skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>However, most programming languages(including C, Java, etc.) look much more similar to lambda calculus than a description of a Turing Machine - and for very good reason. Have you ever tried describing a TM that encodes even the simplest logic? It is a pain in the ass.

That's because we don't actually have tape, but random access memory. But a turing machine is just a limited form of imperative programming, and much closer to Assembly, or C, Fortran, BASIC, or even Java, than Lambda Calculus.

>That resembles no description of programs that are written by humans to run on computer systems, unlike the lambda calculus.

Actually looks like a pretty run of the mill description of working with memory locations, gotos, conditional jumps and so on. Substitute the need to run through the tape for random access memory, and you're there.

The examples don't remind you of programs written by humans mostly because they're visual examples showing the whole state configuration. If we similarly mapped the memory states during various steps of the execution of a common imperative program, it would look very much like those tables.
> But working here I at least don't have all the distractions of working from home.

What kind of home do you have where all you have described is less distracting? Perhaps you ought to move!
Bit of a nitpick, I read this sentence a few times because it sounded a little confusing, but shouldn't that be:

"but will continue to donate to, and advise the organization..."

rather than just "to donate and advise..." sounds like he's donating OpenAI to someone.

I'm unsure.
FFmpegaaS?
Wealth inequality is the result of a debt bubble that's been growing for several decades, not technology. High household debt to GDP and wealth inequality probably coincide today for the same reason they coincided during the Great Depression. The ways these debts have to be restructured or dealt with distort the economy, in a way that tends to massively benefit some while hurting everyone else. If you own stock in or work for a health insurance company, the last decade has been fantastic. On the other hand, the government will soon find that it's having trouble keeping up with the debt from its healthcare programs. If you started a company in Silicon Valley, you benefitted from enormous pools of VC money that might have been in treasury bonds if the Federal Reserve hadn't already been buying trillions of them. If we look back historically, wealth inequality began to normalize by the 1950s only after the US's debt was erased. The story that runaway technology is creating massive inequality is unlikely be true in a country where GDP growth is only 2%.
User want federation. See the adoption of email.
Hi @Alex. I love the job you are doing! Few questions:

1. Is pushing API for LIDAR means that ScaleAPI is going to focus more on self-driving tech?

2. How do you see your tech to comparison to what comma.ai is doing?

3. What is the minimum resolution for lidar data to make meaningful annotation?
This is why there has been a so-called "the great vertical integration" of the ISPs and content providers.

It's easy to understand if you take a look at what companies own or are owned by major ISP companies like Time Warner Cable, Comcast, etc.

Once you start digging deeper into how the Internet "actually" works, you quickly realize it's not as decentralized as we thought, and you become very pessimistic. But I do hope there's a solution for this, which is why I am a fan of people working on stuff like IPFS.

That said, if you really want to overthrow the current structure, you should really understand the history and why and how things work the way they do currently. Not just at a technical level but on economical level as well.
Meanwhile, Seattle Food Services and Drinking employment is at an all-time high.

April 1, 2015 - 135,100 employed

December 2017 - 149,600 employed
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SMU53426607072200001SA
Does anyone else not get results when searching for 'asdf' and 'hunter2', and 'lauragpe'(which appears in the article) not return results using the shell script provided?

edit: Ok, so my `openssl sha1` (version 1.0.x) outputs '(stdin) <hash>', whereas the script expects just <hash>. add ' | cut -f2 -d" "' after the 'openssl sha1' call to fix this if you have the same problem.
Maybe it's also an issue of job seekers not looking/knowing the right place to search? Off the top of my head there were not too many Denver postings in last months hiring post but hacker news might not be the best place to look.
> Why do you assume that?

I'm a mining engineer. If a western company has a choice between using manual labour and mechanised they will choose mechanised because it is cheaper, faster and more reliable. They don't care what the law is, because human mining is barely competitive even at small scales.

Yes, it is a fact that there is child labour is used in some third world mines. I'm observing that it doesn't make sense to me that it is large-scale, because it only makes sense if the margins are huge, the volumes physically small and if there is an impoverished workforce.

If Apple is going to negotiate with someone directly, it doesn't make sense to me that that someone using child labour, because purely economically they shouldn't be cost effective. They would be a marginal, higher-cost producer. Isn't there a more cost-effective producer that Apple could negotiate with?

