skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh. So Gab and Mastodon are pulling at Twitter from each side. I anticipate that the network effect is too strong. People seem to enjoy the conflict that occurs when swimming in the same pool as their political opponents, despite all the talk of echo chambers. The bubbles have to intersect on some platform eventually.

This is why I don't think that the successor to Twitter will differentiate based on political ideology, on the first order, at least. You need the perception of a level discursive playing field in order to attract all the sorts of people who are looking to "have it out".
Where is the personal preference when facebook is selecting what you should be looking at?
> 95% of all Word users only use a tiny fraction of what the product can do

Right. That was the first 100x I was talking about.

It's the second 100x (well: 200x) that's the issue ;-)
As strange as it might seem early computers where not networked. Early computers generally had a front panel that you could use to load programs by hand making them very much a standalone device.

At least in the context that a modern PC's graphics card is not thought of as a separate computer.
You need to learn without someone telling you what the answer is. Most of the time for biological intelligence there isn't an oracle describing the truth at every moment of life to judge actions/decisions against.

There is: Death, without reproducing. If an organism dies quickly but left children, they were biologically successful. If you didn't, then your evolutionary branch goes away.

I'm not sure this can be simulated, but it might be worth trying. Biological brains are the product of a billion years of the above strategy, so hopefully it's feasible to do the same thing.

Don't people already do that? Well, no. The strategy implies some sort of physics simulation with general rules, not a specific ruleset tuned to your domain.
Tales from the Engine Room
>The real question where and when to subsidize each. It makes no sense to build subways in rural Kansas that no one would ride, or new roads in Manhattan.

I can agree with this to some extent, but the question is, "how can we do this without encouraging unnecessary sprawl?" I can understand the want for space, seclusion, etc., but at what cost? How do we build roads in rural areas that don't kill the environment while also not creating a ginormous network of roads throughout our entire country which allow tons of people to own cars and rely solely on them for all travel? I am not necessarily opposed to people living in rural areas, particularly because some of it is necessary (e.g. for farming), but for the most part, I think we'd be better off if most people lived in higher density areas. Not Manhattan-dense, but would it kill people to live somewhere with a population density of 10k/sqmi? I grew up in a town with 15k/sqmi and lived in a big house with a big backyard (and even a driveway!). We had good public transit.

> Sometimes it's more cost effective to just add a lane to the road.

I replied to this in another comment of yours, but this actually doesn't work.

>Sometimes the underlying problem is that real estate prices are too high causing people to have to commute too far and the only real answer is to build new housing.

A large part of the reason that real estate prices are high is because of cars. I live in Downtown LA, and within a 2-block radius of me, there are probably at least ten parking lots that could easily fit large apartment buildings with ground retail. To add insult to injury, they're all single-level lots, rather than multi-level structures. When you take into account the minimum parking requirements that are imposed on developers, the amount of space that freeways take up, how wide the roads are, and all the free parking on the streets, it's no wonder that housing costs a lot! In essence, the same thing that allows people to commute long distances in cars is what makes it necessary to do so.
If your project involves picking a default likable font for others to use it makes sense.

Also, in the larger scope of things all the "good enough"'s at times add up to something awful. Had we perfected everything the bothering wouldn't exist. You would look at the font and click some button to have or have not become it part of your collection.
So why doesn't it?

[My working hypothesis: glue code]
It seems like a lot of war these days is for profit. Afghanistan, Iraq and now finally Syria have all been proven to be primarily about that.

From not long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15238683

And see here:
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/09/wolf-blitzer-is-worried-...
Wouldn't be the first hacky thing done to support development temporarily. At least during one point of Fuschia development (might still be there for all I know), it took unauthenticated keyboard input over the network connection or something like that in case they broke the keyboard driver.
When I read things like,

https://caremad.io/posts/2013/07/packaging-signing-not-holy-...

I get the impression they don't care about security at all. They seem like children plugging their ears and shouting "nah nah nah" while putting repo users at risk. They've obviously done nothing since that post was made four years ago.

In contrast, Maven central requires signing. Unsurprisingly, Maven central doesn't have typosquatting problems. That's not a coincidence. That's also a strong reason why Java still dominates the enterprise.

If you (the reader) are a PyPi/NPM user, I challenge you to watch this,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBJafU0p_Nk

and tell me why you shouldn't use a repository manager like Sonatype Nexus which validates package signatures, checks licenses, and does vulnerability scanning.

