skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist at the University of Toronto, is the great-great-grandson of George Boole, whose Boolean algebra is a keystone of digital computing—has sometimes been called the father of deep learning; it’s a topic he’s worked on since the mid-nineteen-seventies, and many of his students have become principal architects of the field today.

From: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/ai-versus-md
Tell that to the thousands of niche podcasters out there who sustain their programs through marketing partnerships.

Niche creators do stand a chance. They just need the opportunity to reach their audience with a degree of intimacy and trust that the horrific scourge of mainstream online video and corporate 'journalism' do not and cannot offer. Certain media can enable this for their viewers and others less so. It's no cliche to say that medium is the message in this context.

Native advertising in podcasting is proof that not all online advertising has to consist of bludgeoning ignoramuses over the head with colorful nonsense within the infinite scroll of their Facebook feed. It can be about legitimate respect for a brand and a brand's legitimate respect for it's engaged, targeted niche demographic. But at the current rate of things, the web will require another massive spree of innovation to fix the tragedies caused by Facebook and Google over the past 10+ years to ever reach this point.
TeX is essentially a programming language for typesetting. I sigh when I think of learning a new language for such a narrow purpose. You make this sound easy but I have Knuth's book and have seen enough of it to know this isn't easy. If it were, no one would have been motivated to write or use LaTeX in the first place.
No, he's spot on. The one thing that keeps happening over-and-over again is that people who have never put together a system of any complexity will yell from the sidelines how others should build their stuff.

This goes for operating systems, application software and advanced rocketry alike.

The reason we have so much C code powering the world is that (1) there wasn't anything better when that code was written, (2) time has weeded out most of the bad bugs to the point that the old codebase will be substantially more stable than anything new no matter what language you would write it in.

If someone is willing to throw a few hundred million or so at re-building an operating system from the ground up that is 100% safe and reliable and that does not have more bugs than what is available right now then they are free to do so. They're also free to donate their own time and to try to enlist their buddies. But they're not free to yell at others how those others should do their jobs.

Show don't tell.
I almost want the Mobile Connect to happen so that people become much more away of SS7 hacking.
What would happen if you snuck in a jammer? Would half the park just shut down?
A client of mine once explicitly asked to communicate via Wire [1] which is pretty similar to Skype but E2E encrypted.
It was launched by a Skype co-founder, is easy to use and has a pleasant interface. And it's open source.
I can't really tell if the product really does what it's advertising, perhaps someone with more expertise could chime in on that.
I got stuck on it and I'm considering ditching Skype altogether for it. Perhaps not the solution you were looking for but interesting nonetheless!

[1] - https://wire.com/en/
Could someone knowledgable please comment on ISC License [1]? Why would one use it over MIT/BSD?

[1] https://spdx.org/licenses/ISC
There is an effort to make all the packages' builds riproducibile in Debian, which should automatically propagate to Ubuntu for most of the packages
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Fusion is not the problem. Fusion is understood very well. The problem is plasma physics. If you happen to understand German, listen to this podcast about Wendelstein 7-X https://alternativlos.org/36/
God help anyone criticizing Google. You make your own multi billion corporation.
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You are comparing apples to oranges, my comment was for people who visit HN not for poor people in US or elsewhere. I agree poor people cannot afford to take such risks.
Very welcome addition. Can anyone confirm if this feature will be available on the desktop app as well?
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
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It could be prevented if you could express units in the type system. Declare numeric_value_in_meters and numeric_value_in_yards as types and problem solved. Sure, it still possible that someone would not do that, but having this option is statistically better than not having.
Like the recent Obamacare repeal debacle has shown, a lot of people believe they have a simple solution to complex issues, until they actually try to implement it.
I thought that halos (on low-light, wide pupil dilation) were a possible permanent, not temporary, side-effect. That's the primary thing that's prevented me from seeking LASIK as night flight in a darkened cockpit is prime time to have wide pupil dilation.
I do get a vibe of tone deafness coming from such a reply.

1) You're stating that automated tools are a solution in a thread in a blogpost for a heavily scrutinized tool that has a zero tolerance policy for Coverity problems, uses Valgrind and address sanitizers and still owes more than half of its CVE's to various language and memory safety issues.

2) "The responsibility is in the hands of the programmer" - I think we have argued enough that putting this responsibility in the hands of very imperfect programmers is precisely the problem and we should do the best we can to stop it.

You're minimizing C's security issues again, please stop doing that.
What’s so bad about Scientism?
None, as I was there.

Companies buying UNIX weren't buying X86 systems to run it.

We were using CP/M (on Spectrum +3 A), MS-DOS, Atari, Amiga, C64, ZX Spectrum, MSX.

