeloader. If everyone acted in this way, no one would be funding the development of such works and they wouldn't exist for you to share. I know most of us skirt the rules in various circumstances but at the end of the day, someone has to be paying for these works or they wouldn't get created in the first place.
>I do know one company that has a reputation for not doing this. Miele in Europe but then their appliances are double to triple the price of typical companies.

I think Miele serves as an excellent example for why the market has moved away from designing products with a 30+ year expected service life. If the average modern appliance lasts for 5-10 years as this article claims (and has proven true time and time again in my experience) but the reliable brand costs 2-3x more, you would have to be absolutely certain that the "reliable" product will actually last at least 20-30 years if you are to ever make up for the initial cost premium.

The problem is that even the most well built appliances will have random part failures and the chance of a failure happening (25-50% IME) over a span of 30 years is high enough that it has to be treated as an inevitability. Even if the parts are available that far in the future, the cost of having a technician diagnose the failure ensures the repair will cost at least $150 in labor alone and the average cost for any appliance repair with parts included is somewhere between $300 and $400 in my experience.

My point is that the "cheap and unreliable" appliance is almost always a financially sound choice even though it leads to a graveyard of dead appliances over time. The real problem is that graveyard of broken appliances we leave behind by making the financially sound decision to buy an appliance we know will only last ~10 years at best.
There is some grey area as it pertains to content farms though. Google has penalized sites for creating a ring of sites that point to a central property, even if the content is hand created, of "okay" quality, etc.
> they need driverless cars. That's ten years away

Maybe in the US. But Uber is everywhere. Given their penchant for "bending" the law, I wouldn't be surprised if they start deploying driverless cars in places with more lax regulation, which will 1) help their bottom line, 2) give them more training data, and 3) prove it works to make regulatory issues easier in the US.

That's of course if they can keep their tech, which seems less likely given the waymo suit.
WW3 GAY PARIS IS HAVING ALL THE FUN
These e-tattoos turn your skin into smartphone controls
Topre Realforce, the tenkeyless 55g model. Very expensive but I can definitely recommend it.

It's quiet enough for the office as well.

On a sidenote, I hate the keyboard on my thinkpad x220. People rave about thinkpad keyboards but aside from the switches, which are nice, the base feels bouncy. Feels like it's mounted on cardboard.
i don't think inequality can be solved by globalization. if you look at the poor countries, you'll find a multitude of structural problems. until these structural problems are dealt with, globalization is likely to feed corruption.

i agree that globalization would reduce the risk of global conflict - there would only be one side. thus, if the wrong people were in power there would be no way to fight them. that's scary.
Yeah. Sounds eerily similar to the story of a certain real estate developer turned politician.

It's a little bit like attempting to achieve escape velocity. If you succeed then everything is fine, but if you fall even a little bit short, it all comes crashing to the ground.

Only time will tell, but I'll be pulling (har har) for Team Gravity.
AsiaBSDCon has a lot of attendees whose English is less than completely fluent. Having material in written form allows them to read at their own pace rather than struggling to keep up with a conference speaker.
Shadow of the Colossus has always, to me, felt like that sort of game. It's one of the few I've seen/played that felt like something other than just an escape into fantasy. The consequences of the actions, the tragedy of the circumstances and outcomes, lend itself to introspection and contemplation for the player/audience.
PDF is a terminal format, so this isn't really avoidable in all cases.

If you want HTML, usually much better off to use latex->html tooling.
My Fake 'Magic: The Gathering' Cards Fooled Almost Everyone
>(captive) elephants could almost certainly be used to raise cloned wolly mammoths

Their native habitats are about as totally different as you can get without being underwater. Why do you assume their behaviors will be similar?
But it may mean that what she did do isn't well documented enough publicly for inclusion in Wikipedia.
I don't understand this if you have any competitors. Whenever I have a product fail, I don't buy any products from that same company again if at all possible. I had a Maytag dishwasher fail. I won't buy (and haven't bought) Maytag dishwashers since.
By going to the other extreme, you can use only precedence climbing (with just a grammar) by using Floyd's algorithm, which will treat all tokens as operators. It uses two precedences functions instead of one, a left and right precedence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator-precedence_grammar
Python and a few other REPLs seem to use _ to capture the previous result. Could be a useful shorthand (not to complicated your design at all)
I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. –Ray Bradbury
Oh, I just use Units because I'm used to it, and it has always done the job well. I also like that it's self-contained on my computer, instead of requiring a dependency on the outside world.
What about the ~20% of the population with one or two APOE4 alleles?
I'm probably wrong on the technical reasons specifically (my motor experience is limited to robotics and rc cars), but its only recently you could buy 29-35 watt ceiling fans due to the use of DC motors:

http://www.ceilingfan.com/35-to-50-watt-ceiling-fans-s/1647....

http://www.hansenwholesale.com/ceilingfans/reviews/emerson_m...

