skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a card game simulator I have yet to publish. I don't really have a lot of money for server uptime, so it's either ads or this. And it won't be on by default. I'm simply offering users a way to support the site if they like using it, without having to view ads or pay directly (it may or may not affect their electricity bill I guess, but to most people an online game using some extra CPU isn't going to have much impact on them at all).
Another one: If you see someone's phone lying around, just stare at it few times and see if yo disabled their FaceID without ever touching it :)
Is hope for a better future disappearing in society?
and much of that complexity, at least on personal computers, gets added in the name of "user friendliness"...
Too late to edit my comment now, but

> ... is it just that there's been public evidence ...

should read

> ... is it just that there's not been any public evidence ...
I don't know. If you run those on a laptop you pretty much kill battery life, same thing with phones.
Yes, this was the origin of the term "hedge" fund, but in recent ~decade has come to mean "actively managed investments" because the name sounded cool to people who don't know that the word "hedge" means something intentionally conservative and boring.
There was also the black apple ][ by Bell and Howell
No, but it does make you think the poster was previously a visionary.
I think it does fit that description, but for some reason none of the implementations I found were completely without atomic ops. They had at least barriers which aren't free on ARM.
Any investment in the S&P500 that was as leveraged as the mentioned leveraged real estate or bond funds would have outperformed both the S&P500 and those two funds. It is easy (though not usually prudent) to create a leveraged investment in the S&P500 by buying it on margin.
Commodore Plus/4, C=16, C=116.
You can't afford $9/month? Don't bother implementing this feature and you earned a few months of uptime.
If it means I don't have to carry a driver's license or credit card or cash, sign me up.
I'm a medical resident. I see a patient in clinic, do a history and physical, sit down at a computer, and write a note describing what I just did. That's medical documentation, and it's a burdensome, growing problem.

The solution would be some combination of video or audio that records the clinical encounter and automatically generates a note based on what was discussed and performed. It falls under Paul Graham's "Schlep Task" (http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html); you'd have to work with individual clinicians, get their (and the patient's!) approval to record the encounter, record it from multiple angles, build tech into dumb devices (e.g. stethoscope, Dopplers for pulses, O2 saturations, and somehow use machine learning to integrate all that sensor data into a plain-text note.

It's probably the #1 problem from a provider's viewpoint right now, especially on the primary care side. Any individual provider will see 10-20 patients per day and write just as many notes.

Edit: I'd add that you'd also have to have access to existing notes because progress notes typically summarize the patient's prior visits.
Don't agree with there arguments about proportional fonts for coding though
Apple is building the tools needed to better invade people's privacy, and those tools will proliferate, regardless of how responsibly Apple uses those tools themselves.

The pattern has repeated itself so many times throughout history. Technology developed with the best of intentions ends up getting used for bad.
Wait, people are actually doing this? Using client-side resources not to deliver content or applications to clients, or even to visibly deliver things like advertisements, but to divert user CPU cycles for their own purposes?

I want to know more about this. Are they seeking any kind of consent from the users, or even disclosing it to the users? If not, I have serious doubts about the legality of this behavior.
16 bit seems more common than 32 bit, there's LOTs of low end processors. 32bit processors are expensive ( relatively ), and often don't have anywhere near as good low power operation.

On our product we have up to 4 processors, 1 32bit, 2 16bit, 1 8bit. Smallest only has 20bytes of RAM

Ideally I'd like to program them all with a super typesafe language
Do you have a link to the script? Sounds like something I'd use.
If HTML5's battery API ever became a thing, this issue could be solved without any user interaction.
From cursory reading, laser illuminators can be ~50X more efficient than the IR LEDs in Kinectv2 (though v1, ehich they compare it to, used IR lasers too, and didn't need active cooling like v2, it can also spread the illumination over a longer exposure than is required for v2's time-of-flight) and illuminate a much more narrow band which allows you to use a more selective filter, so you have less background IR to overcome.

