skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judging from this and your other recent comments, you seem to be imploding.

Anyone can have a bad day(s), and I think it's worthwhile to recognize that humanness and be willing to extend grace.

Still, that doesn't mean I need to go there with you. Good luck.
I was pretty sure my coworker said it was a runway (they used C-130s out of Peoria IL and based on the description it sounded like they were doing STOL exercises) but I’ll message him on LinkedIn to double check.
Cheese and sauce spreading utensils have been available for decades and a lot of pizzerias use them. They're especially helpful for portion control. Not so sure about pepperoni, but doesn't seem like it would be much of a challenge especially something like a slicer that cuts solid pepperoni sausages and flings the slices onto the pie.

I'd be more impressed with a robot that could flatten, spread, and toss a ball of dough, that's a bit more of an art form.
An obvious question is whether this could also be used as a nootropic by non-autistic individuals, and what effect (if any) it would have.
> I do not need to be a security researcher to understand that they, as with everyone else, have an obligation to the body politic to not be a dick

So are you talking about AMD being dicks by releasing buggy chips, or the researchers somehow being dicks for finding out?

Related question: if a "food security researcher" discovered a vendor was selling contaminated produce - would it be reasonable for them to give the vendor 90 days notice before telling the public?

While I think it's reasonable and appropriate professional practice for _some people/teams_ to go down the "coordinated disclosure" path (I think the world is a better place for having Tavis Ormandy disclose the way he chooses to), it does without doubt benefit the company who's products are flawed more than the researcher or the public. Anybody who knows they work at a firm that's going to be described dismissively like AMD here did "This company was previously unknown to AMD" is quite likely correct to publish-and-be-damned, because you can bet there's a non-zero chance that AMD's response to non-public disclosure is going to include either stonewalling and stringing the problem out as long as possible, or lawyering up ad threatening to sue the "previously unknown to AMD" company into oblivion.

If you don't want public disclosure of security flaws about your products, either don't make flawed products or don't ship them to the public. Especially if some of the key selling features of said product include bullet points like "AMD Secure OS".
They've been doing this at casinos for quite a while to track cheats and decide who to comp.
Just today I experienced the frustration of a pull request linking to a conversation on slack that I couldn't read.
As copper booms, miners take hunt to Mongolian dunes
It is curious how unions in America behave so very differently to unions in other places.
American unions almost universally seem to be short-sighted and completely protectionist.
This isn't the case in western Europe, so it doesn't seem to be inherent to a union.

This creates a communication hurdle between Europe and America. The expectations of what a union does differ so much, you could say Europeans and Americans mean a totally different thing when using the same word.
> If I merged the bash logs where I nuked rm -rf / on a given computer into the logs of one where I have not ran that command, the result is not the same.

What if you had 2 git repositories, and merged changes from one to another? Or 2 disk images?

Why would memories be logs and not contents of the repository in this analogy? And if you care about changes to the brain state that aren't memories - just add these changes to the brainstate. You argue that no matter how perfectly we merge these brainstates, it's still not "me" after the merge. I argue - if there's no difference after the split, then the question is meaningless.

> This would not be the same object since you can do that, but not delete the object.

So what? Why would existence of a copy change anything? In programming it doesn't, yet you seem to argue it does.

You can make a clone of a disk or a memorydump, and restore it on another computer. Why would the uniqueness matter? You can run 100 copies on 100 computers and use that for redundancy.

When a program is running on modern CPU it executes code predictively, going both ways on some ifs. Does that split identities into 2 and immediately kills one of them?

Let's say for a moment that universe is a simulation, and there is a backup. Does that make "us" suddenly not "us" because there is a copy? Why?

Because of all these corner cases I don't think programming is a good analogy.
They must have high hopes. Alexa is not something I can ever imagine using. I like Amazon's web store, but Alexa doesn't seem to offer anything I would ever want. Do others find it useful?
> what effect (if any) it would have

super charisma
I note RHEL 7.x still contains Python 2 as the default, with Python 3 available from EPEL. But you can't remove Python 2 since just about everything in the system (including the package manager) depends on the Python 2.

