skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These data can be used to identify their source. This will become easier as more data becomes available.

Yes, so? (The face paper you link isn't a good example of this anyway, since it's so questionable and re-identification already works much better than that based on stuff like haplotypes.) That's not a real risk, not compared to, you know unlocking the secrets of human genetics. And it has little to do with the research databases: DNA is inherently as far away as it is possible to get from being anonymous, once it started becoming cheap, the loss of genetic privacy was inevitable no matter how it was handled. And it's not that big a deal. We will be much better off for it.

> Replicated p-values lead to multiple publications, which are valuable to academics.

This is very different from what you were just claiming.
Because DNSSEC is silly and doesn't solve any real problems, but does introduce a major operational burden where screwups have immense costs.
> Looks like it's been fixed in ES5

That was published 9 years ago.
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So given we aren’t talking about the actual demographics of the regions they hire in, why not narrow it further?
It's been far too long, unfortunately. I'm not even sure I still have the IDA database.
> the English equivalent would be 'ineffable' which describes a quality that is beyond words

also known as "inherently subjective"

just because you deem something to be inexpressible doesn't mean it actually is.
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Please read the prospectus for these products. Leveraged ETFs aren't appropriate for long term hedging.
the initial temperature, in that ideal system, is determined by deliberately making it hot or cold with a small sized air conditioner or heater. so in the ideal system you heat or cool once and then never again.
Should the candidate fit into the team, or should the team fit into the candidate? Given that most companies want to have a as diverse workforce as possible, it seem reasonable to argue that the least fitting person should get the job. :)
If one does neither it doesn’t matter.
My mom gave me an old iPad that’s limited to running iOS 9.something. Even though GarageBand existed back then, it refuses to install from the App Store. It took a decent bit of hacking, including an older version of iTunes and mitmproxy, just to get an older version installed that would still run on it.
I think deep nets solve isolated problems really well, problems such classification based on given training sets is very good. However we sometimes compare it to humans which is I think an error on our part, humans process lot more training data than the deep nets, the vast amount of data we process over the years is incomparable. Don't get me wrong, the architecture of deep nets are fine, it can learn anything given the data and the loss function -- but its difficult to formulate every human decision in some kind of loss function. Its really hard.
> You need to burn a lot of fuel to produce cement, which itself emits carbon during the calcination process.

The CO2 emitted by the calcination process is reabsorbed when the Portland cement sets. You won't get back the CO2 expended in the heating process, but the calcination itself is more or less CO2-neutral.

It's roughly this:

Making cement: CaCO3 (limestone) + (some other stuff, varying with the type of cement) + lots of heat -> CaO + CO2.

Setting cement: CaO + H2O -> Ca(OH)2 ("portlandite").

Ca(OH)2 + CO2 (from atmosphere) -> CaCO3 +
H20 (chemically much the same as the original limestone, but now set into a useful form).

I'm too lazy to balance all the equations, and there are a lot of other things mixed into modern cements, but that's the basic idea.

It seems unfair to charge cement with the CO2 driven off during manufacture, while ignoring the fact that an equal amount of CO2 is absorbed during setting.
The rate may be dropping, but we're still adding 80m+ real people every year. N*rate is holding steady because N keeps increasing even though the rate is dropping.
I think it looks like were going to be able to get the author on this thread. So we can get an understanding as to why.
> Things are not pythonic.

You say that like it's always a good thing. I remember I spent 4 hours trying to import a function from a file that was in a sibling directory before I finally gave up and copy pasted the function.

There's also other things that really rub me the wrong way in Python. Once you get used to writing computations as a map/reduce/filter pipeline with fat-arrow functions in ES7, Python lambdas and list comprehensions feel so crippled and lacking in comparison.

There's a lot of other things that ES7 does really well such as imports, asynchronous code with promises/async-await, array/object destructuring, the spread operator, etc.

Don't get me wrong; I love Python and use it heavily in my day job, but it's not the end all and be all. There are fantastic libraries written for Python that make life really good (think Reportlab), but for applications that are highly asynchronous and I/O heavy, I'd take ES6 running on Node any day over Python.
I'd imagine Uber's consent to not use waymo trade secrets comes with Uber agreeing that the points in contention are waymo trade secrets. Doesn't that mean waymo has a very good standing if Uber were to use these trade secrets?

I mean this is better than a patent because a trade secret will never expire in perpetuity, right? I also imagine this extends to anyone acting on Uber's behalf?
Chicago also has a very weak job market in the tech space. Relative to the Bay, Seattle, LA and NY, it has practically zero noteworthy growing and innovative companies.

