skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that was a typo, though, and he meant to refer to IBM.

You have to remember that IBM's PR is stuff like "Watson is sitting here curing cancer right now while his best friend Deep Blue beats people at chess!!11!" Intel doesn't do any of that.
I actually enjoyed reading this today. One highlight was the below on "reading the news every morning"

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The idea of devoting to them thirty or forty consecutive minutes of wonderful solitude (for nowhere can one more perfectly immerse one's self in one's self than in a compartment full of silent, withdrawn, smoking males) is to me repugnant
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It may need some broken link tools. I clicked on the 4th link and the site no longer exists, Wayback Machine has it though - https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131659/http://www.lhup.e...

Perhaps Hacker Classics could automatically ensure all remaining live links get archived?
And you're probably as willing as I to test its current status :). Cheers for clarifying this for me.
Reading this I thought: Welcome to the cryptocurrency trough of disillusionment.
> A push for human rights increases the chance of a government collapse. That's what happened in the Soviet Russia during Gorbachev

Strictly, no. That was the USSR. Soviet Russia (the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) didn't experience government collapse, though it did change its name to the Russian Federation.
Forecasts of genetic fate just got a lot more accurate
A friend of mine chose the college we went to specifically because she was told about all the need-based financial aid that's available to students like her.

You know, the kind that grew up learning to pick the mold off the bread and how awful government cheese was.

Imagine her surprise when there's no such thing as a free ride, and there wasn't actually so much available. Also, if you think there's enough "elite" universities around for America's poor (rural or otherwise) you're mistaken.

The real bottom line is, there's not much elite universities have to offer the rural life. Sure, there's certainly some places and jobs where it would help. For most people, and most jobs though, it's overkill.

[Edit] To clarify, if you've grown up in poverty or even lower-middle class in a central midwestern state, the travel costs of going to a uni on the coast is simply prohibitive. Add on top of that things that your peers will partake in (summer in the Hamptons or whatever) that you'll never be able to identify with. You'll always be on the outside, no matter what. Unless every high school graduate in the rural parts of the country decides to move to a big city, there's a whole lot more that a local technical school has to offer someone in that position.
This entire discussion is about political correctness and self-censorship. (Maybe reluctantly) Saying things you know are true, despite being against some current political climate, in some way.

But it sounds like you already made your own answer.
I'm generally pessimistic about the desirability and utility of block chain voting systems.

Spend any amount of time around Bitcoin beginners and the one of the recurring themes will be lost private keys.

And "lost" includes countless thefts through network-based attacks aided and abetted by people conditioned for years to take computer security lightly.

If voting identities are controlled by private keys, then voters will lose their voting rights left and right.

Worse, just because an election is "on a block chain" doesn't mean that voter fraud isn't being committed. For example, buying and selling cryptographic voter identities could become a very lucrative industry.
First look at Bloomberg's amazing Comdb2
I find that I see the civility on here and it makes me want to behave similarly.
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China does not give a fxxx.

You do not feel the pain 'cause you are not the victim or relative/friend of the victim of the terror attack.

What kind of human rights are taken away by PUBLIC surveillance?
Yes, fetchurl will try it:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/733151b7825ee8840f7437...

Edit: It was apparently added in 2007:

https://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-0.11/release-note...
Not so fast. The comment by a student saying that he scared them is also mentioned in the article.
I guess it doesn't matter that much, but if there were a common language, it would be a nice feature that would allow you to skip the middleman altogether and have simpler dependencies if you know which solvers you want.

It's the common language that matter more though. I've used GAMS in my undergrad, so I'm under the impression that it's had at least some adoption, but it's proprietary AFAIK. I've know some people who use AMPL too, which also seems popular, but I'm not sure about it's licenses.
Does it install and manages different python versions? Pyenv does
I’m not saying we shouldn’t look for better solutions, but just to put things in perspective, Bitcoin uses approximately 30 TWh/year, while global energy consumption is more than 100,000 TWh/year (so 0.03%).

