skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your best friend in 2050 most likely won't be human at all.
> Only in the USA is it normal to think that people should have the right to kill in self defense.

Really? Your profile was created 15 minutes ago, and this seems like an absurd statement.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justifiable_homicide
AWS Secrets Manager – Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials Securely
From https://packages.debian.org/source/stable/beep you can download the tarball of the original sources, as well as the debian patch on top of it.
There's a few ways you can do this. The cheapest is to just get a laser and a photo diode. It's rough, but you can get sounds. An interferometer works better. It's harder to make and more expensive, but in the hobby range, at least to get decent quality. There's tons of videos and documents that you can find showing you how to make either. You can also do a lot of cool measurements with these setups
It now occurs to me: inject common proofreading mistakes that often go unnoticed.
So, war is still going to be a thing regardless of what position Google takes. Would you rather have less concerned engineers delivering a subpar product? Suppose because the technology is not as good, it misidentifies innocent civilians as targets. Is it "shameful" for Google to develop this software, or to cover their eyes and pretend this isn't happening to avoid bad PR?
I find Netflix doesn't recommend anything based on my behavior at all anymore. Now literally the first 5 or so rows of content on the home page is a random spattering of "originals". But they definitely do select the title image based on my past behavior. So not helpful
He means a disposable, anonymous mailbox that is subscribed to only the relevant sources.
What contribution are you talking about that is in the article? In the article, he talks about StarTrek and HAL5000. Anyone can do that talk, especially the posers. It’s typical zero-information PR article written by suit, written for suits. People in the field can intelligently talk about details of recent advances, exactly what techniques enabled them, what are the disadvantages, what can be realistically done etc. People in the field typically have written a paper or been part of at least failed experiments with technical contributions. He happened to be suit managing smart speaker project. That’s an administrative job and doesn’t count as being in the field, let alone “AI chief”.
That "consciousness" is limited to "people" results in a very limiting definition of consciousness. At some point, it's probably better to at least pretend that something you regard as a non-person is conscious, if only in order to make reasonably accurate predictions about the world.
AMD’s Zen Family Moves into the Long-Life Embedded Market
How is this Valve's fault? Valve lets pretty much anyone who's willing to pay a (small) up-front fee list their game on their store. If there aren't any good games for Linux, that's because nobody is developing them.
I don't see the dead post, though I've looked. I'm happy to hear the points.
Well there's a good balance. Running PhotoDNA [0] on every image sent is a pretty good practice. Raising flags on any content that might break community guidelines is a completely different story. Two users might willingly want to break the code of conduct between them for whatever reason -- and Facebook wants to be able to halt that. In contrast, there's no legal grey area if you share child pornography. Just using an automated tool for that is great -- extending it to the entire platform's guidelines is not.

[0]: https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-updates-photodna-softw...
This might sound bonkers at first, but I think I did not really understood promises until I implemented the spec myself (with a lot of studying others' code that is).

It's actually not too time-consuming (I think it took me an afternoon) and there is a test suite covering the entire spec on npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/promises-aplus-tests so you can just hack away until everything is green.
Those symptoms are classic paranoid schizophrenia[1] (which is not uncommon, but many 'troubled people' have other problems).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_schizophrenia#Symptom...
> What if your disk layer could already preselect your data so the database wouldn't have to read and discard so many rows for each query?

My impression is that that the process of filtering DB rows is sufficiently complex to need a full libc type execution environment. But taking a big step back in perspective, a famous example of filtering on processors connected to disks is Map-Reduce, aka Hadoop.

> What if the network controller could evaluate your firewall rules itself, so dropped packets wouldn't have to interrupt the main CPU?

Yes, this is a real thing: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nic+packet+filter+offload
I... hope this is sarcasm?
> Basically - I think the point of a blog (at the beginning) is not really to be lead gen for consulting gigs. Instead, it's a place to plant your flag on the internet and say "This is what I'm an expert in".

I actually just finished my first gig where a client mentioned reading something on my blog in our first call.

I don't write much or get really any recurring traffic, so I think it's more like having a blog is one way for people to check me out a little further and get a sense that I know what I'm talking about.

It's something I personally plan to invest a lot more time in this year, although I have another reason for doing that (I'd like to start a newsletter and eventually make some courses/ebooks or something along those lines).

I also think that it's a skill in and of itself; if you look at most developer blogs (mine included), it's just kind of a smattering of notes. I'm guessing that writing more longform, specialized stuff more appealing to both potential readers and clients.
CoL and benefits need to be figured into your assertion
A few immediately come to mind:

- Garner's Modern American Usage

- The Hardware Hacker (I am a huge fan of bunnie)

- The Art of Electronics (Horowitz and Hill)

I don't really have "reference" books on my desk. Most rotate out quite frequently depending on what I'm researching and writing about. These can range from Raizman's History of Modern Design to Lewis Carroll's Symbolic Logic.

