skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>would almost certainly include a God intelligence to alter parameters and induce suffering/hardship to direct the simulated intelligence toward that purpose.

Wow that's pretty deep, actually.
> As a child in Canada...Made no sense why not.

That's pretty much the answer right there.

Something you have to understand about the BSA is just how deeply enmeshed religion - specifically Christianity (with a heavy leaning toward Protestantism) - is within the organization.

One of the largest (if not the largest) chapters (?) of the BSA is run by the Mormon church (LDS), for instance.

This is a nice step forward, and certainly unexpected, but they have more yet to go. For instance, the Girl Scouts allow transgendered individuals to join; I guess we'll see if the BSA ever allows that.

Also - despite what another poster said earlier - the BSA is not friendly to atheists, whether they are children, parents of children, or as leaders. There are plenty of fairly recent incidents and announcements about that, just within the past couple of years, to attest to that stance.
The worst case scenario was me trying to keep the plant alive, so it was really all upside.
Oh yea, I've done that too. These days I use systemd timers, which are much less prone to that sort of error.
Consciousness does exist, as I'm conscious. I assume that this is true for you (and others) as well, because we're very similar. But I have no idea how it arises.

I wonder if the question you ask can ever be answered, even when the AIs insist that they have consciousness exactly like us.
If your lower end is someone who would be placed into financial hardship by losing 50% of their net worth and your higher end is Elon Musk, you use only the two most extreme examples to make your point. There are plenty of lower-tier rich (millionaires) who would stand to gain far more and lose far less (relatively speaking) than the average person by taking risks.

Also, I'm not really sure just what point you're trying to make. Much of what you say seems to corroborate the author's opinion.
No coding. I'm just one of the lucky people who has almost all forward-thinking billers who support auto-pay with a credit card. There's one exception that only allows using a bank account for auto-pay, so I pay that manually through my bank's bill pay service. I've stopped giving out my 20+ year old bank account number to any service provider, because it's no fun to close an account for fraud.

The text message alert is set up on the online banking site - I set it up to send a text message whenever there's a debit >$1. There are a few banks (Chase is one) that even offer real-time alerts where you get texted as soon as the transaction happens, but most will send the alerts at some time of the day. It's a shame that more banks don't implement and advertise that feature to prevent fraud. To me it's comforting to get a text as soon as the card gets swiped.
FWIW when I lived in midtown and worked in Dunwoody I had excellent MARTA usage. It took my daily commute to a very predictable 45 minutes door-to-door.

Now that my walk to marta is 20 minutes and on east-west line I am using it less, but would if I worked downtown. <shrug>

see you on reddit/r/Atlanta :)
Well, that’s an argument they should have made! I think it’s extremely charitable to assume this is why, though, when every indication points to code-audit fearmongering.

But, you’re also forgetting that these virus scanners can also be vulnerabilities and exploits in themselves; i seem to remember one virus exploited a flaw in the compression code of a virus scanner to establish some type of malware. Just because something is a trade secret doesn’t exactly lessen the risk of it existing.
Plus the chance for competitors to completely understand and replicate your brand new techniques for malware exposure.

Can understand the worry for malware products from startups and innovative companies that are demonstrating an impressive work and surely need that secrecy to thrive against the market gorillas. Symantec can't really be called innovative since 2009 or so, doesn't make much sense the security by obscurity mantra unless there are other reasons.
Another question is if this will be admissible in the court.
I feel like this is a non-issue. If there is a demand for CMH-SEA flights then surely an airline will cater to it.
No, I must have no independence of free thought
Self-driving cars obviously. They will change so much!
More practical applications of gene editing.
The word "automatic" literally means without human intervention. It's antonym is "manual," which literally refers to hands. Yes, your subjective experience of having a servant or whatever is similar to the subjective experience you have with automation. But that's pretty close to magical thinking. Outsourced and automated just aren't the same thing. Especially if you're the human stuck making the widget.
It's very simple -- something like https://www.amazon.com/Moisture-Humidity-Compatible-Atomic-M...

Due to the volume of the pot, it would be difficult to get a true moisture reading, so I place the sensor directly under the spout in order to have noticeable changes.
I have a different philosophy. If some functionality is offered by a good-quality (supported, good docs etc) django package then go on and use it. If you want to be DRY you shouldn't re-implement functionality that others have already implemented. Also, after you use a package you more or less learn it and it's easy to re-use it in your next project -- while if you implement your own solution you'll most probably need to resort to horrendous copy and paste from your old project to your new one to re-use it!

Also, as I already mention in my article, if you use a package and you use it for its intented purpose you have a quick reference for some of your project's functionality (f.e if you use django-waffle then you'll know that some parts of the project can be enabled or disabled at will) - if instead you had implemented everything yourself you (or the person that needs to understand your project) would need to read everything to know what's happening. So, for me, using a good django package does not add but actually removes complexity from your project!

