skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think a NPC in a game could figure out that he is just a character controlled by the game logic? Current games are obviously far away from having conscious NPCs but I neither see any fundamental problem with having NPCs controlled by artificial brains nor any obvious way how such a NPC could figure out that he lives within a game.

Or what if, while you are asleep, someone essentially detaches your brain from your body and uses the signals your brain sends to control a simulation of your body in a virtual environment and feeds back the simulation output into your brain as what you see, hear, feel, and smell? How would you detect that you are no longer really in the real world when you wake up?
I would imagine rural high school would be a hellscape of a different sort.
For my family, the heritage was a bit educational, though it often felt a bit like wrong guesses (if you're 25% English, 25% Scottish, 25% Welsh, 25% Irish, you'll come back 100% "British Isles"). My spouse's 25% Native American data was even worse, about 1/8 of it coming in as "East Asian".

Finding specific gene data was also cool, but disappointing. If you know that a certain gene is defective, there's no way of knowing if your C should be a G, and a lot of gene markers aren't even findable. It's like a mostly-complete index for a book that's 25% written, and 5% of that is flat out wrong. So the health stuff was disappointing. I do feel, though, that obtaining the service was a step in the right direction for the industry someday getting this right.

As it gains critical mass, it's a great resource for connecting with second cousins as, if your family is like mine, older generations grew apart and want to reconnect.
My experience is anecdotal of course, but IMHO "fast" is something tech savy users are looking for. "Which one is the Internet" or "I know this icon from a big shiny ad" is how non-tech folks function.

Full disclaimer: Years spent supporting end users might have negatively affected my view of the "average user".
We've asked you several times to stop breaking the guidelines. Would you please try to do better?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It is appealing for three reasons.

1) As computer engineers we understand it's doable. Give it a couple of centuries and our civilization could reach a computing capacity to simulate the entire observable universe

2) A lot of things just don't make sense. Like consciousness for example. We can't define it, and we don't even know it it's real. If you take consciousness out of the equation humans are just laborious software.

3) This is objective of course, but quite a lot of people are experiencing coincidences that seem unreal. That sounds metaphysics and most of us wouldn't touch it with a barge pole but from a simulation perspective makes total sense.

Oh and it makes a lot of people uncomfortable. For me it's one of the best ways to test someone's intellect. You bring it into a conversation and people start feeling unease.
Either way would render the experiment useless (self-selection bias).

But that is Mozilla's problem, not their users'.

As probably would be the legal position in many places, if news of this got out more widely and regulators started getting involved. It's hard to see how this wouldn't fall foul of even general EU data protection laws today, never mind anything stronger that is specific to Germany.
"Better" is a little subjective. Linux has more drivers, true. But you only need one driver, for the HBA you use, and is the quality of that one driver better? I bought an LSI HBA specifically because the FreeBSD driver for it is known to be good (and it also works well with Linux).

Drivers aside, ZFS on Linux is rather more rough around the edges than on FreeBSD. Having used both, I'd place more trust in ZFS on FreeBSD. While I've not had dataloss on either platform, I have seen odd glitches on Linux which required rebooting to resolve, like zpool getting stuck in D state after some pool operation, and it failing to mount filesystems after rebooting until I manually reset the mountpoints for little reason I could see, and excessive memory usage which has frozen the machine on a few occasions when under heavy load. It's also rather more featureful on FreeBSD; the Linux implementation has a number of annoying restrictions and missing functionality which aren't essential for the basics, but make it much more pleasant to use. Like not requiring root, priv delegation, NFSv4 ACLs, NFS export, ARC integration into the kernel memory management.
So to reword the title to be accurate in your eyes would

> Current Drilling Techniques Reawaken Sleeping Faults in Texas

work? The injection of water is part of how they currently operate, if there are other ways for them to drill then society should decide whether the increased costs are worth it but... how they currently drill is causing this issue.
I completely agree that it's important to take this kind of thing into account when approaching a problem like this. As I say in the post, "There are 31 days and one of them has to be smallest. Maybe the 11th isn’t an outlier; it’s just on the smaller end and our eyes are picking up on a pattern that doesn’t exist."

I'll admit that a straight p-value is not the appropriate statistic here. I don't even know how what the perfect statistic for this problem is. A Bonferroni correction is not enough because not only is the 11th of the month the lowest for a particular year--it's the lowest for every year.

I was convinced that this was real when I looked at the first line graph of the post. The 11th is the lowest either every year or almost every year, being 3-5 standard deviations below the mean for the bulk of the last 200 years. That just can't happen by chance no matter how you slice it.

If anyone knows the proper way to calculate a statistic on something like this, I would love to hear about it.
Its an interesting piece and some of the responses here seem uncharitable even defensive, as if he has questioned sacred gods.