If there is a situation where human labour is cost effective at a scale Apple finds interesting, I am professionally curious because I didn't expect it to be possible. Hence a request for links. Even before negotiating, are their suppliers of serious quantities of cobalt that use human labour?
Pretty soon someone will discover subsumption architectures. I predict that they will be called Deep Subsumption Architectures and they will be betterer and newerer than the old stupid subsumption architectures and that anyone who speaks against them is stupid and wrong and has no startup and can't work at Google or use a mac and smells and has no paper at NIPS since 1998 and then papers at NIPS were no good and also they don't have a band or a court case against them.
> Wait, what? You could chat from you@example.com on your bespoke xmpp server and send messages to user@gmail without needing a Google account and vice-versa?

For some glorious years between 2006 and 2013 (Hangouts), this was indeed possible. I run my own XMPP server and I used to chat with GTalk users all the time. For literally years.

> They didn't really support federation in a standards compliant way

It was standards compliant enough. In the original RFC, server-to-server TLS was mandatory to implement but not mandatory to enable/deploy. The XMPP community later moved towards enforced server-to-server encryption, but this was many years later and had little impact on GTalk federation during the time that it was supported.
to be spun "Bill Gates delighted to hear that he will donate away his money to 3x the people he initially thought he would be"
Yeah. PHP may be out of fashion, but it's still powering a massive portion of the internet because this deployment model is so lightweight. Much different than the now-popular model of "spin up an app server and reverse proxy to it".
I see one at least. To use sshpass without a plaintext password.
Well, if you're guessing people's personality you also have to factor in their star sign and the shape of their skull.
yea, because everyone wants to bring their expensive array of monitors and expensive chair and other accessories to a shared space.

lulz.
It's not that hard to get a job as an Android dev. It's hard to find a good place to work. Not to mention everyone wanted contract.
per my comment above, you can put arbitrary stuff in account field (e.g. encrypted) passwords. Works fine if you write the code that uses it.
That was the original reason for sending supplies to Russia and it had been going on for years. This expedition was after the fall of the Tzarists government, after Russia had exited WWI, and started months before the armistice.

And again, this is not all the actions taken by America in the conflict.
From the Nature paper:

"We note that the chance probability of this discovery is of the order of 10^−6 assuming a duration of 1 h and one supernova per century per galaxy. If we consider other factors, such as the sky conditions of the observing site and the location of the supernova away from bright host-galaxy regions, then this probability decreases by one order of magnitude."
https://coverbuttons.com/

Yes, they debated updating the website but their core clientele have been using it effectively for the past 10 years so they didn't want to change it.
This! I miss the cleaning parties my old roommates and I had every Thursday evening (so the house would be clean for weekend guests). It's hard to sit still when you turn up the lights and the music and everyone else is cleaning.

This also worked at one electronics manufacturer I worked at. We'd all spend some time on Friday afternoons cleaning. It was so much easier to find things when they were put where they belong at least once a week.
That moment when you test an old, but still highly valued and securely used, password that you think isn't super obscure but not likely to be used much and see a 4000+ count...
I appear to be the only woman to have ever made the leaderboard (under a different handle). I absolutely get downvotes that I suspect boil down to "shut up, bitch." I have handled it by doing some of the following things:

1. Make sure I am actually being respectful and not an asshole.

2. Walk the fuck away and shut up sometimes.

3. I left for 18 months, to work on my issues and to give someone breathing room that I had friction with whom I felt saw me as personally threatening. I didn't have specific plans to return. I did return in part because posting something one day went better than I expected.

4. Drop it from my end when there is personal friction. This gets vastly better results when I point out someone is behaving poorly towards me. Sometimes they listen. If they don't, the mods (and community as a whole) are much more likely to be sympathetic if I am not putting out the fire with gasoline.

I routinely comment on hot button topics. I have extremely controversial views on some things. But I go out of my way to not piss on people to the best of my ability.

This has included changing my handle after hitting the leaderboard because I concluded that it didn't matter that it wasn't chosen as a feminist handle. What matters is that it is an overwhelmingly male forum and I want no appearance of impropriety as the first woman on the leaderboard. The perception of disrespect became apparent to me and was not something I wanted. So I started over.

I am vastly more satisfied with posting under this handle. Lots of people recognize me as also being Mz. So the difference is not due to being anonymous.

(This comment is not comprehensive. Just a nutshell version of 8.5 years of navigating an overwhelmingly male forum while posting as openly female.)
I somewhat hate winter, but I like seasons; they give a nice tempo to life. Personally, I’d rather have snow than earthquakes, wildfires, mudslides, tornadoes, and hurricanes, which the rest of the country gets some combination of. Michigan, though? Maybe there’s a tornado in the hinterlands once in a while, but otherwise it’s just the occasional blizzard, and that’s hardly life-threatening for most. Plus, we’re surrounded by fresh water.
How do you define a "win" condition in Dwarf Fortress to train the AI?
The trouble with most such statistics is context. How much has Seattle's population grown in the same time period? Are there more or less restaurant employees as a percent of the population? Does Amazon's huge hiring surge of highly paid employees skew the results?

