skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be pretty much impossible for another intelligent species to appear on earth now without relating to human beings as a context. I mean, the relationship I was groping for above is Synanthrope[1]. Basically, an entire ecosystem of animals eating and using human garbage already exists - what else do you imagine these animal eat? Giving animals some training to also pick-up said garbage seems neither better nor worse than the status quo.

Plus, I don't think anyone will be doing any explaining to the crows - if the crows rise, they're be using fire and poison to exterminate them in the fashion we would use if one another species seemed to threaten our dominance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanthrope
Let us hope you're right!
He placated the nationalists by championing massive deficit
financing, via the BOJ, to pull Japan out of its economic
morass. Japan's economy soon embarked on a period of
economic growth with stable prices, full employment and
humming factories, an "economic nirvana." Seven decades
later these results were heralded a success by another
central banker trying a similar trick - Ben Bernanke.

The cynicism and skepticism feels very contrived here. Seven decades of nirvana is better than the three decades of comparable nirvana American policies achieved between 1950 and 1980, and few economists criticize post-WWII-era American economic policy as being short-sighted or a one-way trip toward a dystopian future.

And of course, despite Japan's financial malaise, their quality of life is arguably on-the-whole better than in the U.S. It's hard to make direct comparisons of outcomes--let alone comparisons regarding policy efficacy--but I think it suffices to point out that Japan is hardly a failing system. In fact, some would argue that it's an outright myth, a failure to reframe expectations in the context of an advanced economy. https://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2013/02/06/paul...
That's where the distinction between "hate" and "violence" comes in. (at least in the USA)

"Let's kill all the $X" is a call for violence. "I hate $X" isn't. It's hateful, but observably some values of $X are currently acceptable while others aren't, depending on what direction the popular outrage trends are heading. Should "I hate the rich/politicians/corporations/nazis/capitalists/white males/etc" be illegal speech? That's quite a can of worms.

These free speech arguments are sort of like the government wanting secure encryption, except that the they should still be able to break it. Encryption is either secure for both legal and illegal uses, or it isn't. In the same way, it's semantically unresolvable to have legally-protected free speech for acceptable speech only.

Any argument for free speech necessarily empowers unacceptable speech, and any argument against free speech necessarily criminalizes acceptable speech.
Yes, Clojure :) I wasn't even thinking the library, but the programming concept when I typoed it. Whoops!
Users of chewing tobacco and similar products aren't eating them, but that doesn't seem to do them any good.
>Lol. It is more free, as in freedom of the individual market agents to self organize and direct resources without a centralized authority. There is no 'free' lunch, by the way.

I know which type of free you meant. Marketized healthcare is a system where dollars become freedom-points so some already privileged people have tons of "freedom" and poor people have basically no freedom. Universal healthcare fixes that and gives us all a minimum baseline of freedom which no one can fall under. That's why it's more free.

>If you reread my comment, you may find that I am only suggesting we undo the twisting.

Well no... You're suggesting we twist it in a different way and totally ignoring all the reasons those laws you don't like came to exist in the first place.

>As I said, the US generates most of the medicines and techniques used by the smaller countries with touted, socialized healthcare systems. And while some of them work better in small scale countries, they are far from perfect (and note how much worse they get with larger countries, like England).

Yes and how much of the drugs we create are the result of publically funded research at some point in that pipeline? As well you're basically proposing a system where individuals in my country get gouged so that the rest of the world can get cool stuff for free. You argue against providing people healthcare through the Medi- programs but are find giving the whole world new drugs? Seems sorta like a welfare program to me.

>However, even if we all got free lunch in your socialist utopia

Universal healthcare isn't socialism and nobody thinks it's free. (Although it would be cheaper)

>people still die in their seventies and their health-span is typically a fair bit shorter than that, becoming dependent on universal drugs (Medicare) for the last decade of their lives. Why not aim for the best solution? Medicine has a long way to go, and a freer market is the most powerful force to advance it.

