skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly have no idea. Clearly given the number of smart people and amount of money being thrown at the problem (without being able to produce a real seamless massive persistent on-line world without compromises) this is very hard.

I also wonder how it handles very large entities that might span across clusters (say a large spaceship with thousands of entities spread across multiple decks and in different area). Since all of those things are entities in a sense, and there might be many ships, how does it handle this?

No idea, but the fact that this can be asked at all is pretty interesting.
My apologies, I stated that wrong. I had thought I remembered there being an issue with Google's "Secure Search" making search keywords unavailable to websites (which it did) but that Google Analytics had a Google-specific way around that. But I can't find documentation for that, so it was probably me misunderstanding things.
Thanks for the downvotes! But seriously, do you honestly think that Microsoft is spying on your more than Google, Facebook, or Amazon? And do you think your Mac OS doesn't have the exact same sort of telemetry (or more!) that Windows has?

The 90's are over.
What content gets upvoted or downvoted on these sites is very largely random in terms of content. It seems to be related to how the first few people who see the article react to it. Once it has gained enough votes initially, somehow or other the stupidity of crowds gets it more and more votes.
Signed up! I'll be interested to see how the Patreon thing goes as well.
PouchDB is good for nosql, which is good for relation db, graph db?
Actually it is different. The difference might not matter in some cases, and in other cases it will.

Running on a VM means running on emulated devices, running in a Userland host means running on native devices. WSL is to windows as Wine is to Linux.

A really trivial example is the buffer cache. On a Linux kernel it will take big chunks of memory to buffer disk blocks that it has read and dirtied. When run in a VM it continues to have that behavior so for a given disk you have two sets of disk caches, one in the VM and one in the host kernel. Twice the cache with half the management smarts.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14319922
How do you justify that definition of progress? And how do you draw a connection between "increasing efficiency in the modes of operation" and "good" (or even "desirable") -- if you do?
I had hoped for constructive or thoughtful replies, but yours is just trolling.
You could also use deep features (pre-trained for ImageNet classification) and use them in your Q-function approximator in such a way that the Q-function is linear wrt some high-level features. Then, you get the best of both: being able to process complex visual input while being able to do reinforcement learning with very few training trajectories. See [1] for an example (in simulation).

[1] http://rll.berkeley.edu/visual_servoing/
LPT(1984): Keep a roll of small round dot stickers handy. Black dots are harder to notice on the lens.
I'm not a backer, but it seems to me that Star Citizen is progressing well. There's still active development and progress to the actual game, there's been several demos released, there's been constant communication.

As long as they continually scheduling and releasing new Alpha builds incorporating their growing world as they flesh it out, I don't see cause for concern.
...Yet?
I didn't mean to offend. I'm just saying that if you think paying for an OS means you won't have data collection, then you're unlikely to find a smartphone that suits you.

My point, exactly, is that Microsoft is just another tech company these days. They're not the Evil Empire. At best, they are one of Many Evil Fiefdoms.

I understand that people are up in arms about data collection. And I understand that Microsoft tends to bungle any kind of public messaging about data collection. I'm just pointing out that every mobile OS, at least, collects tons of data.

And do you write Microsoft with a $? :)
While it may be useful, it is not a "beautiful" tool. "find" is one of the ugliest Unix tools to use due to the obscure, confusing and self-conflicting configuration options it takes.
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Ask HN: What do you think of JetBrains products?
I recently started using RubyMine and I'm curious on other people's opinions on this.
I can appreciate that. I don't think that I'd agree with your conclusions, but I can understand the desire.

Here's another question: how does an immortal AI seeing Sirius thousands of years after your death help you with this at all? It seems entirely tangential to me.
Neurons practically never die, so the DNA itself will not directly reflect what a decades old braincell stores, though some mutations might influence how or if at all a certain neuron stores something. But since these mutations are random they are closer to defects (the article draws a connection to psychiatric diseases) than features.

But DNA can also be methylated, which is something that also happens in neurons and might be involved with actual memory.

And if you ever want to digitize a brain, then you might have to grab the DNA of 100 billion neurons as well, and there straightforward mutations are easier than just a somewhat transient methyl group here and there.
Can you explain what your comment means?
Just as with children, who started it isn't particularly relevant. What is most important is that the person running things now is responsible for it.

Last year, Obama was responsible for it. This year, right on through to the end of his presidency, Trump is responsible for it.
>Flexe did it without spending a nickel on facilities and already has 25 million square feet of storage, about 25 percent of Amazon’s capacity...

