skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with a lot of the assertions in this blog. You have to suspend some of your expectations since this is all .js. you can't have a js loop feeding single samples to a buffer. Js isn't deterministic to that level of granularity, but overall it's fast enough to generate procedural audio in chunks if you manage the timing. If you check out some of the three.js 3d audio demos you can see some pretty cool stuff being done with all those crazy nodes the auThor is decrying. He'll I wrote a tron game and did the audio using audio node chains and managed to get something really close to the real tron cycle sounds, without resorting to sample level tweaking.. and with > 16 bikes emitting procedural audio.. I think more focus on the strengths than weaknesses is in order.. and if you really want to peg your cpu.. you can still use emscripten/webasm or similar to generate buffers, if that's your thing..
Is there any way to exchange your money for bitcoin and just put it in a 'personal wallet' if you don't want to store it on somewhere like coinbase, etc?
Both of those jobs have very low minimum amounts of work.

If you just want the kid to make it to 18 without dying and develop an android app to show the user pictures of cats while harvesting their data then it won't take all that much effort.

Both those jobs can also be time black holes if you let them.
Your bullets are attributable, to varying levels of accuracy, to news sources.

Your supposition that DHS has cracked down on Kaspersky in retaliation for Kaspersky's refusal to spy for the US is not.

Again: big, if true!
But what reason is there to suppose that information processing is any better at explaining consciousness than normal physics or neuroscience, for that matter? The hard problem of concrete subjectivity remains no matter which objective, abstract explanation you prefer.
Question: is the "point" of Web Audio to expose the native hardware-accelerated functionality of the underlying audio controller, through a combination of the OS audio driver + shims? Or is it more an attempt to implement everything in userspace, in a way equivalent to any random C++ DSP graph library? I've always thought it was the former.
wow!! just ended my evaluation with this release and purchased the license...
There was a comment about the political influence and aspirations of certain big names in tech, but it has suddenly disappeared. It contained some criticism of Paul Graham and Sam Altman, but seemed totally reasonable to me -- can anyone say why it was deleted?
We can go a little shorter with C :)

main(i){for(;i<101;puts(printf(i%3?"%d\r":"fizz",i)&&i++%5?"":"buzz"));}
Exactly. It drives me crazy to hear people who never moved 20 minutes outside of downtown Manhattan and went to a 30k a year high school act like they possibly understand what it's like to be working class or that they can begin to diagnose major issues in society. They've never seen anything but the upper crust of it.
It's a chance for a fresh start, whether it ends up tyrannical or not is yet to be decided. Whereas, staying here, we're by-default picking tyranny by the majority. There is absolutely no-where to go on this planet to escape statism or to join with like-minded individuals in creating a new society.

Heck, government is even trying to stake claim to outer space:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
There's also: https://www.chexsystems.com
I think I should submit the form and include a copy of the articles on the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, ...
"... for criminals who needlessly endangered dozens of lives"

Me too, just I'm pretty sure we don't think about the same group of people...
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1: Don't keep your coins at an exchange. Only keep at an exchange what you are going to trade soon.

2: Backups, lots and lots of backups. And update the backups EVERY time you do a transaction!!!!

3: Keep your coins in multiple "batches", so if you lose one, you don't lose all.

4: Keep most of your coins offline. A bootable USB key is a good idea to reduce hack surface. Divide up the coins on multiple removable USB keys that you normally keep removed. (And USB keys can and do fail, so don't forget those backups.)

5: If you encrypt your wallet write the password down!! Your attack vector is hackers on the internet - they can't see the postit on your wall (if they are in your house you have bigger problems). But your family will appreciate the ability to have the money in case of problems. (Or if you decide to not do anything with coins for a year or two, then want to get back into it - you'll probably not remember the password. There are far too many people who lost their coins because of encryption.)
"One-minute averages": I thought Fitbits provide a data point/recording for every second?
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To be clear, I'm not advocating for a donation model instead of a free personal use vs paid commercial. I'm suggesting to remove the header and urge personal users to donate a bit.

> and I'm not convinced that the "variety of reasons" are compelling.

I really don't want to be a jerk here, but you don't need to be convinced. If the general community feels a certain way, and you wish for said community to favor you, you must abide.
No, I expect you to do the work on your own. I gave you some keywords. Good luck.

