skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hunting and foraging can be unreliable and definitely is to a modern human. Early humans hunted in packs which made them the most successful predators. They didn't have the stamina of a cheetah or the strength of a lion, but they could withstand the elements and chase and stalk their prey for days until it became exhausted. They could also mount very intricate surprise attacks. Overall, I think there was a heck of a lot of ingenuity that stemmed from the pack nature of these hunts and I think we'd be giving these ancient guys a bad rep if we didn't acknowledge it to some extent.
The relationship between mindset and getting old
> Apple's A10 is shockingly close to matching Kaby Lake on performance within a similar power envelope.

Do you have a source for this claim? Not saying it's wrong, I'd just appreciate seeing a real benchmark/power usage test.
"combustion-derived nanoparticles" they mean car exhaust right? airborne pollutants from burning things. seems like just another reason to get rid of fire based energy.
thanks, I replaced the links to the original page.
If the nytimes, bbc and the media would disappear, it would solve a lot of the anxiety problem.

The media is poison for the population. Not only do they deceive the population, they intentionally try to cause fear and anxiety in the population to sell ads.
100+ points and no comments? That's a first.

If anyone is wondering, this is the foundation behind the RISC-V architecture that is supposed to make a dent in the proprietary ISA world of x86 and ARM.

Why? Because this ISA is licensed using a BSD like license which means anyone can use the ISA without paying anything. There have been previous projects like OpenRISC which failed but they're hoping the company backing behind this will make it to the consumer and not remain on paper[1].

So what does this mean for you? Cheaper hardware (hopefully).

Whenever any company licenses a core from ARM to make modifications they pay out of they nose and sign a slew of NDAs. This is another reason why ALL of raspberry pi isn't open. You can't see the CPU internals even though Broadwell is open to it.

Now this ISA, has a bunch of minimal base specs which they must follow as to maintain basic compatibility and then they can add their own extensions as needed. You can see them here[2] - scroll down to the PDF and then the third page - preface.

So what the people excited for the project are hoping for, is to get everyone to use the ISA, because there is very little reason not to, other than developer inertia and because almost all of existing code is for x86 or ARM.

Now this won't bring about the software like open-sourcedness to hardware, because every company isn't to eager to share their specific architecture with you. But some companies which want to, can.

Hopefully this is bring auditable hardware, make everyone focused on specific compiler architecture (like llvm and GCC) and make hardware, especially the cheap microcontrollers even cheaper because they don't need a license or fear getting sued by ARM or Intel(talking about the shady manufactures who break NDAs and go ahead and manufacture micro-controllers without license). So expect microcontroller prices to drop to the ground on eBay.

This architecture, isn't just meant for microcontrollers, don't get me wrong! It is specifically meant to be extensible even for super computers (even 128-bit architecture)! That would require a huge company with large army of engineers involved in CPU engineering. So a startup like approach isn't possible. But keep your hope alive!

When? Soon™

[1]:https://riscv.org/membership/?action=viewlistings - Note how Intel and ARM are absent while almost every other semiconductor manufacturer is present.

[2]:https://riscv.org/specifications/ - embedded PDF on this page
"combustion-derived nanoparticles" they mean exhaust from cars and burning stuff right? seems like another reason to get rid of fire base energy.
The author also wrote On Generative Algorithms[0] which is a very inspiring overview for many types of generative art.

[0]: http://inconvergent.net/generative/
It is one most scrutinized hash function, for which no flaw is known. While no flaw is known for SHA-3 and many other hash functions and some might even say that likelihood of finding flaws in them is lesser than SHA-2, none has been analyzed by that many people for that long.
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That's only for the arm/armv6 images. The entire excerpt reads:

"Note regarding arm/armv6 images: For convenience for those without
console access to the system, a freebsd user with a password of
freebsd is available by default for ssh(1) access. Additionally,
the root user password is set to root. It is strongly recommended
to change the password for both users after gaining access to the
system."

I feel that if you are installing FreeBSD on ARM devices your cluefulness is quite high and this shouldn't impact you ...
That sounds more like they're making fun of you or mocking you for being an idiot and not realizing that a very pretty girl was interested in you. I will say I've a noticed a lot of book-smart people can be total idiots in social situations.
Is it? 1.1.x looked nice when I had evaluated it (especially the Web UI), but was a real bugs nest in the long run. Had issues with almost every component. Usually found matching bugs that were already filed and had the workarounds described, but it left the bad aftertaste.

Finally, DNS component had nearly malfunctioned and I've switched to Compose with some WeaveNet and semi-manual (re)scheduling. Lost some useful functionality (and the UI) but at least the switch fixed things and it works. Wanted to use Swarm for fully automated scheduling without a DIY external watchdog system, but its networking is extremely limited at the moment (and I haven't groked how to use it with Weave).

