skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks amazing from the computing point of view (and is an achievement of sorts), yet the confidence percentages are lower than what an average human might be able to solve for (like in the case of CAPTCHA tests).

Meanwhile, I wonder about the human costs if systems like these are adopted for purposes where they may be ill suited for, especially cases where their confidence scores are ignored (or mistakenly assumed to be 100% even when they're lower). Anyone have reading material on this?
Cool, thanks. Couldn't find anything on their nightmare of a FAQ. Good to know.
> Neither is it easy to start fabricating your own chips.

Former top rank star level chip designer here.

It's easy and cheap to do up to medium scale with FPGAs. All you need is elbow grease, smarts and creativity. This gives a lot of experience. There are guys around that have made their own chips singlehandedly. These are smart guys. You'd think they'd be in huge demand. Hah hah.

Larger scale cutting edge chips oh yeah, it gets extremely expensive, not just way beyond individual level, but way beyond most companies. There's just not enough foundries willing to produce designs from scratch for random third parties for it to be competitive for small scale things. Doing so is expensive. You only want to take known serious players, or those with enough cash to make it worthwhile regardless.

But one can certainly do so on the cheap for a lot of more modest designs and develop the experience. There are even multiple fantastic free classes these days that teach chip design. Amazing. Not only that but we see some microcontrollers that have small FPGA sections built in so you can roll your own for some stuff in widely available architectures. Wow! This is amazing to have and few take advantage.

However, the criticisms stated are generally true. And yeah, if you're smart enough to do good chip design, you can do better and have less stress doing something else for sure.
Surfing on Lava: Feedback Control and Tuning the BEAM
> An aircraft autopilot is not designed to automatically avoid collisions

The A380 begs to differ...

http://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2009/08/eas...
Out of Storage: Indians Are Sending Millions of ‘Good Morning’ Txts
I think the core point of this article is that to run replicated DBs on Kubernetes requires deep knowledge of the DBs in question. You can't just use a StatefulSet and expect it to work well.

You need to override Kubernetes' built-in controllers to customize them to the details of the database, for example when is it safe to failover, or when is it safe to scale down. Outside of Kubernetes these decisions are made by cloud services like RDS, or manually by people with knowledge like DBAs.

To put that knowledge into Kubernetes you need Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs).

I know know if it is any good, but I just found a project called KubeDB that has CRDs for various DBs: https://kubedb.com/ and https://github.com/kubedb
Why would this article be funded by Qatar? Because it's the same narrative that has existed and been written about for months or because the component facts can be independently researched and verified.
> Beyond research, a number of Facebook teams use this platform to train custom models for a variety of applications including augmented reality and community integrity.

Any idea what they mean by "community integrity"?
I agree. Kubernetes seems clear that "pets" isn't their strong suit. I'm surprised at the surprise here.

They will likely get better at it over time. Until then, either run it outside of K8S or deal with the warts.
I'm happy that tech companies are open sourcing basic research all the time, and thinking a lot about what would have happened if large pharmacy companies did the same thing. I'm just hopeful that with new biotech companies the science behind curing people will get faster as well.
What I meant is that “certain foods (e.g., lean meats and proteins) cause an insulin response despite there being no carbohydrates present, and some foods cause a disproportionate insulin response relative to their carbohydrate load.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_index
Every story has two versions as you know. If you ask Qatari leaders, they'll show the proofs of how Saudi planes carrying drugs and weapons to ISIS got busted in Lebanon.
detecting porn, presumably.
True, I wasn't making the direct/indirect distinction. Maybe I should have, as I got whipped.
> UAE has no oil or gas income and is living off loans.

You're thinking of Dubai. The major emirate has always been Abu Dhabi and they're resource rich a.f (and they provider of many loans to Dubai, including financing of the Burj Khalifa)
While they're certainly the correct way of doing this, named pipes don't provide too many benefits under Win32; other than this little problem and having to assign a port number, of course. They're harder to debug, require a whole new slew of I/O boilerplate ontop of your existing files/TCP/UDP sockets, suffer from a bunch of weirdness when connecting, etc.

They're also pretty slow, but that isn't much of a concern here - browsers do suffer from it though (except for Edge, which uses an undocumented IPC API).
See also _The Metaphysics of democracy_: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/02/the-metaphysics-...
Unfortunate, I like the concept - I wouldn’t mind giving up a couple TB of space on my FreeNAS rig that’s currently going unused.
Worse, it's that human employees are just cost-effective robotic manipulators. Amazon's fulfillment centers are literal physical implementations of their Mechanical Turk.
That's a mayor. It's incredibly easy to find small time politicians in America or any country saying horrible things on a daily basis. That doesn't reflect the status of the country as a whole. The average Japanese person does not deny the events happened.

