skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully they start offering a free tier soon (dev-type). Always nice to have, and by letting devs use it in personal projects, they often carry the API experience and preference to their jobs.
Ah...

So we have to buy new processors.
would be interesting to see what lyft does. spin? $8m raised, based in sf, founded by lyft exec and yc alum
Apple Is Now Fully-Powered by Renewable Energy
Fun fact - "DivX ;-)" was a cracked version of the Microsoft MPEG4 decoder which was originally restricted to only play in ASF containers and has nothing to do with DivX the company which came later.

For more history on this, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX#History
This is a classified satellite. There is also the very real possibility that it successfully launched, and both SpaceX and NG were paid to report that the satellite didn't make it to orbit.
Hospital diagnosis.
I believe [0] the biggest trick is to avoid most of the things you can do.

[0] http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/slide_design_programmers.html
The reason they deleted that blog post was because they were bought by Match.com
FlaskDash – a Flask-based app starter with style
Since the title is click-bait. The words are "Dress appropriately"
per sé, not "persay."
This is incredible. Using this, going from Linux to Zirkon is just a Kernel-switch away. Potentially they could replace small parts of the Linux-parts of Chrome OS slowly and iteratively with Fuchsia.
Really moving story for this Dmitry :), amazing to see the author go to all this work to find and document a great moment in life.

We're so busy with the horrible news coming out from around the world that we need this once in a while to remind us of our common humanity.
Actually, in the 70s Netherlands was very much a car-first country. The current cycling infrastructure is a very hard won victory, with thousands dead along the way [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o
It's dangerous to point lasers at airplanes because laser light doesn't decrease as 1-over-r-squared. Which means the human pilot can be temporarily blinded by the beam, even many miles from the source. It has nothing to do with diffraction.
"... a MITM can simply reset the connection until the client retries with SNI."

That doesnt happen when I fetch https://example.com without sending a servername in ClientHello.

For the majority of TLS-enabled websites on the internet, that does not happen. I get the page content just fine witout sending a servername in ClientHello.

But I should send the servername in ClientHello anyway?

This reasoning I am too stupid to understand.
Hopefully Uber starts attempting to optimize routes again, if anything they have gotten worse. and every driver I have chatted with seems to agree, most just use Google maps and ignore the directions from Uber.
mind elaborating?
Indeed, no one with a mind capable of grasping the foundations of AGI would take such an intellectually incompatible step of publishing the full details of how to construct it. Such an unaware mind would simply fall short long before gaining a glimpse of the underpinnings.

In the first moments of realization, one would more likely be scared into silence for some time. Upon gaining their bearings , they'd probably be drawn into even more silence and careful minded reflections on the implications and assessment on how to more publicly move forward. Thanks for the parallel framing in yet another powerful research field gone35.
I'd say a hybrid of reinforcement learning, meta-learning, neural net structure evolution, and Google's sparsely gated outrageously large neural nets (https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06538).

I have a new long essay on RL and meta-learning that addresses some of this coming out soon, keep an eye out!
Another recommendation I have is Life and Debt : https://vimeo.com/149178039

It explores the fallout of loan conditions given to the government of Jamaica. The main issue surrounded Jamaica's acceptance of a loan in the aftermath of an oil crisis. The loan conditions required the Jamaican government to not impose trade restrictions or tariffs on member countries of the World Bank. This meant America's subsidized grain and vegetables could be sold there at a fraction of the cost of production in Jamaica, and the whole process led to a collapse of Jamaica's agricultural industries.
cyrusshepard, I have 2 questions:

-How long did you suffer from gut problems, and what exactly wer the symptoms?

-How long did it take for the problem to resolve after you started taking the phages?
It's better than your strategy.
Do you think limiting research on recommender systems (or limiting access to such research) would help in this case?

What would be a solution to YouTube recommendation problem?
Servidor Debian 9 'Stretch'
Not general inflation. But these three are becoming big problems...