In addition I make plenty use of thesauruses. I have a few old ratty copies but mostly do a quick flit over my keyboard to pull up synonyms. When a word is on the tip of your tongue, looking up another that you know is related to it in a thesaurus is the best way to efficiently jog your memory.
- Programming Interviews Exposed
- Head First Design Patterns
- Clean Code

I'm a junior in my first job and I've had these books in my personal library for a while now. Incredible helpful
This is basically what THUMB(2) was for ARM.
It’s a warning sign for delusional and paranoid ideation, which can be the result of a pretty startling number of issues. Drugs can cause delusions/paranoia, schizophrenia, schizoid personality disorder, delusional disorder, mania, and so on can all present in that way. It’s important to remember that it’s quite rare for that kind of person to be a threat to anyone other than themselves though. Most poled who think like her, or think they’re being “gang stalked” or any of a myriad of strange-to-delusional beliefs are just miserable, exhausted people, not a threat.

However it’s also true that of the small number of mentally ill people who on to harm others, people with paranoid ideation are one of the two groups who are more likely to be violent. The other group are people who are psychotic, and may harm people under the instructions of “voices” or in extreme cases, just not have any idea what they’re doing.

Again however, those “likely” groups are still seriously unlikely to be violent against anyone other than themselves, in general.
We already have the National Guard [1] --aka militias-- which provide ample check from the State level against a would-be dictatorship at the Federal level. For further self-education, one may want to read The Federalist Papers, in particular no 46 written by Madison (see [2] for a discussion of the issue).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_of_the_United_S...

[2] http://tracinskiletter.com/2018/03/21/the-advantage-of-being...
That doesn't make any sense. If they wanted to scale up the program, they'd use the money to buy more drones and bombs, not invest in better eyes.
This strikes me as a trolling comment. But if you're serious, and if you can pull the idea that the state owns all manifestations of the application of force out of thin air, then there is no limit to how many of your other human rights that state will take away from you. By giving up the right to self defense, something so fundamental to all living things, you effectively chain yourself in irons and tell your masters to do with you as they will. That's basically North Korea today.
I like java. I don't love it, but it's a trusty workhorse and a nice tool with a great ecosystem.
They meant 2 half-days at a guess i.e. 20% of the employees time.
Hey, this is largely off-topic but worth a punt: do you have any info on when AWS IoT (maybe other AWS services as well?) will move off the dependency on the Verisign RSA/SHA-1 CA? I'd love to get a certificate chain that was ECDSA or RSA sigs only (and would also love to be able to turn off SHA-1 for the obvious reason).
That would have never occurred to me. So many tricks.

I wonder if round tripping texts could be an effective sanitizer. Text to speech and back. English to Chinese and back.
I think this is intentional, as the norm is for 0 on a Y-axis to be at the bottom and increase going up.

I can understand why it's confusing, and perhaps could be a UI option to reverse it, but I do think that's the reason.
They have stats about everything, how long you spend time in menu, how much you play the game, how much you complete, how long it takes you to achieve something ect ... Big companies have a lot of telemetry going on.
>Mental illness is described in terms of deviance from "normal" behavior and conformance to generally accepted morals. I think this is trivially proven from a lay read of the DSM.

Deviation from normal behavior and generally accepted morals is absolutely not a definition of mental illness. A bank robber isn't mentally ill by virtue of robbing a bank. I don't believe you've ever read the DSM in any of its editions.

>No conceivable context would make that chain of actions acceptable.

No one said they were acceptable.

>How could one look at this action and assume mental illness does not exist?

People do horrible, outrageous things without diagnosable mental illnesses all the time.

>Saying mental illness exists based on their behavior is not even close to the same thing as saying that they did not have culpability for their actions, and it's both unfair and disingenuous to imply I did.

The assumption that any horrible, irrational crime must be due to mental illness--obviously this diminishes culpability. Have you never heard of pleading insanity? If someone is genuinely out of their mind, they cannot be held responsible for their actions in the same way a normal person would be held responsible.
Working with China and other despotic regimes is cool, though?
Yann LeCun (the famous Deep Learning researcher) gave the reason behind this: "WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption. Facebook Messenger doesn't, which allows it to provide enhanced services using AI-based content understanding (the information is not shared with 3rd parties). Both are owned/run by Facebook. It gives you a choice."

https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/977746081877512193
The US was allied with the "Allies" before the US become formally involved in the war. They were already providing material aid to Britain/France before Pearl Harbor / war declared by Germany. I'm definitely not the one who is "unaware" of the key details in this discussion.

