skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google is a private business and they can do what they want

It's exactly this line of thinking that got us here. This 'private business' is a lot of people doing the same thing (in this case censoring things, as much as I hate ads, this is censorship). But people who use their products can't organize themselves in this way (they are not a single entity) and can't boycott them when shit like that happens. They can't leave independently either since it puts each of them them at a disadvantage ("everyone else is using it").

That's why Google must be slapped as hard as possible here - because they are nearly a monopoly.
I’ve spent a lot of time playing KSP. This game has an incredibly steep learning curve. The best thing they could do is build a player autopilot that lets them get to orbit with basic rocket builds. There’s a ton of hardcore players (like me) who do things like write kOS scripts to run rockets to the mun and beyond. But that kind of thing is lost on the person who first downloads this game.

If the devs are reading this, that’s the package you need: a basic autopilot for noobs.
I guess this is a sarcastic reference to TicketMaster? If it is, you are probably unaware of how real scalping looks like - I've seen tickets with face value of $140 go for $1,000 - they would still be around $160 or so on TicketMaster.
Sandstorm.io (and similar decentralized app platforms) was literally made for when you have a niche little app you want to self-host, without all the effort of self-hosting that app. :) Probably a good example use case here.

That being said, it looks like it attempts to go peer to peer and only uses the server if it has to?
But Microsoft is saying that they wont push updates without user's consent.
Put another way, there doesn’t seem to be any apparent correlation between effort and success.
On his website I found this TED talk by Peter Diamandis where Hawking fulfils his dream of going to space on the zero-g aeroplane. He was 65 at the time.

They did several more parabolas than planned, 8-10 min of weightlessness each time. He loved it. Still images only, but it's great to see him out of his wheelchair and floating in space.

https://youtu.be/0VJqrlH9cdI
“I can also give lectures. I write the lecture beforehand then save it to disk. I can then use a part of the ACAT software called Lecture Manager to send it to the speech synthesiser a paragraph at a time. It works quite well and I can try out the lecture and polish it before I give it.”

Interesting!
Dana St. is more basic, open, casual, and old-school. Live music here and there (with loud salsa music bleeding over from next door otherwise).

Years ago, they were the first to have WiFi at all in downtown (except perhaps Printers Inc.'s upstairs cafe).
For one it uses a numbers of sensors:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208108
But also to generalize to makeup and occlusion and millions of faces you have to do much more. There are hundreds of papers on the subject.
Computers running critical medical equipment possibly shouldn't be attached to the internet, in which case they'll never see these updates.
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Google music is cheaper in India. And matches the songs available.
Yeah, I encounter this closed-minded opinion all the time... some of us just can’t live with a ‘might not work on Tuesday’ computer. I’ve purchased over 200 laptops with Windows 7 downgrade this year. I throw the windows 10 discs right in the trash. I imagine I am not alone.
We're considering the funding implications of uploading a consciousness to storage and retrieving it later. None of it is possible.
The particular topic I find interesting is whether or not they are trying to claim the license they're using can't be used by other software projects, which would be super weird. As if the license itself was the intellectual property they felt needed to be protected.
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> A serious YouTube competitor that doesn't demonetize content they find disagreeable would be very healthy, IMHO.

It's probably not YouTube demonitizing content that they personally find disagreeable. It's most likely advertisers that find it disagreeable that their ads show up next to objectionable content: advertisers don't control precisely which videos their ads show up next to - they just target them to certain types of content. So advertisers need to have confidence in Google's decisions that ad-enabled content is reasonably appropriate for them. Instead, advertisers will threaten to pull their ads from Google's platforms entirely if it doesn't self-police adequately in terms of deciding which content is allowed on the platform and ad-enabled.

That was really the controversy with Logan Paul. He had top-tier status with YouTube (Google Preferred) meaning that YouTube positioned his channel as suitable for advertising from the biggest, most risk-averse brands, and those brands flipped out about the potential of appearing before his suicide forest video. See https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/youtube-changes-partne...

> In addition, YouTube said all videos in Google Preferred — representing the top 5% most-viewed channels — will be reviewed by human moderators before they’re monetized. YouTube also is rolling out a three-tiered “suitability system” for advertisers to select their level of comfort with content they’re buying ads against.

If advertisers were generally happy to have their content show up alongside any sort of videos, then YouTube might as well. There's another aspect of this which is YouTube kicking content off their platform that isn't even monetized at all, but that probably relates to the same problem again, where advertisers wouldn't want to monetize on a platform that's known for hosting objectionable content generally. (Porn sites don't tend to run a lot of mainstream ads, for example.)

