skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying to educate myself in both philosophy and in engineering; I think it's realistic to expect a person to understand both the arts and the sciences, at least to an undergrad level, and I think there is value in both.

The philosophy of consciousness is interesting, though; I mean, the question "what is consciousness" is interesting and important, and... well, if we want to create consciousness, we need to answer that question; Even if it's an emergent property of something else we do, which is to say, even if we create a machine we call conscious by accident, we still need to know it when we see it; and right now, I'm not sure that philosophy even has a good "I will know it when I see it" kind of answer to that question.

But yeah, my response was mostly an attempt to point out that the article is talking about something that is more like "CASE tools" than like HAL
Article sucks. Swarmsim is soooo much better than the paperclip simulation.
Just ask that exact question literally as if Google was a human being. That's the key to finding answers to more obscure questions. Use natural language.
Last week's episode of the BBC Radio 4 series "The Kitchen Cabinet" talked about food around Bonfire Night, with the food historian on the panel discussing how the food's always been melded a lot with the food of Halloween, but discussing how various food items (such as toffee apples) did become more prominent "once the persecution of Catholics became a less significant part of the celebrations".

Because really that's what it was all about to start with - persecuting, marginalising and generally being unpleasant to Catholics.
This is an important question, I was wondering the same for very long with DDG. The answer seems to be ads, like everybody else:

https://help.qwant.com/help/overview/how-does-qwant-make-mon...
This is largely true. For the most part, for most people, if they're aware of the story behind Guy Fawkes at all it's limited to him being "Some guy that tried to blow up the houses of parliament".

I mean, sure. He allegedly was involved in such a plot, but that's far from the whole story.
Are these tools open source, so that I can take both and create a website you can chat with?
You could use ublock origin (or similar) to "block" the offending elements.
Websites used to do something that completely disappeared: not using javascript to fuck with the behaviour of the browser. You used to be able to scroll down and the page would scroll down. Right click on a link and see your contextual menu. Copy or paste something and it would actually copy and paste. Half of the sites today break the browser in one way or another.
This is an interesting idea. How does that work, exactly?

Edit - nevermind, I guess I'm the only one in the dark [1][2].

[1] https://medium.com/unqut-inc/ui-design-rapid-prototyping-in-...

[2] http://keynotopia.com/guides-ppt/
The terrorism act, of course, doesn't apply to any act of terrorism either sanctioned by or approved of by the government.
It really isn't a bad idea and it's something I've considered, but I imagine you basically tank your chances of meeting a life partner or friends who enjoy the same culture, politics, music, art, food, etc. as you while you're down there. Not a big deal for some people, but a big deal for someone like me who prizes romantic fulfilment and friendship as the ultimate meaning in life.

Also, it would mean giving up a life of civil disobedience and political action, because as a foreigner in Mexico you really shouldn't stick your neck out in the places that need political action the most. To a degree this seems like a very selfish prioritization.
It looks like there's an extension for paredit, but not sure how it compares to Emacs:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=clptn.co...

For formatting, I've been using this, which supports cljfmt:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=avli.clo...

And the rainbow brackets extension has made code more legible while I've been learning:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=2gua.rai...
Hey Adam - I'm very interested in your sponsored contributions towards reducing IOPS in RethinkDb. It's our biggest challenge, even though we're on SSDs. Our backfills after outages are especially long and painful. Are these updates something you're running safely in production today?
HN Managed to kill the uplink of my provider...
Secondary school rankings show Americans are below the average. I never claimed that the quality of the alumni correlated with the quality of the school. The GP did. My point is that if you want to rank schools by how smart their students are, then no American institution would rank in the top 10. So you need to find a better metric if you want to claim that MIT is best of the best.
Understand the methods of Russian operatives in Washington
Monero’s Multisignature Implementation Officially Enters Testing Phase
I remember a presentation by Martin Fowler which was without slides - talking extempore about his latest thinking on software development - and very engaging it was too!
Introduction to Bitcoin for Developers
Thanks for your views. :)

We do have plans for WebGL and it still being worked on by our team.
It's not that bad, I promise. If one really takes the time to examine the reasoning given for the hate, one might find those reasons wanting.

