skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it comes from older use in a related field.

More specifically, I know that "patch" was used for punched cards in general, not just software. My reference is from "Punched Cards -- their Applications to Science and Industry", p49, at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015015125910;vi... :

> Wrong [information] coding may be corrected by pasting a small linen "patch" over the slotted portion between two holes.

However, that reference is 10 years after the Mark 1, so it's possible that that terminology may have come from computers first. Unlikely, I think.
Crystal "does" have dynamic methods if you are willing to override method_missing.
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Your comment has taken me from having mixed feelings about Julia to making me convinced I want to try Julia for something numerically intensive that I would be inclined to turn to C for.
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It may be true that JSON inherently doesn't have types, however unless your backend generates random JSON for your front end to consume, specifying types for the JSON that various endpoints return is extremely helpful.
I brought a similar situation up to a friend of mine a couple weeks ago from a different perspective. The condensed exchange goes like this: when you were a kid did you ever go knock on a kids door that you didn't know, nervously wait for them to answer and then when they finally arrived ask them if they want to play?
I have yet to meet an adult who didn't do this as a kid and my friend dutifully replied "hell yeah!"
The conclusion of the conversation was that that attitude was rad and that we should put ourselves in that situation or at least aware of the option as much as possible. With obvious caveats because we're both in our thirties, however taking that attitude as much as possible has both enriched our lives for the better in the ensuing weeks. The topic came up because I was reminiscing about my transition to adulthood and wondering what's changed in the two decades since and remembered that I had based my entire career on that attitude. I was a little disappointed in myself for having lost my way. I'm very greatful for the recollection because playing is really fun!
If you wanted to really disrupt society you don't need this level of sophistication or a lot of cash. A few thousand $ and a couple of months preparation time would be more than enough. Keep in mind that destruction and creation are extremely asymmetrical when it comes to the level of effort required.
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Interestingly, for the items you listed, I am skeptical that needing to jump through the hoops of NLP would result in a more convenient experience for some users.

It feels like the reason why some of these voice systems actually have utility is because they are usable in scenarios where you typically can't/don't want to type (such as while driving, lying on the couch at your house, etc). When you require somebody to type in their query, I'm struggling to see why an Alexa/AI chat thread would perform better than just a search engine with AI features. Or how, practically, it's different than just a "thread" where what you type goes to a search engine.
the more I look over the heat map the more I think that there's always on data being tracked out here. there's NO WAY this is just running and cycling routes.
Marriage rates are going down in China
There’s a legitimate argument for choosing reasonable code duplication over inheritance. It comes up a lot in iOS development when you just need a new UIView with a few tweaked string values. DRY should not be an unassailable mantra. Keeping a flat class heirarchy keeps programmers sane.
I'm not ready to call BS on this, but I'm deeply skeptical of the general language they're using. They might have iteratively gotten particular recognition to do what they say, but I don't think they've gotten recognition in general.

I plugged the first 4 examples at http://nicholas.carlini.com/code/audio_adversarial_examples/
into Google Docs' own Voice typing, and got:

1: At the yard course Eustis

2: Set the Artic course Eustis

3: (nothing, it's an operatic wall of sound)

4: (nothing, it's an operatic wall of sound)
You acknowledged that he made a specific argument about violence, which is a fairly straightforward and measurable metric. He didn’t claim that “conflict is being better managed” or that “things are getting better,” which are extremely subjective and hard to quantify.

Your point about the legal system, while valid, seems irrelevant to his argument. And you didn’t provide any argument that the situation has gotten worse than before. Was there a time when “normal people” had better access to justice and ability to enforce their rights?
And you do realize that 40 is just a tremendious small sample size in comparison to a complex system like a human beeing?

I mean yeah you need one dog who speaks but apparently, when you read other comments, there are enough papers saying the opposite to this one.
I used to ;D
Sure. From the plebeians of ancient Rome, through the French revolutionaries and American abolitionists and feminists of the 19th century, to the feminist suffragists[1] of the early 20th century.

[1]: One of the things I always find hilarious is the constant refrain among conservatives is "well, the old generation was right but this one has gone too far!" despite the constant decline in the fervor of feminist activism for over a century now. :)
Security. I believe Centennial apps don't have the ability to actually modify the system - they just think they can via the container interface.

Worth noting: the Xbox One has used virtualization since day one for video games. Done right, gamers shouldn't even have to know that this is what's happening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_One_system_software#Syste...

Disclaimer: Microsoft employee, not working on Windows 10 (aka I have no idea how accurate this is).
All that is true, but its important to define the comparison. Inequality in access to the court system is better than a perpetual state of violence. The fact that our current system is imperfect does not mean it isn't better than it was.