I can't remember any package incompatibilities - instead as I already mention in my article there are a lot of packages that work great together (django-tables with django-filter, django-rest-framework with django-filter, django-taggit with django-autocomplete-light etc).

Finally, I partially agree with your comment about more pain when upgrading django versions however considering that

- supported projects are usually upgraded a little after a new version of django is out (most of them are already prepared before the new django version is out since they can be tested using the beta version)

- django keeps supporting (non LTS) old versions for 8 months (and 16 months for securiy fixes) so in this time most probably all your dependecies will have updated so as to support the new django version

- all packages are open source so you can contribute to help move to the next version

the upgrading pain should be very little... When I upgraded from django 1.10 to 1.11 I also upgraded all the packages I describe in the list and everything worked without problems!
On the video game kick, I remember needing to do a massive number of laps in Gran Turismo 3 to unlock something.

Turns out the low-tech solution of using an insanely fast car (Escudo), taping down the controller's gas button and just letting it do laps while grazing the wall worked. Some time later I looked back and had won.
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> I guess the partial point I'm making is that a firearm is a tool and needn't be used to harm humans.

This brings to mind my stance over the last few years regarding firearms, which is I think it would be beneficial to outlaw handguns (as opposed to rifles or shotguns), if it could be feasibly done (it probably can't, there's far too many out there already). Firearms can be utilitarian, but the extra utility offered by miniaturizing them to the point that they are easily carried on your body, and easily hidden on your body, seems to encourage modes of use that are detrimental.

Police, of course, may have reason to need a small firearm handy, but even then there seem to be problems where it's so easy to access that it's used inappropriately (or even accidentally used instead of a taser).
Median is a mathematical concept that doesn't know or care about a person's immigration status.

The dataset plugged in and the mathematical operation performed on it are two distinct concepts and shouldn't be confused. It's the same reason the IRS lets undocumented citizens and documented citizens performing unsavory work (including drug dealing and prostitution) to file taxes :)
I mentioned this to someone, but Salesforce had already publicly disclosed at least 714,000 square feet in 2014 for the (now) Salesforce Tower with rumors they'd already expanded another 200k [1]. I don't think it's a particularly meaningful number either way, as what matters (if any of it does) is total square footage in the city not in a single building / lease.

[1] https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2017/05/24/sal...
16.8 acres sounds like a lot! But at over half a billion dollars for the development it sounds insane - about $44 million per acre. It really drives home how space-constrained they are. Across the street from where I work there's a 64-acre vacant lot asking $325k. I wonder how many stories of office building you could cover it with for $500,000,000.
Some have tried, but it would take some coordinated effort over several weeks at this point to over or underwater the plant. I've found that the folks who consistently vote take it relatively seriously to the point they have discussions about optimal schedules and for the most part stick to them.
Hopeful, eh?
Those three things are good and can go a long way towards helping out, but they are not perfect. Most especially they suffer from a bootstrapping problem. If you're too depressed to take care of yourself by keeping your sleep on schedule, eating right, and exercising regularly you absolutely will not have the energy or motivation to get back into them easily. Additionally, some people have other issues that make those things harder, such as medical or physical reasons they can't exercise, or sleep disorders (which have a high degree of comorbidity with depression and bipolar).

I'd highly suggest that people look at mindfulness based cognitive therapy. That can build the tools that will make it possible to get back on track. It can also make a huge mental difference to bring people from "kinda sad but doing ok because of good sleep/diet/exercise habits" to actually being able to enjoy life.
The case I most often encounter is "oh, you liked x? I'm sure you'll like every remix of x for the next month of your discovery weekly!". Technically not the same song.
protip: Nevada requires the source code of all the video casino games.

Easier target than a nation state.

This practice is fundamentally flawed.
i think they are shooting themselfs in the foot, a month ago after my samsung promo expired i lost my 30gb of space.
the only plan they have is 1TB for 8.25eur. my whole macbook drive is 512gb, and i dont like to waste something, so paying 1tb and using only 50 feels like im paying for all those using 1tb.
so i switched to hosting owncloud on my downloadbox at home, the benefit is that i can access everything downloaded thru owncloud.
if this does not work out im gonna try gdrive, they have a 100gb plan.
Seems like Peter Thiel just has a policy to keep a finger in a lot of pies. Reminds me of the time Yarvin wrote a criticism of Sam Altman:

> Sam Altman (whom I don't know, but SF is a small town and I probably know someone who knows him) ... [1]

It's amusing that the missing link between them would be Peter Thiel.