This comparison is extremely misleading. Amazon either leases or outright owns their warehouse space and thus has total control over it. But Flexe's 25 million square feet are just listings; the property owner, not Flexe, has control over it, and if a better marketplace comes along they might choose to leave Flexe and list somewhere else.
Devils advocate play here - when NYC via Robert Moses built more highways and tunnels to ease congestion, more cars got on the road and soon the problem was recreated
Stress (and especially sleep deprivation) has a noticeable effect on my immune system. Dunno about people in general.
What isn't a rotting cesspool in your opinion? iOS or Android?
I downloaded the iso during the free upgrade period but didn't get around to installing it until last weekend.

On my first attempt I agreed to a prompt to download updates to the installer; it then told me I needed to have a key to continue.

So I started again without downloading the updates, and I could install and activate without a key.
Adtech.
Yeah, the secret sauce seems to be in how they handle interactions split across clusters. It's not a simple problem.
> As for your accusation of fud, fud by defnition is about false or disinformation in combination with the appeal to fear.

By what definition? FUD is literally just the words "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt." Nothing about those words requires the thing being referred to to be false or disinformation.

Less pedantically, propaganda/astroturfing doesn't need to be a lie or an exaggeration or anything of the sort, to serve its purpose. You get just as much of an effect from selectively highlighting some true facts while downplaying others.

The irony the parent is referring to is that you are highlighting some facts about Microsoft [which support the story you wish to tell] while downplaying others [which do not], and so your comment serves as effective anti-Microsoft propaganda (i.e. "FUD") whether or not every statement in it is true.

> As for what power, I don't know how you can be serious and ask such a question.

Likely because—at least if they live in SV—it's almost assuredly true that almost nobody the parent knows uses Microsoft products any more. They have no cultural power, in the sense of having control of cultural influencers. They might still have a large foothold in the enterprise, but—unless there is a massive resurgence—that foothold will die exactly one generation of IT people from now, when nobody of the new generation will have bothered to learn the Windows stack.

> We have, for years at that. See above gnu.org link for a start.

You are not debating charitably here. There is a difference—and you know it—between "what you fear" in a general, ideological sense; and immediate fears of what can and is likely to happen given the current landscape.

The parent poster is asking the latter: what about the current Microsoft—without reference to history, without knowledge of history—do you fear?
(while most here understands CPU RAM RAII DRY etc., you might want to mentions that SNP means "single nucleotide polymorphism", which are mutations where just a single base pair differs.)
If it's "not unreasonable" for them to reject warranty claims if you run in shoes "not intended for running", does that mean it is reasonable to make a warranty claim on shoes "intended for fashion" if you're not picked up while wearing them?

"Wore these heels to six bars, didn't get hit on once. Please repair or refund."
Small prediction - Over the next 5 years you are going to see all the media pick up gut bacteria as the next revolution of medical science as we learn how all this shit works. It is like a 2nd brain in your body and the foreign bacteria are so interesting in what they can do.
Accuracy is a useless metric for something like this. If you have binary data filled with 97% zeros (ie most of the time it is not arrhythmia) you can use the sophisticated machine learning technique of:

if(TRUE) return(0)

This will give you 97% accuracy.

EDIT:

I just read the headline earlier. Now after checking:

>"The study involved 6,158 participants recruited through the Cardiogram app on Apple Watch. Most of the participants in the UCSF Health eHeart study had normal EKG readings. However, 200 of them had been diagnosed with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (an abnormal heartbeat). Engineers then trained a deep neural network to identify these abnormal heart rhythms from Apple Watch heart rate data."

So 1 - 200/6158 = 0.9675219. My method performs just as well as theirs if we round to the nearest percent. This is ridiculous.
Windows 10 has multi-desktop support baked in. They keyboard shortcuts could be made better, but they're there too.
As long as you start ConEmu with "-run {bash}", everything works very well, yes.
I think we are saying the same thing.

You say science is the realization of logic and critical thought. I'm saying "people" are uneducated about logic and critical thought and hence will clearly not understand "science".
An electric boat is probably slow also.
The entire idea is a work of fiction (I live in the SW desert). diebir went on a hike and saw beautiful public lands being utilized by ranchers utilizing their public grazing (which they pay for, though perhaps not enough which is subjective). All cattle ranchers that I've ever seen in 25 years have their own land, but depending on the season they lease rights from the BLM.

It's very strange for people to live their whole lives doing some activity in a rural area, then some city person spends a couple weeks in the area, and suddenly these people are being attacked.
> other forms of renewable (And non-renewable) energy generation kill more people then nuclear does, per KWH produced.

And stairs are the most deadly form of transportation, by miles traveled per year.
You can do a lot of this already with this tool [1] that uses the images on Docker Hub to replace the contents of the lxss folder. It's a little clunky but worked well enough for my limited needs.

[1] https://github.com/RoliSoft/WSL-Distribution-Switcher
Maybe the bash logo:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=chakra&q=bash+logo&yeg=B&ia=images...
What UI library did you use on iOS and Android?
Why does an HTTP server need to have a dns resolver? What purpose does it serve?
Or, for that matter, fifty miles from where a flood is happening now.
No, doctors do not have "too much information to consume" especially in relation to new drugs on the market.