Most of Chicago's top talent is stuck at places like Boeing or Exelon where they make a good living in the low to mid six figures, but it's really hard to get a huge surge in home prices like in the Bay without employee equity going up 100x, which just doesn't happen with the large mature companies that dominate the landscape in Chicago.

In my experience, this lack of innovation sits squarely on the shoulders of the wealthy in that city. They have expressed very little interest in being educated in the tech space. For example, in 2013, when I tried to explain to them why a bitcoin brokerage could be a good idea, I had to try to educate them in ways that are totally unreasonable. How do you even explain what bitcoin is to someone who only understands basic arithmetic and whose tech chops extend to Excel and web sites? In the end they all just assumed I was pitching a scam, and I don't really blame them, given how the whole thing must just sound fake. But in the Bay, where VCs are run by really intelligent people who can go home to read and understand the white paper and who probably know more than the people they invest in, it's a wonderful starting point.

Lately, VCs like the Pritzker group have really opened up to taking risk at least, but they're kind of just throwing darts randomly into things they don't understand (see Outcome Health). We really need people like Larry Page and Gordon Moore (or whoever, you know what I'm saying) here to help allocate funds in productive ways.
I have also suspected that it's not possible to live a comfortable lifestyle (e.g. all the modern conveniences most Americans enjoy) without indirectly relying on slave or poverty labor somewhere else
I rest my case. :)
Cabal version too high. Did you have a pre existing cabal installation independent of stack or something?
You aren't entirely wrong to have questioned the source(s)/motivations behind these numbers. There are lots of competing interests afoot. And not everyone who is calling this issue a "crisis" or who is expressing "concern" is doing so altruistically. I know that having spoken to them personally.
Your question is valid, not entirely sure why you were down-voted.
> If good is defined by more factors than quality of translation, maybe.

That translates to 'is not good' in my language. Your low-key sarcasm is much appreciated.
the spelling of your posts is objectively not impeccable
Ask HN: Do you ever feel trapped by the ideas of books/people you learn from?
The older I get, the more it seems my own thoughts are replicas of others' thoughts rather than my own, taken from books or otherwise. I find it difficult to think independently and I'm very self-conscious of it. Do any others here share this concern, and if so, what's the best way to fix it? Thanks!
I saw one of their projects going up in Saskatoon. It looked to be an in-fill two-suite house. It went together amazingly fast, and from what I could tell it was very well built. The Bone "system" they've put together is pretty cool too; all of the major pieces come on a truck pre-cut and then assembled on-site. It reminded me of Meccano.
Nearby uses both BLE and ultrasound. Before this was exposed in the Nearby APIs, Chromecast, which does not have BLE, used ultrasound to find Android devices in the same room.
HR has lost the trust of employees
Ha, and they're living in some shabby plywood houses, at that.
> behaviour is well defined.

True, and we could go one step further: it's unambiguously defined, with invariant rules that can be used to prove a conformant implementation.
Complete and utter horse shit.
I'd imagine that the commitment to Uber and Waymo working together to assure that Waymo trade secrets are not used that is referenced in the settlement announcement involves more than Uber promising and Waymo accepting assurances at a distance.
Go has lambdas. Go's lack of generics isn't in order to cater to mediocre programmers. Go doesn't force you to comment.

Are you thinking about the right language?
I think their idea is to use biologically inspired network architectures. Looking at Fig1 of the paper[1], it seems they have drawn the schematic in an overly complicated way...

For example, FWD and REV motor neurons are totally determined by AVB and AVA sensory neurons so can be left out. I would bet if it is worked out this reduces to some simple ANN architecture.

[1] https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsd...
When you say, draw a button in an immediate mode gui, the widget is drawn for this frame, which has not yet been flushed to the monitor. Yet the draw button function returns true or false on whether it was clicked. But how can that be, this button has not yet been flush to the display?

The imgui framework handles the previous frames events when drawing the current frame.

This implies that the only concept you really need to know using an immediate mode GUI framework, is that internally to the framework it needs some mechanism to identify objects between frames.
It also assume current population size and civilization values, which are far, far from being optimum. There are many forms of progress that are not technical.
China is a juggernaut and will
overtake the US, but I would guess in 20-30 years.

Economic figures from China are not very reliable. But they are making smart investments while the US is mostly moving money from one pile to another.
Could you please not post ideological boilerplate to HN? It leads to flamewars and lowers the quality level below what we're hoping for here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The bottom line is:

The plan is to use satellites already in orbit to detect and map geological and botanical features that might betray the presence of subterranean lithium. Though satellite prospecting of this sort has been employed before, to look for metals such as gold and copper, using it to search for lithium is new.

