skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a (much) better argument than the "God wouldn't let this happen" straw-man often argued against by climate change activists. The "Climategate" emails make it particularly compelling. The air of corruption and decay around academia and academic publishing in particular have legitimately eroded trust in those institutions, and thanks to the nature of climate change the data is highly indirect and difficult to independently verify (compare the discovery of climate change to the discovery of Saturn's moons, or the ideal gas law!)

Truth is, although I strongly tend to believe climate change claims, I still feel some strong skepticism. I know my way around math, statistics, chemistry, and physics, but I couldn't tell you what measurements you actually can do to support climate change assertions. How do you measure the average temperature of a region, let alone the world, over a long period of time?! I've always felt uneasy about archeologists drawing conclusions from a single bone fragment, or even cosmologists drawing enormously long chains of conclusions from star spectra, but in those cases a) the measurement itself is obvious, b) the reasoning is obvious (even if you disagree with it) and c) it doesn't really matter all that much. Climate change, though, suffers from a) measurements that aren't obvious, b)reasoning that isn't obvious, and c) is incredibly important and we can't get it wrong. And moreover, if you express these doubts, the vast majority of climate change activists will just get angry with you and either stop talking to you at all, or point to letters with lots of eminent signatories saying, "it all makes sense to us, the evidence is overwhelming, we're really smart, so trust us."

Argument from authority isn't good enough, and the intuitive argument isn't good enough, either. Yes, we live in a thin skin of biosphere and we are releasing CO2 into the atmosphere at a huge rate in absolute terms. But I don't have an intuition about the relative rate, especially when compared to natural processes (which are vast). We cut down forests at a prodigious rate, which hurts capture, but I don't have an intuition about the amount of this either. I would love it if someone took these concerns seriously and wrote a book about it.

(For the record, I think there are other "good enough" reasons to change our behavior. Rampant consumerism isn't good for people or the planet in more obvious, directly measurable ways. Plus, even if the odds are low for a global catastrophe, it is better to be safe than sorry.)
As someone who just inherited one of these at work and who had never played with a MacBook before, my first thought when seeing the headline was “If it’s not a MacBook Pro 2015, I don’t know what it is”.

This thing is pure functional art. The first time my screen just magically unlocked itself because I happened to be wearing a particular watch was the moment nerd-like turned into nerd-love.
March 1972
Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska submitted to the Congressional Record facts surrounding a routine check in a nuclear power plant which indicated abnormal radioactivity in the building's water system. Radioactivity was confirmed in the plant drinking fountain. Apparently there was an inappropriate cross-connection between a 3,000 gallon radioactive tank and the water system.

;D

http://www.westkyjournal.com/news.php?viewStory=289
XLA for AOT is useful for cases when you know exactly what architecture you are shipping to, and are ok updating the code whenever the model changes.

TF Lite addresses the segment where you need more flexibility

- you ship single app to many types of devices

- would like to update the model independent of the code itself e.g. no change to Android APK, and update the model over the wire.

Even with this generality, TF Lite is still quite fast and lightweight as that was the focus building it up.
Why would I use this for iOS when I can use CoreML and convert TensorFlow into a CoreML model where there is already native support?
This is not correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triage#Conventional_classifica...
Do you think the NBA Kyrie Irving is joking with you?

Is the rapper B.O.B. trolling with his GoFundMe Campaign to build a satellite and find the truth?

Maybe they are media savvy ploys to generate free attention, but they have thousands of fans that aren't in on the joke.

I used to think exactly what you do, but that is the definition of liberal bias. I couldn't imagine a world where someone would be so stupid enough to think the world was flat.

I also couldn't imagine a world where people were stupid enough to elect Donald Trump. But the divide in this country is real, and beliefs like ours are making it worse. Some people's scientific literacy really is limited to what they can see in front of them.
The glossy screen is a showstopper for me.
I immediately checked the date on the article after reading the headline.

