skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> See what you think about what happens around 9:05

I saw two interesting things around 9:05. A 13 year old made an 'active essay' on the computer which contains not just text but also a dynamic interactive environment so the reader can follow along and even try out new ideas. This type of media is not prevalent today - essays written by 13 year olds today would be in Google/Word docs and contain only static text and static pictures (i.e. digitized paper), but no interactivity. There are ways to do interactivity today, of course, but they are not easy and not the default. Is this what you are getting at?

The other interesting thing is how two tools - the drawing tool and animation tool - are made to work together, even when they were not created with each other in mind. IIUC the image is not a file format here but an object, but don't both tools then need to work with the same image protocol? I suppose you can always have adapters to connect different image protocols, but it doesn't seem like the best option. Still thinking about how much (or how little) shared knowledge is needed to make this scale to all types of objects.
The problem is that hardware manufacturers want to keep collecting income after they have sold the product. Imagine if when you bought a car and paid it off, you still had to pay a fee to the manufacturer for every mile you drove. And ditto anyone you sold you car to. That is what is basically doing on today. Rent-seeking anyone?
8 and X – Next Things First
AI-NET. Specific AI that can communicate with other specialized AIs using a simple protocol to solve specific problems in their field with the help of others.

AIs don't need to know everything but they must know where everything is and must know how to get that info. Sort of a DNS for intelligent repos and APIs to access them. Wolphram Alpha would be one but we need more, like medicine silos, agriculture silos, wikipedia, facebook, etc should have their own silos with AI interfaces.

Then Google AI would help us search for silos of interest.
Well, that sucks. So much for privacy, in Australia anyway.

In Australia, do you need to show ID when you buy random electronics for cash? If you pay cash in an Apple Store, do you need to show ID?

Buying Apple hardware used, at swap meets etc, seems the best option. As long as it's not been stolen, anyway. But you can test for that, before paying.
That doesn't tell you anything about when the list is expanded.
That is not the only flow of or reservoir of energy and/or mass associated with bitcoins.

Consider, carbon added to the atmosphere to make that energy, kg of fission products to do the same, mass of all the servers running Bitcoin software, mass of party favors left over after Bitcoin conference, etc. Any of those is much greater than 3kg.
> SFS drastically reduces the block erase count inside the SSD by up to 7.5 times.

Did Apple implement algorithms with similar reductions in APFS?
I see nothing wrong with that demo, in fact it's probably as revolutionary as he thinks. It effectively makes bibliographies obsolete and eliminates the overheard in tracking down sources. Add in his idea of micro-payments for quotations and you have viable financial incentive for people to publish work to Xanadu space. The whole 3D-space thing is a bit gimmicky, but could be useful in some contexts. It'd be great for academics/wikipedia/people who give a shit.

The idea of enabling branching knowledge paths for everything from media to education is also intriguing.

The issue when it comes to mass adoption is that most people don't give a shit. You need only look at comments on any news site to see the vast swath of people who read the headline and nothing else. They won't read the article, let alone care about sources, no matter how easy they are to track down, although Xanadu would seem to lessen the possible excuses.

There's also the issue that people are used to "free" ad-supported content, micropayments have yet to catch on even when offered. I'm still the only person I know who's even heard of Google Contributor.

And it's quite possible he was the first to come up with the concept of HyperText. He never claimed to have coded HTTP, merely to have invented the concept. True or not, he was clearly there on the ground floor. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Whether he was the first or not doesn't really matter anyway, I'm more interested in his ideas and practices than his historical claims.
Linux Foundation Head Is Running Apple’s MacOS Himself
Ah, thanks. What sorts of purchases in Australia require ID?
Doesn't the strict definition of QBSR require a thread to keep no references to shared data when it is in quiescent state, whereas epoch-based reclamation allows threads to simply retain no references to older versions of shared data when it advances its epoch?
Facebook says Messenger now has 1.3B monthly active users
> I wish as technology becomes available which could be used for more Orwellian surveillance someone stood back and thought about ways it could be used for good rather than defending some absurd fear of terrorist attacks.