It still may be only good to a few feet out in direct sunlight, I don't know.
Developing a sense of humor
That's a neat trick, but I see no reason to believe that it's anything other than straightforward electro-magnetism.
Remember reading how biometrics essentially ruined the old-style spies, they can no longer get through the airports. And once they get burned, they're out!

I am pretty sure that each country already runs the same face but two different IDs check. Ironically, the poorer countries probably have better tech since they started fresh, countries like USA keep patching their decade old systems.
To add one more question to the one raverbashing posted: How long do you even keep TPB in the background on your phone for it to consume your entire battery?
They take iris scans I think - that's why you have to gaze into the scanner. Iris recognition is very accurate (they prefer better than 1 in 1000000 accuracy!), and hard to modify.
It is not really surprising that a large group of hedge funds underperformed the S&P500. In fact, William Sharpe made the argument a long time ago: in aggregate, active investors hold the passive portfolio and earn the same return as passive investors before fees, but lower returns after fees. In aggregate, this is always and necessarily true: https://web.stanford.edu/~wfsharpe/art/active/active.htm
Putting the fear of God into people has worked since the time of Jesus.

Dont change what's not broken.
What language is this where you can use a variable before declaring it?
Are women in tech facing extinction?
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing, I thin this is probably one extreme of the scale of effort taking care of garbage... and with good reason given the delicate ecosystem.

The things you learn talking about design ;-)
Works like a charm. Cannot recommend highly enough.
What an interesting idea. Would the final output be raw text, a sort of English summary of what was said?

Or, to be useful, would the final output be structured data? (example: pre-filling in a form with set number of fields and data types).
Peterson gained a lot of attention and an entirely new YouTube following for refusing to call transgendered students by their preferred pronoun on the basis it was "mouthing Marxist words" and directly linking it to gulags and mass slaughters

Lest one think that this might be an unfortunate bit of hyperbole taken out of context in what must be an unusual situation for an outspoken middle-aged religious intellectual to face, he's doubled down on it with an angry lecture series on the subject and other crackpot theories like "the idea that women were discriminated against across the course of history is appalling" and actually it's all a myth caused by the birth control pill making modern women hostile towards masculine men. I wish I was parodying that argument; I'm merely summarising it.

I doubt advertisers were upset by his studies on the Bible
And I suspect as with all deep-learning based solutions to date, there will be subtle modifications to one's face that will serve as robust adversaries to all networks simultaneously. The phase space for inputs is amazingly huge, so huge that it is nearly impossible to cover all of it with a finite training set, doubly so if one has a gradient for locating such adversaries...

https://blog.openai.com/robust-adversarial-inputs/
And this is why we can't have nice things.
Care to offer us a design that solves the problem?
Hmm interesting, yeah I guess life isn't usually very clear cut!

I've been fired before by asshole bosses who pushed me to work extremely hard, deliver excellent results (which I did), and then fired me anyway, you know?

Someone's feelings will have to get hurt- his, or your wallet's.

If nobody will miss him, I would just say to him that there's a lot of change and replanning happening at the business and you need to free up resources for other more crucial positions. Absolutely nothing personal.
Javascript allows it.
Okay, but why do we have to foster that social cohesion in the most expensive way possible? Why demand that connectivity in these rural areas be by wireline instead of much cheaper wireless? Okay, people need access. Let’s get it done as cheaply and with as little market distortion as possible. The thing that does that is wireless.
> The solution would be some combination of video or audio that records the clinical encounter and automatically generates a note based on what was discussed and performed.

