skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> just as long as they eliminate outcomes like this

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that complete elimination isn't possible in a long tail statistical distribution. There will always be a point where we have to draw the line, and there will always be freak occurrences of undesirable outcomes. This is the crux of engineering - finding the correct balance between cost and safety. Perhaps the current state is not enough, but the wildly disproportionate amount of structures that are working just fine tells me we are close.

> If that ends up raising the costs for other fancy buildings stuffed with pied-a-terres for the wealthy even to prohibitive levels, I am entirely fine with that.

Building codes aren't only applied to high end buildings. Any changes affect the (badly needed) low end housing just as much as high end buildings. Just another thing to consider.

> Erring on the side of of earthquake safety while building near major faults in major metropolitan areas seems like a great choice to me.

No disagreement there ;)
Well put, sir!
Credit Cards are often a way for us to get our money back because everything has been marked up 0.5-2% for credit card fees.

When you're paying with cash - you're giving a little bit more profit to the retailer.

This is also an issue for the under privileged who do not have access to meaningful credit to get cash back.

Not sure if that might change the perspective.
Thanks, you answered some questions, but I still have some question marks. I've bookmarked the website and will check back for the (white)paper.
Intuitively, for two planets, I'd say you need the delay to be inside (some percentile of) the variation between the time taken by each block, so that a planet has the chance to "leap ahead" of the other.

So if a block takes X minutes with a 20% variation at, say, 95th percentile, and the inter-planet latency is 10 minutes, then I think the target time (X) must be more than 100 minutes, so that if Earth mined the last block, Mars can receive it 10 minutes late and still have a chance of mining it first and reporting it back before Earth finds it.

But I'm probably totally wrong :)
Right. It shouldn't be okay to push bad (in the sense: incomplete, not researched enough etc.) laws because there is supreme court.
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This is incredibly exciting from an environmental standpoint alone, let alone the implications for future materials research. I'm curious about the processing steps required to create the end product and the resulting durability.
That's an axiom, not a law. For example it would be inadvisable to navigate a stricken aircraft through an airport's terminal manoeuvring area without prioritising communication with ATC. Quick way to make things much worse.

Or trying to navigate to a diversion airfield without first communicating to ensure that it is usable.

Aviate, then navigate and communicate.
Is anyone else so leery of Oracle's lawyers you want nothing to do with this? Even if it's awesome work, as I expect it is, I don't trust Oracle not to someday find a new way to screw me, whatever the text of the license.

(I'm having doubts if this comment belongs here. But it's my genuine reaction, for what it's worth.)
The fun part here is that, technically, once they get a 'good enough' product and workflow up and running, adding/changing/incorporating biological properties is (mostly) just a DNA-based bit-flip away.

We at Serotiny are already collecting protein domains from organisms with various capabilities - including water solubility, hydrophobicity, enzymatic capabilities, covalent attachment sites (for dyes), light-activated properties/crosslinking/dissociation/etc. And all of those protein domains we're collecting should be 100% compatible (+/- a fair bit of a tooling-exercise) with both Bolt's leather and their silk.

So it should get fun once they have a solid and stable 'platform' up and running. They will be able to incorporate most any property from nature with an existing proof of principal, not just any property form mammalian hides.

Congratulations guys!
Disclosure: I work at Google Cloud on Kubeflow

I can't speak for Netflix's privacy policy, but, if your concern is with Google, we never ever ever ever mix/merge Google customer data with customer data. Like ever ever ever.

FWIW, we STRONGLY suggest (just to be doubly sure) that you encrypt at rest and/or offer the option to use Customer Supplied Keys. Encrypt all the things! https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-at-rest/
https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/03/anatomical-similar...

Proof of work is the leader election phase of consensus. It is followed by the accept phase, where the leader broadcasts the decision to be accepted. The commit comes eventually and as probabilistic.
The type of consumerism healthcare really needs
You are talking about an Impressum. No need for that info in the whois.
Former firefighter and 911 dispatcher here -can confirm. There's little worse than somebody screaming excitedly over the air in a way that no one can understand them.
‘We are not done developing antibiotics, forever’

This is under the assumption that we won’t find something better/works differently than antibiotics. Some are theorizing that CRISPR-based approaches could potentially disrupt it and bacteria may not be able to adapt to that kind of approach.

Lots of this is speculation of course, but given that antibiotics aren’t that old of an invention, I find it unlikely that they won’t be discarded to the dustbin of history (at least with the definition and methodologies by which they operate now)
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16859064
I was listening to some lecture and they were talking about there being really only two modes of thought - through pictures and/or through words. Imagine being the one to break down one whole class of thought into a formal discipline.
Elon stated as early as the AP1 launch event that AP1 hardware was insufficient for full autonomy. The claim of a coming cross-country summon feature does not imply that it will be retroactively made possible on every Tesla vehicle ever produced.

