skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scout, 16, confronts neo-Nazi at Czech rally
I think the post was good, but I was definitely surprised when I clicked the link to his venture capital firm only to see the ™ symbol next to "The Internet of Agreements".
Hi all, I'm the major contributor of this project. If you have any questions or thoughts about the project, I'm here to listen and answer.
Plenty of scratch users have been manually modifying the .json files contained with in the .zip/.sb2 archive, to create "hacked blocks", which are not possible to create with the Scratch GUI.
If this gets more people to think about and work on safe AI (because as it stands almost nobody does), I'm all for it.

If the safe AI problem isn't solved by the time AGI arrives, I fear ending up with something equivalent to Skynet would be among our best outcomes.
In (Québec?) French, "pirate informatique" is the term used for malicious security breaker. I rather like that. I'm not sure what phrase is used for people who share copyrighted materials online, but probably informally "pirate" is also used.
Nested namedtuples are way, way better than the proposed approach. I've found that nested dictionaries in Python are fragile in two dimensions: not only do you have no guarantee that the values in your dictionaries are appropriately typed, you have no guarantee that the keys even exist! The whole thing just collapses in a messy heap if you look at it sideways. Furthermore, it's very hard to check to see whether anything has been changed deep within your crazy nested dictionary structure. With nested namedtuples, immutability lets you use "is" on the root to see whether anything has changed deep inside. Sure, you can't say foo.bar.baz.quux = 5, but did you really want to do that, knowing how hard it would be to use that information?
>Yes, most wells are productive for about 30 years

Wait, I haven't looked at geothermal in a long time so I'm not at all up to speed on the current state of the at. But previously you wrote:

>and so geothermal plants are generally only built in areas that require shallow (1km) wells

That sounds like your "30 years" number there is for shallow wells. Intuitively it doesn't seem like this logic would necessarily be identical for deeper wells: obviously at some depth the rock is always extremely hot (or, in fact, molten). The article seems to indicate that they expect a deeper well to produce higher temperatures and pressures, in turn allowing more energy production, and that seems like it'd make sense. Maybe 1km vs 5km makes no difference in lifetime beyond that, but does your analysis include deep wells already in an equivalent area? Otherwise it doesn't seem reasonable to extrapolate past lifetimes of shallow wells to future lifetimes of deep wells, even ignoring that they say they'll be able to achieve far higher energy generation per well.
> Heck, I'd be happy if to buy a phone from someone who just resells devices after flashing a decent ROM onto them and makes updates easy somehow.

Sadly this would be useless without Google Apps and it's license forbid it. Google doesn't care as long as you install GApps on your own device, but anyone who try to sell would clearly trigger lawsuit.
It's not a problem, I get use to it everywhere is someone negative, I just want to share with all of you my first game, I'm glad that you like game, please rate it if you can, that would be very helpful :)
Is it? Sounds like a definition to me. Consciousness is the sheer fact of subjectivity (i.e., that it is "like something" to be you).
For something that's expected to sell for over $10m, I doubt they figured one internet article would surely help sell it. I'm fairly confident anyone who seriously wants to buy one of these already knows it's up for auction.
Map shows how religion spread around the world
There are some areas where GNU (particularly glibc) is somewhat bloaty in the code department compared to other implementations. That can, sometimes, matter, but I agree it tends to be a question of taste and not one of morals.
Essentially a perfectionist who can't settle, reminds me of myself.

I've made a good experience with Arch Linux, and since I didn't care much about the init system it worked quite well for me. Sadly the hardware didn't so I ended up in another world again. Happens I guess.
I was not advocating for protectionist measures.

People who had well paid manufacturing jobs were not in the bottom 20%. Increases in quality of life of the bottom 20% is irrelevant to the point that manufacturing jobs have seriously declined and this has hurt a large segment of the population.