C was just yet another programming language, nothing special about it.

In fact the only reason to bother having a C compiler on those systems for my group of acquaintances, was to be able to bring home the work done in expensive UNIX computers at school.

C supporters are the ones that like to rewrite history by selling UNIX and C as if they were the genesis of systems programming and OSes.
You can also drive your car without ABS, ESC, and other safety mechanisms. The responsibility is put in the hands of the driver.

Yes, there are reasons to sometimes disable those mechanisms. Yes, it is not a good idea to force everybody right now to abandon cars without it. Still, if you build a school bus today, I would criticize you, if you don't include the safety technology.
Sounds like interesting option, but 98% efficiency seem pretty unreliable, so I will still be at risk 2 times out of 100 intercourses when not counting other factors.

Personally I consider immediately after having second child vasectomy, though if wife would agree I would do it already now (one child is more than enough for me) plus store sperm in bank just in case if changing mind, since I heard reversing vasectomy ain't that successful. Seem safer with 0.15-1% failure rate than this method.
You can do that in C
struct Meters
{
int value;
}
It occurred to me that "x is law" (and the variants "y is bad law" "z is good law") might be specific to American English?
C and C++ programming trainig in Marathahalli
If you are going to count poor people then I agree most of them dont have a choice, I am talking about people who visit HN.
Thank you. I've always enjoyed this quote from Francis M. Cornford, which perhaps takes an opposing view:

Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.
> Well, no. If we're going to be pedantic, we should say MiB (mebibytes), because file sizes on disk are expressed in multiples of powers of 2,

Not true anymore. OS X (and I assume iOS) reports sizes in power-of-10 units.

If you think about it, it is really user-hostile to express file sizes as powers-of-two. Who can remember that a "GiB" is 1073741824 bytes?
So, limiting websites gives the same result? What happens if they change their bidding and did the total amount of impressions change?
Your default setup probably involves using your ISPs DNS resolver, which leaks your DNS queries to your ISP. Your ISP can also see which IP addresses you are connecting to and which website hostnames you're visiting thanks to unencrypted HTTP, and to SNI.

You could re-point your DNS resolver to one of the public DNSCrypt resolvers, but by doing so, all you're doing is making it so that another party gets to see your traffic. Your ISP still knows what you're doing, but now your DNS provider knows too.

From their own front page:

Please note that DNSCrypt is not a replacement for a VPN,
as it only authenticates DNS traffic, and doesn't prevent
third-party DNS resolvers from logging your activity. By
design, the TLS protocol, as used in HTTPS and HTTP/2,
leaks websites host names in plain text, so DNSCrypt is
not enough to hide this information.
It's around the 500 mark at the moment for comment downvoting I believe.
Yes, he did. This value doesn't come from all the "monkey" jobs that most of his employees do. It comes from the ability to produce ideas and making them happen by managing that 341,000 people. You completely underestimate the value of directing a company like Amazon.
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"Each time you make a Voice Call on Telegram, a neural network learns from your and your device‘s feedback (naturally, it doesn’t have access to the contents of the conversation, it has only technical information such as network speed, ping times, packet loss percentage, etc.). The machine optimizes dozens of parameters based on this input, improving the quality of future calls on the given device and network."

What sort of parameters are adjusted?
Why all the negativity?
Is anyone able to shed any light on the FOV correction? I'm not sure I understand exactly what is happening there.
New Mirai Variant Launches 54 Hour DDoS Attack Against US College
> 1) Vasectomies are a surgical procedure, this is an injection. Opening up the male contraceptive market to those unwilling to undergo surgery but willing to get an injection is HUGE.

> 2) Surgery requires healing time, this doesn't.

> 3) The risk of injection is significantly less than the risk of surgery.

> 4) LARCs - Long Acting Reversible Contraception, those that work for an extended period of time without user action but are reversible when pregnancy is desired, are pretty much the holy grail of contraception. Currently we have IUDs and implants as the only LARCs. The Depo Provera shot is sorta-kinda LARC-ish, it requires user action 4 times a year. This is intended to be reversible with a second injection, eventually.

> 5) Adding more contraceptive options, especially for men, is pretty much never a bad idea. Choice is good. Even with all the options there are my spouse and I have not found not a single option that is ideal for us. THIS would be absolutely ideal for us and I'm stoked to hear about it.

> 6) Its much cheaper!

2) it's not like you would have that much sex after children it could not wait for healing
unequal distribution of wealth is the underlying issue, so essentially they are suggesting a progressive tax system whereby higher earners are taxed at a higher rate. Which allows the government to redistribute that wealth towards poorer areas of society whilst not impacting significantly on the living standards of the higher earner.
A biography of Louis Kahn highlights architecture's primal language
> what you search on google appears in the URL so your ISP would know.

