skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had missed that an Altered Carbon tv series was going to be a thing. The books are excellent, hopefully they nail it.
Having homosexual thoughts 'is an essential part of human evolution'
I think survivorship bias, as you mention, is pretty powerful.
Let's hope the your-webcam-is-active LED is hardwired in hardware and not controlled by software or firmware in computers released from now and onwards.
This is an interesting detail from Ryan Sleevi

> So I don't think this buys any improvement over the status quo, and actually makes it considerably more complex and failure prone, due to the cross-sectional lookups, versus the fact that .invalid is a reserved TLD.

So it should be more likely for shared hosting services to recognize that .invalid is an explicitly reserved TLD, vs correctly walking subdomains and recognizing "effective TLDs" (which vary in number of dot-separated elements).
Look at how do they react to jokes. My observation is that all those destructive cult-like organization cannot laugh at themselves.
I think it's absolutely unreasonable to imply that this was intentional. Besides the massive amount of complexity these systems have, there are plenty of "legitimate" places to hide backdoors, instead of in a performance architecture decision.

Keep in mind that whatever "evil agencies" would have asked for this would most likely find themselves vulnerable, and nobody would sign off on.

I do agree, however, the "security by obscurity approach is quite frankly crap". The fact that even large corporations (not the big 5) can't even get away from ME speaks volumes about why this is a bad idea. Facebook isn't the only company with important data.
For me the 108 kernel boots fine, but breaks suspend. :D
You did notice that scarmig said a bit more than "born in Kenya", right?
Have you ever been to NYC? Manhattan, specifically? During rush hour?

I'm not sure if you're starting to make a market-based Rational-Man-type argument, but I'll cut you off and say: you don't have a choice BUT take public transportation, unless you can afford to take a helicopter and live and work right near helipads. Even an Uber/taxi can be an impossible nightmare time-wise during rush-hour.

Most people who commute in on the NJT/Amtrak (the topic of the parent submission) don't have the choice to take a car or walk.

The NY Metropolitan area is not the rest of the United States. The population density is like nothing else.
Nowadays, anyone who has a Medium account and took a single deep learning course can write about it and establish "authority". That's why.
Yeah ME is a scary thing also. WRT Linux, well my Xubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) is on 4.10 and no new kernels are available to ma ATM. So if they're going to patch my OS, that's probably going to be a backport to that version, not the latest release integrated to my OS version. I guess that's what caused this bug too, although I admit I only skimmed the conversation linked.
I understand your reasoning, but I disagree with your premise that "nature will take its course," creating a healthy, thriving ecosystem. Because this area has long been used for agriculture and other industries, it is likely lacking in biodiversity. Seeding it will allow a more resilient local ecology to develop. Let's remember that plants migrate slowly!
individual rights drive from government control law order etc., right?
Yes, the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, and amendments to that law are themselves laws.

They aren't statutes, which are a lesser and more-common form of law.
2018 things to know about federal tax codes
Exactly - the adaptive headlights on my 2014 grand cherokee at $1200 a pop greatly contributed to the decision to total the vehicle in a very minor collision when it was only 3 years old... (not to mention the $3000 radar sensor for adaptive cruise.)
I think an interesting thought experiment around this is:

Imagine we could automate literally every job. Even jobs that install, upgrade, and maintain the automation are automated. Any "work" that anyone wants to do is effectively unnecessary and would be considered volunteerism or someone learning and practicing new skills to expand their horizons. There's also artistic work; even if we had "creative AI" that could create music, radio, television (all completely lifelike CGI, of course), etc., there'd surely be a desire from creative people to still do this sort of work because they enjoy it.

Regardless, in this world, no one has a job and therefore no one gets paid. How do people live? Who gets what? Obviously you have to distribute "wealth" (whatever that means in this kind of society) in some manner that is independent of a person's contribution to society, since, by definition, it's not necessary to contribute to society at all. But how do you decide who gets how much? Do you just distribute the fruits of automation entirely equally among every person in the world?

Obviously we're many centuries or millennia away from this scenario, if we even ever get there without destroying ourselves in the process. But I think there needs to be some replacement for people whose jobs get automated away. Since our civilization still requires work in order to progress, I don't think we should just give those people a monthly check and say "have fun not working anymore", but at the very least we need to help these people along until they can find a new, better job. Perhaps companies that eliminate jobs due to automation should be required to pay out some portion of their new profits to employees who lost their jobs for a certain period. Think of it as extended severance pay. Some form of government assistance could also be an option after the terms of the severance pay expire, and could be funded by corporate taxes or simply a new branch of an expanded unemployment insurance program.
SFO -> LAX is a $79 roundtrip. In your mind, how does this compete on price?
I'm all for innovative methods like single transferable vote and agree they would be more effective than FPTP but I think this is logically distinct from whether we should decouple votes from geographical locations.
IE 5.5 with no box models would be a contender [1]

At Social Amp (2012), I was making cross domain single-page applications for sites like 1-800-Flowers, where we had to support back to IE6, but, since a tag was missing from the main website, we had to do some hacks to "shore up" IE6 so the padding would be there.

