skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How.

Free Market good? Free Speech good?

So why can't I pay someone to help me spread the word about how good my product is?

> A bit like how we can and do have democracies while severely restricting political campaign funding.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. I do not believe any democracy has actually limited political campaign funding. There have been limits, but they have all had loopholes that have made them completely ineffective.

> Scientists provide information. They do not enforce anything

But, it's scientifically proven that if I only do business with science-based companies, that the products and services I get are better and safer. I therefore boycott all other businesses.

Then, scientists absolutely do enforce everything.

> And comparing who is best at making goods and services.

Actually, no, that's economics. And economics say the best solution is the free market. Not a body of decision makers. Because each person measures their own utility. People can provide evidence and opinions. But each person makes their own decisions.

There's no accounting for taste.

Which movie is scientifically proven to be the most enjoyable by people who like Quentin Tarantino movies, but hate Oliver Stone movies?

Oh, scientists hadn't even gotten to review Snatch yet. If only some advertiser enticed me into giving it a try, I would find out that my opinions change over time in unpredictable and unique ways, that no science board could ever predict.

> some people no longer deserve to live. (Other societies in history have sterilized people). Yes, of course we would want those decisions to be based on science

Science is a tool. Lies, damned lies, and statistics. Science is not humanistic, any more than Capitalism is. That's why science must be regulated. Otherwise, we'd be cloning people with no brains, so we can harvest their organs. We'd instantly kill everyone with an un-treatable infectious disease, because the good of the many outweigh the good of the few or the one. We'd set up a surveillance state to enforce our laws, because it's scientifically proved to be the best way to enforce laws.

Opinions and ethics are human factors you are not accounting for.
> Yes, but he's profoundly mentally ill.

He (seemingly) has, at least, borderline personality disorder and possibly NPD.

Please don't make armchair diagnoses of people like this. I think you need to seriously reconsider how appropriate it is to make cavalier declarations of another person's mental health in a public forum. Even if you were a clinically trained professional, making this assertion on a message board would be baseless speculation.

EDIT: I find the flippancy with which you're commenting in this entire subthread to be demeaning and inconsiderate. Please step back for a moment and understand that you're extrapolating speculative diagnoses from observations you have not made in a clinical setting. You're pontificating about someone's mental health despite the fact that you cannot possibly be informed about it.
Not quite. If you want to append or insert characters using blockwise visual mode in vim, it won't work with Ctrl-C. It will work with Ctrl-[ or Esc.
This may sound like a rather trite answer, but have you tried sharing your insight? I would be interested in the details and I'm sure others that have read this post would be too.

As for gaining the attention of the mathematical community, I can't really help you there.
I’m pretty technical, use a ton of keyboard shortcuts, and I’ve found it incredibly useful. Apps that take advantage of the touch bar have actually showed me new features in the applications I’m using. And I completely agree about this middle ground user who wants a solid computer, is above average technical, but not inclined to dig into the shortcuts of their system.
Weirdly, some of the best apps I still use are 32 bit only and long since abandoned. They're the ones that do their job without cloud nonsense or built-in advertising or some damn "pro" version that requires a yearly fee and the free version won't shut up about it.
To be fair, you still need to dry your butt though. Which is why my Japanese toilet has a dryer built-in.
It's better to work with instead of against our natures. There are certainly things that can stand improvement.
The best I can come up with is examples:

enum State {
UNINITIALIZED,
STARTING,
RUNNING,
SLEEPING,
STOPPING,
TERMINATED
};

struct Thread {
State state;
int32_t threadID;
MemoryMap * memoryMap;
LockTable * lockTable;
};

The memory layout of a Thread object is highly predictible: +0 state, +4 threadID, +8 memoryMap, +(12/16) lockTable

I can predict the symbol name for a function:

Thread *
createThread(void *stackArea)

