skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you a lobbyist? You realize regulations are created all the time because a company pushed for it to benefit the most, right? Some are good. Some are bad. Like everything in this world.
Have you looked at Scalaz's Task? It's used all over Verizon, it solves a lot of these issues that people run into with Futures (on how it handles errors in a lawful way).
Being enacted doesn't mean it was ever relevant.
Does this take into account the fact that you might need fewer epochs if you reduce the batch size? (as is done for the CPU?)
It was the complete package, encompassing all of:

- That communication could be both synchronous (like chat) and asynchronous (like email) and you could use whichever worked best for you at the time. You could even switch in the middle of a thread- maybe it stared out asynchronous, but then both people were online and decided to have a conversation.

- Threads were a better way of breaking up topics than channels

- The ability to post a document and then have people comment on it let you basically incorporate Google Docs-style document revision into your chat application, but like the other comment says, the comments were a first-class citizen of the interface, rather than bubbles that are totally out of context

- I like real-time chats, where you could see the individual characters the other person was typing. This, admittedly, is an aesthetic preference I know not everyone shares.
Also, can this bar ever be enjoyed by oneself, or is it really meant to be eaten publicly and shared and discussed? It seem to me that they are not even selling a product but a symbol and story that lets the consumer signal their good taste to others
OK, we've updated the link from https://phys.org/news/2018-02-crystals-field-crystal-robotic....
Singapore is also an extremely authoritarian state. Possession of drugs can get you the death penalty, or state sanctioned torture and beatings.

Kinda apples to oranges when you compare to the US.
Yeah, they are hella down.
My new YouTube Video
Ah yes, the well-known "if they don't notice you took it, it's not a crime" loophole.

And no, the money wouldn't come from customers, why would it? Citi is a for-profit entity, this came out of their profits.
Neanderthals – not modern humans – were first artists on Earth, experts claim
I don't think it's necessary to convert to PDF to remove this history (I believe just copying the content to a new document would be sufficient). However, if the recipient is expecting a PDF and gets a Word file, that's going to raise a red flag.

The better (technically, not legally) approach might be to directly edit the PDF, though I'm not sure what the tooling is like there.
My mom subtly encouraged me to do her VHS aerobics routine alongside her when I was a kid, but with no pressure. I was therefore more open to the idea of trying out weightlifting in high school. I was then more open to checking out a gym membership (or three) in my 20s. I accordingly found it easier to shell out for a home weight bench & stationary bike in my 30s.

After a (typical) February backslide, I finally got my first workout all month done this morning, it's the best I've felt in weeks. Fortunately I'm still in better shape than I was a year ago. The benefits become increasingly clearer over time. I often quit for longer than I should, but I keep coming back. Anyway, thanks, Mom!
My Fremont Linode VPS is down as of 10:07am pacific and I still cannot access it.
This suggests exactly what I've been thinking about these things, but I'd go one step further than this:

>> Accordingly, we hypothesize that certain ASD risk alleles were under positive selection during human evolution due to their involvement in neurogenesis and cognitive ability.

I don't think they "were under positive selection", I think they still ARE. So many people like to think that humans evolved to our present state and then act like the process has stopped. The wording here echos that a bit.
The results from this study will probably be interesting: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experime...
It's actually much worse than sending incriminating documents through the mail, even printed brazenly on a postcard.

To capture incriminating physical mail, the authorities have to already be monitoring you at the time you send the documents. With email they are typically able to go back and capture emails from days, weeks, and years prior.
Show HN: TUI Music Player with Emacs Keybindings
Yeah, given my experience with Amazon purchases over the past year or so, I'm really hesitant to buy any food or dietary products from them, for me or for my dog.
In Much of Ferguson, Missouri, Walking in the Street Remains the Only Option
With CS, it's not twice as much, it's more like 4x-5x as much if it's something like ML/AI, Security, etc.

$1mm-$5mm+ compensation packages are not rare by any means.
I'd wager HN doesn't have 2FA because there's not much damage you could do if you compromised someone's HN account. At best you can pretend to be someone else for a bit, but in most cases that's harmless. There's only a handful of accounts I can think of where it would be problematic if someone started impersonating them.
This addresses the biggest holdout I had so far: verifying that tagged releases don't change from underneath you, by checking against a Certificate Transparency-like local log of all encountered module versions and their hash.

