skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The bay area has plenty of Republicans.

There are even Bay Area towns that are majority Republican (Atherton, Hillsborough). If we are talking San Francisco, look at the recent organized opposition to marijuana dispensaries for evidence of conservative values in action.
I feel it is like reinventing executables, the dumb way.

We can compare that with ELF binaries or remote procedure calls when someone else maintains the OS and makes sure that the infrastructure scales. Actual not even executables, because it is still interpreted code, instead of being "compiled" it is packed and distributed with a spec much less precise than a typical platform. Just because someone has a machine ready to be deployed on and scale ad infinitum.

Am I the only one who finds that a dumb protocol for a remote call? Could someone point on which part is this a smart badass thing? Perhaps it is just a weird "renascence of Operating Systems"?

Edit: I still think that we got here because it was too much work to learn about pre-existing technology or hire an expert and it was more fashionable/easy/cool/sexy to kick ass and move on.

P.S. Sorry for this sudden rant
Is there a paper?
But we are (reminds me of black mirror...) entitled to having knowledge and memories. Corporate entities will start to claim that you cannot ask us to remove our memories (for example, identifying people in images).
https://www.google.com/maps/timeline
Genuine question: what functionality does this provide that e.g. Ansible doesn't?

With Ansible, one can put the SSH keys into a .yml file in a format that is very similar to the examples in the OP, then the authorized_key module can be used to ensure that the key is present (or absent) on the remote servers. It's really-really trivial.
Maybe the difference is that you can paste the SSH key into the CLI instead of a file... hm.
How did they not deserve the privilege? Did they not work for it?
What's wrong with Reddit?

If you're talking about the "default" config, then yes, it sucks.

But if you curate the subreddits you follow, you can end up with a news aggregator that is superior to HN...

Furthermore, the more specific the subreddit, the more in depth the discussions become.
as a workaround, if you get very polluted results on a particular Google search, you can add the search term "-site:pinterest.com" without quotation marks to your query, thereby narrowly excluding it.
If you're managing large amount of servers and don't want to update configs on the servers themselves then use e.g. OpenLDAP.
Ah ok, thanks, that makes sense.
On the version of Internet from the 90's?

Totally.

Could anything like that happen on the CommerceNet, post EME (Encrypted Media Extensions)? (Sept, 2017)

Hardly. (And your name is now on a list for suggesting something so subersive, citizen.)
My main concerns are how such tools may facilitate automated injustice, as well as providing the means for heavy-handed political/intellectual influence and control.
I’ve been astounded here today by the number of otherwise scientifically minded people who are seriously interested in homeopathic remedies. At the risk of running afoul of dang again, can I ask what is so attractive about trying to find medical purposes for scented oils when medical science has yet to prove any effect beyond pure placebo?

I lost all interest in the subject when Steve Jobs tried to use herbal remedies to cure cancer and, despite running the most profitable company in the world, died of an easily curable form of cancer. What is it that makes people so hesitant to believe medical science and so willing to believe an article on the Internet saying that lavender oil applied to the humors can cure diseases? I know so many people who forget that “essential” means “the essence/scent of” and not “required for life” and I’ve never been able to figure out why without them getting offended and shutting down.
Your assumptions about me are wrong.

It doesn't matter how the change manifests itself. People often dislike change, especially of communities they are familiar with.

Hence my point that it's not a problem with white people, but rather a condition of human beings. If a community of majority Latinos became subject to sudden white immigration, I'm sure there would be a certain amount of anxiety on the part of the original residents. I can understand and sympathize with these anxieties though.

Can you?
Some book merchant now operates half the worlds computing infrastructure. Who would have known? etc etc
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> Head of the Skunk Works was Clark "Kelly" Johnson? The Swedish engineer who designed SR71 BlackBird and who could "see through air"?

I believe most humans can see through air. Presumably the paraphrase was something more like "see air". ;)

As for Skunk Works, it chronicles Ben Rich's involvement in Skunk Works, which spanned 1954 - 1991. Initially as thermodynamist, later as director.

It's half about U-2, A-12 / SR-71, F-117 development, and half about how to create, nurture, and sustain a high-performance engineering culture on a budget.

Would definitely recommend.
This scam has been happening for a long time, long before there were web-based freelancing platforms. It only works because freelancers are willing to spend a lot of time answering questions for free. At some point, you have to tell the client, "You've received my proposal, and I'd be happy to answer more questions if you hire me."
As a system, Twitter is easy to "game", if your goal is to spread information.

It's trivial to boost the apparent "credibility" of a given account with followers, likes, and retweets.

There is essentially no barrier to exploiting these "commodities" with networks of bots artificially boosting these stats.

