skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blaming Facebook in this is really weird. You didn't know about it because you weren't really friends. You were acquainted, yes, but you didn't actually keep in touch. If it weren't for Facebook you'd never consider him a friend, just some guy you knew.
I'm sorry this seems insesnsitive, but Facebook isn't reality, and it's a company trying to make money. It should be accountable for the damage it does for society, but it can't be accountable for the way we manage our friendships. That part is our responsibility as humans.
In pseudotime, a timestamp is a <<siteid, clock time at that site>>. The clock time only has meaning within that site; just because t1 < t2 does not mean that an event at t1 actually happened before t2, because the second server may have a higher id, or may be running faster. While the mechanism permits all servers to unambiguously order the two events in the same way, the actual time cannot be taken too seriously unless they are well outside the uncertainty interval of the clock sync algorithm. But a client does not know what the uncertainty interval is, so one can only make an educated guess.

Google's spanner makes that uncertainty a first-class entity; all timestamps are (equivalent to) a pair of <<start,end>>, where the actual real time is guaranteed to be somewhere within that interval. There is no siteid to disambiguate timestamps. The time is globally meaningful, which makes it trivial to make time-oriented queries, or instant global snapshots ("give me the values of these 20 objects at 10:02 am"). In that sense, the times are not really "synthesized". The coordinator picks a time to associate with the transaction, and that time is meaningful globally.
See, this is the same thing that has turned me off since the very first time I heard of neural nets.

I have no interest at all in a solution that can’t be explained. That’s not a solution, that’s a remedy.

I don’t have a lot of time for humans that know things but can’t articulate them. Why would I make time for a computer that does the same? It doesn’t even earn the courtesy of give a human.

I was drawn into this field by the idea of understanding things and solving problems with them. If AI can’t “show it’s work” homework style, then it might find me a shorter route to the mall but it hasn’t solved anything.
The ability to simulate small molecules and reactions at a quantum level will be truly profound.

The limiting step in being able to manufacture any small organic molecule from raw materials is algorithmic. Imagine a molecule printer that can compile a set of synthesis steps for an arbitrary molecule via simulation. It's not as far-fetched if we can simulate hypothetical reactions easily:
http://www.nature.com/news/organic-synthesis-the-robo-chemis...
>"Even if scientific progress is impossible, what is your justification that any other source of knowledge (such as culture) would be reliable?"

We'll get to that later. Over the course of this debate we've been flitting around from idea to idea, I'd like to restore some focus.

Going back to the question I asked previously about the humours, my question was not "did the theory arise from the application of the scientific method?", but rather "could the theory have arisen from the application of the scientific method?". In other words, take what you know about the humours, could this have arisen through application of the scientific method (observation, testing of hypotheses, etc...)? Now that I've hopefully clarified the question, what is your answer?
That depends on the quality of the place.

An average pub might choose these glasses with the legal markings at 125, 175 and 250mL, which probably makes the 250mL serving seem quite full.

A nicer place will have larger glasses, or serve the smaller amount.

http://www.drinkstuff.com/products/product.asp?ID=21754&catI...
Academia Paper – A Medical Device Design Guide
> Existing technology will get us 2TB SDXC cards.

Which is an incredible thing in and of itself.
Regardless of the ethics of apple’s decision here, iOS’ market share makes it pretty clear it’s worth it. Does it not?
From Mr. Robot's own Whiterose: There are no coincidences.

Or rather, from my perspective, of course there are coincidences; it's just that I don't trust them.

... and I need to be able to trust my tools.
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Toyetic
Less work is great.
I would honestly like to know who thought this was a good idea. Screw the press release of "we"
The usual proxy is the stock market.
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FEOL = Transistors, so all the fuss about FinFETs, GAA-FETs, carbon nanotube FETs, etc.

BEOL = Interconnects. You know, the stuff that's RC quadratic and ~80% of the power consumption.
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RaiBlocks is designed from the ground up for scalable instant txs and 0 fees
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Deny them all because they tend to be obtrusive and when I did allow a select few, they were frequently of little value or importance. Since denying them all I get more done and am not subjected to frequent interruptions.
Well of your essential features, the only one lacking in Amarok would be AppleScript, though you can still write scripts for Amarok in QTScript, which is fairly similar to JavaScript. [0] (Amarok runs on Linux, Windows and macOS).

