skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who here thinks they should have made "an object-oriented C" instead? I was under the impression that a big part of C's success (as a lingua france / lowest common denominator) is its minimalism. It forces only a few concepts on its users.
> - Wanting to slouch on the couch without it affecting your gameplay

You can easily play some games sitting, but still you can't do no exercise. That's a plus: a friend I played frequently with has lost more weight playing than with any other method. (for most people exercising isn't useful for losing weight but it has many benefits for the brain)

> - Wanting to pick up your cup of tea or soda in slow moments in the game

I've done that. With a bottle or a cup with a straw. The vive camera makes it easy.

> - Wanting to hear & see if other members of the family have got home

It depends on which headset are you using and how much noise people makes coming home. I usually do hear them.

> - Not wanting to look like an idiot with a thing on your head making strange in-game movements

> - Feeling antisocial because as you only have one head-set others in the room can't see what you're doing (making it feel antisocial to go into that world)

People _can_ see what are you doing with a correctly positioned screen. In any case those problems are temporary and sounds easy to solve. I'm not very social myself but I want to make a SteamVR "intercommunicator" to talk with people IRL without losing immersion (or maybe even making it more immersive).
My dad was a mechanical engineer that spent most of his working career supporting the development of aircraft. Me mentioned there are two paradoxical things about aircraft.

The higher you fly, the safer it is. Flying higher gives the pilot more time to fix problems. Took a while for early aviators to realize this. Many died.

And the faster you land, the safer it is. Landing faster reduces the relative effects of wind shear. For a couple of reasons. The most obvious is the effect of a 20mph wind shear is less at 120mph than 60. And higher landing speed, higher stall speed, higher wing loading, less effects due to buffeting. This took even longer to realize. For a while the FAA had a rule limiting the maximum stall speed of commercial aircraft. That rule killed people.

Point being guys flying wing suits are flying in an intrinsically dangerous flight envelope.
Useful as many of these utilities may be, I'm worried about the fact that I have to fully trust each and every one of them. There are 63 entries on that list. How am I ever going to be sure that _all_ of them are safe?

This concern is starting to really affect my use of software more generally. I have found many useful browser extensions but I rarely install any of them because of what they have access to.

Open source or not doesn't make a whole lot of difference either, because I'm never going to be able to review and compile all of it myself after every single update.

The somewhat surprising consequence is that the built-in features of operating systems and browsers have become much more important to me than they have ever been.

Essentially, the software I use is

(a) Built into the OS or browser
(b) Coming from one of a handful of organisations I trust
(c) Purely Web based

This is on the desktop. And on mobile the "solution" is to severely restrict what software can do and give disproportionate power to some gatekeeper who will then predictably abuse that position by extracting a 30% cut from everybody and impose content restrictions way beyond what can be justified by computer security.
I have heard of this show, and speaking of gritty late-Cold-War-era series that still hold up, I think Edge of Darkness should be up there. It was remade into a terrible action film in 2010, but the original TV series from 1985 is a masterpiece of plotting and pacing, and non-verbal storytelling.
Unfortunately I believe you have missed what I was trying to say and went on a very long post against something that doesn't have anything to do with how I use FB. Your post was fun and interesting to read, I- it- I- just... it's almost as if you responded to a completely different post.

To recap, I have a bunch of friendships that are so minor that I only have contact with them on FB. They're not serious enough to demand the other person to move off FB. (We're talking about "I randomly like one of there posts every few months" minor.) They may become more serious in the future due to the ephemeral nature of friendships. Leaving FB would sever those friendships before they get to that stage.

Hopefully that makes sense!
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It's Kara Swisher's style. She's a sufficiently well-known journalist to get away with it, though I agree it can grate a little.
That isn't what the article said though, that is your own spin - the article doesn't talk about privacy violations at all in this context.
There are a couple of fantastic documentaries that follow some high level wristwatches craftsmen. It's absolutely amazing to see the dedication, precision and care they put into the tiniest of details.
Would this be a viable alternative to containers?
Actually we assume it resides in the brain. But even that is "as far as we know".
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How would you enforce a ban on people jumping off tall objects?

