skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying that difference is called anything in particular but I can expect wildly different results from interacting with a city than I can from a mound of coral or a termite nest.

Don't be so disingenuous with these ideas of abstract equivalence. Yes humans are arrogant sods but there is some sort of reason or reasons (that are likely not to be purely environmental) that have resulted in this outcome where we're having a conversion via electricity across the planet instead spending most our lives trying to roll a breadcrumb around never having a chance to know one another.

Something about this gig is different isn't it? Are you genuinely asserting that if we could take the brain of a (insert whatever animal you're considering) and put it in a human shell you wouldn't be able to tell the difference? That's extremely bold.
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> it's modern scientific dogma that the world is deterministic
Really? Maybe I've lost touch with dogma while working to complete my physics PhD with one of the big LHC experiments, but this sounds hyperbolic to me. Could you explain?

> Even if you take into account quantum uncertainty, as Hawking points out, it is determined probabilities.
That the probabilities are governed (determined?) by precise equations doesn't mean that quantum mechanics isn't stochastic; it gives us only probabilities. The indeterminacy principle is a better better name than the uncertainty principle. But perhaps I'm misunderstanding you.
Can you make the fact you're a shill any more obvious?
Q&A: Edward Snowden in Conversation with Jimmy Wales
compile: convert from one language to another (though usually used in the specific context of converting from high level source code to lower level code like assembly/machine/etc)

cross-compile: convert from one language to another that will be executed on another platform (e.g. compiling something on a linux box to be ran on a windows machine)

transpile: convert from one (typically high level) source language to another (high level) source language
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15048517

...

"Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates." [0]

We've found evidence in some animal or another for pretty much everything we've ever thought was unique about human cognitive abilities. So far, the only unique thing about humans is how broad and powerful our cognition is.

[0] http://fcmconference.org/img/CambridgeDeclarationOnConscious....
They are under no obligation to host the videos, but they can't just delete them. It's irresponsible, immoral and unethical.

By parallel, misprision of felony is a crime in the US:

> Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

There is a moral imperative created when someone else is giving you these records. It's like someone asking you to call 911. You don't have to go out looking for emergencies to call 911 about, but you do have to deal with it when one is dropped in your lap. In this case "dealing with it" just means retaining a copy and making it available on some terms.
"he had identified specific issues that he believed would eventually get exploited"

But those aren't the issues that were exploited. His post has absolutely nothing to do with the current issues. It's just uninformed dogpiling (the ignorance of the crowd).

All chips have errata. This post is not particularly informative or relevant to anything.
I had a production redshift cluster that underwent its scheduled maintenance and its queries took 10x longer afterword. I had another production m1.large which mysteriously started hitting 100% after maintenance - despite the fact that the other instances with the exact same software stacks were fine.

In both cases I had to recreate the instance/cluster because I had no idea what to root issue was
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I know I will sound like a conspiracy theorist, but can those bugs be intentional? I mean if you are a security agency, would it be possible to push for the introduction of such bugs?
I would think 3/4 hours is a very optimistic time to read any decent novel. Though I'm not really sure what the length of a decent novel would be but most books I have read would take at least 8 hours.
I feel the pacing, particularly in the HAL scene with long pauses between words, dramatically builds up the suspense.
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A 'Brief' History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning, Part 4 (2015)
Thanks for writing this. Every word.

I don't know of anyone's story that is perfect or perfectly told, the attention to the title and relevancy of this article seems a little bikeshedding to me.

This piece was uplifting and inspiring, but maybe not for some of the audience on hn as the demographic is shifting to a group that have had access to technology from an early age and don't know it as a priveledge. It's not their fault either, we're all products to some degree of our environment and upbringing.

I liked that this piece presents software engineering as a possibility for those who may have not known or considered it.

I was lucky to discover computers at a young age, but didn't have one of my own for a long while. Cue the imaginitive use of computer through reading books from the public library, and imagining my time at the computer. Ironically, a delay in getting a computer ended up giving me an unusual ability to step through code and processes mentally.

I can only imagine how my life would have turned out if i wasn't able to make tech accessible through hard work.

A message like this reaching every little boy and girl is not a wasted effort.

While not everyone will be a software engineer, or be one out of passion, some will gladly pursue it to improve the course of their and their family's future.

