skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you nature? Did you learn? Are you not a force?

It's true nature never "tried" anything except to keep going but I posit it does learn, it's memory is our genes and our own memory, and we are the effect of it's force. I also don't see man and nature as separate. If we created AGI, then nature created AGI. AGI can look back and say the step from biological to machine was akin to single to multi celled organisms.
If they can prove that they came out of it, I hope so.
As I understand it, Dash doesn't aim to provide privacy in the way that Monero does. The goal of the Dash project seems to be to improve the usability of cryptocurrencies. Both projects, IMO, are doing good work and have their place in the cryptocurrency space.

Here's a fairly detailed StackExchange thread on it: https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/112/how-is-monero...
Stone tools is replication of beak and claws.
Magical thinking and evidence-free mythologies are memetic cancers because the practical problems and social costs of irrational, made-up beliefs are many.
Some boring answers:

Ask for a raise.

Change jobs.

Overtime if available.

Cashflow positive real estate investment.

Look through all expenses and see where you can eliminate waste, haggle etc.

Speculate on cryptos. E.g. if BTC crashes after the split then after the winning fork is certain buy back in. Etherium will probably crash at some point so buy in after that.
No it wasn't. It was an attempt to start thinking about the problem. Everyone knows it is completely insufficient. I agree that we need it, even dearly, but we do need to focus on creating easier and more commercially advantageous solutions to reduce the amount of force (political or otherwise) required to implement an effective solution. Otherwise, frankly, forget it. People are going to be kicking and screaming against it and we just don't have the time for their bs. So studies like these are also insufficient, but in my opinion one of the more important aspects of moving forward with just getting this done rather than talking about it.
> "I want better health care in this country. I want better support for ensuring that everyone had a roof over their head. I also want to read a book in the library without being hassled or smelling excrement."

The first two should be seen as prerequisites for the third. The first one especially.

Is it fair that libraries have inadvertently taken on the role of social care of the homeless? No, it's not. Should, as you put it, libraries be open to everyone to use as libraries? Yes, they should. However, the answer is not to shut the homeless out of yet another place, the answer is to push for cheaper, more comprehensive healthcare (i.e. single payer) so that we can address the problem head on.
Plus closure of shipyards, factories etc.. The local economy is pretty depressed as compared to 50-100 years back but people have families and history and don't want to or can't move so are struggling to survive or can sqeeze by enough to not move..

Taking the amtrak from DC-NY at least a few years ago there were literally miles and miles of entire blocks of abandoned townhouses.. I imagine a google street view would be a good way to see this..

Also relateed - just finished binge watching HBO's 'The Wire' - though fiction and maybe jazzed up a little, it seems fairly accurate to get a picture of how messed up things are/can be based on what I absorbed 3rd hand from living in nearby DC for a good while..
Compared to what?

I've often heard wisdom like "it's irresponsible to use Kafka when you could just use RabbitMQ" but why does that statement not work equally well in the opposite direction?

It seems like some "you don't need this fad technology" sentiments don't provide a whole lot of justification for sticking with the unfashionable choice. Does it all come down to "the devil you know?" What if you aren't that experienced with either choice?
If this is really kernel 2.4 and hasn't been touched since then, it's probably made out of remote root exploits at this point.
So you're not from the USA?
Ask HN: How do you collaboratively edit in sublime or emacs or vim?
Subethedit doesn’t work across net it needs macs to be in same subnet
The Nordics.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There are many more tech newbies now than there were in the past.
They were threatened enough to buy them at large valuations is gp's point.
Latex best practices: what editor do you use?
What service do you use to collaboratively edit your research paper ?
It's a well-known attack on tubular locks.
The first article appears to be trying to make his competitor sound like a crazed maniac.

That doesn't strike me as something that would count as overly critical.

Now try doing the same thing for the CIA, whom Amazon was trying to court as a multimillion dollar customer for ages...
Under US law, no.

Money laundering requires the intent to conceal the origin of proceeds from certain specific unlawful activities or to avoid financial reporting requirements. Hiding the origin of lawfully obtained money is legal.
Yup. Not working on multiple browsers, curl, etc.

File listing via Google Cache shows it was accessible: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uatZ4u...

Wayback Machine doesn't have it.

Ah... Google cache has it:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?safe=off&outpu...
My first internship actually provided an IP agreement upfront.

Ever since then, I've told companies that in order to consider their offer, I also need details about their benefits and copies of anything that I would need to sign as a condition of my employment.

