skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a simple explanation for Musk's views on the dangers of AI: it's too dangerous to develop on Earth, it must be regulated. OTOH, you can go to Mars where you don't have to worry about such dangers and would be free to pursue all sorts of research (AI, genetics etc) that's too dangerous for Earth.

Everybody knows getting to Mars is his life's work, but he doesn't want to just get there, he wants to colonize it. The first several thousand people will absolutely risk their lives for the sense of adventure and novelty alone (I could be amongst them), but you're not going to get masses of hundreds of thousands of people moving for this reasons, which will wear off quickly anyway.

All previous mass movements had a strong economic incentive of some kind - getting land, getting gold, trading natural resources for gold, etc. Mars isn't going to be sending raw material back like the fur traders did, and even after 2C global warming Earth will still be way more hospitable than Mars.

If Mars can become the only place where certain classes of activity are allowed, if it's the only place where you can go an experiment and test with little or no oversight, then exchange your findings for money from Earth, then I can't see a more powerful economic driver for getting masses of people there.
Thank you! Will do this soon
I've wondered that. Perhaps the ~13 year old felt intimidated or ashamed (completely unfairly, but they are 13 facing the wrath of a mob of adults) and hid it from their parents? Maybe the parents were absentee, didn't care, didn't know what to do, or lacked resources? IIRC, the kid lived in another state, complicating things. Or maybe there was a lawsuit and quiet settlement, and I just don't know about it.

Also, IIRC, the ~13 year old's forum posts were fine, they just disagreed with Cook and his mob, apparently a crime in Cook's mind. Not that any forum post would ever justify doxxing someone.

Cook also ran a campaign against two journalists at one of the major Detroit newspapers who broke the story of the football team's (and Cook's beloved Coach Rodriguez's) NCAA violations. At least one, and I think both, of the journalists left town for greener pastures. For years afterward, and probably to this day, Cook's supporters vilified the reporters for the team's violations. That will teach them for practicing journalism.
Super helpful. This will help me ship it sooner rather than thinking electron or something.
Its difficult to get front-end developers to scope their CSS properly and separate UI components into non-conflicting separate modules.

Without the insight of having ever kept a back-end applications various functions isolated and grouped logically they always just lump everything together.

Define a grid system to handle rough layout, then hang your widgets inside each cell, if you have to use !important, ever, you have failed.
My Drowning (And Other Inconveniences)
I'm speaking generally, maybe you don't have to care, but that might not always necessarily be the case and certainly isn't the case for many people. For example, maybe you're supposed to be at work but a photo is taken of you at the beach. Maybe you're not supposed to be drinking (for legal or marital or personal reasons) but someone takes a photo of you at the bar. Maybe you told someone something that's not true but a photo ends up showing that to be a lie. I'm not saying these or similar scenarios will ever apply to you, but it's easy to see how someone who doesn't use Facebook could face serious consequences for a photo that they did not upload.
This is true. I wish we had their entire playlist library!

This was trained on playlists we scraped from Spotify, so by definition pop music is going to be heavily represented. We are still playing with the training parameters and algorithm for building the playlists.

We also have some ideas on including "rare" or new tracks, but haven't gotten to that part yet.

Thanks for checking it out!
Personal attacks (which this is) are not allowed here, regardless of who the person is or how unlikeable you find them.

Please stick to substance and comment civilly or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>Isn't a grade supposed to represent your ability and understanding of a topic?

University education largely isn't about certifying that certain students know certain things. It's about showing that people who possess the degree meet a minimum IQ + trait conscientiousness cutoff, so that employers can preferentially hire those people.

Grades have several purposes in this framework. First is to drop low-employee-quality students so that the signal for the remainder is stronger. Second is to allow honors and GPA to provide multiple cutoff-levels to fine-tune the signaling. Third is to force re-taking of classes to extract more money out of folks who want to substitute it for IQ + effort.

As it stands, your proposed change would simply increase the amount of work that is allowed to be used as a bid for class position. That's not particularly helpful, IMO.
Immediately thought it was referring to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15282967
Sorry about that. Thats what is trending at this point. Im looking into ways to group similar news to avoid these echos
Probably there are a lot of heuristics in page ranking now, but it began life as an eigenvalue problem [1].

[1]http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/1/1999-66.pdf
TL;DR:

> The reality is that no digital logic design can work “without a clock”. There is always some physical process creating the inputs. These inputs must all be valid at some start time – this time forms the first clock “tick” in their design. Likewise, the outputs are then required from those inputs some time later. The time when all the outputs are valid given for a given set of inputs forms the next “clock” in a “clockless” design. Perhaps the first clock “tick” is when the set the last switch on their board is adjusted and the last clock “tick” is when their eye reads the result. It doesn’t matter: there is a clock.