Thought it was a relic from the third party client days.
Malthus lives on. What a tragedy.
In userland, if some fraction of the user base misuses a feature, that could be considered a bug, even if it is working as designed.

Obviously things like forward and backward compatibility are much more important in the programming context, so you can't just "fix" things like weird side effects or not throwing an error on assignment in an if statement.
He literally sells supplements that he suggests will provide longevity.

It’s irrelevant if he believes in their efficacy or not. Alternative health practitioners certainly believe in their remedies. Gwenyth Paltow certainly believes in… whatever absurdities she’s peddling nowadays. The Food Babe probably does too. None of that makes them any less snake oil.

Edit: A quick search on Wikipedia shows me I’m wrong. Apparently it’s only snake oil if the seller is aware the product is fraudulent. TIL.

Edit 2: I might not be as wrong as I believed. A snake oil salesman can also be a quack who promotes medical practices based upon ignorance, which would definitely encompass Gwenyth Paltrow and the Food Babe.
Is it actually a different species? I was under the impression a "truffle" was just a different part of the larger organism that also contains mushrooms.

> Apart from the visual appearance there is no difference between magic mushrooms and magic truffles. The so-called truffles are objectively no real truffle (as those belong to the genus Tuber), but sclerotia of psilocybe mushrooms growing below the ground. Therefore, they are nothing more than an underground part of the fungus and completely identical to the part above the ground, the so-called fruiting body, which we call the actual mushroom. Both contain the hallucinogenic molecules psilocybin, psilocin and baeocystin, both are absolutely effective.
The list, which is only 6 links and a small part of the blog post, is only a tiny, unrepresentative part of the ME research corpus.

The real title of the blog post is "The Bad Thing"; I'm glad that's not the HN title, but our current one is unrepresentative of the content. Perhaps, "Intel ME: The Bad Thing".
I totally agree, but I'm not happy to see this post for the selfish reason that I'm worried it will be harder to buy a refurbished one once the one I'm currently using dies. With the exception of the non-ergonomic keyboard layout, I could keep using this machine forever and be pretty happy.
Deliveroo claims victory in self-employment case
No, surprising though it may seem, renewable energy sources like wind, solar, and hydro have all caused more deaths proportional to the energy they have produced than nuclear.
Interestingly, there was a recent study that indicated for penetrating trauma the patient had a much higher survival rate if they were taken to the ER by private car compared with waiting for EMS transport. Presumably because you are less likely to waste that golden hour.
I have a mid-2014 model and I absolutely love it. However, weird spots have been appearing on my screen now on the black edge and I'm kind of nervous/scared. Anyone else with these spots?
Someone can just write a CoreML tool to convert. There could already be one that converts non-lite version straight to CoreML
New Messenger chatbot can generate residential solar quotes/estimates
Insertion sort is almost always better isn't it?
check out dremio.com - It's superduper Apache Drill with elasticsearch support (ie SQL with real joins.)
I mean, I thought this was substantive as it's a pretty well known fact? Or are you on the side of, "fake news"? Not trying to get banned here but isn't it well known in the tech industry that Pai is a shill for big cable who doesn't truly care about the facts? Is calling someone a, "shill" not civil? Sorry I just don't understand what I did wrong here. I did have 17 upvotes on my comment last I checked so I think a good amount of people agree with me right?
These situations do exist, but that doesn't change the point that the genie is out of the bottle.

People who want this software are going to be able to have it. End of story. If a timing attack happens to pop up in it, great, that's a win for the government. But by and large, these messages will go without decryption.

As with anything: these measures will not stop the determined lawbreaker - not that they necessarily need to.
Hackers Say They've Broken Face ID a Week After iPhone X Release
To get subsequently smeared to hell and back.

Oh, and he didn't even share it publically. He shared it with an internal group discussing these issues. It was then "leaked", and everybody piled on. And you now took part in exactly that, repeating the slander.
With TensorFlow and TF Lite we are looking to provide a great experience across all platforms, and are exploring ways to provide a simpler experience with good acceleration on iOS as well.
The way it will be handled from 6.x forward is better - the problem is, this will be tricky to migrate from older versions.
“The majority of text is created using continuous speech recognition (CSR) dictation software. .”