As I understand it, go verify checks the local go.modverify file against all transitive dependencies. It might be valuable to also check those against the dependencies' go.modverify files as well (if present), to make sure everyone is on the same page on what each version represents.
It's kind of strange. In the U.S., people get angry if they get a speeding ticket for going 12 miles over the speed limit (see any conversation about speed cameras). There doesn't seem to be any push back against having speed limits; rather, it seems like most people think we should have them and then ignore them.
Matt Levine at Money Stuff has a recurring comment of (US) securities laws being the best tool currently available for what many people view as social issues.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-01-25/climate-c... and the linked https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-11-06/exxon-mig... are the examples I've found so far, but I remember him making the comment repeatedly.
Rebol and Red are very Lisp like and use square brackets instead of paren's.
Given how well cough the assistant has been able to cope with accents in English (it hasn't very well at all) it will be interesting to see how well this works in practice.
Making life decisions is no different than trading Bitcoin. I learned this the hard way. Sure there are the obvious ones: If you make a bad choice (ie: do drugs and not save any money on your young years the trading equivalent of "you invest in a scam ICO), it'll end badly.

But given two similarly good options, it's a shot in the dark. The OP could have gone to Microsoft and became a CTO or CEO. Then he'll be writing how his Phd friends wasted their time in an academic career blablabla

You can't "see into the future of something". Especially when we are talking very long time frames (10-15 years). Someone who moved into Asia in the last 10 years would have done massive growth compared to someone who would have invested in south America (ie: Venezuela).
Out of curiosity (because I would like to organize my day to be able to fit 2 hours of exercise each day) how is your typical day structured? Between work, commute, personal projects, grocery shopping, appointments, cooking, and sleep, I barely have enough time to fit 1 hour/day 3-4 times a week. Weekends are the exception, but I'd like to be able to have more flexible time during the week.
The global economy already produces enough for every man, woman and child.

The surplus increases every year.

Every year, fewer and fewer people need to work full-time in mind-numbingly boring jobs to produce what the population needs.

So why do we keep up the fiction that everyone needs to waste their lives doing unnecessary work?

It's time to imagine how we could achieve a post-work society where more people could realize their potential, instead of being tied down to meaningless, mindless and unnecessary drudgery.
You mean a rule like

> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

?
nixpkgs-unstable was updated 4 hours ago. Still doesn't have Nix 2.0.

This strikes me as very strange. Why was Nix 2.0 released without updating nixpkgs?
For Thieves, Legos Are the New Uncut Diamonds
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Not necessarily. The DGX-1, for example, has pretty poor perf/$$ but reduces the time a data scientist spends waiting. For some organizations, their people time is so valuable that what matters is “what gets me my answers back faster”, because that employee is easily $100/hr+.

That’s actually why the 8xV100 with NVLINK is so attractive (and why the TPUs also have board to board networking, not just chip to chip).
Are Asimov’s Laws of Robotics still good enough in 2018?
Google is the same as NSA, but exists as a dance around 4th amendment. Google can do the sort of spying the US government can't constitutionally do, then hand that over to the government, constitutionally, under gag order if necessary. It's all stagecraft. Same for Apple, Amazon, Intel, etc. Eric Schmidt runs HRCs campaign. Al Gore is on Apple's board.

They are all set up to spy on us. Deep state. They hunt sys admins. If you're here, you're a target.
Mark Twain did NOT say (apparently) this, but it remains a moving quote:

> When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

That said, I'm always bothered about "you think you know everything" speeches given to children, particularly teenagers.

(Note to poster: You triggered this semi-rant, but not because you are guilty of this. You just started the chain of logic that led me here)

I remember clearly getting that "think you know everything" speech often when I'd point out something was "stupid" or "why can't we just...". What I didn't get was any real attempt to disprove my arguments. Instead of learning "Wow, I thought this and I was legitimately wrong, I should be more cautious" I was taught "wow, adults don't listen and are content to look down on me and my ideas".

It's like the whole puberty speech. Don't tell me I have hormones raging and a changing body and I suddenly getting interested in a particular gender - I have no context for the first part and the last part is not a change but something that was true for my entire conscious life (though the importance may have changed). Instead understand that a teen has spent their life as a child and has only been asked to be a child. Trying to be an adult is something totally new. The risk of failure (loss of status among peers, loss of respect of superiors, loss of closer companionship) is high, the experience to help decide what to do is minimal, even the experience of seeing others face these challenges and NOT suffer is minimal to non-existent. Every adult that forgets their personal experiences when they were a teen and gives the above speech is just proving, not disproving, the common accusation that parents "just don't understand".

Kids aren't dumb, they're actually smarter (in the sense of capability to learn) than most of us. Blaming them for their lack of experience is not our best move. Telling them they'll "understand when (they're) older" is moronic if we don't give support to our claim. (NB: Concepts like the "it gets better" movement to encourage teens with non-traditional sexuality seem dramatically better at trying to do the right thing to me, though any teens involved might correct me - I'm cis-straight male, never heard such attempts when I was a kid, and haven't been a teen for decades)

Nothing will make the teenage years without drama for most people, but actually trying to relate, offering support that doesn't rely on having experiences they don't have, and dropping our own "I know everything" attitudes can do a lot.