People have also hypothesized that energy used in mining cryptocurrency will tend to be cleaner since mining operations can be located close to cheap/renewable electricity.
interesting, wonder if there's a correlation to sleep apnea later in life
Apple's Elk Grove Repair Facility Makes ~20 Accidental 911 Calls a Day
In at least some parts of Germany they're more likely to encounter narrow streets where the typical US brown UPS truck might have real difficulty navigating.

I also suspect that the routes are shorter than you might think, because there are a lot of stops and they are not moving all that fast for most of the trip. I suspect most UPS trucks probably average well under 25 miles per hour for most of their travel which would put an 8 hour day around 200 miles. In denser areas like cities it could be significantly less than that. If a truck makes a 1-minute stop to toss a package on your porch then drives half a mile in another minute and repeats, it's still only covering 15 miles and 30 packages an hour.

I wouldn't be surprised if UPS trucks within cities tended to be below 50 miles/day most of the time, and since they control driving routes very tightly they can easily put these trucks only on appropriate routes.
Helps to go to a bigger square.

I just did 10x10 and am quitting.
I would love to buy a pair, but until they can be used with video, I'm staying on the sidelines. Customers report noticeable audio delay that makes them unsuitable for usage with videos. I watch TV (via laptop or laptop-to-TV) in every room where I would consider buying a HomePod. I'm not going to drop hundreds of dollars on a speaker for music if it can't also be used with video.
These backpointers sound kind of like the ownership analog to weak references.
North Korea is even safer, I'm willing to bet. Wanna live there?
Using Slack with IRCCloud
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> // I actually don't understand why the line below compiles.

> // Since `head` was moved into the box, I'm not sure why I can mutate it.

> head.next = Some(Box::new(next));

I'm fairly new to Rust myself, but it's my understanding that since it was moved into the Box, the variable "head" is now just considered effectively uninitialized, so you can go ahead and set its fields, or overwrite it entirely with head = Node {...}, without affecting the value that was moved into the Box.
Interesting to hear you say this in light of all (at least all that I've read) very positive reviews of the sound quality.

What are your thoughts on the positive reviews?
What is this fear of thieves thing? Is that some sort of line folks are selling, everyone in the west is afraid of .... thieves?
I think the biggest problem is that suddenly, testing and environment and tech etc is of immense concern when reviewing these speakers, where all the many product reviews before were taken at face value (by those likely complaining now).

It's a consumer speaker, so why all of a sudden are people demanding full audiophile/studio precision in speaker testing and reviewing?

I love how Apple's product messaging gets people debating the flaws evident in the review and experiences of their product categories because Apple has introduced terminology to people that they a) never cared about previously (though already existing) and b) don't likely understand or appreciably recognise going forward otherwise. Apple are very good at making people suddenly aware of important things they had no idea about, would not recognise/understand, or cared for previously...
The hype around rapidly increasing values on Pop Vinyls has largely gone, the market seems to have chilled and the reason it hasn't crashed likely to be because of the value attached to the licenses.
The most interesting part of the whole thing I found was the effect valuing sites had on the market (i.e. poppriceguide). They significantly lowered the effort in determining value for existing collectors and attracted a lot of people whole wouldn't normally collect to get into it purely for the profit to be gained. I am not suggesting others wouldn't have been attracted to the market without them but having the data readily available rather than having to trawl eBay completed sales lowered the barrier of entry.
Wave was highly ambitious, but under resourced with a horribly botched rollout. It could have killed Twitter, Facebook, and preempted Slack, or better shifted them to a common open source framework which would have allowed a thousand twitters and fbs to bloom and interact. Real shame that OStatus couldn't get traction.
Milton-Bradley's official rules do not have that restriction: https://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/BattleShip_(2002).PDF

It's been a while since 1970-something, but I remember a no-ajacency rule clearly from a variant played in Czechoslovakia.