If there is ever a successful lawsuit brought by AP1 owners, it is much more likely to focus on the promises that were made to them but never delivered, e.g. "meeting you at the curb" from your garage on private property.
Yeah, I agree. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My claim is that you can't avoid it. It's like trying to write a large program with zero bugs without being able to test it. Citing Knuth, "beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

To put it another way: can you cite any complex bill that hasn't ever gone to the Supreme Court?
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You know any professional Android developer who doesn't use Proguard?
You might need to factor in juvenile cancers or Baldwinian evolution.
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You still have to implement it in case you are visited by EU national (even if that is just a person visiting the site without intention to buy) - as you shouldn't log EU personal data without permission. Even if you filter out European IP addresses you have to consider that EU national can be visiting from the US for example and you still cannot log without permission.
Keep in mind that while this is nice technology, it's Oracle-based, split in CE/EE (which in itself is not a problem, but CE doesn't run on macOS), and they will find a way to screw you over at some point in the future regardless of what you do, use or choose.
Perhaps charging companies to put chairs on the sidewalk is not necessary, either.
Then it would also be trivial to discover if you go and look up the sums at the official site.
That assumes the fake entity exists and disputes it.
On the "why graal" page, it says that one benefit is you can use a larger heap size for nodejs applications. I would imagine one other big benefit is that you can have true multithreading since the app now runs on the jvm. Is this indeed possible? Is there any guidance on how to do it? Rhino had the concepts of Scope's and Context's to somewhat safely parallelize code, so curious if there are similar primitives in Graal?
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There are a few churches like this out there today. Sadly the idea of "going to church" is so foreign or looked-down-upon these days that few people actually try it out. And eventually the churches die.
As a selfish consumer, I LOVE these scooters & want the city to "figure it out" to make them viable ASAP.

Shut up and take my money, ok? ;)
The .tk domain is notorious for this.
Still did not receive anything, will post here when I get it. Good luck everyone! Hope to meet you there!
No. Support high quality journalism.
It's definitely not harder to manipulate audio records than video records. Video is images + audio.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/adobe...
It's interesting and rather revealing that your first reaction to a critique which draws an analogy to material wealth is to defensively frame it as nasty or distasteful.
> Here's the possibly unsettling news: The new numbers remain at odds with independent measurements of the early universe's expansion, which could mean that there is something unknown about the makeup of the universe.

Unsettling?! This is the stuff that makes science exciting.
I'm a little bit disappointed that you've decided to stop maintaining cl-async, although I appreciate the difficulty of maintaining such a project.
i am generally in favor of alternative modes of transportation but these scooters annoy the hell out of me.

everyday i walk down 2nd street there are scooters randomly strewn around. some are upright, some are to the "side" of the sidewalk, but there is also a group of them that look like they're just randomly thrown to the ground.

also sadly sf is just not very friendly to non-car transportation in the first place. so the alternative is people riding these things ride them on the sidewalks, which is annoying for pedestrians.

also a safety issue: i've seen maybe only 3-4 people ride one with a helmet. maybe that's on the user of the scooter, but then again none of the scooter companies seem to address it since that'll probably mean less rides for them.

i support the idea, but they make the city aesthetically more unpleasing than it needs to be and makes my morning walk to work and back more annoying.
What if EU citizen visits from the US? Still needs to be blocked...
More vitally, did you not see this astounding photoset of abandoned dockless vehicles? https://slate.com/business/2018/04/astounding-photos-capture... . They litter virtually every city street, and yet we're somehow willing to ignore the relentless space they waste.
In their FAQ, I think they should address the question, "Is it possible that mold will grow from Mylo?" I'm sure the answer is no, but they should state it explicitly.
That is not the case in the U.S., we had an unpleasant (and highly patronizing) conversation with an airline steward who tried to tell us that FAA regulations prohibited such a seat belt and that "the safest place for an infant is in their mom's arms".
Reported feb 2017, with shutdown of the district ("no exceptions") slated for mar 31, 2017. So what happened, did it shut down and move to the new park that has waste treatment, etc?
You can sign up to do it at https://home.airdev.co
Yes, it's more exploratory and lower-level. It can do the usual "dashboard" style reports but its closer to Juypter notebooks and allows you to run python + sql (+ R now) and even edit the HTML to make your own visualizations.
> He's also Thiel backed.