Averages currently are 75 watts and up to 100 for typical sizes.

http://energyusecalculator.com/electricity_ceilingfan.htm

You can google up articles from the early 2000s were it was conventional wisdom that the fan ran 100 watts.

I did read a bit about motor design but I can't find it now, but clearly the differences in wattage are real. I believe the newer ones are brushless DC vs the single phase induction of old. I imagine newer fan design helps too.

This Kensgrove is a whopping 72" but with a DC brushless motor. 31 watts on the highest setting.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Home-Decorators-Collection-Kensgr...

Cheaper 56" at 35 watts:

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Home-Decorators-Collection-Breeze...

This ultra efficient 56" phase induction motor design still uses nearly twice the power of the DC motor!

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Westinghouse-Industrial-56-in-Ind...
Uber's valuation is a collaborative performance that only stops being fiction if everyone plays along until they achieve a self-driving monopoly. Kalanick is tearing up pages of that script faster than new ones can be written and a whole lot of the performers are jumping ship.

If he wants to be the king of an ash pile, so be it. But it's not gonna be an ash pile worth $60B.
How do you have that username? Are you an actual HN mod or was it just dumb luck?

Sorry for the off-topic (but I did really love your answer. :))
> These activities – such as soaking in a hot tub or taking a sauna – may have health benefits for people who are unable to exercise regularly.

I would add not only "unable", but "unwilling". Some people don't get any pleasure by exercising, and perhaps having 50% of the benefits of cycling is better than having none.
Most of the German Autobahn system has a speed limit and you have an recommended speed of 130.

Also your link says:

> In 2012, the leading cause of autobahn accidents was "excessive speed (for conditions)"
> As colah.github.io has grown in prominence… Well, it’s been very rewarding, but it’s also been a bit uncomfortable.

> For one thing, it’s created very high standards for my writing. Most of my articles took 50-200 hours to write. I feel like I needed to live up to that quality with every post, but that means I can’t put out thoughts without investing a huge amount of energy.

I've done a bit of blogging and this echoes my experience as well. One successful posts precedes another, then you start to feel like you can't put out off-the-cuff type posts. It's tough to follow up a rockstar post with an intermezzo. So you invest more and more energy into each topic and post to ensure it'll be successful in whatever metric, and that mostly works, but then you publish few posts in very specific niches.

If anyone has advice for effectively blowing one's standards out of the water and publishing more smaller general pieces, I'd love to hear that. From this perspective, I admire how Fred Wilson blogs.

Edit: fixed typo
The fundamental difference is that gambling is an added risk (generally, and the exceptions are often illegal even where gambling is legal otherwise [0]), where insurance is a hedge against an existing risk; both decrease your expected financial return, but gambling also increases risk while insurance decreases it.

[0] e.g., someone formally attached to a team in a sport and having a financial interest in their performance also betting against the team as a hedge.
> I mean, that's why we trust doctors, because the bar is that high.

Two thoughts:

1. The old joke, "What do you call the person who graduated from medical school at the bottom of their class?" "Doctor."

2. The ordeal of residency isn't about setting the bar "high", nearly so much as it's about, "well, I went through this shit, so you have to, too". (Source: I have several doctor friends. All of them think it's bullshit. All of them have been explicitly told that, in some form or fashion, by their colleagues, superiors, teachers, or otherwise.)
You're asking me why the author chose this title? I am not the author.

I could guess that he didn't use a qualifier because there are many different ones and none universally accepted. Or, maybe he wanted to reach a non-tech audience who wouldn't know the difference between strong AI and AI.

There are plenty of good reasons, and reading the article clarifies the author's meaning.
It's more complex than that...

Debt is denominated in currencies ... so with the current system bad borrowing behavior by one member of the currency union (Greece) would lead to devaluation of the currency to other members of the union (Germany).

Having multiple currencies is okay as long as there is liquidity between them.

That being said, centralizing currency leads to economic growth as long as the money is well spent (investment) rather than evaporated (excessive social benefits)
> and usually fed from land that could have grown crops for humans directly.

That's not necessarily true. I think you are underestimating the amount of land that's suitable for animal farming but not crops. It's a lot.

> Only a fraction of the energy we put into animals gets returned when we eat them, which means it's far more energy-efficient to eat the plants directly.

That's technically correct but still wrong. We can't eat grass and lichens, no matter how many calories they have. Animals can.
I don't see how s-expressions are inheritently less "typed" than utf-8 text?

Have a compiler target dialect that expects "(int 5)" and "(int x)" have a type-inference step that target such "typed" s-expressions?
Gone with the watch. That's what happens when random analysts and the media hop onto a "trend" before it even exists or has proven itself.
Isn't the problem here, though, that they can be forged? If, by attaching a structural artifact in the correct format to a ticket, we're effectively allowing people without commit privileges to make commits --- potentially anonymous people.

I agree that this isn't likely to happen by accident, but Fossil servers are usually public facing, so we have to worry about malice as well.
I see comments like this all the time, and while what you say is correct, I think committees increasingly appreciate this sort of thing - frankly they have to or they will miss out on some of the most innovative people. There is plenty of "standard" already (nothing wrong with that of course).