I'd drop my doctor immediately if this was implemented at their office, particularly if the reasoning behind it was "I'm too lazy to take notes myself".
Safari also has the disadvantage of requiring expensive special hardware to support since it only runs on macOS and macOS requires Apple hardware (unless you go the complex route of a hackintosh).
Wow, is surrendering all privacy in public a fair price to pay for the inconvenience of carrying a wallet?
> The tooling is nearly always C

With the esp8266 and low end arm controllers, there has been an explosion of languages for embedded applications; micropython, lua, es, basic, even lisp. Particularly for beginners, this is a good thing. Having said that, the dev environments are somewhat lacking at this stage, and I'm wondering if we'll soon be at a point where they'll be enough resources to just put Linux or other OS straight onto the microcontroller.
> Not doing so is way worse though. You could be leaking all sorts of internal requests to a malicious attacker who does register that domain name.

It is, but again, it doesn't help that none of the reserved TLDs actually address the primary use case here for a lot of companies. We can both agree that the companies should be registering their private domains, but clearly most aren't, and there's no reason they shouldn't have a free, reserved-for-private use space that does address it.
Why would one-bin be impossible? We have ways to differentiate commingled glass, plastic, and metal automatically (and mechanically). We can get fancier with AI if we need to.

Always use the word impossible with the greatest care. Everything is always impossible right up to the moment it is done.
Precisely my point. A general purpose machine should be able to run general purpose tasks, and that understanding should relieve its manufacturer from any blame, ending the PR problem for google.

Just as firefox still GETs hate speech if you tell it to.

Or would you like google's DNS to just not resolve requests for gab as well?
In another thread I wondered if apple had to license any tech from microsoft but got voted down.
>a single-instruction multiply

But not single cycle ;)

This is important!
Cliff Click (Java Hotspot) on Bugs and Coding Styles
The idea of smart contracts is actually older than Bitcoin, Nick Szabo wrote about it in 1997.

http://nakamotoinstitute.org/formalizing-securing-relationsh...

Abstract: Smart contracts combine protocols with user interfaces to formalize and secure relationships over computer networks. Objectives and principles for the design of these systems are derived from legal principles, economic theory, and theories of reliable and secure protocols. Similarities and differences between smart contracts and traditional business procedures based on written contracts, controls, and static forms are discussed. By using cryptographic and other security mechanisms, we can secure many algorithmically specifiable relationships from breach by principals, and from eavesdropping or malicious interference by third parties, up to considerations of time, user interface, and completeness of the algorithmic specification. This article discusses protocols with application in important contracting areas, including credit, content rights management, payment systems, and contracts with bearer.
If you were roaming then all your data is being tunneled back to the US to Verizon's network / a US IP.

It's very possible that Verizon is limiting your bandwidth so that they don't have to pay the Turkish providers as much for the network usage.

In addition, you are probably getting QoSed by the provider itself.
I like it better than reading different signs in every office I visit.

In the US the problem however is that recycling collection is not standardized. Each city does it differently, which gets in the way of the standardization you propose. We would need a Federal standard (or at least an agreement by the relevant industry association) to help there.
Weak Supervision: The New Programming Paradigm for Machine Learning
Currently, we are focusing on very narrow field of Artificial Intelligence. Not that it is a bad thing, but we should not call it "AI". We are mostly solving the problem of Data Analysis at Scale, which again, for businesses is the most logical thing to do. I do not doubt that in the future, data analysis will be an important jigsaw part in a true AI system.

Currently, I look forward to/want to see more research/movement in other ideas/fields/methods which peep into AGI. Maybe Probabilistic (Quantum? or Neuromorphic?) Computing? Maybe Artificial Life? Maybe Cognitive Architectures? Recap into Symbolic?

PS: This is not a popular opinion, but I do want to share it with fellow HNers. We do most of the computing to solve the hard problems in our society and trade, and that is surely very noble. Having said that, When I was growing up, I used to see/feel a lot of developments in Computers happened for the sake of Computing. It felt like hacking was all together different field; Linux, the all the Free Software movement, Windows NT, Doom, Quake, Huge advances in Compilers, the whole culture around it etc.