Nothing is ever static in economics, it's very hard to do A-B experiments.
Why Can't 64-Bit Operating Systems Run 16-Bit Apps?
Selling web apps with users
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Also for sale is book price compare web app (like slugbooks) (those 700k+ users from previous app db could be used for marketing here)

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Usually I have considered internal recruiters from larger companies to be more serious than the typical messages from third party agencies who don't even disclose the name of the company you represent. I didn't know they do the same "spray-and-pray" tactics, but if that is true, that is rather disappointing to know, that they have gotten as flaky as agency recruiters.

What's interesting to me, though is that I've had far better experiences with Amazon's recruiting staff. They were very responsive, usually replying to my questions in the same day, and have gotten in the running for interviews twice with them. I have been as far as being selected for the on-site interview round, but made the mistake of saying I am not yet prepared to travel there at the time.

MSFT did not set me up with a programming test, just something to fill out. The pre-screening document was a questionnaire asking various background-related things like, what is your expected salary, have you worked for mS before, what project or accomplishment are you most proud of, etc. I guess they just didn't like my answers, and am more likely to be considered by Amazon than MS. In any case, I become a "cold" candidate very quickly in the MS recruiting radar.
What is amazing is that people think regulations can fix anything, whether poverty, economic situations, military conflicts, or anything, when time and time again the people at the top are shown to be utterly corrupt and bought.

It almost makes you want to be a republican and just argue for getting the state -every state- out of everything. Sure, we'd still be getting screwed, but perhaps a bit less.
Which is surprising and great to see as it indicates the issue becoming a more main stream concern.
Seneca – On Groundless Fears
Unfortunately, it looks like the signal people are possibly not friendly to third-party devs and have levied seemingly spurious IP threats against third-party implementations: https://medium.com/@wireapp/axolotl-and-proteus-788519b186a7

Obviously this is just one side of the story, but it sounds rather alarming.
It could be that housing costs are soaking up the bulk of the second earner's pay?
lvl5 is a formidable contender in the race too. We're looking for talented computer vision / 3D reconstruction engineers. (http://www.lvl5.ai/careers.html) if you're interested in this industry.
I started using it last week, I recommend it.
WhatsApp was never backdoored.

Even The Guardian backed down after a review of its research process: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2017/ju...

Quote:

> The most serious inaccuracy was a claim that WhatsApp had a “backdoor”, an intentional, secret way for third parties to read supposedly private messages. This claim was withdrawn within eight hours of initial publication online, but withdrawn incompletely. The story retained material predicated on the existence of a backdoor, including strongly expressed concerns about threats to freedom, betrayal of trust and benefits for governments which surveil. In effect, having dialled back the cause for alarm, the Guardian failed to dial back expressions of alarm.
How does that jive with several of the most prosperous nations on earth having similarly low corporate income tax rates? Such as Sweden and Finland for example. Even Norway is at 27%. Denmark is 24.5%.

Those rates have very clearly not impeded their exceptionally high standards of living.
How to Track Sleep on Android
First off, thank you so much for the work you did on mjolnir and related projects. Mjolnir completely changed how I used my mac and I used it intensively every day for years until I recently switched to hammerspoon.

But, I didn't (and wouldn't) pay for it as a product. I did donate a coffee or two a while back, but I think in general window managers will always be a hard sell since all it takes is another bored programmer to open source a clone and you're kinda sunk. On top of that window managers have always been a free/FOSS thing, and changing that would probably require offering a feature that is so compelling people will overlook using closed source software/payware. Last, customization/scripting is a hard requirement for most window manager users, and without the source the vast majority of people will refuse to even invest the time to switch.

While I personally hate the trend, the only way to monetize would probably offer some sort of cloud based feature that requires a subscription. I think if you did it honestly, offered real value, and provided a self-hosted option for sticks in the mud (that won't give you money, but will evangelize for you if you keep things libre) you could probably carve out a decent living. Either that or offering support to enterprises who want to use your tool, but that comes with its own devils.

Anywho, just my two cents. Thanks again for all your hard work, I know it didn't pay off how you wanted financially but the tools you created have huge userbases that use your code every day hundreds of times a day. At the very least I'd hope having that on your resume has helped you find a good gig somewhere, and if not I'd suggest posting on here in a hiring thread or finding a good head hunter who can translate that experience into a well paying gig.
While I still think SemVer is crap (because of the edge cases) this seems to be a reasonable approach to library versioning.
He is right, but misses the big issue with floating point which is that, as far as I recall, it is neither commutative or associative. Hence, you can't use algebra then check equalities.