Put another way, combinatorial systems (the AND/OR/etc[1] logic gates that form the hardware logic of the chip) have a physical propagation delay. The time it takes for the input signals at a given state to propagate through the logic and produce a stable output.

Do not use the output signal before it is stable. That way lies glitches and the death of your design.

Clocks are used to tell your logic: "NOW your inputs are valid".

The deeper your combinatorial logic (the more gates in a given signal path), the longer the propagation delay. And the maximum propagation delay across your entire chip[2] determines your minimum clock period (and thus maximum clock speed)

There exist clockless designs, but they get exponentially more complicated as you add more signals and the logic gets deeper. In a way, clocks let you "compartmentalize" the logic, simplifying the design.

[1] What's the most widespread fundamental gate in the latest fab processes nowadays? Is it NAND?

[2] or at least clock domain
6'5'' is the height of a Shooting guard, the average height of basketball players is surely higher.
Makes you wonder how your own port 53 traffic looks like...
Yes, SBCL's type inferencer (called python decades ago) and codegen is the best. Only Stalin, a scheme compiler was better.
And the commercial ones are also pretty good.
Yeah well if you got your economics from Hazlitt I could see how that would be the case. Perhaps the point is that a lot of the current economics 101 books are created with an agenda and force a false view of the world which indoctrinate their readers and this book is finally breaking out of that mold. That something makes you uncomfortable does not make it wrong.
PostgreSQL on RDS?
”The ISA's license fees are a bigger chunk of the chip's price”

I don’t know much of CPU IP licensing, but I would think one pays more for the design of the CPU than for the ISA.

And that’s probably for the better, because, if one pays for the ISA, but the RISC-V ISA is free, how are ‘they’ going to get ”financial resources to work with”.?
The problem with going around talking about a startup having the potential to be a $1T business is that no current Fortune 500 business is worth that much including Facebook and Google which have your business model. Therefore you look like a fool for asserting yours will be the most successful business ever in the history of human civilization. If you were someone like Bill Gates who has a proven record of founding $10B businesses, then it wouldn't seem so crazy. But for a first-timer, yeah it sounds crazy. In fact, it sounds beyond crazy.
I was a graduate student at Harvard for five years (two Masters degrees), and the article is spot-on. Grade inflation was a big topic while I was there (some prof had written an editorial blaming it on affirmative action), and everything she said resonated with me. In fact, your comment is so clueless and un-self-aware, I'm kinda shocked that someone with your apparent bio could have written it. That you did pretty powerfully proves her point.
Bootstrapping a business from scratch – month 9
Software is a Long Con
Reader mode in Safari on iOS and mac lets you see the content without any issues.
This is science fiction. 100% fantasy.
> In 1973 and 1974, OPEC countries imposed a partial oil embargo in response to the 1973–4 Middle East war

George Reisman in "Capitalism" writes that the oil price shocks were due to Nixon placing price controls on oil. More evidence for this view is that when Reagan signed an Executive Order eliminating them, gas lines disappeared overnight and did not return.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=43912
I agree with you to an extent. It's my experience in engineering that you can start a company alone based on your specialized skills. I'm not sure you can do that on business skills alone. I suppose it depends on what path you want to take.
> Cathy O'Neil in her book 'Weapons of Math Destruction'

For those of you who like listening more than reading, she was on 99% Invisible talking about destructive algorithms and her book a few weeks ago: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-age-of-the-algorit...
Actually, I think that hashing out the intent and reasonable/practical limits of a law based on its language is a job for the judicial branch, not Congress.

Laws didn't used to be massive 'we need to pass them to see what is in them' tomes. They used to be simple missives, written in everyday language, without umpteen dozen riders and special exemptions and funding stipulations and amendments and what-have-you. They used words and phrases like 'reasonable' or 'within reason,' rather than, 'a person shall be considered as belonging to Status B if they have retained Condition C for a length of time no less than 3 years but no more than 6, unless such a person can demonstrate Condition D...'

Judges used to have leeway in how they interpreted laws and applied sentences. Yes, it gave judges the power to give ridiculously short sentences and let their buddies/'our sort of people' get off scott free. And yes, it gave judges the power to give extremely heavy-handed sentences if they felt personally slighted. But they do those things today in our current system with minimal consequences, so I'd argue...so what?

I think that allowing people to act like people and reason like people is fundamental to any decent legal system. We can't try to make justice into some kind of an algorithm, because at the end of the day there's no reified reference for "Justice." There's just us.
What's not to understand is where ethanol falls here. It's easily as addictive as opiates, including heroin
Where do you think these ideas come from? :)

Microsoft has Haskell in R&D pushing ideas to F# which in turn pushes them to C#.
"A professor known for harsh grading gets a question from his department head and next year the curve shifts a little."

