skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, its a shame too. As long as my laptop doesn't crash, its actually kind of awesome.

But crashing makes it unable to do any kind of "serious" work. Nothing breaks a workflow like a forced unexpected reboot.

This "crashing" issue seems to be isolated to Raven Ridge. I've seen a lot of complaints about it here and there online. There was an obscure crash on Pinnacle Ridge CPUs (1800x, Threadripper, and EPYC) on Linux, but it was allegedly fixed months ago.

So based on my experience and research, it seems like Raven Ridge needs to be avoided. Its drivers just aren't good enough for prime time yet. Let me know if you're able to successfully update to something newer.
> You mean seizure of land? That's quite a risky thing to do.

Not really, it happens all the time, see eminent domain and adverse possession, etc. It's generally viewed as against public policy for land to be left unused.

Perhaps they could assess special, onerous taxes on property without a clear owner, and require said owner(s) identify themselves clearly when they're paid. If they don't, the property could be seized to pay the taxes.
That is an interesting delineation. Disregarding Platonic definition, how would you argue they are different, or at least distinguished from each other?
Just to clarify, "secrecy" is not a word to which I attach negative sentiment.
Burton Smith, Cray co-founder and Microsoft technical fellow, dies at 77
I dislike FB as much as the next dev here, but surely it's a widely accepted (and beneficial) practice that employees have special privileges in the apps they build. Imagine using this argument to say that Facebook couldn't shut down a page/group/account.
> The intent is to ensure full compliance in 2020 elections.

I don't see how these actions help Facebook be compliant in any way.
Isn't space like international waters from a legal POV?
Exchanges are literally printing money. I think nearly a million Ether a day was traded on Gdax at the top.

At $1,400 you're talking $1.4bn a day in trading volume, on (at least) half of which they take a 0.3% fee. That's $2.1m a day, just from ETH. Then there's Bitcoin and Litecoin. Bitcoin probably makes a similar amount. And their "simplified" website on which they charge higher fees.
In modern greek it would be eponymous.
The judgement of history is always that those people needed to be killed, because winners write the history.
> The article has a whole section illustrating why both hardlinks and softlinks won't work in the general case.

Yes, that's the part I quoted.

> Have you tried managing a collection of shortcuts?

No, tagging is the bottleneck for me, which is why I don't think it will ever be useful.

> How do you deal with recategorization, removing files, renaming files, moving files to different storage devices, etc.?

Aside from moving to different storage device, you can make a minimum viable product with a few shell scripts, one to tag a file, one to untag, one to search by tag(s), one to listen for for events (move, delete). For bonus points you could do some auto tagging from meta data.

A working implementation (even with limitations) would be a lot more convincing than all this theory.
How Japanese Snipers Helped Invent the Modern Deer Stand
Meta: mods please make it "screencasts".

There are enough cats online. :)
Maybe I'm not being clear on my core argument. sensors give conflicting information in different scenarios. One sensor might read an obstacle to be avoided while another shows a clear path. Deciding what to do in these conflict situations is difficult. Saying it's easy is effectively saying that the hundreds of very intelligent engineers working on these systems are idiots because it looks like it should be a piece of cake. You're using similar logic to non-technical people who get angry when a developer can't give an accurate estimate of time needed to implement a new feature - (s)he has the code and requirements right there, it should be easy, right?

I'm quite familiar with how vector math works. Your comments above seem to still be missing that I am talking about situations from the perspective of individual sensors, which have no ability to make judgments about different frames of reference. That only applies at the level of the full driving system. For example, to a radar sensor alone, there is no difference between a car parked 10ft in front of you while you are motionless relative to the ground and a car 10ft in front of you while you are both moving at 60mph relative to the ground. Both are "stationary" as far as the return signature is concerned. There will be no doppler shift in either case. The driving system has to combine this with other sources of information for it to be useful, and that's where problems creep in.

> That's because such things are irrelevant to my argument. I'm only talking about how algorithms should handle objects that have already been found.

We're arguing two perspectives of the same higher-level opinion (algorithms are insufficiently developed to be safe enough for autonomous driving). What I'm trying to say is that there are a number of fuzzy steps to get from sensor readings to actual object detected, and then from actual object detected to "known obstacle" classification, as you put it. I don't think I'm going to be able to argue this case clearly enough in the comments here, so I'm going to add this to my longer article writing list. Thank you for the constructive debate on this.
I really want to like OSF, but I feel like they sometimes waste time on pointless efforts that go nowhere instead of working on substantive features that scientists would actually use. In particular I found their effort to create badges for open science to be misdirected at best, since credentials of any kind don't really count for anything unless they're backed by an authority that's seen as legitimate universally in a field.