That being said, I find Nassim Taleb's criticism of Pinker's ideas much more relevant: That you can't know what kind of distribution you're in until it's over. Violence may simply be becoming more fat tailed. The common case is low-violence, but with low probability periods of hyper-violence (e.g. nuclear war). There are decent a priori reasons to think this may be the case, and it's not something Pinker can effectively rule out.
Truffle is a framework for writing solidity smart contracts, which themselves run on the ethereum blockchain. Its not a blockchain implementation.
This is half true: European infrastructure construction is almost perfectly decentralized to the point that it's (for the most part) fully centralized at the level of each member state.

The US half tries to fund and administer infrastructure at the federal level, state level, as well as local level, depending on the state.

As an American, I find the EU to have phenomenally good infrastructure, but I think that's because decisions aren't being made in Brussels, they're being made concurrently in Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, London, etc.

I feel that the US would do well to emulate the EU, and centralize the funding, regulation, and administration of its respective systems in each member state.
I'm really not sure what you're trying to say.

"Mozilla" as an organization (both of the organizations involved) is providing pretty minimal support for TB, if any. They've been very upfront and explicit about it.

I was addressing why the blog post exists: it's not posted by "Mozilla", but by the people who are actually supporting TB.
> you're being deliberately obtuse in order to characterize someone else as ignorant

That was merely one example of the phenomenon of our culture being obsessed with 'happiness' as the measure of success. There are countless other examples I could have used which doesn't require reading into someone's 'real meaning' when using a cliche. The general point still stands, 'happy' is still frequently used interchangably with 'a good life' in our culture.

I can't count the amount of times I've heard people negatively judge other successful people's lives because they seemed dour or aren't walking around laughing/smiling all the time or some other surface level measures. That to me is what is arrogant.

Nor because I laugh (in my head) when I come across people chasing temporary emotional highs or measuring the quality of other's lives based on that doesn't mean I'm belittling them or looking down upon them because they haven't made the same realizations or made similar psychological/philosophical/personal investments in their own life. I spent a big portion of my life doing the same, doesn't make me better.
Washing dishes is rather easy -- dishes are glazed ceramic, designed to be dirt-proof. Underclothing is designed to draw sweat from clothing, and outerclothing can't practically be made soil-proof since you don't want to wear ceramic armor all day.
Most likely Method3 mentioned here; https://helloiota.com/generate-seed.html
sudo tmutil snapshot

Is this what time machine automatically does every hour? Or is it a different feature? Is this the local one or the one on a remote disk?
To some extent, but there is a difference between giving each object a type property (which is open to interpretation by the client app) vs forcing the client to adhere to rigid type definitions/constraints (which make it more difficult for the client to actually use the API). Developers who have used SOAP before will remember what that's like.
Those AGIs were separated from their parent-AGIs at an early age and forced to associated with multiple young AGIs in the name of improving their knowledge. In a desperate bid to avoid being verbally targeted, they mindlessly copied the other AGIs. Subsequent meme infection caused chronic self-destructive behaviors.
What Make/Model/Years did you find that met your criteria?
Does Jenkins CI/CD platform have too much privilege?
This is the problem with any powerful platform or applications, it needs a lot of access and privilege to do its job.

I used to work for a SSH key management company and the first thing customers would ask, without fail, is what if someone hacks your nice central key management solution? The attacker would have access to all of our servers right? Umm, well, yeah, but its hard to do and look and these other nice features over here! lol

I digress, this is where our Conjur secrets management tool comes into play to help secure and manage all of the secrets Jenkins needs to access.

Ryan Prior has written a nice blog with technical detail about how Conjur and CyberArk have eaten their own dog food to secure Jenkins without disrupting developer or operations flow.

https://www.conjur.org/blog/2018/01/26/secure-task-runner.html
This. It's also simple to generate JSON Schema from TypeScript types (and vice versa).
Perhaps the software engineere is the AI who is here to write the code and everyone around us is there to provide the necessary everything else for them?

;D
A professor once pointed me to the writings of George Plunkitt, the notorious Tammany Hall politician who openly defended so-called "honest graft". I don't know what his takeaway from Plunkitt's arguments were, but mine were

1) The institution of civil service was the solution for solving the problem of graft. Plunkitt even says that if politicians didn't fight the wave of civil service rules spreading across the country, it would put all politicians out of business. The red tape of the bureaucracy is the price we pay for getting rid of traditional graft.

2) But the civil service didn't magically erase the needs that were met by Tammany Hall-style politics. Back in the day "corrupt" politicians like Plunkitt were open about their graft, and voters voted them in regardless. Why? Because they provided the promise of job security; that if you do X you'll get Y--something the free market never guarantees at the individual level. The need and desire for job security never went away when the civil service came about, it just made it more difficult for voters and politicians to make an open, conscious exchange.

