skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not bogus (those are pretty trivially rejected by distributed nodes), but you could certainly flood it with valid microtransactions, and thus jack up the fees people have to pay to get their tx validated in reasonable time. This activity, way more than actual block size limits, underlies the ridiculous fee escalation on BTC that someone else mentioned.
Does Lucene 7.0 have a better story around G1 GC? ES has always warned against it, would love to see if that had changed
Love this. I was on my way to build some kind of version of this.

I'm hoping that there will be documentation on how to self-host the backend soon as a backup.
As in a publicly facing front end? If that's your case, you wouldn't ever want to expose Elasticsearch to your front end directly. If you have a private front end that is inside your firewall then just create HTTP requests to Elasticsearch - it has a RESTful API.

But querying from a publicly facing front end would be a poor idea - would you expose a database directly to the front end?
I think in Facebook's case it has more to do with having highly detailed information about their users, which fakes go against. Anyway, a lot of fake accounts get deleted quickly, as mentioned in the article (and I've observed this myself, as obviously fake profiles I've gotten friend requests from usually end up deleted in a day or two).
I should say that homicide and suicide by gun are causes of death #2 and #3 for that age group (the order of the two is different between 15–25 vs. 25–35 year olds). Successful suicide rate is notably higher in places chock full of guns.

Which is not even to mention the daily occurrence in the USA of young children accidentally shooting other children (typically siblings or friends) or themselves to death.

Having a gun in your house is one of the biggest possible risks you can bring to your own life and the lives of people in your family.
Na, the whole north east United States uses an active RFID transponder system that is compatible from Illinois all the way to the east coast and from Maine all the way down to North Carolina. You just stop in at any store in IL that sells the, many grocery stores do, and buy the transponder for $10 and link it to your credit card. In IL it is called "i-Pass" in other states it is called EZ-Pass but it is all the same thing and inter-operates.
If you want an example of clear thinking about the future, I highly recommend reading Summa Technologiae by Stanislaw Lem. Instead of predicting low-level tech advances he speaks about what drives technology development in general and drafts several possible trajectories for the future. I've only read it this year and the sheer fact that a 1964 book about technology doesn't seem hopelessly outdated in 2017 speaks in its favor.
I think this is a sign of civilization advancing. More on the subject would be difficult to add without creating a throwaway account.
It'll keep your morality and ethics in check, too.

https://medium.com/make-better-software/introducing-manuscri...

https://medium.com/make-better-software/software-matters-in-...
some "ethical" measures may do the trick to. scrapy has a setting to integrate delays + you can use fake headers. Some sites are pretty persistent with their cookies (include cookies in requests). It's all case by case basis
What are the better alternatives for handling log analysis?

(I didn't downvote you btw)
I think this is great. Like many other things in life, when taken in moderation and responsibly, psychedelic drugs can be a great heap of fun!
I mean I was pretty happy out here in San Francisco but you might pull me in with this one
This is an interesting point -- structured programming has made source code vastly easier to reason about, but at the cost of turning some obvious control structures into optimizations. The upshot is that we don't have some of the really terrible control structures that were enabled by goto. I once had the pleasure of reading through some old Fortran code that freely jumped into various points in the middle of a loop, from outside the loop. Took me ages to figure out what it was doing.
Didnt they announce this at Google I/O? Where it was supposed to be available that day
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That is the porn-equivalent of suggesting that abstinence is the solution to teen pregnancy. It may be technically correct insofar as abstinence obviously works for those that rigorously follow it, but fails to account for the simple fact that teenagers have sex regardless of whether they are told not to.

Shaming porn usage does nothing to reduce its prevalence and just encourages users to hide and deny, hence your suggestion is not productive.
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Have you engaged with the WebExtensions team to help develop a new API that would suit your use case?
Can anyone comment about how liquefied coal is currently used or could be used? As I understand, the resulting products burn much cleaner.

I'm not sure if this would reduce their CO2 emissions, but it should at least reduce other pollutants.
You didn't mention the result of your tests, but I infer that you found the 90 kB JPEG to be superior to the 100 kB FLIF/PNG? That seems reasonable, if unfortunate.
Doesn't look like it's on top of, but instead of. Similar ideas though.
>We've all known about this for months.

Years, in fact.
> I know academic research groups that use it as OS for the boxes in their labs and they've never had problems with stability or things working out the box.

They're been lucky then, but with Arch never say never. I hope more research boxes would run NixOS to ensure reproducible results.
gwern you are amazing, thank you.
I've tried the snooze things for other things and I just ended up snoozing things again and again. Nowadays it's typical to have 10-20+ tabs open at all time that you're going to need during the day. That's already too much for tabs on top
You can kinda replicate this functionality by shift-selecting the tabs you need to split and drag them away.
Cynically, "futurist" might be well understood in the category of celebrities who are famous only because they are famous.