RHEL7 is not due to be EOL until 2024, so Redhat (and others) will be holding the baby for a long time after 2020.
I moved out of the state to escape it.
You're right, Java should have been included along with the other languages I mentioned. As a strongly-typed, compiled language, it should indeed beat V8 handily. I had intended to say that V8 outperforms other dynamically-typed languages like PHP, Python, Ruby, etc.

But because startup time and RAM usage are so important to our use case, Java has never been in the running as a plausible implementation choice, so to be honest I sort of forgot about it. :/
However, I'm not sure I understand a single component of the expression P(A|B) = P(B|A) P(A) / P(B) in this context.

You've come to the right place :)

In the context of least squares estimation you can usually ignore the denominator P(B) and only look at P(A|B) = P(B|A) P(A). Real mathematicians (!= me) cringe here because the numerator alone isn't a proper PDF but since we're only seeking the value where that PDF has its maximum, that's ok.

Good, so now we have P(A|B) ~ P(B|A) P(A). What you want to know is the maximum of P(A|B), that is "where's the most probable position of my 3D point A given all the 2D measurements B"?

Let's look at the solution P(B|A) P(A). The first factor is the likelihood function, the second factor is the prior. The prior is easy: It's some prior belief about the distribution of A. So if you know the position of your 3D point somewhat (even without looking at B), say you know it must be in a range of coordinates, or you know that Z must be positive or any other statement about A that you know must hold, that information would go into the prior.

P(B|A) on the other hand is your likelihood. That's kind of the "meat" of Bayes. Your likelihood is a distribution over B, given A. Meaning, if you knew your 3D point A, how would the PDFs of your 2D observations of it look like? Note that the likelihood is to be understood as a function of state, meaning the domain of it is A.

So to summarize argmax(P(A|B)) = argmax(P(B|A) P(A)), meaning to get the most probable location of your 3D point you need to look in your likelihood domain A (in this case the 3D space) where the 3D points are that would produce the observations B that you have and then also take into account your prior beliefs about A, to narrow down that set of candidate points.

In the concrete case of least squares both likelihood and prior are assumed to be gaussian, so if you multiply them you get a new gaussian with a single maximum. Neat!
Wow this is really interesting. Any sources on possible mechanisms of action?
https://www.recode.net/2018/2/1/16961598/amazon-jeff-bezos-r...
I'm of the mind that all the good UI concepts for touch screen smartphones have been done. Combine this with change for changes sake and it's easy for me to believe we've passed Peak UI and are on the down the other side of the bell curve.

I think we should demand a 12 month moratorium on UI changes across all operating system user interfaces and focus on stability and speed.
I programmed many GUIs on Windows using pretty much all frameworks: MFC, WinForms, WPF, wxWindows, QT, from C++, C# and Python (some of them).

The one I liked the most was WPF, which I would say is web inspired (XAML is like HTML in many ways).

The later apps I did were web-based, the whole app was an HTML page running inside a WebView. This was years before Electron appeared, and much harder. But it was still so much better.

Yes, performance sucks, but you can do in one day what it takes you one week in a classic GUI framework. Layout which is a major pain in old frameworks is trivial in HTML. Same for fancy fonts/colors and using images everywhere.
But note that according to [1], sulforaphane inhibits HDAC6, whereas the article speaks of HDAC2.

[1] https://examine.com/supplements/sulforaphane/
The future of pizza is self-driving pizza ovens. It sounds ridiculous, but just imagine a pizza delivery place that has no physical store, no employees, and can deliver you a pizza in 15 minutes, fresh out of the oven.