I haven't had that many jobs, but so far no one has said no.
I remember using DSL quite a bit back when I was first playing around with Linux. It was the only desktop-oriented Linux distro that seemed to actually run on my Compaq Presario 1210 (Tiny Core didn't even exist back then, and even when I did eventually try it, it choked on the laptop's weird graphics card). Pretty much nothing else was able to fit in the laptop's "whopping" 32MB or so of RAM (aside from Windows 2000 and older, as well as FreeDOS).
Crushing dictators has wrecked unspeakable havoc in the middle east. No dictator and no government has proven to be the seedbed for countless civil and religious wars- genocide and failing societys perpetual in war.

Please stop with this nonsense, we in europe get to see the mess piling up in waves of refugees and terrorism. Your freedom is chaos, your peace is war, your truths are lies. Enough, i rather equip every dictator myself with nukes, if it makes this delusional madness end.
But why? Was it dirty money somehow?
• if you arrest more drug offenders, you can meet your quota/justify your existence/get promoted/etc.

• if you arrest drug offenders, you can seize their assets for the budget

• if someone you dislike conveniently has drugs on them, you can deal with them

• you won't be held accountable
Miss those times?

Nothing specific to those times about having a terrible backup strategy..

Magtape existed from the very early days and definitely was around during this fiasco.. similarly people still don't run backups when they should..

which reminds me, I need to kick off an offsite backup :)
Pretty neutral I think.

Got kids so keeping the human race going.

Working for a hedge fundish type company so just helping some people make their profits from what is effectively poker.
You don't need a degree to be a successful artist
>The NSA's "Q group" is just trying to determine if it was a breach or a leak, and to identify the source of the leak if there was one.

What now twelve months after the first chatter?

"Shadow Brokers investigation is focusing on former NSA insider"

theshadowbrokers being an 'is' not an 'are' (as in cover).

The investigation is now in a direction which goes BEYOND the original hypotheses that it may have been as result of a leak from Harold Martin's home.

Cover for SVR? I don't think any serious analysis ever entertained that.

>'Misleading'

Duly noted.
http://www.mysportsfeeds.com

A sports data service for developers and small-medium sized businesses. Tonnes of growth potential.
I'm a fan of bitcoin, but in this case I disagree. It is safer to sell things on the internet if you accept bitcoin, but it's more risky if you're the buyer. You can chargeback a credit card if you don't get what you paid for. You can't get your bitcoin back.
What's the benefit of using this instead of Electron? Genuinely curious about the benefit.

Is Gecko better than Chromium in certain cases?
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14878381
Everyone has first principles. There are things everyone thinks are heinous regardless if the context.

The freedom to call for genocide isn't a fundamental right. The freedom to criticize leadership is.

Finally, there are upsides to lots of unconscionable things. At one time, slavery was a cornerstone of the American economy. The question isn't whether there is an upside. The question is whether it's right.
Interesting to see this; wonder whether they can beat Amazon in the b2b race. I heard they're giving out Echos to Boutique hotels for free.
Remember an ex-eastern bloc dev I used to work with telling me of his early days working with a soviet PDP-11 clone which required a logic board switch depending on the season since the temperature affected some transistors or solder - one card worked correctly in the winter, and the other in summer.. don't recall what they did for spring/fall or if these seasons were within tolerances for both cards..
It is only money laundering if is done with money that is the result of a crime.

Just like a trader is only a fence when he trades stolen good.

Therefore, by definition, money laundering is assisting a crime. If the crime had a victim, then, by proxy, laundering the money of the crime is not victimless either.
Oh, excellent; thank you. I mentioned it because this has bitten me, so I'll want to use that fix.

Fun story: for $REASONS, I have an Arch system with root on btrfs and /boot on ext4, and it doesn't usually have the boot partition mounted (it's a poorly done mutiboot issue). I recently discovered that this means if I forget to mount boot before updating I get stuck with no loaded drivers to mount /boot :) Thankfully kexec worked, but I'd like to not need to do that:)
check out bitcoin mixing.
"there's way too much agenda in here that isn't based on the science"

1) The concerns they list are the actual concerns of significant segments of the population. Such as e.g. an overwhelming majority of the German electorate.
2) I personally think that some of those concerns are overweighted. You apparently do as well.
3) Failing to weigh those concerns the way you and I do does not constitute "having an agenda not based on the science", key word "the".
4) They are evenly applying "the" science of GHG reduction to all solutions. It's not their job to follow a specific agenda on the debated science of side topics such as those you single out.

Nuclear power activates identity framing for a lot of people. For some it is anti-, but for others it is pro-. The anti-nuclear people typically own the identity issue. The pro-nuclear people sometimes do, but sometimes want to claim a "these are the scientific facts with which it is irrational to agree" kind of super-identity.
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Track your vehicle service records
Oh yea.. more pages per minute for sure .. just put the terminal in smooth scroll and watch the text glide across the screen ...
They've all used their market power to quash competitors.
especially signal!
Hyper Networks: An RNN that changes the weights of an RNN
bspwm: tiling window manager that represents windows as leaves of a binary tree
It uses a self-signed certificate. Blame your web browser for overreacting.
The JSX thing is because we (as an industry) teach "separate your concerns" as gospel and naturally you're going to get some pushback, specially from the very numerous group of "by the book" developers.