By itself, package signatures aren't the holy grail? That's not the point. Security is achieved in layers. Too bad they aren't mature enough to understand that.
1986 was 31 years ago. Maybe not decades in the sense of "1990s" being a decade. But certainly 3 periods of 10 years.
This is the most confusing thing i've read in a long time. Coming from slack, that's kinda surprising and feels out of character.
With Nginx I've always used this for the first server block to defeat host header attacks, taken from the h5bp boilerplate server configs[0]:

server {
listen 80 default_server;
return 444;
}

Is something like this necessary for Apache as well? If yes, what are others using? (ignoring the non-standard but effective 444 return code)

[0]https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-nginx
I agree. It’s a double edged sword. I can see scenarios where I’d want something like this.
As they note it also seems like an odd time for Cuba (if it is them) to choose to deploy a weapon with such obvious negative results. They're not getting anything out of this obviously and if you wanted to harm diplomats in a novel way... you'd probabbly save that for a better time and not expose it now.
I think you underestimate the cost of college or overestimate the cost of Disney park tickets.
That would still require your followers to know about it, and do something.
Apple has a rootkit. It is called Apple. If you link your Iphone with your bank, you trust that the Apple won't abuse their position that they hold over you.

Personally I prefer that my hardware security device are controlled and owned by me, not the company that sold the device. Devices not owned by me have an undeniable history of being abused by people who sell such devices, like the case of Lenovo.

If you want to use the history of open devices which their owners can own and control as a case against it, the opposite of company approved software has also a history of abuse. How are all those nice lock down car computers that have been acting creatively during emissions tests. How much trust have they earned, and should people trust them with their bank account for say automatic payment at gas stations?
Harvard has to be very careful in their decision making. They're only $37.6 billion dollars away from bankruptcy.
At the same time as the Arrow, Avro developed the C102 Jetliner, the second jet airliner to fly. Despite considerable interest from US airlines, it chose to scrap the Jetliner project to keep the Arrow project going - one of those what-if moments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_C102_Jetliner
> The trouble I have is that "modeling" can happen in the absence of what I'm calling "experience."

This is the big claim. I'm highly skeptical.

The way I see it, the self-modeling that occurs in biological organisms _is_ the conscious experience. They are one and the same. Each momentary, instantaneous experience is the latest output of the self-modeling process.

As another angle, this seems closely related to identity. I see identity as being intertwined with, perhaps even stemming from, the accumulated impact and memory of these models. At least, the portions that refer to us. The boundaries can be quite fuzzy -- we are partially defined by our friends, etc.

Each instantaneous model changes the brain a bit, and over time this process constructs one's identity (starting with a tiny kernel at birth)

In summary, maybe we can say that "I" is simply the brain's current best guess at what the entity that houses it actually is, and that conscious experience is the brain's best guess at what this "I" is currently experiencing (caveat: these guesses are biased towards survival -- accuracy is not the only concern).

> but I can give a procedure (roughly, meditation) that seems to get other people to a point where they say "oh, that."

Meditation is very interesting. I've done some, and I'd like to dig into it more. However, I interpret the experience differently.

> I'm sure this is terribly unsatisfying and sounds like hand-waving woo, and I'm sorry I can't do better right now.

Not at all! I'm enjoying the discussion. Thanks for being frank.
Indeed. See for instance https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-sil...
> You can still buy CDs / DVDs and load them on a PC.

Because phones and tablets don't have SD slots? or data transfer from blue tooth or NAS drives isn't a thing?
intercom noise
that's a strike, Sir_Cmpwn. Stay in line.
Does anyone have a more substantive link?
What podcast app do you use?
Let me guess. You think so, because we don't know what the general intelligence is, but the current approaches of ML are surely can't be extended to produce it.
Why o why is the sound always on max when it starts with autoplay?
That's like not knowing which electron is supposed to flow through which resistor. Man, how do electronic engineers work without knowing important things?

I myself made a dialect of Lisp in which there are square brackets too. They serve a very useful purpose. However, I wouldn't introduce this just for the sake of having a different character to match when closing. That aspect of it is undeniably a pain in the ass; I'm irritated by my own language when I have to close three parens, then close a square bracket and continue with parens. It's an irksome interruption that calls for my attention to the irrelevant, and I have to remind myself of the benefit of that square bracket.

It would be insane to introduce an alternative bracket which has to be matched with its mate, but is identical in meaning to the parenthesis, providing no semantic variation whatsoever. Nobody in their right mind would want to irk themselves on purpose with such a stupid thing.

Languages with syntax like end if and end while made a certain amount of sense in an era in which compiling your program meant standing in line with a deck of punched cards before a job submission window, and you needed to get as many diagnostics as possible out of a single run.

HTML's named closing delimiters for elements have a similar "benefit": the machine can keep going in the face of nesting errors and make some sort of sense of the document anyway. (The bad thing there being that the document is then effectively accepted as good.)
Sexist games don't affect people's sex/gender attitudes? Then what does?

> Thankfully, anti-racism eventually took that cultural space away.

I can appreciate the hope that the culture is changing, but the "there was a time in America" statement seems unlikely to be true. Maybe America is too broad a country to make that generalization.