The US provided support to the side they ideologically agreed with -- it wasn't just a case of "Germany randomly declares war on the US".
What's the purpose of visualizing it as grid? I thought it might be good for debugging periodic events (e.g., every 16ms for rendering at 60fps) but it seems like this is fixed to one sec for one column.

For example in the flame graph in chrome's performance tab, you can select/slice/zoom/pan arbitrary time ranges. If you want the high level view you just zoom out.
I'd say GOG is the biggest competitor now. Then there is itch.io, but they have quite different approach.
That's because they were actually defending against an aggressor.

The business of war most of the time makes us the aggressors.
> It's interesting how common that thread is in troubled people.

Probably because it sounds like a symptom of schizophrenia.
> Google can censor someone as effectively as any government

How so?
I agree that it is a language worth understanding. However the OO model of Ruby is identical. Without the drawbacks of being an image based language. So I'd suggest learning that instead.

For those who don't know what I am talking about, there are several families of languages where the state of your program is kept within an image. The upside of this is that you can integrate everything together in a really neat way and build neat tooling with introspection. The downside is that you have just made what's going on not visible from the filesystem, and have to replace all of the tooling that you're used to. You know, things like your favorite editor, command line programs, source control...

If you switch languages regularly (which most developers do in my experience), being able to use your favorite toolset everywhere turns out to be more important than being able to build an ideal toolset for only one language.
Amazon Translate Now Generally Available
Silicon Valley Grapples with Security Risks After YouTube Shooting
Yes, they have access. The point is more that they have an automated system scanning and flagging messages, specifically so that they're reviewed by humans, for content they don't want on their platform.

My landlord has access to my apartment, and I certainly don't expect them to just pop in and take things out that they don't like -- I at least expect some kind of notice. You can apply this to basically anything in the physical world, like mail. Having the capability to access does not equate to having permission to access.
I don't think that "diversify" is used with the correct economic meaning, because to diversify you need independent assets, and cryptocurrencies are not. Let me try to explain my thoughts.

To diversify you typically want to invest in assets that are independent and with a similar expected return. Only if they are independent you're really reducing your risk or, said in another way, the more independent they are, the more you're reducing your risk.

Cryptocurrencies are far from being independent, you can easily tell by charting them together, e.g. https://priceeth.github.io, so I don't think you're really reducing any risk.
> They probably wont do anything horrible but maybe they will. They might seek help, they might not. It's kind of scary to me.

It also goes without saying that there are many other more prosaic dangers to you than a vegan scizophrenic conspiracy theorist with a grudge against YouTube. But if it bleeds, it leads, I guess.
Sadistic YouTube Deletes Channels, Demonetizes and Censors Content
Very interesting idea! It's not immediately clear, however, that "P!=NP" is something that you could build into a simulation.

(The demonstration that the lowest possible complexity of comparison-based sorting is O(n log n) comes to mind as a related example.)
Complex function plotter with support for split-complex and dual numbers in JS
Well, not any country. Fiji would be fine.
As a matter of fact, I think this concept dates at least as far back as the IBM 360.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_I/O

And you can find similar concepts in a standard PC today. The GPU is an example of offloading a workload to a specialized processor.
Serious question here. What are the liability laws like in the US for producers of propaganda? Can you hold say inforwars or brietbart (used as proxies here) liable if they insight or inflame this sort of person to go on a rampage?

You could easily prove in a court of law that what they peddle is not factual so I don't see how they can't have some liability. Freedom of speech is freedom to speak, not freedom from consequences.

Possible precedent here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/us/suicide-texting-trial-...
It certainly is a symptom but when you have massive subreddits dedicated to conspiracy just saying having those kind of thoughts means you should seek help probably wont help much...
> Until now, if we want to share data between the main JS thread and web-workers, we had to copy the data and send it to the other thread using postMessage . Not anymore!

This would have been great for a complex Chrome web extension (Gmail "AI" plugin) I developed previously. It relied on quite a significant amount of postMessage'ing back/forth where I had to create a hand-built queue system (on both ends) with redundancy and debugging. And even then I still had a endless series of race conditions and silently failing bugs that were difficult to debug :/
You missed the polonium episode? How?
Pretty cool. This could be a good primer for Uber devs.
Which translation of Arabian Nights do you have? I've been wanting to read it for a few years now but haven't got around to it. I think this will the next book I read. Any suggestions are appreciated!
My uncle was an engineer for a toilet paper manufacturing plant, that took logs in one end and put TP rolls out the other end. The path was over a mile long. He worked on variable speed electronic drives for the 1000 horsepower motors that turned the machinery.

