skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it will likely go beyond that. If aliens are hyper intelligent they probably go well beyond sentience to something else and may not even consider us “conscious” (or whatever they have)

Then think about how we human treat much lower life forms. For example, a plant. We have no ethical issue mowing down a paddock of plants because we don’t see them as equal life forms. We have mostly no ethical issue of killing millions of cattle/sheep for mostly the same reasons.

When there’s a large intelligence differential, the smarter one might not even try and communicate
It can be played with smaller teams, sure. Just like basketball; even with just two of you you can still have a compelling reason to play.

Football, not so much.
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I heard it's just used in some traditional kind of liquor to color it red.

I guess it would be too expensive to actually use for mass produced goods. Why collects and kill those bugs, when you can just use other red dyes?
But an "out-of-touch, self-absorbed or incompetent" entity would never ask itself that. And even if it did, would not recognize it.

A french singer, Brassens, used to sing something that can be translated that "to admit your are not intelligent, you need to be".

And of course you have the famous simpson episode:

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HTML but there's always GTKSharp: http://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/gtksharp/
The history of American football is its always been something for "other" people to play, coming from ivy league rugby teams after the civil war which is roughly 0% of the population. Much like car racing it was always a spectacle other people performed, almost like theater. Baseball, for contrast, was very bottom up growth.

If it were not for the short term fetishization of "everyone must go to college" and therefore intensely celebrate everything related to college, plus the broadcasting industry, football would still be some weird traditional thing a couple boys at Harvard played against a couple boys at Yale occasionally.

Will be interesting to see, after the edu bubble pops and the sportsball broadcasting bubble of boomers pops, if the current football regime survives. It may go back to an ivy obscurity.
> The cost is reasonable in SSL case but unreasonable in Bitcoin case based on what criteria exactly

Next to nonexistent cost per connection in standard case of SSL. We can saturate gigabit links using modern hardware with AES-NI. Outside of special deployment cases, the cost is a rounding error. We can't provide this capability in a cheaper way at the moment (or we would do that)

On the other hand, we've got Bitcoin which chugs energy/money by design, while other solutions like proof of stake / space / ... exist and are much more energy efficient. People concisely decide to burn money to keep this system running - that's why it's unreasonable.
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This might not be for everyone, but I think alcohol helps a lot in this respect.

The most sincere and interesting discussion were late into the night where half the people were sleeping under the table and the few left awake were articulating thoughts they had very deep in heart.

There’s of course the part where everyone is a bit more lubricated, but there’s also the social protection of “being drunk” that helps to shield from repercutions if we step too far on people’s feelings.

I found this specially true for people who are pretty strong to alcohol, and tend to wait for these “end of party” moments to start discussing intimate feelings, even if they are still almost sober.
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paid subscribers? honestly not yet. Just have a few trials out of some tiny marketing efforts, nothing serious. If this goes to HN front page though then we can consider this launch.
Same here. What else can you do to ship GPU acceleration to AMD and NVIDIA people?

The alternatives recommended here aren't even serious IMHO. I'd rather switch to CUDA and wait till Intel/AMD sort out a REAL compatibility layer than deal with those.

Unless I'm mistaken, HIP still requires a separate compile for either platform and what runtime do they expect end users to have exactly?! At least CUDA and OpenCL are integrated in the vendor drivers.

Vulkan compute with SPIR-V seems to be the only real solution, but even that is still very early. Sill waiting for proper OpenCL 2.0 support in NVIDIA drivers :P
Q20: Are Social Security numbers reused after a person dies?

A: No. We do not reassign a Social Security number (SSN) after the number holder's death. Even though we have issued over 453 million SSNs so far, and we assign about 5 and one-half million new numbers a year, the current numbering system will provide us with enough new numbers for several generations into the future with no changes in the numbering system.

https://www.ssa.gov/history/hfaq.html
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I hope we can also get a more scalable form factor, so that we can keep stacking these new compute engines even if we run out of PCI slots or physical space inside the case.
Their jobs rarely include remembering exactly what happened at three AM on a certain night. Plus, these claims are often one event over years of working this job, you can't expect perfection out of people.

Strenuous situations just make eyewitness accounts more likely to be terrible, our brain can screw up for no reason at all. Or a mundane reason, like skipping breakfast.

This makes claims of contact with aliens giving us advanced technology. I can imagine all sorts of possibly buried evidence that would make me believe that. Until some of it comes out, the eyewitness accounts are not reliable evidence.
Worst seller experience ever. FTFY.