In the highly specialized field of medicine, you do not need to know about every drug that comes out every year. You only need to know about the handful of drugs that are important to your specialty. Further physicians should be reading medical literature regarding the efficacy of these new drugs and should not be getting their education from a pharmacy rep with a bachelors in communication.

This idea that we wouldn't have any new drugs if American's didn't pay exorbitant fees for pharamaceuticals is completely false. It's a rationalization that we Americans have come up with to feel better about being taken to the cleaners by pharma companies.

I had the displeasure of working for a company that was bought out by a multi-national pharma. The crap they pulled disgusted me to the point that I quit without another job lined up. If you think contributing to a company that improves click rates is pointless, try contributing to a company that uses its leverage to eviscerate its customers on their deathbeds. It's infuriarating.
Gregory Bateson has a good piece in one of his books (it might have been "Steps to an Ecology of Mind") where he derives from cybernetic principals the result that Darwinian evolution works better than Lamarckian.

The key insight is that we can think of meta-evolution driving the form of the "first-order" evolution, meaning we evolved to evolve Darwinian-ly. (In practice meta-evolution cannot be separated from evolution, there is only one.)

This implies that we should expect limited Lamarckian evolution anywhere it leads to greater fitness than Darwinian.

From this POV epigenetic mechanisms are expected.

(I still look askance and the so-called "Central Dogma" of biology. Why on Earth would you assume that genes can't be changed by soma? If there was adaptive advantage to being able to edit DNA then it seems like cells and viruses would have it.
As I typed that my brain said: CRISPR stoopid. SO, yeah, duh.)
It depends on how you look at it. The classic EEE involved e.g. "embracing" a platform like the web by writing your own browser, and then "extending" said platform by adding nonstandard features to that browser—and encouraging their adoption—to steal mindshare of the platform away from the standard itself and toward your particular implementation, giving you control over the future of the platform. At which point you could "extinguish" the platform, or at least your rivals on it.

WSL doesn't look to be "extending" Linux; in fact, it's all about providing the exact ABI Linux itself provides, and running Linux applications and operating systems without requiring any porting. There are no e.g. WSL-only syscalls exposed to Linux applications, such that Linux applications would benefit at all of being aware of WSL or targeting it. As far as the code running under WSL is concerned, it's just POSIX.

To me, that's actually a strategy strangely opposed to classical Microsoft EEE: this move commoditizes the Windows platform. There are many developers who will now see Windows as "just another POSIX", and will experience less of the unique, Windows-only parts of the platform, making them less locked into Windows as a whole.

There's no plausible end-goal here where Windows would ever be given mindshare as "the Linux," in order to start on the "extend" phase. In fact, more likely, Windows IT people will be enabled and encouraged to switch to "standard" services like nginx instead of IIS, or Postgres instead of MSSQL—at which point they'll realize they've eliminated all Windows lock-in and they're now free to leave the ecosystem!
There's no risk to being somewhere a nuclear reactor melted down a billion years ago, either. The vast majority of radioactivity comes from short lived isotopes - Iodine, Caesium, and Strontium mostly.
If I am reading this correctly, there were 6,158 patents with ~200 true positives, so approximately 3% of the population. 98.04% sensitivity (recall) and 90.2% specificity (%true negatives) leads to...

~4 false positives for each true positive.

That isn't bad, all things considered, but still a long way to go.
Windows store or UWP apps is the gimped version of windows that no one cares about. It's about as successful as the windows phone OS that started it.
Apple previous did emulation of 68000 on PowerPC, so the CISC to RISC has been done "successfully" before.

I put "successfully" in quotes because MacOS in that era was notoriously crashy-buggy.
The UI is React / Reactive Native, the rest is Go
I own elite dangerous and after visiting the subreddit after the last patch I really don't have much confidence in frontier anymore. It's becoming clear the game's codebase will never be able to support some of its ambitious promises (like not being your ship) and the features that are being implemented are shallow and broken, and then never further developed by frontier.

I think E:D succeeded at initially playable but is failing to scale. It's a really fun experience in VR but I'd much rather it had stayed in closed development a year or two longer if that's what it would have taken for it to have real depth.
I want to repair and upgrade my computer. I suspect there are many people like me that would like the option to upgrade components on my laptop as well. I used to be able to do that with a MBP (2012-ish), now I can't...

The WSL is compelling and to be honest, one of the main reasons I switched to OSX was the command line. Now, I can have a command line and not have to run VM's for 3d stuff, games, and more. Pretty compelling...
They get stored encrypted in all of those places, and only the device itself can decrypt and read them, not the Keybase servers.
I'm not a security expert by any means, but I have to ask- if it's acceptable and most people use a four digit pin to unlock a phone, is the idea of somebody going to the trouble of lifting and replicating fingerprints that worrisome?
To provide something of a counterpoint, asbestosis is a disease from the modern society, filled with opportunity. So is being run down by a car, hit by an air-to-ground missile, or blinded by a laser.