Sorry you're being downvoted. It's not me that is doing it. HN doesn't allow it, but I'd not do it anyhow.
>>After all, some of the most progressive policies for the poor in this country were passed by the wealthiest presidents (FDR, Kennedy, Johnson).

You mean regressive policies that hurt the poor, right?

The War on Poverty marked the end of the decline in the American poverty rate. The social welfare state gradually sapped American industrial vitality and the labour productivity growth that had been fueling wage gains across all income classes for decades.
My bad, skipped that part somehow.
>>The stereotypical left-wing position is, "This government program should be left alone, even if it's poorly-run"

No, it is "This government program is poorly-run probably because it is severely underfunded."

After all, "government is poorly-run" tends to become a self-fulfilling prophecy: it is used to justify spending cuts, which does in fact result in performance problems.
I agree with your thought, and that of the majority of mathematicians for many years, that infinitesimals are better construed heuristically than literally.

You mention that you know of non-standard analysis and indicate that it's irrelevant. Though I don't know why you think this, I agree with you. I just wanted to plug non-standard analysis as both mathematically interesting and also very useful. One can jettison the philosophical thought that NSA "vindicates" the historical use of infinitesimals (as I think we should), while still seeing NSA as the wonderful and deep piece of math that it in fact is.
Yeah. It's the guys in the sales dept that are doing the coke off of strippers.

Anything to make the sale.
Just buy another license.
You can access the reduction property and connect it a gain node of anouther source.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DynamicsCom...
> Arab "Spring", which has most certainly been a disaster for America (and the people in the region too)

Wait, how so? Asking out of ignorance - I thought the Arab Spring was a good thing for the region.
> People who understand economics tend to both be entrepreneurs (they understand the rules of the game they're playing) and they are in favor of free trade and less regulation.

The amount of libertarian bullshit in that statement ought be enough to fertilize the soil in the whole great state of Idaho for a decade at least.
The regulation doesn't have to be foisted upon them at all: Regulation that just harms new companies, or competitors of a very different shape, is introduced at the behalf of industry groups all the time.

What makes Silicon Valley tech special here is that most of the big companies have great network effects or economies of scale, so it's not as if adding regulations on top will help them much: The moats are already very large. On the other hand, they are all still growing, and regulation rarely helps anyone that is growing. The one case where regulation helps them though is when it removes lower levels of regulation.

Imagine you are a ride sharing company for a second. Would you rather have individual regulations per city, or limit them to one per state, or even one per country? The simpler the regulation, the better, as you want to enter new markets as easily as possible, and a big, umbrella regulation is far better than a lot of incompatible ones, even if said umbrella regulation happened to be more onerous than most local regulations.

We saw a lot of this with the strengthening of the EU. A lot of incompatible laws became unified, and thus selling to more markets became easier. You might even have a company push for said regulation when there is none, as long as it has provisions to stop new, smaller scale regulations from popping up.
> It probably doesn't help much but it can't hurt ... There's no benefit to leaking this information and it's potentially useful to an attacker even if only marginally so why risk it?

Actually, it can hurt. One really good reason to note it is that for the same reason an attacker might want to know the version, a defender (such as an employee) might want to as well. I've noted exploitable versions of software found to other divisions of the company I was working at before. For the attacker, it's really not much of an issue anyway, they'll just throw every exploit at it anyway (my webserver logs were always filled with random exploit attempts such as for wordpress and IIS).
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I think more simplistically: when you take this group of people and average them out what you get are beliefs that benefit the large companies they represent. That's the signal that is correlated with running a big tech company, and the rest is probably mostly noise.

Just remove "tech" and you get the same old story. "Same as it ever was..."
It didn't cost me anything to do a freeze with equifax; but I have heard of others paying. I am wondering if they only do it for free on those affected by the "hack"?

For the others, I had to pay - Transunion and Experian - $5.00 each; ChexSystems and Innovis were free also.
Right. As a US citizen, I guess I would pick the US spying on me if I had to choose between the US and a foreign government.
Black Mirror had an episode where this went horribly wrong.
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I very much doubt that Chalmers is ignorant of anything that Dennett and Hofstadter are knowledgeable about, given that he's been debating them and participating in conferences where they give their talks for the past 20 years. What philosophers like Chalmers, Block, McGinn, Searle, and Nagel have argued is that the neuroscientific and computations explanations cannot capture subjective experience, because they are fundamentally abstract, objective explanations. They are abstracted from our collective personal, subjective experiences, to a mathematical idealization of the world which we consider to be objective.