I read having a career to improve quality of life usually comes a generation before picking one for passion, and all parents who were once young people often gave up their passion, opportunity or education to survive and give their kids a chance.
Sure, and while we're at it, we should also not criticize faith healers who do parlor tricks with soggy sponges to cure people of cancer. After all those patients are desperate and spontaneous remission is a thing. So what, some of them might have had a better chance with a chemo or surgery but Land of the Free, right?

Look, as far as I'm concerned, as long as you're not hurting anyone (and that's asking a lot because addiction hurts more people than just the addict) you can seek out any nonsense therapy you want. Wave a chicken, swallow some sugar pills and pray the gay away.

But the second your ghost healing clinic becomes the industry standard and courts send people their under threat of punishment it's no longer fun and games. Those people could be helped if they received proper treatment but instead they get to waste their time (and worsen their health) by sitting through a so-called treatment that actually makes them less likely to succeed in overcoming their addiction.

Here's a web page that nicely summarises the problems with AA and its effectiveness: https://www.orange-papers.info/orange-effectiveness.html
> The nazis rose to a measure of acceptance in Germany in large part because of political violence on the left.

That’s inaccurate. It's true that a background level of political violence across the spectrum that started prior to the Nazis even existing was a factor in both the development of Nazi
ideology and methods and in why a solid anti-Nazi coalition was unable to form (and perhaps also a factor in why the ban on the Nazis based in part on their political violence was unable to be maintained politically), but this wasn't uniquely a characteristic of the left.
It's going to be a single cross-platform, static, Go binary, that launches your preferred browser in the background.

This is where go really shines in my opinion (generics or not :P). Cross platform just works; I was stunned when I installed go on windows and was able to build third party libs, and build and run exe's on windows.
NectarJS to offer JavaScript compilation-as-a-service
Ok, cool, thank you.

Yeah, I don't feel bad for the guy either. I hope he feels discomfort for the wrongs his enacted. That would, at least, make him human.
The car thing is true, but it is more prevelant among the blue trucks. One of my friends lost a father this way. However, it isn’t that common. Sometimes you’ll encounter some guy in the middle of the street lying down waiting for someone to help them, who they will then accuse of causing them to be hurt in the first place...chinese law and police just aren’t developed enough to avoid these kinds of scams. However, it isn’t super common anymore, and you have to find a grizzled expat to bear these stories.

For the most part they are just stories you talk about in a bar. It won’t effect you personally, not like the air pollution which finally convinced me to leave.
You may call it socialism, you could also call it capitalism without cancer (like lobbying).
What? That link doesn't support a "blank slate" argument at all. While I'm not a parent, ask any parent and they will tell you that their children show very different personalities from an incredibly young age. To act as if it is 100% nurture (or 100% nature) is ludicrous.
24 point game implemented in Python, just for fun
How Parents and Families Are Using GPS for Saving Time and Stronger Securit
Try looking outside your bubble of the US.

In Australia, after the local regulator/government started fining UberX drivers for illegally operating a taxi service (rightfully so IMHO), Uber told the drivers not to worry, continue driving and they’ll pay their fines for them.
The question was "language", not "abstract concepts". I am not aware of any modern definition of language that requires abstract concepts.

Signals of many kinds are however certainly integral to language. Why are Jose discounted in your point of view?
Apes are demonstrably aware of the future: https://www.livescience.com/2620-humans-apes-plan.html

And also demonstrably have a sense of morality:
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/19/health/chimpanzee-fairness...
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I have pretty much applied for every application round I could. I am also willing to do an internship if that’s what it takes to get my foot through the door. I was wondering if you’d refer me. Thanks :)
My mistake: I got mixed up and reported standard sampling rates for MEG.

You are, of course, correct.
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> Why would anyone want to move there?

Apart from chasing money and career, there are ridiculously few reasons to move there. Extreme hostility from official places (visa issues all the time, no citizenship), utter disregard for human rights on many levels of society, very bad air on most big cities where you end up living in 100% of the cases. I could go on and on and on.

If you want a south asia experience, places like Singapore or Kuala Lumpur are much much better.
Can someone show me an example of JavaScript code running in a browser that would display a password stored in kernel space?

Websites like the Guardian report that this is now the case but I don't understand how that's possible.
The policy is repugnant on multiple levels.
A Case for Undecidability via Self-Reference
I'm positive you can teach dogs to do sth unpleasant to get a treat later.