- Expensive health care. And no plan to fix it.

- Climbing college costs.

- High housing costs.
Having experienced the mess caused by dockless bikes in my city, Sydney, I wish we would ban them too.
I wonder what the contamination stats are for canned water, carton water and glass bottle water. I do drink a lot of carbonated lacroix.
What if we stop eating chicken and then they go extinct?

Would those who caused this by switching to lab grown meat feel bad about it?

And if they go extinct then is there any net benefit in we stopping to eat them?
These New Pharma Bros Are Wreaking Havoc on Prescription Drug Prices
Arthanari, I've noticed you're pushing this idea of artificial ingredients being added to the meat.

Genuine question, are you talking about certain lab grown meat products vs others? Look at this excerpt from a wired article [1]:
At Finless Foods, they take a bit of fish meat and filter it for a particular kind of cell, not so much stem cells but stem-like cells, what they’re calling progenitor cells. “We're looking for cells that have the ability to differentiate into different lineages,” says Selden. “So we're looking for cells that are stem enough.”

The idea is to trick these cells into thinking they’re still in their owner. So by feeding them nutrients like salts and sugars, Finless can get the cells to turn into muscles or fat or connective tissue. Think of it like sourdough yeast: Once you’ve got a starter strain, you can keep making a distinctive bread. “Once each of these companies has a cell line going,” says Selden, “they never have to go back to the initial animal.”

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/lab-grown-meat/
Absolutely. But imagine e.g. a mobile app that uses that API. That's a harder change to propagate. That's pure speculation though, as you said. We have no idea.
Correct, this was from an overenthusiastic user, someone we did not know and had no direct contact with.

At the time we weren't actually making money yet, and most of the contributions to Travis CI came from outside collaborators.

To add to the confusion, we did indeed have a bot in the early days that would comment on pull requests, but only if the repository was using Travis CI already (this has now been replaced by GitHub's status API). However, this was not the same bot account that kept opening unsolicited pull requests on random projects.
It's probably best to start defining what factors contribute to trolling of an online community.

What particular communities are more susceptible and why?

Let's first tackle the non-sybil form of trolling and think about individuals.

Consider the differences and similarities between a community like linked in vs say 4chan? These are as far apart on the spectrum of communities as I can currently think of. Is one of these communities more easily trolled or duped than the other? Why might that be?

I hypothesize a community like linkedin would be more difficult to troll as you must offer personal data or spoof personal data in order to be let into the community. Certainly this isn't impossible to circumvent, but requires a greater degree of commitment. This commitment is essentially a subconscious time value calculation as well as a calculation of social cost. The logical conclusion is that the social cost of being a troll on Linked in is difficult as there is a very real and immediately perceivable lost opportunity cost.

Let's take another example of online discourse and hold a single variable constant, identity.
Consider a discussion forum for a college course where students are asked to participate in discussion of class material learned from a physical lecture hall VS topical online discussion on a facebook group. Both groups are forced to offer up some form of personal identification. There is one difference between the groups and that is face to face interaction. My hypothesis is that the first group has a larger social cost tied to being a troll on the discussions and perceivable punishment from acting in bad faith vs facebook where the social costs can be diminished and mostly result in being unfriended. Even removing the possibility of lost tuition dollars as punishment (aka you attend free college) I would argue that the per capita rate of trolling would be diminished compared to facebook.

To summarize my hypothesis with in the original scope, if an individual does not perceive the social costs for their actions with in any community their propensity for becoming a bad actor should increase.
If you want a good alternative try xmpp. It is basically email but for chat. Completely free, open source, distributed. And, you can have as many as you want with no need for a phone number.
The tactic is sometimes called "Think of the children"

The Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
> Before anyone says Facebook's testimony is just fluff

Your reply addresses those (imaginary) people who might say that "FB changed nothing at all". Action being taken doesn't mean that Mark Zuckerberg's testimony isn't full of it.
You can make an argument that Texas is more liberal than New York.