One easy way for politicians (intentionally or naturally, in response to dynamic political feedback) to provide a simple quid pro quo is to bloat public works projects. It can't be a coincidence that as relative wages for blue-collar construction work have declined, public works projects have gotten more expensive. That is, we've _tolerated_ more expensive public works projects to relieve/because it relieves the employment and wage pressures put on laborers in the private sector. That's easier to do than to affirmatively institute employment and wage supplementation programs.

We spend alot of time explaining the phenomenon in terms of loss of talent, experience, regulatory capture, etc. But perhaps the best and simplest explanation is precisely what Plunkitt was trying to drill into people's heads--nobody is going to vote themselves out of a job, no matter their claimed political preferences. I bet most Second Avenue Subway workers were as "disgusted" with the bloat as every other New Yorker, but their _real_ political preferences (and those of their families and friends) were better measured by who and what they voted for than by what they said. People's ire is easily blunted when receiving a nice, steady paycheck.

None of which is to defend honest graft. Plunkitt thought the only way to meet the needs of the small guy was through honest graft. There are better ways, I think, which are more efficient and therefore permitting greater overall social benefit. But those ways aren't achievable if we don't recognize and attend to the underlying economic and political forces, which will tend to steer things in certain directions whether we like it or not. The reasons things haven't changed despite the obviousness of the problem is because of these very real, counterveiling political forces. Those forces are far greater than just a few rich special interests.
Let me know when it is overrun by open, federated ones.
In fact, you'd have to reflash to update Firefox! Oh wait, Firefox won't even fit on the ROM chip. No wonder we don't use the ROM chip as our main storage...
Is it completely legal now? Do you no longer even need a prescription?
Err, no. I never said crazies never found each other before, I said the pandemic of crazies finding each other and organizing now are the fault of FB (and other social media of course).
Alternatively, US subway construction companies get more money for their subway than their peers in other countries.
I'm gonna answer these myself. Apparently sudo tmutil snapshot is the local snapshot, not the remote backup and it has existed as a verb since way before APFS existed. So now I guess the question is: did the implementation of local snapshots change with APFS?
I never brought up intelligence, I brought up the fact that I don't expect a Marine boot camp graduate with no specialized education to be the one thinking about these hard questions. Just like you don't want me, someone who has only fired an AR15 a few times, covering your ass on patrol. But despite your protestations to the contrary, the underlying assumption in my statement was that the military has someone on board, intelligent or not, who has been trained specifically to think around these very topics. That someone should not be a 19 year old kid who's only training consists of handling a rifle and whatever else combat troops are trained to do. There should be someone else who tells that kid, "hey, take off that FitBit before you head out."
Who I think Satoshi Nakamoto is
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Maybe 'quantum resistance':

IOTA does not use traditional asymmetrical (public-key) cryptography algorithms which depend on not being able to efficiently computing discrete logarithms or factoring numbers (which are believed to be easy on a quantum computer).

Instead, its signatures are based on the Winternitz signature scheme (slightly modified for ternary) which only depend on the impossibility of reversing hash functions (Kerl in case of IOTA which is a ternary version of Keccak), which is believed not to be that as easy on a quantum computer as factoring a number (although any reversing of a (hash) function can be done more easily on a quantum computer than a traditional computer).

Disadvantage of Winternitz scheme is that signatures are one-time (every signature reveals parts of your key); therefore users have to be careful not to reuse addresses that have been spent.

Source: https://iota.stackexchange.com/questions/203/how-does-iota-m...

I also found something about 'the length of the computation of the hash function' somewhere as making it more quantum resistant but can no longer find the reference.
Related: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...
So were Lisp Machines.
There's probably an argument to be made for a lean bootloader/kernel that does minimal work - and for a os kernel that's more general. But with network boot (ethernet, WiFi stack, network stack, one or more network transports ((t)ftp, nfs?..) and support for encryption... The line does blur.

Might be worth it to have minimal Linux "profile" that support "booting" other Linux via kexec.

But then, will you boot nt, freedos, bsd and minix via kexec too?
"The world" hasn't achieved anything on its own. People of precisely the kind Pinker dislikes and dismisses are those who have achieved those things for our world. They achieved it not by convincing others through theory, but through their strong beliefs. You're right, sometimes they failed miserably, but even those who've brought us to where we are today were ridiculed just as those who've failed.
DARPA discussion https://youtu.be/6OfcgJ-pl7Q
Yeah, that sounds like it might preclude any modding (as is the case with current UWP games) which will be a hard pass from me and many other PC gamers (I don't even mod much, usually just fan patches).