It's feasible to have some pretty sweet JS (backbone.js, easyxdm) on IE6. The limitation came from the engine's performance, stylesheet and js caps, and really strict rules on, dangling commas (memory is a bit fuzzy in which instances, but it'd crash our whole script). In some cases, there'd be no errors, and it'd just freeze it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_box_model_bu...
Once you join a company and start working full-time, aggressively volunteer to take on tasks that aren't your specialty. In any company there's always something that needs to be done but no one has the time to do - setting up release automation or test harnesses, build jobs etc. You not only learn more technical skills, you also get an idea of what other types of work you might enjoy doing.
It was a really odd graph to show actually, there's no context and it makes me suspicious. How are we supposed to know if all the memory improvements have come from atom or nuclide?
Everything you mentioned was probably originally created as a well-intentioned response to the fraud that sadly is rampant in social assistance programs.
> The labor market will eventually be destroyed. That's the end goal of automation and it is an achievable goal.

The destruction of the labor market requires more than just lots and lots of automation. You would need extremely capable general AI. Thus, I don't see the destruction of the labor market without entering a technological singularity. Since predictions about a post-singularity future are extremely hard to evaluate, I don't see how planning for it can accomplish much.

We can however make plans for the route that may lead up to that point. It behooves us to make plans for a labor market that has not been destroyed, but which is undergoing significant changes due to automation.
This is not the DRY you are looking for
In so many discussions on HN I see this silly myth of 30mph bicycles.

Did you know that in Sweden, the legal maximum speed of a electric bike is 15mph? Anything faster and it is classified as a moped and you need a driving license. Did you also know that the average speed of a bike in a city in the Netherlands is around 9mph? In context, a common running speed is 8mph.

So here is the stage. Two bikes are traveling more than 300% faster than the average speed and about 200% the legal limit of a electric bike, and they collide. My question would not be if that situation is safer if two pedestrians walk into each other, but rather why two bikes is traveling that fast in the first place.
I know. My comment was clearly tongue in cheek. As someone who worked in a company that makes Smart Home devices (Nest) I'm pretty aware that most devices have "safe" modes when they are not fully functional.

That said... I still find smart lightbulbs kind of overkill.
This case is explicitly about data scraping. If the site's TOS forbids scraping, but allows access, this decision says "scrape away".

Note, however, that this is a Ninth Circuit decision. If you don't live within the bounds of the Ninth Circuit, this decision doesn't apply to you.
Can't spell Ubuntu right, though.
Strictly speaking, what evidence is admissible is up to a judge. In a jury trial, what is legal is up to the jury. Juries can still nullify, as was made clear in the Zárate verdicts.
Alpine’s CarPlay receiver lets you put a big touchscreen in a single DIN slot
The only domains vulnerable to attackers are those pointed at the shared hosting provider with this issue. So you can protect your own domain by hosting it with a provider you know does not have this issue. And if a shared provider has this issue, they might have others which compromise the isolation of accounts/domains. And major websites which host themselves are not at any risk.
Just tell them that you’re using mturk.
I don't think it has anything to do w/ age. I believe that most people just see rules and laws as very firm, and unquestionable.
I want to be there for question 099.
And with the latest iOS 11.2.2, this (admittedly cool) piece of code no longer works.

Still works on the latest MacOS (10.13.2) though.
> Even by county, which is what a non-gerrymandered legislature would look like

No, it's not; legislative districts must be equal size because of one-person-one-vote; counties very much are not equal size. What things look like by county has little to do with what a “non-gerrymandered” legislative map would look like (which isn't even a uniquely objectively answerable question, since while there are some clear established improper goals in districting, there's no single accepted standard for correct goals, so there is a very wide range of potential non-gerrymandered ways of districting, which produce very different maps.)
So how do you get rid of the human backup driver? Until they go, this technology has negative cost-effectiveness. Remote manual control at slow speed for difficult situations? Dispatching a backup driver?
Well, more specifically the issue is that unit-testing alone is not enough. At some point you have to test the entire system as a whole.
You are correct. But like the other comment mentioned, the cool part about this is it automatically learns the mapping from image to sequence of tokens. To handle arbitrary html, we just need to extend it a little bit and convert all possible html input into tokens. I think the take away is this might be a feasible approach towards automatic UI code gen.
If rural voters are a small minority of the populace why should their distinct regressive views have more than a mathmatically appropriate ammount of weight? When tyranny of the majority is most people agreeing people ought to have more rights than rural hicks think they ought to deserve I fail to see the problem.

