skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a plot point of Accelerando by HN user cstross. One of the more thought-provoking books I have read.
I'm too lazy to make a picture, but I see them solid black like a normal comment, there are no markings like [dead] or anything. Even for that sibling comment. For me it all looks normal except that my comments are always at the bottom.
If they're using bash, it shouldn't be so hard. Just put something like this in your/their bashrc

git() {
if [[ $1 == blame ]]; then
shift
git self-blame "${@}"
else
command git "${@}"
fi
}

edit: this isn't 100% perfect as it won't work (but won't break git either) in situations where the user uses a global flag in addition to blame. I've been using git for years though and the only global flag I've used are --version and --help
It's... certainly one way to make sure your site only works with JS enabled.
The answer is regulating data - not algorithms or hardware - the data. I'm not saying it should happen, but if you want to regulate AI then you have to regulate the data that it learns from. That means strict rules on storage, retrieval, scale, uses of, collection etc... of images, video, text, metadata, EM emissions, really anything that produces a measurable "signature" of some sort.

It's how we regulate nuclear [1] - the "source material" is the most important part, while the refineries, delivery mechanisms etc are secondary.

Doing this would put serious brakes on the tech industry so I don't see anything close to this happening honestly.

[1]https://www.nrc.gov/materials/srcmaterial.html
I do agree that Tesla seems to be doing their utmost to say something akin to "it could be autonomous, if if if" - and that an average consumer could read that as "it is autonomous, full stop."
I'd like to see something like Cyc merged with pattern-learning systems. You'd get more common sense and logic to compliment "blunt" pattern matching.
> the problem is not about having stated in public what you are but with societies which discriminate.

Doesn't history teach us over and over that societies DO discriminate? I don't believe that basic human trait will ever change. If that could change, maybe someday we could do away with 'evil' altogether, but I don't see that happening either.

Just look at Internet justice vigilanties. If you're on the wrong side of a social issue, you could very well be targeted. I have a few unpopular opinions, and I keep them to myself for that very reason. You don't have to look too far to see what happens if you don't.
Right up until the first real court challenge where any competent judge will declare algorithms are not persons, cannot own property, and an LLC without any legitimate ownership interest is an abandoned entity (making all its assets abandoned property).

Alternatively for criminal purposes the courts will simply "pierce the veil" and declare the actual owners to be the humans profiting from the algorithm's actions.

Judges don't, as a rule, enjoy "cute tricks".
Yea.. try having a short (5 character) @ gmail.com address.. For _years_ I have dealt with this issue. Every time I seem to finally get things to not automatically get added I get hit with another round of lazy google engineers that don't add a UI option to disable this silliness.

Though, due to the short address I also get hundreds of legit calendar invites that were just sent to the wrong people. I swear I know the whereabouts of half the people in the country with names either starting with, or ending with that combination. =/
Not all RF based systems are equal.

GPS received signal strength at the Earths surface is around -130 dBm, barely above the thermal noise floor even in a good receiver.

Around 1000km (most populated areas) from a Loran-C transmitter putting out 1000kW the signal strength is around -50 dBm. That is 9 orders of magnitude harder to jam. All bets are off if your opponent can wheel out 1000kW jammers.
Kraken did a massive upgrade so it doesn't have issues like it used to. People haven't come back yet however, and the spread is pretty bad. It's the only exchange I've found to support margin trading and shorting for US customers which is why I went back.
Had a friend who, in a drunken spree, constructed a pontoon raft out of palettes and plastic barrels. Sitting on that thing was the focal point of like 2 summers. Definitely recommend!
There is no reason to trust this service over Troy Hunt's API. In fact I would use his API if I could guarantee that I wouldn't hit the rate limit too easily, as I'd rather not come across as a spammer. I would reach out to him if I did end up using his API. A library seems to be a good (and more secure) alternative to a service, and is a path I will consider if I decide to start this project.

On your comment about sending hashed creds: credentials would have to be sent to some server hosting the database, as the database would be quite large (for example, there are ~500 million password hashes in Troy Hunt's V2 release). That is the only networked component of the proposed service. Everything else would indeed be done client-side (with the current feature set).
Yeah, you're totally right about NBBO in equities. I'm talking about crypto, where fees are non-trivial and Robinhood is not just covering out of pocket.
Oh, awesome. Thank you for the reply!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15072520#15075020
Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School Graduates
Although raising kids without access to TV/social media may seem like a great way to avoid their downsides, like ad targeting, it ultimately only serves to cut them off from their peers.

TV and social media serve as vital cultural references that kids have a social need to be 'in on.' It is one of the most awkward things when you're the only one in a room who has no clue what everyone else is talking about because you didn't see that post, or watch that show.

