skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lately, I've been feeling the urge to rent colo space for my own servers. I used to have my own colo space & servers, but like everyone else was "sold" on the benefits of moving to the cloud.

Now, I have a different perspective and believe more people should be owning their own data and servers.
> which is understandable, since defenders don't hold this view. Which parts of the memo are you referring to.

I'm not going to dissect the entire memo and get into a back-and-forth about the exact comments but one example is illustrative:

> - A high priority queue and special treatment for “diversity” candidates

The implication being that it's easier for "diversity" candidates to get hired. This implicitly devalues any such coworkers you have because you've just said they were held to a lower standard.

If you can't see how that might create a hostile work environment then I'm afraid I can't help you.

> AFAIK the memo itself was a result of a leak, which sets the tone.

So that justifies opening up your colleagues to very public harassment and open attacks by leaking not only what they said but their personal information? Because the memo leak set the "tone"?

I sure hope you're not saying that. And if you aren't, what are you saying, exactly?
There is a public distributed effort happening for Go right now: http://zero.sjeng.org/. They've been doing a fantastic job, and just recently fixed a big training bug that has resulted in a large strength increase.

I ported over from GCP's Go implementation to chess: https://github.com/glinscott/leela-chess. The distributed part isn't ready to go yet, we are still working the bugs out using supervised training, but will be launching soon!
Earth-mode is interesting. https://sites.google.com/site/sub9khz/earthmode with frequency being so low and the power needed it might not be practical. Those people seems to have tried to use utilities as antennas. The French around WWI apparently had some ground telegraph developed and produced about 10k units of it.

From the blog link:

> Foremost in sub-9kHz through the ground communications was John, G0AKN, who sadly is a silent key.

That's an endearing way of putting it. I like it.
No, AV has capabilities much more sophisticated then that, however from what I understand, within the malware analysis community specific samples are generally identified with their hash. In addition, if the hash of a file is known-bad, you can skip all the binary pattern matching and heuristics and stuff.
All of the ones you did mention did follow self determination. Otherwise it's saying the US didn't follow self determination, because we had to fight the British. Or the USSR didn't follow self determination because the actively had to counter the US and the west.

No, i think all those mentioned did follow self determination, ultimately.

But now the people who championed it no longer denounce imperialism but instead promote a new imperialism, globalization.
Good idea. This way, even if you die alone, you can know that you will still be providing a useful service to your pet even after you are gone, as food for it!
Here is an article about their previous data collection:
https://www.chrisdcmoore.co.uk/post/oneplus-analytics/.
> Look at fig 1. They compared the number of people who had heart attacks from 1 -7 days after getting a positive lab test for influenza, and people who got heart attacks at any other time +/- 1 yr of the positive lab test.

That makes total sense. Was there a link to the actual paper? Its really hard to understand these abstracts or have any meaningful discussion without it, sadly.

> That abrupt cutoff at 7 days makes it sound like these people were being advised some kind of treatment that was increasing heart attack risk.

It would have been nice to a group that had the flu but didn't have any of the standard treatments to see how they compared to the flu group with treatments because their test group seems like more than just the flu. Could you have a group too that did the treatments without the flu? That would seem a little unethical though ("here do this - we have this theory that you'll have a heart attack")

All said, for those of you that have actually had influenza as an adult, a death actually sounds preferable.
Yeah. It's certainly worth an hour of your time to ask for more. It might be worth a day of your time. It's probably not worth more (but I'm guessing).
If you found this video interesting, check out the book The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson.
Soros have ideas and ideas are good for democracy

In Hungary they are trying to shut them down

Big little difference
I definitely agree with your point about everyone creating a CMS. I wish I had an answer for you - and like Windows yes I wish more people would migrate to a different OS too. There is Ghost, but I think more recently they are becoming more corporate too. However Ghost, unlike Wordpress is built on Node, which is more secure by default. It's similar to Java, in that the request handling is done by passing specific things around - in PHP everything has access to the request - every bit of code is able to do whatever it wants. So when you build a plugin system in PHP, you're giving your plugins a HUGE surface area. In non-PHP CMS's you have the ability to build a better system. You can isolate what the code is allowed to do. It's not perfect either, but there is a big different between Facebook writing PHP where the corporate can control the rules and its coding standards and Wordpress where people across a large spectrum of coding experience are providing a plugin that can, basically hose the entire website. (And edit to clarify - yes Ghost would have plugins with a wide range of coding experience, too, but remember there is a very different exploitable surface area here.)
I suppose it's difficult to answer what's specific to your architecture..... but it does seem interesting. I really wonder if there can be a open-source solution that makes it easier to do what you're suggesting, but for anyone.
I apologize for missing scoop, even though I am regular user of it.