I know that stackArea is going to be in RDI, and the resulting Thread* is going to be in EAX (or their well-specified equivalents on another platform)

switch (thread->state) {
case UNINITIALIZED:
case STARTING:
error("Not ready yet");
break;
case STARTED:
sleep(thread);
break;
case SLEEPING:
error("Already asleep");
break;
case STOPPING:
case TERMINATED:
error("Thread is terminating");
break;
default:
critical_error("The world is on fire");
break;
}

Given a compiled set of instructions, I can link the compiled instructions corresponding to the switch statement (like a jump table) back to the C code.

for(size_t i = 0; i < SOME_MAXIMUM; ++i) {
unsigned char const working_value = input1[i];
unsigned char const mask = ((unsigned char) -1) - (working_value >> 7);
output[i] = input2[i] &= mask;
}

I've probably screwed that up, and I don't claim that it's doing anything useful here, but assuming it was doing something useful, I would be able to identify the instruction associated with it, figure out if there was some deficiency present (like say, a conditional) and have a decent idea of how to fix it.

Rust, on the other hand, does a bunch of things that are (so far) opaque to me.

One example is passing a borrowed slice of something, and somehow, not just a pointer to the thing itself is getting passed, but also seemingly, potentially one or more boundary indices, as well as a lifetime (maybe?)

Another example is a match on the type of an object, clearly [on second thought, perhaps not] there's some run-time state being kept around along with the explicitly declared fields inside that object, what does that object look like in a memory dump?

As final example: generics, how and when do they get expanded into discrete functions? What do the symbols get named? How do I know if a generic expanion is likely going to overly prolific? Inlining and templates can do wonderous things for performance, but they can also drown it.

Anyway, hopefully that wasn't too overwhelming, or ranty. You asked nicely twice; I felt compelled to give you a real answer.
The reason Rome was so influential was its military. Ditto for the US.

Are you sure it's a good idea to become less influential on the world stage?
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Another Step Toward FPGAs in Supercomputing
Seagate had a cool project where each hard drive ran linux and they used the physical sas cable to run a 2.5 Gbit network (or two actually) per drive.

So you could use that as block storage for luster, hadoop, or similar and enable things like direct disk to disk copies.

Cool idea, seems unlikely to hit a reasonable price point though.
Similar things can be said about swastika, it's not a sign of solidarity with the people who were killing others during the war
Most of the restaurants around here the manager is literally just standing there watching to see what's happening. If they were to wait my table, I'd expect to get awesome service.
Please do, and publish as a real extension - I'd definitely use it
Halmos & Rudin.
The fundamentals of this idea are so shockingly hand-wavey, that I find this to be something of a hazard to Elon Musk’s reputation.

It’s far enough afield, that as blue sky projects go, this is farther away from us now, than cold fusion was in the 1980’s. Hint: we’re still not sure if cold fusion will arrive very soon.

It’s great to see caution in light of powerful technologies, but this blue sky concept is thrown into the mix as if to say “try anything to make it work” and in so doing, leaves the overall prophetic narrative in the realm of AI dominance as inexorable.

To hear this idea floating around is like saying:

So, let’s do something to our brain. Anything.
Sprinkle wires on it, and maybe those wires will
help. What’s in them? Who knows! But golly, anything
to gain an edge because the who knows!

But yeah, AI is already here to stay, and there’s no
controlling it, so just route around it.

There’s no plan here. Just add in the “make-brain-smart-wires” and pray. No one explains how we’ll be smarter, which is especially bothersome, given that we can’t quantify subjective experience, motivation and emotional reaction.

Are terrible people, criminals, dictators,and third world war lords getting these things too? Why will it make them do good? Why is it better to make an evil person more powerful than an artificial entity which we fear?
Thank you very much! I will check out both very soon. I'm interested in a lightweight portable ssh terminal eink device and this combination might just work for me
Soaring ‘SuperTowers’ Aim to Bring Mobile Broadband to Rural Areas
Ok, I understand a little better now. I still think this "legality" line of argument is a bit of a red herring and I'm not sure where the poster you responded to got his ideas about how things were "in earlier days" and what "was always the standard."