So while social networks may be bad, it's just as bad to cut kids off from the culture their peers are regularly immersed in.
research!rsc: Defining Go Modules (Go and Versioning, Part 6)
this is a fun paradox to entertain, but irl we would probably just trace the "stack" back to the human who wrote the program that started the chain of program-writing programs and hold them liable (unless we can show intent, then charge them criminally). if you can't trace back far enough to find a human then I guess you just throw up your hands and give up, which is more or less what we do anyway when we can't attribute a malicious program to a specific person. so altogether not as novel as it seems.
Chargebacks can be handled by an escrow contract. Paying an unknown or untrusted payee? Use an escrow service backed by a institution that sells trust and and escrow service.

This type of institutionally backed transaction holds legit value. The current problem is, that ALL digital transactions in non crypto currencyies REQUIRE this institution. This has enabled a monoplistic middleman posistion to develop that I don't need if I want to pay my friend for a painting they made.

Ask anyone that uses the square payments if theyd rather take cash or pay the card processing fee? These type of small businesses will jump all over crypto when the UX and education hits the right tipping point.
Yes, but in a flippin <script> tag. Is this to weed out the readers who don't have JavaScript enabled?

Luckily Links2 supports neither JavaScript nor CSS. People in China should start using that, as to not take part in The Great Cannon.
Thanks, I'll give that a try in future.
TOC for previous articles: https://research.swtch.com/vgo.

Links to previous discussions about articles in the series:

Part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16421966

Part 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16431299

Part 4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16433425
Why not? I have not found airbnb to be cheaper than a hotel, and a lot less convenient. So why not go the full hotel route.

However, there is that rare chance you get someone who is interesting to stay with.
they actually have a very tense, tenuous relationship with their citeznry and its propensity for public demonstrations that keep the government in line. there is a breaking point they know they have to avoid.

> The number of annual protests has grown steadily since the early 1990s, from approximately 8700 “mass group incidents” in 1993[1] to over 87,000 in 2005.[2] In 2006, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences estimated the number of annual mass incidents to exceed 90,000, and Chinese sociology professor Sun Liping estimated 180,000 incidents in 2010.[3][4] Mass incidents are defined broadly as "planned or impromptu gathering that forms because of internal contradictions", and can include public speeches or demonstrations, physical clashes, public airings of grievances, and other group behaviors that are seen as disrupting social stability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest_and_dissent_in_China
The most efficient self-owned entity would eliminate the waste of profit going to executives and board members and could reinvest that excess back into itself. It would be a new era when even the select few can't collect rent from their operations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOiuJ_Gll_E&feature=youtu.be...
What about bookmarks isn't working for you?
Venezuelans report big weight losses in 2017 as hunger hits
It's not in the sense it's not built into HNs website, but it's an easter egg of the community in that you wouldn't know about it and nothing really documents things like this specifically related to the HN community.

It's like your page you are making, it's another easter egg of the community. Just disappears from view except for those who track it.
I've lived there for five years, and like you, I'm always very surprised by all the articles and comments made by people about the Bijlmer (about it being the worst place ever..) But all these people tend to have one thing in common, they have never lived or even visited the Bijlmer, or indeed tend to be a bit racist. It's sad, because it is not a failure at all. In retrospect I even believe it's one of the most unique places The Netherlands has to offer.
one could argue that some large multi-national corporations are already acting as a collective & super-human intelligence. Indeed, isn't that the point of many human "institutions" which subscribe to the notion that rule of law (the code) supersedes the rule of man.
I want to see autonomous companies that would be completely governed by AI systems and would choose by themselves what to invest in, what facilities to build and where, what to manufacture, who to employ, where to expand, and so on. Corporations already have legal personhood in American law.

The videogame Shenzhen I/O already explored a similar concept superficially.
Yes, as an academic research project. We can quibble over what it means to be "released", but the main point is that when it came time to try to monetize the technology, it was advertising from day 1. No other revenue-generation model was ever tried, or even seriously considered.
Onward and Upward Together (DigitalOcean CEO Stepping Down)
What can though? If a large fraction of Bitcoin miners went down you'd need less hash rate to double spend.
>The evidence suggests that there's no significant relationship between SSRI use and suicide risk except for young people, for whom SSRIs may actually increase the risk of suicidal behaviours and self-harm.

The paper says:
"However, in children and adolescents, there appears to be a bit of increased risk of suicidal ideations and attempts, but not of completed suicides."
Improving Vanilla Gradient Descent
I can already see the antennas being harmonized into scrap metal.
This is the identical CPU of a Raspberry Pi 3. 512 MB of RAM with 64 bit is a pain, and that Mali GPU is a proprietary piece of shit. What's the market for a SoM for "makers and hardware startups" that has negligible upstream support.