It seems inevitable.
Are you sure that children do not generate value?
Vuej and React have traditional forums. But I get what you're saying. When I was using Aurelia, I had huge problems because it was just on gitter.
You're not wrong. I do, however, strongly believe that his use of the phrase did not do him any favors.
Docker Toolbox portable for Windows
So little research is done on Autism from the perspective of adults living on the spectrum - almost all the funding and research seems to go towards childhood and to give parents coping mechanisms.

IMO we need clear clinical definitions of different parts of the spectrum so we can have more intelligent conversations about it - is a study cohort involving 10 year olds ones who cannot clothe themselves or participate in regular school activities, or ones which have some social reading deficits but can still participate? Its always very difficult to tell.
I think people who find this concerning are very likely in the minorty. Folks are pretty willing to give up their fingerprint for access to Disney parks.

I appreciate the security concerns of MSG, but I don't see how we can make an informed decision without knowing its false positive and false negative rates, and what happens on false positives. Then obviously there is the question of where they are acquiring the facial data from, and with whom they share it.

Also, haven't casinos done this for years to keep out banned gamblers?
“Amazon is hiring 1,147 people for its Alexa business unit alone,...”

I’m sure Google is not going let Amazon run away with the voice assistant market.

There’s nothing like an arm’s race between tech titans to move the needle.

With the additional efforts of Apple and Microsoft, voice as a user interface will soon be a solved problem.
Forgive me, I'm sort of thinking out loud here.

I like the idea of trying out new languages/frameworks using this. I would be concerned building any serious projects using Repl though. I'm worried about how much 'lock in' there is at the moment. How difficult would it be to move from Repl to AWS for example? My guess is that it would be significantly more difficult than moving from AWS to Azure or something like that. If their service is unique enough it will be a pain to move, I would imagine. But this is obviously also their advantage. I bet this is similar to the when first cloud hosting platform launched. You no longer had to rack the servers yourself but if that company failed, you were screwed. :)
I respectfully disagree. If you move your existing stack to Docker Swarm, by far most of the work is in containerization. Creating Dockerfiles, decoding how containers interact, deciding on environment variables, deployment mechanisms etcetera.
When moving to Kubernetes the same thing happens: most of the work goes to those same activities. That work is not lost if you defer moving to k8s to later. And that move itself will be so easy compared to the containerization.
@dang would it be possible to change the link to our app store link? Clearly the websites copy is lacking. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mindset-simple-hypnosis/id13.... Thanks
Yep. Sourcegraph uses Universal Ctags in our symbol search, you can see the full list of supported languages here https://github.com/universal-ctags.
"Stop the war, my button broke off, and I need a replacement."

I foresee a requirement like this being added to defense contracts in the near future, basically requiring plans and easy replacement for the plastic bits. Then the defense department can either build their own parts or bid out the manufacturing of those parts.
is it supposed to be a means to an end, or do I get to know the robot? :p
My view is that you should be using the best available service. If it happens to be open source, then it's great but if it's not, it shouldn't be a blocker.

I will not stop promoting the open source projects I'm working on on Twitter and Facebook just because they happen to not be open source.

At the time where Reactiflux needed to find a new home, I tried a ton of alternatives, both open source and closed source and the general level of quality for all of them was a huge step down from Slack, except for Discord which actually felt better.
On that note, the cover of this very popular book makes my skin crawl: https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Her-Pig-Recipes-Stories/dp/00620...

Not because the pig is dead. I have no bacon if the pig is not dead. But because it's draped over her shoulders like a garland.
anecdote: I did a google team match two months ago as a new grad and was asked if I would be interested in "Search Infrastructure". I said yes and got set up with 5 calls with different Google Assistant teams.
Even assuming that it is an antenna, then if your antenna is the only one receiving your consciousness then it is the seat of your consciousness or equivalent, i.e. its reasonable to assume that if you restore the antenna you will restore the consciousness in place (I am leveraging the fact that you called it a seat). On the other side of the coin, with embodied consciousness you could raise other potential issues with preservation of the brain alone. Connection between gut bacteria and mental conditions are being researched with some results confirming hypotheses there.
Haha hey Mark! Yeah, there's a lot of inertia to getting started, but it feels really good to produce writing rather than just consume it all the time.
Well, and the SSR is particularly hard (given National Rail services run on parts of the LU-owned SSR infrastructure); the Northern Line automation was nowhere near as painful.
It's extremely simplistic. In some circumstances, the coin offered in an ICO might not be a security, for instance, and then it doesn't come under the SEC's jurisdiction.
The technical term is "electric multiple unit", and it's becoming the default for high-speed trains use them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_multiple_unit#Example...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_395