The Antenna part of BASE must be getting harder to achieve. When I worked in the radio and TV broadcast industry we had problems with BASE jumpers climbing masts at remote unmanned sites, but physical security is always being improved.
Also, you wouldn't want to try climbing onto a live high power mast radiator, you would be vaporized.
Small question. The call you got, was it from the State Department of your country or from Somalia?
those are some pretty high quality clients then. What type of projects do you do. We've implemented a pretty good model for our agency to attract quality clients without networking and doing all sorts of stuff that we don't like. Happy to help.
Yes yes, automation will increase number of people who will be paid... say what?
That never happened in history!
We need actual data rather than thought experiments here, and we could actually get it quite easily for last industrial revolution. Wars kinda break the data but it is still workable. The economical assumption is that people can retrain. This may no longer be true when complexity of the job hits a certain level or any random person can contribute only a tiny amount of value. (As opposed to outliers.)

ML results are also logically and formally verifiable, just like with human brain. There are higher order structures in both.

Humans can and do visualise at least 4 dimensions. Time is not as easy but still possible to visualise by anyone, higher levels are done as projections. We wouldn't get anywhere in math and especially algebra otherwise.

Even AI rarely directly work with all dimensions, reducing datasets to interesting features internally. Otherwise even with a relatively small number of dimensions curse of dimensionality makes calculation impossible. Much like with NP-hard problems. Quantum computers could perhaps skip over this but they're not practical yet.

Reprogramming AI reliably is even harder than understanding it. A hacked system is likely no longer an intelligence, unless it is just completely replaced. (Like a human impostor, we can reasonably well detect it too.) Such tampering is easy to detect or requires a very sophisticated understanding of the whole system. Which the piece asserted we "cannot have".

Current systems are easy to hack precisely because they are not intelligent at all.
Specifically, intelligence robustly handles unexpected situations. Including attempts to tamper with it or many kinds of damage.
For a self driving car tampering would be reasonably easily detected by simulation that was not used to train ML. (Can't do that with human minds yet.) A dumb self check. Very similar to what you do to stroke patients. The checks can even be supplied by a set of trusted third parties for any given kind of ML system. (Or you could have even formal logic verification that low level algorithms work correctly.)

And if sophisticated understanding is involved, the actor is either an unrecognised AI genius, an insider or a large actor - megacorporation or government. That narrows the set substantially. Or of course the AI just made a mistake, but for sophisticated AI honest mistakes are about as easy to detect as in humans.

This piece is actually insulting to the reader, written from a high horse and quite wrong plus unsubstantiated, and downplaying what we have already achieved or can achieve.
Teleportation is a garnish, not the main dish. Traversal mechanics are a core part of most action related games.
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How so? I feel like single dispatch (as in Python) is already enough.
Yeah, I'm not surprised. I've stopped using OVH around 5 years ago for this and other stuff (they changed prices and options of an offer while already subscribed). My day job company is still using them but we're moving to Online because the support at OVH really, really sucks.

Also their network is less stable than Online's.
http://mlmmj.org/ claims to be heavily inspired by ezmlm. I haven't used either so I don't know how well it works as a replacement, but it might be worth a look.
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My way of 'getting it' emerged only after few weeks, when we spent quite a lot of time on a proof that not (not A) is equivalent to A in propositional logic.

Then I realized that I shouldn't think about these in terms of ideas about reasoning I already had in my head, but to internalize that this is a self-contained, rule-based system, where we have some arbitrary statements given as a base and some arbitrary derivation rules, and our only goal is to be able to find what we are able to derive.

Does this statement have a proof then means "is there a chain of derivations from base that leads to this statement?"

I still got tripped on 'implication' (that in my language means something closer to what equivalence means in logic for some reason) and 'or' (that in my language usually implies either-or), but when I looked these with "Its just a rules system, it doesn't have to mean the same thing I use in general language" I was fine.

Then, of course, the usage crept from maths back to the language, and I have had confused many of my less mathematical friends (i.e. when they ask "if you are in the city, would you go to a pub", and to this, my answer always is "yes", but what they really meant is "Are you in the city and will you go to a pub?")
The only debugging experience I find enjoyable in Emacs is debugging Clojure using cider[1] and I think it comes close to what you are describing but I think you might already be aware of that :)

[1] -- (https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/blob/master/doc/debug...)
JuNest is what made our department computers usable for me. With it, I could run my favorite TeX editor (we don't have root access on these machines).

On a philosophical note, I second vortico's question of why common Linux distros require root access to be at all usable. In particular, how did it come to not being able to install a package without sudo?

I could download something, compile it, and run it, but not install from a package. It doesn't make sense to me. If I can run it, I should be able to "install" it locally, whatever the word "install" means (obviously, it wouldn't mean writing to directories to which I don't have access otherwise).

