skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can’t speak much for the rest, but old Mac codebases in particular hold up better than you might think. You can write an application that runs on every version of Mac OS from 1.0 (circa 1985) up to High Sierra with just a handful of conditionals through the use of Carbon [0]. Porting pre-OS X software should be similarly simple, given that it’s written in C or C++ (Pascal was somewhat popular for classic Mac apps, not sure what getting that code running on modern machines would look like).

When it comes to “new world” Mac stuff, the things keeping something written for OS X 10.0 from running on modern macOS have more to do with API deprecations than anything else. Objective-C is still widely used and is well supported (even with Swift’s growing popularity), so usually getting an old codebase of this nature running just means fixing a couple of deprecation errors, fixing a bunch of warnings, and hitting compile. The nature of change in the native sphere has largely been evolutionary, not revolutionary, so it’s largely stayed the same with new things being added. It’s not like the web where wheel reinvention and fads are a constant.

[0] http://blog.steventroughtonsmith.com/post/109040361205/mpw-c...
DMT is a little more than just dipping your toes...
That makes it even more impressive. My first thought when I saw the article was "this is a well designed website". I love the typography!
Pandas handles the date stuff and it works gr8 with Jupyter.
Right, but Cloudflare's position is that they're not providers, they're just an intermediate, and therefore they forward DMCA takedown requests to the actual hosting provider. Not being able to shutdown the sites is a fact that helps establish their position as mere intermediates.
Equally deeply offended that your saved area at a restaurant is also named after where protected animals live? While it doesn't apply to me, I would not be deeply offended, but I also don't try to find reasons to be offended.
I've guessed you mention about autosave feature like SublimeText, but I tried TexAdept and found only Save session at the File Menu, it's not autosave, just save the sessions by hand
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Yes, SWIM took DMT and loved it but finds the idea of Ayahuasca very frightening indeed.
Don't know why you're downvoted. But you're right, the First Amendment protects all speech even vile and hateful speech.

If people don't like that type of speech, then just pay it no mind. It doesn't really affect you unless you go looking for it.
Did you pick up this tradition through family or did seek out this practice and learn it?
The height is the same, and that's where those injuries come from. Those slides aren't like playground slides at all --- they are very, very high, and especially so on an A380.

Also, they need to be replaced if used, which costs extra time and money.

Basically, they are more like an airbag on a car.
> Just as the US Patent Office problematically gave out patents in the past for computers doing simple things... the office seems prepared to give out patents on "using machine learning in obvious and expected ways." Companies like Google and Microsoft are seeking to acquire, and in some cases have acquired, patents on "fundamental machine-learning techniques," Nazer writes.

I find myself in a weird situation. Patents are a drag, and they're misused and wasteful, etc. etc. But it feels like the author here isn't acknowledging or appreciating what patents are intended for or good for.

We can't say patents are bad because there are obvious uses of a technology. Patents protect the people who develop the technology, not the competition who wants to use it for free after it works.

The issuing of a patent doesn't depend on how obvious the use is, it depends on how obvious the actual solution is. And deep convolutional neural nets trained using backprop or adversarial networks, these things are not obvious. They are even counter-obvious, for 30 years people knew about them and claimed they wouldn't work.

Again, I know and agree that bad/stupid patents are being issued, and that trolls who don't develop tech are siphoning money, and all that.

But when someone invents something that works, the patent system is supposed to apply a drag force on everyone else using it, that's it's intended function. And sometimes, maybe not that often these days, but sometimes it actually works as intended and deserving people get to see their work come to financial fruition.
Holy s---!

I never knew what could happen by bring a stickler for traditional English. (Adds a whole new depth to 'grammar Nazi')

Thanks for the massive wakeup call... I'm going to have to move to less capricious ways to use the internet.
I'm a german who spent 6+ years of his school life continuously learning about nazis, lived for the first 25 years of his life in a town where i saw people in nazi attire on my way home or shopping every single day and always kept a key ring at the read, and is from a voting district that voted 20%+ for a party whose leadership explicitly hires neo nazis as security for demonstrations, a town where the lamp posts on the 200m way from my apartment to the shopping centers call for violence against foreigners.

And i have to say:

Those guys are nazis. They believe in fascism being the good and right way of the world. They hate people who're unlike them.

Don't try to sugarcoat them.
It's almost like if you just give people money, they'll use that money to improve their current situation without guidance or meddling.
Google has advanced A.I. for a general market but they are not good at specializing to the needs of particular customers.

For instance, the more specialized a text analysis system is the more tractable the problem of getting it "good enough" for commercial use is. Company X needs something trainable for company X's universe and will find that training for other things will at best cost money they don't have, at worst, distract from good performance on the X universe.

