skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're ignoring the fact that he spent a few years at Battery Ventures in between Netflix and AWS. Adrian is a well respected professional in his field, has been around for decades, and nobody holds any negative perceptions of him.

He wasn't hired by AWS because he migrated datacenters to the cloud. He was hired by AWS because he created this: https://netflix.github.io/ - Netflix's OSS, which has allowed them to attract so much great talent, was a direct result of Adrian's passionate open source advocacy. He's doing the same thing at AWS now, and has already accomplished great things like open sourcing all of the AWS documentation.

Disclaimer: work at AWS.
I would recommend Walter Kaufmann's The Owl and the Nightingale: From Shakespeare to Existentialism. Kaufmann is most known as a translator and professor, but his own work is fantastic. The Owl and the Nightingale is primarily a history of modern philosophy, but it manages to cover a lot of ground without being superficial. He is extremely engaging and clear, which is uncommon in philosophy :)
Well leather isn't really water resistant to begin with: ask any biker. It'll hold up to a light rain, but anything more you shouldn't expose leather to unless it's been waxed relatively recently. And once it is wet, if you dry it too quickly (like on a radiator) it'll likely shrivel up permanently, dry it too slow and it might rot.

Really the bar is set quite low for fake leather being waterproof.
Could it be the regulators that are different?
I made a Crypto app to paper trade. Any love and feedback is appreciated
You get a token issued at registration to check with ICANN? It is not that hard a problem.
I am not saying that, and that's not implied by what I was replying to, either. The comment is about allocated heap sizes differing from the application's actual memory usage. That's pretty typical of JVM applications, and a source of consternation for my sysadmin friends.
> “We then realized they were a near perfect match to the cells of another species, the pullet shell.” The cells must have originated there before jumping into the golden carpets.
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> Oddly, the pullet shells themselves show no signs of the cancer. They may have given rise to it, but they no longer suffer from it. Why? “One could imagine that the species-of-origin is now resistant to the tumor,” says Goff, “but we don’t know that.”

I suppose it's possible that one species could have evolved to develop and spread cancers that are more transmissible to some competing species than to itself. In that sense there could be some long-term evolution going on.
Not the OP, but I've gone through your (very well written and well thought) answer and it reminded me of what it was that turned me away from Wittgenstein (even though at some point I was a big fan of his, in some regards I still am): I'm talking about the tautology that you also remarked about. I couldn't get over it once I realized it was there. At least Hegel (which I'm not a fan of, that's for sure) had the "courage" to surpass said "tautology" by inventing a conflict (thesis, antithesis, synthesis) that at least looked like it was carrying the conversation, that was carrying us, closer to the truth, with Wittgenstein you feel like nothing like that happens, you're just left sitting there. I'm not criticizing him or anything of the sorts, just stating what I felt.

It is also true that with age (I've now approached my late 30s) I've started to become less and less interested in inquiring about the "truth", or what "truth" means, or what "words" mean, i.e. the topics mostly related to philosophers like Wittgenstein and Heidegger (haven't read anything by Derrida yet), and instead I've started becoming more and more interested (and even obsessed) by what us, humans, really are and what we think. As such, I've started reading more and more political philosophy, and as such I can say that (at least for people like me) philosophers like Hobbes and Rousseau are a lot more interesting and thought-provoking compared to the subjects approached by the likes of Wittgenstein or Heidegger.

Later edit: Because I just remembered later after writing most of the above comment: what also drove me away from modern/contemporary philosophers like Wittgenstein was reading a collection of the Heraclitus fragments. After reading them I realized that "truth" was, well, multi-faceted, polyvalent, taken at the limit truth was everything and nothing at all (which you could say that approaches some of Wittgenstein's views as well). More important of all, according to Heraclitus (or to my understanding of his sayings) "truth" and other philosophical-important concepts were on the same "level" as other, less important (from a philosophical point of view) concepts, i.e. that (again, taken to the limit) truth was falseness and falseness was truth. Once I realized that I was no longer interested in pursuing what "truth" is.
> Until A's transaction is included in a block, B can not do that.

This is just not true at all?

for B to refer to A, it needs to know the transaction id.

Transaction ids are sha256(sha256(raw_transaction)) and a raw transaction consists of inputs and outputs. All this is known before the transaction gets put in a block--and has nothing to do with blocks.

Blocks and mining mitigate against double spending (...by burning an insanely huge amount of energy to do so, inefficiently. But that's a separate issue, at least right here)
Embrace, extend, extinguish
in Sydney, it is already ~9 am of the 18th :) so we should get those emails earlier.
> With the SubstrateVM it is possible to produce a single, statically linked native binary executable version of Graal.js, which doesn't need any JVM to run.

