skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find a lot of great music from Beats 1. That’s a different discovery mechanism that really badly takes some getting used to but I really love it. Curated Playlists in many ways feel over saturated at the moment, and grow stale. (Their design doesn’t help at showing you recently updated playlists). The 3 ML generated playlists are hit and miss. Favorites is fantastic, New Music is usually pretty good but suffers badly from time interval confirmation bias. Chill, it’s hard to say bc I don’t find the use case (“Chill”) to be what I want when I chill.
Repl.it is amazing -- my company builds software for higher-ed and repl.it is consistently the most oft-requested integration, in CS classes but also in STEM more broadly.
There's no reason to believe that a human life form is capable of being immortal without going insane.
Both, obviously.
Sure, but Alexa does it much better. It just works. With voice platforms the biggest hurdle is not trusting it will work (like with Siri) which means you stop trying. When I drop pasta in while watching over a saute pan I don't want to go open an app I just want to say "set a timer for 8 minutes" and get on with it.
The range of different effects that a brain injury can have on your mind is too great, IMO, for this to be true. Consider cases where people forget very specific classes of things, or gain or lose specific faculties, in response to neural trauma. Damage to the brain affects the functionality of the mind itself, not just how clearly the mind can see its inputs and convey its outputs.
I'm in the same boat!

So, I work as a consultant for a large hospital trying to create a startup. Myself and two partners are basically in the C roles. I am the "CTO"/"Technology Lead".

We used an agency to develop the initial version of our product so my first 6 months or so where mostly heads down with that team cranking out the product. While the other developers were focused almost solely on feature development, I also spent a good amount of my time focusing on larger issues like security, deployment practices, product/market fit (still working on that part), compliance, planning/product management, and even a bit of marketing.

My role flexes from some complex backend code to writing "light and fluffy" content on our marketing site. Basically, if I'm the best person to do something, I'll do that thing.
IMO no-questions asked returns should not be a thing. When you buy something, you should make sure it is the right thing for your need. If it doesn't work as advertised, sure return it. But if you bought something knowing full well that it isn't right for you, you shouldn't be able to return it later.

For example, you buy a pair of shoes. Unless the sole is coming off or it has some other defect, you don't get to return it a week later. When buying online, the return conditions should also include size issues. Sometimes the indicated size does not fit as well as you'd like to and there's no way for you to find that out without wearing it.
If they did this just to short AMD and make money, that's indeed quite shady, and they go through all the trouble of hiding their real intentions because they also know it's super-shady.

That said, unless the whole "research" is fake, I wonder if we could be seeing more such tactics in the future against tech companies, and whether or not that would give them an immense incentive to care about security - or risk getting ruined in the stock market.

Honestly, such a huge incentive may actually be needed to get most companies to get about security. The money equation needs to make sense to them. Right now most think investing the absolute minim amount in security for compliance reasons is already too much money wasted on security. If this were to become common, I think maximizing security would actually start looking quite profitable to them.

I mean, this research is already saying there are some backdoors in AMD's chips. I imagine in the future, companies would be way more careful about allowing backdoors in their products, whether intentionally or by mistake, if they knew they risked getting their stock crushed.

So yeah I just like to play with this idea a little bit. So far this revelation doesn't seem to have had the "desired" effect by the backers of the research, though, but we'll see. I just want to know whether or not the research is real, so I'll wait for AMD's confirmation. I assume AMD wouldn't try to lie to us about it, because there are now probably at least a dozen security teams trying to pick AMD's chips apart, so the flaws would be found soon enough, if real.
Isn't it a good observation _if_ it's true?
> And I also disagree that saying that Apple has given up on their "playlists"

They don't update any of their playlists that often. For instance, their "new music" playlist gets updated once every week. TripleJ, the local ad-free radio station in Australia, updates their new-music playlist every day. There's so much (western) music being released throughout the world that I find it unfathomable that it takes Apple a week to filter out 25 songs.

I was with Google Music and they would have a new playlist (new music or otherwise) catered to my taste every morning.
OpenWorm isn't a process for uploading a specific biological worm. It's a connectome for a generic C. elegans worm. Apparently they're all (more or less) the same.
This is huge, and it's only an alpha. I begun reading about AutoML/Neural Architecture searches around ~year ago and something I've been thinking about is:

Why doesn't this just move the optimization problem? Aren't you now just optimizing your DeepRL network rather than the network you're trying to optimize?
It is a $150 kitchen timer. And it is worth the money.
This was quite hilarious to envision. Thank you.

I myself worry that even if somehow we combine all these domain specific AI's with some approximation of a neo-cortex, and then every AI researcher says "See, there it is! Behold the AGI, told you there was nothing to it!", all we're REALLY going to get is an approximation of the real thing. Then we'll be too busy playing with our new AGI's to realize we missed the mark long ago. The new treasure preservation technology never even arises because victory was declared prematurely. We hit another mark instead of the real thing. Constant refinement of the bizarro superman version of real consciousness.