I also feel a bit weird about badging in science in general, since most of the most passionate people I know in science are intrinsically motivated enough that I could never really see them really concerning themselves with such carrots unless it meant that they'd get more funds to do more of what they find fun.
> Current approaches such as DQNs or god forbid DRL

You say that like you're talking about two separate things. DQN is just one type of DRL.
At least the chairman is on trial. Not that the trial would be fair or is for the right reasons.
Wow, they've sure watered-down "Don't be evil":

"Yes, it’s about providing our users unbiased access to information, focusing on their needs and giving them the best products and services that we can."

But what if your users belong to an organization known for doing bad?

"But [Don't Be Evil] is also about doing the right thing more generally – following the law, acting honorably"

But what if the law itself is evil? And what if you are acting honorably to further something evil?
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Founder cashing out some might also be a reason.
Not always, but I figured WWII would be a relatively uncontroversial example.
In business. In politics it works.
The folks in Myanmar apparently have taken issue with how Zuckerberg referred to FB's "tools" and "systems" for detection of hate speech in his Vox interview. They sent him a letter:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/technology/zuckerberg-fac...
I agree that FB has shown time and time again that they consider user privacy a mere road bump. Pervasive dark patterns. I disagree that specific regulatory oversight is needed. Advertising supported websites will always remain loyal to their customers: advertisers. Users are not willing to pay money and requiring a cover charge hurts adoption. What used to be called spyware is now "analytics." People proudly proclaim targeted advertising as a benefit for users. If we want privacy to be respected we need a right to privacy law. It's hard to be a sustainable business if everyone else is racing to the bottom. I'm waiting on FB's marketshare to tank.
Lets say, it's not in alignment with the particular set of values I hold as a developer.
You're arguing against a point that the OP didn't make.
It is likely that they view the speakers as advocates of ideas that limit the individual freedoms of others. Making it about free speech is a bit of a misdirection. When that speech furthers a system they disagree with, they are likely to make a stand against that speech.
I wonder ... do you suppose That's what the Krell told themselves? ( Reference film 'Forbidden Planet' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049223/ ... and Murphy's Law.
Because R32a_ wants Bitcoin but not Ethereum to go up.
I think that's sort of what services like Texture [1], ShareLaTeX [2], and Authorea [3] are trying to become (at least for papers). For code GitHub for science is generally the same as GitHub for everyone else.

[1] https://elifesciences.org/labs/8de87c33/texture-an-open-scie...

[2] https://www.sharelatex.com/

[3] https://www.authorea.com/
Topological Structures in Computer-Aided Music Analysis [pdf]
> Patch does a good job of patching. There is no reason why it should also have the job of being able to run arbitrary scripts.

It (patch) is not 'run[ning] arbitrary scripts' (ignoring the fact that the actual 'diff' output file is itself a 'script' in a broad sense).

Early versions of diff used to output 'ed' command scripts that would instruct 'ed' how to change one file into another file.

Rather than re-implement all of 'ed' inside of patch, patch simply was written to call 'ed' over a pipe and feed it the input "diff" (in 'ed' format) and let 'ed' handle interpreting the 'ed' script. This in and of itself makes sense. All the 'ed' code for interpreting 'ed' scripts is in 'ed', and enhancements to 'ed' automatically become available to patch and anyone else that calls 'ed' without having to keep plural code bases synchronized. Note that some of this usage may very well have been developed before shared libraries appeared, so there would have been no easy way to share the same 'ed' library among plural tools when there were no shared libraries.

It just so happens that one of ed's commands is a command to execute an arbitrary program. So a carefully crafted diff file can instruct ed to run a program of your choosing.
Policy Entrepreneurship at the White House
It's hard not to be anti core, given the time they've taken to actually make changes to.. anything. A decentralised store of wealth will probably end up working, but a decentralised governance model (unless the software is mostly finished) poses significant challenges.
You do realize that Tesla also sells batteries and solar panels right? Cars are just a small part of the puzzle. Tesla has the potential to become the next GE.
A neural network that keeps seeing art where we see mundane objects
> A death caused by shitty engineering (e.g. Tesla in this case) is not the same as a death caused by gross negligence on ones own part.

The result is the same, no? Isn't the idea to save lives? Why does one life have more value than another's simply because someone's death was caused by their own negligence?

What about the other people on the road? Do their lives matter less because of the gross negligence of the person not paying attention while they're driving?