The searchers are not searching blind. They know, from mining records dating from the mid-1800s, that there is lithium in Cornwall’s rocks. Those records tell of underground springs containing salts of lithium—at that time quite a recently discovered element.
> It really should not be though. It is saddening how fixated on "new" the vally mentality is.

That's not a fair characterization - it is impressive regardless of the industry. I was impressed just the other day reading about Mercedes classic has stock of spares for old cars (not all parts). I would like to think the number of generations of Mercedes cars is comparable with the number of generations of Maps APIs that have been rolled out. Maintaining support for old products takes effort, and is unlikely to be profitable (directly), one is justified in not doing that without fixation on the "new".
The problem is that everyone strives to get to the American level. Nothing wrong with public commute and having your own garden/mini-farm. Really easy, too.
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Discounts, guarantees and search for 'good' genes: The booming fertility business
I second this. Write a basic game with 2d graphics, use SDL, and save and load the state to file. To take it a step further and write a networked version with your own basic byte encoding if each move and game state to keep in sync. This would teach you a ton of various topics.
The Motorola RAZR sold about 130 million units. That was over several years, but Motorola was up there in volume at one time.
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Not be the case for everybody, but I'm 100% fine with having my genomic data public, especially in the context of research. That's not to say there aren't potential societal contexts where it would be totally awful (e.g. 1930s Germany) but I can't imagine any risk to myself.
If I recall correctly, I was the person talking about this, barely a week ago :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16291194
The "problem" (to the extent that it is a problem) is that Britain has 65 million people on an island smaller than the U.S. state of Oregon, most of which has an extremely moderate climate. The U.S. is orders of magnitude larger (i.e., more transportation costs) and has significant regions that require large-scale heating or air conditioning to make habitable. Some require both.

Also, Canada uses even more energy per capita than the United States, for pretty much the same reasons.
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Thanks for your comment! Sorry for the downvotes, I see you're actually trying to make good conversation.

I think Marx's analysis of capitalism is over emphasized as a cause of the murderous regimes we saw under the "Communist" label in the 20th century. Stalin wanted control of the people, and he knew that Marx was very popular among the people at the time. But while I'm not an expert on all of these things, I don't think Marx advocated for the violent methods we saw used by those brutal regimes who used his name. And remember, Capitalist nations like the US were violent too (millions killed in Vietnam, and for what exactly?), but we don't blame Adam Smith or David Ricardo for those horrors.

When I do mention communism, I mean an agreement between people where some good or service it shared amongst them without any individual or individuals laying specific claim to more than their fair share. Families operate this way with food for example, and employers like Google share food freely this way too. I'm advocating that we build robots that are owned by huge groups of people who then share the rewards of the machines freely.

So it's "communism" because certain things are shared by the community, but people can still have their own private property and make other choices about what they do. It's a libertarian, non-violent non-coercive way to achieve a sort of voluntary communism for only life's most important goods (as decided by the people who choose to participate in these sharing schemes).

I hope that clears it up somewhat!
The worm isn't "uploaded". Scientists painstakingly mapped out the physical structure of its neurons using some genetic engineering and lasers. This structure does not change from worm to worm.
"linting" is subjective, preferential—not required.

Python built linting into the language itself and it's super annoying.
The costs of the opiate epidemic aren't limited to deaths. E.g. when people get HIV or Hep C through needle sharing, that costs millions of dollars per person to treat.
Knowledge is not cheap to move around. (At least not currently) Information is cheap to move around though. This perhaps is a subtle distinction, but an important one. Maybe eventually when we can directly write knowledge into peoples' heads (something akin to the Matrix) then I'd agree knowledge is cheap, but until that day comes knowledge will remain expensive. Chiefly because to be highly knowledgeable a great deal of time is involved in mastering the relevant information.

I actually agree though that Chinese citizens or anyone else can learn the same information, so overtime we can expect these jobs to become cheaper as more and more people learn them. In fact, I think some re-balancing of economic power is inevitable as a knowledge based economy likely favors the country with more brains. (This is why I think the US should actually be encouraging immigration or at least not actively trying to deter it) The one downside China has going for it (which is perhaps a benefit for the US) is the level of totalitarian control that exists with the government. If China was more of a democracy then I think the economic future of the US would be in even more jeoparady. People don't like to be controlled and more information will make people resistant to that control.

I don't think a knowledge-based economy is a panacea, but it's much better than what we currently have going and I think UBI will play a role in providing the country-level protectionism you reference.
> According to W3Techs, jQuery is still present in 96.2% of the sites they could determine a JavaScript framework for

But that doesn't mean jquery was used exclusively on these sites. Look at any major website, in addition to some modern framework, they will often include jquery for just a few old hacks (I've seen popular sites include 3-5 different jquery versions on the same page).
Oh, it would be perfectly possible - remember when "mod cons" were invented, most if not all of them were manufactured on-shore. If the human race comprised only a billion or two people, the whole world could easily live at that standard indefinitely.
When you say something must use X resource that's very hard to support.