To add to the list and hopefully make it more complete

Scoop : http://takescoop.com

Lyft Shuttle[In beta] : http://lyft.com/shuttle

Uber ExpressPool : https://www.uber.com/ride/express-pool/

I think the ridesharing businesses are making a real difference in optimizing cars usage and helping the environment in the process.
So you do understand! Terrific.
When you read my comments, are you ignoring every fourth sentence or something?

Mozilla is not in a downward spiral due to money. We are not in a situation where Mozilla leadership must decide to jump and hope to survive, or don't jump and be burned alive. Mozilla is in a better financial position than it was 10 years ago; its year-over-year expenses vs support is stable, while in absolute terms they're bringing in much more and have half a billion USD in assets.
To add to this (which is excellent btw), we have taken the following measures:

Rate-limiting on admin interfaces and APIs (so a "rogue" human with admin rights can't just suck out PII in bulk).

Access controls on sensitive data and dangerous operations (such as account deletion) that allow these things to be limited to a small number of admin staff.

Ability to mark specific accounts (e.g. celebrities, senior management) as inaccessible by admins, overridable only by special privileges that require sign off.

Regular audit of log files and raw database content to verify that no PII is leaking into uncontrolled areas.

There are probably other measures I can't remember but the basic idea is to throw sand in the face of a potential internal attacker while still allowing legitimate activities to be carried out. In a larger organization you might be able to use ML to detect anomalous admin activity.

Update : I remembered another thing -- don't collect sensitive data that you don't need. I've had several discussions over the years along the lines of "we found that we can get xxx (PII field of some sort , e.g. the user's cell phone number even if they didn't know they gave it to us), where should we store that?". Answer : don't.
TL;DR it didn’t.
My wife is a music therapist, and her previous employer had a contract with a local hospital system. During one visit, she (or a colleague—I don't recall) was working with someone with the same last name, but no relation; this set off an automatic alert in the EMR, leading to a follow-up inquiry. VIP records have similar alerts configured to verify that the accessors have legitimate business reason.
It's not unrelated, to quote your original comment:

> If you're a white male conservative Google engineer who feels oppressed and leaks such details, maybe the best thing for you to do is question your belief system that's so warped that you've managed to convince yourself that that's OK. Because it isn't.

Here you are implying that white male conservative Google engineers who leak such details should question their warped belief system, yet you're excusing others who presumably aren't white male conservatives who have done exactly the same thing.
This might just look like an alternative visualization of those composite images of the Earth from space at night, but what's nifty about this is that it purports to also show just how far from populated areas one would need to travel in order to maximize darkness.
Microsoft's Ink to Code aims to speed up the app development process
Thanks for the response! I'm familiar with how AlphaZero works, just primarily curious about how performance/speed compare in situations with perfect information and where it is possible to perfectly simulate (pong/go/chess/etc).

I did not realize that MCTS helps with the credit assignment problem, that's really interesting!
Let us know of the visitors spike you'll get after this plug.
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Whats wrong with any of that? Banning sounds childish but the best fix for someone who is not interested in their work is to fire them, not coddle them. Keeping them around is a net drain on the company. Of course if you're biased towards the employer always being in the wrong, then you might feel differently. At some point, you can't tell someone they're doing it wrong if what they're doing works for them and they're producing results.

I don't feel inspired by my manager/team so I'm going to doze off at my desk, and My employees are over-paid lazy sacks of s* are two sides of the same coin.
It's phrased funny, but the gist that I got from it (and which seems plausible to me) is that the issue has been framed as involving the "other", and therefore those in power don't care.
This article is fluff/FUD when it comes to the implications about autonomous driving. “Autopilot” is a marketing term for a kind of cruise control. The article repeatedly tries to make the point that if “the best system available” doesn’t stop for stationary vehicles, how will self-driving cars ever work? However, Tesla’s Autopilot is not a self-driving system, it’s a cruise control system. Emergency braking systems are also not self-driving systems. The comparison is meaningless.

I say the same thing to the comments about the irresponsible “UX” of Autopilot for not handling this case. It’s more about irresponsible marketing, capitalizing on the enthusiasm for self-driving cars, potentially lulling overzealous customers to trust a cruise control system or emergency braking system with their lives.
In the US, those kind of messages are usually more overt and organizations are legally required to disclose some info about the organization that sponsored the ads. You can (could?) kind of get away with influencing people anonymously using Facebook: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/us/politics/russia-2016-e...
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It solves valuable business problems for a customer
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Free instant transfer was my favorite part of Square Cash, too bad they now charge a 1% fee.
Any fight for privacy in the modern technology environment is such an extreme case of power asymmetry that I'm starting to think it's hopeless.