Professors just don't care about undergrads and teaching to near the degree that you think they do. 95% of their focus is on their research.

The only intervention I saw from administration in regards to grading while at Princeton was to nudge grades down.
No problem. They can water their plants with Gatorade.
My experience was that the top students (now PhD students at MIT, Stanford, etc) were very diligent about homework. In the honors classes, you often needed to go far above and beyond the textbook for some questions. The average students (still smart kids, many working at Google, Amazon, etc) were much more lax about it, and wouldn't work that hard to solve the hardest problems in a set.
One of the most influential economic theories over the past two centuries was based on observed inequalities in wealth distribution during the 19th century. Typically, economics exposition starts from either that thesis or its free market antithesis.
It might depend on how the Javascript is being blocked. I use uBlock Origin advanced mode to selectively block Javascript (I imagine uMatrix is similar), and always have to whitelist discourse's CDN.

The difference is probably that selective blockers like uBlock/uMatrix don't show <noscript> elements, while globaly disabling Javascript does, and discourse might be relying on the noscript element (on mobile right now, so I can't check to be sure).
Easier way to lock your mac: ctrl-shift-power button
Gotta agree, a response that rapid is impressive.
If you are paying full price someone has an extra 300000.
It doesn't matter if all companies does this, it matter how many do.
The pay is definitely better, more than makes up for 9-5. Can't recommend it enough :)
That's what you'd think. And then you go and review code written by people who know their stuff. And you find fault after fault after fault. A well known HN'er commisioned a very simple little bit of code as a test and got sent a lot of submissions to evaluate (100+). A very large number of those contained obvious bugs, and this is from a group that would likely consider themselves to be 'above average'.

I've got 30+ years of C under my belt and I still would be very careful to make the claim that I could write a fault-free allocator on the first try. Three years ago or so this exact problem came up in one of my jobs and I reviewed the code of someone who was pretty good by most measures. The number of bugs was embarrassing.

So, maybe my experience is totally different than yours and this is all at the level of anecdotal evidence but it appears to me that writing bug free code is hard, in any language.
Social order's gotta be maintained, right?
Embeddinator 4000: Turn .NET libraries into native libraries for other platforms
Don't talk shit about my boy Leto II like that. It's not easy to navigate the Golden Path
I know they didn't, I know they were hacked. The question is how can one be cautious and alert, if that doesn't help? Digital signatures were invented so you can trust the program you're installing, but if that doesn't happen, what else?

Also, I didn't update automatically. It was a fresh install on a relatively new machine. And even if I did disable auto update - in that case I would've installed it manually. What's the difference?
Oh, for sure - iOS is a different world from Windows though, and it's annoying when apps are left to rot. Does make me think twice about which apps to invest in nowadays though.
You only need to look at how well PUBG has handled the load of quickly becoming one of the most popular games to see the benefits of AWS.

Yeah, their server software itself sucks a bit (low tick-rate, odd "de-sync"), but scaling itself has not been any issue: it feels the same now as it did with a tenth or a hundredth of the players it has right now.

Compare that to the growing pains that, for example, league of legends had, where even several years in the whole of EUW would be practically down on weekends. (log in "queue" over 9000)
Stop and Resume Workloads on EC2 Spot Instances
Rust gives us memory safety. But I wonder if somebody is working on a language which syntactically enforces safe filesystem access, and relegates anything resembling the POSIX API to unsafe{}?..
The first app I download on a fresh OS X install. Thank you for your work and for the professional, well-communicated response.
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So the government gave Coke the permits, Coke used under 80% of the agreed amount, and now it's a crisis?

No - it's how these permits are allocated -- and who pulls the strings on those making these "decisions" -- that's the crisis.
I think this "new-world dynamism" but might actually count against US schools if it makes them seem non-rigorous. Oxbridge teachers I've met are rigorous (in terms of their expections of students, not their own methods).

Regarding the US, I can only offer how I came by my own priors in family that in traditional subcontinental style is always on the lookout for prestegious schools. I learned at my father's knee that US postgrad schools were the best in the world, but that undergrad education was soft and "mickey mouse".

I'd need data rather than annecdotes to say if this is really the international preception of US education, rather than just my family's the lore. But so much that I see out of America confirms that lore, that I guess other people have come to the same conclusion.
Notice how they're selling through GroupGets?

Aside from GroupGets and MassDrop, who else is operating in the crowd-funded, discounted bulk-purchase collaborative.. consumption.. space?
> Angular, Backbone and Ember is from the same post-jQuery era when talks about Web components started.