In which state can a working class person afford a home?

Most "blue states" have major housing affordability problems. Given that economic equality is a major tenet of liberalism this should be considered a crisis and an embarrassment.
Upon purchasing On2, It was Google's intention to release a new codec every 18-24 months or so. That would mean hardware would never catch up. However, Google didn't keep that pace. VP8 came out in 2010 and VP9 was 2013. AV1 was just released now. I would estimate that high end hardware launching in 2020 will have hardware decoding support for AV1. If AV2 doesn't launch until at least 2022, we'll have 2 good years :).
Color is way more fascinating than I had previously thought.

A few years ago, i watched this pydata talk on designing colormaps for matplotlib that was pretty engrossing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU
How much more effective is this than HEVC/x265 (especially at 4K HDR) resolutions?
Traditional public key cryptography is inherently trustful. Either you're trusting a key because they physically gave it to you, or the key is downloaded from a trusted key server, or the key was signed by a trusted certificate authority, or you got the signing key from a server using HTTPS with a signed webserver certificate, etc.
That's a valid opinon but surely the same applies to roads, covered with heaps of scrap cars and car parts?
Exactly. And as a pedestrian, I expect to be having arguments with the people renting these bikes (I already have had a few, and they're still new in my city). They seem to think they can ride on the sidewalk, even though the street I've had the argument has a separate bike lane.
You can convince a non-zero number of people of pretty much anything.
Sure, double digits return per year on average... making money in the market with 6-7 digits account is easy, the challenge is to make similar returns with let’s say 100M+ account, but I am not there yet :-)
Would a lease allow military missions to land there? I'd assume the SL government would have final say in the type of missions allowed
Bike shares are great even if you have a great bicycling city. I myself am a Very Serious Cyclists, more than 200 miles per week, and I still use the bike share at least weekly. Just today I had to take my car to the shop, then I took a train to another place and there was a Lime Bike so I jumped on that and went to my destination. I have no idea why people complain about bike shares, dockless or docked.
I'm in Amsterdam, and it's really incredible what you can do when the entire city is bike friendly.

I don't want to leave in large part because of it actually.
The dockless jump bikes seemed to be locked to something. I think it's a requirement for riders to lock them after use, and so far, they haven't been cluttering SF.

Maybe that is the compromise. No docks, but have to be locked to some sort of normal bike rack to prevent clutter. The manufacturer / city isn't responsible for maintaining expensive dock infrastructure where company A cant use company B's docks, and apartments & businesses can create bike parking space in an adhoc manner, making the over all market more efficient.
That is awfully specific for a pseudonymous uncited post about a spy satellite. I don't think people should believe you.
The project is still underway, but I think decoding is more important than encoding, especially with live streams. Given a Twitch stream, for example, the encoding is only done by one peer while the decoding is done by thousands or (as of recent) millions.
That’s what optimal means.
At no point did I invoke "appeal to authority." Rather, we navigate a social space via shared points. If we are discussing literature in the English language, it is useful to know who Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Ernest Hemmingway are. Or if we are talking about Bollywood, it is useful to know who Aishwarya Rai or Akshay Kumar are. Or we discuss basketball, it is useful to know who Lebron James is. None of that involves an appeal to authority.
I do this often:

1) Go to pcpartpicker, pick Storage, sort by Price/GB:

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#sort=...

3TB (for $57.50)

2) Go to Google, look up number of people in the United States:

https://www.google.com/search?q=us+population

325.7 million

3) Divide

You can store 9.2 kilobytes for every single person in the United States, for just $57.50.

9.2 kilobytes is actually a pretty decent amount of data. For comparison, this is Chapter 40 of Pride and Prejudice, at 9kb:

http://www.kellynch.com/e-texts/Pride%20and%20Prejudice/Prid...