Much of the "AdTech" biz centered in NYC is there because Google has never wanted to play the high-touch sales game in advertising.
I think Twitter has not claimed they are content agnostic. That's the difference.
Secrecy until it gets leaked/reverse engineered serves the same function to a more moderate degree.
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Having had frequent ceremonies over the course of several months I stopped drinking the tea, because I find it is not helping being pulled from one extreme into another. Our western way of life makes it very difficult to integrate the profound experiences that one can get through this medicine and it requires major commitments to change..and it requires good helpers and facilitators. We, as westerners, are often times not equipped to integrate this lost wisdom into our lives. I know it is said it is not addictive but I know enough people that at least appear dependent on it and swear by it being the solution.

I personally believe that meditation and journeying inward without drugs brings about insights of a similar magnitude in a pace that we can cope with and integrate what we learn without jojo’ing between bliss and depression.

Ayahuasca has its place. It definitely helped us experience that there is much more to life than the material. But in my opinion I t’s a sledge Hammer that helps crack hard nuts or sets a direction. The work has to be done by oneself and the risk with ayahuasca is that one just keeps drinking the tea, thinking that that is enough.

Apart from that it is quite dangerous nowadays to do ceremonies with traveling “shamans”, because a lot of them don’t even brew the tea themselves and oftentimes facilitate in a way that it is bound to go wrong at some point.
A great video interview of VV (2014) discussing his career, in english (subtitled in French) is available here: https://vimeo.com/99586217

French transcription here: http://smf4.emath.fr/Publications/Gazette/2014/142/smf_gazet...
Well, reservation is actually what the US Military called their military outposts. So, its a pretty unoffensive term and I have never heard anyone on the reservation call it such. Although the current term that seems to be going around is "Nation". I would guess either from the first nations in Canada or the Navajo. Heck, the phrase "off the reservation" is often used in spy movies.

Speaking of Canada. They call their's "reserves" which almost got me into a fight in Canada when someone asked the Dakota I was traveling with "what reserve are you from?". He took it, uhm, poorly. It took some fast talking to calm him down. He did not come away with a good impression of Canada although winning at the track later in the day put a positive note on our travels.
It's a popular idea that there are two legitimate sides to every issue. It's also a wrong idea. "Tolerance" as a societal ideal does not require treating ethnic cleansing as a legitimate goal, a respect-worthy political platform, etc. This comment thread was initially about the Daily Stormer, not something that is merely "distasteful."
Beyond the obvious etymology that others have stated, the terms "sanctuary", "refuge", and "preserve" are used far more by the US to represent the idea you describe for animals, so the equivalence in terminology doesn't seem well founded at all.
I've used the git-flow approach successfully with a small team working on a medical product (so, embedded software system) -- every feature branch had to be reviewed before being merged with `develop`, which was submitted to nightly, extensive functional tests (initially one-hour long, eventually kept as a nightly subset of the more than 24-hours complete QA run) before it could be approved as a new (monthly) release and be merged with `master`. Every new feature branch was automatically treated to quick continuous integration tests, and available for manually-triggered full functional tests (on the target devices).

This approach ensured that we had a full trace of development work, (signed) code reviews, and software changes -- compatible with FDA audits.

We also automated collection of code coverage data during functional tests, to inform analysis and revisions of the battery of functional tests.
Actually, "its" would be gender-neutral in English, but using "its" to describe a person is considered very rude (because people actually have genders, so "its" implies that you are talking about something rather than someone).

Something to consider: Would you have had the same reaction to this sentence: "...a nurse (not her lawyer)...?" Many people would find that to be less "forced" because they are already comfortable assuming that nurses are women. In other words, the fact that using one pronoun stands out more than using another is evidence of a bias people carry (not necessarily you -- maybe you would have been equally curious if it was, "not his lawyer"; that would make you a very unique person ;) ).
Twenty years and it’s done. No big deal. But the patent on teepee fires, log cabin fires, elm fires, oak fires, pine fires that start faster, maple fires, fire for cooking chicken, fire for cooking turkey, fire for smoking meats, fire for signaling, fire for signaling with morse code, fire for warmth, Uber but for fire, charcoal, fire for witches, and firing employees—those would drown us.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1966820
This is interesting. I only know one person that’s done it and he said the same thing. Kicked all the habits. I didn’t know him before his trip so I assumed he was kind of full of it.

Based on my escalating coffee bill maybe I should give this a swing...

