skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh...

The Nile river valley in Egypt and the coast of the Maghreb was very much a part of the Mediterranean sea network back to the beginning of recorded history. The Phoenician alphabet is actually the ancestor of basically every written language save Chinese and its descendant scripts.

But you're clearly ignoring North Africa. Even without North Africa, Africa was still very much connected to the wider Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Indian and Chinese worlds. Musa I of Mali was the person who gave away so much gold on his pilgrimage from Mecca that he literally broke the economy. The crest of the Niger river was a major center of learning (Timbuktu, Djenne), and the geography was known as far back as Greek times. The Ethiopian highlands were early converts to Christianity, breaking off from "mainstream" Christianity circa 200. The Indian Ocean coasts provided one of the major sources of trading fleets for the vibrant Indian Ocean trade, again back at least to Greco-Roman times.

That's the stuff I know off the top of my head.
Spectre and Meltdown starting the year off with a bang
Yes, I don't see why you can't include a couple of legacy USB ports.
RL/DRL assumes world is Markovian, i.e. past doesn't matter between two states, which is way too simple. It requires huge amount of tries/episodes and properly tuned exploration-exploitation ratio. It is somewhat based on biological reinforcement learning, so there might be basis in reality as it is with convolutional neural networks and visual field maps in visual cortex (even if very rough approximation). DRL is the technique that allows modeling decisions; so for predictions you have CNN/RNN/FCN, for generation GANs and for decisions DRL; together they are closest to AGI we have right now.
I agree, I bought a laptop a few years back and it came with a touchscreen display. The only time it was of any use was when the Linux touch-pad drivers started playing up.
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Magsafe is such a great connector. Incredibly stupid to get rid of it.
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I always find security measures on old-school systems interesting. They always seem more geared towards keeping semi-honest mischief makers out than serious security. Which makes sense, based on the context of the time I guess.

IIRC, the Xerox Pilot OS was purely cooperative multitasking with a single shared address space.
There's this app called Google play music. It will stream your entire music library to your phone.
I think it is tapping into the concerns of some, like for instance Alan Kay, that television, apps, screens, media, etc have successfully captured a good portion of the attention span of a very wide swath of our population. It questions whether or not this is a good thing, especially for kids, and whether they would be better served removed from this exposure, or if isolation in itself presents risks..ie social development. I guess I agree with the sentiment, but I don't think people need to go to the extremes. The 'extreme' thing I did was get rid of the T.V., so basically I'm the only person with kids that I know that does not have one in their living room...I guess that's weird enough?
It's not the quality I was referring to. Look at the main image sequence. The images from 0 to, say, Day 5 show the kind of progressive refinement I expected: the network is improving its image over time. Each image is a refinement of the previous.

But compare the images from Day 5 the end. Eye colour is changing and then changing back. As is the background. And the hair colour. The position of the parting. Whether the mouth is closed or showing teeth. Day 16 is not an intermediate point between Day 9 and Day 18.

If it runs for another couple of days, would we get another version like Day 16?

That's what I mean by instability.
Daaang, I hadn't even thought of that.
Do I have this right: your State says your medicine is legal to buy, the Federal government says it's not illegal, but whoever controls "federal insurance" prevents normal use of the banking system for companies that are in the supply chain?

Who decides on the rules for those using "federal insurance" and why do they override state law on what's legal to sell?

Why can banks refuse your cash? Why do they?
The intent seems to be "how to get a job in this area", not a comprehensive map of everything out there.

It's pretty messy, as it is.
What legitimate liquidity aggregator is going to hold the counterparty risk for PotCoin/HempCoin and have banking relationships? Because once the Weed-coins are sold for BTC and given to a liquidity aggregator in jurisdictions where marijuana/hemp are illegal that becomes money laundering.

Cryptocurrencies that dodge regulations do not; their value is backed by the greater fool theory and the fact that this new retail wave aren't too familiar with AML/KYC/counterparty risk

To address your last point, a non-gubmint backed stablecoin would address that, but then again, perpetual motion devices would probably stop energy issues.
i think a delivery service rolling their own would be highly unlikely, and it would be much more probable that they lied about the nature of their business somewhere along the line to their processor/bank/etc to get the ability to accept cards.
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Likewise, though I guess my style of commenting is a bit argumentative.
Go buy Monero from local Monero.
When programmers and mathematicians use the word "trivially" it really means "I'm smarter then you".
There's nothing wrong in theory with someone claiming copyright over white noise. If someone else blatantly copies their white noise, they are perfectly within their rights to file a copyright claim.

