skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he's overstating Marvel/DC's cultural significance. The new generation of viewers have a very different moral sensibility. The evil is much more shockingly evil, but the good is less cartoonish and more relatable, and therefore more vulnerable.

I just finished watching the new Stranger Things season. One of the things I love about that show is that it juxtaposes the 1980s kids' sci-fi genre with a storyline that would have been totally intolerable to the consumers of that genre back then. The tone that results is kind of this weird combination of nostalgia and tragedy.
The worst possible application
Its only useful to train if they also have the transcript by a human. Eavesdropping conversations and having armies of people transcribing them seems like a very expensive and illegal way to get that data when there are probably millions of available samples, TV shows, etc that have both voice and transcription available already off the shelf.
This is exactly why I standardised on TypeScript.

Their isn't actually much of an abstraction in one direction, valid ES6 is valid TS and the types are inter-operable.

Throw in better typing, proper classes, down compiling of async/await to ES3/ES5 (still magic to me) and the ability to progressively port from one to the other (and you can even get a lot of the TS benefits just by annotating your existing JS as a good first step to moving to TS) and for me it was a no-brainer.

I don't think TS is a pretty language but it's a fantastic approach to getting from shitty-A to less shitty-B.

Pragmatism wins for me as much as I'd love to just write everything client side in something else.
> I guess it's unfortunately only a question of time until it's [BIOS is] removed from PC firmwares

As far as the bit I know, Legacy Boot, an option on (most/all) current PCs that simulates BIOS and which many people confuse with disabling UEFI, is actually a mode of UEFI. For more detail, look up Compatibility Support Module, and the difference between Class 2 and Class 3 UEFI.
A large part of it is that a student loan servicing company can be more profitable if they drive students into certain programs for doing deferrals and switching plans. These programs are clearly in the benefit of the servicer, to the detriment of the borrower, and CS reps have targets around it.

If the system was fully automated, how could you ensure it yielded the maximum profit? People could just figure out the best way to repay their loan without your 'sales funnel' pushing them in the direction you want to go.
Traditionally, in cases where it matters it is common to return two values, e.g.

(values value present-p)

For example, `get-hash`: http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_gethas.htm
Whose “we” friend?

If you think it’s ok that someone who has never lived in a country can be taxed as a citizen against their will by that country, then you can’t believe in any individual rights.
I have a Type 85 license in CA. Shoot me an email if I can help.
I can't speak for other companies, but when I used express, I was in what was really a non developer role and used VS express to write some internal tools. That and other software I wrote allowed me to move into a developer role and we have since happily purchased pro licenses. I probably would have used an alternative to C#/WPF if express hadn't been available at the time.

We have less than 5 devs but failed one of the criteria listed here: https://www.visualstudio.com/license-terms/mlt553321/
I'm so glad my phone doesn't allow apps to do that.
I agree with your points. Our modern society is so complex that for a lot of people it is easier to use escapism as a form of relief.

While I agree that all people should be learning and growing I would have to argue that if someone is truly motivated by hiding away I say let them.

The people who do this do not have the capacity to expose themselves to reality IMO. Being forced to do it is just like when you were forced to do something you didn't want to as a child (fitting that we're talking about super heroes).

Later on they might look up and decide to change. I know I did. Until then you just have to let them make their own decisions.
Linking to the discussion that just jumped off the front page for my own benefit when I get back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15580281
So... Why should we care?

If I had to give my father some reasons why this should concern him, I'd come up blank. Maybe you can fill in a few.
> Most regular BIOSes ...

Can you still buy machines with non-UEFI BIOS from mainstream manufacturers?
I think you're arguing at cross-purposes, slightly.

RcouF1uZ4gsC said torture works in cases where you want to extract information that you can immediately verify, like a password. This seems... plausible, insofar as you can know whether you have obtained true information.

Your arguments seem more focused on complex intelligence. If you want to know things like "what's a list of people involved in terrorist-organization-X?" then that's a lot harder to verify immediately, so lying to make the torture stop becomes far more viable as a counter-tactic.

I would imagine that the latter case represents far more actual interrogation scenarios. The contrived "I want to know X and immediately verify it" is a very unlikely 24-ish scenario... but it's also the one where the moral argument against it is the better one.
Or, you know, people could stand up for themselves and stop working on AI.
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I know there's alternative ROMs such as LineageOS, but I wish it was possible to install Android directly from Google. Like, you download an app from the Play Store, it scans your hardware and download a fresh Android build from Google compatible with your device and your done.

Not really doable, but I wish it was.
clearly you never had to reengineer some crappy code whilst making the current live system operate.

Docker nowadays at least for me is essential for encapsulating st
Truly confused here.