This issue is a lot more complicated than you're making it seem.
>Literally, everyone profits. That's the point of capitalism, you can basically do what you want. These guys are filling potholes for themselves, they said as much. That's a selfish, capitalism-centric act

Everything can be reduced to egoism if you look in close enough. The problem is that when taking an approximation capitalism is short sighted. Short term profit is taken to be a good approximation for long term profit, which in turn is taken to be a good approximation for continued sustainability. Consider: if I start a business, I probably expect it to be profitable a year from now. If I am making an ambitious startup, I might allow five or ten years to be profitable. If I am Jeff Bezos, I might allow thirty years to be profitable. All these are assumed to approximate the very long term. If my business is profitable next year, I assume I will be able to keep running it for ten years. If I've run my business for ten years, then I assume I will be able to pass it to my children. If I get my business from my parents, then I assume it will be with the family forever.

Consider: I start a fishing business. I take a loan out for a boat and some nets, and pay them off by years end. Now I make a profit selling my fish. This is a success under capitalism. If I am very successful, and manage to buy a few more boats and hire some workers to man them, and am raking in money in ten years, this is considered a major success under capitalism. Note that we have never asked whether or not I fish sustainably. What if by the eleventh year the fish have run out, and I go bankrupt? What if people who survived off my fish starved to death? This is no longer a success, either from a capitalist or egoist perspective. But if we use profit as a proxy for success, for the first ten years it /was/ a success.

Now if we had called Bezos in to consult, he would have told us this would happen and advised us to start a different business. But most people aren't Bezos. Furthermore, capitalism doesn't encourage us to think like Bezos. If I'm raking it in for ten years, why don't I squirrel away a couple million into a savings account, and live off that as my retirement? If I do, why should I care about the business going bankrupt (limited liability FTW), and the people starving? In other words: Jeff Bezos is worth 100 billion dollars. Why doesn't he buy up a small nation, along with all the people living there to take care of him, and live the highest life imaginable until he dies (and pass it on to his children until they die)? The answer to this question sure as hell isn't because of capitalism.
For this statistics and applied math, at least anywhere near the level of the Berkeley course in the OP, it's by now old stuff, older than nearly all living programmers! Well from various subroutine libraries, some open source, some from, IIRC, the US National Bureau of Standards and Technology, SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), SAS (Statistical Analysis System), R, Matlab, Mathematica, LINPACK, CART (Classification and Regression Trees, by L. Breiman and others), and more, there's a LOT of code from quite good up to highly polished. Mostly now people use such code instead of writing it. For stochastic processes, there's code, e.g., the fast Fourier transform for which there is a huge pile of code, for all the different flavors of that curious algorithm.

Well, there is more code to write, but IMHO that would be for relatively advanced techniques or, say, working with terabytes of data instead of megabytes.

If you want to write code for applied statistics, then maybe so indicate, have a portfolio of code, and contact the usual suspects -- US national security and medical research. I'm not optimistic. I've given my opinion -- find a good application and found a startup to monetize it.

It is true that today there is a WSJ article on how technical, with algorithms for trading, Wall Street has become. The article has next to nothing on what applied math is being used but does have lots of names, maybe some you could contact. Actually, the article mentions that Goldman Sachs (GS) got hot on such applied math. Well, that was about when I wrote Fisher Black, of Black-Scholes, there at GS asking about applied math at GS, and I got back a nice letter from Black saying that he saw no such opportunities. Well, the WSJ article today claims that that time was when GS was getting hot on applied math.

If you want to know about applied math on Wall Street, then try to get an opinion or overview from, say, James Simons.

Again, IMHO, it's academics, US national security, medical research, maybe a few other situations, but best of all, start a business, the money making kind.
Do you sell user data in any form?
Everyone can controls who can send them friend requests.
tl,dr; it was a flawed psychology study claiming higher expectations lead to increased performance. The idea that success may be a matter of self-fulfilling prophecy is so seductive that it spreaded like fire and influenced public policy despite the failures to reproduce the study and other criticism.
Why would an entirely different piece of software have the same performance bottlenecks?
If you compare core to the Ethereum community then it really is a world of difference. They both have their problems, but from a development point of view, one tends to be open and embracing of changes, and the other one is often hostile and inflexible.
I remember being told Java is FOSS too... now tell that to Google...
Yes, it is technically the same abilities being used. The reaction comes because of how they're used: to indiscriminately delete old messages that may potentially be harmful to themselves while not offering the same options to its users.
Coinbase is now contributing to solutions like LN:

https://blog.coinbase.com/introducing-the-coinbase-protocol-...
Yep I am aware. And there are even easier methods: A $30 keystroke logger could be inserted on my keyboard USB plug and I’d never notice.
Most compilers used by app developers don't use that for good reason: Microsoft says that it is an unsupported, undocumented library which is off limits to application developers. Programs that are part of Windows itself use it.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140411-00/?p=...
I disagree, privacy-conscious people have been warning that Facebook has been doing these things since forever, so people (especially here on HN) can't claim that they didn't know these things were going on. This is just the same old story: people being upset about the consequences of what they were warned about many many times.
Sorry, I have been living under a rock recently: did somebody already discovered an use case for block chain other than money laundering?
they don't have to be terrified of something, i assume. It's more like they have probably grown enough that they see this as the best use of extra capital.
Delete buttons cut both ways. You can yank content but so can others. Of course you don't have assurance it's been truly deleted and someone could save a copy. Even before I quit it was hard to tell if the submitter wanted it gone or if it was a technical glitch, censorship, or displaced by ads.

If you want to be cynical it's kind of like the memory hole in 1984. More charitably, it's not that different from broken links (except that broken links leave a trace).
"the cloud is just someone else's computer"
This is already a difficult to read title. I think the company name should be cased properly, to at least hint that it is a noun, and possibly make it possessive: Destroy All Software's.
Consider the output of gases from the material being vaporized, that is the thrust/kinetic energy. I don't know the math or the engineering behind lasers to know range, but I suspect in space, it's a lot further than on earth. And possibly cooling is less of an issue? (doubt it though)

Also, rotating mirrors would aim laser, not rotating the satellite. If cleverly done, could point any direction.

All day solar power not enough energy?
Meyers-Briggs testing strikes again! /s
Funny... It took me about 2 weeks and multiple emails back and forth to close my account, and then it took Amazon almost a year to completely forget about me (I hope). Apparently if you don't want your account closed they can nuke it much faster.
Collisions really do happen, here is just one of a few that are known:

http://celestrak.com/events/collision/

There are probably more that are unknown amongst smaller objects.
Silicon valley and the internet as statr sponsored military projects? States are in competition among one another and have by nature a longer breath then all companies combined. Finally crypto currency came to be as a attack on the mone printing monopoly.. so reaction is understandable and expected.
I recently saw the name @Mat available on instagram, I registered it. Twice.

Both times the name was taken from me by a Facebook employee and eventually given to this Mat Henley guy from Uber.

Screenshots of Facebook staff forcefully resetting the account names:

https://i.succ.in/WuwuV1IH.png https://i.succ.in/WuMMtKTr.png (The revert button does nothing, just offers to change your password)

It seems like FB employees do not need a particularly good reason to go play around with admin tools editing user accounts. If they can edit users accounts this lightly, what does it take for them to look through you private posts or messages?
> At first people doubted SpaceX can replace NASA

I think SpaceX will provide services to NASA, but replace it? Not a freaking chance.
Debate between sheep and grain
The blockchain is the least interesting aspect of what makes up the public cyptocurrency networks. They are a nice combination of distributed consensus + PK signed transactions that produces a very good UX.
sqlite is fantastic piece of software. I am using it in every single side projects of mine. I can not describe how I satisfied with results even in relatively high load (300K pages/day on $5 Linode VPS). I found that most of time using a full featured RDBMS is not necessary depending on use case.(I am doing mostly reads)
That's a very interesting idea. How would you implement it? I guess that it's one of those things that won't fly without industry acceptance, but a proof of concept would be very useful, I think...
Sure, but if the code for some result is not available, I feel free to report whatever result I got implementing their method. I’m also perfectly fine with using “couldn’t reproduce” phrase in my papers.
Lots of debris is likely not magnetic, and much of this stuff is miles away from eachother traveling at incredible speeds. You couldn't make a device fast enough to change direction and have enough magnetic force to capture much.

>...it only makes matters worse since it can turn bigger debris into multiple smaller ones.

That's the question, would it though? Real lasers don't behave like hollywood lasers. And are smaller pieces worse than large ones? Maybe the type of material could be detected, and laser based cleaning would work perfectly well with some types of material?
If you can better anonyminize the data. If you can't send pseudonymous data to third party where only you can depseudonyse it.
How do you find an untagged file? Are wrongly tagged files undiscoverable?
Stanford and MIT
For undergrad CS, any thoughts on which one to choose?
Cisco SmartInstall Protocol misuse could expose infrastructure to attacks
If you read the original Moody's announcement, Tesla needs a capital raise this year and next year. A company that needs annual multi-billion dollar injections of capital to survive is indeed, uncomfortably close to bankruptcy.
"Nothing to hide"
Overvalued tech companies are the next bubble.
Google Should Not Help the U.S. Military Build Unaccountable AI Systems