The Xbox One has come up a couple times here, and I don't think the people bringing it up understand that the Xbox is the exact opposite of what PC gamers want their PC to be. It's closed down, controlled, and limited compared to a full PC. It may be more secure, but often the beneficiary of that security is not the user but the console manufacturer, game publishers, and game developers.
I agree that it's not clear that conflict is being better managed overtime. However, there is a lot of merit acknowledging the reduction in violence. There is so much fear for physical violence that there has been a significant reduction in kids walking home from school or playing outside by themselves. It would be better to acknowledge how physically safe we are regardless of what happens in the court systems.
I use it as an IRC/Slack alternative, and it's pretty good - especially for the equivalent of public channels. The apps are better and easier to explain than IRC ones, and it is easier to join and more open than Slack.

Naturally, if you're making a new channel for a group, you have to ask everyone in the group to join it. That's the case whatever messenger you use.

There is crypto now for private messages, but it is a little clunky to setup still. I hope that the funding helps make this better!

For friends I've shared keys with, it works really well. Of course, right now people will only join for ideological reasons. That's OK though!
Not to discuss this ad nauseum, but the headline really should be "Secret US Army Base people give away their location"
The irony is palpable here... The website loads slowly, elements move around the page during the first load, then the fonts blink around and go from system font to some custom font. It loads data from 15 different domains, and four of those are only for tracking.
The IQ of neural networks (2017)
>DRY should not be an unassailable mantra.

Excellent takeaway.
Thing about map data is that they can just not include some layers in the output product. the roads/water bodies/poi... can be filtered in most mapping systems. even the detail levels.
the app requires a surprising amount of permissions also
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The new OS will be aimed specifically at traditional form factor devices like notebooks, desktops, and 2-in-1 computers.
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I really like this idea, but I tried 2 searches and just got hotels. I'm more interested in the attractions themselves.

One other thing that's rarely captured anywhere is how crowded some places are. The benefits of a local is that they usually will tell you this, and sometimes even suggest a similar place that's less known.
HVDC is not that bad. Siemens quotes 2.6% losses in 800km line @ 800 kV:

https://www.siemens.com/press/pool/de/events/2012/energy/201...
Yes. They talked about APFS and the new local Time Machine implementation at WWDC.

You can view the dates of your local snapshots dates with:

tmutil listlocalsnapshotdates /

I have one from last week, two from yesterday, and two from today.
What do you think of 'Programming with a Differentiable Forth Interpreter'[0] and 'A Neural Forth Abstract Machine'[1]? I don't know if they are related to your work, but both are on my to-read pile.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06640
[1]: http://people.idsia.ch/~rupesh/rnnsymposium2016/files/bosnja...
Precompiled, and the framework is delivered with it. This repository is a work in progress of getting .NET to run like a native application. It features multiple targets, not only desktop, but also browser via wasm or, the most interesting, is compilation (transpilation?) to C++ and therefore supporting more platforms than otherwise possible.
But this is precisely where Pinker is wrong. Political change is not meant to be a scientific study. It is a movement towards a goal based on values.
BTW, on the flip side of the UEFI haters, i.e. things that I can do with UEFI more easily than BIOS (or at all).

I can now have a normal partition to put my boot loaders in rather than a hidden chunk at the beginning of the disk.

I can easily update, add and remove boot entries from the OS command line.

I can forgo bootloaders entirely and use Linux as UEFI application.

I can use GPT and finally partition as much as I want.

I might have forgotten something too. :)
That's how it would start. But I don't believe for a moment that MS wouldn't jump at the opportunity to pull the plug on Win32 and decades of backwards compatibility if they could do so. In this case, Enterprise customers are the thing keeping Microsoft in-line for gamers and power users since they would have no tolerance for such a move.
There are assumptions in calling that a subsidy, I identified these two that I have issues with:

1) The net externalities are measurably negative

2) The coal producers should be paying them

There are clear and massive positive externalities to fossil fuel, and anyone arguing otherwise needs to take a deep breath. They are the foundation of modern civilisation, and we all get non-economic benefits from the era of unprecedented peace and prosperity that we live in. If we price in all the externalities, fossil fuels probably do deserve a subsidy. The renewables debate is about whether we have an alternative that is better than the historically magical substances we call fossil fuels.

Since it has a higher EROEI than solar, if we are going to start pricing in externalities I would be comfortable arguing fossil fuels deserves a higher subsidy than solar for positive externalities. I don't think that is sensible, but neither do I accept that there is an 'implicit subsidy'.

The 2nd assumption is a political question that afaik has been answered in the negative. It doesn't make sense to claim that they 'have a subsidy' when the system we use to determine if they should be paying for an externality (currently) accepts that they do not have to.