The whole comfort women thing is mainly brought up every few years to draw attention away from local issues. Japan paid and apologized to Korea (several times), the problem went away, Korea's president was found to have been corrupt, and suddenly statues bringing up WW2 war crimes pop up all around the world to paint Japan as an enemy.

It's a pattern that pops up whenever instability happens in China and Korea all too conveniently, while stable countries that endured the same problem, like Taiwan, don't have a need to bring up a 70 year old event every 2 years.
A really fun one is having `bash` execute its output using a FIFO. It worked when I tried it last, but it'd obviously be more than crazy to rely on it (for more than one reason.)
> I believe our store manager was making about 70k and he was highly valued as a store "fixer" by the chain owner in the Dallas area.

A nice reminder about the difference in meanings when the owner says "value" and when the employee says "value"
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This is amazing. Great idea I will try it. I've also been using Zeit now and love it too
Lots of cars have automatic braking these days, and I bet exactly zero of them care about the car behind them.
Thank you very much for introducing me to the term and this great site! This article was very informative, and the rest of the site looks like a great reference to learn such issues.
> The way corporate farms work is different (I'd assume based on other experiences) than a private farm.

I don't see it. Again, the tight margins means that any path to productivity is quickly adopted by everyone. Especially when it comes to something you can cashflow like chemicals (fixed assets can be harder to justify for smaller farms).

> There are massive combine harvest schedules that start in the south and work their way north to harvest.

The large corporate farms have their own equipment. These harvest crews you speak that travel across the country are more apt to service the small farmer who cannot justify their own combines. If anything, based on your suggestion, that would promote more glyphosate use in small farms than the large farms who have control over their equipment.

But realistically, that harvest run is quite predictable and reliable to begin with. That seems like the least likely place for needing glyphosate on wheat. I'm further east and around here even the small farmers own their own combines due to a small window to get the crops off. You don't dare take the chance on someone else's schedule like you can in more forgiving climates.

> I am not suggesting that is the reason in the first place, it's just a guess.

Fair enough, but you originally said that I should do some more digging. I'm trying to see the link here, but I'm struggling to see where to go from here. Would you say the problem limited to durham wheat, or all types of wheat?
The timing wasn't that damaging. SpaceX has been working on Falcon Heavy for a long time, and a delay of the length of the typical government shutdown is not that big of a deal.

Turns out this delay was shorter than average anyway.
Rolls-Royce wins $450M order for Trent 1000 engines from AerCap
I suspect you're overstating the conclusion that it was a forgery. I cannot see enough context to determine the source, but FWIW,

... The first argument is that Giusto d'Urbino himself
clearly indicated that the manuscripts are not of his own.
And I do not see any reason why a European thinker of such
caliber produces such a refined philosophical work and at
the end ascribes it to some 'Ethiopian Philosopher' that
never existed. I could not possibly think of any not to
believe Giusto d'Urbino himself who tells us clearly that
he bought the manuscripts.

...

The second argument is linguistic in nature. Here we should
note that Giusto d'Urbino, though he did manage to learn
Ge'ez, was in no position to write such a manuscript. Still
some accept the fact that Giusto d'Urbino could have
dictated his ideas to an Ethiopian scribe who could have
captured his ideas in refined Ge'ez. Yes, even the argument
does not hold true. You see there is a manuscript--Les
Soirees de Carthage de Francois Bourgade. Both Giusto
d'Urbino and his Ethiopian Scribe write this manuscript.
The first part is written by Giusto d'Urbino himself and
the second part by his clerk. A thorough study of these
writings by a prominent instructor of Ge'ez literature at
Addis Ababa University, Alemayehu Moges, has clearly
indicated that, primarily, Giusto d'Urbino's writing in
Ge'ez is full of mistakes. The scribe's writing was found
to be free of errors but the type of languages used by
Giusto d'Urbino scribe and the language of Zara Yacob were
completely different. This clearly shows that neither
Giusto d'Urbino nor his scribe could have possibly been
the author of the manuscript that I strongly insist to be
of Zara Yacob.

Excerpt of quotation from Teodros Kiros, "Zara Yacob: Rationality of the Human Heart", pp148-149 (https://books.google.com/books?id=z4-HgXftrcYC&lpg=PA148&ots...)
Actually here’s the article and the main take away “With the insulin index, it was realized that only 23% of the variability of insulin response depends on the glucose.”

https://idmprogram.com/insulin-index/
> The article is just another Western propaganda

Your rebuttal appears to be very close to the viewpoint that Russian propaganda is trying to promote
Wait a sec, did they get to root cause of this accident? It's a bit early to be reaching a verdict.