Aren’t we actually close with this? Dragon is much better than phones, which don’t have the ability to edit your dictation.
I hate the keyboard on the 2015 era ones too though, I'm always using my giant Microsoft hump style keyboard instad. I only use the built-in keyboard in hotel rooms/conferences/etc.
We should consider separate bugs in the language spec from the implementation. In JS it's insane not to K&R brace as it will try to infer missing semi-colon terminators in your code, silently, to your doom. That's surprising if you have the misfortune. It's a massive bug in the language spec but the implementation of the JS interpreter is 100% correct as it kicks you, hard.

Parent comment makes sense to me as a general comment about getting good at JS. Especially given JS has so many new and exciting libraries that get used in production. Ultimately you must fix your code, JS & libraries aren't likely to change in a timely fashion. And of course what I call a bug in the spec must have been considered a feature at one time, some may still consider it so. That's a question of taste and you can always consider yourself 100% correct on any matter of taste simultaneously with those who disagree. :-)
Yep, that's the screen coating coming off. It's known as "Staingate": http://www.staingate.org/

I got mine replaced for free from Apple (they even upgraded me to the most expensive model of the next generation as they didn't have my medium level one any more)
Although with javascript there have been a lot of different interpreters with a lot of different bugs over the years.
I'm thinking mainly of browsers and their implementation bugs, there have been quite a few instances in which what I thought was my own mistake turned out to be a browser bug of some kind.
I agree that the article doesn't add anything, but accessing the network is a standard function of ME, via its AMT component. One of the leading features and selling points of ME is remote management independent of the OS (i.e., even if there is no functioning OS) - useful for support and for deploying OS, BIOS, and other updates.
This chart shows net generation. i.e. GWh/yr

Note that Germany earns more $ per MWh exported to France than vice versa. This is because on average France tends to have surpluses at night and in summer when electricity isn't in high demand. France imports electricity at high prices during cold snaps in winter when German wind tends to be blowing.
Sure, they serve said data to other authorized users and clients (intended recipients). Name a business that doesn’t do that. ;)
It's pretty good, yeah. I really would have loved it if they simply doubled the USB ports and re-included an Ethernet jack for the newest one instead of doing what they did.
Today...

- The network connection is down or there's no cell reception for the credit card reader

- Your credit card/electronic payment got declined for some random reason

- You leave a Christmas tip in a box

- You have reasons for the transaction to be off the books

You can argue about any of these but certainly today, I've encountered at least these four situations within the past year.
Working on it right now, but no ETA yet.
Are you under the assumption that profit is bad?
> People die in huge numbers in very violent automobile accidents. For young people in the US (15–35), the leading causes of death are car accidents and gunshots (homicide, suicide, accidents).

Right. But nobody is talking about reducing that number, or reducing our reliance on cars. Drivers kill over a million people every single year, but that is acceptable death.
How do you let someone know that you are romantically interested in them?

Basically I try not to do anything that would be confused with one of those things.
I live in Emacs too. I thought you could get one with real buttons? Did they drop that?
Microdosing can be done with any psychedelic. It doesn't do anything since microdosing itself is unscientific, but you can try!
It's pretty good supported with Firefox. The flash package is part of rpmfusion-nonfree: https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

I'm using it to play videos on some sites that still use Flash.
This is in a custom interpreter (used for teaching I think)

https://github.com/code-dot-org/JS-Interpreter
Emacs Plugins in OCaml: Hello, Ecaml (part 1)
> We've seen severe problems and gross negligence in American, French and Dutch reactors, as well. Oh, and in German ones, of course.

Have we? The problems aren't just in Russia, but they're drastically less bad than Chernobyl.