I hypothesize the REAL mark being that somewhere in the brain, quantum effects, maybe in microtubules, couple with some yet to be conceived discoveries or epithanies, act as a conduit to your real consciousness software existing somewhere "out there" in the simulation ether lets suppose. Extrapolate the AI hype and one day the super intelligent Matrioshka planet size brain emerges (YC backed of course), pours over ancient abandoned research and points out "Hey, you dumb monkeys missed something Yuge here eons ago..."
> Trading on non-public information that results from your own research and then announcing it is not illegal.

Correct. I'm not referring to this. I'm referring to trading on information discerned from communications with e.g. AMD but prior to disclosure of the vulnerability, especially if those communications which establish e.g. timelines are only disclosed after trading

Hence my point about trading upon understanding AMD's response timeline e.g. from emailing them.
“I honestly cannot see how one can see the incident, and cannot see a problem with thousands of posters telling an African American woman that she's an ape.”

Let me clarify. Obviously, thousands of people calling someone an ape is a problem. But one that is easily avoided by disabling twitter replies to your account. So it’s not a problem for anyone that it happens to.

So when I say “I don’t think this is a problem” I mean that it’s not a problem that can’t currently be solved and not worthy of trying to stop the thousand assholes.

It’s not blaming the victim to point out that if you change a setting you save them from pain. It’s not Leslie Jones fault at all that people are jerks. But maybe she didn’t know how to configure twitter. If so, wouldn’t it be a shame that if no one wanted to help her learn for fear of victim blaming?

I equate this as worrying if people are sitting in their living room gossiping about you and saying mean things. Somehow you have the magic ability to listen in. You do and are upset. Certainly you can try to make those people stop being jerks. Or you can stop listening. Or maybe do both.

The problems seem solvable if your goal is to not encounter jerks harassing you online. Since you can filter them out. If your goal is to not have jerks, then definitely not solvable. But that’s a stupid problem to solve through authority. The way you solve jerks is through love and education.
It’s hard to make a man happy without making another one sad. I hate that it’s true, but look at all the logos you recognize using this product is the only way I can ever get my completely non tech literate boss to sign off on any new tech. :(
This is not censorship. It's another form of "people interested in X might also be interested in Y". It's something platforms do all the time.
Don't forget to Donate:

https://letsencrypt.org/donate

Also the EFF:

https://supporters.eff.org/donate
That makes an outstanding difference, thank you for emphasizing that.
>All can be taken advantage of only by an attacker who has already gained admin privileges within the system in question.
A little over sensationalized.
They also quite explicitly state it does not store the actual fingerprint, which might be (is? logic follows) notable. It 'converts to a numerical value' instead. That can't just be hashing (how do you check that when validating later? images won't be exact) but instead would be some form of parsing to a subset of data which is 'unique enough' for their purposes. Their purpose is something like identification across current visitors with statistical significance, preventing ticket sharing. I'd expect that that has the side effect of the data NOT being unique enough for other purposes where the ticket isn't present.

I suspect this was inevitable given Disney's obsession with removing friction. It seems like they at least take the implications fairly seriously, which is nice to see.
Excellent counterpoint, and deserving of greater visibility. London is another example - the transit workers are heavily unionized and regularly go on strike, and yet there've been massive improvements to the Tube, which predates NYC's subway by 50 some odd years. Ever notice how narrow those tubes are, and how deep down they're dug?

To add insult to injury, construction costs for transit are much lower in Paris and London than NYC.

But let's attack the unions again, because that's less complex (and matches a popular and old political narrative) than pointing to systemic incompetence and short term thinking at the administrative level.
How do you explain being normal and having almost no brain at all:

http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/the-medical-mystery-of-a-man...
But that's what is happening in real life, as this article shows.
There's plenty of options, with no distinct winner. Use whatever your team finds most maintainable.

See the "React Styling" section of my React/Redux links list for articles explaining the differences between these various approaches and some of the tradeoffs involved: https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master...
Something like that.

Ultimately it doesn’t matter what up/down vote is supposed to mean. It matters what the outcome is.

Up means prioritize, down means deprioritize.
I typically turn a light on once when i enter the room and when I leave the room- I do the same thing for my exterior lights on the outside of my house. Once every couple of months or so I or my wife will have to get up and go shut a light off in the living room when we go to bed that we forgot to turn off. People often change the channel multiple times in on sitting...which you really don't do with lights. I guess maybe having children complicates this.