Here is some site giving Battleship with a "no touch" rule: https://www.yourturnmyturn.com/rules/battleships.php

It appears to be European; you can switch to a Dutch and German version of the site.

Maybe this is European vs. American rules?

The German version of the Battleship page gives Rule 1 as "Die Schiffe dürfen nicht aneinander stoßen" which seems to mean that they cannot touch each other (not simply that they mustn't overlap).

The point of the no touch rule is that you can use your brain: from the hit information, you infer water areas where the enemy must not have ships.

Under the Milton-Bradley rules, the players can just clump their ships together into a small area; it's just more or less pure guessing. If you hit two squares side by side, you cannot infer that they are sections of the same hull; they could belong to two parallel hulls, or to two ships "parallel parked". It's dull to be able to infer next to nothing.

Solitaire Battleship itself goes back to 1982: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(puzzle)

It seems to have had the no-touch rule from the beginning.
Yes.

That's ~1000mph less delta-v needed to reach orbit. But note that the air is also moving in the same rotating frame, so there is no difference in air resistance upon exit from the launcher whether you are going east or west.
1) Absolutely agree, the Chinese government after the war was absolutely horrendous. That, however, is only slightly relevant to the question of what to do today.

2) You can always use the excuse "I don't want a billion people that I care about to go through the hell that is Syria."

3) I don't rule out that possibility at all. I'm just saying the risk that it won't work seems too high given how bad the outcome would be if it doesn't work.
I didn't know you could downvote on here. I only see up arrows.
On the other hand, gut reactions to sociopaths and psychopaths are a thing. Too often though people take your view of it, and try to rationalize that feeling away. I’d rather trust my gut and ignore the pretty mediocre studies about unconscious bias that seem hard to replicate, thanks.
1M Kids Under Age 6 on PSYCHIATRIC Drugs
No, it really was in reference to Intel (the thread was about Intel obtaining and developing a dinosaur-era distributed file system called Lustre).
For a while, the NY Times Sunday mag had just this kind of puzzle, in print form.
Not everybody needs to go to college. Everybody doing this drives up prices, makes it less meaningful, and almost obligates many students to spend even more on grad school.
Once you attain 501 karma, you're allowed to downvote.
Will never forget the launch event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ
Steve Jobs.

Of course many ceos are a negative on the company. There are many studies on ceos, high priced ones generally are bad, while the unknown insider who moved up the ranks is probably good.
Yes yes, I misused the term. I meant the USSR, of course.
I’ll be the pedantic one. It doesn’t guarantee thread safety, it guarantees that its data race free.

In practice this often reduces to the same thing, but you can still create deadlocks, etc.
No, because a lot of dwarves only have a large number of children because of the high mortality rate of infant dwarves. By decreasing the expected mortality of the baby dwarves, the dwarven families will have the opportunity to choose having less children based on their situation, turning the apparent exponential chart of population growth into a plateauing sigmoidal line.
To add to that list:

* It's not repairable

* It's got no aux input, so when they inevitably deprecate and remove the wireless protocol it uses, it's now completely uselss.
Black Holes Must Have Singularities, Says Einstein’s Relativity
Yes. I don't disagree.
Yeah, the whole article reads as if from another planet :) . Disregarding known problems of electronic voting, which aren't mentioned here - what Russia he's talking about? What fair elections could be on federal level or in Moscow these days?..
I am sure Dept X has plans ready, just waiting for the opportune moment to implement it in USA. To protect the children or something...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number-plate_recogni...