Kurzweil, though, might perhaps be more accurately viewed as a spokesman for a new religion.
Thanks for qualifying more. I'm surprised you didn't mention having humans in the video as a point - since that's pretty much what we're best at detecting fakes.

I believe the technology already is at a point for us to do this. The technology isn't the barrier to meet your criteria as much as the attention to detail. For a rendered video scene to look good, the main issue is the animation.

Still image renders are already at the point of fooling humans if enough time went into it. Then the remaining issue is the animation. Animation requires incredible attention to detail - some of which can be improved by a more nuanced understanding of the physics involved (eg water simulation or bird flight).

> no one, anywhere, has achieved fully realistic CG video

According to your specific criteria for realistic CG video.

But I still would argue the technology is already there. They just haven't made your video yet because realistic CG is done in movies. And movies aren't prioritizing meeting that specific criteria. But the talent and technology is there.

What about scenes like this from the Jungle Book?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6yKWQ24rF8

Of course it breaks your rubric for having the boy be real. But get rid of the boy, and less stylized setting (high saturation and fog and smooth tracking camera), people would absolutely be fooled in at least some of the scenes in that clip.

> In a scientific setting, a nature video will wipe the floor with our best CG video ten out of ten times.

Okay
Not awesome for those value privacy. There are companies out their building profiles about you based on what you buy.

Target may know when someone is pregnant even before that person tells her own family.
The legitimate reason not to accept credit cards is to avoid the substantial processing fees.
So focus on something fundamental, that everyone needs, using an approach that's far ahead.
There aren't enough rich people who need services to give people jobs. Martin Ford's "The Lights in the Tunnel" makes this point.
How do you get the gas to Europe? LNG tankers? Too expensive. If they want gas, they'd have to buy it from Russia, and they don't want to buy from Russia.
I could understand donating to a small time streamer, but to the guy pulling in ~300k/month from subscriptions? no idea! but they do it.
Mmm thanks! And looks like there are a few anecdotal reports and bugs around battery drain https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7a91ss/battery_lif... what a shame if there are issues there - would be a showstopper for my personal usage at least! Hope they haven’t overfocused on speed at the cost of worse battery life.
However, some states apparently block it. For example, there's a law in Massachusetts that apparently prohibits accepting credit only.
That, or some sort of Forth; the separate keyword also enables calling anonymous functions recursively:

https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis/blob/master/sna...
> Too big to fail.

I don't think you understand what that means because it doesn't apply to Snap.
I never claimed that the existing browser vendors can’t do it incrementally — they certainly can. What I wrote was: “... there's not going to be another web browser engine created by an independent party.”
A lot of commercial embedded compilers have similar licenses. Even ones that e.g. have certified and published EEMBC benchmarks, so it's not so much of a red-flag as you might think.
You could use a prepaid visa gift card or similar for (mostly) anonymous transactions.

Those are also helpful for people who can't get bank accounts.
Very famous case:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
Didn't Fujiyama fail because the tsunami took out power to the plant and took out their backup generators?

Germany may not be able to get tsunamis, but are tsunamis they only thing that can take out power and take out the backups?

There was an excellent episode of Nova fairly recently (within the last year, I think) on nuclear power. It covered Fujiyama and other conventional designs, and then spent a lot of time on upcoming safer and more economical designs, and the large number of nuclear power startup companies that are working on them.

For example, one design involved a liquid fuel that has to be held in a container that has a high volume to surface area ratio in order to sustain a chain reaction. The design had such a container, connected via a pipe in the bottom to another container with a shape that cannot support a reaction.

During normal operation the fuel is kept in the top container by a plug in the pipe. The clever part is what that plug is made of it. It is frozen fuel, kept frozen by cooling coils around the pipe.

If the plant loses power the plug melts, and the fuel drains. This is inherently massively safer than conventional plants. Instead of always being on the verge of disaster, relying on active controls to keep that at bay, the newer designs require active controls to keep running. The failure modes are to stop running instead of to run out of control.
“Dataflow” and the open source ecosystem in that neighborhood (Flink, Spark, Beam, Kafka, that family of stuff) is a much more powerful way to look at logs in real time, rather than indexing them into storage and then querying. There just isn’t something off the shelf as easy to deploy as ElasticSearch with that architecture, that I’m aware of. (There should be!) When you jump the mental gap of events being identical to logs, then start looking at fun architectures like event sourcing, you start realizing streaming analysis is a pretty powerful way of thinking.