Today I mostly see computing that works to advance and solve real world business problems like better advertisements or helping with other noble fields like astrophysics and genetics. I consider it as an advancement of our tech society, but as immature as I am, I miss that time.

Anyway, I would love to see AI for the sake of AI.
No it won't. If everyone is mining more efficiently then the difficulty will rise.
Switching to mainline is almost trivial, just override plain linux-libre kernel and redefine the source.

GuixSD is getting production-ready IMHO. See for example Guix getting adopted by some HPCs:

https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/
I'm not sure which I'd least like to be near a burning tank of gasoline or a burning lithium ion battery.....
This paper thing sure stuck with him, then you see this video of him demoing what is less than a demo on some XP:

https://youtu.be/1yLNGUeHapA?t=3m16s

And it's fricking A4 paper in a black 3D void that they call "XanaduSpace". I mean, let's just stop here. Who are we ever going to call a crank if not this guy?

Apparently he has been claiming to be original HyperText inventor all the way back to 1965. He's like that guy claiming he invented email.
fyi that link redirects to pg's homepage for me, since it's erroneously picking up the `);` (auto-linking is hard!) Here's the link, for those who are lazy like me: http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html
You could try and compile with the resurrected LLVM c backend, llvm-cbe, and then compile that C code with existing tools. Good luck debugging that mess if you ever need that, but Rust has compile time safety, right? ;)
Can you elaborate how?
You probably learned quite a lot about the scope of their collections. (I've been to bothmany times, but didn't know SciM had a Polaris.
>I also am tired of "Terrorism"

Many people are concerned. But as a matter of fact. More people die every single day in car accidents. We as a society should not give up our freedoms (the right to be forgotten, the right to remain anonymous) for the illusion of safety. As the recent London, Barcelona, or Charlottesville attacks have shown, you only need one crazy person to carry it out for whatever reason. And even with a sophisticated tracking network you won't be able to stop this effectively.
How I discovered my love for JavaScript after throwing 90% of it in the trash
>> But we are moving backwards now because we are introducing complexity faster than we are understanding it -- much faster.

That's a brilliant insight - thank you
Data Structure and Algorithm – Insertion Sort
The head of Facebook AI said something a few years ago that AI has “died 4 times in 5 decades due to overpromising”.

AI in general is not a bubble, and progress will continue, but I imagine most entrepreneurs are vastly overpromising, after all they only have more to gain by doing this, and they might lose by not doing it if others are doing it (so like a prisoners dilemma situation).

I should also say back in 1995 and 1996 a lot of people were saying we were in a “tech bubble”, and they were technically right, but they underestimated just how sustaining the euphoria was. They looked like idiots 2 years later when stocks they decided against were quintupling in value, but less so 4 years later when the stocks were worth nothing. So the main lesson is there are really 3 bubbles, the actual bubble, the bubble where the elites and those in-the-know finally can’t believe it anymore and bail out, shortly followed by the bubble where all the others bail out (which triggers the most dramatic decline).
AMA with Y Combinator's CEO, Michael Seibel
That is pretty frightening.... thanks for sharing your story.
See f.e:

Address spaces in modern operating systems. Address spaces can consist of a large number of virtual address regions. As one example, on a typical Linux desktop, GNOME applications and web browsers such as Firefox and Chrome use nearly 1,000 distinct memory regions in each process. To manage this large number of regions, most modern operating systems use structures like the ones in Figure 1 to represent an address space. Linux uses a red-black tree for the regions, FreeBSD uses a splay tree, and Solaris and Windows (prior to Windows 7) use AVL trees [18, 24].

https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/clements-bonsai...

If you know of any better search structures, then I'd love to hear about them. I wrote my own memory allocator for a vm project and found that storing the free list in a red-black tree was absolutely required for decent performance.
I was being facetious, sorry.
The regulations also demand that all chat room users in mainland China verify their real identity...