High speed aside, in the UK, i think pretty much all inner and outer suburban main-line trains are electric or diesel multiple units (eg if you get a train from London to Cambridge that takes 45 minutes, that's an EMU). According to some random report i found on wikipedia [1], in 2011 there were 1248 locomotive-hauled carriages, 2892 DMU carriages, and 8046 EMU carriages. I could tell you a great many more particulars but suppose that you are tired of it by this time.

[1] http://archive.nr.co.uk/browse%20documents/rus%20documents/r...
Indeed.

I'm not entirely convinced rules are indicated for all discussion forms and communities.

It's a human problem, and using humans and human ways has advantages.
> Do others find it useful?

They have sold tens of millions of Alexa devices, is it really surprising that people find them useful?
Afternoon hangout is Red Rock cafe, as many have mentioned. Evening hang out is Steins Beer Garden (usually on the outdoor patio - you'll find a lot of big groups there).
Also, what I've observed is that infrastructure tends to be a good fit for open source but not products. React is open source but Discord is not even though it's using React. Git is open source but Github is not.
Eh, maybe… but I am reminded of the observation that if a single tweak could significantly enhance mental abilities, evolution would have probably given it to us already. I think Eliezer Yudkowsky has a longish piece to this effect (please forgive me if I am mis-remembering).
My neighbor's wife uses it for things like setting a timer for cooking, setting reminders, playing music, queries about things she and her kids are curious about, and ordering things on Amazon. She seemed pretty happy with its usefulness.
I'm still feeling guilty about how they shaped my weekend.
I've just hired an extra 8 women, since me and the wife want a baby next month. /s
exactly this!
The future of Pizza is a 3D printer at home that prints out your dinner right at your dinner table.

No, make that printed directly into your stomach, via a plugin.
Downloading the app doesn’t seem to work on my iPhone 7. Just keeps saying it’s connecting to Apple Music.
New link because of ISP disconnection issues. Running on backup ISP meanwhile:https://www.facebook.com/federico.lois/videos/10155254288586...
It would be a little challenging. A proper pizza oven is about five or six hundred degrees minimum, and the pie bakes in 5 to 10 minutes or maybe less in some cases. And when it's done the toppings and sauce and cheese are pretty much a liquid. Going around the corner too fast will slosh at all to one side.
This might be a better version of the same story:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/03/volkswagen-bets-big-on-...
> Spectrum looks similar to a 2011 text message client

This just isn't true. Compare [1] to [2]. Nor does it look like VB, phpBB, etc. from 2011.

[1] https://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/08/30/the-top-6-best-instan...

[2] https://spectrum.chat/sketch?thread=5ee6de28-e347-4c0f-950d-...

> .. a good portion of people already have an account on.

Ah yes, my N accounts for N communities on Slack.
Hilarious if true, given that Amazon frontline support is generally excellent.
Subsidies baked into the cell plan are mostly gone in the US too, replaced with monthly installments that superficially are the same but in practice allow you to pay up front and then only pay for cell service on a monthly basis.
Doctors discover empty space where part of man’s brain should be
YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to videos about conspiracies
When I lived in the bay area, my favorite way was to take a hike – https://bahiker.com/
I watched both videos, one hyping it, dropping all your favorite words like "neural net" and "AI", and I saw the performance video, and even though homeboy said in the first video that its not just 'combining the two sounds' its taking them and using machine learning 'to draw a new one' but isn't that the same thing? well if it isn't, it sounds like it is, and in the demo-play video it sounds like they are just mixing the two voices, and it didn't sound at all groundbreaking or anything.. I rather just use some old electribes than some Google Synth that looks like it was was painted with faery entrails. I could see some burning man people using this or like rich noise musicians in the mission or something. You can change the ADSL on all the synths since forever, I would take a rompler like the roland JV series or the Korg M1 and those just combine two weird waveforms, add some reverb and tweak the ADSL and you don't need any machine learning or freaky LED's
> Here are a few examples where it is assumed the existing education system / teachers claim to be teaching critical thinking.