Soon, the synthesized noise from bot accounts drowns out the organic signal of genuine accounts.

Waves of content reverberate through the Twittersphere, into and from other channels like 4chan, Facebook and Instagram.
wow, so smart and talented looking in the back of the book for the answers to the lab :)
so smart and talented having access to capital, food and shelter when others don't :^)
That's a terrible idea.

> Tea tree oil is poisonous when taken internally.[1][4] It may cause drowsiness, confusion, hallucinations, coma, unsteadiness, weakness, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach upset, blood cell abnormalities, and severe rashes. It should be kept away from pets and children.[1] Tea tree oil should not be used in or around the mouth.[2][4] As a test of toxicity by oral intake, the median lethal dose (LD50) in rats is 1.9–2.4 ml/kg.[12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_tree_oil#Safety
Along with istockphoto and the majority of stock photo sites for deceptively using the word "free".
Didn't realize how close the UCs were to being essentially private universities these days. No wonder they're targeting higher percentages of out of state enrollments.
Do people actually fall for this?

I thought this is the whole reason to use the blue check mark, so you can immediately tell real Elon from bot Elon.

But there are weird celebrity bots too. Eg, I followed Adam Sandler, and within a few hours a couple Adam Sandler bots started following me. They just had retweets of Adam Sandler tweets, but also a few hundred followers. Makes me wonders who are the people that follow these back, maybe just other bots?
This isn't a case of ought or ought not to, it's just what happens. Society does indeed either approve or disapprove of certain technologies, not always before they are used. Say you develop ai to replace judges. Don't you think society needs to approve this before we replace human judges? What if someone trained the ai to give all non white people sentences 20% longer than white people? Society will, hopefully, balk at this idea and such a system will not be implemented or scrapped if it has been. If, on the other hand, they don't know the system is biased because its decisions are hidden from the public, it'll be a system that society might accept on false pretenses, leading to mass suffering. For technology that could potentially be used to oppress people, I think people have the right to know how it works and to ask for a human to verify or carry the actual task out. Otherwise it wouldn't be surprising that they would want to ban or severely restrict something so potentially harmful.
S3 supports reading ranges of bytes. It might not always be a great idea for performance.
Their culture isn't changing. They're still American, they're still white, they're still Christian, probably. The only change is their relative status amongst an already heterogeneous population, and the assumption that their point of view represents the "default" (and therefore most correct) American identity.
You're literally advocating non-empathy for a large group of people due to their heritage. You can't simply divide people into groups based on immutable characteristics and decide who does and does not deserve sympathy.

Punishing a person for perceived faults of their ancestors is a recipe for ethnic conflict and racism.
If you come with a google referrer you can still see the basic information of a profile.
> This is where I don't understand. If the data scientists don't know the why of the decision making and the software cannot explain itself then how do they understand that it is accurate?

They understand that by evaluating the model on a "test dataset" that is, hopefully, representative of the real-world. This does allow you can explain why a given model makes the decisions it makes - it only allows you to understand how well it performs on the data you feed it.

Using an inaccurate or biased model to detect assign credit ratings is indeed immoral. This is orthogonal to interpretability: you can have a model that is both inaccurate and interpretable (i.e. it's wrong and you can say why it's wrong); you can also have a model that is highly accurate but not interpretable (i.e. it works, but you cannot explain why).
> The open questions for philosophy are a function of our present limitations, and as those limitations are overcome, the space for philosophy shrinks. I don’t think it says much that’s good about a field of study for which the major criteria is untestability and immunity from definitive critique.

I'd agree that there are sections of the philsophic community that rely on that immunity. But other parts of the philosophy community perform an important role of teaching the philosophic foundations on which things like the scientific method are built. This is an important fight on which the effective practice of science itself depends.

Corporations and governments increasingly try to manipulate the scientific community for their own ends, giving rise to scientism. Consider stories like this: http://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e4737