Effective 8 October, the following types of content will be prohibited in chat groups on China-based messaging platforms:

1. Sensitive political content
2. Rumors
3...

Holy shit. What is this going to do to the Chinese tech scene? The liability being created here is crazy to consider.

Lets all hope these practices aren't looked at as successful by other governments, I'd hate to see other countries following suit.
Exploring immutabilty in JavaScript
I work on desktop and switched to Safari because Chrome is bloated and slow. Also Safari's tabs UX is much better.

Opening Chrome once a week because some site works only in Chrome is really easier than bothering to file tickets.
I would not expect miners to voluntarily stop mining just because the user agent reports low battery. Any miners that care about mobile users could check the user agent string and throttle mining.
Most of the cost would be CPUs, RAM, and storage. I would expect the bare servers to be a small fraction of the rack cost.
Monads made simple in JavaScript
There may be able to pick up an IBM PC/AT keyboard, likely by far the best computer keyboard ever. Now they sell for, what, $500 each?
Plus apparently some dodgy "creative" tax code interpretations around short-term/long-term gains.
Everything. But to rephrase GP's point in terms of the main question: the next big advance in AI they - and I - are looking for is AI being local, and not in the cloud.
On the subject of privacy, I'm interested in migrating away from Google services, but I have years' worth of data tied up there (email, photos, music, movies, etc). I know Google offers ways to download your data, so it's technically possible to migrate, but it would be tedious and time consuming, to say the least.

Does anyone have suggestions for making that process easier?
He mentions at 14:00 the "Dark Brown" experience, where he went to Brown University to make the HyperText system. He says "he had to work under a torrent of insults from someone who he thought was his friend and HyperText got dumbed down."

Though he doesn't mention who the "friend" was, is it the much-beloved (by Brown CS dept) Andy van Dam (who is credited as the co-designer of HES)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andries_van_Dam
After reading the Nautilus article, my understanding of England's 'dissipation-driven adaptation' is: a physical account of why life-like structures would likely occur (and persist) even at levels far more basic than what we would call organisms. The basic structure (of his system) follows that of natural selection and evolution in that there is an element of randomness constructing forms, and something environmental which determines fitness of competing forms—but it differs in what constitutes fitness. In England's theory, we should expect irreversible, dissipative systems to persist simply because of their irreversibility; if they could be reversed, they would return to an indistinguishable part of the background from which they emerged.

If his theory is true, there is a natural 'inclination' at a more basic material level for life-like structures to emerge, so the probability of life evolving 'randomly' is more likely than we had reason to believe before.

Furthermore, it gives us more general criteria for attempting to manually 'evolve' life-like systems, since we mimic life a more basic level than genetics (aiming to produce things with high likelihood of being irreversible).

(I'd appreciate any correction on parts I may have gotten wrong!)
[citation needed]

What you propose is, on the face of it, absurd.
"is this user on a mobile device or laptop? Don't mine."
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According to Wikipedia the acquisition happened on Nov 24, 2013, basically 2014
I do agree that FaceID is a bit less convenient than TouchID - the "unlock while taking out of pocket" is a good example.

I also agree that FaceID might be easier to "socially engineer" or obtain by force in the sense that you could just point it at someone's face or trick them into looking at it. Less so with someone's thumb on the home button.

At the end of the day though, I think these concerns are overstated. No modern security method can guarantee 100% protection - you can watch someone input their PIN, steal their phone and force their face into it, or force someone to put their thumb on it. The last one is the most secure in this sense, for sure, but I'm of the opinion that if you've gotten yourself into one of these situations, this is far from your security bottleneck in the first place.

Someone will inevitably bring up the point of law enforcement / 4th amendment breaches, but there are safeguards with the new iPhone X that circumvent these issues.

And of course, you can always decide to just use a PIN and nothing else :)
Unfortunately n.y.c can fund billion dollar startups, but can't let you put STAR DOT EYE BEE EMM in a discussion about domain names. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