skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit OT:

What's up with the animated drawing on your front page of an alien poorly disguised as a human female at a picnic using voice to control her music player? It's kind of distracting--I keep staring at it instead of reading the site.

I infer that she's an alien for three reasons.

First, her head is on backwards compared to human heads.

Second, she appears to have only one upper arm, attached to her left shoulder, which forks at the elbow into two lower arms, one of which is going behind her back over to her right side. The forearms are also about twice as long as human forearms.

Third, the neck is way longer than human necks, but quite consistent with many the aliens some people have claimed to have seen.

Seriously...is this some recognized art style? I don't know much about art, but I do recall that around the late 19th/early 20th century there were some prominent artists and styles that took big liberties with human anatomy.

It's well drawn sufficiently (as are the other drawings on your site) that it gives the impression that the artist is referencing something known.
Well the second part of amelius's question asked about speech recognition.
Oh, I'm certainly under no impression that nicotine might not have any health benefits, but with various inconclusive research it's hard to assess the complete picture and net effect. I think it's partly this way because nicotine has been studied quite little disconnected from tobacco research. (It is my understanding that there is indeed no conclusive evidence of nicotine being greatly harmful to health, and I do use nicotine products myself.)
Is "remote" for US/Canada only?
Vaping isn't tobacco, though.
Try an XPS15.
What is the benefit to Google/CloudFlare of providing free DNS resolution? Why do they offer it?
If the Chinese have compromising information, the NSA and/or CIA probably has the same and more. I think it's unlikely that we don't "know" about it, in fact could be using it as a way to turn compromised individuals into double agents.
> Am I the only one that dislikes ArgumentExceptions - especially if I'm consuming a library (without source.) IMO - exceptions should be for exceptional situations, not invalid input handling.

Diving by 0 should yield exception for instance. Why not null? or odd when even numbers are expected? ...

I think the problem with all this is that you really want a type system that can do most of the validation job not at runtime, but at compile time.

Often OO languages force developers into some weird patterns (ex: value object) in order to mimic functional or algebraic types, at run time.

Contract programming with static predicates can help as well, I don't know if C# supports this.
Most successful languages were initially created for a very specific target. C -> UNIX OS. C++ -> network simulations. PHP -> Rasmus's homepage. JS -> interactive web pages. C# -> WinForms apps.

From scrolling through that list of prototypes, which are all over the place, it looks like they couldn't decide what language to make because they didn't know what they were making it for. I think there's a real lesson here in being specific with your product at first and then generalizing later. It's very hard to be all things to all people from day one.
I think it’s reasonable to expect users of self-assembled drone batteries to be aware of and careful about those batteries. These batteries are intended for RC hobbyists, and are likely to be subjected to physical abuse. I’m talking about the battery packs covered in thin plastic wrap with no integrated protection circuitry, like this: http://www.rapidrcmodels.com/turnigy-5000mah-2s-20c-lipo-pac...

But batteries in consumer products, like laptops and ready-to-fly drones, should be protected both physically (with a harder plastic case) and with integrated charging circuitry. That seems to be the case with consumer drone batteries, like the DJI Phantom: https://m.dji.com/product/phantom-3-intelligent-flight-batte...
Abstinence does little to help the masses who are still using it. We need good regulation and laws to make it decent, not just abandon our friends and family on it who may not be as aware of the perils
And they've already made advantage of that, with the move from A32 to A64.
False! SNAP has been explicitly excluded from the S&P500 index for exactly this reason[0]. I'm not sure if "whole market" passive funds would include it or not. At the very least VTI has 0.03% of assets in SNAP[1]. Not much to worry about.

0 - https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-snap-s-p-idUKKBN1AH2RV

1 - https://www.etfchannel.com/symbol/snap/
There are more protections for investors than for employees in options. Investors are also provided considerably more information. And they sue regularly.

Employees getting screwed can be perfectly legal. So yes, I agree it has regulations, and it has them slanted. IF employees could re-sell their stocks in the open market, then employees could protect themselves from all of these.