How large is the resulting executable? There was some mention of shares libraries — is it possible to build a runtime that is callable from C?

Relatedly, does the GraalVM java executable support JNI?

I’m also curious about the runtime footprint in general; any idea what is the smallest possible VM for a real but relatively-small language like Lua?
Down from Aus too - can't find anything about it from their status page or Twitter account. We just moved back from (free) self hosted to a paid hosted account :(

Edit: Turns out we're both from Aus :party:
> Also in the future technology should become more self contained. Factories for producing any other factories should become widespread enough for technological supply chains to be ubiquitous

Isn't this a variation on the idea that the internet would render censorship obsolete and ineffective?
How did you get into contact with Schmidhuber for co-authoring? What stage was the research at when he joined?

Were you expecting the net to generalize from dream to reality, before you wrote the paper, or did this materialize during experimentation?

Do you expect this approach is also feasible for more difficult games: higher dimensionality, longer delayed rewards?

Both congrats and thanks for writing this very accessible paper. Really found this a creative paper with a lot of inspiration, and the presentation of the results was marvelous.

(BTW: I remember you from the RNN-volleyball game. Back then you had quite some jealous detractors, telling you DeepMind would be too difficult/academic for you. You sure shut those people up!)
Doesn't the FAA approve aircraft maintenance plans? As far as I know, they consider cycles in the plans.

It's surprising that the FAA would allow them to have an interval 4X that of other airlines. Well, perhaps more surprising would be if other airlines would do 4X more maintenance checks than Southwest if they could get away with less.
You need money to make money in trading...

For investing, not surprising, the whole thing is going the way of the tulip bubble... it's just not worth discussing a 25 year old technology still looking for a problem to solve...
Traction is where the action is.

Don't convince investors about your startup. Convince your customers.

Customers don't care about virtue signals that investors care about: solo founder, your mrr , your qualifications etc.

1% is building the product, 99% is in the execution
Oddly enough that's what they're aiming to claim a monopoly over.

Here's[1] a patent they have filed towards the system. Claims 1-18 and 20 are focused on the training of the neural network. Looks like Claims 1-18 are going to be granted soon largely in that form also from looking at PAIR[2].

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160292856A1/en?q=AI,ar...
[2] https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair
Anyone have any good startup ideas? Need a distraction. The suspense is killing me...
One of the few practical uses of WHOIS data is basically so ICANN have an address on file for when someone wants to dispute your ownership of a domain on trademark grounds. Anyone who registers a gTLD is forced to submit to their private dispute resolution process (UDRP) as part of their agreement with their registrar. There’s literally no way to opt out unless you don’t want a gTLD, thanks to ICANN’s total control.

There's also (very bad) precedent in the UDRP for using out of date or inaccurate WHOIS information as evidence of Registration/Use in bad faith. There's even been cases where a UDRP panelist has argued using WHOIS privacy services was prima facie evidence of bad faith, which beggars belief.

http://www.udrpsearch.com/naf/1684372

"This Panel member is persuaded there is bad faith registration and use because of several factors. The first factor is using a privacy service in a commercial context raises a rebuttable presumption of bad faith. Respondent has done nothing to rebut that presumption. Respondent does not need to conceal its identity from the marketplace to be a domain name reseller. Respondent offers no explanation as to why Respondent concealed its identity (and conceals it to this very day). Only people with an intent to deceive conceal their identity, which is the very definition of bad faith. Since Respondent did this at the time of registration and through the present day, there was bad faith registration and use of the domain name."

Thankfully other panel members dissented, but the UDRP has a long history of questionable reasoning and decision making, and bizarre WHOIS issues are not unheard of.
Sort of -- in the sense that on some occasions I'll use TACC by itself without Autosteer (most notably because TACC works great in the rain, but Autosteer doesn't). My experience is that TACC alone is still a huge improvement on regular driving. Autosteer is another big improvement on top of TACC. It's a hard thing to quantify but I'd say they are similarly helpful. Obviously the effect is increased when you put them together.
I meant it as a good thing. Some things will need to be regulated at the global level. We are already seeing global problems - global warming being the prime example. I think we will end up either destroying ourselves or end up with a world government. World government will clearly be the better outcome. How that government works would also be an interesting topic for science fiction. Hint: I don't think it will be a democracy.
Oh, I thought the implication was the other way around, something to do with Thiel's political leanings. My bad.
This is a think-of-the-children argument. He's not saying it doesn't matter - he's saying that there are solutions to that problem, and that the overall benefit of solving the problem vastly outweighs the inconvenience.
Yep! I'm sure it'll be up again soon.