You are not the customer, just a seller. You don’t matter. The “Amazon smile” is for customers only.
Read further and you'll see that if they're sent by accident you're obligated to arrange their return at no personal expense.
I find the occasional GIF acceptable if it adds something to the text or the presentation. In this particular article, I would get rid of the GIF at the top, but keep the one near the Subscribe box.
OT: The Joe Rogan podcast recently had Paul Stamets on who talks at great length about fungi and it's benefits -- truly fascinating stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPqWstVnRjQ
They are shipped here over sea lanes made safe by the trillions the US and other countries pay to make them safe; to fly in airspace made safe and regulated by those same countries; to be shipped to individual stores over roads built and maintained by taxpayer dollars that allow such wide open shipping lanes; allowed to move from truck to store and stay in said store before the point of sale to me and other buyers safely by a police force also paid for by taxpayers.
Like @bufferoverflow say it's totally bluff. We had all to deal with this kind of small little problem. Why are you crying like a SJW for a Switch? seriously? grow a little. You just waste your time.
Yep. Other replies about bad selling experiences notwithstanding, as a buyer, Amazon's experiences are mechanically great. They might sacrifice a seller on an altar every week, and that would be sad, but it makes your statement no less true.
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You know this problem is not really prevalent in places with legit healthcare systems, Europe amongst all ? And that we don't pop opiods to all suffering patients, ie we can allow things to hurt a bit sometimes it's not that big a deal, and it's surely better than getting hooked to stuff.

Why blame the pharmaceutical industry. Your practitionners and your patients have a problem.
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They now posted their explanation [1] but I don't buy it. I find it hard to believe that the RBX incident happened shortly after the SGB incident without any connection between these two. They should have redundant networking (at least that's what they say) so one corrupted DB in RBX shouldn't have brought down the whole DC (or 7 DCs according to their system). Maybe they pulled corrupt data from SGB because it was down but I don't believe that at the same time of a power failure, two redundant network nodes got corrupted without any notice. Otherwise wouldn't that mean that one hardware issue can also bring down a whole region?

[1] http://status.ovh.net/?do=details&id=15162&PHPSESSID=7220be2...
UK: Bank account numbers are public-ish and it's normal to give them to your friends so they can send you money (it's not normal to buy from an actual shop that way). Jeremy Clarkson made a point of giving his out on national TV. The one way to get money out of someone from those numbers is a direct debit, but as sibling comments have said the other end of those can only be a merchant account and the individual is easily able to reverse them.
>You undergo memory treatment, and now your mother who you see once a week is real as far as you know, but really she's an actor

Sounds like a sort of reverse Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; things could get really awkward and confusing when you end up having partial memories.

But also, possibly a brilliant way to fund nursing homes/increase visitation.
I've lived in Japan for nearly a decade and never heard of anything like it. However it seems legit: domain name was registered in 2012 with a Japanese registrar and was renewed in 2015. The company (from their website) claims to have operated since 2010.

It's worth noting that most Japanese people would find this a pretty weird thing, I think -- it's not normal. I can't imagine that it would actually work out well if you got found out.
I’d say it’s a bug in ethereum. A Contract has dependencies. Those dependencies can be shut down before the contract. The contract is now stuck, unable to be processed.

This is very much like the leftpad issue with node and npm. It’s a flaw in the design of the system that permits this behavior. The contract (wallet software) is also clearly buggy. But the bug is a consequence of the ill-designed foundations.
Would any court rule in their favor? Is there any reason to worry in such a case?
Not the parent, but the way in which Bitfinex paid everyone back was extremely dodgy[0].
They also decided to help themselves to 15% of everyone's BCH after the August 1 fork[1]. I don't understand why anyone would trust them.

[0]https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/bitfinex-never-repaid-their-t...

[1]https://news.bitcoin.com/bitfinex-bitcoin-cash-deposits-with...
The two issues are isolated.

One datacenter suffered massive power failure while the other hand network equipment fail at roughly the same time.
My understanding is that the main reason for different sexes in Fungi is to figure out whose mitochondria go on to populate the child after the nuclear DNA is combined. Having mixed populations of mitochondria inside a cell would provide an incentive for competition among them, which would be a Bad Thing. Otherwise they fungi could just do away with sexes entirely for a further, much smaller, increase in the number of potential partners.

See Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life by Nick Lane.
OVH is one of the few with direct peering to Telekom, most don't want to pay for that. Otherwise Hetzner is good, their own network is limited but peering works reasonably well. But apart from them I'm not aware of anyone with cheaper dedicated prices than soyoustart
I suspect I am a super taster but I have grown to love bitter tastes -- I even crave them. Bitter greens, bitter beers... can't get enough!
Ironically, I only added these header gifs to two recent posts i did as i read they increase readability (ux wise). Even though not convinced I did feel i should try.