For what you're using it for, I'd probably using SQLite, and a mix of DB Browser for SQLite [1], which is kinda like Excel for SQL.

DB Browser can also export records to file. So if you had something like watch running on a folder, you can trigger a script as soon as that happens.

My vague thought process:

DB Browser entry:

kind entry play?
music KickassSongILike

You click KickASSSongILike, and type y in the play box.

A Python script, called by watch watching the db, sees the change and uses something like mp123 to play the file. When it's done, or rather when the process for mp123 stops, so you can stop a song playing, it changes play? back to 'n'.

But honestly, you'd do a lot better just building it as a GUI app from scratch.

Easiest would be Python, which comes with Tk for graphics, and SQLite for database. Probably a weekend to get you 3/4, and then... Well it depends on the hard parts.

The hard parts are:

* Sync. Sync with what? And how does that thing officially support extensions? Or what workarounds are currently used instead?

* AppleScript. AS doesn't get much love anymore, even from Apple. Integrating it isn't an easy thing.

As a way to explain how simple most of this is, I'll explain it in terms of SQL:

* Multiple libraries = Multiple tables.

* Tags = A second table, filled with tags, that you query via JOIN.

* Playlists = A second table that references primary keys of individual song records.

* Sync = Compare last-updated fields between backup db and current db, then using developer API to update your sync service.

[0] https://amarok.kde.org/en

[1] http://sqlitebrowser.org/
The main problem is that the request to allow notifications pops up the first time you visit a site, at a time when you have no idea yet how much you like and trust the site. This leads me to always permanently deny them (because the second and third time I visit the site, I am still unlikely to know them well enough, so the popups would just be annoying). Then, after that, the notifications have been permanently denied, and you don't get a chance to re-enable them anymore.

So sites should never ask to enable notifications by default, but instead have an easy-to-find-but-not-too-obnoxious button on the homepage to later enable them. (I don't even know if this is technically possible at the moment.) I would still do this for <1% of sites, but at least the functionality would be useful and usable. A Javascript pop-up div in a corner might be acceptable when you visit the site for the 5th time or so.
That point of view is outdated.

Hence Roslyn, .NET Native with VC++ backend, value types improvements and safer pointers in 7.x.

There are even plans to slowly move parts of the runtime from C++ into C#, now that .NET Native is a thing.

"
So, in my view, the primary trend is moving our existing C++ codebase to C#. It makes us so much more efficient and enables a broader set of .NET developers to reason about the base platform more easily and also contribute"

https://www.infoq.com/articles/virtual-panel-dotnet-future

https://www.infoq.com/articles/high-performance-dotnet
Let's talk about this. Americans go do medical tourism because even the relatively poor to lower middle class Americans can afford luxury medical care in third world countries, what the ordinary citizens in those third world countries can't even dream of.

By the way current day US citizens have may be a factor of thousands times more opportunity, freedom and economically supportive ecosystem in all of human history combined, including the current humans anywhere in the world.

I can say this as a Indian, who stayed for a few years in the US and came back to India.

Little do US citizens realize how easy they have it and how much privilege they have compared to the remainder for the world.
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That image will prove valuable to me.

Now - whenever people accuse me of never finishing anything I shall respond that I'm actually achieving TRL2 across a broad front.
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Lispchain – a blockchain implementation (sketch) in Common Lisp
Pretty much. I only accept them for about 4 sites in total. Anything else, I can't imagine any reason I would accept notifications from them. As far as I'm concerned, "if you want me to see your content in a timely fashion, publish an RSS feed and if I like your site I'll subscribe". This intrusive browser notification stuff is lame.
1,000 #Lexmark Printers Are Vulnerable Today
For what it is worth my own "toy" project for self-hosted dynamic comments does exactly that.

I support Redis and SQLite for hosting comments, and it should be possible for another user to contribute support for different backing-stores.

Plugins are supported for spam-detection, which lets me use the https://blogspam.net service (which I host) for doing real-time blog/forum spam detection.