Can downvoters[1] explain why clarifying odiroot's question about humanrebar's[2] sentence "will go on at length about it [...] who don't have TVs" is not helpful to the discussion?

The "will go on at length about it" is about the _communication_, not the _non-ownership_ -- isn't that correct? Did I parse humanrebar incorrectly?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15579134

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15578959
For anyone interested, the iOS app is composed of about 18,000 classes. Here is the dump:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/quellish/473f513fbd131023...
We moved our infrastructure from scheduling containers with configuration management to scheduling containers with Nomad... and it is so much better.

We no longer have the concern of defining static ports for each app, configuring App A with the port for App B, autoscaling when traffic increases 3x as someone attempts a L7 DDOS... I could go on!
> it has been much too easy to hide away and watch these comic super-hero movies than endure what has been going on in the world.

The same could be said of literally any fantasy fiction. We love it precisely because it is an escape from reality.
It's complex but also nonsensical. Lots of young adults report scam jobs as reason why they don't work (not slacker kind of avoidance).

It's a bit a cancerous era IMO. Too many uncertainties, too many technical possibilities, not enough social tissue.
If they do listen and present you ads based on your conversation, can't you fool it (and test it) by talking about (let's say) buying new running shoes? Shouldn't you observe ads about running shoes?

Edit: added missing word
Most users don't care about reputation. Like most large tech companies, Facebook will be hurt when they miss a disruptive innovation or major social change.
Put a few people with the Facebook app and messenger in the room and talk about gold coins.
Yes, I'm sure. Look at the claim - it's specific to 2016.

Sterling was 1.3 to the euro just before the vote and is now 1.13

Because the BoE panicked and dropped rates even further, which always hurts the value of a currency. Regardless, my point was about the prediction I specifically named and more generally, the vast wrongness of the FT - a problem that has gone unanalysed and uncorrected, as far as I know.
Is your question why privacy is important, or are you thinking of something else?
> talk about how great the acting, story and everything else was, as if it was serious art that they had seen.

IMHO Luke Cage and Jessica Jones by Marvel on Netflix are very well done on every level and compare well to other high quality drama series.
That makes sense. So, given that this is data it's users have an obvious interest in keeping private, Facebook could at least inform of this. The only reason I could imagine they aren't doing this is that their voice recognition isn't used for any released products. I think that's a viable theory of what they would be doing with the voice data.

EDIT: User 'crucifiction' makes a good point about needing the transcript to use it for voice recognition. So, who knows.

It doesn't in any sense justify collecting data and being so elusive about their intent. We naturally have reason to get the impression that Facebook just wants the data, will try anything it can to keep collecting it until so much energy has been invested in the PR issues that the collection has an attributable effect on their market.

But maybe they are using the voice data to change the world for the better and bring people together yada yada! :)
Why do microwave foods spell out to remove the plastic inner wrapping before cooking? Because not everyone knows what you know.
If they listen and record conversations that include conference calls, there’s a high probability that’s an issue.
Most UEFI in the wild is based on Tianocore/EDK-II, which has about 1.5 million SLOC, plus about 400,000 source lines in header files. Some subset of this would actually be running on the device, but this doesn't include the drivers and the very base of the firmware. Let's say maybe two million SLOC is running on a typical UEFI firmware blob.

Linux also lacks the most basic level of the firmware (which is most likely handled Coreboot? I'm not fully clear on what NERF is overall). A much smaller proportion of Linux codebase would be running on a given device, as compared to the EDK-II, though. Who knows. /kernel and /arch/x86 together make about 440k SLOC.

Funnily enough, this is actually the second time a "Linux BIOS" has been tried. The first time was called LinuxBIOS (later renamed to Coreboot), and the idea was quite literally to put a kernel on ROM and have as little firmware as possible to get to a booted system.
I gave a talk at the Spark Summit Europe last week, where i went into detail on this server and how we can scale out deep learning training on Tensorflow with it and AllReduce (by Uber):
https://www.slideshare.net/secret/A7b9rAsLaipg6

TLDR; You can scale out distributed Tensorflow training to tens/hundreds of GPUs with AllReduce on machines like this one, not just on the DGX-1.
This article wonderfully communicates the same feelings I have after writing Rust, and having to write C/C++ for my day job. I regularly encounter situations where I could do it clearer, safer, or clearer and safer in Rust, but instead I just return a null pointer.
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>Then the bill of rights added a few civil liberties, i.e. rights the government specifically did not have. Theoretically this shouldn't make a difference, because anything not listed in the constitution was already unconstituional.

I don't think this is true even for the strictest originalist interpretation possible. Without the Bill of Rights, Congress and the President would have much more expansive power in their creation and especially enforcement of law.