So instead, they get lottery tickets with their name on it, with unclear terms and information obscurity.

In any case, the argument against is very simple. Who wants to pay the sec for the sec to make it impossible for you to do something. The sec could just as easily say "sec compliant" as a bonus for enterprises, and those that arent, arent. Those who care about not getting fleeced, will go get legally fleeced by sec compliant companies, and those that dont care, wont.
Yes, but what if it correlates with a decrease in cigarette smoking from 15% to 11%?

Sure, there's been an explosion in vaping, but no change to overall nicotine consumption.
> I fail to see how that makes it any better

Lotteries are not run, nor marketed, as investments. Some people mistakenly think of them as such. They predictably lose money.

Because of private lotteries' histories with fraud, almost every modern nation has the state run (or heavily regulate) lotteries.
Every time this comes up I mention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Lib...

Perhaps in a decade or so's time someone in Facebook will be called before an international criminal tribunal for what's happened there. Perhaps not. There's a bit of a case backlog.
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I'm going to pick on your post a little:

Why would you assume a security researcher who put in that much effort and kept the pastebin mostly anonymous didn't put in the effort to contact Panera Bread?

Is there a reason you automatically assume that the security researcher is irresponsible, but companies, who almost daily, have data breaches, are responsible in these scenarios?

"Hey, maybe you should contact the company?!" Thank you captain fucking obvious.
Isn't wireless hardware in general more like a IP/Patenting/Licensing issue?
On top of that, you have Trump tweeting negatively about Amazon.

This pushed AMZN down for a third session now, snowballing with it a lot of others.

He basically brought down the economy he is responsible for.
People who own the roads and collect tolls?
How granular is the location data you share, on the scale from postcode to lat/lon?
Apple is in a much different state now. Making your own chip requires significant resources, and before they didn't have the leverage nor talent to get the chips they wanted built. Now, they have a trillion dollar product (iPhone) and a mature chip development team that many consider the best in the industry, and they can throw tons of money at the problem.

The benefit of running the same chips as everyone else was about leveraging the investment of other products into the Intel architecture. Now they're doing that, just with their own chips.
Maybe AGI is just a problem of computation power and complexity.

Can infinite monkeys write a brain?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
>Paying directly for a product that you're going to use creates a beautiful alignment of interests. Even Microsoft wasn't as beautifully aligned as Apple was/is because Windows was sold to CIOs and IT departments and not the person who was going to actually use it.

Depends on what outcome you want. Buying Apple/MS products - your money simply goes into some executives pocket or in a pile of cash promoting an even greater concentration of wealth. While that is in the interest of Apple, its not really in my interest as a consumer. I want as little of my money as possible to go into a pile of cash, and the maximum possible to the actual cost of the good.
Their own ARM or x86?
Does anyone actually find this surprising? It's fairly normal to send user data to third party analytics providers. If you want to know which, check your terms of service.
You do realize Exynos and the Apple A-series are both ARM processors. They didn’t “borrow” ideas from ARM, they licensed the IP and are fundamentally just better implementations of the base line IP with a few things added on.
The user may want the battery charged asap but the intelligent charger might decide that now isn't the time for that and really annoy you. If the battery requires complicated charging and discharging schedule, like old ones that had to be discharged before charging, or periodically, then this has to be controlled by the user because you won't want to wake up one morning and find your charger has intelligently flattened the battery for you, or failed to charge it because it's time to let it drain all the way down.
seems like a feature
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It’s old. I think 2011.

Just replaced the battery with one from ifixit
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Why is this a blackmail goldmine? I am ignorant of Grindr, but what I have heard it is basically Tinder but for gay men. Would Tinder be blackmail data? It's hook ups and relationships, dating, etc, no?
I have never seen any other reaction, the few times I‘ve actually reported posts.

They even soften it with something along the lines of „you were right to report it, but...“
There are plenty of things that Facebook can definitely get rid of seemingly every time: spam (advertising you've not paid for), female nipples (breastfeeding controversy passim), competing social networks ( https://www.wired.com/2015/11/facebook-banning-tsu-rival-soc... ) and so on.