Is having Thiel's association a positive thing still? Serious question.
What makes you think the two Koreas will include denuclearization as a condition? That's a largely US thing, and the article does not mention the US being a party to these rumored discussions.
Android isn't just Kotlin and Java. It also bundles Gradle with its Apache Groovy DSL, whose syntax is just as esoteric as Swift. Although Groovy is pitched as having Java's syntax, the DSL portion of it (as used in Gradle) looks nothing like Java.
A lot of people have issues buying clothes that they outgrow a few years down the line. This is clearly the solution to expanding waistlines.
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Of course you would be calm. Panicking isn’t going to bring the passenger back onto your plane, and you still have your other passengers to get home safely.
I have to admit, I love how that site incorporates HTML5 without shoving a bunch of animations in my face. Great design!
None of these platforms "get" your data other than running the queries in your databases and displaying the results (and sometimes caching it for future lookups).
It has always struck me that the data on our spending is electronically there but is impossible / painfully impractical to obtain.

The European Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) is supposed to allow (authorised) third parties to get to our bank data (ie Apple or mint or some OSS friendly service) - it is of course woefully late being supported

But even that is only half the story - each time i take a paper receipt from a store I think "why can't you email that to me - or NFC it up to my phone which is in my hand, or encode the data in three or four QR codes on the receipt"

We are surrounded by data that is trapped and yearning to be free.
Eh. The phrase "technically correct" comes to mind. Sure, it won't be formally disproven, but if Tesla doesn't deliver FSD while these cars are on the road, that will definitely (and very rightfully) be seen as an inability to deliver.

Also, I think the conversation about Lidar in this article (and perhaps among some readers here) misses a key point. Elon doesn't think merely that one can build a Level 4 car without Lidar; he thinks it's vastly preferable for a Level 4 car not to have any dependency on Lidar -- not only for cost reasons, but also for performance in degraded atmospheric conditions (rain, snow, fog, etc.). It's a difference in strategy, not merely an attempt to do more with less.
Thanks for the writeup! Have you compared against a vehicle with a decent adaptive cruise control (but no autopilot)?
Turbulence used to bother me. Hearing some factoid like turbulence has never (or nearly never) caused a crash (I'm paraphrasing) is what got me over that. Even if a hundred flights had been taken down by turbulence over the decades of modern aviation, those are still great odds. Better than driving, I'm sure.

And the fact that an engine can explode like this and the plane still lands safely makes me feel even less like the plane is a fragile or precarious thing.
New York also almost had a skyscraper blow over because no one bothered to calculate what the wind hitting it diagonally would do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup_Center
Hi, I hope my tone wasn't too grating.

I stand by my point though, for the purpose of totally ordering blocks, the difficulty is not intergalactic because a solution on mars is much less useful than a solution on earth. The problem here is time-delay preventing simultaneity. This is the same problem that block chain time-stamping hopes to solve. Thus it seems unfair to me to ignore this problem.

I wonder how tight the 10 minute mark is at the moment. I imagine there might be nodes that are 5 seconds apart on the network. Maybe even more when we have backhoe outages. How much lower could the 10 minutes be before we start seeing to many orphans even on earth?
I agree with that. I studied philosophy in college and it was all insider baseball. It was a breath of fresh air when I came across Dewey and William James.
If we're trading anecdotes, I grew up in a small town where I didn't worry about where I went. Then as an adult in a big city I was mugged at knife-point for obliviously walking through a bad part of town at night. If you want to dismiss people's concerns for their own safety as "scaremongering", don't be surprised when people don't find much use for your ideology.
Everybody complaining about these scooters will get used to it. They're not very inconvenient, they're literally just objects on the sidewalk that you need to walk around. I use them all the time, they're a quick, efficient way to get around. Also fun to ride.
I don't see much point in making the distinction. All of these policies you're saying are bad are completely logical ones to enact for someone who holds race-supremacist views.

By way of analogy, when someone tells you he believes global warming is impossible because it would go against the Bible, you don't have to wonder that much what he would do about carbon emissions.
Analysis and speculation (even if uninformed) about how they handled the incident is one thing "Why didn't they reduce speed and take a 25 mile approach instead of 20 mile?".... But criticizing the pilot for being too calm and speaking in slow deliberate sentences? That seems over the edge and sounds more like personal criticism.
It has GC. (As does V8, but it's not exposed to WebAssembly.)
"dirty" isn't really well-orderable. It depends on what you're worried about. Chromium toxicity is definitely a huge problem with current leather production, as well as atmospheric effects and water use from raising cattle.
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Governmental information is likely to be protected by the terms of a treaty signed between countries with diplomatic relations, and subject to the same sort of sovereignty extended to embassies and the like.
So write your name, address and telephone number on the back of your car. Maybe you don't want to, and thats ok.
Well there's an idea...
Irreproducible astronomy
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The language definition is pre-existent to the PEG parser you can write for it. PEG has a lot of advantages as a tool, and its a nice experience to write by hand. You do not author a PEG script, you author a language definition first.
You're saying that if the lang definition is lost, then is hard to recover it from the PEG script or the parser code. Yes, but it is not a normal situation.
Can somebody explain how this is different to the "pleather" being made as a side-product from the production of Kombucha? Thats been a thing for a while now.