Have you had to deal with it directly yourself and found something wrong?
I'd say go to Berlin. There is a security for you and yours in a country like Germany that no amount of money can buy in a place like Dubai.

I wish I could explain it better, but my family is a migrant family from the Caribbean to the USA and their move involved costs/benefits similar to yours, and that's my overall impression.
>because I've never seen anything less important seem like such obvious brainwashing.

I take it you're not a touch typist? What kind of wpm do you get?
I didn't even know that there was an anti-Catholic element to it, until I went to Lewes one year. It was eye-opening.

For example, the Cliffe bonfire society refused to join the main parade because it meant giving up their "No Popery" traditions.

http://www.cliffebonfire.com/history.html
> What do we call them now?

Startups /s
You might be interested in Vernor Vinge's novella "The Cookie Monster":

https://www.ida.liu.se/~tompe44/lsff-book/Vernor%20Vinge%20-...
That's fair. You kinda get stuck in a certain "mode" though. You start to self-identify with the things you do "I make data science tools for medical informatics". And it's sort of blinding, in a sense. If I enumerate my skills on a CV, the types of companies that would identify with them are in the same space. Doing something else, say games, apps, whatever it is that people "enjoy" interacting with: I'd need to start at the bottom again. No longer senior engineer/team lead ... but rather that young newb. That's frightening too.
>* I got a little more serious about my music last year and decided I wanted to invest in a nice DAW, but after demoing I few I felt completely unimpressed. They're nearly identical to how they were 15 years ago, other than my PC being much more powerful.*

That's not even remotely true. Except if you mean "they superficially look similar to what they did 15 years ago".

That's because their fundamental functions are of course still the same as 15 or 20 years ago: sequencing MIDI and audio. Same with NLE, what did you expect, some thought-to-song interface?
Just like quantum computing articles.
This is not "AI that builds AI". The actual research behind AutoML is called NASNet (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.07012.pdf), and all it is simply: we found two good neural network layers (called NASNet normal cells / reduction cells in the paper) that work well on many different image datasets. It's a very cool research result. But it's not something that will replace AI researchers.
Moontec17: Estonia Aims to Become the Global Hub of Blockchain
IOTA actually seems pretty revolutionary. I don't think it's a finished product yet but if you want some info then it's a DAG ("tangle")[1] instead of a blockchain and offers 0 fees and possibly huge scalability. There are some products already using it: RuuviTag[2], Bosh XDK Iot[3], PoC ElaadNL charging station[4], Modum[5].
Once they prove they can go without the "Coordinator"[6] I'm going to be completely sold on the project.

[1] https://iota.org/IOTA_Whitepaper.pdf

[2] https://lab.ruuvi.com/iota/

[3] https://xdk.bosch-connectivity.com/

[4] https://medium.com/@harmvandenbrink/how-elaadnl-built-a-poc-...

[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/6vl57m/iota_modum_ask...

[6] https://domschiener.gitbooks.io/iota-guide/content/chapter1/...
We’re in a golden age of flying for both airlines and passengers. If you want 1960s style service, first class tickets are cheaper today than the cheapest tickets were back then.

The reason airlines nickel and dime is Americans’ preference for cheaper tickets over almost anything else. The bulk of the remaining demand comes from frequent fliers, who are exempted from most fees, or business travellers, who are too profitable to risk pissing off.
Based on some very perfunctory research: they certainly used to have a lot of users, but I get the feeling they have declined over the past ~5 years.