Hate speech is just not a priority in the way spam is.
The whole thing was an exploration into the unknown. It was a discovery process.
Well, I was once hired to follow the Tang Dynasty travelogue of a buddhist monk who visited China from Japan in search of scriptures, and recorded his travels in a colloquial period Chinese diary. You can read about him[0] and the journey.[1] Some things that come to mind are temples still standing in the same area with the same name (though no doubt rebuilt), people still raising ducks on the same river bend mentioned 1000 years ago, and the same cities and towns with the same water features, mountains, and weather and the same seasons, surrounded by fields of the same crops (eg. mulberries for silkworms).

Entirely separately I have been translating another Tang Dynasty historical text[2] on Wikisource[3] and have visited and seen many of the mentioned places and cultural features: geography, people playing music on leaves or flutes, certain kinds of attire, flora and fauna, surviving remnants of period built and cultural environment such as Sanskrit carved stelae, recovered tomb ware, endemic foods and festivals, caves, neolithic paintings, etc.

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There is an open possibility that cash will flood into BTC/ETH as a store of value in a highly volatile S&P market, replacing traditional reservoirs (eg: Japanese/other international equities, precious metals, etc).
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Sign up for the frequent renter program and it fixes all of these problems. When I rent with Budget with their FasTracks program, I either just pick the car I want off the lot and they bill appropriately when I leave the lot, or if I've chosen my vehicle ahead of time, I check a screen that tells me what spot to go to to find it and drive away. No lines, no giving them information at a ticket counter, they have all of it already.
I am a software developer, and I detest working on my mac laptop. At $lastjob I had a Linux desktop and it is, I believe, the most productive environment I have ever developed in. The job before, I had a windows desktop, and I prefer that to mac.

You say you want to just "get things done expediently," but in my experience apple software is flat out inferior and OSX is the worst of the 3 major operating systems I have to choose from.

Lastly, what does Apple have to gain by switching away from Intel? Not much, at least, not much that benefits me as a customer. Likely they are interested in making their laptops have more in common with their iOS devices, which does little to nothing for me. Apple's behavior towards OSX and macbooks in the past few years should be of great concern for anyone, especially if you actually like the devices.
It's a lot easier to fix though: make minimum ticket prices higher. At $20 or $100 each, there is more sticker-shock friction to prevent overspending on lottery tickets.
Or rather, rebuild runc from scratch.

These days, Docker isn't really "about" the running of containers (all the logic for which is encapsulated outside of the Docker project itself, in runc.) Docker—the thing that Docker Inc produces—is the tooling that gets container images fed into a daemonized instance of runc.

So: the Docker Registry daemon (the thing you can push/pull images to/from, such as runs on Docker Hub); the `Dockerfile` format, and the build logic that uses it, and the CI bots that use that build logic; the local daemon that holds a mini-registry that builds and pulls write to; and the tooling to move and create and dump images between all those places.

If there's a tutorial that replicates that stuff, I'd love to read it.
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There was a post on here recently that said Apple was interesting in making their own displays.
In what field is that? I've never seen this happen, nor would I want to be on any paper I merely reviewed.
Assuming that Apple has the good sense to ditch the touchbar, absolutely.
I never mentioned acute radiation poisoning.

You are willfully ignoring the fact that all forms of energy pose hazards, and that the hazards posed by other forms of energy are vastly higher, usually several orders of magnitude.

And you are reacting emotionally, "oh my god, nuclear horrible bad", rather than looking at the numbers rationally. If you look at the numbers, nuclear energy is incredibly, almost comically safer than any other form of power, including rooftop solar. Yet the public perception is exactly the opposite.

The evacuation of the entire prefecture was almost certainly an overreaction, due to exactly the incredible over-weighing of the dangers of radiation. Yes, radiation is dangerous, but not that dangerous, and the main negative health effects (and deaths) were from the evacuation!

Look at the WHO reports on Chernobyl. They published a report every ten years after the accident, and in each report they dramatically lowered their estimates of deaths due to radiation effects, and in each report the negative health effects of the evacuation became more clear.