Furthermore, philosophy teaches people how to think critically and how to express themselves accurately and unambiguously, to challenge the prevailing beliefs around them. I think philosophy is far from a pointless old field that needs to shut up shop. In fact, I think societies would benefit if more people studied philosophy and at a younger age.
I am totally with you... I think we are going backwards in technical choices just because some people had pain-points learning pre-existing technology or did not know how to deal with infrastructure. But if people pays for it, it is a market I guess.
Learn the Difference Between Real and Fake Machine Learning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heikegani
I apologize for being curt here but you haven't demonstrated enough background in computer architecture for me to continue the discussion in a worthwhile way. If you don't understand how nginx workers and varnish workers differ, we operate with different levels of understanding. "babble" is what knowledge sounds like when you've demonstrated to the world in this thread you have no idea how virtual memory works. Feel free to mail me if you think there is something left to debate or want book recommendations on memory management.
Fast-Pandas: Benchmark for different operations in pandas
So much for the Silvia I had been planning to get. Relatedly, I've been having trouble finding an under the counter water filtration system which does not involve putting the water into extensive contact with plastic. Maybe there just aren't enough people concerned about such things in order to affect the market. On the other hand, in-demand, easy & low cost to implement features such as built in PIDs have not made their way into mid-level machines as standard features, so maybe (baseless speculation incoming:) competing brands have an informal entente to add in improvements no faster than is absolutely necessary.
"The curve" - "Kurve" in German was my favorite learning German. Osram was close though :D
Stephen Hawking’s last paper may lead to proof of a multiverse
You could say the same about Twitter and Facebook.
Google didn't exist on the version of the Internet from most of the 90's. :)
Same could/should be said about Lyst when it comes to fashion.
Yeah, bad sarcasm skills on my part
Ask HN: Does anyone really use Groupon anymore?
Just curious! Forbes stated that Groupon was the fastest growing company($1 Bn Revenue) in the web history in 2008. I don't really find value in it honestly after 10 years!
They're providing negative value by stropping the context from stolen images and repackaging them into mindless streams and ensuring that you can't get to the images without signing up.
Notpron – The hardest riddle available on the internet
It's an understatement say that the development of critical thinking skills in US schools is lacking. For example, it's estimated that 1 out of 3 Americans believe that all life has existed in it's present form since the beginning of time.[1] Educating these people is difficult because they are trained by their parents and religious leaders to mistrust professors[2] and other experts from an early age. It's much easier to ban bots.

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/10/darwin-day/

[2] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/09/13/republicans-...
All of Henry Petroski's books are good. A couple that I'm particularly fond of are The Pencil and The Book on the Bookcase.
Also observed in foxes:

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

"Russian scientists achieved a population of domesticated foxes that are fundamentally different in temperament and behavior from their wild forebears. Some important changes in physiology and morphology became visible, such as mottled or spotted colored fur. Some scientists[citation needed] believe that these changes obtaining from selection for tameness are caused by lower adrenaline production in the new population..."
Putting aside the matter of competency for a moment (which I think is being too oversimplified in this discussion), this kinda touches on a positive feature of a free market. Which is that large organisations are by nature less efficient than smaller ones. This gives rise to the possibility of disruption and innovation. The ability to innovate quickly is generally what gives startups over well financed established players. If it weren't for this, then we would see antiquated businesses declining, and innovative startups rising from their ashes.
it s amazing how many people use it for so many different subjects. or are they paying people to tag images?
Yes, of course. However, if I'm not mistaken, each Mastodon server instance creates their own policies regarding what other servers can tweet to their users. So it would be trivial for any Mastodon server to "ban" Twitter users from posting in their instance.
> Let's say Google does remove Pinterest altogether, banning the site as a punishment for 'gaming' the system.

> What then?

Pinterest takes 2 days to write some code and start showing us the content that Google indexes and fixes the complaint. They start complying with the same rules that apply to us, get indexed properly, and everybody's happy.

It's not like Pinterest is set in stone and we can never change what it does.
I will add my anecdote. I am an American living in Thailand (many of them on HN from what I can tell). I have lived here for more than 10 years, speak Thai, have a family, etc. But I am definitely a foreigner and always will be. In fact, it is institutionalized by the Thai government that foreigners will be treated as such. For example, I pay 10 times the Thai price to enter a national park. And many, many private businesses take their cue from that policy and charge higher prices for anyone who does not look Thai. A constant reminder that you are a foreigner and always will be.
The Wikipedia article at least lists its sources, which for the article linked to included the American Cancer Society, National Institutes of Health, and European Commission Scientific Committee on Consumer Products. Those are authoritative enough for me.
Last time I checked, HIP didn’t support reading from textures.

That’s something that’s not only useful for pure graphics.

So it is (or was?) not a straight substitute for CUDA.
this is a 2yr old article..
Afrobeats made to Look Eaz
Not really all that funny though...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/16/silicon-v...

'“When you first get to Facebook you are shocked at the level of transparency. You are trusted with a lot of stuff you don’t need access to,” said Evans, adding that during his induction he was warned not to look at ex-partners’ Facebook accounts.'
You’ve confused homeopathy with herbalism/home remedies/supplementation. Homeopathy is basically “if weakened virii inoculate people against infection then surely weakened versions of toxins should do the same.” Herbs and supplements are, at best, whole plant medications. St Johns Wort is prescription only in other countries because it’s very effective against major depression and other things.

Some people go down this route for financial reasons. It is much cheaper for someone without insurance to treat things with OTC things than actually getting insurance while tackling a disease, disorder, or etc.