Scala was treated for a long time as "a better Java"; but Kotlin really is way more befitting of the title. There shouldn't be as much resistance.
Hiding in Plain Sight: Maintaining a Spy’s Cover in the Internet Era
In a Robot Economy, All Humans Will Be Marketers
I'm guessing the homeless in your area don't use the library pillars as a toliet daily and smell like something similar.
Sound charitable but really it bsuinesses that benefit from most open source not the average person. If he took the money it'd be fine.
> "Is Gecko better than Chromium in certain cases?"

Yes, in certain cases. However, I don't think it's worth another flame war about this. Even if I posted some benchmarks all you'd have is a stream of people sharing their anecdata trying to confirm or deny the accuracy of the benchmarks. Can we nip this in the bud before it begins and just be glad that Electron has some competition to help push it forward?
Is this a statement about WShington Post or the other papers or all the papers together?

Out of curiosity, is there anything critical to be written about Bezos specifically?
Life lessons learned while learning to code
It looks like DSL's website hasn't been updated since I found out about it 10 years ago.
After Shor's algorithm a good follow up would be to learn about Grover's Algorithm[1]

Here is a fantastic explanation of it: http://twistedoakstudios.com/blog/Post2644_grovers-quantum-s... [More technically involved explanation]

Interesting factoid: Scott Aaronson[2] interned with Lov Grover[3] at Bell Labs as a teenager!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover%27s_algorithm

[2] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/scott-aaron... [This is a great interview, btw!]

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lov_Grover
This was exactly my impression of LA when I visited for the first time last month. A city that peaked 50+ years ago (though, to be fair, that can be said about many American cities).
There are many police departments that receive a large chunk of their budgets from anti-drug grants from their states and federal departments like the Department of Justice [0]. Generally, the cops can keep anything they seize in a drug bust such as fancy cars and trucks, cash, weapons, through "civil asset forfeiture"... This is true even if the defendants are found not guilty. Sometimes the seized drugs even wind back up on the market because the cops resell them [1]. Then there's folks who just enjoy being able to wield their power over others (they were probably the kids found bullying others in school).

0: The New Jim Crow - Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
1: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/bmbab8/the-police-officer...
Loss of Fertile Land Fuels ‘Looming Crisis’ Across Africa
Unit testing? I think that, from the computer's point of view, type II errors are correct, in that no errors are generated, no crashes, etc. It's a semantic problem, and so human-generated testing (and, of course, end users :-) are the only ways to discover it's wrong.
I was, but it's working now.
That's definitely what Kings used to say. And chieftains of hunter/gatherer tribes before them.
Counter theory: People who really really want to win play less-fun more-important characters.

EDIT: And then when they don't win they get upset.
Easy solution is to run with IP restrictions until website fully configured and secured
here is a Fibonacci poem -- not sure who is the author...

I
wrote
a poem
on a page
but then each line grew
to the word sum of the previous two
until I started to worry about all these words coming with such frequency
because, as you can see, it can be easy to run out of space when a poem gets all Fibonacci sequency.

=====

edit 1: just found out the author of this poem is Brian Bilston. It has been included in his book, You Took the Last Bus Home: The Poems of Brian Bilston
Explanation of DeepMind's Early Visual Concept Learning with Unsupervised DL
"Let's assume that for a moment all their numbers are correct (it's a huge assumption)"

The entire framing of their approach is to only consider peer-reviewed literature -- holding themselves to the highest standard we have, the one most free of "assumption." It is rhetorically deceptive to open by characterizing them as making assumptions.
I think an engineering based mindset of perfection creates brittle models that get stuck in local maximums. Reverse gravity and you can think of current AI as small cars getting stuck in pits. The desire to maximize leaves no room for the human equivalent of refactoring. Giving up the good and going through pain in order to reach new heights.

Instead of an anti fragile model that can continuously be run, current models need to be scrapped at error states. Hyperparameter tuning is just random guessing. Getting good data also doesn't work because of the high dimensionality of it for non-trivial tasks.

The idea that ctrl+z is good should be re-examined. Perfect memory like block chains have isn't the answer either though. Perhaps something similar to the non forgetting yet imperfect human mind.

Most data is garbage and even more eventually becomes garbage. (unless you exist in a finite defined world like Go) Is there any sort of neural net that that find or creates "core" memories with weaker supplementary memories?