EDIT: It's back!
> There's consistent, irrefutable evidence that it is in fact the nefarious foreign power manipulating people to achieve destabilization of what it perceives to be the enemy states.

It takes far more credulity to believe that Russian social media activity is swinging these elections than it does to be duped by the ads themselves.
The reason why we don't build CE on Mac OS is purely technical. Its because there was no OpenJDK 8 build for Mac that we could use. We hope we can change that soon. OpenJDK builds got a lot more regular with Java version >= 10.

Currently we have the same APIs for CE and EE. So applications are easily portable between those two. We have no plans to change this.

But. You don't have to take our word for it. CE is open source and you may build, extend and maintain it yourself if you want to.
That doesn't answer the 'why'.

I have read the article, and still have no idea what specifically the city wans to regulate. What types of rules and requirements are the councilmembers and SFMTA expecting to put in place? Are there specific restrictions that are in the interest of the city's residents, or is this just a money-grab?
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” ― Nikola Tesla
Do they have to use the term "cyber"? Sounds like they are old fogeys who are frightened by this new "information superhighway" thing.
Hallucinations can be induced through LSD, or psylocibin, or just being in the middle East over the last century. Perhaps you should ask yourself if you've gotten good at parrying Russian troll accounts in the last couple of weeks, or if you've learned to question your own assumptions. My grandfather got his ptsd in Okinawa. My brother's friend got his in a statepark when he took too much LSD.

My original point is that cognitive behavioral therapy is a medium. It is just as good at creating addicts as it is helping them recover. Teenagers learning to put up with the downsides of cigarettes to gain their peers social proof is cognitive behavioral therapy. Its pretty successful too, if you happen to manufacture tobacco.
Random tiny fragments of cows don't cause cows growing around my house or on my stuff. Fungus/mold does that.
[Edit: because the drawing has unit edges. My mistake]

Why is the Moser Spindle drawn to make it look non-planar, when it obviously is planar? The drawing obscures the point of the Moser Spindle, which is how to construct a 4-color graph from 2 simple 3-color graphs.

It's also confusingly colored to make it not clear why it requires 4 colors

https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2018/04/Chroma...

Better:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moser_spindle#Application_to_t...
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True, I think there are specific organizational structures that allow or encourage exploitation and they are not limited to capitalism. imho, when people need to please another with power over them they more readily justify their actions when they exploit others. Institutionalized loans seem a step removed from this as there is less opportunity for influence from the powers that be.
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I was amazed when I saw that it wasn't Allegiant.
As someone who likes to read about biology but only took a couple of classes in high school - isn't there a trope that we used to not understand what 90% of our DNA does and initially thought it was not used? The very simpler counterargument in my opinion was we don't understand 90% of what our DNA does.
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Or XMPP+OMEMO which adds things like multi-client support and encrypted group chat:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13396083

I'm running this on my own server (using ejabberd [1] as Prosody - which I used previously - still has problems with some of the required XEPs[2]) using several different clients (Conversations [3] on Android, Pidgin on Linux, etc).

The one weak link in OMEMO is the difficulty of verifying the authenticity of the device key signatures used by communication counterparts. These signatures are 64-character hexadecimal strings which the user is supposed to verify being authentic before initiating encrypted communications. Humans as not very good at this task, computer can help but they can also be tampered with. There are ways around this problem - e.g. meeting up in person before initiating communications (viz. PGP key signing parties), sending Q-codes off-line, using algorithms to turn those numbers into things which humans are better at recognising (e.g. the coloured emoji used by Telegram etc.). Encrypted group chat only works if all participants have all other participants in their address lists. Then again, it does work and it is fully standardised with several compatible implementations.

[1] https://github.com/processone/ejabberd

[2] https://xmpp.org/extensions/

[3] https://github.com/siacs/Conversations
Can the misleading headline be fixed? The actual headline is more clear about what this is.
If I've been working on a problem at work for too long, I'll often stop working on it and just work on something else, because I know that tomorrow when I take a shower or when I'm walking to work the next day I'll figure it out in my head.
How about if your hands are off the wheel the car automatically slows to a stop with an alert sound playing over the speakers.
Think of the children arguments are usually fallacies. There were actual complaints made. Solutions like regulations and permits?
It’s a funky creature called a SCOBY, which is pretty much what it says on the tin, “Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast.”
I'm curious to know how your paper differs from Learning and Querying Fast Generative Models for Reinforcement Learning. It seems relevant, but you don't mention it iirc.
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from a political perspective, no. if you care about actual technological accomplishments, as a technologist, peter thiel's endorsement should matter a lot.
Aside from the fact that one needs to be licensed for them, obey some generally accepted rules of the road, and "abandon" their vehicles in an orderly fashion.