The issue is the fact that a "binary test" has 4 outcomes.

The good ones:
Test says "True X" and "X is true".
Test says "False X" and "X is false".

The bad ones:
Test says "True X" and "X is false".
Test says "False X" and "X is true".

Some of these can be problematic depending upon what "X" is, what the response to "X" is, what the probability of "X" is in the population, and what the probability of the "false positive" of "X" is.

In medical, this can pose a real dilemma.

At any individual test let's call the diagnosis rate 1%. If the false positive rate is about 1%, we are diagnosing one person who has "X" along with diagnosing one person who doesn't have it.

Not too bad, right? Ummmm ...

If "X" was heart disease, sure. Most of the interventions for heart disease are things like fix your diet, get some exercise, quit smoking, etc.

If "X" is breast cancer, not so much. Interventions for cancer start with something like a biopsy which can have lots of complications (hematomas, secondary infections, etc.). In addition, a cancer may not spread, or something else may kill the patient before if you left it alone.

So, the damage done in the response determines how low the false positive rate has to be.

In addition, there is a psychological aspect to a diagnosis that a lot of people overlook. A false positive for "heart issue" on your wristband can upset certain people so badly that it causes an issue.

And I haven't even started talking about the false negative rate problems. What will you do when people start saying: "Nah. I don't need to go to the doctor, my Apple watch isn't flagging anything."

This is why this kind of stuff gets deployed for "terrorism" first because there isn't any consequence to the manufacturers whether they're right or wrong--so they don't care about the relative probabilities. The fact that some random schmuck gets detained and searched isn't the manufacturers problem.
It has a lot of issues. The biggest one for me is the following: Dicts are intended to take hashable keys (e.g. frozensets or tuples), but this method fails in Python 3 when keys are not strings.

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38987/how-to-merge-two-d...
The collapsing feature is helpful, usually longer threads wane into an infinite stream of increasingly off-topic rants. But because it happens after when the page is loaded, it messes up the feature where when you navigate history it jumps to where you left, and with collapsed comments it scrolls past there.
It would be great to support UDP in browsers:

https://github.com/Maksims/web-udp-public

https://new.gafferongames.com/post/why_cant_i_send_udp_packe...
They are, but they have their own boxes for critical infrastructure. Dropbox, however, moved a lot off of AWS.
> Did we all forget how and why SQL standards were created in the first place? How customers were demanding a certain level or interoperability? Do we think we don't need that anymore and the past reasons aren't there?

So, since you wrote here originally in part to complain about the low bar PostgreSQL set for themselves in trying to be standards compliant to an old standard (which has now been shown to merely be due to a stale document)... just who, in your view, should the good folks on the PostgreSQL dev team look to for how it's done? Which RDBMS provider/vendor has set the bar high for themselves in regard to standards compliance and achieved it?
If they bought the company, I would assume they bought the patents. I assume that MS had licensed the patents for Kinect.
Even after your comment, I do not make that connection. If that was the intent, it fails...e.g, Why not duplicate the site faithfully and just eliminate the comment links?