TLDR: Steve Jobs made a poor life choice. But that doesn’t make everyone not taking chemo or other cancer treatments an idiot. Those are typically prohibitively expensive treatments.
Hmmm, so a there's a broad suspicion that endocrine disruption is a widespread problem, and suddenly we see a dubious article provoking confusion, and possibly a lot of very costly research only to determine we might've been barking up the wrong tree?

This story sounds familiar... [0]

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2146171.stm
Do that for a couple of yours and then get back to us.

I saw an interesting quote recently: “Alone we go faster but together we get farther”.
I'm not going to claim to understand everything on that page (spanish taxes are complicated!), but nearly all autónomos pay the minimal amount payable, which is 275 euros/month. You can contribute more if you want to get more state pension, don't I don't believe many do.

Edit - it's 29.3% of the base mínima de autónomos - which is about 920 euros a month. Now, I honestly have no idea what that actually means, but it means you pay about 270 euros regardless of what you earn (it's a stupid system that benefits the well-off).
Searle is expecting you to reject the idea that the system understands Chinese, from your common sense intuition. In his view this conclusion is obvious.
1. This article is from 2016.

2. A story about a self-driving car being hit by a car that ran a red light is no more interesting than any other car being hit by a car that ran a red light. If the self-driving car ran a red light, that would be interesting.
You seem to be conflating homeopathy with herbal remedies. Two totally different things.

Homeopathy involves diluting things until you're left with nothing but a sugar pill.

Herbal remedies involve contact with actual ingredients that may or may not have useful properties.
If we accept the Ireland situation as a legal fiction, then the EU would see no revenue here anyway, so I don't see the EU as actually being cheated out of anything. EU firms domiciling in Ireland could reasonably be interpreted as hurting other EU members, but that's not really the case here.

This largely looks like an EU tariff on whatever they end up defining digital companies as, which will likely be defined in such a way to tax Google and Facebook, while avoiding taxing Spotify.
Follow the arrow: Hidden designs in famous logos
He should have included sarcasm tags I think.
The reason I asked the question was to see if anyone had had medical advice on the subject. My father was a printer in the days when lead type was used. Over a long period of time he accumulated lead within his body.

His doctor advised him to eat beetroot every day. Over a period of several months the amount of lead that had accumulated in his body was reduce to negligible amounts and he never had the problem again. Mind you, he still eats beetroot today and he is in his mid-eighties. He was in his mid-thirties when he started.

I was wondering if others had been advised by their doctors on this subject.
bing images or yandex images have less spam imho
He actually had a little club of three people, who discussed physics. However, I'm not sure of the time line, I think it was before his miracle year.

Explaining an idea to someone (rubber ducking) can help a lot. It may be that he had the hint of the ideas before, and spent a year working out the details, and writing them up.
I don't consider myself or my mother a person that would have gone to the Occupy events back then.

> things like "single payer", "gun control", and "social democracy"

You may be aware that many over here are interested in US politics and culture. It's a historical thing but it's also quite entertaining. I can say that I'm more interested and know more about what's going on in the US then in France or the Netherlands. At least most of the time. We are aware that those three things are being perceived differently by pretty much half of your population. This is nothing abstract here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik1y4ZNSjek
Everybody likes to pick these miraculous examples. Sure, Einstein worked alone. Did the people who expanded and industrialized his theories also worked alone?

I’d say solo genius, lone wolf kind of work is the minority of work. And it’s probably not enough to keep employed huge masses of people.
I still haven’t wrote any posts, I just finished website few days ago. But thanks for stopping by. :)
Same. I noticed after a while that I stopped upvoting questions when there was a prompt that reminded me.

Also noticed that my gold badge questions (the ones with really high views) weren't getting a lot of upvotes too. Once a question is prominent enough on Google, people just read the answer.
Arguably, suppressing someone's voice on the internet can qualify.
I'm 99% sure it was a joke, written in the style described in the article.
Extensive discussion a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16601470
Looks like the costs are being driven by offering generous compensation and retirement packages to government employees.

I don't see that changing.
"The CEO job is the most high pressure job in an organisation"

Oh please! What is the consequence of a CEO failing to perform up to expectation?

They get a golden parachute, take off with a mountain of cash and stock, and get rehired as a CEO of some other company. Once you reach that level you pretty much never have to worry about money or your job ever again, unless you're massively irresponsible with money or start committing crimes that can land you in jail.

Compare that with a typical worker whose entire family depends on them having a job, who's living paycheck to paycheck, and who is far from guaranteed to find another job if they're fired. They typically get absolutely nothing if they get fired, and if they don't find another job soon they and their family might be out on the street.

How's that for pressure?