Kubernetes looks nice, but the amount of YAML I'll have to write scares me away. And I'm not sure I trust all that "we do magic" stuff anymore. The more complicated system is, the harder it's to figure out what to do when it starts to fail.
s/criminals/whistleblowers (governments don't nearly pursue violent crime as much as they pursue dissidents).
Docker Swarm is the simplest setup for a fairly sophisticated PAAS. It works of a docker compose file that will carry port binding, network configuration,etc. You just run "docker stack deploy". Adding multiple nodes to a cluster is a one line command.
The trade-off is that if you lose your keys, you're shut out.

I would recommend having an option to generate keys based on something you have and something you know that you won't easily forget, such as a passphrase. That way you can always recover them later!
At the top of my list would be:

- Opening Arguments

- Invisibilia

- StartUp- 99% Invisible

- RadioLab

- RadioLab Presents: More Perfect

- Freakonomics Radio

Others:

- Hidden Brain

- Vox's The Weeds

- How I Built This

- Myths and Legends
> GETS is intended to be used in an emergency or crisis situation

Sounds like a major security problem, and during a crisis is especially when I would not like to have a buffer overrun.
In theory. In practise, the store was, and is, full of shit. Junk apps, because MS paid people to push apps out. Junk apps and scams, because MS does no review or policing. Even Netflix had to go to MS 3 times in order for them to block fake Netflix apps. Other companies selling well-known programs have told me they simply cannot get MS to respond.

Search for "Game of Thrones" right now on the Windows Store. Or WinRAR. Microsoft doesn't even verify their "publishers" are actual companies, have valid URLs for the store listing (most of these junk apps just go to "http://"). It's been and remains a joke.
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You're a moron
It happens all the time. After being burned dozens of times by urban legends and grossly misdescribed studies, I started just always reading fulltext instead of relying on summaries or citations. And even then, you'll run into misleading to the point of lying summaries of past research throughout the literature. Life is hard.
No one, on either end, should waste any time encouraging such a useless thing. I hate that my browser even has the option. No one wants to be tracked weather they say it or not, and that should always be considered when building websites.
Ok, so the ISA is open. What about the rest of the design of the CPU?
Presumably, it's also more specifically about the HTTP header for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
I hate posting from my phone. Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrbJYsep45E
> What have you done lately which is anything close to what Travis built vs. just commenting on a tech forum at his incompetence?

It's true, I haven't condoned obtaining the confidential medical records of a rape victim by my direct report, ignored dozens of sexual harassment complaints by my employees, or attempted to suppress an HR complaint about me taking my managers to an escort bar in Korea.

I am being deliberately facetious, but your argument "what have you done lately?" is a double edged sword. Yeah, nobody here has done what Travis did running Uber - including all the shit (both proven and allegedly).
Congrats! I know how much work this whole process is when you have never done it before. I'd recommend looking into doing your animations manually rather than a screen recording to get rid of the magnifying glass "finger" thing
Sarcasm is an effective and appropriate communication tool used throughout the history of literature and language. I was not aware that Hacker News prohibits sarcasm and i would argue those of us who rely on sarcasm to communicate in many scenarios are being unduly silenced.
Republishing copyrighted content on another domain without permission is copyright infringement. I don't know if Google's terms allow their republishing of copyrighted content via AMP, but most people in charge of those decisions at their companies probably aren't paying attention to the domain name or the implications of what they are allowing. At the very least, companies are being coerced to allow the republication of the content.
Whitelisting is indeed troublesome, especially in the age of CDNs, and not really worth it for sites visited only once. I discovered that some instances of breakage can be fixed by enabling Firefox "reader view", for others I just start

chromium --incognito

and paste the link.
A red delicious is an excellent apple - if you have it ripe off the tree. My parents have an older tree (20+ years) and a ripe apple from that is, quite frankly, amazing. Sweet, but not overly so. Crunchy, slight mineral flavour adding depth. Really nice.