Thanks for the feedback, i'll go back to content-only.
Yes, absolutely, will email shortly.
I’m not sure if the model 3 has any voice-control, but a decent voice system might be a good way to augment the touch screen for some tasks like ‘wipers faster’, for example.

The voice control in the model is ok - it’s good at recognition, but limited in function.

They can at least enable this type of function later with software updates. This is a key differentiator with other auto makers, who rarely issue software updates after the car has shipped, and if they do, never include new features, and often charge you for things like map updates.
Would a 1.9m blond bloke find a role or would be considered too foreign? Few gigs would help with travel budget.
Since there seems to be a lot of confusion about the legalities involved, with some people suggesting he should have just kept it and said nothing, I did some research.

In the UK, you have a legal duty to return it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/30294748/can-you-keep-... The only exception is completely unsolicited goods, which you can keep. Double shipments must be returned. This doesn’t change the fact that Nintendo was rather rude if the author’s characterization is accurate.

>Items that firms send to you, but you didn't actually order are called "unsolicited goods". You're well within your rights to keep them.
You have no obligation to send them back to the company or to pay for them. If a company demands payment, that's a criminal offence.
But this doesn't apply to items sent to you by mistake (as happened to Robert); if the order was sent to you twice; or if there's extra stuff on top of what you ordered.
If a firm has left goods with you that weren't unsolicited goods, they still belong to the trader and you should try to give them back.
Firms can take you to court to recover their goods.

The situation is different in the US, you are allowed to keep all "unordered merchandise" and have no obligation whatsoever to pay or return. No distinction is made between completely unsolicited and double shipments. A legal argument could be made that a double shipment is not "unordered merchandise." I didn't find anything on the legal databases or Google, other than newspaper columnists opining that double shipments are "unordered".

US statute in question: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/39/3009

FTC commentary: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0181-unordered-merchan...
Some will point out (and some have!) that I could have quite easily saved myself a lot of time, hassle, and lost earnings at this point by just quietly holding on to the extra Switch and saying nothing to Nintendo about it. It certainly would have saved me a lot of stress, but it was morally not something I’d ever consider.

That's his mistake right there. He was under no moral obligation to fix Nintendo's mistake for them. Nintendo had made a string of mistakes up to this point, and one of their mistakes was in his favor.

If you truly have a guilty conscience, then just throw the extra package out, because it is abandoned property.

I've had this happen occasionally. Just know that you are not responsible for stuff like this. My Dad had a similar experience, where spent weeks trying to get a company to honor a warranty, and in the end they sent him two replacement hard drives instead of one. I actually interpret this as a kind of karma. Sometimes good things land in your lap, don't reject them.
The US has something like 7-10k issuing agencies.

In some places, it is trivial to request somebody’s birth certificate. It’s one of those weird US things where localities control stuff that they lack the ability to do well.

Regardless of issues, it’s still the penultimate representation of you.
Living in a large, dense suburb, this is so foreign to me.

Most of my friends play adult rec league sport of some sort. I cycle and run (the first with a club, the second just for fun). My neighbor plays organized soccer. Another friend plays adult league baseball. A few play kickball or bocce. Many of them weren't athletic in school - the adult league thing is 90% social for them.
Not at all. Seeing what the OP has seen allows a better evaluation. I wish more online groups put more weight on sources.
Does this usually work with any Twitter account? Even a new one with no followers? Or do you need to have followers or fame or something for the tweet to carry any weight in practice?
I live in France and in the working hours of the delivery guys I'm at work in a different city. I ordered a number of things to my personal address, and the story is typically like: "package delivered" with some strange message from the delivery guy where to find it, or no message at all. Out of the last 3 things I ordered, 2 didn't get to me (I made a claim on Amazon and they reimbursed me, no questions asked - at least), and 1 other was delivered to a shop three streets from my place, and after 2 weeks when no one came to get the thing, a good guy from the shop noticed my phone number on the box and called me.

I try to avoid buying physical stuff in the internet now, way too much stress.
The way I read this was a bit different: NVidia actually is the only vendor that offers a performant, complete and relatively bug free implementation. For example if you consider this http://gdcvault.com/play/1020791/ presentation then it is relatively clear that most major innovations were first available as OpenGL extensions by NVidia. The playing field might have levelled somewhat with the introduction of vulkan, which eliminates a lot of code that had to reside in the driver before. The main reason why Mesa is unlikely to catch up is because the backend compiler code is platform specific, so unless NVidia decides to publish their platform specification, it is unlikely that they will achieve meaningful success. Even if NVidia did publish a specification and left driver development to the community it is unclear to me who would be willing to do the free work for them.
The 99% is lucky to be in a situation where this is possible. Imagine a world fully globalized under colluding bureaucraitc powers, and an oligarchy of tech competitors.
US federal laws don't apply to the UK. The same thing is true in the UK, but demanding the return of mis-mailed goods is allowed in UK law.
>, you now don't just expose a couple of endpoints, you need to support a query language,

Here's how I think of it. (Others can correct or elaborate my understanding.)

