skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no one would seriously think today that our math is deeply inscribed in the essence of reality

This is straight up wrong; most physicists I know, regardless of subdiscipline, basically agree on some variation of the idea that reality is somehow underpinned by algebraic structures.
Prosecutors say Mac spyware stole millions of user images over 13 years
For once I think the EFF is being too pessimistic here. For various reasons this was a really bad case for exploring the interplay between incidental collection and the 4th Amendment.

For one thing, it seems unlikely that whatever evidence was used from the incidental collection was key to his conviction, directly or indirectly.[1] That may or may not matter. Lack of prejudice doesn't always excuse a 4th Amendment violation. But it can and often does. It depends on the particular branch of 4th Amendment caselaw. The court may not have wanted to be forced into answering thornier questions before they've had a chance to outline the broader contours, preferably in the context of facts better suited to that task.

Also, the defense motion seemed to argue that incidental collection was illegal, period, regardless of context and regardless of how it effected the evolution of the investigation. Presumably they did so to steer the court to a place where lack of prejudice would be considered inconsequential. That's almost certainly wrong. If the court took the case and affirmed, merely wanting to cabin the effect of the appellate decision, this case doesn't provide any hooks for attaching clear qualifications. Why invite trouble?

Basically, the guy was screwed one way or another, so the court had no responsibility to redress individual injustice. And the facts sucked for developing the law more generally. So why bother?

[1] I didn't read the entire appellate court opinion. Where it does speak of lack of prejudice it's clearly referring to the the effect of the timeliness of the government's disclosure, not the effect of the incidentally collected evidence per se. But at least from a cursory reading I get the sense that the incidentally collected evidence wasn't a central pillar of the government's case, neither factually nor legally, regardless of whether it was prejudicial in the technical sense. Even if SCOTUS wanted to push back (e.g. by saying that the court unnecessarily opined on the constitutionality of incidental collection), the risk-weighted cost of flubbing the correction is much greater than the benefit.
Compared to what? Yes, we can rest on the technicality that science is only an ever-expanding and ever-solidifying theory, but can't–by fallibility of perception–ever reach perfect truth. So what though. What else do we have to go on?

Regardless, the fact that we've made any strides at all within these fields is proof of determinism. If not 100% determinism, then enough to dispel notions of a "just world."
Sure, John Calvin told us so. And then we rejected it. And then it became a sure thing again. And then not . . . and now here we are.
The TOS is the reason that people use API keys instead of just reverse engineering the protocol (which is what an attacker will do).
> Your genes might predispose you towards one path or another, but there is still free will involved.

Genetic determinism is not the same as free will. Our genes don't determine everything, but together with our environment, they do.
Except you can't actually figure out which user it is.
Can you make the page "pop" more?
Agreed, I think that's my favorite lesson from the crypto experiment. Sure there are people who use regulation as a gatekeeping function, or as a way to magnify their power, but regulations really do exist for the good of the people.
As I recall, the theologists held similarly self-promoting illusions centuries ago. I also recall that early scientists declared that the universe is a clockwork. I also recall that Lord Kelvin, in the late 1800s, declared that physics was all finished except for a few minor details.

The physical universe is not a complete mystery. To the extent that certain phenomena can be agreed to procede from other phenomena in a repeatable fashion, there is indeed reason to celebrate. As many wise men have pointed out, however, we are very small and the universe is very great. The extent of that which we do not understand at all is good reason to suspect that we must continue to deliberately blind ourselves if we are to keep patting ourselves on the back.
‘Hypatia’ Stone Contains Compounds Not Found in the Solar System
The countries that could afford this type of intervention are typically much more friendly than the countries that could not afford this.
The reason why it died has nothing to do with the underlying AI-like technology (which was awful to begin with). It's because chatting, talking with someone takes more effort (mentally, physically, emotionally) than selecting from a list. In terms of unit quantity, how many motions are required?
We had to suspend React development. I think one team decided to switch from browser based to a native app, the other team is back on React.
> I’ve been suicidal my whole life.