It succeeds in being 'quiet' (less noisy) in design.
Chisel compiles to verilog, so you don't need vendor support.
I still associate silver and wood-grain with "high quality". But perhaps this shows my age.
Agreed, but I wish HN would experiment more with new technical tools to improve civility. For all its flaws, HN is still home to some of the very best discussion, and there's no reason to throw up one's hands. For instance, removing public vote counts seems to have been a net positive (although I mistakenly opposed it at the time). Even a small nudge to get people to vote based on constructiveness rather than agree/disagree could have a large impact.
There is an interesting position that asic mining is the most democratic and decentralized way. The easier and simpler and cheaper a miner is to produce, the more accessible it is and likely that companies can manufacture and distribute it, turning it into a commodity. Complex proofs that require cpu's, for example, hand a permanent monopoly to Intel and friends. When the nanometer race ends in a few product generations (as we reach the limits of physics), the more commoditized silicon will become, and the more likely we can get a miner for a couple of bucks at the grocery store, or embed it in devices, etc. - making it truly decentralized.
Marketing will die, and here's why..
So when I intercept the script and send a bad proof back, it would not do any harm? So no https://xkcd.com/327/ for the bad miners? I guess, we need browser extensions that just send the correct proof to my own wallet then?
I believe rust's safety guarantees are enough to ensure the soundness of passing data to/from interrupt contexts and interrupt handler re-entrancy. See rtfm[0] for an example and a good explanation. I think DMA handling can be made safe by using the right abstractions, and then you'd just need to trust that any piece of code that accesses the memory uses the abstraction instead of accessing it directly.

Checking interrupt priorities sounds like an interesting problem. What is the state of the art in deadlock prevention? It would also be cool if you could tell the compiler "I need this interrupt handler to return in less than n clock cycles." I wonder if someone could write a rust compiler plugin to check that.

[0]: http://blog.japaric.io/fearless-concurrency/
Not GP, but I think what he's getting at is that the GC cost is already paid and doesn't get paid again for reclaiming memory with lock-free algorithms.
There is no ad blockers

There are blockers which can use lists, some of those lists might contain ad domains, some of those lists might contain miner domains.
All their kits and components are out of stock.
The Thing (listening device) – A passive transmitter made in 1945 by L. Theremin
I flirted with this idea for a long time after hearing it and wanted to like it but in hindsight it's pretty easy to prove it wrong.

Yes entropy creates pressure on life and has a hand in pretty much everything, but Earth has an abundance of free (Gibbs) energy that insulates it and creates a new kind of environment and conditions.

It's like saying that hunger drives social complexity. It's part of it but it doesn't drive it.

Yes you could apply Newtonian physics to everyday social encounters and structures but they're way too broad and generic to derive meaning conclusions at the interpersonal level.
Here's a reference I just found without any effort, from an occurrence of the above quote in Freeman Dyson's Origins of Life.

GP comment does not deserve to be downvoted: a solid searchable reference was provided.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=1Fqsd-v4LcwC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3...
> the cobbler’s children have no shoes. (Or, regionally adjusted, the engineer’s children have no slide rules.

For an article that talks about "the empathy gap", it lacks a lot of empathy to choose the weaker interpretation of "the cobbler’s children have no shoes", that Silicon Valley isn't taking care of its own house.

No, the real failure of empathy and morality is that The Haves buy shoes from have-not cobblers paying them so little that they can't afford shoes for their own children. What's worse, they are focused on making society more "efficient" by facilitating a race-to-the-bottom in worker wages (e.g. Uber) if not hoping to put them out of work entirely through automation (e.g. Bodega [1]).

The Haves send their children to private schools because of the quality teachers, who can't themselves afford to send their own children to the school.

The haves hire immigrants to be nannies so that their children get full-time quality adult care (while they're at work making the big bucks). The nannies can't afford to do the same for their children. In other words, the nannies spend more time with The Haves kids than their own, and The Haves have no problem with that. [2]

The Haves buy a new smartphone every year that is built by people who work in sweatshop conditions for monthly pay that is less than what The Haves just spent on their phone.

Feel free to add to this list.

---

[1] ‘Bodega,’ the very bad startup that wants to kill mom-and-pop shops, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15272086

[2] The Cost of Caring, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11458399
Authored by a law professor.

It is Apple who pioneered this concept of the device that the user really does not own or control - the "smartphone". The computer that remains tethered to the manfacturer continually feeding back user data.

Manufacturer makes replacing the OS difficult. Manufacturer gets root. Manufacturer gets right to modify OS remotely. And no surprise, manuacturer gets plenty of data about users. Manufacturer did not ask for these privileges. They just took them. It was not always this way.