The Constitution does not establish a process for the federal government to investigate, detain, try, and punish people for violating its laws, though it is clear that it must have those powers. The major function of the Bill of Rights is to draw lines around those powers, lines that perhaps existed in the common law, but that could have been altered by Act of Congress in the absence of a constitutional provision.

There are also parts of the Bill of Rights which do constraint Congress's enumerated powers. For example, even under a strict originalist interpretation, the Commerce Clause would allow Congress to take actions that abridge the freedom of speech, religion, and assembly. It could prohibit the publishing of certain newspapers across state lines, for instance. The First Amendment prevents that kind of thing.
You start by talking about Nvidia’s behavior but nowhere in the article is there any mention of that, so you’re leaving us to guess what you’re talking about.
I complete agree, and consider use of slogans like this a very large reason to avoid something.
There's a fair amount of DoD contract work being done all over the country.
> There's nothing special about the uniform distribution that makes it some kind of natural or default prior for a random variable on a bounded interval.

Okay... what's your basis for this? Uniform prior is how Bayesians do it, even in unbounded intervals. It's especially natural when you have a bounded interval.

Again, the whole point is that you are not making use of any other prior information except for the interval bounds.
The flywheels are interesting to me, especially for their use in vehicles. I wonder what the tests for catastrophic failure looked like though, especially since that Volvo engine spun theirs at 60,000rpm max. That is a lot of energy in a small package.
Half formed thought, but are today's superheroes last generation's Clint Eastwood/Steve McQueen/John Wayne?
In-app analytics for iOS apps: Architecture tips
Exactly. People underestimate the amount of data Facebook (and companies alike) can and do scoop up. I’ve seen countless stories supposedly proofing that they’re listening through the microphone. However, most of them can easily be explained away if you consider the vasts amount of data they collect.
I don't understand. How can you share photos online with "no cloud crap"? It's already pretty easy to set up your own private web server with photo gallery software, but very few users want the hassle.
Any relatives that have cats? Pictures where you were tagged had cats?
There are some videos of people who did exactly that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=U0SOxb_Lfps
I don't see how it's beneficial to the advertiser when the person has already bought the product before they've seen the ad?

It sounds like someone is trying to game the advertiser by correlating ad views with sales.
pREST is something similar for postgres written in Go. (I haven't tried it) https://postgres.rest / https://github.com/prest/prest
Of course I can tell the difference. My point is exactly that the FT chose who to interview and who to present as 'leading thinkers', yet they were all wrong, every single one. Clearly the notion that they were 'leading thinkers' was entirely the opinion of the people at the FT and clearly their thinking was anything but high quality.

And (b) I challenge you to find a group of 100 people with similar credentials that reflects your opinion.

100 random members of the British public would have got it more right than this panel did. Obviously gaining a credential in this space results in less ability to analyse the situation, rather than more.
One of my official duties on Hacker News is to remind people, at times like this, of "S2 Translation", a 1995 work by The Shamen which translated the coding sequence of a gene into music:

https://synapticism.com/notes/s2-translation-an-early-work-o...

It's a piece which could perhaps be revisited in the light of much improved membrane protein crystallisation techniques:

https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore/explore.do?structureId=4PIR
No problem. I've just checked and it looks like libcgroup is not maintained any more and fallen behind the cgroups development. This may work instead:

systemd-run --scope -p MemoryMax=4M rtorrent

You can also set other quotas - `man systemd.resource-control` for more info.
For things to be done today I email myself.

Anything needing organisation goes into Trello.
States can violate it. It's called the dormant commerce clause.
Yep. It is quite apparent in the latest Batman vs Superman movie.
That's was not about 1Password. It's about the fact that the security models are different on the two OS. Also I remember that 1Password had a certain vulnerability on windows which is now fixed.

In any case a bad password manager can be significantly worse than not using any pw manager at all. So pick wisely.
I have heard reports of incidents similar to this one from several of my friends. There is some undeniable "spookiness" going on. It may or may not be Facebook using the mic.

There are possible confounds:

1. The algo's are that good, meaning that the spookiness is explained by them having other data (say about your peer group) and then knew that you wanted that gourmet coffee press that you and your wife talked about, before you talked about it.

2. We may be unaware of the sheer number of times we are being targeted on the web.

So add in a salience factor where you are targeted millions of times, by pretty good algos, and then only notice the ones where there is that coincidence that lead to a feeling a "spookiness."

I am sure that explains some of these... but I am still left unsure about the mic issue!
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They did buy their tools, they just don't want to buy their tools again, and again, and again, especially if they don't see the value (at the level of the organization) to bother with a new version VS when the one they have is largely adequate and accommodated.
Watsi.org fundraising idea
Right, like the example from Target. It is possible that facebook has access to a stream of Target purchases or credit card purchase information. I'd be 0% surprised if there was a data sharing agreement with credit rating companies.