I think it's probably fair to say that Vietnam was an eye-opener that shook a lot of people's trust in the wisdom of our society's leadership in general. And that a segment of society nevertheless responded like Kissinger by doubling down and shaming the doubters.
Seems very plausible. Roads in my area are currently full of wide cracks and holes that appeared seemingly overnight, as happens every spring.
Highlights and audio from Zuckerberg’s emotional Q&A on scandals
In the same boat as you. Had the money ready to buy a maxed out mbp to replace my 2009 mbp. Ended up buying a maxed out 2013 model for $800 instead.
Startup Tackles Cloud Migration and Management Hassle
US Health Industry Putting Blockchain Through Its Paces
I wonder why solar thermal isn't considered as a partial solution -- in terms of providing power well after sunset, and thereby flattening out that evening peak.
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> The reason Rome was so influential was its military. Ditto for the US.

I think people often have that twisted. A lot of the U.S.'s expansion is cultural, not military. That is to say: people liked what they were doing, and became a fan. Think: music, movies, and to some extent, literature, and now you might add software and consumer electronics to that list.

And even when looking at Rome, can you imagine how much harder those repeated annexations would have been if the Roman culture wasn't respected?

I'd say that being capable at least of defending oneself, independently, from most individual powers and believable coalitions, creates a certain amount of stability.
>Personally, I would far rather spend 17 hours in a comfy, wide body aircraft than even 10 in a narrow missile.

Personally, I would rather spend 3-4 days in an airship with a bedroom and a bar and a view.. Not everyone is in a rush.
That is an interesting double standard, you rant about not supporting murderers and then use a tool which was created by the military for better communications during a war(aka murdering people)

Its not about logic its about principles, we already established that you are a hypocrite.
funfact: the sun is just as bright at dawn and dusk as midday (though, lateral atmosphere blocks more UV-B). The dip in the duck's back is because the angle of incidence changes.

Facing solar panels towards the sun throughout the day, to maintain the angle of incidence at the same as midday (i.e. 0°) flattens and lengthens the demand curve.

This sun-tracking is important, not to maximize power output, but for this effect on the demand curve, reducing storage and grid need.
It's dusty, but I can't throw it away.

Effective Perl Programming.*

A long time ago, when I was a college kid with tons of free time, I'd sit for hours at Borders* or Barnes & Noble and just read computer books. God bless those employees for never kicking a 20-something poor kid out who lived on free coffee refills, yet never bought books.

At the time, Perl was more significant. Something about its syntax made sense, even though nowadays I cringe at it. Though Python is worse, in a different way...

A decade later, and I still sometimes need to spit out the results of a bunch of commands, iterate through them with some regex, format it, etc. Perl became the internet's 'duct-tape' for a reason.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Perl-Programming-Idiomatic-...

[2] https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/borders-files-for-ba...
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I only want my ESC back, F-keys are not needed on macOS. They should have made the TouchBar smaller and kept ESC
As of now, yes.
If <evil country> has any leverage on your company (you have a business presence there, you travel there, or they have access to your assets) you’ll need to comply with their rules for the users living there.
10 years ago was 2008. You could buy a Hokuyo for under $3k back then.

Now depth cameras were a different story. SwissRanger was $10-15k, but were usurped by the sub-$200 Kinect just a few years later.
Hi, I wrote the article (although not the title). I highlighted this as an issue because MailChimp said it would allow cryptocurrency newsletters that weren't pumping ICOs to keep doing their thing, but didn't follow through on that — or at least hasn't yet.
I believe this is a High Sierra addition.
No problem, works now. Thanks!
As a former Googler, I know a lot of Googlers that feel exactly the same way. It would be interesting for someone who has deeply experienced both to weigh in.
> make sure people aren't having sex?