Well no, Google searches go over HTTPS, so everything but the host is encrypted.
Curl should be split into micro-services.
No amount of 'type safety' will prevent idiots from being idiots, and with all the other languages, the problem is very often sitting on the chair. People will screw up creatively in any language, and trying to 'hide' that behind a language runtime overhead is idiotic. The good thing with C is that it will catch the worst idiots quickly, so you know not to hire them to write avionics for you.

What is NOT idiotic iswhat you discribe as 'ridiculous amount of verification' as it's often the only thing that will really work to catch mistakes.
Thank you. It would have made more sense to me if the source code to generate the output examples which they posted. Oh well.
If you are young and your inner voice is telling to work on your idea then it's better not to take debt like a house loan or an expensive car loan. Similarly tell your partner to wait for marriage/kids.

Of Course a rich kid won't have to do these sacrifices but the rich kid will probably not have the same intensity and drive as the middle class person who wants to succeed.
well technically she can make choice about her body, but nobody can force doctor to perform the procedure, so unless she can do it by herself then bad luck

and yes i am aware you could sue such doctor or hospital, bit it's just too much have to force someone to do something they don't wanna do
That's a fair point. And for a large portion of software the benefits of C/C++ do not outweigh the potential costs and code should be written in a more protective language.

But that does not change the fact that C/C++ is preferable and often the best choice in certain domains.
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Something like the NATO alphabet works well for me, and i have a foreign name and email address.
It is without doubt very impressive, but on longer texts the lack of understanding will be apparent. Wrong semantic stresses, incorrect pronunciation of homographs, maybe inconsistent pronunciation of names, and so on.

Perfect speech synthesis from unannotated text will require much more complex system. It will need database of common knowledge in some form, ability to relate text to that database, ability to retain and use this semantic information to guide synthesis. That is, it should be a step closer to artificial general intelligence.
Using interface explicit imlementation for creating a builder class
No, you won't kill it so casually. It is:
"legally bought from the thieves".
how much it cost in US? though i am from EU but i would be curious if it's covered by insurance since it has nothing really to do with my health and it's just my wish for my own convenience, i should really talk to my own general doctor i haven't seen in almost 20 years or maybe i should contact some reproduction clinic

i am more worried about cost of freezing sperm since i am relatively young and you never know
Five scenarios where MQTT can be used for Industrial Automation
> Secondly, you can't revoke rights previously granted.

gotcha.

just for argument's sake, what prevents me to become an incorporated entity under Free Software Foundation in a different country?
I wonder why. That high pitched noise should be a downer evolution wise.
It's one thing to criticize somebody over a missing feature or a bug. It doesn't take an engineer to author a valid complaint when a car door handle falls off. It's another thing entirely to criticize an entire methodology or to try to dictate exactly how something should be done.
The Pareto principle (80/20) most definitely applies to advertising.

If you let google or FB choose where to show your ads, you are going to have a bad time.
While I agree with the sentiment that companies have a poor track record of protecting personal data, I'd like to clarify that a "zip code of data" is not anonymized intentionally, which is what makes picking out individuals so easy.

There is a technique of intentionally anonymizing data [1] that I learned about because that Apple was talking it up in relation to storing health information. I'm only a layman, but my understanding is that it makes it much, much harder to do an analysis like you describe.

[1] The term is Differential Privacy. Here's a tutorial video (1 hour, 34 mins): https://youtu.be/ekIL65D0R3o
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No. In the US almost always whoever owns the wire that leads to your house also provides your IP transit service. Since there is almost always only one wire, it follows that there is also only one ISP.
Zach Anner recently did something similar showing just how long it takes to get across New York when in a wheelchair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhpUJRGrZgc
Based on their tech docs[1], it seems pretty good.

1: https://core.telegram.org/api/end-to-end/voice-calls#key-ver...
So he basically rates permissive licenses invariably better than copyleft?
It sounds like there's a niche for a non-insurance insurer. It wouldn't actually pay for procedures, but in return for a low monthly membership fee, it would negotiate on behalf of the members for their bills, just like an insurance company does.
The Brookings Institute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Institution) agrees with you: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2014/...

Their study looks at different forms of electricity generation from the perspective of 'costs avoided' (e.g. avoided carbon emissions), net cost of generation (e.g. nameplate vs. actual generation), and total system costs (e.g. grid balancing / stabilising costs). On 'costs avoided', their base-case assumption is a $50 per tonne price on co2 emissions.