The quintessential experiences would only be dislodged with an influx of contradictory data. Initial cores could be initialized via mother-child like training. The training data would be tiered and weighted. There would be an internal system that passed judgement on new ingestion sources. New data would be a necessity. Old data passed in as new would be like a monotonous life digging in cores preventing them from having meaningful change. Almost all data would be labelled as garbage initially unless vouched for somehow. Pure good data would be bad as well because there isn't enough quality differentiation to see what is core and what isn't.
I admit that my reasoning is overly simplistic but, for those who struggle with whether or not global warming is scientifically sound, focusing on the basics will often result in them arriving at similar conclusions as to how to act (eg: using energy from the sun when possible is better than using energy from coal), and that's a good thing rather than arguing over any particular label.
Those are exceptions not the rule. I would bet that at least 99.9% of corporations in this country would open up shop in china if it were profitable to do so.
These approaches are discussed in the book.
> Don't use a framework.

I'd like to see people using the appropriate tools for the task at hand. I can imagine slapping my head and asking "Why the hell didn't they just use x". I wouldn't want to pay someone to reinvent the wheel and I'd want someone to demonstrate both their awareness of and their ability to evaluate appropriate code from the relevant ecosystem.
Specialization and an intellectual mono-culture may not be the best choice. Adaption and evolution generally trump specialization in the real world. Still, specialization gives a temporary advantage.
The Drawdown looks like it’s trying to help the policy makers on how to effectively reduce CO2. Different countries are making different decisions that work for them.

I’m not sure why someone is complaining about this book. It seems like it would quite helpful.

The Paris Agreement, for example, lets countries decide what’s best for them.

For instance, according to the site, onshore wind turbines appear to be one of the better solutions for generating electricity.

84.6 GIGATONS
REDUCED CO2

$1.23 TRILLION
NET IMPLEMENTATION COST

$7.43 TRILLION
NET OPERATIONAL SAVINGS
They chose to be intellectually conservative in their first round of work. They are attempting to find peer-reviewed, quantified estimates for as many approaches as they can manage.
it must be
of
some difficulty
in
formatting the lines,
especially
the blank lines,
but
the original poem
actually is:

=====================

The Red Wheelbarrow
==

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

here is a wiki page trying to interpret this poem...but I guess different people would get the picture differently...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Wheelbarrow

Well, personally, I guess a poem is a compound that tries to convey meanings through multiple modalities, especially the sound and the semantics in language, and sometimes the spaces and the mental images too...perhaps we could think of it as a Broadway musical, in which many different elements are combined in a harmonious presentation: the light, the stage, the costume, the sound, the music, the lyrics, and the acting -- and the timing for organizing all those elements is quite important too!
That doesn't even make sense. There is absolutely no parallel in going from Java to JavaScript with going from C++ to Rust.
As a fellow enthusiast, this doesn't look particularly agile (or fun).
I used this 15 years ago from a 128Mb USB stick. It was my introduction to linux and set the bar really high for responsiveness. I think I even installed Windows 98 second edition on a computer running Windows XP just to feel the same.
Next: A voter's failure to open franked mailers violates the Congressmember's free speech.
Depending on where you live, some academic libraries give membership (possibly for a fee) to people living within a certain distance, as a kind of local outreach/PR gesture. May be worth a look at a few universities near you to see if that's the case.

One extreme example is that anyone who lives in Texas can apply for access to any library in the "TexShare" system of public libraries, which includes the state university libraries. You first get a library card from your local public library, and then apply through the TexShare program for access to the university library you want: https://www.tsl.texas.gov/texshare/card

Generally none of these programs allow you to use the interlibrary loan service though, only resources the library itself has.
And are aware that they are more serious and have put more thought into their ideas. So they are much more likely to say "I told you so" because, often, they literally did.
Are you just looking at the master branch on their forks? If you want to send a PR to another repo, you _must_ fork that repo.

I have 43 repos, but 21 of them are forks. I've never committed anything on master on any of the forks, but I've created my own branches in order to open PRs on 18 of them.

The easiest thing to do is use the "Sources" option from the drop down on their repos page (shows only _their_ repos) and use something like https://showmyprs.com/ to see their external contributions.
This comment constitutes gaslighting. The primary expression of climate change science, the IPCC, has been based on models which incorporate cloud cover and oceans for decades. Here is the first sentence of their landing page on models:

"Numerical models (General Circulation Models or GCMs), representing physical processes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and land surface, are the most advanced tools currently available for simulating the response of the global climate system to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations (criterion 1 -- see list here)."

http://www.ipcc-data.org/guidelines/pages/gcm_guide.html
How to Compile Program Without IDE NO Software 2107
Easy for a iphone tapper in to say until it affects you
I would be very happy to see that happen. I miss the old, useful, social internet.
Only if you discount the evidence that we are almost always optimistic about these things at this stage of the research.

Anyone good at doing high level policy accounts for the fact that you always need a lot of margin for optimistic error when combining multiple solutions.