Have you looked at the healthcare stats in countries with universal healthcare programs? Now look at the US. You're just repeating blatant falsehoods. Unplug from Mises.org man.
It's really quite a nice config language -- I much prefer HCL to any of the alternatives. Has comments (unlike JSON), is properly nestable (unlike TOML), is extremely human readable and not too verbose, has a built-in pretty printer, etc.

I wasn't ever really a huge YAML fan. It's way too ambiguous and sensitive to whitespace. One erroneous space is way more likely to mess up your YAML file than your HCL file.

It's not perfect, but I actually would like to see MORE systems using HCL, not fewer.
It was a safe violation of grammar rules. Don't be so principled.
They discuss that both in the passive and active sense. I'd say that only the active sense appears to be similar to a false flag operation. From the article:

Fourth-party collection
– As described previously,
fourth-party collection involves interception of a foreign
intelligence service’s ‘computer network exploitation’
(CNE) activity in a variety of possible configurations.
Given the nature of Agency-A as a cyber-capable
SIGINT entity, two modes of fourth-party collection are
available to it: passive and active. The former will take
advantage of its existing visibility into data in transit
either between hop points in the adversary’s
infrastructure or perhaps in transit from the victim to the
command-and-control servers themselves (whichever
opportunity permits). On the other hand, active means
involve the leveraging of diverse CNE capabilities to
collect, replace, or disrupt the adversary’s campaign.
Both present challenges which we will explore in
extensive detail further below.
No the OP, but I used do the same thing.

I shifted my hand to the right so that my middle finger is on D, my ring finger moved forward and back (WS), and pinky for A.

That evolved from gaming on a laptop where I'd just rock my index finger back to hit C or shift my thumb forward and rock back on the space bar to jump. I got disturbingly good at Q3Arena on a Powerbook G3, yes, using the track pad. It inspired some bad ergonomic habits. haha

Now I just use Ctrl.
...and of course Sussman and Steele did a lot of work together (including, most notably, the Ultimate papers).
I think a systemic misconception in this thread is that we're teaching crows anything other than how to get food from a device we designed.

They are not rational actors in this situation. They are never on the same playing field as we are. We would be taking advantage of their limited intelligence to do our bidding.
Yup, it's the expected outcome. Some of the models predict what I'm seeing with the lack of extremes in the summer, as well.

I'm not a climate scientist and only got into it to win an Internet Argument. It was very important, at the time. ;-)

Basically, I'd worked with modeling large data sets in a chaotic system (traffic) and knew that 'adjusting the data' was legitimate. This was when people were complaining about the scientists changing the data they used in their models.

So, I started poking. I spent about two years poking at it. I also learned that the rumors seemed to be untrue. I was able to email and get unadjusted data - even without credentials. I say 'seemed' because this was after the email disclosures.

If you just want a copy of a paper and you don't feel like paying for it or hitting up your local university library, you can even just email one of the authors. I did that a couple of times and have had nothing but cooperation.
There are two ways of doing production: large batches, like you describe, and TPS. It is counterintuitive but TPS makes small batch production more efficient and more cost effective than large batches because it looks at the production system as a whole. You may want to read up on it - Check out The Machine That Changed the World.
> on OverStock.com at ~ $1,100 , they have good prices right? I shopped around, found the same couch from a local company online (LA area) for $399 shipped

Overstock.com, like Amazon.com (and Walmart.com), is mainly a marketplace these days, with the overwhelming majority of products sold by 3rd party vendors. You will see a wide range of products, and pricing, as you noticed here.

Always shop around. Don't assume that just because its on Amazon|Overstock|Walmart|whatever, that it must be a good deal.
How can you even say that with a straight face? None of {Muni bus, Muni rail, BART, Cal Train, AC Transit} coordinate transfers with each other. Unless you have that, you can't say the systems are "integrated" by any means.