That abstract idealization fails to capture the subjective experiences of color, sound, pain, pleasure, etc, because it's been divorced from them to gain a God's eye view from nowhere, which has no color, sound, feels, etc. The problem is very deep philosophical one, which goes to the heart of objectivity vs subjectivity, and has been around in some form since ancient philosophy, both East and West.
For reference, the BIOS text-mode font included with some IBM PCs (I've observed this on NetVistas and ThinkPads myself, at least) renders ` as a nice-looking opening quote, and ' looks like a nice closing quote.
The current global trade (non-software) relies on security provided by US Navy. Global Trade is not Free Trade! You need a security under-writer for it. I think Libertarians have a "blind-spot" there.
Anyone else here familiar with "liberaltarianism"? I think that might be what the data is showing: the desire for a robust and efficient free market tethered to a redistributive social safety net.

I think it's a pretty good idea.
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It's still not clear to me that e.g. the Queen of England couldn't travel around with her shopping list in a diplomatic pouch. A country's government gets to decide for itself what is and isn't for its "official use", no? So if a country says your laptop contains materials intended for their official use, then it does. It's just a matter of you being important enough for them to be willing to make that claim on your behalf.
the point is that you cannot design it. you're exploring the space looking at what is interesting. So if you're given a start image and an end image (an objective) you cannot reach the end image. In the case of pic-breeder you are playing the role of a fitness function not that of an intelligent designer.
> In the U.K., researchers looked at data from more than 150,000 people treated for opioid addiction from 2005 to 2009 and found that those on buprenorphine or methadone had half the death rate compared with those who engaged in any type of abstinence-oriented treatment.

That's some pretty scary data. Half the death rate... that's a very significant number.

> You're advocating to stay on a drug the rest of your life?

Why not? It saves lives (hello insulin). And here's a telling bit from the article:

> When patients take a stable, regular and appropriate dose, maintenance medications don’t cause impairment, and the patient can work, love and drive. In essence, what maintenance does is replace addiction — which, remember, is defined as compulsive use despite consequences — with physiological dependence, which, as noted above, is not harmful in and of itself.

Here's the link with much more info about buprenorphine: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4293937/

Certainly it would be nice to have an effective solution that didn't require daily use... but we don't. What we have is a safe drug that cuts the death rate by half.
Mozilla had a competing api that just worked with sample buffers. Unfortunately it didn't win the standardization battle.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Audio_Data_API
> It's also worth mentioning that 'true AI' would be an absolute nightmare in terms of delivering a game

An important sentiment I've heard many times on the gamedev.net forums is that machine learning techniques are usually too difficult to tune in order to make the agents behave in the way that the designer wants.

Game AI is about providing an illusion of intelligence and about providing a designer-crafted experience to the player. So it often makes sense to cheat in order to achieve this.

Having said that, some games really do benefit from smarter AI. For example, real time strategy games sometimes do (eg Supreme Commander AI mods, AI War Fleet Command etc) and often first person shooter bots as typical dumb bots are simply not as fun to play against than real humans, although you mostly want the bots to have some high level tactics ability (not perfect aim or such), which is why the game FEAR is often applauded for having fantastic AI (it uses Goal Oriented Action Planning to produce high level tactics such as flanking). But most games don't go very far at all.
Yep, that is exactly what the we find and argue. I think the NYT article about our work does a better job highlighting that central finding: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/technology/silicon-valley....
> It's hard to put my finger on what exactly unsettled me about the fidget spinner craze, but it seems related to this article.

I'm 36, don't have a kid, and as such all the fidget spinner craze has passed me with no impact at all, i.e. I don't really care what a fidget spinner does, if it's popular or not. The same goes for the kendana/kendama thing (not sure of its exact name, too lazy to google). They're just kids' games, not sure why talking about them has become so important.
The one group we abandoned during the hurricanes (Prisoners)
> racial superiority, authoritarianism, bellicose and arbitrary foreign policy, and in general favor short-sighted, poorly-executed and simple solutions - most of which involve completely neutering government as we know it - over sober and data-backed policy

That describes the American far right, but if you modify that to "ideological superiority, authoritarianism, bellicose and arbitrary social policy, and in general favor short-sighted, poorly-executed and simple solutions - most of which involve greatly expanding government as we know it - over sober and data-backed policy" you also have an apt description of the American far left.