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself". -- FDR. With nuclear power, the fear of radiation is currently a much greater threat than the actual radiation itself.
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Man I love that bubble you live in ;)

You can run win10 on a 15 year old laptop if you want. Hardware and software compatibility has always been MS strength, something nobody can even come close to.
Is sniffing and accessing an API that requires no credentials really prosecutable for "hacking"?

Anyone can download a MITM proxy on their phone and replay HTTP/HTTPS calls.
Some older kernels still have support via LTS
It's the same dynamics as elsewhere in the world, just more clearly visible due to extreme effects. Social media brings the fringe that had no platform before and unites them to the extent they are able to effect change. From policy change to outright genocide.

Traditional journalism/media always get a ton of criticism, but for all it's flaws they at least strived to have basic standards (fact checking, neutral language) and do their best try of objectivity. With the media circumvented this decade, the crazy grandpas of the world united.
These aren‘t isolated incidents. I have yet to report a post they find to cross the line. And I only report extreme cases, maybe two or three posts per year.
You're saying that Old Testament has "a strong, well-defined internal logic"? If so maybe you could do some more reading. I don't think e.g. Genesis and Job fit together at all... how about Deuteronomy and Ecclesiastes?
I've been out of the edu game for a while now. I want to say it was the Map Testing system. The school district was using a web based system (something lightning? I can't remember) previously, but the state was mandating the use of MAP instead. The state didn't give the schools any options or much time to prepare for it either. The school district had 70+ schools. I spent a summer fixing / getting that stuff working. (still more fun than iPad deployments)

The app wasn't a universal binary at the time. Which would be fine if the PPC version worked with the PPC machines, and Intel worked with the Intel machines. haha.

*Edit
The windows version did usually work without issues. The OS X version eventually worked once they redid the whole application.
Generally I think we call that "clickbait," no? :)

Headlines like that make some people less likely to actually read the article, especially on HN.
You can't easily share media between the Apple ecosystem and others. You can't access some Apple services at all from Linux.

There's no way to run userscripts/WebExtensions on IOS. Your device is no longer a user-focused tool to access media, your browser is closer to being a "smart tv" than a customize-able information explorer and augmenter essentially controlled by no one.

You're giving up an awful lot for the sake of convenience, trends that if amplified could irrevocably change the character of the Internet for the worse.

I also don't get what's missing from a modern Linux desktop, especially since nearly everything is on the web these days.
This article seems really wishy-washy and confusing. What is actually being proposed?

A set of standards that automated algorithms should adhere to? What kind of standards are we talking about?

A new branch of philosophy that talks about the actions of automated algorithms? What would be the point? How do you actually turn that into something that progresses, and that people will act on?

More ethics classes in universities for CS students? How do you differentiate this from what's already happening? Is it just broader?

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To try to steelman this a bit, I figure there are two issues at play.

The first is making sure that AI is working in the way we designed it to; it's free of biases, it doesn't endanger people, it adheres to laws. We're doing horifficially on this metric when it comes to long-term superhuman AI alignment stuff, but most people are talking about next-decade issues. Those are raw technical issues, and though we're still working on robustness and detecting biases I really cannot see much need for external guidance outside of the natural technical progress that the field is already heavily invested in. These are problems we want to solve already.

The second issue is use of these technologies as tools. This is where we talk about how large companies' algorithms affect public perception, or how automated militaries affects warfare, or how self-driving cars are litigated. These are not AI problems, they're social problems. Yes, the technology behind those examples looks kind'a similar behind the scenes, but these are distinct social, legal and economic problems.

This is kind of like seeing the advent of electricity, predicting its effect on society, and asking for people to study "ethics of electricity".
I once reported a group named "Assassinate Donald Trump" and got a similar "doesn't violate their community standards" generic message.

I wonder what is the threshold for reports before an actual human looks at them, or what keywords will get Facebook's attention. Perhaps a bunch of people need to report simultaneously.
Long story short, it's actually happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT&T_data_breach