skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I’m struggling to see the problem in this. Unless you’re genetically predisposed to being overweight, it is caused by diet and lifestyle. We know this. We have all known this for a long time. If you are actively choosing to avoid changing your diet and lifestyle, and the COST of your decision will eventually become something your employer and your fellow citizens must pay, to the point that it will lead to significant strain on finances, why should they support and embrace your behavior? Should we also fake sympathy for smokers?

This isn’t a race or gender issue. This is a lifestyle issue. I know my opinion is politically incorrect, but this is what a lot of us are actually thinking. Even if we openly say the opposite.
I have the sinking feeling we'll be teaching space marksmanship to our next batch of astronauts.
1) That's false. AlphaGo did not just train by self-play. It trained on millions of pre-played games, and the bot also uses hand-engineered features for their MCTS hybrid (best) model. Refer to their paper for details.

2) Read the article that you are referencing please. What you are implying is not the thesis of that article nor is it what Geoffrey Hinton is saying.

What Hinton is saying is, we should throw out deep learning. What he is saying is that the current approaches to AI are fundamentally broken and aren't going to result in artificial general intelligence.

Backpropagation is not just used in supervised learning, it is also used in unsupervised learning. I happen to agree with Hinton, in that there is too much hype around the current state and successes of AI, which has mainly been in "narrow AI".

AI is a term that gets thrown around a lot these days. But there is a big difference between technology that automates the tedious tasks of daily life, and artificial general intelligence.

In the world of deep learning, data is king.
I wonder if we will finally go back to hardware design principles that prioritizes functionality over look.

As soon as we go back to renting our equipment from the telcos, we will get ugly handsets that last forever.

Cars, a complex machines that can easily hurt others, traditionally have controls designed in such a way that you can enter a car model that is totally new to you and comfortably operate it within minutes

You mean after you’ve received mandatory training and has been certified to operate them?
Water is just hydrogen plus oxygen. Both are fairly common elements in the universe.
Watch Newegg deals. I'm pretty sure I've got some <$50 120GB SanDisk SSDs there.
> You can say that about any pair of companies where one has a shipping product and the other does not

Not necessarily. Rabbits move fast and break things; tortoises plod along deliberately and slowly. This applies to Blue Origin because they’re being deliberately slow and thoughtful, versus lazy or incompetent. Theranos or Magic Leap, for instance, are not tortoises.
The big bang?
Dennis hope [0]

I do recall buying an acre as a fun present back in the day..

0: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2654045/Id-buy-moon-...

1st google hit, but seems fittingly trash..
But doesn’t that defeat the purpose of captcha? Ie, you verify someone isn’t a bot?
> Its executives have floated the idea of taking some struggling city – Detroit? – and reinventing it around Alphabet services, with no annoying regulations blocking this march of progress.

This is pretty much exactly the plot of Robocop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop
No one does according to the Outer Space Treaty. No one can according to the Moon Treaty. (Thankfully the major powers didn’t ratify that one.) In practice, common law has ruled that physical possession constitutes ownership with the precedent of the Apollo artifacts and Lunakhod rover.
I may have stated my point poorly. I agree that the caution is wise... but I guess I'm too hopeful that progress would be faster.

Look we went from not having the technology of flight to landing on the freaking moon within 60 years.

Why would we have stopped that rate of progress?
You were swindled.
Sure, but I didn't apply any specific code optimization or third party tool here.
Germany is also an issue. At a previous job, we completely moved all development work from Munich to Dublin because the added headaches caused by hiring/firing in Germany were enormous.
Clever question, but it's comets all the way down, I'm afraid.
"640K ought to be enough for anyone" - Bill Gates, ~1985
I highly recommend "Moonwalking with Einstein" to anyone curious about what our memories can do and how we can make better use of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonwalking_with_Einstein

The author won the US Memory Championship after just a single year of learning and practicing mnemonic techniques.
Why do so many programming languages get really basic things wrong
Why do so many programming languages get really basic things wrong (scoping, define<>set, …)? by Tikhon Jelvis https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-programming-languages-get-really-basic-things-wrong-scoping-define-set-%E2%80%A6/answer/Tikhon-Jelvis?share=92f6b7b4&srid=J2xJ
If you just think about it in terms of real estate values, Earth has all these great amenities that Mars doesn't (and won't for a long time, if ever).

* Breathable atmosphere

* Full gravity

* Low radiation

* Decent temperatures

In a world of "location, location, location," Mars is going to be cheap beyond imagination. Perhaps it will be where all the poor people end up, after they're gentrified off Earth.
US warns of ongoing attacks on energy firms and critical infrastructure
The reference to the caves protecting from storms is to the preceding sentence in the paragraph that mentions lunar tunnels giving protection from meteors and radiation.
It does matter if you are: making pennies (Bitcoin on commodity machines is this way), are turning away users, or are using it instead of advertising.