EX: Education does not actually need separate buildings and transportation. It could operate completely online.

Further, most of we think of as nature exists in fairly narrow bands. We could for example have a city going 10 miles into the earth with a fairly normal ecosystem existing above it.
Fair enough. I think we’re pretty close together on that.
This is a very good intro to K-D trees, big thank you to the author. However, I think that a three-dimensional lookup table would be more performant in this case. 16M (256^3) of entries are needed to cover RGB color space with 8 bits per channel, that's a lot, but lookup time is O(1) with a very small constant.
Haha, it was only kind of sarcastic. But thank you. I meant, if you evaluate based on things like speed, volume, and other measures, and quality of translation is secondary to “good enough” it may be better than humans. However, if you base purely on accuracy, no way. :-)
Hint, huge market downturns wiping out your stocks account correlate with times people suddenly need access to free cash.
I'm guessing that "90% population reduction" doesn't go along with "live comfortably".
There is something missing in this discussion. Most single people want to have a mate I think. Women who find themselves at the close of a relationship usually pick up a new one faster than men do. Women wouldn't do that if they were happy being single. I don't see how personal happiness is something that can be measured or predicted by a scientific methodology.
It's nice to know we're all gonna die with generational suffering down the road. I'd like to know what Vietnam is doing and how might that model be improved. Data --> ML --> policy, etc With all this bickering on who's right or wrong, it is no wonder that nothing will change and humanity will go the way of the cynical comedian: https://youtu.be/7W33HRc1A6c?t=2m39s
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The conclusion doesn't necessarily follow from the premise; that is, the antidote to the zero-sum aspects of education are not necessarily less education.

As well, the conclusion made by the author and most of his cohorts is from a purely economic standpoint. As if there were no intrinsic value to the enrichment of the human mind. As if the economic output of an individual were his sole measure of worth.

You're essentially saying: "education is only worth investing in for some people." That's exactly what the author is saying: "Only academically well-prepared 18-year-olds ought to go to college." Ignoring that being 'academically well prepared' itself is influenced by many, many factors: race, income, test-taking aptitude, geographic location, age...

Education is for everyone. Higher education -- community college -- is for everyone. It is worth investing in for everyone who wants it. That it doesn't bear out on the balance sheet of economics is a failure of economic measurement and the education system, not of education itself.
Who blinked first in Waymo v. Uber?
I would pay for just this article, but I don't want 12. Why does every newspaper only offers subscription option?
>I think their idea is to use biologically inspired network architectures.

It seems that way. This approach could have interesting applications in engineering. But I wish it wasn't pitched to imply that "machine learning and the activity of our brain the same on a fundamental level". (This is a direct quote from the article, except it was posed as a rhetorical question there.)
Even if all 100 players are nearby, 100 isn't unusual in the context of MMOs. That's not to say it's trivial to do, it's just not a new feat unique to battle royale games.
Meta Thought: Isn't this basically describing the difference between human children and human adults? How effectively they can bridge known and unknown context?
They specifically referred to the "deterred subset" ... which is much smaller then "everyone".

In any case, the parent's point seemed pretty empty.

> Who's to say that the current deterred subset of the population won't begin to commit crimes if our style of punishment is changed?

This is what research is for. We may never know what is optimal in an absolute sense, but we can figure out some relative costs/benefits of different approaches to problems and choose our tradeoffs appropriately.
Weren't Meltdown/Spectre exploitable via Javascript?
Yep. Any article or post about Facebook on this site is largely negative or full of self-congratulatory "I quit FB" posts. Neither attitude is _wrong_ but you are not going to be a balanced view point about Facebook's user base here.
Funny. I was recalling a conversation from even further back, but I don't recall who it was. Might have been you!
Maybe GPUs need to be fundamentally redesigned to allow multi-user access with enforceable security boundaries. I'm sure this would be highly non-trivial to implement, but it would be great for other scenarios like shared access to GPU compute resources in "the cloud".
The main thing I would do differently is get lots and lots of tutoring, pair programming, whatever. I had precious little of it; thankfully I also had loads and loads of time because I was a teenager with no financial constraints.

Tackle large projects early on, release them to other people, get feedback (both on code and usability). I never got much momentum, in fact I'd say I probably never wrote a codebase over 10k LoC myself until maybe a decade in.
Your "mathematically sound" statement seems obviously false, which probably means I'm misunderstanding it. Perhaps you should state it more formally.