> Are you willing to acknowledge educators / curricula commonly claim to teach critical thinking?

I'm not in denial of some sort ffs, I'm frustrated at watching our society coming apart at the seams because the vast majority of the population seems to be incapable of intelligently reading a newspaper article, and will fall for seemingly any trick in the book.

Of the examples of "critical thinking education" listed above, do any remotely approach the critical thinking specific education I'm talking about here?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16572861

People are absolutely inundated with propaganda nowadays, like no other time in history, with social media being the most powerful weapon by far. We are graduating our children and sending them intellectually defenseless into this new world, I don't know if the average human mind can be brought to a level sufficient to cope with the propaganda created by the world class experts in persuasion who are working for a variety of deep pocketed entities, but at least we could try.
Yeah.. I'm confused; I return a lot of stuff at hardware stores, because I suck at buying the right things. If I don't have a receipt, returns differ by brand:

- Menards; just added ability to look up your receipt yourself at their self-help terminals, so now they require you find the receipt there

- Lowes; requires the card you bought it on

- Harbor Freight; can help find the receipt, or will give in-store credit

- Home Depot; no idea, who shops here, it's way more expensive and they have nothing in stock lol
An open source blockchain project I’m involved with just moved from Slack to Discord.

Slack is designed for trusted teams and does not handle malicious members. There are several won’t-fix issues that drove us out:

1. Anyone can set reminders for the slackbot to message to anyone in the channel. These reminders look official and don’t say who sent them. Great for phishing. You can’t disable this.

2. By default, anyone can download a list of all users, including email addresses and real names. Awesome again for phishing.

3. It’s now super hard to tell imitation accounts from the real thing on Slack. Multiple people can have the same usernames in the channel.

Discord, being forged in the fires of massive gamer communities approaches everything with the expectation that some of your users will be evil, and gives you good tools to deal with it.
If anyone has a book similar to this for embedded - I'd love to know.

I've recently been reading Elecia White's Making Embedded Systems which is the closest thing to this book I can think of.
In its current form, I find it less useful than a lot of people seem to. But reasonable extrapolations of natural language processing and other advances in conversational interfaces make it seem at least plausible that Alexa could become a fairly general-purpose virtual assistant. Lots of hard problems to solve but at least plausible in 5-10 years.
Playing songs with the kids (this is actually a lot of fun, changing songs while wrestling with the kids, lots of laughs =) ), audio books, news, weather, timers, answers, buying things, turning things on and off, such as the lights. I can do all that without doing anything more than talking.

These are the average things my wife and I use ours for at the moment.

Edit: Hey, and just to be clear, yes, we find it useful enough we have several devices.
Maybe Slack was so sure of it's moat that it could afford to demand payment.

Discord might forgo some profits right now for a better future.

But now I'm pretty sure Slack is in panic mode internally. Discord had unbelievable growth in the last months.
If it only takes that long, it could just cook while parked at destination
Super charisma or other abilities in all members of a group could have negative reproductive consequences and reduce the genetic fitness of that configuration, even if it's available.
Wow. I have been seeing links to discordapp.com for a while now and didn't bother to go through their registration process. Now I see why I never saw links to actual conversations: they have no URLs. How can someone suggest using a walled garden for open source collaboration?
Could it be argued that quite a few of those single tweaks have already occurred?