Anecdotally: I used to use StumbleUpon, and found it fun for a while. I'm not sure what caused me to drift away from it, but the reason I have no interest now is primarily that I am drowning in interesting content. (I have enough articles saved to Pocket to keep me going for years.) Getting recommendations tailored to your interests is nice, but unless the personalisation algorithm is really good, I think you can do better by cultivating your own set of sources and intermediaries.
This is some serious PR. "Oh we're just about giving people cheap entertainment, it's a total coincidence we profit hugely off the misery of others."
Just trial and error is enough. And it's not that different from most others DAWs anyway
DuckDuckGo does the same. I think you're exaggerating.
A lot of interest. Setting this up is too much sysops for someone who wants to spend his time developing code.
Hello! This article is serverely stale info. Modern versions of Redis with lexicographic ranges can do much better. Please check the following: https://redis.io/topics/indexes

Also you may want to check the RediSearch module from Redis Labs. It's AGPL and not part of the Redis project itself but it's very powerful. http://redisearch.io

BTW using vanilla Redis with lexicographic ranges some time ago I published a demo where I indexed the whole Linux kernel code using a small amount of memory and performing many tens of thousands ranges per second. There are other systems out there that are designed just for search but in certain low latency cases Redis can be hard to beat, also if you want to change the index in real time.
Aiven works only with public clouds...
Your net salary would be about 2900 euro monthly.
Then you'd need to pay for an appartment, it would be at least 400-500 euro.
Then you have to eat and sometimes buy new clothes since it's a cold country :) This would cost you maybe another 500 euro.
So you could save about 2000 euro each month.
My article includes the Holtek HT-66, the STCmicro STC8, the Nuvoton N76, and the ST STM8 — all hover in the 1-2 RMB range (especially when purchased in volume from within the mainland).

The STC8 and N76 parts are 8051, the other two are their own design. The HT-66 looks very much like a PIC16 part, and IDE and compiler are totally free.

The STM8 is probably the best-performing part in that price range, and has a free IDE and compiler.

My review includes pretty extensive discussion on the main page, plus separate reviews for all these parts — check it out and let me know if I need to clarify anything!
Traditionally, mathematicians have a pointlessly hard time when manipulating higher-order functions. This goes from inventing new names for higher-order functions (e.g., "funcational", "transformation"), to constantly using new notations for application (F(g) becomes F[g], becomes F{g}, becomes \int g(x) dx, etc.), to leaving out the binders.

The latter is crazy. Consider the expression "F{e^{-t^2-y^2}}", which might stand for the fourier transform of a 2d gaussian, or it might be the fourier transform of t, with a parameter y, or it might just be the fourier transform of a constant function, or... It is only really defined in the surrounding text. The notation is incomplete and while in this example that might not be such a large problem it just gets worse as you pile on complexity. All integral transforms are written like this, as are expected value, variance and so on.

A lot of times notation in math is choosen to be suggestive. For example, the integral and sum notations are actually pretty neat, since they make common manipulations more visually clear. In particular, since the order of integration doesn't matter, putting the binder inside the integral as a "factor" is actually pretty inspired - commutativity makes Fubini obvious. The "d/dx" the author complains about can be made precise and is similarly great. Consider "dx/dz = dx/dy dy/dz", doesn't this just look entirely natural? But there's something about manipulating functions as first class objects that seems so unnatural to mathematicians that it needs cryptic notation to ward of the unwary...
>> And fucking NO, you can't extend this line of reasoning to other forms of contrarian speech, so don't even start. It's true only for neo-nazis. That's it.

Yes, you can -- antifa is just as dangerous as neo-nazis, and they have to be stopped. Period.
> First of all, this is okay. But not good.

They are going through aggressive growth phase right now and could need a hand fix many things. As you mentioned (the NLP problem):

https://about.qwant.com/job/ml-engineer-specialized-natural-...
Thanks for your feedback :)
While I'd enjoy a good detective journalism, this article is just making claims out of thin air. And here is one:

> However, this doesn’t stop Bitfinex from tripping over their shoelaces to immediately list a fork which doesn’t exist, in order to make money off of suckers.

That is not correct. Bitfinex didn't list Bitcoin Gold. They listed a future contract of Bitcoin Gold (though the naming "token" is a bit confusing). You can create a future contract about anything, like the weather or soccer.

> Prior to publishing this post I was informed that Tethers are on the rise. Today, at the time of this post there has been another 25,000,000 USDT printed.