There's also the bit about stability, you might have a business model that's profitable one month or worthless the next. Who wants that risk?
Can you name any aluminum-bodied car that doesn't lock down authorized body shops?
SRS is not really an alternate, SRS is a scheduling of study. You still use your mnemonic devices and attempt assimilation, or even memorize by rote. But SRS spaces out the practice of these things to try to attain optimal recall.

If you are using rote, like studying a language's vocabulary, you may have 1000 vocabulary cards that you study over a few weeks or months. SRS will have you practice reviews based on your ability to answer the cards. If I see "cabeza" and think "cabbage", clearly I don't know the word and I mark it as bad. I'll review it the next day. If I get it correct ("head") then the next review will be, approximately, double the time between the previous two reviews (rough progression then of 1 day, 2 days, 4 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, 2 months, 4 months, ...).

If I'm trying to study by assimilation (true comprehension), the cards may be more complex or harder. Translate a full sentence (from or to Spanish). Practice a math problem (some tools in Anki let these be generated automatically so you practice the techniques and don't just memorize some answers). It may even be a prompt rather than an explicit Q&A card.

If I'm using a mnemonic device ("The Cab in New Mexico Is Land Cruiser" for the tarsal bones), I may have a card that has "tarsal bones" and on the back has the mnemonic. I may have the mnemonic and the question "T?". I may have the full list of the mnemonic and the bones on the card with parts covered over. It's still using a mnemonic, but, back to SRS, SRS just schedules my practice of it based on my ability to recall in the review session.
China Bans Foreign Waste – What Will Happen to the World's Recycling?
It's an interesting idea but I don't trust that websites will use "a little bit of my CPU" to mine cryptocurrencies. All they have to do is increase a number somewhere to earn more money which is too tempting.

If people complain they'll just do it very slowly.
And memory used will be hopefully quite lower with value types, coming sometime in the future:

http://www.jesperdj.com/2015/10/04/project-valhalla-value-ty...
Streaming operations on NumPy arrays
You mean all that slow down when I visit Mashable isn't from generating crypto coins?
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I have the same concern. I assume right now there must be other similarly awesome communities that I just don't know about.
I find it interesting that you took time to mention the possibility of people being "predisposed to being overweight" yet proceeded to make no other affordance for that possibility in your comment.

Is it not possible that most people who are overweight are so predisposed? This would make it not a "lifestyle issue".

In fact, given all the societal and health problems associated with being overweight, I find it hard to assume that many people would be "actively choosing" that path.

And yes, many of us who dislike smoking do feel sympathy for smokers. Nicotine is addictive. This is why we spend money on public health programs to help people quit. Same with other kinds of drug addicts.
Ok, I've added Pharo to the article.
>It's just wasted cycles because of the economics of the damn thing.

I think a lot of people miss that mining is zero sum when over the threshold that the network needs.

For example if mining hardware costs dropped by one half, people catch up and mine with twice as much computing power, the network increases the difficulty of mining by two, and the same amount of bitcoin is distributed and secured as was before the hardware innovation. You aren't mining more 'efficiently' with advances in computing power at the large scale.
SoftBank Plans a New $200B Fund
However spacex could easily survive off 3% profit for now, as long as they still keep collecting all their used rockets. I only remember them launching one used rocket so far which was successful, and presumably they'll work out any remaining glitches and start using the others.
While everyone is excited about how this helps desktop app development, this is also going to simplify server deploys. If you've got a full java stack, you won't need to do anything to provision a server.
I hope you tore them a new one and let them know the err of their ways since you clearly are experienced.
You can use electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, aka, fuel. Finding an underground ice lake would provide lots of fuel, and save on lifting the heaviest, most important substance for manned exploration from earth.
I'm just going by the definition of democracy that you can find in a dictionary. The modern usage of the word has little to do with the ancient Athenian system of government (which also excluded large swathes of the population).
LedgerX clears $1mm worth of Bitcoin options and swaps in first week
You wrote "then have that checked on the function before the program ever runs". That is the definition of static checking.

To statically check constraints like "all integers between 5 and 50", you need dependent types, and Clojure doesn't support this.

Considering this, I'm not sure what you mean by "before the program ever runs". Do you mean a check thanks to automated property-based testing (which is a way of running a part of your program)?
I figured that's what you meant :)

I apologize if I came off as dismissive or disdainful; I was in a sort-of playful mood when I wrote that, but moods don't usually survive internet transmission!