I’ve extracted insight from millions of log records per second on a single node with a similar setup, in real time, with much room to scale. The key to scaling log analysis is to get past textual parsing, which means using something structured, which usually negates the reason you were using ElasticSearch in the first place.

Google’s first Dataflow talk from I/O and the paper should give you an idea of what log analysis can look like when you get past the full text indexing mindset. Note that there’s nothing wrong with ELK, but you will run into scaling difficulty far sooner than you’d expect trying to index every log event as it comes. It’s also bad to discover this when you get slashdotted, and your ES cluster whimpers trying to keep up. One thing streaming often gets you is latency in that situation instead of death, since you’re probably building atop a distributed log (and falling behind is less bad than falling over).

The key here is: are you looking for specific log events or are you counting? You’re almost always counting. Why index individual events, then?
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"Again, the main function of a bitcoin exchange is to get its bitcoins stolen..."

Really?
>as more people being to see through the bullshit of the current social and political systems.

Do you think people are closer to being self-centered, profit-driven "rational agents" today than in the 60s?
Can you really though? I find it hard to distinguish from a really elaborate troll.
Click "See all versions" and scroll down until you find one that is compatible.
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React Native has what seems like a pretty sane css-like layout system. Maybe this could become the basis for a "css-light" standard that could gradually replace the existing css, and offer much faster performance for website authors who opt in.
> dmenu

try rofi instead, it has dmenu mode (rofi -dmenu) and so much more
I've been using solr since 1.3 and found trying to use elastic is pretty crazy annoying. I'd love to swap the ELK stack for a solar-based setup.
This is my understanding as well, you could kill a browser trying to do single-threaded bilinear or cubic resize on a sufficiently large image.
EDIT: "this particular question might be" => "... might be applicable."
A few tradeoffs we had to make:

- As mentioned below - flatbuffers makes the startup time faster while trading off some flexibility

- Smaller code size means trading off dependency on some libraries and broader support vs writing more things from scratch more focused on the user cases people care about
Ask HN: Is short term crypto currency trading profitable?
Over the past few years, I was one of the many people who wrote off crypto currency. But apparently it grew by value and volume exponentially.

Was wondering if it's too late in the game to invest or do short term trading using coinbase API? I am planning to write a customized trading app myself which buys or sells based on my risk appetite that day. Is it worth the effort? Do any of you guys do it?
That's absolutely true, but also keep in mind the limitations of both the examples you give.

Protein folding works pretty ok for short proteins on the order of ~200 amino acids. It gets considerably less good as the proteins get bigger. This is unsurprising, bigger proteins represent an exponentially bigger search space and there are fewer and fewer known protein structures as the size of protein increases, so your library of exemplars is smaller (hurting ML approaches). Lets not even speak of protein complexes or dynamic protein interactions. Even at the end of the prediction, you still have to prove your result by getting an actual crystal which is not always easy.

Cell biology simulation is a whole other ball game, and I don't know that area nearly as well. But from the little I understand, we have some very basic mathematical models of a cell that work in a limited way at a very high level. To get those things to work a number of extremely simplifying (but useful in some contexts) assumptions are made, which limits the broader applications of those simulations. Simulating a whole cell very quickly gets into the realm of definitely not computationally tractable given the enormous number of entities in the cell. It's a fiendishly hard problem, I hope we get there someday, but I think it'll be a long while.
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> but we have to give some credit to 'futurologists' who are prepared to make predictions!

I'm sorry, I do have to disagree. It's little more than recognizing a problem and envisioning a solution. Ideas are cheap.

And in that sense they are little more than entrepreneurs with grand long term visions that require no commitment. Give credit to those who put blood and sweat behind their visions - and make them happen, not make vague 'predictions'. That's what Hollywood is for.

I predict in the future we will be creating food from carbon scrubbed from atmosphere.

I predict in the future that humans will communicate with machines through quantum teleportation via implants

I predicate that in the future that if these predictions don't hold true, no one I know will be around to call me on it.
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Cash has other advantages - speed and anonymity.
Many people watch streams to learn new tactics and strategies. You don't get that from reality TV at all. No one is watching Survivor or The Bachelor and then using what they learned in real life.
I'm certainly interested in XMR (Monero) as the only other crypto aside from Bitcoin I think is worth paying attention to.

However I don't think it's the final form. Some of the papers on tracking anonymous XMR transactions are a bit troubling, and I think there are some major scaling issues as well. Additionally all transactions must be anonymous or none are I think is a hard design goal.

I can't say I've had enough time to really research it though - I like the goals behind the project, but think the execution may need some work.
Well, C's default heap allocation API is not suitable for kernel mode either. Compare libc's malloc and the kernel's kmalloc, with the fine-grained control [1] over what kind of allocation to perform.