But users accepted it.

And so other companies followed Apple's lead. I find the company's official statements about how they protect privacy to be offensive to common sense.

Want to protect privacy? Stop forcibly collecting any and all data. (Not just "less than so-and-so".)

If users really believe that sending data to Apple will help Apple create the "best experience" then let them opt-in to collection and send it voluntarily.

The users own the device. If they wish untether from Apple's "ecosystem", then that is their right.

There exists at least one user who does not want a company to collect their data, put it on a networked computer and then purport to "protect" it. They want the company to stop collecting their data. Why? Because they have weighed the risks and decided it is not worth it.

IMO the "smartphone" is part of the IoT and was the first "thing". Because it was a thing where software was used to take away some of the control from the owner (control that owners had previously); owners only get partial control.

Going forward, if one is opposed to internet connected things one does not fully control, the solution is not to select the things that collect the least data or that offer the most control. ("I trust Company X because they collect less data than the other companies.") The solution is to choose things that are not internet connected.
> Investing through index funds and ETFs will correlate with a certain alpha

Thank you for showing others that you do not know what you are talking about.
That's like saying that regular ad posters on the wall, when someone reads them, are okay to borrow your coat, shoes, and cell phone while you stay in that room.
Great video! NB to anyone watching that this is a standard reluctance motor, not one with magnets like the one in the article.
> both are very small elitist communities

Yet another irrelevant, unjustified, negatively connoted description that has no basis in realty; first "experimental", now "elitist". Come on.

> What's lightweight lies in the eyes of the beholder.

In terms of formal methods that exist, both type systems simple enough for decidable inference and lifetimes are absolutely "lightweight". But sure, I guess every description is subjective.

> You seem to think that there is exactly one reasonable, justified level of formal correctness. And that is the level where you stand, Rust in this case.

This is untrue. I don't believe Rust is a paragon of correctness-oriented programming; I just think it's a hell of a lot better than something like Go. Rust at least lets you prove a sizeable chunk of practical safety and correctness properties.

> And formalisms like Rust are still pityful attempts at constructing "formally correct" software.

What Rust provides, including type and memory safety and completeness checking, gets you a surprisingly large way towards complete formal verification, imo.

> Get out of your little corner mate.

What was your goal with this statement? This is a fairly technical discussion, not a Reddit politics thread. There's no need for you to stoop to vague insults.
I don't know that there's anyone out there twisting an evil moustache, counting the profits from keeping anyone fearful.

News do fear mongering for the same reasons people write click-bait article titles - it works.

It works because humans are not that far removed from our ancestors - the primal buttons are the easiest to push and they work on the largest number of people.

Anyone whose job it is to compete for people's attention, knows this very well. To pretend there's people far above who are 'bad', or 'good' is a coping mechanism to avoid seeings people and life for what it is :)
Discrimination in Loan Applications (statistics)
I presume that "unlawful" is a bit more circumscribed in Spain than in China.

Taking the article's example, would you be liable for ranting about a drunk driving checkpoint being a shakedown?
> Rust on little machines makes sense, but it needs more support underneath to deal with timers, interrupts, and concurrency. There are projects working on this.[1]

NB. the OP is part of that project, from the same author.
From now on can we stop saying “Going forward?”
‘Bodega,’ the very bad startup that wants to kill mom-and-pop shops
What do you mean? I've operated at 99% packet loss plenty of times in the rural parts of Vietnam. The key is you can't use any of the websites or apps that are popular in North America / Europe.
I prefer http://n-gate.com/
I believe the AVR backend was broken (and out of tree) for a long time, but revived by someone interested in getting Rust onto it.
> Slowly over time I noticed that I begun spending more time in the comment sections, and less time opening links. To cut a short boring story shorter, that trend continued into 2017. I am now at the stage where I very rarely open the links, I simply open the comments and am able to deduce the gist of the link through the unfolding arguments.