The complete works of Shakespeare fit into 5 MB.

To store the equivalent of the complete works of Shakespeare for every person in the US would cost: $31,222.50.

Heck, I know small businesses that could afford that, let alone the mega-corp media conglomerates.

How much data does Verizon store about me? Comcast? Target? Visa?
You could probably learn what minerals is in it, buy a boatload of it in bulk for $5 and live healthy and happy for the rest of your life.
This is some really good context, so you could basically treat receiving letters like getting a very slow text message. Do you have an article or source regarding the post frequency?
Mmmm incorrect. See: https://macos.telegram.org

Which clearly links source as: https://github.com/overtake/TelegramSwift

Nobody I know on OS X would use the Qt one as it feels really out of place... I guess if you cared about ricing out your desktop or something.
Most of that undeveloped land is undeveloped for a reason. The high quality locations (climate, natural resources, waterways) are already developed.

All else being equal, the majority of people prefer to have some space and privacy rather than being crammed into dense vertical developments.
How paint jobs can make sensors and autonomous cars safer
Counter-argument: encoding is the bottleneck in live-streaming
OK, so if you give me your wallet because I threaten to kill you with a gun (quickly, painlessly) that's not voluntary, but if you give me your wallet because I threaten to kill you by starving you to death (slowly, painfully) that is voluntary? That makes no sense to me.
C++ was pretty immature for a large project in 1996. It was first standardized in 1998.
It's probably true for prostitution ads in general, but Backpage in particular did make things more dangerous.

They applied filters to ads which made it harder for law enforcement to search for and find trafficed women; those filters were instant and permanent and so evidence was destroyed.

Backpage themselves claimed (in many of the lawsuits brought against them) that they were unable to take any action on ads for children who were being solf for sex because of the Communications Decency Act.

And people seem a bit confused by the offer: street work is obviously terribly risky. But small ad sex work is still very dangerous. The vast majority of people who sell sex do so to feed an addiction, or because they're being coercively controlled. This is not a willing exchange of a good for money.
I’d like give a shout out to the multiple free (mostly open source) eco-systems and frameworks for web development available nowadays.

The tooling is fantastic and getting better all the time.
Same with Google right?

"Old man yells at clouds."

- sums it up nicely.
Seems very unclear if you could "instruct" true AGI to do something.
Returning the bikes to a dock is a benefit to everyone else in the city.

A dock is always placed in a location agreed by the council. It’s guaranteed to not be in anyone’s way or a safety hazard.

Maybe the dockless users in your city are more conscious. In mine, they will happily leave their rentals blocking the footpath. I constantly need to stop my child’s pram and move the bike out of the way.

Dockless bikes are an appropriation of public spaces by private companies and need to stop.
I'll bite, Uber benefits from people dumping cars, maybe they see more available personal transport as helping with this?
Comment out and redeploy, fixing the other features is a lot less urgent issue.
I realize that space is big but those optical links also become susceptible to obstruction. This is not a problem with cables.
This made me realise how much I enjoyed and have missed the Daala blog updates :)

Any idea how many more articles are planned, so that can adjust my expectations a bit?
This is pretty neat, but I was hoping for something not mobile app dependent. Like a ZigBee or Z-Wave connected device. (My automation software currently runs Insteon only, though I've got the hardware to add ZigBee and Z-Wave and will someday get around to it.)

I don't have an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, so I pretty much immediately ended up outside of your market.

I love the idea of the wall dock for it, that I assume is magnetic.
However when you factor in their level of education, they're still making less than their white (male) peers.

>One small, predominantly white upper class that wields a disproportionate share of money, power, and political influence"

predominantly...

Stop to consider the number of Asians in the U.S., now take the number of Asians that have a higher than average income than Whites. Now take the number of Whites who earn the same average income or greater than our Asian subgroup. You're not convinced that the group of relatively above average income earners is going to be predominantly white?