First, a new creation of Tether doesn't result in a pump. That would be too obvious for traders to arb the effect.

Second, Tether is not used by Bitfinex heavily. Tether biggest clients are Polonix and Bittrex. And there is blockchain proof for that: https://wallet.tether.to/richlist
I am living in Berlin. I would say with 5000 gross income you should be able to save ~1000-1500 Euro in a month. According to http://www.brutto-netto-rechner.info/ you should get ~2917.05 Euro net.

I think with 60k income the taxes are 28%, but there's health insurance and social security insurance, too.

I heard that finding a flat is currently not easy in Berlin. Bergmannstrasse is a lovely "Kiez" (neighborhood).

The scene in Berlin for programmers is nice, lots of meetups (if you are interested in that).
Move to Antarctica. I doubt anyone will notice. Live on a boat in the ocean.

Move to a Caribbean island like Anguilla or Cayman, or the gulf like Kuwait or Dubai or Qatar

Hong Kong, Syria, Paraguay have low tax too
Github diffs PNG and SVG images I believe.

In general one should not use PSD in an open source project, because it requires costly proprietary software. Also does not run on Linux
> The compute speed and storage capacity of computers are growing faster than the bandwidth of the networks.

So your proposed solution is to spread out compute and storage to hosts that are even more network constrained???
Not your issue, but the current timeout Cloudflare page is saying that thanks to it's "Always Online™" technology, we can surf a snapshot of the site. But there is link or option to said snapshot :/
Scaling the OpenFaaS Community Through Pods
BOMIST – Parts Inventory and BOM Management for Electronics
Hey everyone!

Just to let you know about BOMIST - Parts Inventory and BOM Management.

It all started a few years ago with Component Organizer, than BOMER and it's now called BOMIST: https://bomist.com.
Being myself an hardware engineer, I created it out of necessity for not being happy with what was already available.

BOMIST runs locally, so no server nor setup required and you can have as many databases as you want (just run as many instances of BOMIST as you want). It is integrated with Octopart, meaning you get plenty of useful real-time data: datasheets, descriptions, package names, values, prices as well as other useful information are automatically fetched online. Also, importing data into BOMIST is VERY easy which means you'll get up and running in no time. BOMIST will keep improving, many new features are already inline and your feedback is always greatly appreciated. Give it a try, it's FREE.
Such rankings are bullshit and easily gamed.
Ask HN: Best advice for digitizing a media library
I've decided to finally get on with the times, and rip my collection of over 2,000 CDs and over 300 DVDs. I can hear a difference from an mp3, and I don't like it; I can sometimes hear it even in AAC, but I can't justify the physical space these things take anymore. Yet, I do not want to switch to Spotify/YouTube/Amazon/NetFlix, because many of these are special releases, director's cuts, and other not-usually-available-on-streaming-services stuff -- and these services often have lower quality streams even for popular stuff.

I want quality no less than my CDs (most of which are releases from before the loundness wars or its early days) and DVDs that preserve all the features (multiple audio and subtitle tracks, disc menus, etc), and of course a reasonable interface. I'm planning to go with FLAC/ALAC for the audio, straight copy for the DVD, and no idea yet how to get a copy of the covers other than scan/photograph them. Even if I store all CDs as WAVs and DVDs as-is I'm less than 4TB - which is ok, but it feels like there must be a better way?

What would HN recommand?
How artificial intelligence in business can change the world
> I suppose the lessons are: there's room for lots of improvement in search engines, or SEO really works and you better promote yourself no matter how good you are, or word of mouth (Hacker News in this case) is still the way to find the best stuff.

The way I look at it: SEO really works, and shit sources tend to spend a lot on it, while quality sources tend to not spend anything on it at all - therefore a lot of quality stuff is hard to find, unless you can hear the right words from the right mouths.