Edit: by "don't coordinate," I mean there are no timed transfers between systems.
It is very easy to cause a tail strike. The article provides multiple examples of how this can and does happen.
You can't and without specialized experience you probably wouldn't know what to look for anyway. This is why we have regulatory structures in place to ensure airworthiness.
It makes it impossible for the system to reason about the outputs though (due to the halting problem and a lot of other practical issues). Therefore a Vagrant setup just "does its best" to execute the given prescription to set a machine up, whereas something like Terraform will actually intelligently figure out if work needs to be done.
Retail collapses, unemployment in the US and Canada hits all-time low
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Depends what you mean by "out of tune". How good a chord sounds is determined by the ratio of frequencies, not if all the notes fit 'perfectly' in some scale. In fact you can't even create a scale where all chords are perfectly in tune.
I have something interesting about USB input latency to share.

In 2014 I built a new computer with a i5-4590 CPU, ASUS Z97-A motherboard and 8GB of Kingston DDR3-1866 memory.

One thing I instantly noticed was that my mouse (Logitech G400) would feel "delayed" compared to my older computer from 2010 (i3-550, Intel DH55HC motherboard). I could have the same OS (tested Win7 and Ubuntu), GPU and monitor between both computers and switch, and the difference was that obvious.

Another problem I had was DPC latency under Windows with driver: "usbport.sys". USB audio would drop out in correlation with DPC latency spikes and I believe it was related to the mouse latency. Under Ubuntu I had the same problem and logged a dmesg message that said "retire_capture_urb: x callbacks suppressed", with the same symptoms.

I got so frustrated I stopped using the new desktop and went back to my old desktop and a new laptop for about 2 years, after wasting my time running Prime95, MemTest86 for over 24 hours, and swapping the motherboard with another model that let me disable HPET (Supermicro C7Z87-O)

In the end, last year I decided to work on it again and swap the memory with some Corsair 2X4GB DDR3-1333 memory and just like that, the DPC lag spikes were gone, USB audio didn't drop out and my mouse stopped lagging.
Ah. That's why it's not ethical to train a crow to do this, but it is ethical to pay a person to do this.

(Yes? I was genuinely wondering about this)
Normal pilot training does not involve testing aircraft limits. Stall training happens in a plane with a known stall speed and behavior. The quote is about finding that limit for the first time.
Is the Japanese concept of Ikagi the secret to a long life
> To be fair, replacing a series of ALU ops with a lookup table doesn't usually add a "data dependency"

If it's not vectorizable, LUT result is often used for indirect jump/call (like large switch statement) or memory access (say, a histogram etc.).

> What adding a lookup table can do is to add the load-latency to the dependency chain involving the calculation, which seems to be what you are talking about here.

Yeah, used a bit sloppy terminology. Loads can affect performance system wide. To be a win, LUT function needs to be something pretty heavy, while LUT itself needs to be small (at least <16 kB, preferably <1 kB).

> If the method is really hot, e.g., in a tight(ish) loop, then you are mostly going to be getting L1 hits.

That really depends. It's generally good to keep L1 footprint small. There are just 512 of 64-byte L1 cache lines. Hyperthread shares L1 as well. There can be other hot loops nearby that could also benefit from hot L1. It's very easy to start to spill to L2 (and further). Microbenchmarks often miss "system" level issues.

> The comparison with 384 FOPs seems a bit off

384 was for the extreme vectorization case, 12 x 2 x 8 FMACs (AVX). Most vendors count FMACs nowadays as two FOPs...

> If it's vectorization, then the whole equation changes

Well, isn't that where the performance wins are and what you need to do to extract maximum performance from that hot loop? A good truly parallel vector gather implementation could make (small) LUTs very interesting performance wise.
The level of detail and linearity is impressive.

At this scale, it seems like it may be warranted to start using reliability testing in production in like with Netflix.