Or doing drugs.
Focus helps one make a great product (for example, domain-specific content and community). In time, we'll expand. If this strategy works, it can be an accelerant to almost all areas of research.

We're liberal with the definition of AI.
To me, it seems more recently that these larger negative stories tend to linger around. I think it's less related to malicious intent, and more, news websites attempting to capture more of the residual interest with a barrage of derivative articles (and succeeding).
How often are these running? I'm currently taking the Udacity Deep Learning nanodegree and have some ideas I want to try out once I'm done. Having credits to train and generate labeled samples would be really helpful.
As a professional curmudgeon, I have the same reaction to shiny graphics that I do to salesman I’m fancy suits: I’m not buying.

Charting data accurately is really really hard. On one team we had a guy who said charts are for asking questions, not making decisions, and I’ve found that to be a pretty safe default.
The paper discussed in that press release: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.04239
Bless a ca for ssh
C# etc. shipping a runtime is a current limitation of wasm and those ports to wasm. But in principle once wasm has GC support they can also compile to tiny binaries.

Not for everything, of course - if you use certain C#/Java/Kotlin features you'll need bundled runtime support. But if you avoid them, you don't.

For comparison, Rust can't emit tiny binaries if you use malloc/free, because it needs to bundle those. This is actually an area where Rust/C/C++ are at a disadvantage once wasm has GC, as GC will be "free" while malloc/free won't be, so many programs will be smaller as C#/Java/Kotlin rather than Rust/C/C++.
Open Source Dashboard Accelerator for Prometheus
Cynical and disingenuous.
Just because they work in vi as their text editor does not mean they do not run other software on the same laptop. There are fields of software development where performance of your development environment matters.
I don't want my stuff in the "cloud", I want it shared from my lawn. My own personal space to where people can access my stuff, that I share, and we can converse over whatever that is ... my own GDPR rules.
It turns off? I had no idea.

I'd been waiting for them to release this laptop, but ended up going with a lightly used Mid 2015 after Apple announced the specs and price. It was just a misfit for my needs especially after trying the keyboard. The powering-down of the TouchBar sounds like a horrible user experience.
Are you sure? I know that the NPGSQL DB driver works with CRDB. Data types, DDL, and supported features are a big part of EF Core providers though. I have not researched it yet but I was pretty sure the NPGSQL EF Core Provider implemetation was just for PG.
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I'm sure submerging it in water makes some difference, but I'm not sure it's really that big of a difference. The odor is there whether submerged or not because the odor doesn't just come from the "product" itself.

Considering the kind of odor we are talking about here, I just don't think the difference is really that huge because when it stinks it stinks, and it pretty much always stinks.

Tho, how to quantify odor sounds like an interesting question.
this is so incredibly badass
I think this extension has a very specific use case, particularly that you want to leak confidential information and you don't want it to trace back to you.

As others have mentioned, I could see this being used regularly by someone who plays Eve
Is having killing machines with no human in the loop a good idea? because that's the way this is going. We don't need Skynet to have a dystopian future.
>"One man was responsible for helping save tens of thousands of lives. Another man helped kill millions."

In the case of Fritz Haber, it's the same man who saved billions from hunger and killed millions by prolonging World War-I. Excellent article on the same - https://medium.com/the-mission/the-tragedy-of-fritz-haber-th...

Sometimes, the decision isn't clear as black & white; especially when you mix nationalism & patriotism into it.
Had two surface pros fail just out of warranty, if that’s the price of a tightly integrated device it’s too high for me. No more surface devices here.
Wait for it . . . "Quantum Blockchain" - Boom!
I didn't know that there are still people out there that program in Perl or Tcl??
It's a good question, you made me think about how rarely do I touch that upper row of buttons on my MBP. Mostly I'm in a web browser or in terminal & vim, so I never end up using the function keys at all. What a waste.
> Worth noting that the previous devs even started over with a psuedo-fork of Sails called Trails: https://github.com/trailsjs/trails

Correct. A core Sails team member (Travis Webb) left Sails and started a new project to try and fix the issues they saw with the project.