That’s pretty intense. Have you tried medication or therapy? Or anything else?
I think the UK has a lot of "mini roundabouts" where they just paint a circle on the road and mount roundabout signs. Traffic paths are similar to what they would be without the circle. Of course, the give-way rule is different: give-way to your left (easy), rather than give-way to those who arrived first (hard).
Is this a troll? How do you intend to determine whether or not if someone is of an orientation EXCEPT for asking them?

"I'm gay."

"Well my 'science test' says that you're not."

Nice.
Is that even the ethical approach here, though. If you can afford a flying machine, you can afford to keep a roof over a family for 3 years (Assuming two earners earning 22,000 GBP / year (Which is far more than my parents ever earned in their lives)). Or you could pay 6 people's expenses off for a year.

If you have that much disposable income, and you spend all of it on something that benefits only yourself, what does that say about you as a person?
None of us are dealt an equal hand in life. Having a genetic predisposition that advantages or disadvantages someone does not absolve them of the responsibility of their actions. If we were unchanging machines, that may not be the case, but it's much more complex than we give it credit for, and the debate is unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.
Breaking:+South+Korea+Reportedly+Prepares+Crypto+Trading+Ban
Eh, not really. What you said is true of any p value. It's tautological.
Keeping track of crypto amidst all the hype recently, it's abundantly clear to me that the recent explosion of speculation based trading is a signifier that cryptocurrency is a bubble just waiting to burst.

I don't think this is bad in any right. It looks (and I grew up in the bay area through turn of the century) just like the dot com bubble. The promising part of this is that the underlying technologies being developed, a way to distribute information and business logic in a way where there is an indisputable fully traceable truth, is huge. I think of blockchain-like platforms like Ethereum as the ARPANET to our internet. The opportunities to supplant existing fully centralized systems such as stock exchanges, escrow systems, supply chain/provenance tracking, etc. with a fully decentralized or hybrid approach is huge.

In the end though, I think it will come down to where governments draw the line in the sand. The sad but true reality is that the regulators with the guns will always have ultimate power.
That doesn't change the economics. Either way they have short exposure to BTC and no guarantee they will be able to produce BTC, which could hurt them if market moves against them too quickly.
Agreed. That manhattan plot is... far from conclusive.
A bit odd to open an article about an arms race for my attention and see an ad for a book (A whirlwind out-of-this-galaxy adventure! #1 New York Times best selling author...) in the menu that takes up the top half of the page, and then only the title of the article and no actual text before scrolling (mobile safari)... and then a donate now box also came up over 80% of the screen. Also a nice touch to have all the social media widgets connected so my attention can be weaponized while I read about my attention being weaponized.
So? After you buy the machine, you can choose your own password for the Management Engine, and also disable the remote configuration. The owner has ultimate control of the machine, but the user (for example, an employee, a student, or some random jerk at a public library) does not. That's how it should be, but the article rails against it.
sci-curious
Yes, but. Yes, you can get energy out of slowing down with any conductor passing through a magnetic field, but spaceflight uses so much energy that current electrical energy storage is essentially as irrelevant to propulsion as clockwork would be.
No, China will, at best, attain neutral talent lost and prevent any brain drain (BD). It will not cause a BD on US simply because as this article implies, there's simply no allure for non-chinese descents to live in China. There's a reason why they're establishing a HQ in Silicon Valley.

As the article shows, Chinese engineers only account for less than 10% of the headcount at 3 of the big 4. Its a far cry from actually taking all of US talent.
The inability to avoid selection bias doesn't preclude selection bias.