However in this case it does seem to be youtube's content matching algorithm that is finding the match (as far as I can tell, but it's hard to know for sure). My guess is that their matching algorithm just doesn't work well for white noise.
> but there are no known exploits impacting customers at this time

known by whom? Apple? Then say "we do not know of any exploits". Is the answer different for the NSA? Who the f knows?
Intel CEO cashed in on shareholding after becoming aware of chip flaws
Who else came here looking for Obama's tone, thinking they had turned Obama's inflection into a virtual instrument?
On my youtube channel I use Kimiko Ishizaka's open source bach recordings (under CC0) as background music. I got copyright claims every single time (from the same trolls -- forget their name). Eventually, when replying I got the idea to say, "You have made a claim on the same recordings for every single one of my videos. You have subsequently relinquished the claim when you discovered that I had a license to use this music. Given that you know that I have a valid license, you seem to be acting in bad faith. Please do not flag my videos again".

And, you know what? It seems to have worked. They never flagged me again.
Can't pay rent in cryptocurrency. No one is going to pay you directly in cryptocurrency so that's a problem. No cryptocurrency is stable enough to allow for ordinary small business levels of operating margins. It sounds pretty terrible actually.
While I figure most of us using Ubiquiti Networks gear in our home have local VM servers that can host the controller, there are some houses where this is not the case. But in those cases, you can still run the controller in a VM on your main workstation, configure the gear, and then shut down the VM. I don't think it needs to keep running to operate the gear once it's booted. I think if you power-cycle the gear, you'd need the VM up.

I really appreciate Ubiquiti going to such lengths to allow one to install the controller locally, which in turn means you can configure and manage your gear without any cloud meddling.
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> Do I have this right: your State says your medicine is legal to buy, the Federal government says it's not illegal

No, the second half is wrong; the Feds say it is absolutely illegal, but also not a prosecution priority. Well, except the “not a prosecution priority” part just got a little less clear.
That is good to know!

But my point was that you can run OpenWrt on very small devices[1], but not pfSense. It is true, of course, that today's bandwidth requires more powerful devices.

[1] A friend of mine works in embedded systems, and to him 16 MiB of RAM would be ginormous.
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Same situation here - also came close to pulling trigger on Ubiquiti gear. The Google Wifi has been gloriously simple and fast for me.

My only real criticism is the insane way it installs updates - at any time, on occasion during online work conference calls, taking the network down with it. The lack of any UI to configure this behavior is maddening.
In CO they look like ATMs to the bank rather than a point of sale terminal.
If you're enough floors up: descending in an elevator then immediately ascending by the stairs works wonders for the sedentary body, and the mind. I also do this sometimes when hacking through lunch to trick my mind's context, then reverse the journey to start the afternoon.
What's wrong with copyrighting a particular concrete example of white noise? A particular string of randomly generated bits? The fact that an algorithm just hears generic white noise is the algorithm's problem.
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From what I can see it does support IPv6 -- https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005868927-UniFi-H... is their own help article on the topic; it doesn't look difficult. It may even come standard in newer firmware. The one caveat I have with UBNT gear is that the stuff you get out of the box always seems to be outdated; I fought a friends ER-X for a few hours until I realised it was running old firmware that lacked some stuff I needed. That said, that might just be a quirk of living in New Zealand...
Still have this problem on my Dell Precision 5510. Latest BIOS update somewhat made it happen alot less often though.
Some reasons:

If it has wireless then you enter a minefield of regulatory and approvals pain. I suspect that under the current fcc rules you can't sell hardware that isn't locked to its firmware (because if you did users would be able to freeband).

There already exist some products that pretty much meet the requirement so the niche for pure play OSS is even smaller than you might imagine. e.g. Mikrotik sells a huge line of products running Linux under the hood. If you are familiar with kernel networking you can easily work with their CLI and UI. Very low cost. Does everything Linux does and is fcc approved.