My project is here:

https://github.com/skx/e-comments/
As the document clearly states matrix transformations are not part of the core curriculum in both topics[0]. You also know that not every German student goes through this curriculum at all.

[0]: Yes, it's just a multiplication which is taught but be honest: How many students will come up with that on their own without being told?
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Github:

https://github.com/clemahieu/raiblocks
Aside from the publicity side, what irks me more about this statement is the "we will change some processes because of this" part.

IMO, this is not a process-related problem. The fact that you have a way to install software on my computer without user feedback or the user's consent plus the possibility to hide that installation (read: backdoor) isn't due to a process.

It displays a fundamental misunderstanding of what users expect of you. This neatly ties in with the pocket integration, as it basically is the same issue - only then, we knew about it.

Edit: Yes, I know, backdoor is a harsh word for something non-targeted, but considering what potentially could happen, a process change doesn't fix this.

Also, the moment we have to pick each FF update apart for hidden extensions is the moment FF has lost its reason to exist, as far as I'm concerned.
Would you please stop posting flamebait and unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?

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Some git guis log the git commands they execute. Just look at those.
I allow them for Slack and Gmail. That's it.

If you have a news/entertainment/social media site that ask for notifications, I immediately see your site as spammy.
This is not a response to your post in general, however it is "Berners-Lee" not "Burners-Lee" as your own sources will confirm.
Looks pretty, but I don't need yet another app with it's hooks into my social media/email etc.
I think it is not as binary as this. I too have friends that I do not see often, but what makes them friends to me is that no matter for how long we do not meet, as soon as we meet our relationship is the same as the last time we met.

Friends are not always those who you meet every day, but those that give you the feeling of happiness when you have them around, at least for me.
> If it weren't for Facebook you'd never consider him a friend, just some guy you knew.

If you re-read the post, this is inaccurate. The friendship began elsewhere.

>Facebook isn't reality, and it's a company trying to make money

It is a company whose value proposition (to non advertisers) is its being reflective of or enhancing reality. This as opposed to, say, warcraft.

>it can't be accountable for the way we manage our friendships

Managing friendships is exactly facebook's purpose. If it claims to be the best way to manage a friendship, and bad things happen as a result of presumptions the company makes in the course of managing said friendship, it's sane to associate facebook's tooling around friendship management with the actual management of friendships.

If I sign up for facebook under the pretense of "see what happens to my friends", and then sort by recency, if recent things that happen to my friends do not appear, that is, IMO, a legitimate grievance.

Facebook might not owe this user anything, but that doesn't mean they can't wish for better service. A person missed the death of their friend because they were second guessed by an algorithm that has gradually torn control from the hands of users and downgraded reality and chronology to foster "engagement". That sucks.
No, it actually isn't. To actually lobby Congress on behalf of a company you need to register as a lobbyist. Very, VERY different than a constituent calling their representative.
Why is the "Chief Marketing Officer" apologizing?

Is he the person in charge of which code gets shipped to Firefox users? If so, that seems rather bad, and it ought to stop.

If not, maybe the person in charge (probably the CTO) should be the one apologizing for letting them ship this thing?
The actual article ( shorn of the breathless "oh my gosh" university PR department hype ) is:

Silicon CMOS architecture for a spin-based quantum computer
M. Veldhorst, H. G. J. Eenink, C. H. Yang & A. S. Dzurak
Nature Communications 8, Article number: 1766 (2017)
doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01905-6

It can be found free at:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01905-6

ABSTRACT:
"Recent advances in quantum error correction codes for fault-tolerant quantum computing and physical realizations of high-fidelity qubits in multiple platforms give promise for the construction of a quantum computer based on millions of interacting qubits.

However, the classical-quantum interface remains a nascent field of exploration. Here, we propose an architecture for a silicon-based quantum computer processor based on complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology. We show how a transistor-based control circuit together with charge-storage electrodes can be used to operate a dense and scalable two-dimensional qubit system.

The qubits are defined by the spin state of a single electron confined in quantum dots, coupled via exchange interactions, controlled using a microwave cavity, and measured via gate-based dispersive readout.