Okay, playing the devil's advocate, speaking out against sexism important, but what does that accomplish? A sound bite in the news media? Trending social media posts/comments? And let's say that it does have an impact. Why would speaking out have an impact on sexist attitudes and video games not have an impact?
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The logo looks very much like a koi fish to me, though I'm not sure I could articulate why.

Though I think the color makes it salmon-y enough to pass muster.
I would prefer that YouTube not autoplay.

So I hope they make sote-settings (like with JS) and we can both have our way.
Let's go in the opposite direction for a second. I set up my shiny new Mastodon server. Do I instantly get the feed from all other instances? Or do I have to go find other instances to connect with?
How fast are malloc_size and malloc_usable_size in C?
Personally, I prefer TV because we get to see what they are watching. Second, I am a bit concerned with a device like Ipad so close to their body (this could be just me but I am not sure about long term effects of this to a child who is barely 5). Not to mention that TV has limited options (kids pretty much watch cartoons) but with Ipad, the possibilites are endless. My daughter already knows how to unlock the ipad, start different apps and play youtube on the ipad etc.

I am not against restricting anything honestly but when I saw that my daughter started telling us "leave me alone. I am watching ipad", that was the signal that she is getting addicted. Mind you, she is not even 5. With TV, it is not that bad as they watch it while doing other things like roaming around the living room etc. Much less addictive in our specific case at least. YMMV.
It's amazing the return on mass transit spending. The property values are massively increased in cities with mass transit, the economy is massively increased in cities where it's easy for employees to get to work, the environment has less smog going into it from cars, citizen mobility is increased which increases quality of life and their ability to spend the money they make at their jobs....and on and on.
There's just endless returns on mass transit.
From native to React Native
Handling Kotlin Exceptions with Kategory – A Functional Approach
>> Most of the time for biological intelligence there isn't an oracle describing the truth at every moment of life to judge actions/decisions against. [emphasis mine]

> There is: Death, without reproducing.

The problem is that it's not describing the truth at every moment of life, just the total approximate fitness of that lifeform by the end of its lifetime. It would be time consuming and cost-inefficient to simulate many possible configurations of actors until the end of their lifetimes.
To be fair, reinforcement learning can be done with neural networks and can be seen as a form of "unsupervised learning". The results aren't as spectacular (yet?) as what we've seen in unsupervised learning, but it has potential.

I think the main problem is that we're incredibly dependent on advances in computing power to make advances in deep learning. IMHO, we've only made incremental software progress in using deep networks since the advent of convolutional networks.
I disagree that exposing classified military secrets is heroic or meritorious. War is an ugly business and any view into any side of any war is going to reveal atrocious things. That's what happens during a campaign to kill people. So, were the secrets Manning risked everything to expose really that different from the day-to-day happenings of war? Just to touch on a couple of revelations in Manning's leaked documents:

1. The tortures and rapes Manning exposed were committed by Iraqi soldiers and police, which was business as usual under Sadam, and it is naive to think we could jump in and stop that ingrained behavior right away.

2. Soldiers trying to escape a deadly situation with guns blazing is hardly new to Afghanistan.

3. I don't see a problem with the U.S. targeting the leadership of the U.N. with intelligence campaigns.

Are any of these things really big meritorious revelations? I mean we knew about the Iraqi torture and rape before Bush ever declared war on them, didn't we?

One thing you seem to be glossing over is that Manning wanted out of the military anyway. He was upset about being shipped to Iraq and it is reasonable to posit that his leak was much more self-serving than heroic.
And with critical systems where the downside of any mistake is high cost, in life or money, it helps reduce risk if people only watch a small number of data points, which they can concentrate on fully. So, similar to your navy example, I have heard of early warning radar operators being asssigned to only 10 degrees of horizon on their screen, so you now need 18 people to cover east to west fully, but each person is completely focussed on their little task.
As usual it shouldn't be one way or the other for everyone. THIS SHOULD BE A SETTING!

Some people like sound at home and some at work don't.
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This is a bike designed by a graphic designer who intends to decorate a wall with it.

There is a key analogy here for programming language design!

The analogy also extends to specific languages. There are some bikes which are keenly optimized for short distance performance. There are other bikes optimized for long distance performance. There are some bikes which are optimized for comfort. Yet other bikes which are optimized for folding compactly.

All of the above are valid designs, just for different contexts.
> (And now, I'll ironically push "reply" in hopes that I'll see my HN karma increase a few points due to this comment.)

Have my upvote! ;)

(And now, I'll push "reply" with fear that my HN karma will decrease due to a meta-comment about up/downvoting)
Yeah, but just saying, "It's different! You don't understand!" doesn't really inspire confidence, or reflect well.
Blockchain is a very poor and extremely expensive database. All it's good
for is timestamping documents, and it's still expensive at that compared
to systems with a central authority.

