skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When people are being called Nazis, it's about ideology, not skill set.

Though the modern white supremacist movement does also include a fair number of disenchanted military veterans [0], who are often influential in their organized groups and militias (and, the NSDAP itself included and was supported by a lot of other disaffected citizens that weren't “trained assassins”.) So, even aside from being dubiously relevant, the distinction you try to paint is at best overblown.

[0] e.g., http://taskandpurpose.com/nathan-damigo-charlottesville-mari...
You know it's open source, right? I have zero guarantees that any of my open source projects that I use for business critical infrastructure aren't going to pack up shop and quit maintaining their stuff tomorrow.

You should know how your infrastructure works well enough to maintain it for yourself. I (personally) will be maintaining this one in the future, if necessary! We're working it out now. What do you mean by "strong suspicion?"

Please don't downvote because you read a few words you didn't like, I was upfront about this EOL date because I don't want it coming back later that I was dishonest about it, but my perception is not that "EOL" means it's dead, it is that "EOL" means it's done. Stability is a good thing. Microsoft also EOL'ed MSPaint.exe, and I remember how the community reacted. I think the quote was about "works for 99% of users and has been stable for over a decade? sounds like a good candidate for deletion!"

The project is cancelled because it's not strategically important to Microsoft, not because it's not viable or having technical issues. The core devs have chosen to work on more kubernetes-native tooling. They aren't abandoning Kubernetes, and I'll bet you don't have a competing product you can show me that has guaranteed to keep the lights on for the next 6 months.
Interesting idea!

How much would I have to spend?
What if I want to do some simple cutting? Trivial?
It is very important to distinguish something like Facebook blocking an account / Medium taking down a blog from a domain registrar refusing to cooperate.

You are free to create a room where only some ideologies are allowed, but it's dangerous to play the same game with the ability to create the rooms.

First the domain registrars, then networks say that they don't want to peer, and then we end up with a fragmented internet.

It is not wise to pretend that an opinion that you do not want just simply does not exist. The extremist in the room who everybody pretends is not there, is eventually going to do more radical things to be noticed. In the echo chamber of extremism, there is now no moderating thought; and the world loses empathy to understand these unpopular perspectives that still exist.

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant"

"Isolation only promotes extremism"
Yes, this was an inspiration of ours! In fact we use Tom7's fork of the FCEUX emulator for Mappy and our other recent work in automatically learning game design elements from NES games.
Thanks guys for pointing that out! I just updated the text.
Consider the need to block on e.g. the DOM.
I'm surprised and impressed by this. Cloudflare has historically been a company which wants to pretend it's a dumb pipe from content to users, but the content is coming from them in every way that matters -- in particular, every method for figuring out how to address problematic content will lead you to speaking with Cloudflare. At least they supposedly don't pass your contact info back to their clients anymore.
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Ack, an embarrassing error! Thanks for pointing it out.
> You can believe that broad common ownership of the means of production can still foster competition, while also thinking that that common ownership should be allocated by capitalist methods.

I don't understand how this would work - anyone more economically versed care to chime in on how you could have common ownership of the means of production that was also distributed capitalistically?
Or, for the slightly more insane approach we (and by that I mean people in my organisation prior to my arrival) decided that XSLT was the right tool to transform XML to Python. XML to XML sounds like a walk in the park after that. :)
A real hologram, like in your last link, make the photons actually come from the correct angles so that everything is not in focus in your eye.

Stereo imaging we see in current VR and TV technologies do not simulate that effect, which makes it hard for some people to use as everything is focused at infinity or on the screen. What the lens (in your eye) is currently focused on is a very important depth cue for our brain and the conflicting information coming from the lens and stereo vision make some people unable to use stereo imaging or cause eye pain and headaches.

Unfortunately, real holograms are currently restricted to static images meticulously constructed using very advanced equipment that produces seemingly random images on films that interfere with each other to produce the hologram. Doing the same thing with moving images in real time would require too much computing power to currently be possible.

Another way could be to track the lens refraction properties and the pupil size in real time and fake some depth of field on the projected stereo images.
context appears to be: Cloudflare removing The Daily Stormer, some kind of far right website?

note: not particularly keen to research what it is, just going off what I can gather from the twitter comments.
I feel you. About a month ago I was fighting with the same feeling. In the end, decided to use Kubernetes only for a single piece of infrastructure so it's all pretty manageable through scripts. Managing secrets in particular is a pain in the ass.

One route I started checking but didn't commit to was using Ansible. They have a relatively good Kubernetes playbook and a facility to store secrets. That said, every damn task needs to be pointed to the K8S API endpoint, which is not the greatest.
>Who is putting their hands/fingers near the sawblade ?