One you get beyond super-low cost (e.g. into 10G NICs and wire-speed 1G routing) customers expect stuff to work, and with an OSS kernel plonked onto someone else's hardware it probably won't 100% work. This again constrains the niche within which pure OSS is viable.
The fair value is based on the usefulness as a currency, which means other people accepting it. If it is withdrawn so much that the price is so low and there are so few believers left, then this is in fact the fair price, and equal to its utility as money.
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Yes, there are an almost intimidating number, but any individual developer will only know a small fraction of these technologies in any great depth.
In that vein, you may really like The Power of Full Engagement.
For what its worth, most benchmarks and tests back up the OP was saying, that Ubiquiti stuff just doesn't have the range and speed of mid to high end consumer routers.

edit: And I am not trying to say they are bad, just that they were designed for other priorities than throughput and range.
Basically, you have some code that says "go read a byte from kernel memory. if the high bit of that byte is true, then access page X of memory".

Normally, that code will just error out right away.

But if you add a new branch before the code (such that the branch is taken to avoid the code, but the CPU predicts the branch to NOT be taken), the CPU will speculatively execute the above code just past your branch. The speculative execution doesn't check for memory violations (because that takes time).

Normally, that's cool: if the new branch IS taken, there is no harm because the the result of the (bad) kernel access will be thrown away. If the new branch IS NOT taken, the CPU notices the bad access and complains.

But if you are extra devious, you can ensure that page X is NOT cached when running this code. After, you check if page X suddenly got cached. That tells you the value of the high-bit of your kernel memory. Keep scanning all the bits and you can read out all of kernel memory.
Dang > Chuck Norris

Hey, c'mon, you gotta admit, that cordless phone thing was pretty damn funny!
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I don't think that is needed on x86, since cache coherence is guaranteed in a very strong way. Maybe needed on ARM, but hey, if you're running ARM we already know you don't care about performance ;)

All in all I think the only legit use may be in benchmarks.
That would be silence, or, the absence of music; not white noise. Seriously this is insane that there is a claim against this.
lol, crypto isn't magic. Security through obscurity is not a solution. We're trying to move away from that tor blackmarket world.

People need security through legality. This just needs to be... not illegal.
Why? Moving is expensive, stressful, and potentially fraught with risks as any major change in life can be. You do that, all while knowing with certainty that of the 7+ billion on Earth, few would move to accommodate you.

So why? Out of the unrequited goodness of your heart?
So nothing required on hardware side? I was under the impression that OEMs need to send out BIOS/UEFI Firmware updates or at least CPU Microcode updates but doesn't look like Apple is planning to do so.
Cochran's popular science book has no scientific backing or support from working scientists and peer reviewed articles. In particular, human genomics can easily refute the idea of brain functional changes in the last 10K years. Our ancestral populations that colonized EurAsia, Africa, and the Americas diverged before the 10,000 mark, and there are no discernible cognitive differences between any of these groups.

Furthermore, this is why Cochran is considered a racist; correctly so.
After the Intel microcode update it shouldn't be. At least according to Intel.
Could it be that most hardware vendors feel that their value-add is in software? Or they feel offering something like OpenWRT would cannibalize sales of their higher end offerings like VPN routers?

I will not buy a router if I can't flash OpenWRT on it. It's a requirement for me now.
Some of us would be terrified, but also excited about the prospect of studying a supermassive black hole from the inside. You know what I mean? Some things are just so singular and incredible, and so to the heart of a given field of interest, that “glorious” is a perfect word to describe it. An alien invasion of Earth would be a nightmare, but for some it would be the moment they could finally move past the realm of the hypothetical.

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In the past, in Bulgaria, gypsies used to illegally connect to the electricity network to avoid paying bills. Nowadays there's a shift in that trend - there are numerous cases of people running mining farms the same way.
> Federal government says it's not illegal

Pot is still illegal at the federal level. Though the Obama-era DOJ deprioritized enforcement. Jeff Sessions just rescinded this policy. So I'd expect to see some new cases dealing with pot end up in federal court.
Haiku has run all GUI applications as root since forever, so as soon as you got RCE you could install a rogue keylogging driver silently. Obviously fixing that is higher up on the priority list than KPTI... and it's unclear when we'll get around to that, even. :(
The gear can be power cycled without requiring a controller. The only reason to need the controller running constantly is if you want stat collection.
>9 states should not be able to dictate what occurs in the other 41 states and vice versa.