On the one side you have individuals that don't want their private information to be revealed without their consent. On the other are device manufacturers, advertisers, startups, and giants like Google and Facebook. Often, maintaining privacy while viewing a single website requires either trusting or subverting the intentions of multiple such organizations.

It's like going to war with the British Royal Navy at the height of its power in a dinghy. So far it's been possible because the navy has made a promise that they'll "play fair". But that can change on a whim and there's ultimately very little you can do if that happens.
Technically they didn't fire him—he resigned after a loud/extended uproar. It may have been illegal for Mozilla to fire him for this donation because in CA political activity constitutes a protected class.
If Hillary can do it, so can you.
Worhol's style was perfect for these early paint programs, since they were so rudimentary (by modern standards).

Had Amiga employed random interns to do the same thing, people would have gotten the impression that it was a silly child's toy. But Andy Worhol's doodles "immensely alter the composition and complexity of the source image".
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>But we should aspire to a post-racial world where we race is no longer relevant, where both apartheid and affirmative action are considered revolting abominations, but also where we judge governments based on their net effectiveness.

Hear, hear. While "the better angels of our nature" should inform our aspirations, the political, social and economic facts-on-the-ground should inform what action should be taken in order to bring us closer to the ideal.

Affirmative-action is a symptomatic treatment (that could be argued as being punitive) which achieves little-to-nothing in solving the root-problem, while creating a whole new set of problems. Successful integration of former-colonial and indigenous peoples in ZA would have been an unprecedented achievement, but adopting policies that are so obviously regressive will not bring that into reality.
If this is the case, then I have to say it’s not looking good for the poor, no matter which side wins.
I really like these old texts because it's interesting to try and get into the mindset of the authors. To the medieval occultist, that plant over there is growing well because Saturn is ascending or whatever, and if a rabid dog bites you, you should apply the plant to the wound because the melancholic nature of Saturn will counteract the mania of the rabies, etc. Why did such-and-such happen? A demon did it. It's a completely different way of looking at things, it's very strange to our modern sensibilities but it's also surprisingly developed and just fascinating.
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The author only matters since he is being cited as someone with insight, and has written a response to the "Google memo" that I found to be particularly telling.

In a vacuum, yes. Saying certain things may incite a violent response. But we're not in a vacuum. Let's look at three scenarios, and ask the following questions: Is violence expected? Is violence understandable? Is violence justified?

A - While drunk at a bar, a man repeatedly says derogatory things about another man's wife. A fight breaks out between the two of them.

B - While at a KKK rally, a young black man calmly discussing afrocentrism is jumped and beaten by a mob.

C - While at an LGBT rally, an old white man hostilely quoting Leviticus is jumped and beaten by a mob.

In the first scenario, this is targeted harassment. We should anticipate a violent outbreak. If you were to poll a diverse group of people, most people would say the violence was understandable, but not justified. This scenario bears the least similarity to our situation -- although I will make one comment. This is the only scenario where violence could be justified. If the provocateur becomes violent (or makes threats), a violent response MAY be expected, understandable, and justified.

In the second and third scenario, violence is an expected result. While some people within these groups may feel the violence was understandable, the real question lies with the groups organizers. I suspect that the LGBT group would denounce violence, even though the man had bad intentions. (I wouldn't expect as much from the KKK.)

To relate this to Google, Zunger is a leader. He excuses the violent response of the employees, and blames Damore for inciting the violence. (This is an INCREDIBLY poor position to take.) While it's fair to question whether Damore was the provocateur from example C, or the debater from example B, it's unfair to blame him for a violent response.
Dynamic imports return a promise, so it's more like:

import('./myComponent').then(myComponent => /* ... */)

Or:

const myComponent = await import('./myComponent')

That quibble aside, it's also relatively powerful:

const dynamicComponent = await import(/* webpackChunkName: "components" */ `./components/${componentType}/index`)
the big thing that falls under monopoly regulations is google favoring ads for their products over competitors. showing google shopping results over amazon ones, for example.
I think, but not remember too well, that tests and some human analysis can suffice. But in the end there is testing, more tests and whole teams dedicated to testing.
The obligatory links to the GitHub of the libraries used: https://github.com/uncomplicate
Given enough time one-side ALWAYS wins out. Those that are desperate and have nothing to lose.
Maybe once net neutrality goes down the drain
We threw away a full platter of sushi at work last week, because we ordered too much and didn't feel like finishing it.

Food isn't fucking scarce.
I was responding to this element of the parent post: "The low point to me is how some (reference in the article) feel justified in leaking conversations and personal details of their coworkers to the likes of Breitbart.". Tit-for-tat tactics aren't justifiable, but they're hardly surprising and I was pointing out that by leaking the memo, one side legitimized that tactic. It's an observation, not a value judgement.
> But it's the m(x) that's actually large in that example.