I don't know nor care what your agenda is, but putting on blinders to obvious and undeniable facts in no way helps your case. People used to be able to get well paid factory jobs in the US without any special education. It isn't the end of the world -- average education needed for entry level work has been trending up for more than a hundred years -- but it absolutely is a hardship for a certain segment of the population.
Only tangentially related, but if you ever get the chance to check out the Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva you should do so. I'm not really a watch geek so before going there I was kind of "meh", but that place is incredible.

They have thousands of timepieces, some dating back to 1530. To see what people have been able to accomplish with nothing but springs and tiny gears is nothing short of mind-blowing. As a technologist it's pretty humbling, considering all the advantages we have today and yet ancient watchmakers could do this work literally with nothing but hand tools.
I've always felt the same way. Looks really cool, and probably a lot more appropriate for a movie than what people would really use, but really awkward and impractical for the tasks it's supposed to help accomplish.

It's sort of like having to swing a Wiimote to swing a sword in a game. Initial novelty value is great, but after a while, if you could do the same thing by simply pushing a button, why wouldn't you just push a button? No matter how good the motion tracking is, if it's not the most efficient way to accomplish the task, there's no point to it.

Aside from how cool it looks and the cinematic qualities that made it appropriate for the movie, everything he used that UI for could have been done much more efficiently with a mouse and keyboard-based UI.
Stanford Seminar – Cryptology and Security: The View from 2016
Maybe you could use RNNs to do the sentiment analysis, either Recurrent or Recursive Neural Networks. Some sample code is available in the book "Tensorflow for machine intelligence" in github.
Possible image of Echo with a built-in touchscreen found on Amazon's servers
That's my point. Anybody can shove in gigs of data, clean it up some, provide easily digestible samples, make a whole lot of parameters (or let the system decide), and scrape the data out.

How is it working? What criteria does it work and fail? Does it work for black people? Does it work for women's hands? (Or does it work for anyone out of university?) does it handle people with hand defects or missing digits?

That's right... We don't know unless we test this. And only by adding more data can we even determine those questions. And we haves no clue how its working, what features its using, or anything. Just, that it does work. And it doesn't for conditions were unsure of.

Now this is a great starting plank for determining the underlying math. But even the cost of compute seems high for what it could ideally be, if we understood what was going on.
You are referring to the soft problem of consciousness, which is not what the argument is about. I too am convinced that the hard problem of consciousness is beyond the scope of science. It is beyond science not in the sense that it violates the laws of physics but because when you get right down to it, your consciousness is the only "real" thing that you can ever know about. Everything else you supposedly "know" - every concept, every derived "laws" of physics are thought models
which you only know by being conscious of them. A very crude analogy would be to say that consciousness is like a camera that enables science to be done, but the camera can't take a picture of itself.
Yet another anti-GNU, anti-systemd article.

For folks interested in reading about how distros bootstrap themselves, the GNU Guix manual has some good details:

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Bootstrap...
That perception means they risk to lose real market share if they get caught doing something shady. Which means they don't do shady things in my experience.

I don't want to turn this into a tired apple-vs-windows thread, so if you can't see why Apple's lack of ads on their desktop is indicative of a fundamentally different view of their users, and a selling point for me, you are free to do so. I see a difference worth paying for (and you are free to call me a sucker I guess).
Right. But in almost all cases I'd prefer to do away with it entirely, and not encourage extra variables for the sake of usage. It makes code more ambiguous (for anybody not coming from javascript and being used to it)
"not uncommon" is far far from "common". If you're writing your own malloc replacement you're pretty deep into the weeds of high performance computing. Heck even just deciding to replace the stock implementation with an off-the-shelf replacement puts you in fairly rarified company. I'd wager the vast majority of software written for Linux makes use of the standard glibc allocator.

I expect high performance games are the most common exception, but they represent a fraction of the C/C++ in the wild.