JuNest simply proves this point.
Developers are just responding to market signals. The underlying problem in the U.S. is that the federal government backstops 98% of flood insurance policies and does not charge the actuarial risk price. This government subsidy gives people incentives to overbuild and underprotect property in flood-prone areas.
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pkgsrc: NetBSD package repository that can also be used on Linux, inside any $PREFIX, without root: http://www.pkgsrc.org/
yep top of the lake is good, thanks.

i suspect my comments were a wee bit too strong but it was after cycling through every channel twice and finding nothing.
I suspect this is sloppy editing replacing a "may enhance" where Santostasi said "enhances". That kind of stuff happens all the time when scientists are interviewed.
> You just asked how it was possible to be two queen of two independent countries.

They are not independent when you look at from the queen's perspective, she still rules both of them. That is the point.
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As pier25 suggested, I was thinking about imgix. We (a marketplace) stopped using our hand-rolled image processing service for Imgix, and now enjoy their performance and suite of clever tricks to deliver the least bytes the fastest to the user. The impact on SEO and conversion is non-negligible.
Ask HN: What is the best test for statistical randomness?
Current choices seem to be NIST SP-800-22, DieHarder and Test U01, all of which certainly overlap.

Why is there no battery of tests that includes standards developed by different countries and their obvious biases?
> In the second quarter of 2017, Facebook eked an average of $4.65 out of each of its users by peppering screens with ads and promoted posts.

I'd gladly pay $5 even per month for Facebook or Google if only they treated me as a customer instead of the product.
Not entirely sure why this isn't default behaviour, but very glad this is now a toggle-able option! Saves a lot of silly clicking around to view certificate info.
Just from my own experience using oculus+touch:

- I already do a lot of sitting VR when tired/feet hurt. You're not gonna play the same game but a lot of the best experiences (cockpit based) are better sitting anyway.

- I do that aswell but arguably it's more precarious. I advise investing in a tumbler/thermos :)

- I exclusively use open headphones, the ones on the oculus are too and I can hear if someone is even standing in the corridor looking at me from the accoustic change. Closed headphones make me feel very uncomfortable and antisocial anyway.

- Heh, I'm playing, don't care about my appearance.

- On this point especially I must strongly disagree. Nothing has brought people around my gaming setup more than a VR HMD. And every game I played properly showed the player's view in a separate window and handled audio mirroring perfectly. Some games even allow for different spectator cameras, or smoothed up motions.

We lack the deep games we're accustomed to in traditional gaming. For myself and many, one of the best experience has been Doom 3 BFG VR. Tells you how desperately we need a proper "full" game with good mc support. Once those start coming out I expect the whole experience to be vastly different.
Or you could just make copies of state you want to keep before mutating it. Both mutable imperative code and immutable functional code can emulate each other, so which one to choose largely depends on your preferences.
When I was doing routing and switching Cisco was still undisputed king and I never had to do anything more than
IGP routing. Still, at the time, using two protocol stacks (IPX/SPX and TCP/IP) and redistribution into IS-IS using NLSP and RIP was painful. Still rather do that then deal with BGP.
> The thing to realise is that, at least is my experience, REPL based development doesn't mean your are actually typing code into the REPL.

> Instead, you develop code in a file, but constantly evaluate code as you go along.

Yes but what you are describing is hot code replacement and evaluation. You do not need a REPL. For a concrete example Java + JRebel + Debugger (Eclipse calls it Display with a glasses icon) will do that for you.

In my mind a REPL is very much about the input and of course the output otherwise its basically what I mentioned above.

And I think the the article doesn't really go into any new innovation or attempts at making REPLs better (particularly because they mention Bret Victor)... ie better input and better output.

Yes advanced REPLs have history saving capabilities and what not but then they are basically competing with the rest of the editor, IDE and source control.

Really innovative REPLs I think are what Bret shows, as well Squeak, and Racket. Those environments offer really unique input and output.
> But, since John has never left office before 5:00 pm, and let's assume he never will, according to the rules of logic, Jennifer's claim is True: It is True that if "John left office by 4:55 pm" then "it'll take 1 minute for him to get home".

A-ha! What logic are you thinking of? Jennifer is making an inductive -- a probabilistic -- claim. So right off the bat, we throw out our deductive rules. There might be an "if" and there might be a "then", but there is no material implication (=>) here.

There's a weaker form of something we can call "probabilistic implication" which will naturally lend itself to plenty of holes: there's a nonzero chance that John might be abducted by aliens, for example, and he never makes it home. These probabilities are built into Jennifer's original claim. There's nothing to refute.
Have you gotten any C&D yet? Are you familiar with the story of CL suing padmapper?

You're breaking all sorts of TOS.
His ability to move now might be impeded.
> Only in so far as the moment a monarch decides to exert any unwelcome authority will be the moment they get deposed.