And what are stats of accidents on Auto-pilot vs without? If less, I'd say it's a success.
Insulin Index – Hormonal Obesity XXIII – Intensive Dietary Management (IDM)
It referred to the case of one alleged terrorist financier who was put before their courts and not convicted. That hardly seems like an accusation against the country, accused people are found not guilty in countries all over the world every day.
I have to admit, being a hybrid math/csci student, I never understood the place of discrete math in mathematics or computer science. It always seemed like a mish-mash of different topics I'd studied in algebra->geometry->calc (including mv calc, linear algebra, diff eq, and series and sequences)->real analysis. This article is a bit too brief to properly place it (at least I still don't see it), could someone provide some proper context for discrete mathematics that fits into the mold of the standard maths sequence?
I suspect RT and Sputnik both will be able to provide a wealth of similar viewpoints
You're welcome to push whatever conspiracy theory you like, but Occam's Razor is currently voting for the satellite failing to separate from the second stage.
Can’t really imagine why I would do that though...
Not just SpaceX critics, but many media outlets, including Ars and The Verge, who weren’t willing to give up a headline that was more compelling for readers to click.
Ask HN: Research Paper Suggestions for College Reading Group?
Hi, I along with a few friends of mine are undergrad engineering students.
We have started a reading group for research papers in the engineering field and we are looking for suggestions. We are looking for cutting-edge technology research papers that are accessible for students with a good math science, and CS background.
Thus far we have read:
1. PageRank
2. Bitcoin whitepaper
although most of our interest lies in the CS world, we are open to any suggestions.
I should also add that I clearly wasn't getting the worst of it. Breast cancer patients seemed to have 6+ months vs my 3+ months for my adenocarcinoma. Also, I didn't lose my hair, finger nails, etc. It was, though, 3+ months lost to nausea, hydrocodone fog, pain, and sleep.
I'm sure Russian propaganda could be more reliable than American propaganda when it comes to Middle East :)

My sources are not media and propaganda though. I read & also travel a lot. Before the war my cousin and I were importing carpet from Syria. During the war I traveled along Turkey - Syria border twice, also to the south side, Jordan.

And since the beginning of this war, I think about it almost every day, feel deeply sad about how a beautiful country got ruined by some dickheads for no reason...
Tesla state that autopilot will "match speed to traffic conditions, keep within a lane, automatically change lanes without requiring driver input, transition from one freeway to another, exit the freeway when your destination is near, self-park when near a parking spot and be summoned to and from your garage."

I believe the problem lies in "Enhanced" and "Full self driving hardware". While this is an important point and is probably true, there should probably be bigger warnings that there is currently no full self driving software, and therefore, no full self driving.
Nobody has spotted it yet if that is the case:

http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jan-2018/index.html
Why Help Scout Doesn’t Want Your Customers to Know It’s There
Parking tickets are some of the least malignant things diplomatic immunity allows diplomats and attaches to get away with. Some of the more egregious examples are things like sexual violence[1], slavery, assault, etc.

There is little the local jurisdiction can do other than ask the diplomat's home country to waive immunity --which almost never happens.

[1]https://nypost.com/2017/10/11/why-dirty-diplomats-can-litera...
They should have enough money to scale up their servers to be able to handle peek usage... not sure why they don't do it... maybe they like it that way (they can claim that their servers are down when they want to stop trading?)
Tesla should have branded the current system “Copilot”, and reserved “Autopilot” for trumpeting true level 5 self-driving.
People who actually drive Tesla cars see a lot more information than people who see Tesla marketing. Market surveys of Tesla owners say that they aren't confused about it requiring driver attention.

Have you ever driven a Tesla?
The Al Jazeera thing always struck me as a canard: it's been in operation for the last 20 years, why did it suddenly become such a sticking point in 2017?
The goal was to create a new pipeline from Qatar to Europe so Europe don’t have to buy gas from Russia.

Your missing something obvious with this conspiracy theory. Look at a map. Iraq borders both SA and Turkey. It would be cheaper to build through Iraq than destabilize an entire country.

Believe it or not, every time something goes wrong in the world, the US is not behind it. These conspiracy theories help no one.
Because he doesn't want to depend on someone to drive him around.
Source? I've seen people speculate about the first, but just speculation. And that Google/Waymo does the same thing. I don't think it's true for either: public companies get sued for lies like that, and the NTSB is not stupid.
It doesn't. In my experience, "Discrete Math" is not offered as a math class, but rather as a computer class. In effect, it is the "math for computer science majors" class.
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U.S. Charges Chinese Mil Hackers for Espionage Against U.S. Corporations (2014)
All I see is an octal number. C ruined me.
Hey Issac,

Send you a request on Skype Let's do the call at 1pm london time.
Yes, it’s 100% a foreign policy goal for the US and all NATO and EU members to wean Eastern Europe and Germany off Russian oil, that’s no secret!
The error messages need to be improved. Especially when the docker server logins failed.
Ha ha, except a Model S on AutoPilot isn't really being driven by the computer, it's just automating a greater portion of the tasks performed by a human driver.
I thought hacker news is a politics-free site?
TCAS in a plane is like Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) in a car. It's active 100% of the time in cars, not just when you're using super-cruise-control or other automation.
Could be the "make believe crap" serves a useful function as social lubricant and adherence factor.