(/me steps off soapbox)
My spouse works at an artisanal chocolate factory in Raleigh, NC[0]. From experience, there is a huge difference in quality between small batch chocolate bars and bonbons vs mass manufactured. Even with small batch, there's a difference between buying it in a store vs buying it fresh from the factory.

That said, I don't think that difference is worth an extra $290. Once you're over the $5-to-10 per bar mark, there's diminishing returns on quality (for me at least.) Anything over that and you're paying for the story and branding. A $7 single-origin fair trade bar tastes the same as a $300 one, and in both cases, they're probably sourcing from the same farmer.

[0] https://viderichocolatefactory.com/
Profits come from customers.
No problem, just a couple reader macros!
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The six stages of computational science
Where Do Tesla Owners Pay the Most at the Supercharger?
Hacking a Vice of the U.S. Economy
Presumably a bunch of that money ultimately came from the very same customers who are receiving this payout. The fact that it’s called a “refund” might help tip the other side off on this.
The rapper Dessa scanned her brain to fall out of love – The Verge
No. It's in the eyes. If you know what you look for, psychopaths eyes are different. I can't explain it in physical terms, but when I look into a psychopaths eyes, there's nothing there.

Also, psychopaths don't have a startle reflex (but sociopaths do). So, drop a dish and see if they jump.
Yeah, the moderators should probably change the title. It would be one thing if the original title were more sensationalized than the title here, but it’s the opposite.
The 'loudness' of our thoughts affects how we judge external sounds
InfoWars is two strikes away from being banned from YouTube
Course Announcement: GraphQL with Angular and Apollo
When I was involved with a contract negotiation, they emailed me a pdf offer with addresses, names and important numbers retracted with black and asked if these terms are OK with me and we can talk about the numbers.

I noticed that when I select a region of text with a mouse, the retracted' black text becomes white text over black background. It revealed name of our competitor, addressees and numbers in their offer, the whole retraction was just a typographic trick.

When in doubt, print -> scan -> convert to pdf.
Adware & Clutter-free version: https://outline.com/HufDeG
DisneyQuest: 1990s edutainment game made manifest, strange utopian idea run wild
I will probably do that, yes.
In what way do you mean flattened?

Authorship and metadata? No, that is often still present, and many tools will include author and software data by default.

Layers? No, PDFs can have extensive layers.
That doesn't work. std::weak_ptr is a reference counted pointer matched to std::shared_ptr; there's no concept of weak pointers (i.e. non-owning with dynamic checks) for std::unique_ptr, which corresponds almost exactly to Rust's Box.
Seems like you need temperatures of about ~140C (280F) to make this work.

Unfortunately, I think their hope of using these in soft robots may be complicated by the high operating temperature required. Wonder if they can make crystals which exhibit these effects closer to room temperature.
Enter UBI: an allowance from our masters, so that people can continue to consume when there's nothing left for people to produce.
One of the few empirically findings of programmer productivity, is that programmers can produce about the same number of working lines of code per day regardless of the language. And the ratio of bugs / lines of code is relatively constant across languages.

So expressing the exact same behavior in fewer lines of code directly leads to higher productivity, and fewer bugs for equivalent functionality.

In other words, there is a concrete cost associated with overly verbose programming language constructs.
That's what I said.

The microarchctiecture has many unnecessary things and it's not optimized as a whole for deep learning.
> On my computer, I can easily check what apps and background services are running.

Did you audit the Intel AME, HD firmware, chipset, audio drivers, usb drivers, and everything else on your PC?
Some passwords I need to memorise (e.g. the logon password for my primary machine), and others need to be input on devices where long, strong passwords would be unduly cumbersome (e.g. my Xbox/PSN accounts are never going to get the same strength I use elsewhere because typing long, mixed case + symbols passwords on a controller is a nightmare).
Well "were" doesnt preclude "are". To say "are" however requires a whole set of other evidence much harder to obtain.
In Basic (not exactly QuickBasic, since MSX computers came with MSX Basic) I learnt how to program. And when I was able to alter some Inventory control for an uncle that owned a drugstore, it was great. The computer wasn't exactly cheap, but seeing it be used for professional needs when only big companies would have computers was amazing.
Ah, this is a compelling argument against eugenics, nice.
It is actually really difficult to convert a PDF to Word. Clearly the author has never tried.
For people thinking that he should have known better on a technical basis, maybe but remember that during the time in question he was a 64-68 year old man (= graduated college around the time Unix was being rewritten in C) who's never worked in a technical field. By the time most of these capabilities existed Manafort had been management/executive for years or decades.