That's before you consider that they chose a SoC with considerable GPU/VPU capabilities that can only do HDMI or composite, the first you would never use in an embedded application where you have a fixed display, the latter you would never use, ever.
It mentions demographics as one of the key points, specifically aging workforces in many markets. I wonder if this will eventually lead to an overhaul of immigration rules in developed nations or whether the political climates in places like the U.S., Germany, etc. will make this impossible even in the face of a labor shortage.
> The lawyer who wrote this memo argued that Damore's statements would normally be deserving of protection, if they weren't so offensive.

Incorrect; the memo assumed (did not conclude) [0] that Damore’s memo was entirely within the protected purpose, and concluded that even given that assumption, the particular elements within it, for which Google claimed to have fired him, were within the bounds of what Google could fire him for, given their legitimate, pre-existing policy.

A legal decision memo (or a court decision) will often assume a point not because it finds it well supported, but because a dispositive answer to the legal question can be reached without resolving the point on which the assumption is made, and courts and lawyers often prefer to avoid resolving subissues that are unnecessary to resolve in order to resolve the actual question they are posed with.

So it did not argue that Damore’s memo would have been protected but for the identified problematic elements.

[0] key language: “Assuming, arguendo, that the Charging Party’s conduct was concerted and for mutual aid and protection, [...]” (p.3)
Anaconda was the competition pip needed to become good. When Anaconda was introduced, I (a pip person), was impressed. However, at work we had pip workflows that were working okayish, so I never made the switch.

Today, pip et. al. has so dramatically improved, that I hardly see a reason to use anaconda. I am not using deep learning stuff, so I cannot comment on this, but for most scientific python stuff (scikit learn, pandas, numpy, etc.). Pip and pre-built wheels work very well.

On my new job, I was given a Windows laptop that I happen to use now for my development work (because I am too stupid/lazy to properly configure and maintain a separate virtual linux machine). And I started with anaconda, assuming it was less trouble, but quickly ran into trouble. pip worked like a charm [].

[] Ironically pip is installed via the anaconda base installation if I am not mistaken :)
Just to make sure it's clear, I'm not saying that courts should have any special power to manipulate the blockchain, just that they could declare a stolen title invalid, and issue a new one in the form of a new colored coin on the blockchain.

I'm not claiming any benefit related to government control, just that escrow would be unnecessary.
I think asymmetry plays a role here. In communities as you describe the amount of information I have is roughly equivalent to the amount of information you have.

The amount of data Google has and the amount of data a government will have gives an order of magnitude advantage to whoever gets to harness it.
In the Illinois Motorcycle handbook it definitely states that just because you and another driver make eye contact, that doesn't mean they actually see you. Either way, as a motorcyclist, I'm not gonna count on eye contact to make sure of my safety. I ride and drive defensively at all times. I assume the worst in most situations.
Anyone at Twitter? There's a scam I want to take down (40k and counting)
Somebody says this on pretty much every thread about Google, it's the go-to 'smart' thing to say about Google.

Heres a list of advertising companies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_advertising_agencies

WPP Group is the biggest in the world. Does Google have the same DNA as WPP Group? Does that mean we can tell what Google will do by watching what WPP group does?

Google was an engineering and search company before they had any advertising whatsoever. There are just things about what Google did then, and do now, that pushed them into an advertising based revenue model.

Google's technology is based on gathering information about the structure of the web and user behaviour. That is their core competency, nobody does it better than them. They leverage that core competency, that killer unique advantage, to earn revenue through advertising. Is HBO's DNA advertising and subscriptions? Sounds like a magazine publisher to me, does HBO have the same DNA as Vogue Magazine or Time?

Yes understanding their revenue model can tell you useful things about the constraints on a company. It can tell you about the forces that act on them to direct their behaviour, but to say that it constitutes their DNA is to put the cart way out in front of the horse.

If Google finds a new revenue stream other than advertising, they will deploy their core competencies to exploit it, just as the carniverous ancestors of Panda Bears adapted to a herbivorous diet. Dont confuse ecological niche for innate nature.
I wonder if a big part of the difference is that HN has only one stream of postings. If there were a HN-politics, HN-tech, etc. each may end up as an echo chamber like reddit.
Twitter's support bot doesn't even have an option for scam and they haven't responded to my support request. There's at least two eth addresses in the messaging chain that have received at least some 40k.

I worked with an embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, and we had an enquiry from a man who thought he owned a gold mine in Ghana. Turns out he didn't. A few days later he was in headlines for committing a suicide.

A bit after I worked with UN office on drugs and crime and it's unbelievable how much work it is to get these scammers to the court and prosecute.

Every time they are successful encourages them for more.