Really? Maybe I was just out of the loop. I hope we can agree that Web Components were little more than a gleam in somebody's eye at that point, right?

(I'd love if you could point to any relevant mailing list/google groups discussions or whatever around this time, because apparently I missed 'em.)

> But does a developer really care that it's possible to use the same component in different frameworks, when you need it to work with just one (yours)?

Yes! I often have to work with multiple frameworks. Also: It'd be fanstastic if I had a choice matrix of "N" vs. "MxN" when I had to choose an implementation of, say, a scrollable-live-loading-table. That would be amazing, especially since we'd already decided on the "M" axis and written 20k LoC! I could choose the very best feature set for me! Ok, I might have to write a thin "shim" to have it interact with React or Vue.js or whatever, but the point is that this would be a trivial shim. I wouldn't have to rewrite the whole frontend when $BOSS decides that they want SuperLongUberTable.

The mere fact that the contents of such a table are just DOM nodes would also mean that I would be able to publish (as OSS) our own implementation of said beast... to much acclaim and prestige.

I also appreciate the fact that changing "NxM" to "N" means that (eventually) we'll get higher-quality components. For example, the components shipped in your browser are actually quite good. How many "good" video players did you see before HTML5 <video/>? My point is: The fact that anyone can write them means that there'll be a sort of evolutionary competition which tends towards an (admittedly, local) maximum -- but it's not as if the framework world has done much better, so... (Of course this is still at least a little hypothetical. We'll see, but I'm cautiously optimistic.)

EDIT: I might not have articulated it, but I think it goes without saying that I obviously want all components to evolve towards the "stateless-and-emits-events-to-container-components" model of e.g. React... and I think that will happen because it's simply easier to integrate into any framework.
What's more interesting to me is that some people are okay with a lookup on click but not a lookup on hover. It seems a difference in affirmative intent exists between hover and click; and more generally perhaps categories of user actions should be formalized into degrees of affirmation that could mitigate errors like this.
ok--- your id is secure then
Pathedy of Manners - Ellen Kay

Curiosity - Alistair Reid
The system of elite schools is designed to perpetuate itself -- just like any beauracracy. The elite schools do this fairly well, imho.

Note that grading hard is basically friction in the system that is fairly efficient to avoid.

The elite schools have plenty of smart and hard-working students who don't need hard grading as a motivator to do great work. Those students are the backbone of your school.
This article started off well but began to lose me around the time he said:

"Computer scientists have an aphorism that describes how algorithms relentlessly hunt for patterns: they talk about torturing the data until it confesses."

This is the first time I have seen this formulation of the nature of data. Data is almost always regarded as an input, or a resource, or a substrate, not a being of any kind.

The article generally seems to be less about its title and more about Facebook's business on the whole, and it's an interesting read.
Interesting news that they have an 80kwh battery in there, I thought it was suspected to be 70 or 75? I find it much more interesting to see how the EPA is calculating range ratings. So we are not going to have to wait for early adopters who have one to see how well it performs in everyday usage.

good for Tesla aiming low on the number, fully understand why. will still gain some good will as quite a few people really don't understand how much range you can lose when it gets cold and how severe it gets when it gets really cold.

I wonder how many years I will need to wait for a new convertible, something built on the same chassis as the III would be ideal
If one were to run a honeypot like this and take every IP which connects and attempts a login and immediately ban it from your network, then if more than 1% of the IP range they are in has been banned, ban the entire range... what would the expected outcome be for a typical residential user?
I still have no idea why people like the lambda environment. I assume it's because their organization still makes things like docker hard.
> "Strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

That's demonstrably false. If you're willing to put up with whiteboard tech interviews you have access to companies that enforce them but will pay very highly, regardless of what you consider their merit to be to hiring in general.
Prices are set at the margin.

This article is concerned with the average skill of investors, an entirely meaningless metric that determines nothing. The marginal investor determines prices not the mean one.
Least-squares and image processing
Same problem at LinkedIn. Most notifications are "We've found someone you might know" or "We've found a job you might like".

Cry wolf, why don't you.
Practically speaking all you should be worried about is your password being discovered within a stolen password hash table.

Nobody processing a whole table is going to spend that much time on your password specifically. If the government wants your data, or someone is willing to spend that many GPU cycles to get at your data, they probably have better ways of getting it.
Possibly, yeah; I went to about:config to disable it and triple check before I made my comment. Maybe it interacts differently with various plugins.
This throws out behaviour that some people find desireable (for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15288935 ), whereas it is possible to keep that behaviour without the privacy violations.