Space leaks in Haskell, on the other hand, are unfortunately relatively easy to introduce.
I think your assertion is false. Isn't necessity the "mother of invention"? Creativity is a part of human nature, everyone has it, to a degree, and it's something we use not only out of passion, but to resolve pain, to make our lives easier, to help people, and even to do evil things like commit crimes etc.
Unfortunately I think you're right and not sure why you're downvoted.
I just researched it, it's actually worse, the GI of maltodextrin is like 105-130, that's higher than plain sugar or dextrose.

I didn't know that... thanks, I've actually switched my subscription to Biolent, the carbs in it come from oat and buckwheat flour, it has more fibers and no fast carbs as far as I can tell. I'm Canadian so it's only slightly more expensive for me.
To tag on to this question a little bit. If someone wanted to teach themselves, even without the purpose of getting a job. What books / references would be recommended?

I saw a mention to David Barber's book in one of the threads here, but what else?
That sounds to me like they're testing for the ability to name or remember things. For all we know, the patient (heck, other beings in general) don't experience anything at all (i.e., are philosophical zombies). It's easy to conflate all these things with what we're really trying to get at.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Summer_Time#2005.E2.80....

> Until 2005, the start and end of IDT each year was established in an ad hoc fashion as the result of haggling between political parties representing various sectors of Israeli society. Parties representing religious groups wanted the start delayed till after Passover and the end to precede Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, while the secular parties would argue for starting it earlier and ending it later.

Sounds like business as usual for a modern 2-party state. What was more interesting to me, as a programmer, was the next line:

> In the past, the unpredictability of IDT in Israel became frustrating enough that Microsoft Windows stopped trying to track changes and just made Israeli time be Greenwich Mean Time plus two hours (GMT+2) (and disabled the daylight saving option). This has led to various ad hoc solutions to the problem in Windows systems and other Microsoft software (e.g. Outlook calendar entries are often off by an hour when shared, due to the lack of IDT support). On November 17, 2009, Microsoft released an update that has daylight saving time enabled for Israel. However, the date for transition back to Standard Time is set as the Second Sunday of September, regardless of the Hebrew Calendar date.[4] Windows 7 does contain correct IDT times up to 2023, but not all software makes use of this extra information.

OK, I know that I'm supposed to just import my system date/time library for timekeeping functions. Because it's too complicated for mortals like me, while Microsoft, Apple, Google, and other major institutions can handle all the inanities.

But Microsoft gave up on this one? Ouch.
No, it's an article about making a new Linux distro, with a brief summary of my motivations. Someday I might write an anti-GNU, anti-systemd article, but this is hardly it.
Nothing is a waste of time so long as you learn from it.
Simple solution: drop the science schtick for two seconds while discussing consciousness. I think the Hacker News culture betrays an unspoken terror of being wrong about anything for any length of time, and that's why it will admit no other tool for thought or investigation, other than its collective idiosyncratic caricature of science.
The annoyance here is a feature not a bug. Deeply nested dictionaries, in my experience, are a source of infinite KeyErrors. The problem with using a dictionary as a cheap object is that it's very easy for it to be an object you weren't expecting. Don't nest dictionaries in Python!
If Apple were to buy Netflix, which I don't think would make any sense from a business perspective. That being said, the only thing that would make even less sense would be for Apple to buy Netflix and then make it no longer available on the web or any device other than Mac. That would make 0 sense. And I'm sure you are aware Apple Music for instance is built and supports both iOS and Android.
Do we even have enough Lithium to supply 100 gigafactories? Recycling Lithium batteries is still quite difficult.
They also won't accept you as a donor if you have any kind of auto-immune disease (because we still don't know how it works and if it can be transfered via blood cells or marrow), and generally, your body has to be in good shape.