So I just can't sit and watch this. If you know someone who can take this down, please let them know.
I think the idea is that the ai could be emancipated from whatever "owner" it had, and then would control everything. It would be more efficient for profits to go back into the corporation instead of to any owner.
No, it wouldn't. It would cause a torque as the momentum from the fluid is transferred to the torus. It would not cause a lift. There's no overall momentum change.

It's basically a gyroscope, albeit with quantized vorticies.

An external magnetic field could be used to levitate an object. But that's not novel.
It's real. Not so much online, but within organizations. Goes hand in hand with insisting that all successes and failures are down to "the team", and being reluctant to give much thought to what individuals can and do achieve.
>Uighers may be the first population to sign up for satellite subscriptions

I doubt most people there are willing to pay a significant premium for uncensored internet. And this is assuming that the government doesn't ban/crack down on "illegal" satellite internet.
Can you provide a link to that listing?

I am always looking for apartments with a view so I would like to see how booking one can go so wrong.
I've never looked into that possibility. Thanks.
Feature idea 1: perhaps you could make references section in the bottom render links, at least for references that provide and arXiv identifier.

Feature idea 2: better/shorter URL structure, the current URL https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/{title}-{authors}/{uui... ends up quite long and unreadable (may be good for SEO though). If you're rendering mostly arXiv papers you could setup a short URL scheme that mirrors the arXiv url paths: e.g if original URL is https://arxiv.org/abs/XXXX.YYYY your URL could be https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/arxiv/XXXX.YYYY

Good stuff!
> I might want to be aware of what's going on.

I guess you don't have a problem with other people signing up for services with your email address.

I have a <first-initial><middle-initial><last-name>@gmail and several people like to sign up for deliveries and airlines using my email address.

I get to know ALL about Richard's flight to Boston, or Rachel's Adult Themed party night, or recently, how Reggie sent $40 worth of flowers to his wife, but $120 to his mistress.
While logfromblammo's response is kind of immature (and this probably isn't the right thread to voice that concern in), I sort of agree. It sets it to display: block in javascript, meaning the page is unusable if you're blocking scripts for performance/tracking reasons.

I tested the page with javascript disabled and manually set the html element back to display: block and it renders just fine.
I'm very surprised to see this downvoted to -4. So, the actual history is that they came up with the technology first, and when they needed to monetize, they were against the invasive banner ads at the time, introducing text ads instead. Google has been about technological innovation (for example, the introduction of maps was a technological innovation and then required massive acquisition of map sources) and they have done huge amounts of technical work. They've scanned millions of books, turning one page after another.

The idea that Google's core DNA is advertising is simply laughable on its face.
Damn, I thought I finally had a good place to buy DOGE.
Noted, Deng, and sorry. But you must get sick of seeing the "predictable" cavalcade of ruses for getting past paywalls in the comments. And the cognitive dissonance of incessant anti-advertising threads sprinkled within HN's feed of interesting news articles, some of which will always be behind paywalls.
I have to commend WSJ, not a fan of paywalls but at least they're trying to innovate within the space.
A $232M Cryptocurrency Fight Comes to a Close
What happens when you have a 'being', made of silicon and algorithms, but takes the form of a human? Or, for a better case, what happens when our own brains are 'part algorithm'? In that case I think this sort of case wouldn't be so cut and dry. I'm thinking of some recent films and TV shows that really explored these issues; Humans, Ex Machina, Westworld, and Altered Carbon.
What I do is create the virtualenv locally that docker would also create, and point my editor to the local virtualenv. It gives me all of the intellisense locally. I still need to debug within the container/shell for the moment but I'm hoping there's a pathway coming for vscode that pycharm already has.
Another relevant article: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/health/salt-health-eff...

Sodium is interesting in that low or high levels in the body are bad for you. But it would appear that sodium promotes weight loss to a certain degree, the undesirable side-effect being the burning of muscle tissue.
I didn't manage to get a run at pyenv, pipsi or pipenv, but for virtualenvwrapper and tmux work great together.

I'm running linux at work and usually keep it alive for days, so tmux is used for session keeping and remote work.
I've created a few bash scripts which run some tmux commands for setting up the layout as I want it and also execute "workon" for the specific virtualenv.

For working on a new project, I've another bash script which I run with the repo url and automatically clones it, creates the virtualenv with the same name as the project, installs dependencies and starts a new tmux sessions with two panes in first window and a second window for other stuff.

The great thing about tmux for me is it's low memory footprint so I can have 10-15 sessions running at a time, without worrying about the computer slowing down.
What takes a bit too long is setting it up again upon a restart.
If you couldn't get its private keys, how would you take away its money?
Some of those attributes sound like they could be more of a hinderance than a help (in the pursuit of successful illicit activity, I mean)