How do you know they will get deposed, you are talking about hypothetical situations.
It's only certain package managers.
For instance, pkgsrc and portage don't require root access.
Yeah. My thoughts exactly, that's the stuff of nightmares. One of the big worries I have is that a losing super power would turn to nukes once conventional weapons stores are exhausted.
> In particular, how did it come to not being able to install a package without sudo?

You can on Fedora via `pkcon install <pkg>`.
Can't the locomotion problem be solved by putting the player character in a wheelchair or some sort of mobility assistive device?
Saving state between runs. R has surpassed Python for me just for that feature, for interactive exploration.
What is the point of this, other then scaremongering?
Well, this is something like "scratch my own itch" thing. I wanted to start small and build the audience. I'm afraid I'm unable to convince you other than: trust me. I'm a real person (http://jestem.tw) and I would like to solve a real problem. I hope you will sign up and I will be able to share some openings with you soon! Cheers!
There have been a few articles on here recently about people doing just that via a serial-to-wifi "modem" dongle.
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There are too many CPUs, MCUs, GPUs, even AIPUs, and programming languages in the world today, all these made programming harder and harder.
Not only programmers and developers are facing too many problems, but aslo the whole IT industry.

So we need a xPU Abstract Layer!
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The Prisoner (1967-1968) is mesmerising.

Le Voyage dans la lune - Georges Méliès 1902 (link provided) holds up after 115 years. Don't be so surprised! Timeless storytelling and design transcends it's delivery medium.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FrdVdKlxUk

To the people questioning whether good television is still being made, yes of course it is, it might just take you a few years to find it. True Detective, Fargo, Utopia are all great. A la carte streaming (eg select any 10 shows, 10 movies, $10/month) is the future for media consumption. Which platform will deliver this first only time will tell. At the moment original content is the model and there are some evident growth pains.
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Who are the network hardware upstarts you're thinking of? What are they bringing to the market which is changing it?
Thought for a second that The Economist was criticizing free trade in general.
> Let's just say that many people are so focused on the gaming market, that they're unable to see anything else.

This really annoys me. Actually I just want a good HMD that can replace any standard monitor. A lot of people complain about working in a plane or on a bus because other people can see their screen. People complain about working in open offices where they constantly have other peoples' faces moving in their field of view, distracting them from their screens. People try to build screen walls and wear isolating headphones to shield them from these distractions. People complain that they can't work outside in nice weather because of the glare..

I complain about my laptop because the screen is too small and it's impossible to have an ergonomic posture -- if it's at the right level for typing, the screen is too low and I get neck pain. If the screen is at a comfortable level, it's very difficult to type on. Even when the screen is at a comfortable level, it's annoyingly small for some things. I complain about big screens because they're heavy, take up a lot of desk space, are expensive, and aren't very portable.

There's so many issues that could potentially be solved with a HMD.. but everyone's just completely fixated on immersion in gaming and movies. sigh

A HMD could be a small, lightweight monitor I can keep in my backpack and use to get a desktop-like experience (plus some exclusive benefits) with a few minor disadvantages.
Gobolinux also had something like that, but ended up mothballing it as they transitioned from /System/Links to /System/Index.
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Legendary British engineering used to be a thing too.
The thing is they get paid better than that by the advertisers for your attention. Their ARPU is estimated[1] to be $53 for 2016 and that is across all the users, not only people who are ready to spend money on online services. And as a free service, I bet they are quite a bit more resilient to churn than a similar paid offering would be.

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2017/05/24/wh...
AR, or more appropriately Mixed Reality, is rumoured to see the light in 2019, so it's less than 2 years.
VR is simply pointless as of now and the sale figures reflect this dire reality.
Your comparison with the ICE is completely wrong.
A more accurate one would be to go on a ship vomiting everything in your stomach when currently you can go by car across a bridge taking more time and in less than 2 years there will be a ship that doesn't make you vomit.
Unrelated; but does anyone have resources like these for other related subjects?
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I don't think many of the European nations woukd agree they are socialist, most see themselves trying to balance socialism and capitalism to gain the greatest benefit for all.

How successful their efforts have been is up to the individual to judge.

You are right that it's not as much of a dirty word here.
Survivorship Bias

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In large part because someone stole his bag, computer and all.
It seems to have seen widespread adoption in Norway already (probably due to the large and still growing vegetarian market). The non-cow options are all more expensive than cow milk, but that doesn't seem to make much of a difference.
But how do you explain that $4.65 per quarter does not match $53 per year?
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