You can look at the demographics in anything that you think qualifies people as upper class. Government, at the state or national level? Upper management at Fortune 500 companies? I mean pick anything and if you find any results that don't reflect predominantly white, and almost certainly predominantly white male I'll be shocked and pleasantly surprised that we've made that much progress.

Your point only undermines Temin's narrative if you blithely ignore all the other information.
Please don't use HN for political or national flamewar. It's destructive of what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you use the right plants, it probably won't be carcinogenic/non-biodegradable. ("Bio" being your insides)
I'm confused by this comment, I don't see how a neighborhood is "excluded". I live in Nob Hill and have seen the bikes plenty of times.

It's totally up to the user where they pick-up and drop-off the bike, unless I'm missing something here?

(another anecdote, I don't see any "official" city provided bike racks in those locations, perhaps that is what they are basing this on? You can lock them up to street signs perfectly fine though)
That's not possible. Anyone with a decent radar or telescope can track the satellite. There's nowhere to hide in orbit. We don't know what was in the satellite but we do know it isn't there any more.
You can swap Amazon for any company or individual large enough to hire an accountant. A good one is worth their weight in gold.
Displaying Outrage on Social Media Earns Currency (2016)
> It's the ideal job we're electing them to fulfill

But we don't elect ideal politicians, we elect real ones. There has never been any such thing as a political system where the "ideal job" actually existed, and I don't see any prospect of such a system ever existing. So the specifications of the "ideal job" are irrelevant; we need to look at the real jobs that real politicians actually do.
Does it work with non-Apple Bluetooth devices? The language on the "how it works" page seems surprisingly specific to Apple.

Also, does it connect with Sengled hubs?
Are you sharing a rumor/insider knowledge? Can I do this right now?
Confirmation by their CIO https://twitter.com/thking/status/983451306160545794
Iran unveils 83 achievements in nuclear technology
> What if we stop eating chicken and then they go extinct?

People keep chickens as pets.

Also eggs.
Strictly speaking, all we can say is that the optimal strategy used in my post is no worse than ballenf's. It's possible that ballenf's strategy is also optimal --- i.e. that they are equally good. :)
I really like articles like this because it allows you to get a great glimpse of a different mode of living. And it makes you realize that a comfortable life is still very possible even without extremely advanced technology.

A while ago in high school I wrote a paper about lifestyle changes as a result of technology, and one interesting observation was the idea that, after 19th century standardization of time, people started becoming more rigidly strict to appointment times and work hours. Sorry for not including more sources here, but I also recall a contemporary news article that bemoaned how standardized time was forcing people to become slaves to punctuality, adding an extra source of anxiety that was a hindrance to the modern human.

Nowadays, if you show up 30 minutes late to brunch, you might really annoy your good friends. But it seems that this behavior is actually a very recent phenomenon.
People Who Have “Too Many Interests” More Likely to Be Successful
Fish: Package Management for Linux, MacOS and Windows
Fantastic story! Thanks to the author for being willing to share it one more time.
> Not that we ever should have

You say that like people were making these bloaty apps for the good of humanity—trying to make them objectively perfect, but falling short. While FOSS is done with that mindset, FOSS isn’t usually where bloat comes from.

Bad engineering is usually the result of overriding business concerns: being first to market, iterating quicker than your competitors, having more reach on more platforms with less expense, etc. More features before feature polish, and user-visible polish before good architecture.

Even without Moore’s law, this incentive is still in place. It not just has a slight countervailing force of nobody wanting to run apps that take too many resources.

What that means in practice is that apps will still be as bloated as possible (or rather, with as little optimization done as possible) while still managing to not choke the machines they’re on.
I'm in Seattle as well, I have to disagree. Drivers here are mostly clueless. I know many who bike or ride motorcycles, and they have many stories to tell about the cluelessness of Seattle drivers. It's a dangerous city to ride a bike.
Common pitfalls of adopting a headless/API-first CMS