Mobile ANPR is becoming a significant component of municipal predictive policing strategies and intelligence gathering, as well as for recovery of stolen vehicles, identification of wanted felons, and revenue collection from individuals who are delinquent on city or state taxes or fines, or monitoring for "Amber Alerts". With the widespread implementation of this technology, many U.S. states now issue misdemeanor citations of up to $500 when a license plate is identified as expired or on the incorrect vehicle. Successfully recognized plates may be matched against databases including "wanted person", "protection order", missing person, gang member, known and suspected terrorist, supervised release, immigration violator, and National Sex Offender lists. In addition to the real-time processing of license plate numbers, ANPR systems in the US collect (and can indefinitely store) data from each license plate capture. Images, dates, times and GPS coordinates can be stockpiled and can help place a suspect at a scene, aid in witness identification, pattern recognition or the tracking of individuals.
Just tried it and found it tremendously easy to use. Well done

One thing I couldn't seem to figure out is if it is possible to plot interactive matplotlib plots (for getting mouseover values zooming etc).
This comes at, I think, a critical point for me. In short, I spent four years at a community college (completing my associate degree in CS and exhausting almost all the courses I found interesting i.e. Mysticism, Writing Short Fiction, etc), and now in the fall I'm planning to attend San Francisco State University for CS. A few old high school friends, who attend Berkeley (one just graduated and is starting work in finance in SF in the summer, the other is a junior studying for med school), tell me I ought to stay another year at community college and apply to better, top-tier schools in the fall. Their argument? While college, as you mentioned, has become just a pursuit for "paper credentials for a specialized position you want", they insist that the school you graduate from plays a crucial role and there is numerous benefits which out-do the benefits of attending a low-tier school. So here's a cliche question: What do you think I should do? It seems the obvious answer, given what you said and what other commenters have said, is just finish the degree, it doesn't matter what school you attend. I suppose I'm just trying to get a bit of perspective. If it helps any, here's a brief background: first-generation student, immigrant from Mexico, parents combined make roughly 31k in a house of 6 (I have three sisters), and we live in California.

Truthfully, I would just like to get my degree already and start hacking away (also: helping my parents financially, etc). I obviously do hack away now, but courses and part-time work usually take up most of my time, that I can't give attention to all the interesting and fascinating things out there to learn, build, etc, i.e. I have a spreadsheet of links to new technologies, blog posts, etc, that I would like to learn and build stuff with. So here's my plan: hack away this summer -> attend school in the fall -> study, work part-time, etc -> summer internship -> study, work part-time, etc, -> graduate -> summer internship -> entry-level job somewhere hopefully.
There was an article in the WSJ yesterday that called the last 20 years of GE under CEO under Jeff Immelt “success theater” due to the underlying rot.

China is a country of “business theater”. They sure look like they’re doing business, lots of factories, tons of people in suits, cargo container ships, etc. But it’s all just a lie. It’s nothing but the 21st century planned economy version of the Soviet Union. It’s not even communism as much as simple totalitarianism. The only thing I haven’t figured out yet is if more than 50,000,000 million people are going to die, which was the same amount in 1958-1963 that died in totalitarian China, a number greater than the USSR and the Holocaust combined I would like to add.

Capitalism in the US sucks, but it’s very fixable. Capitalism in the 1910’s was far more horrible, but it was fixed beyond even today with the reforms of the 30’s-50’s, so I don’t want anyone to think my criticism of China is some apologia for capitalism right now.

This I do not believe in / don’t want to, but just so everyone is aware, the theory that really propelled Trump into office was that of the “fourth turning”, which Steve Bannon was a huge believer in. Essentially it’s the belief that every 80-90 years a massive war and change in Western government happens, stretching back to the British defeat of the Armada in 1588. As Christopher Coker wrote in “The Improbable War”, the next World War is most likely with China, a county with the manpower and resources to fight a grinding global battle against the US. We will see.

https://www.amazon.com/Improbable-War-United-States-Conflict...
Yes! It's been a while since I was there, but Indianapolis's library even lets you reserve private rooms. (And, it's a pretty impressive building too.)
> China’s existential threat is an opportunity or technology which enhances its ability to control citizens but leads, in the long term, to destabilization of the regime. Could be AI, could be something else. But at some point one of these forbidden fruits will poison and what appears to be a manageable, technical problem will become a societal one that no one can control or censor.