Note that this description is intended to be a positive analysis of Google's probable behavior, not a normative defense of it. From a free speech perspective it's unfortunate that so many content policies are ultimately advertising-driven, but advertisers are the ones paying for most of the platform (with the exception of subscribers like to YouTube Red which are probably a minority of users).
Google Music doesn't have a desktop client (I know there's a third party one but it can't work around the limitations, e.g. offline sync etc.)
But he more or less assumes that you are stating an opinion on the company, rather than misrepresenting or downright inventing bad news.
I haven't played in a long time, but isn't MechJeb essentially this?
> The reporter who broke the story was so disheartened he killed himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb
Another option is Specialty's (the built-in typo always makes me cringe) on Ellis St by 101. It's more of a bakery/cafe. Symantec is down the street. Parking is a problem anytime around lunch. WiFi was a problem for months on end; I haven't tried it lately.

Trivia: when Moffett Field was still a thing, that 101 exit was known as Moffett South Gate.
There’s a VIM plug-in that lets you have the best of both worlds.
Corporations have more personhood - certainly more legal agency - than many people do.

Uploads aren’t even the biggest worry. If it turned out to be possible to upload analyse and upload personalities, it would also become possible to synthesize new personalities on demand to a required spec.

How much value does organic personality actually have?
I suspect many people would be very sad if you retired from the industry! Am pretty sure I would quit if sqlalchemy stopped being developed.
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In before or instead of Sagan possibly? I was not particularly aware of Sagan before the internet, whereas I imagine Hawking has been a household name in much of the world for decades?
Wow. In the Netherlands, intercity trains can go up to 135 km/h (83 mph), and they’ve successfully increased the frequency of these trains on some lines this year. Suffice to say with Dutch population density, the train network is also quite dense. Quite an achievement I think.
Gah, choke, barf.

Crowd-sourcing is not the right way to document a big complex software suite.

The right way is to use special software to compile or extract the documentation from the underlying source code. The documentation generator should be conceptually similar to a Jupyter Notebook or a Mathematica Computable Document.

Furthermore, the documentation generator should run actual code that throws an error if there's a mistake. For example, in this document:

https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-cli-user-guide/blob/master/do...

The CLI operations should be lifted from some other file, and that other file should get run as a test by a CI tool, so that when there's a change to the CLI, it's automatically flagged for correction.
Dammit, I'm increasing my monthly pledge. Vi Hart's work is too important for her to live like that.
I'm a university professor, and there's no way i can afford personally 1$/month per student. And definitely the school won't allow me the budget. "Use the lab computers", they'll say..
So I don't know how realistically someone can use repl.it for teaching, at least in public/higher education.
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> ell, we can’t really eat raw meat without getting sick and I don’t think raw meat is appetizing to many people. We’re kind of in a class of our own.

Few other animals have any kind of control over fire.

Steak tartare, raw eggs and sashimi are delicious.
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A man with truly inspiring perspectives... of the cosmos and of the self.

"In fact, my disability has been a help in a way, it has freed me from teaching or sitting on boring committees and given me more time to think and do research. Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap — it is all in the mind."
-Stephen Hawking
Did you take any dissociatives or psychedelics?
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I suspect that a good chunk of the crypto projects are simply money laundering fronts. Buy crypto with undocumented cash, create ICO, buy into it with your own undocumented crypto, and take the cash from the ICO as something the IRS believes you have the legitimate right to spend.

I have no proof of this, of course, but it's an obvious money laundering route. Costs are fairly minimal to generate a legitimate-sounding reason to have a bunch of crypto.
A friend of mine had been contracted to record a webcast with a few fairly important and wealthy businessmen. The company that contracted him provided him with some equipment, they set up some slides to appear in the background, and then their Windows 10 laptop suddenly rebooted on my friend.

They delayed the webcast for about two hours, hoping it would come back, but the laptop didn't finish in that time so they just had to go without. "Funny" thing is that it was his reputation that took the hit, not Microsoft's nor the contracting company's.
Europe may has that, with the GSM-R system. I remember reading of at least one minor accident that stayed minor because the driver to discover the landslide over the track at low speed passed the button, stopping the incoming faster train on the other track.

http://www.szdc.cz/en/pro-media/tiskove-zpravy/funkce-gsm-r-...
If anyone’s interested in buying it, I can attest that the book in question is a fantastic coffee table tome.

It’s very striking, reading the file in 2018, how various things which are basically political suppression and harassment are all lumped in under “national security” by FBI men writing reports at type writers.