Three Mile Island was essentially a worst case for internal meltdowns, and didn't involve any actual radiation release. Fukushima was vastly worse, but the problems revealed were remedied at similarly-designed reactors worldwide. (And most of those weren't nearly so exposed to severe storms.)

I'm honestly not sure what you're referring to with French and Dutch reactors, I'll have to look into that.

But overall, most of the things profiled as "severe problems and gross negligence" appear to have caused zero fatalities and zero radiation release. I know organizations like Rolling Stone have been running accounts of how the NRC is terrible and American nuclear plants are in crisis, but the problems raised don't actually amount to radiation risks.

I've never seen a convincing claim that the examples of actual release or meltdown risk, as opposed to mere sloppy management, are 'legion'.

> more coal and that this is a difficult decision

10,000 fatalities from coal per year in the USA alone. I agree that there's a tradeoff here, but I honestly have no idea why it's 'difficult'. Even the Chernobyl disaster is going to kill fewer people than coal kills when everything goes according to plan.
Following that logic we must also ban sex, because some people don't constrain it to private settings and sometimes take it into public places that are inappropriate.
Couldn't agree more. If you look at what's happening in the network tab of the developer tools, you'll see it's doing a lot more than providing just a static blog page.

Instead, every x seconds it executes another POST request with pretty much all the details they can gather (scroll from top, scrollable height, referrer etc.).
As soon as you start moving your cursor, the new requests start adding up very quickly, with lots of new params such as "experimentName: readers.experimentShareWidget" or "key: post.streamScrolled".

It really is collecting every single interaction with this page. As it's provided by Medium I'm sure it's part of their data collection program.
Sadly, I've lost count of how many compiler bugs I've tripped over through the years. Often it's compiler crashes -- those are usually easy to get fixed, especially when (as tends to be the case with LLVM) they are caused by assertions failing -- but I've also tripped over compiler hangs (there's a variable in the tarsnap code with an utterly bogus volatile specifier in order to avoid the problematic optimization on some versions of llvm) and outright miscompilations -- one of which has had several LLVM bug reports opened by different people over the years and remains unfixed.
> may result in permanent suspension of access

A.k.a.: they will try their best to IP ban you.
>"Wild-type Cas9 cuts genomic DNA, and when it does, the strand can go flying - with repair a possibility rather than an inevitability."

"Possibility" is too strong a term. Afaict, the best you can say about repair is that it is a "less than common occurrence," and even that may be too much.

>"Recent papers from the Liu lab at Harvard [1] (among many others) show how you can edit DNA using a modified Cas9 that has been modified to not have that second cutting function, while retaining the ability to bind to a specific DNA sequence."

Sorry but I could not find any comment/data about toxicity in this paper. This is basic info everyone wants to know: What percent of cells exposed to this stuff die? Maybe I missed it?
Yes, it is even better if you have a precision touchpad and you disable smooth scrolling. Whole new world of reactivity! It is almost as smooth as edge!
Well, then, here’s some more: if you have some free time, you can make that truck pay for itself plowing parking lots. Lots of friends of mine with 4x4s did that when we lived in Indiana. Might not pay for the truck, but it was reported that it easily paid for the plow and hydraulics in one winter.
Last time I looked at the source for Java's dual pivot quicksort implementation, it used exactly this for 7 elements or fewer
Microdosing is the homeopathy of psychedelics. Despite being a meme for years now there has been approximately one blind study, and that one done by an amateur, gwern:

https://www.gwern.net/LSD-microdosing

tl;dr it's bogus. Lots of anecdotal reports of its efficacy though, but again, why don't these amateur recreational users blind their doses? They're prone to placebo otherwise.
Or teach your kids contract law, and make sure that they know how to comply and interpret them. Complying with a legal contract is not stealing. So learn how to write or negotiate the best contract for yourself is the only way to be moral in this world.
Natero (YC S12) Is Hiring an Integrations Engineer
Ya, we often see a node die of natural causes, and then the garbage produced from recovering the node and relocating the data ends up bringing down the rest of the cluster via long GC pauses.
Which is the oft-cited reason we need government key escrow...
I may not agree with Wolfram and his theories (or his ego), but I don't think we can equate him to Kurzweil, Woflram definitely has produced a body of work to substantiate his "rabbit holing" and he's created a business around some of his ideas. However, I agree that the "New kind of Science" was overblown, but definitely not in same league as Kurzweil[1]. There are a few other scientists who have explored the area of cellular automata[2]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcbbr8ZhoFs