The problem comes when they're picked early and left to ripen off-tree or they're picked too late. Either way they become a mealy mess after a few days. However, in this condition, it still looks great and the dark colour disguises any obvious bruising. This is probably why it's so prevalent in retail chains.
Specifically, it's the Infinite series. Math is so much easier to understand with animations. Something that would take me hours of dense reading of some dusty tome can to grok requires only 20 minutes with modern video production
Or if your most stupid con act works on a particular set of people, you have struck gold. This is very deliberate on their part. They are not looking for someone possessing any iota of critical thinking skills (the IRS scammers in contrast look for the most easily "scared" demoraphic). They are phishing a different kind of fish.
Is a good middle ground some like Reddit Enhancement suite does where you have a link and clicking it will expand in line?
It is indeed
I don't think your question really makes sense. The request to load the embedded YouTube video will contain the same Do Not Track headers as the requests loading your own site. It is up to the site owner to respect them (in this case YouTube). It's not your responsibility to try to re-host content from other sources in order to comply with the DNT request.
You also read my mind.
Do you mind sharing more from the standpoint of security? What can a user expect to maintain, do, or setup to be secure (as possible)?
I guess it's not that simple. Say you have a factory that made Plutonium triggers and that same factory was pretty awful at following safety and containment protocol. Now that Plutonium is in very low levels within the actual soil of where the now decommissioned plant resides. Do you mine that soil for the Plutonium, or do you make all that soil nuclear waste?

In Colorado, we've decided to open up the area as a Wildlife Refuge.

http://e360.yale.edu/features/rocky_flats_wildlife_refuge_co...
'Spectacular' drop in renewable energy costs leads to record global boost
It's a great example of the nytimes and the media having to create stories in order to sell ads.

The easiest way to get clicks is to sell fear. "Opioid" crisis. Trumpaggaedon. Ebola/SARS/etc. "Your child might die from this!!! Click to find what it is before your child might die! Click NOW!"

Think about it. If absolutely nothing happens in the world, the "journalists" have to write something to sell themselves and make the newspaper money.

These people are no better than clickbaiting youtubers.

Also, fear and anxiety are great ways to control and manipulate the people. It's what north korea does to its people. It was the nazis did in the 1930s.

Just like reading the bible critically is the cure for christianity. As a former 7-day subscriber to the NYTimes, reading the NYTimes critically is the cure for propaganda.
The native behavior changed in iOS 11 so that Safari scrolling on any page is just like the accelerated scrolling on AMP.

Check out this response from a Google AMP engineer about scrolling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14384938
Life Aboard the International Space Station (2010)
you dont need a CS degree to do AI. you need skills.

while most degrees have you acquire skills, if raw skill is what youre after, you can have that way faster and cheaper.

do fast.ai first.

doing 5 years of degree and spending hundreds of thousands on it, just to do AI, is very counterproductive.
Maybe not so nefarious. Back in the 1980s the campus phone system at my university had a similar quirk: if you didn't hang up both ends of the call, the connection stayed open. A common DOS prank was to call someone and then just not hang up. Their phone was then unusable.
This is actually not a lame answer at all. It's a plausible approach for your users who are worried about privacy to still use your site.
Bashrc generator
Is this discussion for real or is it a coordinated troll effort?
Can you give examples​ of something you hadn't considered?
Thing is, if you're a news site, your news isn't going to show up on Google's news platforms if it doesn't support AMP.

As a customer, I don't like this behavior at all. I do not like AMP, mostly for the small issue that it's very difficult to link to the base page. Minor consistent inconvenience, major feature rage.

But I can't imagine what it's like for a web developer. You need to support a whole other platform just to maintain your audience, which is also your lifeblood. Also, that audience won't actually see your page; just the text with some Googly UI. Avoiding it would be fantastic, but it also wouldn't be a realistic option.
http://whatstheharm.net/homeopathy.html
The Twelve Networking Truths (RFC 1925)(1 April 1996)
> I would also like to point out that the vast majority of money in academia, of course, is pro anthropogenic global warming.

So? The vast majority of money in academia is also pro quantum theory, and pro relativity theory, and pro evolution. What's your point?

> What the press implies - anthropogenic runaway global warming - aside from not even being consistent - is absolutely not a 97% opinion amongst serious mathematicians.

It surprises me that you're picking out mathematicians here. I would expect most scientists working on climate issues to be physicists, geologists, or meteorologists.
Jargon certainly isn't unique to any field. In my view, jargon repackages conceptual or procedural knowledge into shorter phrases for the purpose of more efficient communication. The less familiar another person is with a particular set of jargon, the more it must be "un-packaged" into its fundamental ideas.

Of course, jargon can be nested, so this process may potentially be tedious. On the other hand, this jargon nesting problem can be avoided by approximating ideas with ones that the other party is assumed to be familiar with. An expert knows the jargon, the ideas behind the jargon, and many of the first- and second-order approximations of the ideas.
When he talks about the "computational models of language" that ruled in the 80s, is he referring perhaps to stuff like Montague semantics? https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/montague-semantics/ Or is Montague semantics merely a descriptive framework without practical applications?

What were the main "practical" approaches for natural language understanding back then?
Uber's Board to Discuss Leave of Absence for Top Executive
Holy shit. I searched this and found [1]. 15% recurring revenue per signup seems like one hell of a commission. But perhaps warranted if it's bringing in people that haven't had Netflix before and legitimately sign up via the app.