Not to say the above comment makes any sense...
How did it change? People have been scamming with bitcoins forever. Mt. Gox was a scam exchange. There were a bunch of people scamming even before that.
Why Agile Transformations Usually Don't Work – Part 1 – The Situation
Probably true, but it's because their market (small businesses who just want a basic HTML-only site) has been taken over by website builders like Wix, Weebly, Wordpress, and Squarespace. Agencies & professional web developers moved up-market to the customers who require dynamic app-like behavior, which Dreamweaver and Frontpage sucked at, while the bottom end of the market moved to the aforementioned hosted services that could also run the site for them, handle maintenance, and easily integrate add-ons like email/blogs/commenting/RSS/analytics/etc.
They don't determine everything is my point. Environment paired with genetics has a strong (sometimes overwhelming) influence on the decisions you make for sure, and they make many decisions harder or easier, but you still maintain the ability to choose. Free will isn't the ability to make any choice without external influences, it's just that you have a choice at all.
Reality is just a convenient tool with which we can discern mathematics.
Does it work with sftp/filezilla?
Not according to Thomas Kuhn, we don't.
The rush to blame the conductor in training was also really disgusting since it turns out he was the one sensible person who knew he didn't have enough training to safely work the route. http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2...
If Microsoft had't made it the default in IE, then DNT would have been an explicit action to show that you do not consent to tracking, which would have had legal bearing.
NYC sues oil companies for the cost of adapting to climate change
Definitely recommend Udacity! They offer various free courses and nanodegrees in topics like full stack, mobile, and react. I’ve taken a few of their nanodegrees and supplemented with other online courses from Wes Bos and React Training to good effect.
Why you should use modeling [with TLA+/PlusCal]
Not a fork, fresh new, you can see the commit history.
Bitcoin sank on Monday after website CoinMarketCap removed prices from South Korean exchanges, because coins were trading at a premium of about 30 percent in Asia’s fourth largest economy. That created confusion and triggered a broad selloff among investors.

So counterparty risks is still something which is misunderstood in the cryptocurrency space?

With action pending against South Korea exchanges, higher prices were warranted.
Right, but show organizers are not running a sinking ship. It's like health insurance, most will not use enough power to equal the amount they paid per hookup, and are subsidizing those that underpaid.
I guess losing your giant ego driven career after telling people to "suck it down" because "John Romero's about to make you his bitch" does that to a man.
What are you calling a choice? Are you simply saying that people act? Then yes, that's of course tautologically true.
yeah, I could see myself saying the same but not about coffeescript. That thing just needs to go away, seriously.

Having to constantly keep a mental model of two languages when you write code outweighs any benefits from syntax sugar and supposed readability.

It was nice ten years ago when JavaScript was absolutely horrendous but not now.
> I think the blockchain is super interesting and will lead to many useful implementations. But advocates sure like to get all whacky over it.

The Internet and World Wide Web has been filled with spam and junk since the beginning. It even had its naysayers, like this one: https://thenextweb.com/shareables/2010/02/27/newsweek-1995-b...

> "What the Internet hucksters won’t tell you is tht the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don’t know what to ignore and what’s worth reading."

Sounds a lot like the large number of useless blockchain-based projects these days. The web also had a fundraising bubble too, a few years after it came about.
On the bright side, the idiots who join these groups hoping to scam others tend to lose their shirts as well. The person orchestrating the pump-and-dump scheme bought the currency at $X per coin in question long before, and he's using the people in the group as patsies. "Buy the coins at $X + $Y, and the rise in price will make it so that you can sell the coins to some other idiot for $Y + $Z!"

If there aren't enough "outsider" idiots to buy the coins for $Y + $Z before the correction happens, the "insider" idiots lose their shirts. The original person, of course, makes a tidy profit.

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I learned this the hard way playing Runescape as a 16-year-old. 2007 was an interesting time for that game.
Well, they can generally be handled by attrition.

The US is pretty much ZPG, if you discount immigrants. So, one way to address the issue, is to be more selective on who you let into the country.

Europe and East Asia (but not SEAsia) are also naturally decreasing in population. So, there may be a natural effect which may counteract the contraction in jobs in highly industrialized/mature economies.