It's a neat project. I myself don't have much use for a site generator of any sort, but I am interested in Rust (though I haven't had much opportunity to use it in the last year or so). I wonder: how are you liking Rust as a language? as an ecosystem? For a project like this, what advantages has Rust afforded? what disadvantages?
Can you cite any experiment that can distinguish volitional choice from non-volitional choice (whatever that means)?

In the absence of such experiment, both options are purely speculative (by definition).

BTW, is your statement above a result of volitional choice, or non-volitional choice? How do you know? :)
I believe the unprofitability is such that it can't even pay the expenses of serving the pages. Even if it could though, why would you opt for something that barely allows you to survive, rather than make a killing for all the value you are clearly providing?
So did Volvo for decades. You didn’t need magic Volvo insurance.

When you have a highly competitive market, and most participants decide to make an identical business decision that isn’t in their competitive interest (ie charge a high margin for a commodity), that’s generally accepted as evidence of collusion.
The GP is postulating problems colonists will still have on Mars in the year 4000.

Your comment is entirely irrelevant to that discussion. By that time Mars could have been fully terraformed, but the speed of light won't have changed, nor presumably will planetary orbits.
Workplace harassment. Environment there it is ok. It is not the issue of being introverted.
Progaurd is default on Android and some other environments, it's not anything exotic.
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Sensationalist headline. Key quote "Probably 85 per cent of people out there don’t have bad intentions, but the problem is, if five or 10 per cent are trying to scam you, it’s a fking disaster."

Even then he is being conservative. The scams are pretty easy to spot...
The article uses local market prices for food, but in very poor countries, most people are subsistence farmers and grow what they eat.

Also, yes, in South Sudan people are currently dying in masse, there's a vicious civil war in progress.
plenty of previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14893242
I've never had a car policy that covers the replacement value of the car. Instead, it covers the value of the car. Big difference.
https://cosmologyandspace.wordpress.com/tag/oxygen/

answers your question.

If you are trying to go back to "why is there anything?", then the answer is "we don't know precisely, but we do know that if those things hadn't happened, we wouldn't be asking the question, so so we have no basis of knowing whether it's random, rare, or a near-certainty for a new universe."
Both of which are now optional features in C11.
Meta DNS prefetch tags allow this.
But that 200KB isn't a standalone executable. The Go example would be a lot smaller if it just distributed some unlinked object code with no runtime.
Depends on the traffic of the website and how long the visitors stay on it.

According to coinwarz you can make $5.1 for 24 hours of mining on CPU/GPU, but realistically (for an average visitor) probably closer to $1/24hrs. If we take Reddit, which has 13 minutes average visit, probably between 5M and 50M daily visits.

That's $45K - $451K daily revenue.

That's probably more than their ad revenue.

https://expandedramblings.com/index.php/reddit-stats/
Dragonfly 2.0: the sophisticated attack group is back with destructive purposes
Yes, you’re right, it’s pretty difficult to develop a politics around this subject that isn’t awash in contradictions. But that’s because if you really drive down into what it is that people want, you’ll find that they want the impossible. They want to live in a quiet low-density neighborhood directly adjacent to a big, interesting, dynamic metropolis that never encroaches on their space. It’s not clear how an entire population who says they want that could ever actually get that.

I know what I sound like when I get deep enough into a rant about the way in which Americans fetishize local control. But I still think that what I am proposing would generate the best outcomes for the most number of people.
Under what circumstances does one need to have in order to make them combine into water, organically? (Meaning without any device or machine, assume you have two big clouds of each element floating in space - if they collide, do the naturally just form into water molecules?)
Some of those giant earth-movers, like the tracked mining equipment that fills a giant mining-sized dump truck, are already powered by electricity that is generated on-site. They have big giant cables that trail behind them.

I mention this just to share that there is some chance of this improving, even in areas we might not think likely. If it is a long-term mining operation (short-term someday, perhaps) then I can't think of a technical reason that prevents wind and solar being used to generate the on-site electricity.

A recent HN article was about one of the mining dump trucks being powered by battery and using regenerative braking to mean it was able to charge itself. Those giant diggers are already using braking in their cables that power their shovels. Maybe there is something to capture there, as well.

In my work, I had the chance to deal with some riggers and some crane operators (smaller stuff) by just exposure while collecting data. During that exposure, I learned something new. Lifting the stuff up is actually pretty easy. It is putting it down that is difficult. Maybe there is some energy to capture in that process?
Tesla employees allege firings were not performance related
I think what terrifys us are monkey reflexes from dangerous animals.
Spiders can be poisonous.
I guess not being afraid of spiders is the actual defect, heavily trained in at youth.