I thought about donating but my doctor discouraged me and advised me to take it serious, e.g. don't lie while filling out the donation forms. Even though it probably would turn out fine someone could die because of you which is exactly the opposite of what you've signed up for.
The version of Messenger which works is:

com.facebook.orca-25.0.0.17.14-8972666-minAPI14.apk

You'll find it on APK sites (or, I have a copy)
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Aspirin May Prevent Cancer from Spreading, New Research Shows
How would iOS get pirated when the only way to install it is by using a certificate that only Apple holds? If it was easy enough to reverse engineer iOS and remove that install requirement, I'm sure it would have been done by now.
It looks like Amazon’s Video app is finally coming to Apple TV this summer
I think it's more advertising for Patek in general. The handful of people who have both the means and desire to purchase such an object likely got informed by their personal networks long ago. But Patek wants to sell $20k Calatravas to merely affluent people who want "the best watch" and this piece helps position the brand. I'd not be surprised if there was significant PR effort from Patek behind the scenes on this one.
It seems to me that it is not possible for science to explain to me why I am me and not someone else - why I was born on this planet and not some other, why the date I was and not some other.

That's simply outside the reach of science. Science is not a tool that can answer that question. I'm sure someone will tell me that my question is meaningless to begin with - ironically I think the answers to the questions scientists seek about consciousness are permanently beyond the event horizon of that very meaningless they accuse my question of.
I am fully aware of that. My hope is to have HN people remove my ban.
No, Ethereum and Bitcoin both use proof of work (for now).
thanks for the comment, we'll update the indexes used in postgres.
we tried to be as objective as possible and of course show our sweet spot. we don't want to treat postgres unfair, if you have suggestions on how to improve indexing in postgres we'd be happy to take that into account. (full disclosure: i'm co-founder of crate.io).
See my comment above, wish I could edit to clarify that I didn't think I was competitive for the _research_, just all the software engineering that comes with it.
Ya, I like typing on the iPhone keyboard but the BlackBerry keyboard is very powerful in that it also acts like a ton of shortcut keys that you can use from any application. I think that's actually the more compelling use for the physical keyboard. People who like keyboard shortcuts on their computer might really love keyboard shortcuts on their Android.
I suddenly have The Buggles in my head singing "Software Killed the Hardware Star". The article's subtitle mentions the watch "needs a service". Well, that service could be CalDav if it was a software timepiece on a digital platform, and no skilled tradesman with tweezers would be involved.

Yes, a Patek Phillippe is a thing of physical beauty. However, for functionality like this software wins the day.
>> The problem with many tech analysts is that they are Apple fanboys without even knowing that they are.

That's true for most of the discussion on the internet: so much talk about how Apple's chips/apps/ui/build-quality/founders/etc are so much better.

But almost no talk at all about how modern brands get built, and what such brands give to users: for example, the ability to tell stories(implicitly or explicitly) to themselves and others, stories that make them feel good about themselves.

And i don't think it's fair to demand those users to forefit that right, after they paid so much for it.
I'm not the author but I'll attempt to clear up the confusion based on what I've read.

Total.js's specific usage of "embedded" in this case means it includes 3000 lines[1] of pure Javascript that embeds the entire db engine source code into the project.

As for SQLite... as far as I can tell with Googling, there is no port of SQLite's C code to pure Javascript code that's maintained with popular support. (I found an old 2014 project[2][3] but it doesn't appear to be up-to-date.) Yes, there is a Javascript API[4] to SQLite but that's different from the SQLite engine itself being converted to 100% Javascript.

That's the nuance of "embedded" in Total.js' context. Yes, SQLite is an embedded db but nosql.js is even "more embedded" than that.

That said, whether Total.js embedded js db engine is as high performance and error-free compared to SQLite is unknown.

[1] https://github.com/totaljs/framework/blob/master/nosql.js

[2] 100% Javascript translated from SQLite C source --> https://github.com/lovasoa/sql.js

[3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15415076/sql-js-in-javasc...

[4] some Javascript driving a SQLite C Language compiled binary --> https://www.npmjs.com/package/sqlite3
You're not wrong, but all the applications I care about run on Linux:

- emacs

- vi

- zsh

- st

- SBCL

- tmux

- Inkscape

- sxiv

- Firefox

- Gnucash

- GraphicsMagick

- Nethack

- Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

- Minecraft

Of those, only Minecraft isn't developed on Linux first (and maybe Firefox, depending on how you define that condition).