Democracy means representing the majority view tempered by personal judgement.
> How does taste render the observations of an individual invalid? Are you so genius that you can make such ...judgments... yourself? But I can't judge because I have tastes???

Here's the difference: I'm not judging. I don't believe in a "quality bar". I'm not judging which content should be created, sponsored or paid for.

Let people create and publish content, and let people vote with their clicks, eyes and wallets.

But you, no, you think that only content that passes your quality bar should be funded.

Don't like content or ads? Don't watch/view them. Nobody is forcing you to. But you want to force others not to view them.

I hate ads, but they pay for a lot of the content and services I use, and I'd rather view them than pay for them.

Don't like them? Don't use those services and content. Your call.
Users hate irrelevant ads slightly more than they hate relevant ads --
much like how I hate being punched more than I hate being slapped.

I'd much rather avoid being in an abusive relationship to begin with: Hence, installing browsers like Brave and using search engines like DuckDuckGo -- where you can opt into breaches of privacy and advertising, rather than hoping for the slim chance of an opt-out at the benevolence of the site/ad company.
Apparently they use a lot of windows apis and dlls -- except that it works on linux and there's no c/++ to generate a dll, and I forget where I read that. (Somewhere on HN.)
Some things simply can't be automated by their very nature. "Home cooked meal" loses a lot of its appeal if it's Mom's robot doing the work.

And not everything comes down to a cost/utility calculation. For example I have a poster on my wall that was silk screened by some french dude almost 100 years ago that has 0 utility yet I prefer it over any "modern" thing I could replace it with that may have some practical utilititarian value.

Anyhoo, the main point I'm trying to make is there has been automation for a long, long time and we aren't any worse off because of it. Some could even argue were better off because of it even.
Pretty cool idea to go to private, well constrained areas so that it scopes down the problem and allows for quick iteration. Good luck! Excited to see autonomous vehicles in these environments.
No doubt but e.g. VSCode’s sub-second performance shows that’s not a huge stretch while sticking with Electron and it has a subset of the challenges for startup performance
HBO's “The Sopranos” Premiered 19 years ago today, January 10 1999
Honestly I love everything about that article.
The trailer makes it clear they're altering foundational details about the environment, including who the Envoy Corps even is. It still could be quite good, and I'm allowing my hopes to be high. But it will definitely be its own thing.
PYMK – See the People Facebook thinks you know
I think this business model has a far greater chance of succeeding than something like Tesla's. It's easier to just focus on a small averagely populated area than high density urban cities or in Tesla's case, the entire country. It's safer to deal with construction/road issues, unique quirks present of each city when you're only focusing on one community at a time.

It's far less of a headache dealing with one set of regulations for a community that has few, impressionable decisionmakers than trying to scale while trying to meet ever-changing individual regulations from each state/city and an uncertain national landscape. Only Google and the big automakers have the available influence to push for federal regulation standards and even those can be scrapped if some major incident happens or morons refuse to follow proper safety protocols to chase profits (uber).

If Tesla pushes level 4 or 5 autonomy, they need to consider every circumstance (rain, snow, dust storms, tornadoes, ice, and so many other random unique Mother Nature quirks), every road construction issue, hazards, fallen trees etc. all at once. It just isn't feasible. You need city employees to report fallen trees, garbage truck routes, area with frequent deer or animal crossings etc. They can't just say it's autonomous in one particular area where maybe only 100 Teslas are present, it's just not economical.

I think this route of small community adaptation is the most likely and it's great to see most players shift to this model. This means that automakers aren't going to be the big players in this space for another decade or so. It's not economical for big beuracratic, slow moving businesses like Ford to enter into this landscape. Small companies and startups pushing into this has its advantages and disadvantages however.
I haven't heard of Voyage before, but this is interesting.

Would it be accurate to summarize that while most autonomous car companies are going for gradually higher levels of autonomy nationwide/worldwide, Voyage has the opposite strategy of starting at a higher level of autonomy in one controlled community and will aim to expand geographically from there?
I'm another one who much prefers the nib in the middle of the keyboard to the touch pad. I use a Thinkpad keyboard on my desktop machine for this reason. No mouse on my desk at all and I'm not constantly moving my arm back and forth to reach for it.
Personally, I've found XCTest to be pretty good - especially performance testing.
Lawsuit claims Ford rigged Super Duty pickups to beat emissions tests
> failed NSA launch

I didn't hear about that one
Thank you, I was looking for that.

Does anyone know: is it typical for the NYT to not link to court decisions? I'm used to such links in online news stories.
Strictly speaking, even when the jury nullifies, it does so by answering questions of fact, not law (even though some or all of the jurors may be substituting judgements of law for fact.)