The difference between the two uses is that we do have decentralized and/or
distributed data stores that are quite efficient, so it's very dumb to force
timestamping service to work as a data store.
Could stick the ground into the ground of an outlet? Barring the risk of missing and cooking your brain in your newfangled electro-cap seems like it'd be difficult to cut the entire hotel's ground.
If they'd also block mouseover autoplay, my world would be complete.
I'm not sure why you are so grumpy and taking the questioning tone directed at me, given that my response simply proposed a possible explanation for GP's question.

The courts are a lever to improve compensation just like negotiation is, if that makes you uncomfortable that's unfortunate, but it is how the US economic system is structured.

Court cases have significant costs, they don't simply "want it" but hired (presumably) decently skilled attorneys to argue their case, have real social and personal risks associated with being publicly associated with this case, etc.
I like this guy!

Yes back-propagation can help classify and predict many things.

But semantic information needs more research. For now the state of the art is Cyc.
Everyone 'severely underestimates the impact of AI'- Why NVDA could hit $250
By cratering, the headline means going back to over double the record highs from 6 months ago right?
> do the "endless learning" games, Dr Seuss, movies, and a few other selected games. You need to avoid the skinner box games.

I'd be glad if you could share some of the games you approve of as my child is recently more interested.

And what are 'skinner box' games?
Not really a single command, it's a one-liner - a pipeline, but might be interesting, not only for the one-liner but for the comments about Unix processes that ensued on my blog:

UNIX one-liner to kill a hanging Firefox process:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2008/09/unix-one-liner-to-kill-ha...
Virtualization and Namespace Isolation in the Solaris Operating System [pdf]
EM-Comm: Touch-Based Communication via Modulated Electromagnetic Emissions
Well, the algorithm is death and reproduction, isn't it?

If the output of your networks performs well enough when it confronts the real world, you get to reproduce before you die, and some of the essence of your network gets to live for another generation.

If not, you die, and your network doesn't get to contribute to the next generation.
I don't know. I think backprop is probably utilized a lot in biological networks. Isn't that why we take tests in school?
Obviously backprop doesn't make sense in an unsupervised setting. There's no label to backprop on.

But here's an example:

I see a stove eye is black when cold, then when I see it turn red, I touch it. Ow, it hurts. That's supervised learning. Don't touch things that are glowing red when they don't normally glow red. Now, I see an iron pole glowing red. It's not a spiral like the stove eye, but it's not normally glowing red and now it is. I'd better not touch it. I can deduce that these two objects are made out of a similar material since they're normally black or gray and now glow red. I can also deduce that something glowing red means it's hot. That's unsupervised learning.

To me, unsupervised learning is looking at a fluffy object with four legs, eyes, a nose, tail, it moves, etc. and knowing that it's some kind of animal. Creating groups of things like k-means. Supervised learning is your mom telling you that this one example is a tiger. Unsupervised learning is understanding the delta between your one labeled example and the rest of the examples in your animal group is largest when the animal is NOT a tiger.
> "640K... nobody would ever need that much memory"

The Gates quote was "640k ought to be enough for anybody", and it's been wildly misinterpreted by basically everyone.

The IBM PC had already picked the 8088, which had a 20 bit addressing architecture regardless of whether or not 1MB was "enough" or not. The issue Gates was addressing was whether or not DOS's choice of 640 as the barrier for loadable program memory management was enough given that it was only about half the space in the machine. And he wasn't really wrong. The time frame between DOS programs bumping up against 640k and "DOS" programs wanting to use the multiple-megabyte flat spaces available on the 80386 (which couldn't possibly have been architected for in software in 1981) was like three years.

If you want to ding DOS, complain not about the 640k limit but about the complete lack of architecture and discipline in the high 384k. Really no one ever got this space under control, and it was a bucketful of undetectable device I/O hazards and too-clever-by-half hackery well into the 90's.
Not Common Lisp; just different openers: #( vector, #c( complex number, #s( struct, ... all close with ).

If you see { ... } or [ ... ] in CL code, someone tweaked the read table.
It's hard to tell how damaging patents have been to our industry. Have they set us back years? Decades? Or are we all mistaken and patents were responsible for growing our industry?

Either way, this is a lot of wasted effort solely due to the legal system. It's the opposite of a meritocracy. React might be best choice or it might not be; ideally the market would decide.
As the designer of D, I can attest that syntax matters very, very much and it is not just a 'personal' issue.

Many times I've discovered that altering the syntax for something (not its semantics) can completely transform its use.
MY reading of ma.tt's post is that it is the license itself and the implications of it for downstream users of Automatic products. It doesn't seem to me that a FAQ is going to change that, as Facebook has made their position clear (clear enough for ma.tt, at least.)