At the end I see mention of a library with flaws. I am curious as to which library that is, given I develop some projects in Elixir.
> I wonder if what is needed is a kind of "side program" that one could use to annotate the main program in very precise ways and ask questions of its execution, or to produce maps or timelines of aspects of its behavior. But not via interactions with a GUI, although those are useful too, but as actual code that lives alongside the real code, using the same language. Something a bit like a souped-up, visual dtrace, perhaps. I don't know what is already out there like that, but I would love to see work in that direction.

This is a great idea. I find it ironic that so much of programming consists of 'simulating the computer' in one's head while sitting in front of a computer.

I would love to be able to visualize many things that a compiler does internally, for instance, to see how generic code looks when specialized in a certain context.
Scrape the burning cherry off or mash it into the concrete. It's cool enough to touch almost immediately, so it's certainly not going to be setting bins on fire.
> tenure voting would surely be based on the tenure of the beneficial owner

This only works if the intermediate holder of the stocks is coordinating with the exchange and/or company. The problem is that there is a financial incentive for someone else who is not working with them to buy up the stock, immediately resell it with the normal guarantees (that they will pass on dividends, allow voting by proxy etc.), but not pass on such re-sell information to the exchange/company.

Does the exchange/company have some sort of a right to prevent resale unless tenure information is tracked? Naively Id guess that they can't, or otherwise they's try to prevent stuff like short-selling too.
This is a strange assertion--you run the DSL to generate, at runtime, a data model that can then be checked. Hell, I wrote a Terraform competitor that was certainly no worse at planning than Terraform is. (Still not great, because the problem is a hard one, but.)

And doing so gives you such niceties as if-statements and loops (I mean, have you seen the straight nonsense people have to pull to make a simple 'if' in HCL?) as well as a seamless way to introduce external data sources. This is why Chef remains the only part of my workflow that has not changed over the last five years (and why first Puppet and, eventually, Ansible will fall by the wayside): because, as a programming language and set of libraries, I can bring it with me by extending it at the user level without having to extend the runtime to do something. Patching the runtime means I need CM for my CM; doing it at the user level means it goes with me and plays with the base tools.
Not Bay Area, but I'm also interested. Where/how do you start looking?
Wouldn't you being the only player increase the chances of shooting yourself?
The TTC is going to be a glorified mall.
I never said there weren't. I specifically worded my comment to suggest that the benefits might outweigh the harm.
So smush it properly with your shoe and then put it in your pocket until you get home or find a worthy receptacle. If I have a granola bar wrapper in my hand and there's no trash cans nearby, I don't throw it on the ground; I hold it in my hand/pocket/bag until I can dispose of it. Cigarette filters are not a special case in this thinking.
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The whole "Could it happen"? section is a bit strange. On the one hand, it
focuses on CNNs when it's clear we're talking about a binary classifier (the
article itself points that out). If Fredkin was really the originator of the
story, then discussing CNNs is an anachronism (they were 30 years away at the
time).

More importantly, it's obvious that "it" could definitely happen and in fact
happens a lot- "it" being overfitting to examples. Machine learning classifiers
suffer from this a lot, it's the whole bias/variance tradeoff issue. Neural Nets
are not only not immune to overfitting, they are even particularly vulnerable to
it (especially the ones with millions of parameters). We've probably all read
the adversarial examples papers- a clear case of overfitting to irrelevant
details ("noise").

The story (apocryphal or not) seems like a cautionary tale against overfitting,
or a not-so-innocent attempt to poke fun at machine learning researchers. One
way or another, overfitting is no joke and it's definitely no urban legend.
Ikagi balances the answers to four questions:

What do you love?

What are you good at?

What does the world need from you?

What can you get paid for?
if you're not keeping score you're only practicing

So the main point why postgres is better is that they don't use a bug-tracking system? Definitely that makes any qualified comparison impossible of such claims as the better "time to fix" or bug responsiveness. IMHO this post is trying to sell a weakness as a strength.
That casts a very different light on the situation. Thank you for providing the additional context.
The one genre I can think of where perfect tuning is essential is barbershop music. The defining feature of the genre is chords sung with just intonation and no vibrato, which makes it easy to hear if any of the singers are out of tune. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbershop_music#Ringing_chord...
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The presence of a stop sign is usually the result of a determination based on either engineering principles or (often fatal) experience that the intersection does not provide adequate conditions to be safely rolled, whereas if no such determination were made, either an uncontrolled intersection or Yield would be present instead.