Because the 41 states are dictating to the 9 states that pot should be illegal, not the other way around.
Ubiquiti does NOT outperform consumer oriented routers in the market. It doesn't even perform as well as some of its commercial competitors.

Ubiquitis work great and have a lot of great features, but range and throughput are not where they shine.
'wireless routers' usually work fine as an access point + Ethernet switch when you disable dhcpd and don't use the wan port (nice ones let you use the wan port as another lan port). They're usually cheaper than a dedicated access point too.
At least in scientific computing this applies. And note I say most decent implementations, so I assume you took it to a language without performance issues like C/Fortran/Rust/Julia/Go/etc. and got rid of temporary allocations, made sure you looped in the correct ordering, etc. After you do all of that, for mathematical and scientific problems you tend to hit a wall. [BLAS libraries tend to be within that range of each other](https://github.com/barche/julia-blas-benchmarks/blob/master/...), which pretty much directly means that regression, linear classification, etc. libraries are all going to be within this amount. Different differential equations solvers which are sufficiently optimized with the same algorithm tend to be within that amount from each other. Neural network libraries tend to be within that amount from each other. General optimization algorithms over a large class of problems tend to be the same. That doesn't mean it's not a worthy enterprise to keep making the "general fallbacks" better, indeed this helps everyone.

If you're looking to make your machine learning software faster, writing a new piece of fundamental GPU code to beat cuDNN could possibly be faster but probably won't get you very far. But changing your model to better match the data could make the problem orders of magnitude easier.
The https://www.gl-inet.com/ routers are awesome and ship with OpenWRT, with their custom web interface on top, you can also flash them with the latest OpenWRT and depending on the model they support vlans and some have micro sd card readers built in, fantastic fun :-)
Yeah, I saw you can do it manually, but what's the point of paying for custom hardware with nice interfaces when you have to switch to a config file for really basic functionality? At that point, might as well stick with bodged consumer stuff.
It would be nice to see a timeseries correlation.
Counterpoint, I have an older 9343, FHD, Broadwell-gen XPS 13.

I bought it used, from the outlet, on a lark. This was the consumer version, not even dev.

The damn thing's been the laptop equivalent of a Kabar knife. Deleted the Windows install and tossed Ubuntu on there. Then drops, generally rough treatment, and it's still running happily. No coil whine at all.

The only complaints I have were that the SSD was the Samsung model with serious degradation issues (solved via replacement), and the mouse was finicky until some patched drivers made it upstream.

I feel like quality control issues are a fact of life nowadays. (Aside from LG, because seriously, #&@$ that company for the 5x bootloop handling)
I think the title is a little aggressive - it presupposes that an ICO buyer received a "tip" with inside information. While that's not an unreasonable thing to consider with respect to an angel (or larger) investor who has substantial contact with the company/people behind the ICO, arbitrary retail-level speculators who are just throwing money at anything using the word "blockchain" or "ICO" aren't likely to be punished by the SEC for having too much information.

Instead, they'll be punished by the market for being idiots. But that's a different sort of thing.
Can we expect a pre-mined FB coin? Mobilecoin maybe...
> Our testing with public benchmarks has shown that the changes in the December 2017 updates resulted in no measurable reduction in the performance of macOS and iOS as measured by the GeekBench 4 benchmark, or in common Web browsing benchmarks such as Speedometer, JetStream, and ARES-6.

This is incredibly deceptive, because web workloads are precisely the sort not expected to be impacted by Meltdown most. As I've written elsewhere, it's syscall heavy workloads targeting fast devices, like database software on PCIe SSDs, that will suffer the greatest slowdowns.
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SB 828 would double the amount of zoning capacity that each city is required to provide in the Housing Element report (currently each city must provide zoning capacity for only 100% of estimated RHNA population growth; this would increase it to 200%) and carry over approval deficits (currently if a city does not approve any housing, the deficit is forgiven every 8 years and the city can reuse the unbuilt parcels in the next Housing Element report). https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

SB 829 would allow farmers to build farmworker housing https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

All of these bills have just been announced by Senator Wiener (https://medium.com/@Scott_Wiener/california-needs-a-housing-...) and may be watered down, heavily amended, or dropped over the next year.