(IMO SEO, beyond making your website not look like shit, is user-hostile behaviour. It games search engines into serving users links to those who spend effort on gaming search engines instead of links to content the user was looking for.)
What's really amazing is that for less than $5 nowadays you can have a 1GHz+ quad core ARM Cortex-a53 with FPU and NEON support. I mean, sure, your entire device will be more than $5, and it'll be kinda power hungry at 3W or so running full tilt, but that's a pretty beefy chip for the price of a venti Starbucks latte, capable of running full Linux, with GPU, media encode/decode, etc, etc.
Human psychology studies are a tricky thing, where everyone only focuses on data which matches their preconceived notions. I'm sure that some university group has researched the cost of fashion addiction, music addiction, car addiction, holiday addiction etc. yet no-one is talking about the social cost of fashion/collections/other vices people may have. There was a large Casino court case in Australia a couple of months ago and the "experts" (if they can be called that) couldn't prove that gambling was an addictive activity, since a large portion of playerswho participated in 'gambling activities' could not be classified as addicted. Since the prosecution couldn't prove the slot machines were addictive, the case against the Casino was dropped (lots of expert testimony ended up being dismissed).
Lots of bullshit.

Just a few points:

A) Iota is a legit currency trying to do something new in the crypto space.

B) The listing Bitcoin gold did not 'create' 2 bn usd - if you tried to liquidate even a fraction of that, you would drive the price to 0. There was significant demand from trader and speculators for its listing (not that I agree with it, but anyway).

C) Saying that a company that generates 30 mil. usd in revenues each month is worthless is really laughable.

D) This author has had a bone to pick with bitfinex for a long time. I consider him a shill with an agenda, and it is surprising that he is given so much space (even on HN) to spew his BS.

edit: formatting
I went to entropy.ai and found some... something.. medical software? Looks closed source anyway
€500 for an apartment in Berlin? Are they really that cheap?
So there are a number of issues that are not really answered here.

1) the cloud is a costed model. you pay a company to look after your stuff, so you dont have to manage it yourself

2) the cloud _is_ more expensive, but not compared to hiring your own infrastructure people (depends on scale of course)

3) distrubuted networks of things are much much slower than centralised. save for a few exceptions.

4) Trust. even though you stuff should be encrypted, spaffing it out in the open is a large risk, because should your old keys leak, it'll be trivial to retrieve old data.

5) money. who on earth is going to buy, run and maintain this infrastructure? whats in it for them? Who organises development of tools, patching etc? who do I call when there is an outage.

in short for this to work, it would required a 180 degree culture shift of capitailsm.

also physics, to make globally distrubuted systems both fast, relaiable and consistent
>in a salary of 5000 Euros per month, how much could I save per month after my food and rent expenditures?

You'll have around 2900 after taxes, and you'll probably spend around 1500 for the normal cost of living (apartment, food, etc). However this varies a lot from person to person, for example sharing an apartment is way cheaper. Rent prices vary by location, and so on.

I'd suggest visiting Germany and seeing if it's something you'll like, the culture, the language, and so on.
German here, living abroad.

- 5k/month -> 60k/year sounds reasonable in general. You might be able to get more, but honestly I don't think that's a bad salary for programming position. Tax sounds about right.

- 24 days of leave seems on the low side of things. I'd expect 28-30 OR more pay. I had 30 in Germany.

- 1500 for the relocation seems low as well. What are you supposed to pay for with that? Flight is covered by the company? What about housing (usually you have 1-2 month of rent to deposit, that might eat a large chunk of this amount already)?

Can't comment on the neighborhood or the current cost of living situation in Berlin, but I feel that I'd stay in Dubai if I were in your shoes. You earn quite a lot of money for later - 12*4k + 5k means that you basically nearly save all the money Germany offers before taxes. You are happy at your company. You fly home for free - no idea how expensive flights between Dubai and Pakistan are, for me this is quite expensive (Singapore -> Germany).

Let me turn this question around: What is it that you _like_ about the offer? Just getting out of "Can never stay forever" Dubai/a different tech zone alone or is the job/location itself interesting?
Unreadable. Too bad, the title seemed interesting.
Also, sound?
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