Places which have not addressed their pop growth may be in trouble; however, if we look at China, they proved pop growth is manageable.
It doesn't run automatically. I thought it was an interesting experiment as a 'tip jar' type thing. No I really don't expect to make even $0.01 but it's more so to gauge if anyone would actually click the button.

It may load the mining thing, but you have to hit the button, and even then it runs for something like 5-10 seconds.

I hate ads, but I thought stuff like this was an interesting alternative.
Common English errors? Proofread here
Can the universe be deterministic if our knowledge of whether the universe is deterministic is not deterministic?
I see it as different. Mt Gox was a legitimate business, with honest employees who were poor at implementing security. Someone saw an opportunity and stole. That exists even with regulation. My issue is with the rise of people who's intent from the beginning is to decieve. Similar to the scam coins that will never deliver a working product.
>the unix inheritance as something to be ignored or even vilified.

And I agree with them. Unix was never a great or even a good system. It was just a way to have a multiuser system on a cheap hardware.

Already in the late '70s, UNIX was behind the state of the art, compared to the Xerox systems and -even more- the Lisp Machines. Unix was technologically a regression.

See "The UNIX Haters Handbook."

Note: I have worked as a Linux sysadmin in the early 2000s. I used to love it.
For now. Some genetics costs are decreasing faster than exponential: https://www.genome.gov/27541954/dna-sequencing-costs-data/
What fun is it doing things pre-made?

Sometimes you want to make Apple Pie, just to prove you can.
This is wrong and bad advice. All you need is a remote code execution vulnerability in PHP or so.

Only don't patch if your server is isolated and not connected to the internet.
We punish for dissuasion. Some who would break the law in the absence of punishment will "choose" (however one wants to interpret that word in a fully deterministic world) not to do so because of the possibility and cost of punishment.

Even punishments such as fines still make sense in a fully deterministic world, and in one where there is no societal desire to be "fair" or give people what they "deserve".
I would think it would be. The strange thing is the markets didn't react at all. They actually went up on January 4th.
Haptik's Analytics Dashboard for Chatbots
At Haptik, we build new chatbots on a daily basis. These chatbots generate data, lots of it. Data including, but not limited to, what messages were exchanged, what data elements were used by the bot to respond appropriately and what problems were detected along the way. This amounts to huge volumes of data generated daily. Clearly, there is a need to interpret that data into meaningful, insightful analytics
I guess. I mean the regulated stock market has dark pools and super fast algorithms jumping in front of people's trades stealing from them.

I actually feel like the playing field is more uneven between individuals and firms in the regulated stock market vs the btc exchanges.

I also think the bitcoin exchanges are backroom dealing and insider trading, but I feel like they are less sophisticated vs the "legal" theft that is taking place on wall street.

I mean bitcoin exchanges are certainly the wild west, but I honestly don't care if people want to run pump and dumps on unsophisticated investors. That is something you can pretty easily defend against by doing your own research. There are far more nefarious things going on on both bitcoin exchanges and the real stock market.
How do you search stuff you've save?
Ask a group of carpenters about what brand of hammer they use and see if you get cool, calm, rational responses.
> Memory usage? Sure, but as developers we probably have GB and GB sitting there, if the thing worked it wouldn't be a big deal for the most important tool in your arsenal.

Adding to the other comments about having better use for my memory than piles and piles of JavaScript bloat, how do you think GC performance is affected by the amount of memory it has to manage?

All the micro lags in rendering and input handling are affecting your performance consciously and subconsciously.

You know, the exact thing you complain about:

> What Atom sucks at is regular file editing: huge latency when typing, constant freezes (try editing remote files), and general sluggishness.
If you find this topic interesting, Neuralink is hiring. We’re looking for a lot of different backgrounds across applied physics, biomedical engineering, software and hardware. Though Neuralink sounds cool - I know many people are skeptical - the reality is even cooler.