So are the hallucinations ever “fun”? I’ve dabbled in other things and it has generally been very video game like kidjoy. All ayahuasca hallucinations I’ve read about have sounded terrifying.
Separate armies, laws, currency, un-democratic state, considerably shorter time period, a national id (Catalonia has never been a state before).
Vaporized DMT is far more intense than consuming it orally with an MAOI.
That's a much better and more respectful explanation I think of your position than calling someone's opinion silly or goofy. I'd have a hard time unpacking your second comment from your first.

Particularly on difficult topics, if you think someone's giving something too little thought, err on the side of giving it more thought rather than something shorter. I sympathize with a desire to be concise and pithy, but it can so easily be read in more ways other than it's intended. There's just less info there: fewer error correction bits, so to speak.
The patent in question is a patent on the obvious use, not the underlying method. "Deep convolutional neural nets trained using backprop or adversarial networks" is not the thing being patented here. "Using deep convolutional neural nets trained using backprop or adversarial networks to solve a specific problem" is what's being patented. The article argues that the known techniques aren't being applied in a particularly novel or interesting way.
Exactly. I'm from Argentina and I forget to "translate" that part

Fixed. Thanks to both.
> The closer an area is to the poles, more heating will happen.

I see no basis for this assertion.
Psychedelics provide a incredible jolt to the system (at least that's what they tell me) but if they do provide health benefits I believe they are short term, similar to traveling to another country or doing something unusual with your life. On the other hand, people that take psychedelics too often tend to have long term negative consequences such as anxiety or become dysfunctional in other ways. It's very hard to have nuanced opinions these days, but I think society in general needs to come to terms with psychedelics, the dangers they present, the novel experiences they enable, and some mental health benefits they may enable.
I used to feel that way. Unfortunately we've reached the point where patents have so damaged and corrupted our industry that none of us can write any software free of patents. If someone wants to annihilate you with a patent suit, theoretically they can. Unless you have a patent portfolio.

They are the ultimate anti-individual-programmer. Which is another way of saying they're a threat to hacker culture.

You can argue that hacker culture had its day in the sun, and that the world should move forward. But it's important to be clear to yourself that the culture that built the internet and so many of the tools we now enjoy for free is being thrown under the bus.

E.g. see Mike Pall's statement on LuaJIT: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-11/msg00089.html

I cannot guarantee LuaJIT to be free of third-party IP however. In
fact nobody can. Writing software has become a minefield and any
moderately complex piece of software is probably (unknowingly to
the author) encumbered by hundreds of dubious patents. This
especially applies to compilers.

Are you sure you want to live in a world where people can't legally write and release LuaJIT for free without its users facing legal ramifications? Same deal with machine learning. What will the LuaJIT of machine learning be?
Well played. You can exprime a lot of pro-independentist juice if you put a 80 years old lady in the position of being beaten and videotape all instead to try to defend her. Another point for the good guys.

Another possibility could be separatists thinking last week or yesterday "this is stupid, some people could be hurt!, for nothing!, why we don't stop this farce before... dunno... a 80yo lady is beaten or so?

I bet that the lady, or the child crying, would have appreciated that line of reasoning, but it seems that for separatists the more people hurt, the better. Curious if we think about it.
Depending on which school of though...

If you refer to peaceful methods, then look no further than Ghandi and MLK. Protest peacefully. Make them raise their fist. And record it, tell the stories, reduce their mandate.

If you come from Malcolm X's or IRA's point of view: assassinations, military-like strikes, and generally war.

I reserve judgement on which way is better.
"If you look up "Quantitative Easing" you'll see that making trillions from thin air is exactly what the world's central banks do. But instead of giving it to people, they buy securities from banks, who are, as a result, the primary beneficiaries."

This is not an apples-to-apples comparison since QE (so far) has been "sterilized" so as not to increase the money supply in the same way as you are suggesting BI would:

"Also, the Federal Reserve has mostly "sterilized" its bond purchases by paying interest to banks for reserve deposits. This removes money from circulation previously added by the Fed's bond purchases. The net effect is to raise bond prices, lowering borrowing rates for mortgages and other loans, without an inflationary increase in the money supply"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing
It's pretty common in Britain, and yes it's valid grammatically correct English but it's used to refer to "oneself" so wouldn't work when referring to others very well.
> changing the status quo from constantly worrying about data limits and "I don't have any wifi" to "normal" people having constant "internet" access everywhere they go.

So will rapidly increasing data allowances and cellular coverage. Plenty of European countries have effectively unlimited data packages and effectively complete network coverage.