1: https://www.macrumors.com/2015/04/13/apple-15-percent-cut-ap...
It was meant as summary. I'm with GP and usually read the comments first too. I'm sorry it could be misinterpreted. In hindsight, "tldr:" may sound attitudy, and I could have written: "Summary:".
i think the article is correct in its presentation though.

while the docker swarm service looks very promising and will probably proof itself to be the best for small to medium and maybe even big corps, its most definitely not battle tested yet, as its just too new.

you actually need to add unstable repos on most distris to use the 'stack deploy' option. quite a few are still <12
Evolution works on fractions. Bacteria develop resistance because there's always a tiny fraction that survive the onslaught of whatever drug used, that tiny fraction survives and the remaining population is now completely resistant.

This is normally not a problem because the drug kills enough of them that your immune system mops up the rest.

The problem now is that the fraction has slowly become larger and larger until the point that a viable population of survivors remains to pass on their genes.

The way around this is to use multiple drugs that require multiple different mutations to survive. If before each drug left a tiny fraction of population, the intersection of those drugs will leave a fraction of a fraction of a fraction. Not enough to make a viable population that passes along multiple resistances.

In some cases, you can stack drugs in a way that requires bacteria to have three mutually exclusive mutations, so they're dead either way. There is an antibiotic candidate right now that is estimated to be 15,000x more effective because of smart design to require 3 different mutations to survive, but those mutations don't work together.
> It'd be a waste of time to call them.

So's commenting on HN, but look how many of us do it!
A comment on the comments about MIT's role as a school, government "subsidies" etc: Don't think of MIT as a school, think of it as a very large research lab with a small school attached.

There are about 10K students, but about 20K staff, a surprising number of which don't even interact with grad students much less undergrads (and undergrads are often found in research labs to a much greater degree than other schools).

So if you quote the stats, consider that tuition (and residence fees etc) is only about 14% of revenue. Does that mean the education is subsidized by the other 86%? No, education (which includes operating the dorms etc) is only about 16% of expenses (this has fluctuated but hasn't changed hugely over the 30 years since I graduated, not that I monitor the budget every year!).

So there's a reason why you feel like students aren't appreciated t MIT -- by many people they aren't. OCW is not just a great resource, but a way of making the educational mission more visible (and to the administration visibility is primarily how much money you bring in -- which I consider reasonable, as long as it's not the only metric).

I get several hardcopy pieces of MIT propaganda per month; less than half of it mentions students, almost none of whom are undergrads. And this is despite the fact that my donations and participation are almost all in support of undergraduate education.
I think the general trend in business is to squeeze out as much from a customer now and worry about consequences later. I doubt this will work and it's probably not desirable to have some giant company determine what's good for people. Especially one that lives off advertising.
To be fair, though, this applies to most types of products.

If you buy a cheap plastic hammer from a dollar store, you shouldn't expect it to break rocks like a bespoke carbon steel ball-peen.

But if you buy a cheap website from a bottom-barrel contractor, you're allowed to be baffled at why people don't like using it. It's just a website, for crying out loud.
Well, any other definition is going to be mostly subjective and will not survive a rigorous logical definition that satisfies all parties. Genius and madness seem to be intricately linked. one man's genius can be seen as someone who was insanely obsessive and compulsive about a small domain of knowledge, eshewing every other part of life like experiencing sex (Thank god for Tesla and thank god I am not afflicted with his condition, no matter how much smarter I'd be).

That said, I think one of the hallmark's of genius is that they learn from first principles, maximizing their ability to context switch and apply inherent truths from one domain of knowledge to not only multiple others, but integrate it into their general world view...essentially polymaths.

Knowledge isn't artificially contained in one area, it is part and parcel of the entirety of reality. One detriment of the hyper-specialization promulgated by capitalism is that we may have missed out on some prodigious talents who were siloed away studying in one field.

Thankfully, we're seeing the pendulum swing back as multi-disclipinary approaches are becoming more popular, thanks in no small part to the rise of Information Technology. Being able to use a computer increases your ability to learn almost anything faster.
They subsidize their drivers to keep their prices artificially low. It helps them out-compete the folks who have to turn a profit.
Like being at a conference and helping an attractive person with a problem on their laptop, and they say "we could take this up to my room so you can work better" and you reply "nah, the WiFi is better in the lobby"?
Verizon Demonstrates Convergent Response on Terrorism
Made me wonder what people think about the naturally occurring radioactive sites in nature.
I work in the south of France and not in the bay. Here everyone looks like they work part-time model.