[2]: There's least one I can think of immediately: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-41285-6
When I first started using Jenkins Workflow, I ran into tons of these with their Groovy interpreter, even for basic stuff such as Map#each.

Of course, that was pre-1.0 software..
I'm excited about the official Docker images now being available (again?) in an OSS flavor without X-Pack. Quote from https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.0/... :

> The images are available in three different configurations or "flavors". The basic flavor, which is the default, ships with X-Pack Basic features pre-installed and automatically activated with a free licence. The platinum flavor features all X-Pack functionally under a 30-day trial licence. The oss flavor does not include X-Pack, and contains only open-source Elasticsearch.
I seem to be cursed with the ability to crash any language interpreter I play with. My favorite so far was when I tried Smalltalk, mixed up / and //, and asked for a window that was 3/2 pixels wide (maybe not 3/2, but some non-integer rational width). The maintainers: "Wow! That bug must have been lurking in the bytecode interpreter since Xerox PARC."
Only GNOME.
First off, the most important thing for us is to keep the APIs simple, sane and consistent. We absolutely won't add anything in a rush, or if it means compromising that core principle. :)

There are various things I'd like to add - simple plugin modules for metrics (dropwizard or prometheus), security (probably pac4j) and typesafe session support (via lenses) are in there. A sane websocket api seems to be a popular request so we'll also probably look at that.

Async would probably be via coroutines as that seems to be the nicest option API-wise. If it did work out well then we could probably backport it and piggyback the sync api on top.

The serverless stuff is interesting as well, although that's more around the deployment tooling at the moment - we'll see what happens if Google and MS get involved, or how the tooling develops for things like terraform.

Other than that - we'll happily accept suggestions! :)
I don't want to go cashless and would like the return of the $500 dollar bill.

http://time.com/money/5008950/bring-back-500-bill-cash-cashl...
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/intro... is a good resource for understanding Turing Machines. There used to be a way to share a link with non-subscribers but for some reason I can't find it now.
As one of these people who switched away from Firefox to Chrome a long time ago, I was curious to give it another go now that it's revamped and all. I tend to do it very year or so, but something is always wrong.

Unfortunately, I quickly bumped into one simple deal-breaker (the same that discouraged me from using Opera once, if I recall). Firefox adds a few pixels of useless gap space above the tabs, meaning I always have to move the cursor slightly downwards when changing tabs.

Some googling revealed the bug was actually reported over a year ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1302168

As of now, it persists. Back to Chrome - see you again next year : )
how does this relate to other hardware beyond iOS / Javascript i.e. raspberry pi, nvidia jetson etc andddddd.........whats the likelihood of libraries that sit on top of TF supporting this like keras and pytorch. Just some questions that spring to my mind
This is the most elegant critique to the current line of Macs I've read so far. I hope it reaches the right eyes and ears.

While Steve Jobs was unique, I believe Apple has the right people to continue delivering the same great products. They just need to let them do their jobs.

This said, I'm looking forward to test a Pixel 2 Chromebook.
He didn't even come up with the singularity idea. Vernor Vinge originated it, and a whole bunch of people were discussing it at the time. Kurzweil just jumped on the bandwagon and started hyping it up to such an extent that many mistakenly believe the idea originated with him. It didn't.
> conservatism in the middle and south of the state

You don't even have to go to the middle or south of the state. Look at the current gnashing of teeth over marijuana dispensaries in San Francisco.