Crucially, whatever gaps there are in this are very likely to get filled through already underway progress much faster than a distributed web on mesh networks will get to a usable stage.
An insightful article that signals poorly because of

* hate for DITA
* lack of depth (it's a new enough idea that it really should be longer)
* not informed by specific cases (although it talks all about being so)
* ultimately a teaser for a talk that most of us won't be able to attend (as conferences seem to be one of the few ways to monetize open source)

I hate to be so negative, but I am training an A.I. to find good stuff on HN and I had to do this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzv3ncEQQVI

for this article.
> Who the hell are you to cause such a death rate?

You said Saddam was just "minding his own business" and merely "painted as a dictator."

I point out Saddam was a dictator, according to incontrovertible video evidence.

In response, you're blaming me personally for all the deaths in Iraq since the war.

...

Actually, I'm not even mad. That's amazing. Your response was like moving the goalposts and tu quoque and ad hominem all rolled together times a thousand.

Well played sir, I give up, the round is yours.
I would hope that people who are interested in this type of thing contact the folks at the tribes about their own efforts.
And they could use it to order meal kits to be delivered by drones /s
You can't compare benefits and downsides like that. The single benefit could dwarf all of the downsides by several orders of magnitude.

As for the downsides, these will gradually diminish through inherent market dynamics, like rising collective knowledge within the cryptocurrency investment community, the emergence of reputable services that aid token buyers in vetting token options, etc.
As an American, I support everyone's right to free speech, regardless of content.

I feel badly for other countries that don't have such freedoms.
It is a problem for sites facing censorship (gov't or corporate or social).
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> Seriously lucky that the disintegration didn't take out vital hydraulics or fuel systems in the wing, or penetrate the pressurised fuselage.

It isn't luck. It is the result of millions of engineering hours spent on the development of highly reliable and resilient passenger aircraft, an emphasis on public identification and dissemination of design weaknesses, errors, and failures, and an unwavering focus by industry regulators on safety.

This is a particularly egregious failure mode and very hard to contain, but also one which a lot of design hours have been spent mitigating. They were very lucky to have suffered (apparently, as far as has been reported) no significant damage of any kind, but even an extremely egregious uncontained engine failure is frequently flyable because of the emphasis on redundancy in modern plane designs.
How does ipfs deal with dynamic content? And how would you make sure that everyone uses an updated version of the website.
I agree, and yes that happens. But the author concluded based on one example that the whole system is bringing down a whole industry. I didn't title the piece, Joe did.

And in the article he argued "the [patent] office seems prepared to give out patents on using machine learning in obvious and expected ways."

That is not and cannot be the criteria for or against issuing patents.
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Java, VBScript and Dart have all been supported by some of the browsers at different times. It's not like nobody has tried to put something else in the browser, it's just getting everyone to agree to support an alternative. Looks like that will be web assembly.
Whether you understand a problem completely is independent of your choice of language to implement it in. The notion that Haskell is allegedly requires complete understanding first where other languages don't is both unsupported and also irrelevant. The implication that "Haskell people" seek to understand things first while other language users don't is an assertion at best (and that's being charitable).
Makes Rust look hard.
I wanted to understand why racists hated me, so I befriended Klansmen
Bezos is too smart to enter a market with such high regulatory risk.
People have been sitting at desk jobs for over 100 years now and those people at an old age are living longer than anyone in history based on life expectancy.

Isn't this one of those standard logic fallacies? I mean, A is true, B is true, but that does not mean B is true because A is true? There might be plenty of other factors affecting B. The advance in medical science for one. At least I always thought that alone was the most influencial factor on better life expectancy. Probably more than enough to even undo the effect of certain lifestyle habits making things worse.

But yes, the article pretty much fails to provide exact numbers or even estimates on how bad a sedentary lifestyle really is.
One of those articles that is sliced way too thin.
I wouldn't expect any 'normal' user to go though any of this. This is for Android enthusiasts that can get access to good hardware on the cheap and run the latest software.
The point is not to get comfortable with the destructive commands. You have one WIP branch that is essentially just cloud backup. Then when you're ready to open your branch up to the world you create a new branch that you've squashed and pruned to your liking-- on Gitlab, this would be the branch for which you submit a merge request.

That new branch is the one that receives comments and revisions from all developers-- ideally none of that gets squashed or rebased.

The danger is that you silently drop data when trying to make the new branch pretty. But even in that case you still have the old WIP branch as backup, at least until you do a release. And hopefully by that time you've tested the code and had other people look at it and use it.
> I don't need this daily coffee and sugar fix anymore.

In the same way, some people just stop being "addicted" to life in general after strong trip. Some of them decide to commit suicide.

Just yesterday, I've been in party and one guy told story of his friend who committed suicide after such trip.

The big problem with psychedelics is that you can't predict in which way a trip could change you.
Yes, that’s my point. The BI proposal is flawed as it leads to hyperinflation.