Also, maybe I'm the outlier here your proposed situation is particularly accurate (and funny) to me- a couple of years ago a dog chewed up our TV remote and I have still yet to replace it. I get up and physically go to the TV to turn the volume up or down or to turn it on/off.

I'm really not trying to sound like a luddite, I just really don't care enough to adopt this stuff, at least not for the foreseeable future...I don't see the purpose of life as an endless march towards total comfort and ease, though. I will concede that these devices and smart home technology makes life much easier for those with disabilities, and I ultimately support it's development for this reason alone.
See also: When you are drunk, it is not like you are fully lucid but unable to control your body or your mouth. Your mind/personality itself actually changes.

And of course you cannot will yourself to become drunk.

It is pretty trivial that the matter affects the mind, not vice versa.
Does LE have a secure and resilient infrastructure? Like they have multiple sites where they can run all operations from in event of a natural disaster, for example. How about in the event of a government that decides to take it over as a part of their national infrastructure, sounds crazy but we're putting a lot of eggs in their basket.
Health Care Spending in the United States and Other High-Income Countries
A Coreboot X220 is exponentially better than a stock X220. On top of a drastically reduced boot time and better battery life, Coreboot allows booting from the ExpressCard, which makes booting from a USB3 possible on the I5 models. Another big plus is that Chromium OS works perfectly on a Coreboot X220, right down to the fully functional built-in SIM modem.
Elegant Patterns in Modern JavaScript: Ice Factory
Normal approximation to a uniform distribution
We are on rails. Even "The Road Less Travelled" is another road, ignoring the infinity of directions we could actually take.

We can't even notice the other possibilities, let alone consider them.
No, that’s not how it works in most of the world.

Also, you are not required to show that you picked the best candidate possible, just that you didn’t discriminate against someone on the basis of protected categories.
> It's like the cloud is _still_ just a pseudo-magical place

Like Tahiti. It's a magical place.
There's MusicKit, which is exactly that: https://developer.apple.com/musickit/
That’s a good point. But it will stabilize at a higher point. Life extension means fewer children. Just like urbanization means fewer children.

The trend is that as societies become more organized, there are fewer kids.
> Although Pokemon Go has fewer latency concerns than a FPS/MMO

I wouldn't phrase things quite like that. While FPSes and MMOs might require low-latency links between individual servers and individual players, those links are usually long-lived enough for the ARP tables, TCP window sizes, etc. to get comfortable.

Pokemon Go, and other medium-bandwidth casual mobile games, have players expecting low-latency even while constantly having their phone kill and reopen the app, while also travelling between different cells (and thus ending up with different IPs and having their local-most IP switch have to re-path their connections.) And they only play for three minutes at a stretch. This causes a large share of the message traffic to hit at least one "un-warmed" leg on its journey, even if you do all your server architecture correctly.

Of course, things could be even worse: you could have a casual, mobile FPS.
The trivial dismissal of most of these problems is to realize that whatever features we have must have evolved, and it would be a statistical miracle for the substrate that evolution discovered to just happen to be uniquely capable of dualism.
A future in which adequately restoring the running processes of the 100 billion neurons of a partly-deteriorated human brain shorn of its body is less difficult than cracking early 2000s public key cryptography sounds like a future sufficiently unlikely to discount when making future plans...
The number can’t tell you that in isolation: Home Depot might gross that much but they also have hundreds of thousands of employees at thousands of stores. The amount of money a particular manager is responsible for is going to be a lot more reasonable, especially when you think about how much of that is going to be a few contractors buying large amounts on a regular basis.

In any case it’s ridiculous that a manager can’t look at someone’s history of buying lots of stuff and override a one-time return for a fraction of a percent of their recent history.
Maybe you don't need to make as grand a leap outside of mainstream physics as you think:

https://phys.org/news/2014-01-discovery-quantum-vibrations-m...
Agreed. It would be great if as a society we could start encouraging people to exercise proper critical thinking instead.
iOS 11.2.6. Its up to date. I can download it if I search for the app from the app store.
I totally agree. I think YouTube's efforts could be better spent pretty much anywhere else. Do they really expect an anti-vaxxer to look at a wiki link they tacked on to a video and change their mind? It won't happen.

If someone has not made up their mind, they will do their own research.
> That way, someone a lot like you, though not exactly you, will smell the flowers again in a data server somewhere.

Why not exactly me?
I'd argue that vulnerability research has real value as well.
There's actually still ash tray in airplane toilets for that reason. I think it's legally required for airplanes flying through the US to have ashtray in toilets although it's illegal to smoke in these same airplanes ^^
Urgh. Okay. I thought it was an insightful comment but didn't invest the time to vet it fully. Was trying to highlight the comment because (again, if true) it basically invalidates the whole story. That doesn't happen often. The notable part is that one short comment (could) make the story shit.