Sure, it's large (mindblowingly so), although I'm not quite clear exactly how you define m(x).

It's hard to get a grasp on just how much vastly larger each of these 'rockstar' numbers is to the previous one when you ascend this conceptual hierachy. (To a certain extent, that's the point of the article.)

You could make a K(K(K(...(n)...) function where you painted a K on each particle in the visible universe (about 10^80) and it still wouldn't come close to Loader's number. The point is that you can't simply recurse TREE and hope to get a number that's conceptually any bigger than TREE itself.
I don't understand why news like this doesn't have that huge of an impact of bitcoin's price.. Bitcoin seems to be hovering around 11k~ as I'm writing this. It's been at the same price it seems for the past couple of days...
> As for the second reason, I think it comes down to professionalism. We can politicize anything if we try hard enough. But if our employer says "no politics, just get the work done", then both sides must adhere to whatever policies are provided, within the law. Don't like the bathroom rules or workplace guidance? Work somewhere else.

That's certainly an incredibly common view, so I'm not going to say that it's wrong or irrational.

But I'm reminded of the bathroom subplot in Hidden Figures - all the restrooms in one building were for white people, and so the one black woman working in the building, who was extraordinarily technically competent, needed to go on extended break to another building every time she needed to use the restroom. "Don't like the bathroom rules, work someplace else" was absolutely the prevailing culture at the time, which had hefty rules about "professionalism" and not "politicizing" things. But it had a serious negative impact on the business, and the right thing to do (which a manager eventually did) was to change the bathroom rules.

The choice to adopt "professionalism," and to bring in no politics and leave the political decisions to whatever existing culture is in place, is a political choice of its own. There are a lot of arguments in favor of that choice, yes. But it remains a political choice.
This is similar to what Google Wallet does right?
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That's also how I troubleshoot kubernetes problems.
Ctrl-j is excellent for me as a vim user. It's default behavior is to just move the cursor one line down which you can already do by pressing... j (although Ctrl-j can be used in insert mode if I recall correctly).
I guess the project is too new and it is hard to stand out amongst other players that have been around for 20 years by now. Even though not having been around so long has advantages as well, for example it allows skipping non-needed features and adding new stuff like full unicode support – I host андрис@уайлддак.орг on my WildDuck test instance (even though I can only communicate with Gmail using this address, other servers either refuse my messages or do not send to such address).
It works out of the box with chase and you don't need the app, and you don't need to fill out any forms to make it work.

This makes checks obsolete for me. The only advantage they had was 0 fees, but now zelle is my best option for price and speed.
That may be true, but few home users have 1000 domains to manage, and for the ones that do, they can do the math and decide what is most cost effective.

My company hosts several hundred domains, and using Route53 was a no-brainer -- even if the hardware is free, monitoring, patching and maintaining those bind servers is much more expensive than route53 even if we had 1000 domains.
If you're in the camp of "I worked through a good rails/django/nodejs/php tutorial, but I don't really understand SQL", you should go through this course:
https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/db/2014_1/...

Skip XML but do not skip relational algebra.
Conclusion: If you keep any cryptocurrency on an exchange or online service that can or is capable of controlling your private keys - MOVE all your cryptos to your own deterministic wallet YESTERDAY!
Alzheimer’s Disease Projected to Cost U.S. up to $7.7 Trillion by 2030
The thing is, the most important event of 2012 was the reëlection of Mr. Obama, and the most important event of 2008 was his election, and the most important event of 2004 was the reëlection of Mr. Bush, and that of 2000 his election. Somehow we all managed to get by in my workplaces back then. Yes, we all knew that we had different politics: yes, we knew that some of us were deeply opposed to others of us. But we moved forward and got the job done, because we weren't getting paid to kvetch about politics.
Because the price is driven by bitfinex printing tethers and pretty much nothing else.
In the Air Force, this was explained as follows. It is wrong to say that a person is an idiot. It is okay to describe behavior as idiotic.
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How often do major banks get hacked and "lose" money?
Its also bizarre to identify problems, and assume the mantle of a teacher and tell someone they're doing it wrong without having any first hand expertise.
I really want to do a stream based language that is like APL for streams. With the current event sourcing craze right now, I definitely see modern use cases.
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The linked Numberphile video mentions that a black hole the size of a human head wouldn't have enough entropy to encode Graham's number. So what diameter of black hole would actually be required?
There is no such thing as "ground truth". Maps are for navigation, not safety. IMHO the fact that companies keep using radar and lidar indicates that their vision systems are not as good as they should be.