Most capable programmers just don't think to use a == b for floating points, because it isn't going to work a lot of the time, but for someone who isn't aware of that minefield they can wander in and get some very stupid bugs.
Elon Musk might be launching a new satellite internet
I use the chrome plugin. This plugin looks bad but is actually pretty sick. One certain pages it will replace the DOI with the sci-hub link.
Maybe crypto people who have brute-forced up some typeable passwords that hash to low numbers on the first SHA-1 pass, for a fun-and-games equivalent to a Proof of Work? (It'd only show up in actual DB dumps for backends that use "SHA-1 with no salting" for password hashing, which might also serve as a useful canary value.)
That's brilliant! I think that means it should also support reading the file in chunks, as it gets downloaded, automatically.

I wonder how purging less important files is/could be handled through this? It would be good if there was some way to say, "this file is likely only going to be used temporarily (or just once), so feel free to delete it if disk space is required". That hinting might not be necessary as IPFS could use some least-recently used algorithm, but there should be some way to at least pin files, "this is really important, don't delete this".
Funny you mention that, as on X compact/Stock Oreo/Firefox the whole page is unusable. Okay, may be the browser.
No, they can't.

Also, the battery can't handle your laptop open 24/7 just to serve a couple of files you _might_ need someday in your phone or other computer.
“they almost certainly use and appreciate federated systems like phones and email”

Two channels which have become saturated with spam and junk once the federated network starts to include players who are willing to permit bad actors to access the network in exchange for money.

People enjoy federated networks of regulated, good faith players; wide open federated networks tend towards anarchy.
In an Era of ‘Smart’ Things, Sometimes Dumb Stuff Is Better
I mean the ones that are turning everything to open offices. No offense, but I find it highly unlikely you, or just about anyone else here, would have the kind of influence needed to cause existing open offices to change.
Not that many will be reading this thread at this point, but for the record I'll add that punctuality is a means to an end, not an end in itself. Those who obsess over punctuality are inconsiderate, at best, of every other means, end, demand, and desire.
Hi Teacher - please teach them without war/combat games, there are so many fun things to do that don't involve guns, battles, fire, enemies :)
The new breed of chatbot talks more like a human, but that is not always good
Leveraging that existing key is a downright anti-feature though. You should try to minimize the scope controlled by any given key.

You already lean heavily on OpenSSL, so it doesn't make a lot of sense why you wouldn't just generate a dedicated key with a `openssl genrsa -out .spiffytool/private.pem`
Isn't it tautological to claim that legal definitions are not arbitrary because of legal spheres? As to ethics, people often invent ethics that coincidentally benefit themselves. I'm talking about economic definitions.
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You'll need to tell that to the middling middle manager trying to improve his KPI.
Thanks! One of my co-founders mentioned this in another thread, but you can set up specific playback_policies when you create an asset (https://docs.mux.com/v1/reference#create-an-asset). For internal-only videos with strict infosec requirements, they'd probably want to use signed URLs, but we're also working on things like geo and domain-based restrictions.
I usually use apg for this purpose, installed with on ubuntu:

sudo apt install apg
I think the other half of his joke is this: https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/pull/155
The “Spore Drive” and Other Star Trek Pseudoscience
> why can't someone buy enough land and incorporate their own city?

Because you can't just incorporate your own city because you own land. In California, you need to convince the Local Agency Formation Commission for the county you are in, and, if your land is in an existing city, also a supermajority of the residents both of the land you own and the existing city from which you are splitting.
New LED Phosphor Material Developed Using Supercomputers
It was used just 16,092 times?

I thought the number would be much bigger.
Cancer vaccine eliminates all traces of cancer in mice
I am looking here and it's great: http://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/aes.html
How do humans generate these labels? Not from this field and I am curious about the UI aspect of it. It's not like you can give each of your min-wage labelers a VR headset/controller to draw bounding boxes with.
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The culture you're describing sounds like something that might arise in SV, but trust me it doesn't really describe America... Propaganda campaigns rarely set what kids think is cool.

The impact of all of these weird pro-STEM programs is a really complicated discussion, but let me suggest that it doesn't really make high school any easier for the vast majority. (The social structure of kids doesn't really look to DuPont for ideas about which way is up...) Your response almost reminds me of how some people are feeling left out of minority help programs ("what did I do to deserve a landscape devoid of scholarships," that kind of thing.) without realizing exactly how little help those programs really provide. In a sense, overestimating the effectiveness of a response to privilege so harshly that you think the privilege has been reversed.
As a policy Troy Hunt won't reveal which breach he found your data in. I considered setting up a series of 'canary' emails so that I could track who's selling what but ... well never got round to it.