Other than that, I completely agree with the rest of your observation.
They were selling for $10 AU here and somehow 3 weeks later I got one for free because the craze was dead and somebody has excess stock.

Being patient pays off so often.
> It’s fast. Talk is small — about 300kb

Hopefully that's not the client size
I believe Equifax dropped the credit freeze charge due to the backlash [0]. The other reporting agencies may still charge however.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/your-money/equifax-fee-wa...
I doubt this will ever be updated, since it's reference for a very specific, 20 year old, code interpretation related proposal und not meant for type setting.

But for anything related to contemporary typesetting on the web I recommend Practical Typography and especially the Type Composition chapter:

http://practicaltypography.com/type-composition.html#links

Including notes on quotes and apostrophes:

http://practicaltypography.com/straight-and-curly-quotes.htm...

http://practicaltypography.com/apostrophes.html
What are commute times like to where the jobs are from those (Cupertino, Palo Alto it seems)?
Thoughtless hardhearted privileged dude says what?
If you're a Libertarian and you believe spurring on global trade strengthens the right to property and disrupts governments from legislating moral imperatives, then you might be a globalist. Being neutral to OK with globalism is not the same thing as being a globalist.
> It's ex nihilo,

No, it's not.

> so it doesn't leave loose ends out there like, "Yeah, but where did the giant turtle come from?"

How is “Yeah, but where did God come from?” not a loose ends almost exactly like that?

> It's monotheistic, so complications about where the many gods come from, what rules they have to follow, and how they die are moot.

It has a single creator (like many polytheistic creation myths), and multiple supernatural entities raising the same type of questions (even if you literally interpret the serpent as just a really smart snake with an unexplained defiant streak, by the end of Gen 3 you’ve got the cherub with the flaming sword.) That the supernatural entities besides the creator in the Judeo-Christian tradition are called something other than gods doesn't actually eliminate any of the issues they raise.
>Bullshit. You're committing the fallacy that comes from Marxist thought--- that one's position/class/socio-economic-factors are the determining factors in their values and beliefs. People are not so simple, their thoughts can come from elsewhere. You're wildly underestimating the sentience of these people.

Humans want to believe that they are not so simple, but usually they are. We're more caricatures than snowflakes. That's why there's mainstream music and movies, and most go through the same limited number of stages in life with utmost predictability.

When money is involved that's doubly so. And if Marx's not your thing (although the notion that class/position/economic factors greatly shape the man is much older than Marxism -- heck, the aristocracy believed the exact same thing), here's Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

In other words, they can have all the other thoughts they like -- as long they fit in with their role and don't come at odds with it (In other words: "any color you like as long as it is black").

This leaves them with a more limited set of corporate compatible set of thoughts. If they're gonna be buddhists, for example, they'd be the kind of "buddhists" for which driving expensive sports cars, managing people, and selling commercial trite products is a-ok for.
Ah, note, I said "diplomatic courier", not "diplomat." A diplomatic pouch can actually be escorted by anyone, or even unescorted, as long as it has a sealed manifest affixed. Indeed, the person escorting the pouch doesn't even have to be a citizen of either the source country or the mission/embassy. This proviso allows people to be "deputized" to deliver a diplomatic pouch; allows diplomatic pouches to be handed off for delivery and still keep their protections; allows diplomatic pouches to be recovered from a war-zone and resume delivery; etc.

Fun fact: for air travel, unescorted diplomatic pouches are taken into the care of the captain, and are kept in the cockpit.
In Egypt, Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood was elected to power and tried to turn Egypt into an Islamist dictatorship. The military stepped back in and saved the day. So they're right back where they started, a military dictatorship that is at least not an Islamist dictatorship, PLUS years of senseless death, destruction, and economic calamity.

Syria is a complete hell hole now. Since the Arab Spring started, they've suffered total societal collapse, occupation of large swaths of the country by ISIS and al-Qaeda, and a mass exodus of young men to Europe. Years later, they are still engulfed in a bloody civil war.

Libya is also at civil war and is mostly ruled by roving gangs. Islamist violence is on the rise.

Tunisia is the only place things have gone anywhere near well. It is also a very small country.
If they're in NATO then they're an ally.

Also, interesting you posted a Glenn Greenwald article - he has been accused by some people in the U.S. of dismissing things Russia has done recently in these fronts.
You have no understanding of the marxist conception of base - superstructure relations. If marxists thought class determinism was as simple as it is then they would be baffled why revolution hadn't taken place long ago.