It's true that a self-driving car will likely not be designed to substitute it's judgement for those of the authorities placing signage, though I'm not convinced that this is a bad thing for safety, or that the predilection of some human drivers to disregard such signage is a good, or even harmless, thing.
If you mean clone the features over to Facebook.... It's because Facebook is unpopular with teens. That's a demographic Facebook has increasingly lost as it pertains to usage (they still sign-up, because of the vague pressure that everyone must have an account). If it weren't for Instagram, they'd be in deep shit with people under ~25 and very susceptible to being replaced or having their monopoly fractured (the 16-25 group would seed competitors, one of which would eventually kill Facebook starting from that base and progressing up).
How much of your sales are "walk-in" from the app store versus buzz/referrals from your (not small) network?
When I used to play Stepmania and DDR a bunch that was entirely what ended up happening. You started processing chunks of the arrows, and mapping them to various foot/finger movements. At a certain point though people just straight up memorize the whole song though.
A lot of high school WiFi networks have blacklists for social media sites. Many kids use VPNs to get around it.
Snuckls
That's tangential though. Whether or not you have skipped frames, G-Sync/FreeSync tend to reduce input lag, because the panel's refresh events will be timed such that they're closer, on average, to the times when new frames become available.
I'm unaware of any pro gamer (or streamer) that's using PS/2, and that's about as serious a gamer as you get. Most are using a late model mechanical keyboard connected via USB, often with lots of RGB just because.

I think the only PS/2 holdouts you'll find are the old Korean Starcraft players that are still using a Qsenn DT-35.
Since it's come up in the comments and it's one of my pet peeves: there's some incredible confirmation bias around claims of personally observing climate change. Historical temperature fluctuations are huge, so no, you are almost certainly not "observing" climate change in your hometown. Human-caused climate change is expected to cause steady changes in the average, almost invisible in short time periods compared to the wild fluctuations that would anyway occur year to year, decade to decade, in any area.

Climate change has now become a religion though, so I'm not surprised that the faithful are having the equivalent of apparitions. (This doesn't mean it's not real, just that it's a point of political dogma for some, which I think is unfortunate because it only makes doubters more skeptical by foreclosing opportunities for persuasion.)
It is certainly possible - Tascam has been selling a live effects processor based on the autotune algorithm since 2011.
For me it's the ease of use. One simple go binary, all the features you need (yet manages to feel lightweight), well documented and rock solid.
Maine, here. I'm not far from Mt. Washington, as the crow flies.

I was first here in the 1970s and the records confirm my recollection of cold snaps where it would go below 0 deg f and not come back above 0 for 5 to 7 days.

I've not had any stretch longer than 72 hours where the temperature didn't go above 0, in the past nine years.

At the same time, there have been some very, very cold days. My car wasn't in the garage the night we hit -48 and rear view mirror cracked. I can only guess that it was due to the cold.

I don't have very accurate wind speeds. However, I have near constant wind and the windy storms seem more frequent. Mother Nature has a fondness for taking my weather stations away from me. (Mt. Washington holds the land wind speed record of 231 MPH, I get some serious wind here but not that bad.) Even when hooked to a pole embedded in concrete, Mother Nature loves taking my stuff.

As for the politics, I do what I can as an individual. I offer no opinion on Trump.
Interestingly, one of the comments mentions the tank story as an example of the same issue:

Rainer Kordmaa • 6 months ago

Kinda reminds me a story of how a neural network was
trained by military to detect camouflaged tanks on
terrain, except pictures with tanks were taken on a nice
sunny day and pictures without on a cloudy day and instead
of a tank detector they ended up with a sunny day detector
Are any Nitrokey products affected?