Let's say you have 1 REST endpoint such as "xyz.com/customerlist" to return a JSON response and behind the implementation is a SQL "SELECT ∗ FROM T" and you get back a 100k response with all rows and all columns. You really only wanted customer's name and zipcode and you only wanted it for region of New York. (Unfortunately, "SELECT ∗" returned 30 columns which is 28 more than you need. The REST endpoint also didn't have a SQL WHERE clause which returned all 1000 rows where you only needed 20 rows.) You actually only needed 10k out of that 100k so you threw away 90k of data. Downloading data you throw away is especially wasteful with smartphones on slow mobile connections.

To address the finer grained slices of data, you either create more REST endpoints ("xyz.com/customerlist_name_zipcode") or add query parameters at the end of that 1 REST endpoint. It's doable but multiple endpoints will lead to a combinatorial explosion and the maintenance of them is not ideal for fast iteration.

With GraphQL, the client can request the "shape" of the data without having a pre-defined static REST endpoint that matches that shape. You can thin-slice the data without wasted bytes. The clients can get unforseen shapes of data that the developers of REST endpoints didn't envision.

I actually think the GraphQL landing page explains the rationale and motivation very clearly: http://graphql.org/
Not all of Europe has national ID. Here in the UK there's no such thing and no general requirement that you be able to identify yourself (though most banks would require photo ID like a passport or driving license or both before they let you open an account) - on the continent I have to remember to always carry my passport with me, which feels weird and oppressive.
???? I don't even think we're talking about the same thing any more. Prolly should just move on.
What eloquent commentary /s
Can someone ban this bozo?
"We need to use it more" doesn't mean we should have to use it more, just that's the most effective avenue we do have left.
I 100% agree.

The day that I became a lifelong Amazon customer was when I mistakenly ordered a mattress to the wrong address via Prime. I noticed the mistake some 28 hours after placing the order. I nearly said that I called them to tell them about my mistake, but that isn't true. I typed in my number online AND THEY CALLED ME when an operator was available. The operator quickly calmed me down and told it was "nothing to worry about". She cancelled the shipment of the mattress going to the wrong side of the US and placed an order for a replacement within 2 minutes of learning about the problem. On top of that, without being asked, she upgraded my replacement to 1 day shipping FOR FREE so that my order would still arrive by the original delivery date.

Since I screwed up in such a ridiculous way, that I would have fully expected to have gotten slammed with a return shipping fee, a shipping fee for the replacement, and even some kind of BS replacement fee. But Amazon took the bullet and provided me the the best customer service I ever could have hoped for, which prevented me from having to sleep on the ground for even one extra night.
I'd wager 1-2 received concussions that were outwardly noticeable. More likely received mild concussions that went unreported.
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The "iron law of prohibition" teaches us this: prohibiting a substance drives out all but the most potent forms of that substance. Back during alcohol prohibition in the US, people made, smuggled, and sold "white lightning" not light beer.

In the case of opiods, the most potent forms are stuff like street fentanyl and oxy 80s pulverized. Milligram mistakes in dosages of this stuff are very dangerous.

The iron law leads to a paradox: decriminalizing a substance makes it safer. Obviously it's more complex than that: addicts need access to safe supplies of the substance. But it's still true.

But keeping opiods criminalized is, basically, makework for law enforcement and public safety people, not to mention people with names like El Chapo.

Switzerland and Portugal are having good success with decriminalization and treatment. Juristictions who don't need anything in the way of foreign aid or other cooperation from the USA are in the best position to do this.

Source: Chasing The Scream, a book by Johann Hari.
Just because we don't typically carry ourselves in that manner doesn't mean it's never warranted. It is totally reasonable to expect font data to remain constant, and totally reasonable for people to get mad when it's not. It's a reasonable expectation that this font data will remain constant, and it's totally unreasonable -- totally stupid -- for anyone to make a claim otherwise. Most people do not go shopping for a Google font expecting its attributes to change significantly at some random point in the future. Saying that versioning won't be implemented, that expecting the font data to remain constant is unreasonable, and to go use some other service if they're not happy with this surprise change... It is amateur hour. This "it's a free service" thing is a piss poor argument as well, because Google is hoovering up all your visitor data when serving those fonts. It's not free.