We implement a spin qubit surface code, showing the prospects for universal quantum computation. We discuss the challenges and focus areas that need to be addressed, providing a path for large-scale quantum computing."
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I recently got this monitor arm by VIVO from amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NH0HTM5/

It is just $29 and the quality is decent and it holds my 32 inch 4K lg monitor with no problem. There is a weight limit so check your monitor weight before you purchase, but do NOT spend more than that on a monitor stand, most of them are identical.
It's what was there with bower but that has a lot of problems as well. So many in fact that everyone has moved to npm
the inferred reference you're missing is the 'all asians are good at math' stereotype.
There are ways to gauge interest without asking. The classic "getting 70% closer and letting the other person kiss" is one way.

I'm not saying people should be able to kiss someone out of the blue, but if it feels like the other person is interested (for example if they reciprocated your flirting) then I don't see the issue with trying.

I did ask for a kiss more than once when I was socially inept; it killed the mood every time. Never again. The same people I asked came around later and I had meaningful relationships with them. So don't tell me "attitude like yours"

Edit: I should add that different people have different ways to see it, I get that. For example some women might like being asked if they want to split the bill, seeing it as a sign of respect, others might not like it at all. So one has to decide case by case.
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Been thinking about trying out Pi-hole, are there any better alternatives?
This does not always follow the rational way. If you hack society, and society rejects the hack- you can end up in a concentration camp.
Having used Pomodoro extensively in the past, the short breaks are short enough to allow you to stay "in the mode/zone".

The trick to that seems to be that the break is something mundane like walking around, getting a drink; not focusing your attention on something else.
>you can imagine that when trying to decide what to do in response to something like this that many people need to have their feedback taken into account before any statements are made or actions taken.

If only such care was put into deciding whether or not to ship adware in your browser, maybe you guys wouldn't have this problem.
Please don't be uncivil on Hacker News, regardless of how much someone knows about swap.

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Selling an iPhone does not entail selling of the sim card and carrier service previously associated with it.

The supercharging is a service, not a product.
A legitimate question in my opinion
3D Printing a Violin with Kaitlyn Hova (podcast)
The first computers actually predate them.
Why does the marketing department have the power to force install things on my computer? What the hell is the technical leadership doing at this company?

What the hell is the data protection officer doing? I hope they have one at least.
Whitepaper: Revolution of blockchain technology [pdf]
Michael Nielsen also has a really nice, accessible series of intro videos: http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/quantum-computing-for-the-det...
somehow i don't think this is going to make drugs cheaper, the development pipeline will still take years, cost billions, and costs hundreds/thousands $ per year per consumer ..and probably won't cure anything but just be another lifelong pill
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Even if true, this does not support the claim that Britains consume significantly more wine than in 1700. (Which may be true but it’s not supported.) If anything it would suggest that higher end wine is sold by the glass or bottle... again the source does not claim otherwise.
Running dotnet core web application in Ubuntu Core
I love that on HN someone always is an expert in the topic at hand and can provide some interesting knowledge. Thanks!
Wait, where can you purchase 2 TB drives at $20 USD?
>We quickly settled on Electron as a platform to build the app.

I guess the "small" only refers to the window size and not to the resource usage. Even the application bundle size is 160 megabytes. Holy fucking shit.
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If mozilla is willing to ship adware in their browser, how can i continue to trust them? the fact that this advertisment was innocuous is totally irrelevant, the problem is that there's nobody in the chain between marketing and product release that had the sense to say "hey, that's a terrible idea, we shouldn't do that to our users".
Out of the constituent exchanges only Kraken has USDT markets. Though I am not sure if they have difficulties in cashing out USD or not.
What's with the points I gain for clicking on different parts of the website? It's nice that I'm a "Pro User" now, but also a tad odd.
To me, this indicates that the pattern of wine drinking has changed over the years, not the quantity.

"A glass of wine with you, sir" was a friendly thing to say at the table, and resulted in both parties filling and downing an entire glass. The small glasses seem to be a way of carrying that on over the course of a large meal with a dozen people without any of them actually dying.

Accounts of those meals also talk of going through around 2 bottles of wine per participant. In the article photo, the bottle looks about the same as it does today.
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