([1]: If you really want to read the full post you can easily find it using Google.)
That's barbaric!
But I guess it's understandable. Credit card companies and ISPs charge your landlord for providing their services, so he passes on the convenience costs to you rather than the people who have more time than money, and can shove an envelope fill of cash under his door.
dumb title.

nitpicking.

equating innocent, if terse, comments with threats.

Why am I reading what this person has to say?
Is that Arabic on the wall?
That was my first thought too, but would an underwater volcano create such a large hole or would the effect be more localized? It should be easy to verify.
> The “business” and “personal” dropbox combo can become a real mess.

I had a personal Dropbox account, that I upgraded to a business one (because I wanted certain of my devices to only have access to a subset of my files, for instance when traveling). Except that breaks auto photo uploading from mobile, so I reverted back to personal. Everything seems to have reverted, except the auto photo uploading tab, which now is stuck on telling me that I need to connect a personal account.

Keep in mind that this is one of only 4 tabs in their mobile app, so you think it'd get pretty thorough debugging. It blows my mind how so many companies can blow tons of money on useless signaling things (like the recent redesign) while neglecting to test very basic functionality of their product.
Humanity is already extinct in a sense. Humanity is no longer limited to flesh and bone. I've personally seen flesh and titanium. And more variation is on the way. So humanity as it were, is already extinct.

We (you and me) will go extinct someday. Our bodies were always destined toward this terminus... Perhaps by some miraculous tech, we can someday change form and shed the flesh and bone. Maybe then we'll have a better idea of what we are.
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Yeah, but are 16k keys? How does quantum factorization scale?
Did you make it to SK? There's a few of us here, but not that many...
Hunting for Radio Frequency Interference
Most of newer development in Texas has been basically Newville. And growth there has been high and steady for a while now.
I've been in your shoes earlier this year. Or maybe I didn't come even close. I just want to say, I felt like what you describe.

Then I read an article about the microbiome of dirt [0]. In the moment I read this on my smartphone I sat in the grass on a hill and I thought to myself, fuck it, what can go wrong, I'm going to stick my finger in dirt, put it in my mouth and eat a little bit of dirt. And that's what I did.

I don't know if this was what changed my mood, but what I can say, that my mood was changed in less than a week.

All the best to you.

[0] https://qz.com/993258/dirt-has-a-microbiome-and-it-may-doubl...
While the designers of TCP/IP got an amazing amount of things right, one things they missed rather badly was the need to take the incentives and motivations of the people participating in the network into account. I don't blame them for that. At the time the internet was an academic pursuit, so the idea of designing a protocol to resist breakage by self-interested commercial ISPs simply wasn't something that was on people's minds.

Taking IP fragmentation as a particular example: The protocols should be designed such that inability to perform PMTU discovery prevents any connections being established at all.

Designing protocols which will be robust in the face of human actors who may-or-may-not be entirely interested in doing things the intended way is incredibly difficult. To make things worse, once you make a mistake it is practically impossible to fix. Using fragmentation as an example again: Now that middle boxes which break PMTU discovery are established, it would be impractical to introduce a "fail unconditionally" protocol. People would simply blame the products which introduced such a protocol for being broken. You have to get it right from the start so that bad actors get caught out before their broken products can be deployed.
Unfortunately there are countries that don't care about your regulations. I'm not even sure a regulation like that can pass in most western countries.
Aye. Got it.
What do you think the per sq foot price is of something like this? A couple years ago I read that the average price for office space was in the high 60's. That would put this place at nearly 50 million dollars per year. Does that sound right/make sense? If so that's a pretty quick turn around for Kilroy.
Been working through Drew Hayes' "Super Powereds" series... nothing ground breaking, but it is light and entertaining.

On the more hard scifi end of the spectrum, anything by Peter Watts. Blindsight and the follow-up Echophraxia are truly fantastic, entertaining, and head-scratchingly interesting in the concepts on display.
Might be an urban legend, but I do notice subscribing doesn't stop certain emails
LoanBit Introduces Online Bitcoin Lending Platform
This is common to all periods of the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(P...

Today, we take for granted that the production of each individual is greatly improved by machinery. We own multiple items of clothing, eat a varied diet, and live in homes of concrete heated and cooled by electricity. And this description applies to upcoming economies like Ukraine.

If you take the example of what a feudal Russian lived in the 1700, many built their own homes out of wood using an axe and wood from the forest, they would buy fabric and furs but had to make and mend their own clothes, they would hunt and work the land of their lord for sustinence. Their diet was restricted to seasons and death by famine and disease was rampant. The few coins they could accumulate went towards the purchase of must haves (metal tools, basic textiles, a furnace, and luxuries like animals). In winter, they would sleep on top of their furnace for heat, and their home was filled with smoke.