It's not quite so one-sided as it might at first appear.
OK, but the point of energy generation is to produce KWH or something like it. The point of stairs is not to travel miles. So you're comparing how well something meets its intended use with how well something else meets something other than its intended use.
> but what they can't argue against is government incompetence.

They can't? Governments are supposed to legislate based on the demands of the public. When you demand a stop to all nuclear power, the budget for the existing installations requires more political capital, making these kinds of events more likely.

Oh, and there is renewable nuclear energy. There's a bit of a controversy over it, the petroleum industry has spent a lot of money to say that it isn't renewable.
Good point, except they are promising more to reach each funding goal.
Then it's missed 100% of the arrythmatic cases. But I appreciate the sentiment of what you're trying to say.
Standing in the bathtub taking a shower is also one of the most dangerous places in the world.
The Tangled Story Behind Trump’s False Claims of Voter Fraud
Anybody know when we can expect a phone out that can emulate x86 Windows 10? End of 2017 is the first estimate I heard but I'm not sure how realistic that is.
Ethical behavior isn't a problem.
It's an error code, not a massively distributed system. There's no reason why the solution for the "big four" should be different than for anyone else. Especially since their APIs are designed to be used by everyone else.
I'm in exactly the target market here in the UK. I've had PAF in the past, I suspect it happens at night when I'm asleep, but multiple cardio traces have failed to catch it.

Short of buying my own Holter trace machine ($500, and an inconvenient mess of wires) or having an implant (possible on the NHS, and being considered, but the waiting list is long) there's no way I can be sure if PAF is enough of a problem to justify the lifestyle changes that would be caused by going on anti-coags.

Cheap continual monitoring would be a game changer.
I think the article is not precise with their wording, but the 97% is actually recall (i.e. detects 97% of the positives).
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I'm sure this horde exists because kickstarter creators market themselves as if they're selling pre-orders of finished products.

In some cases they have no choice, because some kickstarters are really expensive. It might make sense to pre-order Ubuntu's $700 smartphone for example, but nobody would ever throw Canonical $700 for some "goofy schwag" and just hope they might or might not get a phone later.
Ask HN: Do you people really like Microsoft that much?
There seems to be an increase of stories about Microsoft on the front page.

Is this some direct targeting by Microsoft to make it to the front page of HN? Or are these stories really legit and worthy of their popularity?
That's a personal desire. The context here was corporate buying and depreciation. Why would a corporation want to repair its computers, any more than it would want to repair e.g. its office furniture?
Not MS specifically, charging between business units as though they're outside companies is pretty common these days. It's as disastrous for cooperation and productivity as you'd imagine.
>fought and won

Oh you poor innocent thing...
Hey! Improbable dev here.

We deal with such a situation through the fact that SpatialOS dynamically scales the zones that each game engine is responsible for. So if you have many players gathering in the same reduced area then there will actually be multiple game engines allocated to that specific zone and extra engines might even be started if the load requires it. This also works in reverse so that if your player density falls drastically and a single game engine would suffice for your entire world you will only have one running, so you always have the right amount of resources at your disposal.

Such game engines are what is referred to as workers in SpatialOS (https://spatialos.improbable.io/docs/reference/10.3/getting-...) and workers can be of many types: game engines like Unreal or Unity to manage the physics of the simulation, custom workers based on one of the language SDKs that implement AI-like functions, or any other behaviour you want to put in your world: it's entirely up to you to take this as far as you like.
Second Life isn't VR. You could potentially use VR to use SL but they are different technologies.

This is typical for technology reporting.

edit: Someone want to tell me why this comment is getting hammered?
It's the type of story that city people (who spend 0.01% of their time in rural areas) seem to be astonished by because their lifestyles are so different. Trying to impose your will on people in an area you've barely lived seems quite arrogant to those that live there 100% of the time.
I'd be more willing to bet that the media will pick up on it because of advertising dollars. Companies like dupont are raking in cash on probiotics, they can't brew up enough of those little buggers.
>Make no mistake, Cloudflare is a strong supporter of the patent system.

Well this is pretty rich.
> But seriously, do you honestly think that Microsoft is spying on your more than Google, Facebook, or Amazon?

Yes. I have much more control* over what google and facebook can spy on. MS as the platform owner has the ability to spy on everything.

*Except for on android, fuck google now in particular.
That company could do so much impact if only they had laser focus and distribution execution. Still so much talent with them.
Chronic stress also causes consistently elevated cortisol levels, which is not good long term (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortisol -- wound healing, other areas, pretty good overview of some of the negative effects of stress)