It's not individuals reacting but jingoism, our generation was brought up on the idea of globalism and humanism, that we can connect as individuals. But as one gets older it seems jingoism is as alive as ever, only concealed better, where some things are taken for granted and not to be questioned while pointing fingers at others, judging others and making negative assumptions is perfectly ok.

Reluctance to introspect on your own society while cheering on those who criticize their own is a losing game.
MY BPD Spectrum Story
And making everyone evacuate, or telling everyone to stay put and accept some compensation for the chance of dying from some horrible radiation-induced disease, would go better?
> at least Mozilla is up front and transparent about what it's doing

I read HN, I'm a web dev, I try and keep up to date with this kind of thing and I've never heard of it. How is any non techie supposed to?
Serious answer: don't pick a fight with the efficient market hypothesis.

It might be wrong. But it has more money to have remain wrong, than you have to prove it wrong.
2fa SSH on Linux, and Deploying It via Puppet
The challenge of first-class memory
Bitcoin: A Peer-To-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) [pdf]
This info was encrypted using a repeated xor cipher
Isn't that what a free market system does? Bezos' net worth is decided by what people freely decide his stock is worth.
I thought it was a good/enjoyable article and it shed light on many things for me.

Reading some of the comments below, and having known some Chinese people ( I am not east asian) I want to point out that it seems like many people missed the intention/ tone of the author. I think his intention was not to brag as some people have misunderstood, but to provide context to how he got to where he got to.

His communication style is different compared to the western style of communication. There is no single coherent message he is trying to drive purposefully or tacitly, but my guess is he was hoping you learn whatever you can from his experience and his way of thought.

Sure the article title could have had the words ‘random’ and ‘musings’ in the same sentence..... meh!
Goddamn dude, how’s that crippling autism going for you?
Outrospectre VR system simulates an out of body experience
I think you have a misconception of what capsule networks are. They are not intended to address "performance issues in really advanced models", they are intended as another paradigm in deep learning that Geoff Hinton thinks has a lot of promise.

I also don't know what you mean by "the failure of capsule networks to pick up steam". The paper literally came out a month ago. It's too early to say whether it'll "pick up steam" or not.

I also don't understand what you mean by "the continued popularity of GANs" showing anything.
I love FireFox, it's been my primary browser for many years but this is a drop in the bucket of what would make a regular user switch browsers.
Increases in "book value" are reflected in earnings.

Example: you make a profit of $100. You use those $100 to buy the Brooklyn Bridge. Your profit is still $100. It's only your cash flow that's now at $0.
You mean Google, no? ;P
Ask HN: Are tons of websites mining crypto on visitors PCs now?
I've noticed during the past few days / week, that when I visit several sites, my Disk (Task Manager on Windows) shoots up to just under 100%, and stays there until I close Chrome and "end task" for Chrome on Task Manager. (ie not enough to just close Chrome). After that, disk returns to 0 or close to, browsing is normal, until I visit some site (several) and I hear my computer ramping up again).

Any idea what's going on? I suspected sites might be using visitors machines to mine, because that's popped up on discussions a few times lately.
>>> Smart hard working people succeed much more often than they don't

It sounds to me you're classifying people as smart/hard working only if they're successful.
Yes, but if it is artificial the owners might react differently to an intentional collision by another artificial craft than they would to a chance collision with a small asteroid even if no damage is done.
I think “money isn’t everything” is a perfectly decent message for young people graduating from a university in a rich western country with a fair education system.

It’s not like these students are in desperate debt (http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14562911.Scottish_student...: the average debt of Scottish graduates in 2014/15 was £10,500), or have to pay back those debts soon (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-40353399: For example, someone earning £21,000 a year would pay back £24 a month)
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for and I was starting to think I’d have to build my own iOS Org mode app. Found all of my Org mode files in Dropbox, and even found some TODO’s that I hadn’t completed back in 2011. Great piece of work and again many thanks.
To be fair that seems to originally be a piece of the 4k demo elevated.
How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2012)
Wrong title. Poor management of salt-water injection, NOT drilling, fracking, et all, may lubricate certain types of fault lines in sedimentary deposits.

Part of the problem is the Obama-era EPA did not allow companies to write off dry-holes, leading to a shortage of wells that can be used for salt-water injection. This put a stress on the existing injection infrastructure.
Why you should do a regulated ICO
I most certainly didn't claim it was the point of GGP either. The point was that no evidence at all have been put forward that git-new-worktree is less "data safe" than the corresponding fossil solution, on the contrary on the design level it seems designed to be safe to use. So it seems GGP didn't mention it because it didn't fit their narrative that git lacks features.