Perhaps have more obvious and better make believe (flying spaghetti monster)?
Definitely do that too
US imposes tariffs on washing machines and solar panels
This entire thread where folks are bashing Linus for his tone reminded me of this fun clip from the classic movie "Team America" (NSFW):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIPSvIz9NDs
Here's a book review which seems to summarize the controversy: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01284505/document (The review author advocates forgery.)
What you're looking for probably either already exists, or doesn't make any sense, depending on how you clear up the ambiguities in what you've said.
Did you know that crime occurs on the roadways too? There is vehicular homicide, drive by shootings, auto burglary, and hit and runs. Being in a car does not magically protect you from crime.
That was an excellent read. Thank you!
Just curious what action is needed to disengage autopilot, is it simply a matter of grabbing steering wheel, or does a button need to be pressed? Is there a "hybrid" mode where it remains in autopilot but with option to manually adjust speed and steering?
From the photo, it looks like the car slowed down a lot before the collision. But you'd expect that anyway from AEB.
Milton's Morality: Fallen Man and the Fallen Stature of 'Paradise Lost'
Correct, that's the situation today.

Tomorrow, the situation might be that a computer controlled car could see that the car behind is tailgating and the car in the next lane is computer controlled — then determine the safest action would be to swerve into the next lane rather than brake suddenly...
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They're a necessary condition, not a sufficient condition. (Good signal if present, bad signal if absent.)
this looks like an awesome project. cant wait for the release
Discrete math in my school is mostly about combinatorics, but also graph theory, trees, and things like that. It doesn’t really fit into the standard math sequence IMO. The standard math sequence is essentially single-variable calculus -> multi-variable calculus -> linear algebra and differential equations -> real analysis. Note that all of the above fields essentially operate on continuous things like the real numbers.
In some sense, don't the modern formulations of real analysis, etc. already start from as close to discrete maths as you can get (set theory)?

Sets -> Naturals -> Rationals -> Reals

I don't understand how you could reformulate study of continuous structures into discrete math in any sense other than the above.
Yeah, it's pretty amazing how tough that truck is compared to the car.
If you're looking at it from a economic standpoint, to be considered irrational, the tradeoff between the value of time vs the cost of hiring a professional would have to assume that the value of the time is greater than the value of the professional.

That’s an oversimplification, and not the argument I was attempting.

For what it’s worth, I don’t think we are really disagreeing much.
I don't understand what criticism you're trying to level here. Would you please expand?
I'm not so sure they are independent of government influence, given all the research grants, etc., but I think the influence between government and academia is a two-way street.
> using that power well

N=1, etc.

My initial experience was at the University of Pretoria. It was absolutely a business. My course had an unresolvable schedule conflict: a challenging class with a trivial one. The latter had an attendance mark (60%, so automatic failure), we needed the tutorage for the former. When we approached the lecturer, she said: "tough luck, fail it and take it next year." We contacted the Dean, and he supported her view. Accounting wasn't interested that we would be failing a subject for reasons beyond our control.

I decided I was wasting my money and that's why I am at another university a decade later. You pay a flat fee for each semester, including all required reading and course content - for as many courses as you can manage (which you do serially, so you won't over- or under-commit). You are there to prove what you know, so you can skip straight to examinations. I haven't yet started, so I have an incomplete opinion. Still, it's a refreshing change from the wanton exploitation of dreams that I experienced in South Africa.

It really depends on where you go.
Also noteworthy: the Apache 2 license, which includes a patent grant (unlike the previous Facebook licenses that have caused concern in the past).
It had nothing to do with reducing the actual damage done. Disemboweling an unarmed and yielding infantryman was considered perfectly chivalrous. Chivalric warfare only applied to the self preservation of those in power at the time, which would be the knights and other ruling class individuals.
I loved Knuth’s concrete mathematics too. But I don’t think it is an attempt at reformulating calculus into the discrete math framework. Instead in many places in concrete math, knowledge of calculus is assumed, especially in later chapters about generating functions etc.
"In fact, I vaguely remember splitting large files into smaller ones with numerical filenames, which I prefer. I also remember not having to worry about suffixes in the past. But numerical filenames didn't seem to be an option with split installed on Mac OS X - there was no mention of it in the manual."

If splitting by line, BSD csplit can output numerical filenames.

wc -l file
4000
csplit -s -n 4 file '/$/' '{3998}'
ls xx????
xx0000
xx0001
xx0002
...
xx3999
Thanks for sharing. I found your views and points insightful.
It's hard to separate causality here. Maybe they can afford to pay people a lot because they make a lot of money, and maybe they make a lot of money because people like their menus and ingredients.