The study concludes:

"Assuming that reductions in carbon dioxide emissions are valued at $50 per metric ton and the price of natural gas is not much greater than $16 per million Btu, the net benefits of new nuclear, hydro, and natural gas combined cycle plants far outweigh the net benefits of new wind or solar plants. Wind and solar power are very costly from a social perspective because of their very high capacity cost, their very low capacity factors, and their lack of reliability.

For example, adjusting U.S. solar and wind capacity factors to take account of lack of reliability, we estimate that it would take 7.30 MW of solar capacity, costing roughly four times as much per MW to produce the same electrical output with the same degree of reliability as a baseload gas combined cycle plant. It requires an investment of approximately $29 million in utility-scale solar capacity to produce the same output with the same reliability as a $1 million investment in gas combined cycle. Reductions in the price of solar photovoltaic panels have reduced costs for utility-scale solar plants, but photovoltaic panels account for only a fraction of the cost of a solar plant. Thus such price reductions are unlikely to make solar power competitive with other electricity technologies without government subsidies.

Wind plants are far more economical in reducing emissions than solar plants, but much less economical than hydro, nuclear and gas combined cycle plants. Wind plants can operate at a capacity factor of 30 percent or more and cost about twice as much per MW to build as a gas combined cycle plant. Taking account of the lack of wind reliability, it takes an investment of approximately $10 million in wind plants to produce the same amount of electricity with the same reliability as a $1 million investment in gas combined cycle plants."

And here are my calculations on German solar and wind capacity factors (they're awful): https://gist.github.com/anonymous/f1a6d064890d67fbfc98d66dbd...

Not that anyone here will care about any of this. This issue has pretty much become a matter of blind religious fear & faith.
Then prove to me she was casting Sanders as a racist.

Show me how Sanders' campaign was not lackluster when wooing black voters.
There are totally legal things you can buy which, if revealed publically, can cause someone massive negative harm. Which means a significant percentage of people will be willing to pay to keep them a secret. Any site which stores these details is now open to attack, since their database is worth money.

Some specific examples:

* Someone who is publicly seen as an evangelical Christian buying Richard Dawkins books.
* A closeted gay person buying any pro-LGBT book/film.
* A woman buying sex toys.
* An elementary school teacher who buys pornography.
* Almost absolutely medical thing. (Think of a blackmail opportunities from the calendar of a therapist or their notes).

If websites/shops don't store this data, then their database is worth much less.
True, I did think that - since it is a pretty obvious idea that anyone can think of - to use it as a signal to the called party, but was thinking more in terms of India being a less rich country (broadly), so more people may do it here to save money :), since, though it's only a little each time, it can add up if one calls people a lot. On the other hand, India nowadays has very cheap mobile rates compared to many other countries, I've read.
When you create an archive, Xcode includes the full version of your app but allows you to export variants from the archive. I think most enterprise users disable bitcode for simplicity but it's possible to slice the variants and deliver the correct one to your users based on their device if you want to.
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If the data can be used to target ads at individuals, then it clearly isn't anonymous in any meaningful sense of the word.
For an incredibly interesting and riveting (even "just" for the fictional parts) treatment of Soviet's attempt at planning the whole economy I always suggest Red Plenty by Francis Spufford.
Get it, read it, become a fan.
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> All of the potential problems are known and there are tools to deal with them.

This is untrue. There are tools out there to deal with a lot of the issues, but not all of them. Due to what C allows and the halting problem, you cannot create such tools. Static analysis and dynamic sanitizers are still useful of course, but let's not pretend they're a solution.
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Emojis in this case are just sort of visual representation of the keys two users exchange before communication.

In theory this makes MitM attack impractical.

https://core.telegram.org/techfaq#q-how-are-voice-calls-auth...

https://core.telegram.org/api/end-to-end/voice-calls#key-ver...
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Oh dear oh dear. Private banks create money. If only it were state lead.
Hiro's love interest in 'Snow Crash'.
Yes, but on the other hand rasterization is implemented in hardware on GPUs which gives it a great performance advantage. Also, sorting before rasterizing allows most triangles to be discarded before any fragments are created. Besides, creating and traversing an acceleration structure does definitely not make ray tracing free. Especially traversal is not exactly cache-friendly. Also, rays passing closely by geometry, but not hitting it, will traverse rather deep into the tree and then backtrack, which is rather costly. Another advantage of rasterization is that it is data-parallel at the vertex level. The disadvantage is that it is far less flexible in what you can render compared to ray tracing; it's only really practical for camera rays.
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Except Jeff Bezos doesn't produce those ideas, or make them happen, or directly manage 341,000 people.

All of that is done by his employees. The ideas, the innovation and the execution are done by people other than him, while the credit and most of the value they create is taken by him.
Brexit makes the economics of Scottish independence much more attractive