Even if they just knew the price of the purchase, combined with the job (burn risk) and location data (traveled from work to nearest store with pharmacy during the day), it's possible that you might be able to infer a burn with enough accuracy to be valuable to advertisers.
Ah, insults. The last refuge of the pointless.

Technical and scientific journals, for example, are higher quality than newspapers.
Similar but with Go and for Postgres if you are looking for something like that. Used it in the past and works well for some quick prototyping: https://postgres.rest/
Companies like Facebook and Apple are already killing what I'd call "free-range hacking" with the gadget-ification of computing- we don't need to speculate about hypothetical future government plans, it's here now, and it's privatized!
> It sounds like someone is trying to game the advertiser by correlating ad views with sales.

Shhh. If advertisers realize how utterly wasted most of their advertising spending is you'll destroy about 80% of "tech" companies and plunge the world into a global recession.
Yeah I've seen some of that.

I guess that's part of what I don't understand. There seems to have been this massive outpouring of utterly unhinged rage and hatred from a lot of otherwise very intelligent people in the past couple years and I'm not seeing the cause.

I mean sure there are things to be angry about, but most of the people doing all this rage spewing are not the ones affected. They're largely upper middle class nerds with (comparatively) cushy engineering and IT careers, not factory workers in the Midwest who just lost their jobs. They seem obsessed with crime yet crime rates are declining. They're enraged at women for some unfathomable reason, and if it's sexual frustration that's a bit strange given that this is the age of Tinder and it's never been easier for a single guy to get laid. They're obsessed by Islamic terrorism but most terrorist attacks in the past 10 years in the USA have been by white males. They're obsessed by the decline of the West when the West is landing rockets, building prototype fusion reactors, and developing advanced gene therapies to delay aging. (For all the noise about the rise of China I still see China mostly just copying Western technology and culture.)

I guess there is this nutty wing of leftism on some college campuses but it's a small movement that doesn't have much power beyond those little campus bubbles. It definitely doesn't justify abandoning all enlightenment ideas and resurrecting Hitlerism.

I guess I just don't get it when people go insane over manufactured issues that do not affect them. I get it even less when these people are high-status privileged individuals who are in the top 1% of world income and standard of living. They don't have anything to be angry about.

These people have just flat out lost their minds.

Edit: I've toyed around with the idea that maybe their high status, cushy lifestyle, and immense opportunity is the problem. Maybe we have this part of our brains that's wired for adversity and if there is no adversity we go nuts and start inventing it.
Hardly. I derive as much value from the comments as the articles themselves most often.

But seeing as you're stuck on the aggregation aspect, I also directly navigate to several news sources.
I'm currently working on a DAW, and this is definitely the direction we'd like to head. In our previous version, we added some basic chord progressions. The next most likely chords are suggested on statistics from popular music. But I'm stuck on where to take it next. I have some ideas for a melody generator, but I don't really know anything about machine learning, etc.
When you are ready to implement you API, I'd be very interested in talking to you. Send me an email at roland@tracktion.com
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REIGN. It's REIGN. ENGLISH, WSJ! DO YOU SPEAK IT???
Succeed right now as a digital nomad(programmers only)
The odds of something like that happening JUST AFTER you've spoken aloud about it should be small. Too small even for a dozen "random" events, even considering the number of Facebook users.
“When I am about to engage with your service and you tell me you're going to mine my data to sell me things or even improve my healthcare, it should be my decision not the governments”

this part also is a problem - almost none of service providers EXPLICITLY informs user about data collection. there are some obscure/abstract phrases (if there are any) about increased quality of service and that’s it. For example linkedin is collecting my contact information harvested via native app without clear information where it will be used, so how I can make informed decision whether I want to use this service or not?

government regulation could at least enforce some rules for clear communication of infor collecting process or something like that.
Whoa, pretty creepy indeed
I saw a talk of the inventor a couple of years back. The test site they where exploring they wanted to build a rock piston with a diameter of 250 and a height of 500-1000m (cannot remember exactly, but it was in this order). Since they can lift the piston to half its height that would be 250-500m altitude difference. Not sure what the limiting factor of the height of the piston is, so it might be even bigger.

For comparison the Three Gorges damn has an altitude difference of ~100m [1].

Also, it is much more compact then a traditional dam [2].

===

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam#Composition_a...

[2] For anybody wondering why ~3x: density of water 1 g/cm^3, density of rock ~ 3 g/cm^3
Did you pay with cash?
See also current discussion about this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15581114
It's not really REST if there's no link in sight. Why not just call it a HTTP API or a Webservice?
So what does the ISP get out of doing this?
Yes, I noticed a sharp drop in quality after Rusbridger left too.

Likewise at the Economist. Once Micklethwaite left and was replaced by Minton Beddoes the stories became much less neutral.