TP illustrates the triumph of civilization: 1000s of people all doing specialized jobs so billions of people can each avoid a daily unpleasantness.
What kind of precision can you get with a device like this? The image on the github page looks very imprecise, like on the order of cm of error. If one were to scan a 3d model, could one get sub millimeter resoluton for example?
Curious if you feel that way about other people who have been in the limelight lately like Logan Paul (I think that's his name), Pewdiepie, or even Alex Jones.

I'm in the camp which agrees with you, but people often say this until it's about content which they disagree with.
> Given that these strikes will occur one way or the other,

Holy poopers, no. Drone strikes are not like premarital sex. The fact that we're _here_ (that being autonomous killer robots firing missiles from the sky to kill "bad guys") and no one bats an eyelash, means we're already in some kind of massive fail scenario.

We could, for example, go back to the rule of law. You know, before we believed that every bad guy out there was going to end civilization and deprive us of our "freedom." Before we decided blowing up wedding parties in Pakistan was such a great use of our time and money, and every Allahu-Ackbar-kaboom moment is a pervasive existential threat.
Fwiw i agree, but I think canonical should be clearer in its messaging here. Stuff like 17.10 isn't much better than running Debian testing - which if anything comes with far too strong warning labels :-)

After going a bit back and forth on canonical/Ubuntu - I'm starting to think I've slightly misunderstood what they're doing: they really are all about competing with red hat on a debian foundation. This is both good and bad; Lxd and juju seem great, and they have a live kernel patching service (costs money :-/), support contracts... And put effort into various projects that benefits everyone.

But they're not really trying to be a great free software project/product - a "better" debian than debian.

I think that's actually for the better - but they've got the signalling a bit messed up. Almost no-one should run non-lts Ubuntu as their daily driver, IMNHO - just like Debian testing is for the adventurous - not for the person new to debian.

But every Ubuntu release comes with friendly packaging that understandably confuses newcomers. And by the time people have few years experience, they've become tinkerers - the target audience. So they stay, and pull people on to the edge, when most would be better off with the boring stuff that works pretty great.

Maybe it's just poor/understaffed community management. Debian has a wiki that's half dead in places (I've made some half-hearted attempts to help give it live support - but it's though keep going when there's so few around...) - While Ubuntu have vibrant user Web forums ripe with enthusiastic and often very misguided advice...
This I just wrong from the start. If there’s a single overarching definition of mental illness, it’s “clinical significance” and not deviation from the norm. Of course it’s not that simple either, but it is a common thread throughout all of them.
Encoding of SCTs in certificates
Harvard Scientists Predict the End of the Universe
Well, not exactly. They reused old tapes of her and superimposed it on a scene [1]. It's an important distinction since they didn't actually create anything new, like what deepfakes do.

[1] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-02-28-sopranos...
The EU under its unelected President and unaccountable unelected lawmakers (the EU parliament can't propose laws) with a constitution that would be thrown out anywhere else (and never put to the electorate as a whole) is doing a pretty good job of destroying itself never mind the rats deserting the sinking ship.
On the other hand, they also open themselves to people just making their own versions of the product for much less.

If you choose them for their hackability, your core processors will probably have minimal development boards available for less than $2.50 each if you're using anything less powerful than a Cortex-M4 ARM core.

And now you have a huge part of your value proposition - the easy-to-use and user-configurable software - available for free. It will be cheaper for users to create their own version of your product unless you have some very complex or precise supporting hardware. End users will get a fun learning experience and customized product if they don't buy from you, and 3rd-party wholesalers will undercut you quickly and viciously.

So, hopefully your marketing department can pull at peoples' heart strings enough to make up for the order of magnitude difference in price. It works for companies like Adafruit and Sparkfun because they give back and people appreciate that, but how much room is there for companies that rely on goodwill to keep running?
In 2016, the count of >= 8 was 70.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polity_data_series
Yes, that's the reason! It means we get a t=0 origin for both the x- and y-axis. But yes, we can also add UI options to reverse it and other things.
Robinhood replaced “call” and “put” with “up” and “down”
A minute current is induced which then results in the creation of a new photon identical to the original.

They are identical in terms of their quantum mechanical properties.
> So how are cryptokitties useful?

For example, they showed that a real-world application instantly cripples the "global distributed decentralized infinitely scalable" blockchain (was it Etherium?).

And it had a fraction of traffic that a real real-world application generates.
Can this be used with Node.js CPU Profiles?
Have you thought about revealing things like non-breaking space, thin space, hair space, and so on? I think at least Fecebutt replaces non-breaking spaces with regular spaces in comments, perhaps precisely to frustrate such steganography. (Ironically, last I recall, they do preserve the difference between double and single spaces, e.g. after periods, which is even more invisible in HTML.)

I second the recommendations of vis, cat -e (or cat -vte), and od -a. I didn't know about hexdump; I always used xxd.
What is wrong with react-dnd?