AFAIK its also grown by mould, from culture. But, it forms as a mat on top of the Kombucha fermenting liquid.
Cars are ugly, litter the streets and are exceptionally dangerous.
since when one guy can crack down on global exchanges. this is why we need decentralised exchanges
Mode is a great tool for running a query and executing some code afterwards and even distributing that report to others. However, its important to keep in mind that it doesn't have any real organizational tools which limit its use case. There are no tools for versioning and sharing notebooks (there is actually a shared query feature that is available at extra cost) and code (and you can only run the versions of code they have installed), or modeling your data and report parameterization is very difficult. Also, (perhaps due to being solely browser based) there can be issues working with larger data sets.
I knew Earley parsing before I read this paper. Now I know things about logic and theorem proving. Cool paper, would read again.
If that's so, why are most and the strongest results achieved by professionals?
To me it's a different discipline. I'd study both. But I frankly feel they study different topics.
I mean... duh? If you don't want your data accessible by a particular sovereign entity, its best to ensure your data is never in the jurisdiction of that sovereign entity. The meaning of sovereign is "We can do whatever crap we want here, and there's no higher authority that can judge us". If you're not okay with that crap, then don't interact with that entity, because -- as the term 'sovereign' implies -- there's no court you can appeal to to settle your dispute in your favor.
The war on drugs has been a resounding success at it's principle functions (none of which have anything to do with controlling drug use behavior). It helps maintain a permanent underclass which applies a downward pressure on wages via prison slave labor, allows the ruling class to more effectively criminalize dissent and propagandize against subversive groups, and provides an excuse to continue to militarize the police force.
Yup, basically this. If you rely on open source tools, especially packages that are primarily developed for Linux but packaged for Mac via Homebrew, you'll probably want to wait 18 months to switch to an ARM device for development, because it'll take that long for >80% of the maintainers to catch up.
Then that is incorrect. The situation is simultaneously better and worse than your interpretation:

> while a low P value indicates that your data are unlikely
> assuming a true null, it can’t evaluate which of two
> competing cases is more likely:
> * The null is true but your sample was unusual.
> * The null is false.

You're conflating the two populations, and indeed we don't know which is which. But the P-value is only talking about the likelihood of observing your data given a true null. It only has any effect on that first population. Without knowing the size of the second population, you cannot say anything about the fraction of erroneous results in a journal based upon the statistical test alone.

http://blog.minitab.com/blog/adventures-in-statistics-2/how-...

At the same time, though, converting p-values to a bayesian posterior or conditional probability that says something about the likelihood of the _hypothesis_ (like you're trying to do) is hard and generally way more pessimistic than 1 in 20 — it's more like 1 in 3.

http://www.dcscience.net/Sellke-Bayarri-Berger-calibration-o...
Given Thiel's interest in longevity, yes
If OVH the company has a presence in France, I don't see why not.
if you agree with that point why would you continue to encourage that to expand to the sidewalks?
He’s not ‘one guy’. He’s the chief prosecutor of the state that happens to be the home of one of the world’s financial capitals.

If you want New York money, you need to deal with the New York legal system.

Decentralized exchanges won’t help you either. Any time you interface with a nation’s currency, you’re going to deal with that nation’s government.
I have been paying some scant attention to GraalVM for some time, having been excited by "universal VMs" for decades now (including setups like LLVM, which most people forget was designed as a JIT-compiled VM, despite that being in the name), and I develop Cycript (which is somewhat the "opposite" technology, binding together existing virtual machines all into the same process space and doing crazy interop; though I haven't done a public release now in well over a year).

I am excited to see such a beast coming from a major company with a strong track record in VMs, and particularly given that it is based on their existing JDK, and am particularly excited that it now seems to be available!

I have some questions that I did not managed to easily get answered from looking over the website.

Can I AOT with this (via SubstrateVM) and deploy to "mobile" targets, and specifically iOS?

Are there any examples of embedding GraalVM in an existing native application (such as the noted idea of having GraalVM accessible inside of MySQL)?

Is there an existing embedding for node.js? (I don't mean "can I run node.js apps on GraalVM?"; I mean: from node.js, can I instantiate a GraalVM and give it code to execute in a new context, or will I need to build my own bindings to the GraalVM embedding API for that first?)

I did find some documentation for using an embedded GraalVM in a Java application, but while I work on many projects in many languages, none of them have been written in Java now for over a decade. I guess I was expecting a C/C++ API to be documented somewhere, not a Java API (due to the listed prototypical embeddings, and based on my long experience with embedding other virtual machines, including the Oracle/Sun JVM).

http://www.graalvm.org/docs/graalvm-as-a-platform/