You don't even need to actually give it this treat every time.

BTW many horses died for their countries.
Squirrels don't even remember where they've buried the acorns. They just bury and dig, and with enough squirrels involved it works out. Its an instinct that happens to contribute to survival.
Or watching it collapse under its own weight: why does Visa even need to care as long as their transaction rate is 4-5 orders of magnitude better and their fees aren’t a whole multiple of most transaction amounts?
Cats are tool using as well: we are the tool.
> discerning of good and evil

Humans don't have such a capacity. The notions of 'good' and 'evil' have historically been in flux and went through many huge changes. Modern humans consider the typical behaviors of past humans as 'evil'.

Vikings - rape after conquering is good. People today: that's evil.

India until 2 generations ago - arranged marriage is good. Today that's evil.

Homosexuality - has oscillated many times between good and evil. In fact, different geographic regions will still have polar opposite views on this today.
It's not hard to gain support when you're selling dollars bills for half price.
I'm under the impression that prosthetics is one area where the VA does come through.

Both in terms of recognizing lost limbs as a service related disability and in terms of advancing the capabilities of the prosthetics.
The apartment thing...it’s very rare. Most likely to remind you to register at the PSB, I was always late and warned a few times, they never tried to fine me or anything. They aren’t really “checking” on you, honestly I’ve had worse experiences in Switzerland than China where they really do check on you (like the television tax guy entering my apartment to check that I really didn’t have a TV!).

Beijing was actually more lawless than the other first tier cities. The police are kind of paralyzed when they could easily pull over someone with enough guanxi to end there careers.
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There are so few foreigners in China relative to locals that they barely budge any population statistics.
While this is a much quicker solution in the short term, an engineer will have to context switch out of their work, watch the release go out and make sure nothing goes wrong—that all hurts productivity.

Perhaps it's less stressful and more natural for engineers to view deployment as part of "productivity." The assumption in these comments and many others I've seen across the industry is that engineers tend to view any work that requires context-switching away from coding as impeding their productivity. In startups you have to wear many hats even if you are an engineer, and it seems to me that maintaining the view that deployment is a drag on developer productivity is going to lead to a lot of unnecessary frustration. Why not just accept deployment as a part of "their work"?
Payment networks should be even less concerned, at least in the US, because they are excluded as MSBs (money servicing businesses) and the regulations that apply to MSBs
Is it possible to have something that does not use obscene amounts of electricity? Or would that be captured immediately by someone who can use more ressources = electricity?
Perhaps in another 20 million years the birds will go from carrying sticks to discovering antibiotics. Until then... I think we can still consider ourselves special.
Advanced Python Features
I also own 9360 with 1080p panel for half a year.

The only thing that bothered me was adaptive brightness (CABC) that was fixed in my case with an unofficial panel firmware at some risk to brick the device. Coil whine is perceptable only if I keep ear close to the keyboard. No other problems.

If there is someone from Dell here: please fix CABC! Unofficial patch proves that it can be done. It's especially important for linux devs who switch between dark terminal windows and browser: CABC increases backlight brightness if contents of screen are light, and decreases if it's dark. So, I switch from terminal to browser, brightness jump is already unpleasant as is, but then CABC kicks in, increases brightness and burns out eyes. Switch back to terminal -- too dark, difficult to see anything. How it's even supposed to work... Another unpleasant thing happens when CABC starts to adjust brighness back and forth while I edit code, it's highly annoing when it happens.

Edit: There were also a problems with Atheros WiFi, but new firmware from Atheros's github fixes them completely for me. Works stable since June 2017.
Spectre (2015), from IMDB:

> A cryptic message from Bond's past, sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the Secret Service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind S.P.E.C.T.R.E.

Catchy, on point pop-culturally and ominous.
Why don't you explain what you mean by that?
>After all, what use is a nuanced term if it can't reliably convey that additional information.