If google does indeed limit, for example, "SRE II/ Location" to one posting, and Amazon expands that to, say, 100 postings, then the premise is worthless. I don't know how to confirm that.
No new physics may be necessary:

https://phys.org/news/2014-01-discovery-quantum-vibrations-m...
Loco hauled are very rare - HSTs from the 70s mainly being replaced on GWR mainline, a little use on WCML and cross country 2 or 3 sets?) and I think the east coast does them too. And Eurostar of course.

Aside from those it's freight and the sleepers isn't it?
How would you define an "extremist of any type"?

Is someone who promotes a keto diet on YouTube an extremist following your logic? (considering they'd be pretty far outside the "common view" both of the population at large and of the medical community)

I imagine the videos of that keto guy wouldn't look too "advertiser-friendly" to Coke or McDonalds.

I, for one, hope YouTube actually follows your suggestion. The sooner the better. Then it can finally turn into GrandmaTV (its ultimate slow-motion goal, probably), and everyone will start leaving it, following their favorite creators to more decentralized and more censorship-free platforms like d.tube.
> 70% of people have bought alexa.

No, the claim in the source that that article is based on is that 70% of people who interact with a “voice enabled speaker” at least once a month do so with an Alexa.
it's Australia... the answer is always "YES!!!"
Would not the receipt be id to the store some how?
Austria-Hungry was cobbled together in a "personal union," and ended when the notion of how states are built shifted to nationalities. Barring such a large shift in statecraft which would affect every country, I don't see the US breaking apart, and it wouldn't be because the military could/could not keep it so, but because there is no real secessionist movement in the US today.

There are good reasons for this, one is unity of culture compared to most other countries in the world, and another is federalism to tide over the differences. Things could change if say, cloning started happening and the South couldn't handle it, or Trump became a dictator-for-life and institutional means didn't stop him, but somebody would have to change their way of life for secession to be seriously on the table again. Why would California or Texas break away today? Internal economic dynamics are beneficial enough to keep them in. Things like language differences that might break apart other centralized countries simply aren't issues (some localities print their official stuff in Spanish, Vietnamese, whatever, others don't; ethnic radio stations and TV stations exist if you want to have them, nobody cares; you can incorporate your own cities if there are enough of "you" living together, whatever "you" are, and you can elect one of your own as mayor, it's a big country). During the Civil War there was still a strong notion of states' rights, today there is not and the country is a lot more similar than different.

Also Texas was independent. It chose to join and wasn't forced in. Texas seceding is just a joke. There is a lot to be said for a country built on strong institutional legitimacy (even the re-organized South after the Civil War was re-admitted state by state through local votes): people don't jump for the exits at the first sign of trouble.
> It's not like people suffering from celiac's disease and eating gluten fail to thrive in our society. They still reproduce and raise families, most people do.

I think that's an interesting empirical question. The question is the degree to which their genes propagate vs people without celiac disease. There seems to be a generic component to celiac disease, so obviously the effect can't be strong enough to wipe out the disease (and also worth remembering that there may be positive effects of those genes), but does it actually affect their evolutionary fitness to some degree? (and I think you'd find many people with celiac disease would say that it makes it difficult for them to thrive, in a more everyday use of the term 'thrive')
Disney is one of the few companies I'd sorta-kinda trust with this sort of thing, given their extraordinary attention to detail and laser focus on long-term customer happiness with everything park-related and the attention to data security that would also imply.
I think this is an experiment. And given the current state of the internet in regards to fact checking, it's commendable that they are trying something to help address the issue. Maybe it won't work, if so, nothing lost.

I wonder if it will have any noticeable effect on Wikipedia though. By linking all of the conspiracy theorists to it, they might find that the articles get more contraversial editing going on.
I love c#, although that is waning as the language accrues more and more features, it's starting to feel like c++ and the stewards seem to want to move it in every direction possible, from low level high performance to high level application code.

The .net ecosystem has always been a mixed bag. MS did there best to kill off OSS usage with some very "me too" offerings early on. It's always been way too tied to windows. It can often be as enterprisey as the worst java has to offer. Nuget is used for far to many things like loading Visual Studio plugins.

.net core is a clusterfuck and seems to have embraced the move fast and break things motto, this is absolutely not something I or the companies using .net want. Everything is behind the dotnet build tool, even the compiler as an independent component is hidden away from you. The whole stack is moving way to fast for enterprise customers, which was there bread and butter.
Yes. It happened in the manufacture of all other consumer goods so why wouldn't it happen in the manufacture of food?

If you look far enough into the future all manual labor will be performed by machines. Don't be afraid of it, be aware of it. Adapt or die.
They did that months ago. The whole 'adpocalypse'. You can not get ad money on anything even remotely controversial on youtube. Recently they've taken down tons of gun channels among other things.