At the same time I can't claim it is guaranteed to be "no data loss" because I didn't review all the code. If you are strongly concerned about data loss you would probably use backups, _regardless_ if you use git, fossil etc.
> 2. People attach themselves to Journalists and Editors these days. Not to papers or organizations. People don't respect "The Washington Post" so much as they respect "Robert Costa". Similarly, no one says they trust "Fox News", but a lot of people trust "Chris Wallace". See the difference?

This simply doesn't ring true. What about when David Pogue and Katie Couric went to Yahoo News? Or when Nate Silver left the NYT? Or when Mossberg/Swisher set up Recode? The audience largely didn't follow. People trust brands and institutions, even when they say they don't.
People have a very good understanding of a car's risks. Same for computers.
> Give it a couple of centuries and our civilization could reach a computing capacity to simulate the entire observable universe

This is not even remotely true, not even if a perfect Moore's law were to continue for thousands of years. Man, we're hard pressed to even simulate single molecules.

> quite a lot of people are experiencing coincidences that seem unreal

Oh come on x) "Coincidences" are psychological illusions and misatribution biases at work, not the work of an intelligence behind our universe. This is the "I prayed to god and my back pain healed; it's a miracle" type of thinking.
Thanks for the post. Publishing/bookbinding is great.

You might want to try submitting a post, though, that has examples of nicely published/formatted/printed/bound books.
If you look at one of my other responses in this thread, you'll see I am largely in favor of ISPs being able to experiment with alternative models of billing for Internet usage. Bear in mind, the whole "you'll suddenly have to pay extra to see this website" nonsense is just that... nonsense.

Also, bear in mind, ISPs are a tiny threat compared to Google. None of the ISPs we're talking about have a scope outscaling the United States, but Google is a global threat that has the influence and power to bully individual countries into compliance with what they want. Suffice to say, the ISPs are not the giant entity here, relatively speaking.

ISPs can and should be fought by the FTC when they engage in unfair business practices or collusion. Ajit Pai's plan includes granting the FTC additional authority to do just that.

Also, we've already started to see wireless home Internet plans in the 4G space, and that's likely to continue to grow when 5G launches. A lot of households are mobile only at this point, which presents a very different avenue of competition. I have and will always have a wired landline, but the wireless competition with wireline providers will likely help keep things moving on a competition front.
> That's not remotely true.

I've witnessed self-described libertarians doing exactly that. It usually goes along with a lack of understanding of the power they have over someone far less economically fortunate.
It's worth noting that most Lisp dialects don't really encourage immutable data, and Clojure seems to be a step forward there.
> We'd be better off with an economic system that values agency and lives worth living a little more than efficiency and profit

So, charity. Any economic system rooted in the altruistic nature of man is doomed to fail. Only rational self interest in sustainable.

It comes back to teaching a man to fish. I don't think UBI solves the problem of how do you learn a marketable skill.

Maybe a program where investors can pay to train workers in exchange for a percentage of their income. This would create an incentive to train a highly skilled/paid work force. But it also has a modern slavery feel so idk.
Sounds like you live in the Northeast.
Με προβλήματα στο Περιστέρι ο Παναθηναϊκός
He used to be the PM of youtube video classification too.
Have you done a blind test, if not whatever you are saying is meaningless
I think there's a logical contradiction. Without expected return value, how could one measure how good "as best as" could be? The only resolve I can think of is to try to adjust to a blacklist instead, maybe don't expect results, but at least know when you have failed. To me, this is the same thing expressed in inverse logic.

What's the negative of "expectation of results", ie. the normalization of the expression "no (expectation of results)" in constructive terms. I guess it would have to be perhaps expect failure
“It works, I swear” says the snake oil salesman.
elm-lang is a front-end only language compiled to JS(at the moment).

JVM doesn’t apply hence.
well the next step is to have a required number of unrelated purchase from other vendors/etc. all sorts of ways to put a brake on it.

give buyers history similar to how ebay does, once you pass a number of unrelated purchases your rating actually affects the items score. another method is that before the score is counted your account has to be XXX days old.
I think it's important to note that the paper was accepted for NIPS 2017, and isn't just some random paper pushed on arXiv.
Any time someone points out crap science and the placebo effect on HN they get downvoted to hell. I'm not sure if people on HN just don't understand the placebo effect or don't want to, but it's usually best not to mention it here.
That's incorrect; as the OP said, how they drill is not the alleged issue.

I think you mean how they "produce". Two completely separate things. There are many production methods. Wells can be drilled in several ways, and several different kinds of production can happen on them.
Well, without wealth accumulation we'd still be hunting with sharp stones.

But yeah. 'In medio virtus est', etc.
THIS. So much This.