I would recommend the general term "A/B compiler" where A and B are arbitrary regular languages. That way it would be pretty clear what a Pascal/C compiler is, or a JVM/Webasm compiler, for instance. Or a x86/C compiler which would also make the word "decompiler" obsolete.
1 gigabit symmetric for €20/mo here in Lithuania. Assuming you like cold winters :-)

Back on topic, what hardware are people with these sort of speeds running? It seems most consumer routers usually top out around 500mbit for NATing. I’m currnetly using a Mikrotik Hex with RouterOS, but prefer OpenWRT/LEDE.
Not exactly, it's more accurate to say that once the SV volunteers had some breathing room from fixing healthcare.gov, some then became the core of what turned into 18f and USDS.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3046756/obama-and-his-geeks
Show HN: Never lost, Never give up
> It is effectively a monopoly in the desktop and server market

But it couldn't be better timing for ARM. AMD isn't the competition (Though this helps them a little bit) it really is all about ARM and it is going to get a lot more attension with this. Windows runs on ARM now.

CPUs can't get much smaller. It is now how many cores and thermal control you can place on a waffer. ARM has the advantage in both of those. We just have to learn how to utilize multiple cores better than we are now.
Intel's biggest threat is not AMD but ARM.
Not at all.

Many animals cache food for the winter.

Many animals will fight to the death to defend their territory, mates, or offspring.

Some animals cultivate crops, e.g, ants growing fungus.

Many animals actively forage to feed their offspring.
I think it's not unreasonable to think about the possibility of that. My understanding is that these bugs could have been exploited for a very very long time without being noticed?

I also wonder if one or more security agencies find a lot of their efficacy in just a small handful of exploits. And if those were to be patched, they'd find themselves severely hamstrung. So seen as a threat to national security, they have a strong need to ensure the availability of exploits.
Thanks for the link to `call_function_by_hand`, that's super helpful! In retrospect, I could have found this file by grepping for 'When the function is done executing, GDB will silently stop' (the very useful "grep for UI text" trick!)

the choice between whether to try to understand something by running or by reading the code is a super interesting one (though if I'm seriously interested in understanding exactly what some software does of course I'll do both!).

I think experimentation/stracing a program to understand it has a lot of advantages:

* It can be helpful to look at the system calls as a way to maybe see the big picture before diving into the code.("ok, it's setting some registers somehow, it's putting in some int3 instructions, then it does PTRACE_CONT, then it undoes all the changes it made").

* it lets me focus on what the program actually does instead of understanding how the code is organized (figuring out how the code in a large project I've never looked at before is organized can be time consuming!)

* It's easy to make incorrect conclusions when reading the source. This happens to me a lot when reading distributed systems code -- often I'll think "ok, if I do X, then Y will happen" but that turns out not to be true in practice. So I think even when you are reading code, doing experimentation as you go is a key part of making sure that your understanding of the code is actually correct.

* I find exploring programs interactively fun!

In this specific example -- I think it's really interesting that gdb modifies the `longjmp` function in libc when running a function. The string `longjmp` doesn't appear anywhere in infcall.c. So even though reading infcall.c seems like a great overview, it just has different information that I get from using strace!
> India until 2 generations ago - arranged marriage is good. Today that's evil.

Suggest you do some homework. Something like 80%-90% of marriages in India are still arranged. And most people are pretty happy with this situation, or at least no more miserable than "Love marriages" -- which remain highly controversial -- would make them.
There is a bit of a difference between being transsexual and having your limbs amputated as the result of an armed robbery.
We actually live in a symbiotic relationship with cats: we provide them with noms and warmth (and the cleaning of their litterboxes), they reward us with love. And the occasional thrown-off-the-table TV.
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Why not? In the grand scheme of things it's a simple case where the upside rewards are much greater than the downside risks.

It's the same theory behind venture capitalism. Your downside risk is only the amount of money you invest, your upside reward is that you may invest in what will become the next Facebook.

Yes I know that in reality most VC investors don't beat an index fund.
Cooper actually says "a people built this", not necessarily insisting it was humans or descendants of humans (though that was my impression too the first couple watch throughs).

The other thing to keep in mind is he does not actually have any way to know who (or what) built the tesseract.

Just like how Brand earlier states the spacetime curvature hand she shakes hands with is "the first handshake" (implying first contact with an extraterrestrial), but it actually just turns out to be Cooper. The characters are confident of things they think are right, without actually being totally reliable narrators.
Google investing $120M into China's e-sports
They sacrifice something - an abundant summer acorn - today to get something better - a scarce winter acorn - in the future. It's a clear counter example to the claim above.
Most interesting thing here is that this came without any prior notice to any parties in the process, effective immediately.

Sure looks like someone pressed a panic button.