Most people don't deliberately place the hands dangerously close to the blade. Instead, it's an unforseen interaction with the wood and the blade. E.g. the hand holding down wood against the fence and is (supposedly safe distance of) 1 foot away from the blade but an unexpected kickback quickly pulls the hand into the blade before the operator can even react defensively. An experienced woodworker was demonstrating kickback using push blocks and thought he was safe but he almost got sliced by the blade.[1]

On can then say, install a riving knife to prevent kickback, etc... but that doesn't prevent an operator from reaching over the blade to grab a piece of waste. Whether fatigue or being in a hurry, he misjudges how his hand and the wood moves through space above the blade and boom, fingers get sliced. There are probably a 100 different ways to lose fingers on table saws.[2]

[1] almost amputated @ 2m30s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7sRrC2Jpp4&feature=youtu.be...

[2] http://www.sawaccidents.com/recently-added-accidents.htm
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Lobbyists act on behalf of business, how is this any different?
The lobbyists never stopped advising. In fact his administration is filled with former lobbyists that are now on the executive branch's payroll. That's one way to drain the swamp.
Cool, thanks.

When you say google and microsoft have this advantage in creating data sets, is it just the massive size of the web indices they are able to compile or do they use their crawlers in specific ways for compiling structured data that would be more useful for certain ML projects than a general web index?

Are there any tweaks you'd make to a crawler if you sent it out with the purpose of creating a dataset for a specific AI / ML project, rather than a general purpose web index?
Slack, Chrome, and Atom are consistently on that list for me. IntelliJ/PyCharm often is as well.
(Employee performance, not software performance.)
I think a disagreement about didactic methods and ordering is not what I was addressing. I just think at some point calling it a "Pythagorean cult" (and what, I wonder, are we murdering people over uttering?) is counter-productive.

I'm slowly recording several sessions, and I think about 2 hours in enough to introduce Purescript, explain the basics of Functors, Applicative Functors (which come nearly for free), and even explain, motivate, and use monadic functions. But I don't know how to do this without at least giving folks some words (Functor is a name as good as any, and every other name for Monad is at last as if not more intimidating

It's just at some point if we observe the shape of what we're doing, we can generalize in a useful way further (e.g., the lenses-banannas-parethesis approach).
This, and also VS2017 did in fact ship C# without some things (for instance, full support for value tuples).
Correct, that is what I intended. The inverse of any function whose application, subsequent or prior to the function, leads to the identity. The reciprocal, on the other hand, is very clearly understood to be the quotient such that the nominator and denominator are reversed.
This is funny :)
It is as revolutionary as the share company was 400 years ago.

Game over, illiquid equity.
It's been years since I deleted my Facebook account, I do use WhatsApp though, and I don't feel like I am missing up on anything.
this sounds really cool. some of my favorite games are essentially sandboxes (mount & blade, pirates), and I like the idea of taking the sandbox and building in non-trivial, non-artificial non-deterministic stories.
One way to handle this would be with a reverse mortgage. Effectively, the $30k/y of taxes are counted against the value of the home when it's sold. Since the home has gotten enormously more valuable (which is why the taxes would be higher) the homeowner still comes out very much ahead.
The problem is you are casting individual exercise of free speech by delining to amplify speech they don't approve of as “infringement on free speech”.

Free speech certainly includes the right to try to convince people to amplify your speech. It generally does not include an entitlement to have them do it for you without you having to convince them.
It's a neo-nazi, white supremacist website.
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One solution is to sell your home and rent. You'd be a millionaire renter, and a lot of renters would want to trade places with you.

Another solution would be to design the reform bill to grandfather in people who have lived in their homes for some long amount of time, or are above a certain age, or whatever.

In some sense, though, the way we are using land is currently very inefficient and improvements necessarily mean changing how we use the land.
I am willing to entertain the idea that the ceos of large corporations are also decent human beings.
>Ng told me that his personal goal is to help bring about an AI-powered society.

Anyone have links to interviews or information on Ng's vision? I'd love to hear the details.
That's great to hear.

I'll probably have my current mail service run out and then switch to protonmail for personal mail and selfhosted mail for spamming notifications from my nextcloud instance.
I don't see how it could be unprovable.

As far as I know the only way a theorem can be unprovable is if it makes statements involving infinity.

You can reduce P vs NP to a question involving only finite sets by choosing some finite n, which can be arbitrarily large. It should be large enough so that the asymptotic behavior of any algorithm would dominate at n.

Instead of asking about the scaling behavior of an algorithm as n approaches infinity you now ask about its scaling up to the finite value n.