I have no idea why, but I assumed this kind of thing would at least have a different euphemism!
Discussed earlier here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16582022
Does anyone know a bit more about the pricing? All I can find online is Google learning infrastructure cost.
He absolutely was. Personally I think one of the saddest things about this is that Susskind has lost his greatest (friendly) intellectual rival. Those two spending years arguing with each other over the information paradox was absolutely fantastic. (And personally I’ve always felt that Hawking was the perfect counter weight to how strongly opinionated Susskind is)
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Why was this flagged?
While the title is clickbaity, this seems to be a well-researched piece on the alleged AMD vulnerabilities.

By the way: There were also some very interesting pieces by Matt Levine on Bloomberg about the legal implications of independent short-selling "research groups" like Viceroy. If you can't show that they are acting in bad faith, it is apparently not illegal to publish biased "research" to move the stock down.

Edit: Ok, just saw that there were already other threads about this topic. However this article adds some additional research and statements from industry insiders, probably it would make sense to just change the title.
>> I thought he’d live forever...

In one of his universes, he does.
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>Wow. A lot of sites are going to get owned.

Why would you say such a thing?

Tens of millions of certificates have been provisioned using the ACME protocol without issue.

There’s a lot of cryptography behind the scenes that leads up to the TXT record being generated. You can read all about it at https://github.com/ietf-wg-acme/acme/blob/master/draft-ietf-...
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> “And there is a much larger humanitarian aspect to the whole thing. Right now, when a generation of people die, we lose all their collective wisdom. You can transmit knowledge to the next generation, but it’s harder to transmit wisdom, which is learned. Your children have to learn from the same mistakes.”

Books?
Unfortunately these questions will keep haunting mankind ..always ..every time! Golden words by Hawking... May his soul Rest In Peace
Not really tech but I thought that was an interesting article about cultures that most people here don't necessarily know or understand well..
The 24h disclosure should not be too much of a problem, since they state:

> "we are letting the public know of these flaws but we are not putting out technical details and have no intention of putting out technical details, ever"

It's always a risk, because now people know where to look to recreate it themselves, it's not like this is a full-disclosure release where you're SOL as a manufacturer and have to race rampant public exploitation.
MechJeb is a mod. Imagine how many play it on original build, or on consoles.

The same could be said about the Kerbal Engineer, which shows useful stats (dV, altitude, periapsis, apoapsis, etc).
It is akin to not getting your kid vaccinated based on rights to freedom. Your freedom ends where mine begins. And if your botnet infused Windows PC is going to fuck up my network, I'd say either get off the internet or get your Windows patched.
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I agree to this. In fact — product/market fit can be measured from the traffic by studying the user experience and frequency of visits. We just launched a product that can do this:

https://volument.com/product-market-fit
Yeah I know what you mean. The "sweet spot" on some synths. Just don't know how to pose that as a supervised learning problem, or what it would do (limit the range of parameters?) I'm not sure the amount of parameters in normal substractive synth+filter+mod architecture is large enough for very interesting results that you couldn't achieve otherwise, or how you would generate a training set that can produce meaningful mapping.

I also think wavenet sample by sample generation and interpolation between latent features doesn't sound that exciting, as cool as it technically is.

We'll find some place to use machine learning in music/audio eventually :) I think perhaps more natural sounding pitch shifting could be one area (since you could learn the structure of sound of different instruments at various pitches), reverb removal, denoising, polyphonic audio to midi - things like that, where you have obvious training data.
Communists had a very good way to keep sexualization from happening: force a unisex dress code and haircut to everyone and forbid all forms of make up, perfumes and other tools used for attraction.

If workplace sexualization and romance is a big issue, there is no reason to not follow something similar.

Women seem to want to use their sexuality to gain favors, while at the same time expecting not to be sexualized when they don't want to. You can't have it both ways.
If one person is free to get around it, that person can help other people get around it. That's why there's four software freedoms, not one or two.

With w10 there really isn't much of a real choice.

[ed: https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/basics/4freedoms.en.html ]
This is pretty major and can go right in your exploiter's toolbag for privilege escalation scenarios.
This is also a business model: short the stock, issue "research" that put the company in a bad light, cash out--if lucky.

Shorting on the other hand is quite legitimate and so is pointing out you opinions.
Concerning the difference between our definitions of measurement, I was referring to the prior probability of making a measurement given the true state, which is P(z|x), or, if you prefer, f(z,x) = P(Z=z|X=x). This PDF is Normal(Hx, R). The distribution you refer to is that of the image of the true state in measurement space (Hx), which is Normal(z, R).