I don't understand. Can you explain that more? How does AI or other tech create something that cannot be controlled or censored? I can only see, say, facial recognition, being bad for freedom of the Chinese citizens.
To be fair, sometimes you have to write a trie or DFA or some other linked data structure.

However, if one is willing to deal with the possibility that the _next_ pointer can be null, then isn't reference counting and with weak references perfectly fine?
The simple answer is to combine blockchain with legacy methods of verifying that votes aren't sold or double voting occurs. So that probably still means going to a physical polling location for the forseeable future. The use of blockchain tech wouldn't initially replace that, it would just provide a 100% accurate paper and open trail of the vote.
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Exactly, so instead of doing something to promote cleaning up pages properly, a band-aid is applied and nobody tries...

> both ?

They are competing objectives, so which has the bias is indicative of business priorities.
Yeah, this worked fine for Gmail's early years because you can talk to people on other email systems. But Google tried to apply the same system to both Wave and Plus where the exclusivity made them comparatively useless.

I think they've learned the lesson by now at least, since their latest communication systems (Duo and Allo) had open signups. If those two fail it'll be because they were pointless (from a user perspective) entries into a crowded market of established players who already had network effect lock-in working them.
> The Falcon fairing can only accommodate payloads 11.4m long.

Are you sure? I was under impression I've read about 17 meters long fairing. Maybe for FH only.

Edit: "The fairing itself is 43 feet high and 17 feet wide, big enough, as the company points out, to hold a city bus." http://www.cleveland.com/science/index.ssf/2013/05/nasas_plu... So, 43 feet or 13,1 m. And this perhaps include nose part, which is conical rather than cylindrical.

OTOH Bigelow can definitely adjust the size. And from what I saw on the explanation video, B330 grows both in diameter and in length when deployed. So - ?
> I find it hard to believe that no one has mentioned the factors that make murder rate statistics misleading to you. At the very least, that it's being put out there with the implication that correlation is causation, and ignores other factors that have much more basis for a differing murder rate, like socioeconomic status.

Absolutely socioeconomic and cultural factors affect the statistics. But they also affect statistics like representation in the tech industry.

If someone objects to bringing up one then the same person should object equally strenuously to bringing up the other. Which is not what happens in practice.
So now your rebuttal to me pointing out of this design flaw is that it is possible to write a buggy implementation even in the absence of such design flaws, and that Rust can help you avoid those bugs too. I'm not sure entirely what else I'm supposed to say in response, but yes, that is a true statement.
Mutually recursive functions can be closure converted without cycles by deriving closure values from each other rather than storing them in each other.
`gem update --system` # Fixed by >=2.7.6
> doesn't get any obvious break point

Well, aside from the imperative to euthanise the least happy regardless of their absolute happiness, I guess :-).

And making most individual actions normally called moral or immoral difficult to justify or condemn except that they might indirectly affect the least happy person.

And then there's the weird idea that my local actions may have moral weight depending on the arbitrary existence of an unhappy person in a distant country.

All seems pretty bizarre to me.
It might be but I won't make general claims based on a single sample.
Yes in this instance false negatives are very bad. It's better to reject ten perfectly acceptable roommates than to accept one crazy ax-murderer roommate.
I'd love to see some formalised non sci-fi works on smart contracts that existed before the mid 90's if you can point me in the direction?
Any chance that Meltdown or Spectre were not backdoors (statistically)?
I live in Central Kansas. We have 6Mbps top speed available. ~15 minutes away, they have 40Mbps, with gigabit coming in. ~15 minutes the other direction, you have satellite, or...... satellite. Cell service is too poor to use it for general purpose internet, DSL doesn't go that far from town, and the Pixius tower (10Mbps) is just out of range. And there are people who live there too.