This is now a question about a finite set which has a definite answer which could, in principle, be determined by enumerating all possible algorithms (represented, for example, by boolean circuits with some large size bound) for a particular NP complete problem for problem sizes up to n. Of course this would probably take many times the lifetime of the universe to actually do, but it could be done in principle. So the question of how the minimum circuit size which solves an NP complete problem scales with n has a definite answer.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15028201 and marked it off-topic.
I have used https://deploybot.com and they are pretty good.
But that is how it works, right? If you don't maximize shareholder value you can be ousted

Depends on what you mean by "maximize," since "shareholder value" is a matter of opinion. Some might make the case for short-term rises at all costs, while others take a longer view of "value." In between are a lot of experts and self-proclaimed experts.
The site is a hate site for neo-Nazis. In the wake of the recent Nazi march, they were kicked off their previous registrar (GoDaddy), then off Google, and settled on Cloudflare. A lot of folks (myself included) assumed that CF would allow them to remain, as they have with many sites in the past. However, it appears that something has convinced them that it's not worth it to be the facilitator of a mouthpiece for genocide.
I first saw the code in the early 2000's and although I figured out the newton-rapshon part I couldn't wrap my head around the magic number, until I read chris Lomont's famous paper[1]. A little gem which reminds us that not that long ago computing resources were a limited commodity.

Abundance is great and speeds up development time, but unfortunately it leads to laziness and bloat

[1] http://www.lomont.org/Math/Papers/2003/InvSqrt.pdf
Does anyone know if it's possible to take a screenshot of a specific DOM element? (instead of the entire page)
That is not my perception.

It's difficult to point to a more poorly managed language project than Scala. The net result is a mess with tons of gotchas, performance pitfalls, technical debt and a 3-way split tie in the community.

Scala has driven away a lot of brilliant people.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696799/utilities/df.... says what df does on any POSIX system. I love Dwarf Fortress but running it as root is more !!fun!! than I'm looking for.
Like Comma.ai, Pair (my company), Travelflan handful of others
So, it's a circular saw that can optionally ride on a long and straight metal track that clamps to your wood. I have rigged up things like that with 2x4s in the past.

Hadn't seen it as an actual product before, but much more convenient this way, which makes it more likely to get used. Not as advantageous as a table saw if you need to do a lot of identical cuts; but, seems like it would work well for the occasional need.

I might just replace my cheap/scary table saw with one of these the next time I build something. Thanks.
There are domino adders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNuPy-r1GuQ

Sadly not very repeatable :-)
Indeed. The list of all supported attributes is in the manual page:

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/ext4.5.html#FILE_ATTRIB...
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They will lower taxes mainly for upper incomes and produce huge deficits. They will have made the US health system even worse. Another achievement will be winding back a lot of environmental rules.

So I think they are on track with their real goals. Helping the American worker was never a serious goal.
The theremin, a device for detecting fingers using capacitative coupling, was patented in 1928. It output an analog audio signal, where pitch indicated proximity of one hand, and volume indicated proximity of the other.

The children's game Operation used an effective means to detect when the game's forceps contact the metal chassis.

Can we assume that the difficult and novel part of the invention is not generating the sensor signal, but acting upon it quickly enough?
By putting people in 'groups' and having those who support him also enforce this idea that we're all in separate groups and need to look out for own little group--this is how fascism grows, this is how hitler took over Germany, this is how a new Hitler figure could take over America too... It's not outside the realm of possibility sure Germans in 1900 couldn't forsee the horrors of 1940.

Here's a good video from 1947 explaining the whole thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23X14HS4gLk
Potentially unsafe, but it can work:

Buy welding googles like these: ($5.29) https://www.harborfreight.com/2-piece-welding-goggles-set-35...

And combine that with a real pressed CD. NOT a recordable CD!! It must be a real, aluminum colored, CD! (And one without a label.)

I did this to look at the transit of venus over the sun a while back. Worked fine, but my viewing time was limited.

However I must add that they advise against doing this, not because it's inherently unsafe, but because if you mess up (for example the CD has a scratch) you can hurt yourself, so......
transfer learning: https://github.com/Jack000/fontjoy
It is a self-identified neo-Nazi website. It takes its name from the Nazi propaganda "Der Stürmer". You can read more about it on the SPLC page for its founder: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi...
Is Garry Kasparov Too Old to Dominate Chess Again?
Yep! I did, ooops
They pretty clearly layout that PARSEC is their benchmarking suite. You can see that here:

http://parsec.cs.princeton.edu/

Feel free to bug Princeton if you need specifics. I mean, I don't really care about this program, but it's not that difficult to beat qemu. Their whole thing is that they focus on accuracy and cross-platform compatibility. Both those things make optimizations difficult-at-best. If you're only coding a VM for a certain translation (x86->ARM, for instance), you can optimize like crazy.
Deleted my Facebook account two months ago, but kept the Messenger for keeping up with a handful of friends. Haven't missed the newsfeed spam a day since! Rest assured you're not missing out
With the uncertainty they have spread and the refusal to work on Obamacare problems they are on track of making it fail even without repealing.
I couldn't say. I don't know enough about European data sharing habits to really draw a comparison. I would remind you though as Apple proved during the San Bernadino iPhone showdown, the U.S. government is heavily restrained by law from just storming in and taking company data that they claim is necessary for the interests of national security.
This is a Nazi site that regularly urged on violence against 'leftists & Jews' then later after Charlotteville called the Nazi's murder victim a slut.
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A hand-cranked computer that uses punch cards (also mostly 3D-printed): http://www.chrisfenton.com/the-turbo-entabulator/
And with net neutrality being attacked ironically by trump, ISPs might start doing the same.
I don't take responsibility for what others have stated. Since I'm not the one comparing groups I fail to see how I can be held responsible for that. I can have my opinion in the conversation without having to be lumped into something I didn't state. Stop trying to paint me into a corner so that you can label me in a negative way for your own benefit. You are attempting to do the childish response of "if you say this then you obviously must support that". Which is utter nonsense and you really should stop.

Things like your response is exactly why I stated I don't like playing the game of false equivalence by comparing opposing groups.

edit: let's try it this way, I wasn't doing the comparing, I was asking for clarification of what was being compared
Most people I know dislike FB. But there are hundreds of millions out there for whom FB had become an addiction. B
8% of revenue is HUGE. It would probably be the single biggest expense for each saw.

It also seems strange for that to be a percent instead of a fixed cost since the feature is the same for all models of a saw.
Unfortunately, neither it being open source nor its technical prowess is reason sufficient for some people. That's a simplistic analysis. Most people using Linux don't know it the kernel code "well enough" to maintain it in face of hardware changes and other external requirements.

I don't mean anything by "strong suspicions", you do: "I have a strong suspicion that Deis will live on after March under stewardship of new leadership from the community."

It seems you're implying someone is going to pick it up and offer a level of support that will justify it as a viable option. I don't have insider information to make that judgment but maybe you do.

I'm not making any judgment on its technical merits or the reasons that let Deis to sunset it.
Agreed.

I work with many schools, and you may be surprised how many workstations with 4gb of RAM are still out there. When I first started at this company I scoffed and considered them edge cases, but now I know better.
Some of their software stack is open source. You can go have a look how it works for yourself, of course you have to trust that what they opened is what they run- but the foundations seem solid at least.

https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient
I'd recommend RStudio. They have a server edition and R is extremely powerful for data crunching. The two downsides are that you'll have to re-code all your dashboards/reports, and R isn't as user friendly as Tableau. This will kill your productivity when switching, unless your analysts are already proficient in R.

https://www.rstudio.com
I would be interested to know what storage driver they're using for their nodes. High container churn puts a lot of stress on the VFS subsystem of Linux, and we've seen cases where customers have trigger lots of mount/umounts which results in filesystems causing panics. At SUSE, we do have some kernel devs debugging the issues, but the workaround is almost always "rate limit all the things". There are a few other kernel areas that are stressed with high container churn (like networking), but VFS is the most likely candidate from my experience.

While on paper containers are very lightweight, spawning a lot of them exercises kernel codepaths that probably haven't been exerted to that type of stress during development.
The stupid thing is, this technology could be applied to more than just table saws; most woodshop machines are fairly dangerous if you don't keep your mind and eyes on things. The thing is, even experts can get lulled by "having done this 100 times before" - and a terrible accident happens.

There are tons of power tools, shop tools, and other machinery that could be made safer. Yes, it will cost money, and consumers may not want to pay it. But I know if I ever purchase a table saw, it's going to be one of SawStop's - because my fingers are part of my livelyhood as a software engineer, and worth the money, easily.

How it works is kinda neat, but it does have some limitations:

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

Chief among them that if you want to use a dado blade system, it won't work. But for general crosscutting and such, not a bad piece of insurance.
Very interesting. Thanks, I need to dig into the docs for a day or two, but this all looks very promising.
> I'm now paying $1200/mo for a 3 bedroom house 5 miles further out in Meridian

Uhm...wow, that's cheap. If you had a decent tech job in Boise (at HP?) it might work out pretty well.
Nice, now I know to avoid Standard Notes. Electron is garbage.
I stopped using Facebook years ago and I could not recommend it more. I found it to be mental pollution at best and and a total waste of time.

If you want to 'keep in touch' with people, call or text them. Make an effort to actually interact with the people who matter to you.
I wonder if, in the future, being able not to be on any social media will be an higher class privilege.
The public exchanges may not have any affordable policies or even any policies at all available at some point.

The ACA is a lot more than just the public exchanges.
Jim founded an organization, Math for America, to help: http://www.mathforamerica.org/about/board/james-simons

(This story appears to have nothing to do with Trump, despite the headline.)