http://tomspeak.co.uk/posts/quiet-hacker-news

The point appears to be not to have the comments.
I agree. Copy+pasting an old comment of mine from this old thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12683924

> A general solution to IoT security would be for all IoT devices to only communicate to your personally owned home gateway, which would run open-source drivers for each device to provide the networking/external communication functionality. The IoT device could even be assigned its own isolated network link to the router (i.e. sandboxed).
That's only allowed if the keys in the second dictionary are valid Python identifiers (don't contain spaces etc.). I think CPython is OK with this, but PyPy is not.
Why does it seem easier to scan the links on the front page of reddit than on HN?

Often when I'm looking to upvote a link I just clicked on HN I will scan through all the links but miss the one I'm looking for. Is it the contrast and boldness of the titles that makes reddit better in this regard?
think you're preaching to the choir here
It's funny because just yesterday I was at a hackathon and made AddCoinPlus [1], a browser extension that uses a very tiny bit of your CPU to mine for non-profits of your choice. People really loved it because it is your choice to do so or not, it's not a website making your CPU work for their own profit.

[1]: http://addcoinplus.com/
yeah right..
I want robust, packaged setups (docker, AWS, whatever) to be cheap/free, accessible, and work out of the box with no end-user setup.

I am getting into DL myself and very excited about the potential, but I have spent literally 5 hours on setup (python and DL-specific AWS Ubunut instance) and have gotten exactly nowhere. Version conflicts, iPython not working in venv, dependency mismatches where many people built demos I want to use on python 2.7 that don't work with my 3.5 setup, can't get matplotlib to display graphs over X11/remote ssh, etc, etc, etc. So frustrating.

I want programmers to be able to one-button setup a DL machine so they can start tinkering and not wasting time on setup/dependencies/bugs.
The "Web runtime" is under the header "Backwards compatibility".
If you have fear, then you'd be more willing to give up certain freedoms to rid said fear. Freedoms such as privacy. Mark my words, there's going to definitely be massive facial recognition on the population, in the name of keeping you "safe".
I think it literally does exactly what you just said, content (posts) is duplicated, comment links are eliminated.
Great, thank you very much!

Even if this doesn't do exactly what I'm looking for, it will definitely help give me some ideas on how to do what I want. It is indeed open source, and it looks like VS2017 support was added a few months ago:

https://github.com/kmunson/CommentReflowerVSIX
Well, current Apple products lean pretty heavily on metal everything aesthetics. I wish they'd go to more of a brushed chrome thing rather than the flat semi-gloss style so it wouldn't visibly pick up gunk so easily, though.
link to these studies?

backscatter machines are considered complete safe, from what I understand. they use radio waves (not ionizing radiation) the same as phones/microwaves, and the waves don't even penetrate skin (or else they wouldn't be very effective, would they)?

you have nothing to worry about, medically, from them. I guarantee you're being bombarded right this moment with a similar amount of energy in a similar portion of the spectrum from Wifi, phone calls, bluetooth, FM/AM radio, GPS radio, etc.
I recommend Almond-color appliance epoxy. It comes in a spray.
Can you please give a few examples?
I think it's the background-colour.

Every other link on reddit has a slightly darker background, which helps separate the links. HN doesn't have this, preferring to simply number the links as its way of differentiating
Comrades don't need to indoctinate when is way easier for them to just censor by making illegal everything they don't like. Didn't Maduro in Venezuela told its minions a month ago to prosecute twitter users who expressed dissent? He even inspired them to put them 30 years in jail. What we are seeing here is the instantiation of that strategy in internet messages. That doesn't mean that it is not their normal for every other aspect in society. Remember this the next time that The Economist, Time magazine or New York Times tries to talk about "the wonders" of communism.
> Why did you use Go to write this? You know Go does not have generics, right?

This is going straight to my quote archive.
I also thought it meant a less noisy design and I thought the lack of comments was part of being less noisy.