That's not to say that he couldn't have learned were he interested, but his daily life had very little intersection with this kind of thing until he spiraled into a hole of debt, at which point "do I trust this person" ranked a lot higher than "how are this person's technical skills?"
>The next time some politician tells you regulations are always bad, only lead to more expenses for customers, remember this.

The inverse opinion that regulation is always good is equally terrible.
It will be available in Fedora 28+: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=25...
I think at least for inference TPUv1 was beating all previously available GPUs by a wide margin. TPUv2 did that for training as well, with the exception of Volta.
Yeah I understand. What I meant by "not an option" is that it's not personally an option for me because I don't like how much data Tesla has in the first place, so I won't be buying one.
Well, it made a lot more sense why the original article was exciting. The updated article, with all due respect, is hard to parse for a non-expert.
At its face it does sound pretty crazy but I found some analogs of previous and ongoing projects that provide some reason to suspend disbelief.

Here's what I can find on high G launch vehicle's and payloads:

Breakthrough Starshot: Backed by physicist and VC Yuri Milner and lead by former director of NASA Ames, Peter Worden. 10,000 G's. Project Ongoing. [1]

Hiller Hornet: US Army helicopter, powered by jet turbines located at the tips of the helicopter blades. The turbines operated under 14,000 Gs. Project Completed [2]

HARP Project: Joint US Army & Canadian effort. Successfully launched electronics (radios, control systems, etc) and solid fueled rockets. 10,000+ Shock G's. Project Completed. [3]

A variety of documents come up while researching g-hardening electronics. The US Army Research Lab a a few papers. Linked one of them. 30,000 + Shock G's. Various Projects Completed and Ongoing[4]

The Hiller Hornet is likely the most applicable given it is a propulsion system operating at over 10,000 G's. I wonder how they designed the Hornet's turbine given Finite Element Analysis wasn't really a thing in 1950.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot
[2] http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/hiller_hoe-1.php
[3] http://www.astronautix.com/a/abriefhistoheharpproject.html
[4] http://www.arl.army.mil/arlreports/2006/ARL-TR-3705.pdf
Asimov's laws require an AGI to make sense out of them. In the meantime, we'll need more detailed rules and accessory humans to help them.

In a sense, they are not good enough yet.
It is a bit simplified, as all online treatises need to be, but less reductionist than picking one counter example without any thought.
>I don't think they "were under positive selection", I think they still ARE. So many people like to think that humans evolved to our present state and then act like the process has stopped. The wording here echos that a bit.

Nobody thinks the process has stopped. The argument instead is that the environment has changed over time, and some traits that once increased the organism's odds of reproduction relative to peers no longer have that effect.

Whether those with "certain ASD risk alleles" tend to have more or fewer children than those without is an empirical question, but I certainly wouldn't be shocked to find that the fitness benefits to "neurogenesis and cognitive ability" have declined.
Huh I never knew that. Have I been completely oblivious of it, or has that been added recently ?
curious: if the bones aren't cooked, isn't the pet spreading bacteria with (possible) resistance to antibiotics throughout the entire house?
Stringer Bell said it best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBdGOrcUEg8
Didn't this start out as EtherPad? I remember that being an eye-catching demo of a way to collaborate on documents over the web. How/where did that go wrong?
Can't help but think of the movie "Sour Grapes" that shows "wine connoisseurs" completely fooled by some fraudulent mixes:

https://decider.com/2016/12/06/sour-grapes-on-netflix-wine-s...
I think there's a contradiction here.

In selecting for intelligence a harm is acquired: the risk of sevre autism.

So "simplistic perception" is not correct. By selecting for intelligence, we incidentally acquire a problem.
Some lisps use parenthesis and brackets interchangeably. Some people prefer to strategically alternate them, but you're free to use them exclusively.

Guile Scheme, for example:

scheme@(guile-user)> [list 1 2 3]
$1 = (1 2 3)
scheme@(guile-user)> (list 1 2 3)
$2 = (1 2 3)
scheme@(guile-user)> [car '[1 2 3]]
$3 = 1
Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be something developers are very interested in nowadays. While it would improve the overall system it would also hurt the solid compatibility and introduce further headaches for the user, possibly being attributed to the software.

Would be nice if it did happen, though.
I always suspected their credit card bills. It was very confusing and very hard to verify. May be they did it intentionally? who knows?
> From there, Toth suggests placing a square of chocolate into your mouth, breaking it into small pieces with your teeth, and letting it melt. No chewing.

This is some 'shaken but not stirred' nonsense. How do you break something into small pieces with your teeth without chewing?
atlasobscura.com seems to mostly be click bait and paid placement these days, and it consistently gets spammed to social media platforms. I wish there was a way to filter out certain news sources from the feed.
And corresponding word vectors: https://fasttext.cc/docs/en/crawl-vectors.html