I can be productive. I can read email (in emacs, of course!). I can play games. I can read documents. I can browse the Web. I feel as though my needs have been met.
It sucks that you are doing the boring data cleansing job. And those people with degrees do the more interesting higher level analysis.
If you are anti-GNU and anti-systemd, I am highly skeptical of your design choices.
Find a niche that needs filling. If you can write software, write something that helps fill a need. You can then sell the software (or at least try to). If that fails, you can embed ads into it such that they're not annoying. Most people understand it. If there are ads, they'll ignore them, but it generates revenue for you. Your skills and billboard space (your creations) are what generate income.

If you can build something, do it. There will always be a customer, whether they'll pay well is another question.

If you want to do it the blackhat way, churn and burn. It's the reason why the internet is full of garbage now, why there are millions of blogs that talk and talk but say nothing. Do you like lists? Write those down and catch someone's attention, then backlink other blogs using keywords and SEO. Feed off of each other's client stream, the clients being the soul-drained tube riders that would rather click through a thousand boring pointless lists than talk to the rider next to them. Then find ways to amplify that.
Awesome, are you an engineer too? A few questions if you don't mind me asking:

1. How serious are you about your child's coding education?

2. Do you teach her/him too?

3. Would you ever hire an instructor in a 1-on-1 or 1-on-2 setting if it were affordable?
Right, but did the users you've personally known doing this figure it out on their own and were they "new" to coding. To me Scratch is awesome, but doesn't to me feel like a tool for teaching people to hack at things.
Just checked transactions on my credit card. Most of my Starbucks purchases are five dollars and some odd cents. Seems like he nailed it. I'm in Atlanta.
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#compari...

It's one of those things I probably wouldn't want to use.

Like the 'else' clause of a for loop is useful sometimes, but when you use every single feature of a language it makes it harder for newcomers to read.
Thank you for the reminder. I signed up.

The day after the House passed the awful AHCA, it's nice to feel I am doing something to potentially improve the health of another.
I don't know whether it's actually beyond the scope of science, but it's currently extremely premature for restricting all thought and discussion about it to narrow hard science.
Most parts of the US are just as safe. Just stay away from urban crime zones.
Thank you. I was confused.
Other than the brand factor, iPhone is actually a better phone. Before the current iPhone I have, I had always been an Android user. I used entry-level Android phones, high-end Android phones such as Samsung Galaxy, iPhone is clearly a better phone. iOS feels more smooth, reliable, battery-efficient in many ways than Android phones. Honestly, I have not looked back since the switch.
IBM Set to Drop $5B in Value After Buffett Sheds a Third of His Stake
Machine learning is only a small part of data science.
Dumb question and I'm not trying to be pendantic: if the whole world got their power from geothermal, which must (I assume) extract heat and thus cool the core, at what point is there some effect (on magnetic poles? rotation of earth? tides??)?

I wonder similar things about solar - what effect is there on global weather patterns when enough solar energy to make a difference is extracted from the environment? Like, what would happen globally if the entire state of Arizona was in the shadow of solar arrays?
"That's required for transparency"

Other companies handle abuse reports just fine without ever having to give away the identity of the whistle blower.

> This kind of thinking

A public website is not a private workload. You are comparing apples and oranges. And in any case, Amazon prohibits offensive content in their acceptable use policy. https://aws.amazon.com/aup/. If someone reported you for unacceptable use, count on Amazon invading your "privacy".
The additional advantage of Geotermal from an operations standpoint it has 0 marginal cost which guarantees it will be producing on most economically dispatched power grids.
Haha neat, that means this works very cleanly as a conversion mechanism:

my_dict = {
'a': 1,
'b': 2
}

d = SimpleNamespace(**my_dict)
print(d.a)
What curriculum do you use?

I am working on a project in the space, I would love to ask you some questions if you don't mind!