[1] https://github.com/spotify/linux/blob/master/include/linux/g...
We do SaaS and we block prepaid cards -- too much fraud.
It is an obscure technicality: your code only works because a compiler optimization makes it work. If a different compiler executed your code exactly as written it would crash. Or another way, two pieces of code that are logically equivalent will succeed or crash depending on whether it's written in such a way that the compiler can recognize an optimization.

I'm in favor of having special syntax because compilers shouldn't really be in the business of 'do what I mean not what I say'.
My impression is that his predictions about electronics have done better than his predictions about biology, consciousness, and AI. Unfortunately, the areas he did less well in are the areas where he is placing his hope...
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Most probably its because of the time it takes to push the image on the the GPU and then back to the CPU.
And of course, the question needs to be asked if becoming the best programmer you can be is the actual goal?

There are a lot of developers much more succesful than myself that have gotten their success using GameMaker and a good enough understanding of scripting it.

It's not all about programming!
> A stronger Mozilla (financially speaking) is good for privacy and free software.

While I understand exactly what you mean, surely there's a point at which accepting money from privacy-violating organisations (and bundling a privacy-violating extension, and who knows what else is coming?) means that Mozilla is no longer good for privacy?
The difference of effect of LSD and magic mushrooms is not very large.

Classic psychedelics have a lot in common, the differences are mere nuances.
Here's a quick peek at the visualization tweeted by one of the authors:

https://twitter.com/hnisimasu/status/928933260159197184

And an article in The Atlantic that some may find more approachable than the original Nature Communications publication:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/crispr-v...
Found this through Rich Hickey, and really enjoyed it:

Out of the Tar Pit – Moseley & Marks 2006
What OS are you on? The default style on Windows takes your system title bar color (or a dark blue if you don't have Windows set to show the system accent color on title bars); the default style on OSX uses a dark translucent background. Both use light gray tabs and a light gray toolbar background.

If you've migrated from a previous version of Firefox and customized the browser at all, you may not be getting the default settings, though-- right-click the toolbar or Bookmarks Bar, and take a look through the options at the bottom of the page. Themes will give you an option between the default, light, and dark themes (it sounds like you're stuck on the light one); density adjusts spacing in the toolbar area. And you can check "Drag Space" to add space above the tab bar for dragging, or check "Title Bar" to turn the system title bar back on.
I was not aware that any species of hallucinogenic mushrooms can selectively distort your sense of size (ie. apart from the general distortion of all senses and perceptions with any hallucinogenic drug)
WKWebView and SFSafariViewController both support Web Assembly in iOS 11.
Right... but what about a potential doctor vs. a potential social worker? A poor student that tries to become a doctor is far riskier than a rich student trying to be a doctor. I believe that's the issue here...
Worth pointing out that this is a "prepper" site. They have an agenda in convincing you of upcoming disasters.
One of my sisters and I both attended trade school and were quickly happily employed.

My other sister went for a psychology major and has since worked service jobs.

I went to a small trade school for "Application Development" circa 2005 that has since gone under.

They really got an undeserved bad rap, like a lot of for profit schools lately. I genuinely feel I received a quality education readying me for working in the industry. I had what I would consider some of the best educators of my life and lots of one on one time with them.

I know a handful of my classmates didn't really take it very seriously and the army was paying for them to be there, but honestly it's lead me into a career I enjoy and allowed me to earn more than I ever imagined.
Yeah, okay, DDG _might_ be lying about their privacy promises. They _might_ be tracking us all ways to Sunday the way Google and Facebook do. They _might_ have some seekrit, back-door ad sales department that nobody knows about and somehow they've managed to keep secret. Which, of course, is a great method for making ad sales.
You are right, it is difficult to compare intelligence here, because it's predicated on some objective measure of intelligence. It's also difficult because the ways intelligence can manifest can look very different depending on the instance. Perhaps a more general term like "sophisticated" would be appropriate, seeing as they've adapted highly complex responses to a very dynamic and complex environment.

Biology as a field is riddled with these definition based problems, because the phenomena it's used to describe are just so intricate. Another similar problem is the "species problem," where we find countless attempts at an objective and universal definition for differentiating species, but little consensus.

In the case of mantis shrimp it's probably the stimulus being too foreign to the organism for it to have a meaningful response, like you said. So it's probably just ignoring the stimulus until it to goes away.

It may also be the organism's adaptation to an environment with many diverse predators (like a shallow water reef would have). So any unusual stimulus is automatically interpreted as threatening. If they have a tendency to freeze when exposed to acute stress, it may just be their manifestation of the fight-or-flight response. This could probably be measured by comparing nervous system arousal between threatening and foreign stimulus.