Especially if you’re great at firmware, robotics control software, or computer vision get in touch! Either through the links on the website, or there’s an email in my HN profile.
I took the opportunity to go from San Francisco to Los Angeles via the Coast Starlight train (and then from Los Angeles to San Diego via the Pacific Surfliner) and it was an amazing trip. I obviously could've saved so much more time flying, but I had a day to kill, and taking the train in a private sleeper roomette seemed like the best way to do it. I would definitely make that trip again (and the included meals were great).
Funny, I didn't even notice the adverts. Looking back I now see them. I guess my attention filtering is fairly well tuned.

I did notice the banner asking that I subscribe.
I'm not a fan of Logan Paul or his content.

But I admire his hustle, he literally makes [1] millions of dollars off of daily youtube videos.

[1] https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/ucg8rbf3g2amx70yod8v...
> Whatever the fantasy system you have in mind that lacks this feature is, it's not capitalism, that name's already been taken for the system in which this is a central problem.

Anymore, the vast majority of times people say "capitalist system", I believe they mean "market economy". Because of this, although I would agree that the letter of what OP was false (capitalism [a term coined by Marx] does not include corporate/government corruption), his intent is true as soon as you replace "capitalism" with "market economy", and because of this, discrediting his point that people bash market economies based on the corruption that ought to be excluded from them seems intellectually disingenuous.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=100514.0

Look at all these btc ponzi schemes from 2012

Also I thought Mt Gox had a bot buying tons of btc on their own exchange pumping the price.
http://fluidapp.com/
Well, now that YT is all grown up, they are learning the value of having producers, or generally people who can nix something before it hits the "airwaves" -as well as take the "heat".

So, yeah, maybe for your premier channels, you don't have live streamers without a net.

On the other hand, it's a bit ridiculous to crucify this guy or that Swedish guy when they have thousands of worse , much worse offenders around the globe. But hey, outrage of the day. I mean, I'm shocked, shocked they want to run lean as possible (on oversight, etc.) and cut loose the "ta[l|r]ento[1]" at first sign of trouble.

And, if you head down to Lawson's konbini, you can buy the "101 ways to kill yourself without leaving a mess for your family" polite suicide book.

[1] And by ta[l|r]ento I mean that in the most Japanese way because YT see their creators only as cheap conduits to monetization and only care about them insofar as they create revenue for them.
Cognitive dissonance is alive and well. (edit - spelling)
Yes, within the past few months if I recall correctly. It was unavailable in the US on any streaming service before that.
Mt Gox was insolvent long before it officially was. Mark tried to trade using money that didn't exist in order to bring it into the black, but he never managed. Look up wizsec's analysis.
> wouldn't it be better to charge a price for water that reflects the actual cost of depleting the aquifer

Water is sufficiently important to poor people (and their children) that you can't reasonably price them out of the market. Same reason utility companies can't cut off your water in many places.
There's no better time than now (Meltdown/Spectre) to switch to whitelist only JS (NoScript works). The menu/ads completely fail to display but the text is just fine.
Remote OK?
The batches sold and shipped in Nov were priced $1500. That was the price when buying directly from bitmain.com. Since then Bitmain hiked the price: the latest batch released yesterday (now sold out) was priced $2300. But yeah, since Bitmain's batches sell out in minutes, S9s often reach ~$5k in unofficial resale channels.
To be fair, the tribal peoples didn't have the capacity to log on an industrial scale.

It's not like they abstained from doing it on moral grounds or based on superior wisdom.
Depends but probably not. Basically everything we do involves hardware one way or another so difficult to do remotely :(
Are we witnessing the very first steps on the long road to complete erosion of the privacy of our thoughts, the last remaining facet of privacy?
Australia is more similar to the US than Germany, but we don't have four way stops here; they case is provided for by roundabouts. Even still perhaps we have less because we rarely have pure grids.
Not aliens.

Sad.