And, even more strictly speaking, in a civil case (which this subthread is addressing) it's all up to the judge anyway, even in a jury trial, since (unlike in a criminal case, where this can only happen to the benefit of the defendant, as a judgement of acquittal), a decision for either party may be entered, after the jury verdict, as a judgement as a matter of law (aka judgement notwithstanding the verdict.) This makes nullification essentially a dead issue in civil trials.
If we're going to the level of QM, then no. Because QM is inherently a random process. Like radioactive decay is a great way to make true random number generators. The real world has truly random events, and while it bothers many people, physicists don't generally argue about this point (anymore).

Maybe if you had a perfectly homogeneous air density (which you'd never see, even in a really good vacuum and near absolute zero temperature. You can thank QM for that), that constantly stayed homogeneous. Problem in real world conditions is that nothing is perfectly homogeneous (entropy exists), so things will heat up unevenly, certain parts will gain more velocity than others, and just a small offset can create a large change in outcome. Short answer is that these systems are chaotic in nature, so they are not stable.

But that doesn't have anything to do with simulations (except what you are trying to emulate). As far as simulations, numerical accuracy will play a role, but really what you look for is if it is realistic, because the real world has random events. That's more what I was trying to get at. You want something that represents reality, not an overly simplified example that you can't use in a meaningful way. Even with these inaccuracies you can get representative models (they will reflect what happens in a physical experiment). And I say representative, because you aren't going to account for all those factors in a simulation, but you are accurate enough to make extremely effective conclusions. I'll even note that some people will add random noise into their simulations (I don't know if this author did, but numerics can play that role).
I'm buying a new computer and keep seeing hints of crosvm (real containers!) for the Pixelbook. If they could even say 'yes, this will be released at some point' I would just buy one, but instead they stay tightlipped and I'll have to buy another MBP.
Hm, you are saying one will get equal average skill/interest rates above the cut, if one includes that good people are more likely to apply?

That sounds like an interesting argument. I don't think Damore made it, but if you will flesh it out a bit more, I'd be very interested in reading it.
Not sure if Meltdown is the same, but I read that Spectre can recover memory at about 10kb/sec. So it wouldn't be very efficient to scan the entire memory for a known pattern.

I suppose if there was an exploit targeted at a specific program, it would be possible to work out what location the secrets are stored in?
Rumelhart is the co-author of a multi volume work called "Parallel Distributed Processing". PDP was the old term in use when Rumelhart and McClelland repopularized artificial neural network techniques in the 80s. Interestingly enough, rumelhart and McClelland were cognitive scientists by training, not computer scientist ones.
Exhibitors have to pay for their own power.
Well, the paper I linked lays out what I found to be a compelling case, but to summarize the major beats quickly: from the New Deal era to 2008, besides giving owners a place to live and freeing them from abusive landlords, the vagaries of the housing market, etc., homes provided an agreed-upon, relatively stable source of value (particularly for retiring people) and gave their owners an incentive to maintain them (to a higher standard than an absentee landlord) and made them more invested and participatory in their communities. This also provided a measure of political stability (people who feel like they have a lot to lose don't generally want to tear the system down). During the financial crisis supporting that system was in some measure abandoned (since little effort was made to arrest foreclosures), but without any plan to replace that stability-generating mechanism with a different one.

Yes, perhaps you could dream up a better means of delivering these benefits, and certainly home ownership was not equally or equitably distributed among Americans, but I feel like those objections are more compelling in a vacuum than in the reality we actually inhabit.
Amusingly, the seniority system did end in Congress, the District of Columbia did get home rule, and commercial TV came of age and passed its sell-by date.
Considering this was the human-powered part of M, where a human responds to your requests I’m not sure that this really backs up your claim.
Assuming we can't structure a computer with your hypothetical required base-line. Then it may be impossible, but if our understanding is a physical process that means we should be able construct an other physical entity with your required base-line. I don't see any reason to think we have some unreplicable physical process. Perhaps complicated, but that's anything but unreplicable.
IANAL, but violation of terms of service seems like a breach of contract, not a crime. For that sort of thing there is always the civil court system if the plaintiff feels like their loss due to the violation is high enough to warrant pursuing the legal case.

But maybe the actual loss caused by the automated downloads in this case wasn't high enough and they pushed the criminal angle to make some kind of point.
Wildwood Trust is investigating reintroduction of wolves and lynxes.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/06/30/wolves-brown-b...
The level of the 'hood' rises too. Used to be that in-depth knowledge of assembler, register efficiency and compilers was considered a requirement.
The Villages is basically a retirement community so there's a large audience of potential customers that may not be able to drive on their own.