Concerning the general question of dimensionality and numbers vs. functions, I'm afraid I still don't understand the fundamental issue. I agree that probability notation isn't the best, but each of those terms can be replaced with a Gaussian (or in the case of the denominator, an integral of the product of two Gaussians). You end up with a function in terms of x_k and the sequence of z's. You can then choose which variables are free or bound and evaluate the function as your application requires. If all variables are bound (the case that you know the measurement z_k, and are evaluating the posterior probability of the state at a given point), all the terms are numbers (yes, densities), and there are no dimensional issues. If you leave x_k free, you end up with two functions in the numerator, and a number in the denominator. Those two functions are Mahalanobis distances (which are scalars) in an exponent, and again, no dimensional issues. In general, such operations with PDFs represent various combinations and manipulations of event spaces that need not be commensurate. Computing the PDF of a coin flip given the distribution of all of the positions and velocities of the molecules of air through which the coin flies requires comparing a two-state PMF to a virtually infinite dimensional PDF. Notationally speaking, no problem.
SVLUG meets at Cavium in San Jose nowadays, although they used to meet at the Symantec cafe space for years.
Thanks, I tried to focus on the small bits as well as the big ones. I hope it pays off.
How sporadically did you use ritalin? I think there's a risk of developing dopamine sensitization with infrequent use.
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If it's a little fake, maybe AMD can sue them. If it's a major issue, the Govt will jump in.
The article talks about lighting, and the different features visible with normal light (the text), raking light (folds and holes in the paper), and transmitted light (watermarks).

I have a tangentially-related question, regarding the books I've digitised myself with a phone camera and natural daylight. Are there tools that can detect the spine in the middle, de-skew the image, adjust discolouration, detect text, and OCR? I think it would be a good task for machine learning.

I'd also like to run those image manipulation routines separately, because the text is mixed Chinese-English, so the OCR step is non-trivial.
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Microsoft already provide a completely different version of Windows 10 that can be used for critical systems - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/w...
These systems would almost certainly not be downloading Windows Updates directly over the internet.
Maybe click the big button that says "Try LonelyPage now!" ?
Otherwise I'm afraid it's scam, you got me.
I'm pretty sure this is not a "political" decision, but just a recommendation their lawyers suggested to avoid being dragged into the (unavoidable) litigations that will spring up now that people wake up and realize they have been scammed. Google doesn't want to be nowhere near when the shit hits the fan.
It would be happy if they had anybody of who has some semblance of an aircraft design engineer background.

Their first try: zee aero made a barely flyable contraption that was nuked by American FAA, and rightfully so.

http://wap.business-standard.com/article-amp/international/l...

This time, I don't see this being much better. My early childhood aspiration was aeronautics. I believe as somebody who built a semiflyable motoglider as a 15 years old in 2006, I can comment on technical soundness of this. Biggest red flag in the design are fans in front of the wing. Turbulence from them will be randomly stalling the wing, and most likely asymmetrically - which leads to a corkscrewing risk, especially with that huge elevator.
Since version 2.0, Apollo Client no longer uses Redux. A large application I am currently working on uses both Redux and Apollo. They are two tools that serve different purposes, Apollo just happens to have built-in state management, an important feature that provides the ability to compose components directly from query HOC's and their children from their fragments. That said, these components inherit their state from Apollo, but many of them also share overall state with Redux. As far as creating and deleting data, I'm assuming you're referring to updating Apollo's cache, primarily collections? My mutation payloads provide the fields necessary to update the cache in a way similar to a re-fetch. When you perform a re-fetch, you're simply updating the cache, so why not just do it in one query -- as the result of your mutation. For example, let's say I have a query that provides a collection and I call a mutation that adds or removes an element. The mutation payload fields will simply re-query that collection, and once Apollo sees that response, it will update its cache accordingly. Apollo's API also provides some very nice methods for fine grain control over its cache. Another important feature that helps update your cache upon change are subscriptions, which of course have plenty of other benefits.
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Not my first introduction to him, but it was great to see him there. Despite being soft sci-fi, Star Trek - TNG in particular - was always a show about wonders of science at heart.

Incidentally, Stephen Hawking was the only person to play himself in Star Trek.
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His book, A Bried History of Time have made a huge impact among people like me to fall in love with Physics.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16582619.
Thanks, that's some good advice, I definitely believe in finding niche groups as well. Often, it's not the ones you think of initially.