If you don’t like the Chinese playbook, don’t play in China. Your company does not have a right to the Chinese market on your terms - only on their terms. If you disagree, I’ve got a generic HCV drug market you (and Gilead) are going to love.
As computer engineers we understand it's doable. Give it a couple of centuries and our civilization could reach a computing capacity to simulate the entire observable universe

This seems at the very least questionable. Why do you think you can simulate the entire universe just using a tiny fraction of the resources of the universe? It seems to me that could only work if the universe were highly compressible and I don't see any obvious evidence for that. And even then I think it could not work because if the universe is in some sense redundant and could be compressed then it actually provides less resources to work with than if it would not have those redundancies.

Take as an analogy for the later two processors executing the same code in lockstep as it is sometimes done for redundancy in safety critical systems. You can mostly get away with only simulating one of the processors but you essentially also only have one processor to work with. And while you can probably simulate the processors on the processors the simulation will probably be at least ten times slower than the actual processor if you only want to use one tenth of the available resources, i.e. clock cycles. And finally memory will be a real problem because you only have as much memory available as you want to simulate.
Hypnosis has been well researched to be effective. Subliminal messages have been well studied to be bogus.
Our school actually had a pretty good programming curriculum for the time: Basic, Pascal, and C++. Unfortunately the instructor for all three progressed through the topics at an utterly glacial pace. As a result I would finish the assignment in the first 10 minutes and alternate between helping others and surreptitiously playing Master of Orion from my homework diskette.
Wonderful link, I have bookmarked it.

Unfortunately, if you try to access it through HTTPS, you get an invalid certificate, and a permanent redirect to the HTTP version. This could be better, nowadays.

$ curl --insecure --verbose https://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
[...]
> GET /freeonlinecourses HTTP/1.1
>
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Location: http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
> I would say that outside of Subway and arguably Mr. Sub, North Americans aren't a whole world better at making them

You've gotta try some more places then. The US is regionally overflowing with spectacular sandwich shops. Subway is at the bottom of the list not the top.

Try these guys if you ever get the chance:

https://www.jimmyjohns.com
What are the damages?
Shampoo & conditioner is another big area that's easily scammed. Very easy to fake product, very hard for customers to detect, and the costs are so low that getting caught isn't much of a deterrent.
yeah you can, if the barcode of the product has been covered over with a new barcode starting with X it's seller specific inventory
I would assume this build upon the JIT API in Hotspot, which was built for Graal.
It's complicated & kind of orthogonal. I am not trying to paint all religious people with the Pat Robertson-style example that I pointed out as egregious. This isn't an anti-religion post; it's just about the downside of thinking something was destined/planned/ordained just because it happened.
Well, the magic of this algorithm lies in the prerendered color map. Use the height maps and color maps from this engine and your result will also look much better.
Vibur 21.0: improved connections reuse and exceptions handling in edge case
Interesting talk from Bernie Sanders about wealth inequality and the state of the economy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao7iC9b5Mk0&feature=youtu.be

I know it's "political" but so is an individual having a net worth of $100 billion. It is well worth the watch unless, of course, you're a billionaire snowflake and don't like the reality that there are 500,000 homeless people and 45 million people living under the poverty line in America.
Yes, because when people are hit by a nuclear disaster, the last thing they need is to get drawn into a bitter, decade-long feud between two halves of the town, the "sellers" and the "remainers". And that's what your policy will bring about.

If you don't see why, imagine you own a home and the assessor says "Really? But your house is not any better than your neighbor's, and they have agreed to the price of $1M. Don't be so unreasonable."
I'm glad it was condensed and terse. I dislike skimming through long-form writing to get at the interesting bits.
Where UBI provides a lower-bound on income, and preliminary experiments are showing that it has no detrimental effect on the economy, perhaps we should think about the opposite.

It may sound like a bad idea that might put us in a communistic economic order, but just like UBI, we can perform experiments to see if a universal income-limit, UIL, has any negative impact.

But okay, Bezos will probably not be a proponent of that idea.
I would be all for changing the electoral college, but that would require the agreement of exactly the same people who are given disproportionate power by the electoral college.
> Once you have better lead time on an asteroid, and catch it coming rather than going, it's easier to intercept.

This will lead to a very high speed impact (in the order of 60 km/s) or more likely a high speed miss. Or require years of lead time to get the interceptor there after one orbit around the sun.

A high speed impact might still be interesting if there are enough scientific instruments to look at the debris. However, that needs a very very precise aim.

A much easier scenario is to catch it on the outbound leg like the paper suggests.
Ha! Carmack and I both grew up in Kansas, but I'm not quite that old yet. ;-)

I don't remember my classmate's name, unfortunately.
No, because it doesn't align with what people feel is right.