I understand we're going through the growing-pains period with these dockless vehicles, but Lime, Spin, and Bird have no excuses for not taking any precautions against this. Especially Lime since we've seen issues with dockless bikes in China before they were brought here. The reason why these companies don't care is because their bikes/push-scooters are so cheap to manufacturer. They've basically created disposable vehicles.

So I'm glad lawmakers are doing something about this. And yes, of course there are other issues we need to tackle for SF sidewalks with feces and needles.
Anecdote: In the early days of www search engines, before Google, I recall this total number of documents searched being much more important to www users. I believe when Google began vying with AltaVista as the most popular search engine, that total was an important signal. Users wanted to feel they were tapping the largest database of www pages.

With AltaVista, a user could page through 100's of pages of results. There was no temporary IP ban triggered as there is today if one tries this with Google.

It's unfortunate that many www users of today never experienced the old AltaVista and being able to dig deep into pages of results without triggering IP bans. They thus are unaware of alternatives to the way Google has set up their search engine.

The question I have is: Do you think Google's approach of restricting users to only the top, "most popular" results is more beneficial to users or to Google? Why is Google limiting the user's search in this way?
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The public owns the right-of-way, why shouldn’t they be compensated for renting it out for private use?
I would imagine there are more man-hours of professional mathematics research than amateur.
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Still no word over in Europe either. Which leaves us with the choice of pulling an all nighter hitting refresh button in Gmail or staring at the ceiling
I work in the field and am about to be sent to a remote location for 2 years. Literally the only pathologist for 100s of miles. This would be more than a little nice to have.
Ideas are dozen a dime. Lets talk about if anyone failed trying a good idea and how.
BuzzFeed's article with the backstory behind this video: https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/obama-fake-news-jordan-pe...

(Disclosure: I work for BuzzFeed)
You can embed the graph of the Moser spindle into the Euclidean plane without its edges crossing, but not in such a way that each edge is straight and of unit length.
This analysis is obviously wrong, if the important thing was establishing a global clock, you could just use GPS receivers. Ordering transactions works also without proof of work, just including a hash of an existing transaction or block in a new transaction or block and this proofs the order of those transactions or blocks relative to each other. No clock required at all. And also exactly what Bitcoin does but which is totally unrelated to the proof of work.

I guess this has been said countless times before, but the role of proof of work is to establish a somewhat strange kind of identity among anonymous participants. If you had a trusted list of all participants, you could simply grant everyone one vote per block and decide by majority whether to accept or reject a block and get rid of the proof of work altogether. Of course using some cryptography to establish authenticity of votes and such.

But because Bitcoin is anonymous - or pseudonymous if you insist - there is no such list of participants and you need a mechanism to prevent participants from casting an arbitrary number of votes by essentially inventing identities. And this is what proof of work does, it limits your ability to invent identities and cast as many votes as you would like by making casting a vote really hard respectively expensive. The capital costs and the energy consumption of your warehouse full of ASIC miners become a proxy for your identity via their hashing power.

And that's it, nothing more, nothing less. The rest follows from here, for example a 51 % attack is just someone using a lot of money to buy more than half of all the available identities in the Bitcoin system granting him the majority of the available votes.
Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app
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If I may play devil's advocate here, I've wondered if the motivation behind this was actually the fact that if you do not defend your trademark, your inaction can be used as a defense in future cases and you effectively lose your trademark. So you may have to pursue cases that you think are ridiculous to retain your right to pursue cases that you actually take seriously.
>How? By having some of the strictest building codes in the world, yet allowing development within those rules.

While this tends to be true for large, commercial architectural projects, it’s not true for residences. A big reason why almost no one buys used homes in Japan(and if they do, they tear them down and build new) is that building codes are very loosely enforced in this domain. If I remember correctly, structural calculations to resist earthquakes aren’t even required for buildings under 2.5 stories (i.e. just about all private residences).

It’s a commonly-cited misconception that zoning is what makes housing so cheap in Japan. Zoning is a factor, but in reality it’s because housing is built pretty fast and loose as a disposable commodity.
Do you mean NK (North Korea - DPRK) instead of SK (South Korea - RoK)?
This is a “hand wave argument”. Nobody is proposing how to alternatively solve the problem just claiming that there are unnamed “solutions”.
My household is a government. When I was a kid, I was in a couple of clans in Blizzard games - governments. Sometimes I go out with friends for drinks and we form a short-term government to make decisions. We select a Minister of Transportation, and a Minister of Bar-Choosing.

Actually, whenever I start planning my day on a notepad...government of one.
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