> Nope, none of the Sails core team are affiliated with that.

It's true that no one currently on the Sails core team is affiliated with Trails (as far as I'm aware), but that's not what was being claimed.
Boom is planning on using "off-the-shelf" medium-bypass turbofans, with proprietary intake and exhaust: https://boomsupersonic.com/airliner
People don't get discouraged if they don't connect their failures to those profiting. Compulsive gamblers just need a way to avoid making the connection. There is a stock that I used to follow that kept plummeting indefinitely - it would very frequently issue more stock, so you could (and did) always have the opportunity to lose 90% or more of your investment. But maybe once in several years, there was a spike in the stock price, so apparently people kept putting more money in hoping it would happen again and/or believing in endless rationalizations why the printing of stock was finally over. There are people out there who, even when it's really obvious they are being regularly and systematically fleeced, will continue to bet on the idea that it can't go on forever.
Native German who has lived in the U.S. for many decades here. I agree with you, tyingq.

Also, when I try to squat with my feet flat on the floor as shown in that video, I invariably fall over backwards.
Like a person with a newborn child doesn't know they want cheap diapers or something? What is this?
I've tried to get my head around the limited information out there on how much turbulence there is at various altitudes but I don't know enough about that area of physics to get a good sense of it. Do you have a citation for the "roaring convection currents" claim? Fast winds aren't necessarily a problem, its the derivatives that cause problems...
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> Not related to the TouchBar, but I don’t understand why Apple won’t improve on the Spaces feature. Why does it force me to use one space for an app.

I'm thinking I might be misunderstanding this part, but here's a few tips for you:

* Open Mission Control however you invoke it, top right corner there's a + button for adding a new Desktop. You can drag any windows you like into the new desktop or even force an entire app or multiple apps into that particular desktop.

* Hold down the fullscreen button in the title bar of any window, you'll have the option of dragging it to the left or the right. All the windows in the current desktop will go into expose on the other side and you can select one of them to take up the other half of the display. I use this for Mail and Calendar, or two browser windows, or sometimes a text window to take notes and whatever I'm reading on the other side.

Maybe I misunderstood you after all, but if I didn't, then I hope this helped.
Compare this to the cost of Hashicorp Vault. You might be surprised at the difference.
Why are diapers so expensive?
I have shit in public in a city jail holding tank in the US, , shat in a comunal toilet in rural China without dividers and wiped my ass with pine needles in the wilderness but by far the worst experience was when i wiped my ass with corn leaves in the corn fields when i was young. Boy did that sting.
What annoys me is that this esc capslock swapping option only shows up on macs with touch bar. If I should get used to it I need it on all of my machines.
It's also worth reflecting on your model of reality and color. RF wavelengths vary along a single dimension, the wavelength.
But we perceive red, green and blue. Sometimes we don't perceive the wavelength if it's outside our visual range, it never is mapped into the model, unless we lift it into visual range with sensors (IR) or dig into it through the analytical mind.
That's definitely one aspect to it. When I played CS:GO briefly, some of the players are just down right toxic. I don't know if it is because they deliberately want to hurt people or they just think it's perfectly fine kidding around like that, but I just stopped playing. Other games have that element to them too, but CS:GO just seemed to have a lot more of it.
Oh my, you weren't kidding:

On the last day of May in 2009, as night enveloped the airport in Rio de Janeiro, the 216 passengers waiting to board a flight to Paris could not have suspected that they would never see daylight again, or that many would sit strapped to their seats for another two years before being found dead in the darkness, 13,000 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. But that is what happened.

And I thought that name sounded familiar. William is the son of Wolfgang Langewiesche, author of one of the books that taught me how to fly: Stick and Rudder.

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