Urban centres were no different. The 1000sqft apartments we have today are 5-10x the size of dwellings in London or Paris during the same period. You can see this visiting the ruins of Rome too.

Life was tough but we forget how tough it was because most of us idealize the simpler times of the past.
True. But also:

The Satyagraha campaign of the 1930s also forced the British to recognise that their control of India depended entirely on the consent of the Indians – Salt Satyagraha was a significant step in the British losing that consent.
Both Oculus and Vive give demos set up in various retail outlets in the US:

https://live.oculus.com/

http://locator.vive.com/
I dealt with government and the public fairly often but not so much at the federal level.

One of my favorite examples:

I was on a public access cable show talking about how the project was going to be a temporary problem for traffic congestion and about the benefits of the project.

We took a short break and came back for the final ten minutes which was to be a question and answer phase. The questions were to come from audience members or by phone. The audience was made up entirely of the meager production crew and an employee of mine.

The host invited people to call in and ask Dr. KGIII questions. The very first one was a person with a strong regional accent and I don't remember the exact verbiage but they had a question about their irritable bowel syndrome - or wanted it diagnosed, something like that.

I explained that I wasn't a medical doctor and the person on the phone responded with something like, "Well, you're a doctor, ain't you? You gotta know something!"

I nearly peed myself laughing. I'll leave the region out of the story, I don't really want to reinforce stereotypes.
Well we all are citizens of one country or another. So what exactly does outside code review mean? American code can only be reviewed by American code reviewers?

Would you trust Chinese software that was only ever allowed to be reviewed by Chinese auditors?
Yup! And half the papers mean W_i to mean the weights for the layer.

And then there are those who say screw mathematics completely and use the Hadamard or Kronecker product symbol to denote convolution, which has caused me no end of trouble in the past.
Can rule-based approaches be augmented/assisted by machine learning? If so, what aspects do you think machine-learning could do a good job at?
Implementing Fisher’s LDA from Scratch in Python
This comment reminded me greatly of the game Portal and its AI character GLaDOS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_%28video_game%29
I don't think suggesting lifestyle changes to treat depression makes you an insensitive dick, but I do think implying that it works for every depressed person does.
Definitely yes self driving cars - I'm sick of road rage. Also hopefully more efficient petrol and electric will dispose of filthy diesel.

There's also some interesting developments in improving maritime transport efficiency.
Path MTU discovery is supposed to ferret out the fact that the TCP segment size should be reduced.

IP fragmentation is just a best effort mechanism that is better than the datagrams being dropped due to their excessive size; it allows connections to be established.

You don't want to be doing bulk transfers with fragmentation.

IP fragmentation won't help with latency, because it is redundant. The TCP window is already a form of "fragmentation". TCP already fragments the data into segments that can be received out of order, individually re-transmitted and re-assembled.

For large transfers over fast, high latency networks, TCP supports window scaling. Larger individual segments (and thus IP fragmentation) is not required for the sake of having more data "in the air".
So... am I missing something, or is the only evidence they cite a thin correlation between increased online dating and increasing rates of interracial marriage?
When I was looking for a job several years ago, I started developing the bad habit of just staring at my Gmail inbox, waiting for replies to emails, and eventually offer letters and the like. I used Zapier to set up a rule so that when an email arrived from a specific email domain, it would send me a text.

Seems silly, but it put my mind at ease. I knew that I'd get notified when an important email arrived, and it freed up my mind to focus on other things.
Software development doesn't always (usually doesn't, in fact) work that way. After a point, throwing more money and engineers at Firefox is unlikely to speed up its pace of development, or improve its quality.
You could do number 2 completely automated with just the IFTTT mobile app. I used to track the time when I arrived and left the office on a gApps spreadsheet but later disabled the task due to battery draining (old iPhone 5).
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Curios, why don't you post summaries on http://www.wikisummaries.org
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Running the compiler twice (first in preprocessor mode), then in actual compilation mode is exactly what is done now for many build systems. The first pass, in addition to building dependencies also generates the mapping from files to modules. You will need to list all the files you need to 'preprocess' in your build script, to generate the dependencies, but that's what it is done today already and I don't see a way out nor even a need to change. Modules are not supposed to enforce a specific build strategy, nor they should.

The standard currently imposes very little requirements on the actual build process, headers and source files do not even need to exist as actual files on a system, so it would be a lot of work to actually introduce these concepts in the standard and risk delaying modules further.

That doesn't mean that there might not valuable to standardize that, but it is another battle and many (I, for example) will argue that a strict mapping from file names to module names is wrong.
only thing you can do to influence the collaborative filtering system is to make users listen to both you and some other artist.

as i mentioned in another reply, CF is really what powers DW
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