With new things, what you need is at least one person on the committee to fight and convince the others why this new thing is awesome. As someone who is now on some of these committees, I would put all my weight behind something like this should I encounter it (assuming of course it has the relevant quality).
they failed to make it be guided by scientific method, but rather taught the quacks that the only way forward was to use scientific terminology, and if they could do so propery would even be admitted deeper into medicine than they ever could've hoped before
What do you think about solving this with wireless power transfer? There has been some promising research recently into extending the range of resonant inductive coupling.

It's nobody's ideal, but a clip-on/necklace style power solution might be sellable to the public if the value proposition of the glasses is good enough.
Very good point. By most accounts a great product, but not great enough to get either enough volume, or fetch a high enough price.
Because they continously claim they're "ahead of everyone" and how everyone else is stupid and their glorious htm will beat everyone....and then proceeds to get destroyed by convnets...and then moves the goalposts to anomaly detection only...and then gets beaten on their own heavily rigged benchmark dataset.
It can be a great way to build patience, and it's almost meditative I find.
I wish there was a way to subscribe to a weekly email related to this.
global elites or local elites, its still the same ol' pointless domination
Surely Church must also have discovered the universal machine? Church's major result was the undecidability of the halting problem, and to set up the diagonalization proof you need a notion of interpreting a program. Looking at his paper[0], he has

THEOREM XII. It is possible to associate simultaneously with every well-formed formula an enumeration of the formulas obtainable from it by conversion, in
such a way that the function of two variables, whose value, when taken of a well-formed formula A and a positive integer n, is the n-th formula in the enumeration of the formulas obtainable from A by conversion, is recursive.

THEOREM XVI. Every recursive function of positive integers is λ-definable.

So approximately, Theorem XII gives an algorithm for evaluating a program A n steps, and theorem XVI says that this algorithm can be compiled in the a λ-calculus program.

Church cites a paper by Kleene for this construction[1]. It's true that the Kleene doesn't prove this using a general recursion combinator like the Y combinator; instead he first shows how to λ-encode primitive recursive functions, and gives a combinator for the μ operator [2].

When you talk about Church "not following up" the notion of universality, I'm not sure what more you would want him to do. Of course he did not prove that λ-calculus was equivalent to Turing machines, because those had not been invented yet. But he and Kleene did prove that the λ-definable functions coincide with the μ-recursive functions, which was the best known model of universal computation. And he argues ([0] section 7) that this captures the intuitive notions of "a function for which there exists an algorithm" and "a function which can be proven to have a given value".

[0] https://www.ics.uci.edu/~lopes/teaching/inf212W12/readings/c...
[1] https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.dmj/10774894...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C-recursive_function
Curious, what would qualify as AI under your definitions?
What kind of insurance? I've worked in property and casualty insurance for 10 years, and although I wasn't entirely sold on some of their practices, on the whole I do think they provided an important and needed service - with way too many intermediaries and government meddling and some questionable cases where coverage is denied or accepted, but on the whole a decent service which helped make whole people that suffer catastrophic losses (cars or houses).

OTOH, the kind of insurance I think is extremely shady is the U.S. health insurance industry.
Wow, thank you! That's terrific - clean, simple design, and so far everything seems to work just fine without Javascript, too.
Definitely, you'd have bits rattling around otherwise, and maybe even some harmonic issues. Even if it wasn't a noise issue, it would probably wear out the tapes a lot faster, and lead to more jams.

Then of course, you have Beatz headphones, which really are the next best thing to a scam.
For my own curiosity could you point out a single low tax country that has well maintained infrastructure?
Leave.

The bottom line is that you're unhappy with your job and there are plenty of shops where you can use the technologies you love.

You're under no obligation to stay - your employer is not your family. You're in a contractual relationship where you exchange your time for money.
You don't need thousands of engineers to keep a mobile app up-to-date, and the driverless vehicle thing is a boondoggle as there's already other companies doing that work, which are much better at it (Google, GM, etc.), and don't need tons of VC for such a risky endeavor.
Insurances have an inherent overhead cost for administration. Thus you should only insure things/people that loosing would be catastrophic financially for you.
My impression was that to get the OpenBSD stuff, OpenSSH etc, working on Linux they required quite a bit of out of tree patching.
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Gwyneth Paltrow is now in the poorly regulated online vitamin business
It's a brand new newsletter from two community menbers who also happen to be authors of two O'Reilly monitoring books, the creator of Monitorama, and a long-time maintainer of the Graphite project. You don't have to believe me but we're going to do our best to release a top-notch collection of monitoring-related stories. We don't have an archive yet but we intend to.
Not endorsing the guy in this video and don't know much about him personally. With that disclaimer, if you watch this video his lampooning of these meetings as an insider is quite hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbfBi-O8ijg#t=11m45s
Also, I guess he gave up shortly after.

There's way more than the single typo ...