To be honest, i find cellaphods really freaky. A octopus for example- is the perfect creature for space exploration. If it weren't for us, they would inherit the earth.
Water is formed naturally when the oxygen created by the fusion process in stars combines with the hydrogen from those same stars, often after a supernova explosion.

Water is fairly abundant in the universe. As are alcohols.
Monero's PoW relies on native AES instructions to be efficient on PCs with recent Intel/AMD CPUs, but remains very inefficient on mobile and older desktop CPUs.
I'm sure they meant Coinhive, not Coinbase.
Nobody would mine bitcoin in the browser in their right mind, it's a waste of resources. You would choose one of the coins made specifically for CPU/GPU mining only, no ASICs.
Stars produce oxygen (along with all elements up to iron) during nuclear fusion. If the star is big (several times bigger than our sun), it eventually explodes and the oxygen then winds up in interstellar gas and dust. The oxygen reacts with hydrogen to make water. Eventually you wind up with a lot of dirty snowballs floating around (comets).

Oxygen is pretty common and hydrogen is everywhere, so water (as ice) is not scarce in the universe. The only place where water is uncommon is near a star, like us, where the water boils off into space unless a planet has enough gravity to hold it in.
It's a public and personal health issue.
"Let's dig a tunnel to the centre of the moon!"
"You can't dig a tunnel to the centre of the moon, Blode!"
"Yes I can! It will be a special tunnel, and it will go to the centre of the moon!"

Anyone else remember that?
This is the correct answer. These lava tubes are, at their youngest, a couple billion years old. Since then, the moon has been thwacked very hard and -- on those timescales -- often. If the tubes haven't collapsed yet, then there's a high likelihood that they're exceptionally stable.
They randomly form and are destroyed over time due to collisions at various energies. It's also more common for ions to form in space which makes such simple chemical reactions easier.
I always figured we should put advertising on the currency of exchange... seriously, just put what ever picture you want on an individual dollar bill (or a $10/$20/$50/$100) for a price you pay to the Treasury for printing it in volume. Different markets for different denominations and you could actually even target specific areas based on the Atlanta vs Frisco printing locations. The price of ads on a dollar bill could easily exceed the value of the currency itself, because of the multiple transactions (even if it's only in circulation for 21 months!) People would even buy them as collectors taking the rare ones out of circulation.

Now, of course you could put advertising on your dynamic (image updating) credit card so as you pull it out at the grocery store it reminds to get more SnackyPoofs for your lovely little Cartman at home. Or perhaps we'll be putting advertising on the blockchain so that they will mine, and we can get transaction costs down!
Anyone know how the specific impulse compares to other engines? I guess the fuel is similar to spacex--better than anything other then hydrogen.
The moon's core isn't made of the swirling molten iron dynamo like Earth's is. No swirling molten iron, no magnetic field. No magnetic field, nothing deflects the solar wind that then, literally, blows away any fledgling atmosphere.

It's believed that Mars' atmosphere was considerably more dense than it is today, but along the way, its core cooled, and it lost its protective magnetic shield, allowing the solar wind to strip away much of its atmosphere.
I think you have that backwards? Taking off from Mars is significantly easier than earth because of lower gravity and a less-dense atmosphere.
How is it possible for BO to spend most of their time producing and selling when they don't have a shipping product? How is it possible for SpaceX to spend most of their time designing and testing when they have a shipping product with a lot of market share?

To put it another way, there's nothing in the "most of their time" comparison that you can use to classify either company as a tortoise or a hare: they're just companies at different stages of the company lifecycle.
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> Where did the comets get the water they impacted on earth?

Hydrogen comes from primordial nucleosynthesis [1] and makes up most of the interstellar medium [2]. Oxygen is produced when neutron stars collide and stars explode [3] as well as when some stars burn [4]. These freely combined in the gas disk from which our solar system formed, condensing into planets, moons, comets and other things [5].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_nucleosynthesis

[2] http://casswww.ucsd.edu/archive/public/tutorial/ISM.html

[3] https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/heavy-elements-forged-by...

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen-burning_process

[5] https://www.lpi.usra.edu/books/MESSII/9028.pdf
I've stumbled onto Envy earlier and I agree with you, there's not much out there about it except people talking about how much they love it[0].

I found this book[1] on Amazon in case you or anyone else is interested.

[0]: https://paulhammant.com/2017/09/01/smalltalk-envy/

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521666503
I am not a Rust fan nor user, but I must heartily applaud the sign that the times are changing -- for that we will finally free ourselves from being forced to have only one choice (Javascript) for delivering frontend code at the browser.

Looking forward to many interesting stuff done by leveraging Webassembly to the max!