skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most interesting thing so far about this for me is the bizarre twitter and Facebook sharing buttons that dance around the page, following some strange beat. Wtf.
Facebook Is Shrinking Fake News Stories Because Nothing Else Has Worked
>>His jail term is completely appropriate for counterfeiting and piracy with intent to distribute and profit under federal jurisdiction.

WOW you have a completely screwed set of ethics and morality if you believe putting a person in a cage for 15 mos for duplicating restore disc is "completely appropriate"
GODOT GETS CSG SUPPORT
Development wise it's a much more simple protocol, iSCSI has a lot of it's own complexity + the SCSI complexity to implement, NDB has a reasonably short RFC style document.
In Seattle, arrests for weed have not been a priority for a very long time. Usually, if you were stopped by a cop for smoking weed, they would frisk you and confiscate, unless you were carrying more than an ounce.
Switzerland is not part of the EU though.
No respectable business school should admit people without substantial existing work experience into any graduate course.

All the top US MBA programmes are stuffed with people with 2-3 years investment banking or management consulting as their sole experience.

The concept of a management consultant is possibly even more ridiculous to begin with
Letting more of the money allocated to financial aid go toward less privileged students, instead of being used to attract students from wealthier families who don't need it as much.

Also there was a suggestion that it could help lower tuition costs all-around, though that was less well argued than the first point.
There are 2 download options for GraalVM - one with words "additional performance, security, and scalability" and another, well, without them. Does it mean that all the goodness of this technology is only available in the very, very paid option? In other words, it's not for startups who are trying to bootstrap themselves, right?
“any minor under the age of 14 years whose parent or other person responsible for the minor's welfare leaves the minor without supervision for an unreasonable period of time without regard for the mental or physical health, safety, or welfare of that minor;”

Actual text of the law implies a lot worse neglect than the website interprets. In fact if you turn it around it seems shocking. A guardian can leave a 15 year old without regard to their health & well being.
Trump was the checkmate
If I we're to use my ill-gotten gains to buy cryptocurrencies, I could, at a small loss, buy Amazing gift cards from independent sites which accept crypto. At that point, aim straight up money launderin
industrial scale meat production is basically a life-long torture for animals. Note: i gave up on pork and beef, still eat chicken, fish. Hope to get easy on chicken with time too. Artificial meat can't come too soon. Its impact on our civilizations would hardly be possible to overestimate. We'll be able to go off the hypocrisy of "only humans have soul" and finally look with open eyes and meet other intelligent creatures beside ourselves (i mean i hope we're intelligent creatures).
I'm not a great Chess player by any means, but I was good as a child. I've recently found Kingcrusher to give really entertaining youtube videos on it various games, e.g. he covers good GM matches or recently AlphaZero. His take on Kasparov vs world; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJyJCdU6Fh0
I don't see this being any more unethical or unnerving than keeping a liver a or a lung or a heart alive outside of a body. A brain is just another organ, it's not a mind. It is a vital organ, to be sure, but the article equates it with the "essence" of a living being. This involves too many assumptions.
TL;DR; "43-year-old Giaus Villosus trapdoor matriarch"

Previous _known_ record was 28.
Bay Area Transit Agencies Among Several to Recieve Billions in State Funds
I tend to think democracy is less about finding some optimal solution and more about finding a solution enough people will be happy with that there isn’t revolution.
I'm interpreting law as I was taught. And if you're going to question my ethics and morality over my interpretation of the law and sentence, I don't take the work of others and distribute copies of it while claiming them to be genuinely produced and spend great effort to hide that fact to defraud the buyers while also trying to downplay law enforcement and coach people on withholding information from federal agents to enrich myself.

Would his sentence have been more lenient had the value of discs estimated to be $100,000 instead of $700,000? Nope.

Would his sentence have been more lenient had he not spent effort to infringe on copyright and attempt to make fakes that are harder to discern? Maybe.

Would his sentence have been more lenient had he not actively tried to deceive and defraud those buying the discs from him believing them to be genuinely produced by Microsoft/Dell? Surely.

Would he be scot free in this situation had he just shipped a free OS? Definitely, but recycling or reducing waste wasn't his intent as you can see for yourself from his email and bank records.

He didn't even spend the minimal effort to inquire with Microsoft if they would help him in pushing more recycled computers with Windows but instead decided all by himself to fly to china to create 20,000+ copies of genuinely sold recovery disks and to sell them as genuine when he clearly knew they weren't while coaching his codefendants to play dumb, suggesting them on evading scrutiny from customs and pressing them to sell more product so he can realize returns on his investment. If that doesn't show criminal intent, I don't know what does.
Now if only those funds were combined with more housing at transit sites: https://reason.com/volokh/2018/04/22/the-failure-of-californ...
> pigs are super smart

Until they smell blood. If you ever go into a pig pen and cut yourself the pigs will attack you and probably kill you. Chickens are similar but of course being smaller they attack each other.

People these days more than ever want to anthropomorphize animals they like. But when instinct kicks in many of those animals are, well, just animals.
No one is disputing that he counterfeited the disc labels and committed a crime in doing so. The issue is that judges used a value provided by Microsoft for the discs that is counter to fact (license =/= recovery disc, counterfeit or not) and massively inflated his sentence as a result.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16948003
Rod Machado +1 on FAA removing req’t to take comm, CFI rides in complex airplane
Democracy does not try to make good decisions, it tries to reflected the opinions of the people in the decision.
Joyful anticipation is not a phrase I have ever heard or expect to hear. It is too forced, and whilst it may be an exact translation from the German word in question it doesn't really answer the question. In the sentence used by the GP anticipation would be the most appropriate to use.
How do you distinct sentient beings? There are some plants which display indications for rudimentary sentience, some molds and fungi can also be sentient. Does your rather bold statement also apply there?
I'd watch if someone created this for Go, only the format is 'the world vs the world'. Have a timeframe for voting on the next move, then make the next most upvoted move, then repeat.
> The explore page has become a mass of memes, "viral" videos, half naked women, spam, reposts from reddit, reposts of other reposts, and so on.
You can heavily influence what you see in the discover view, and I do so regularly to get more photography related content. View the content that annoys you, click on the three dots in the upper right and then tap ~"view less of this" (only loosely translated, don't know what it says exactly). Do this for 15 posts that you don't want to see, view and like the few photography related posts that you wanna see more of and this will completely change what kind of content you will get! Takes about maybe 3 sessions of doing this for seeing greatly improved results. The algorithm learns to give you posts which you give attention to, so try to avoid looking at memes etc; I have the same problem and with some time and me giving some attention to memes again brings more of them back - so rinse and repeat.
You can actually use this to influence quite specifically what you want to see - from time to time I pick a specific theme of photography I want to discover (i.e. black and white photography with lots of elevated blacks), only like those kind of pictures in the discover view and definitely start getting way more of these kinds as a result. You can absolutely create your own bubble, you just have to tell Instagram what you wanna see.
As a long-time Python user, this is one of the worst proposals I've seen.

Yes, it has a potential for being useful.

But its usefulness, unlike context managers and async, is very limited, implied a substantial cognitive overhead by introducing a new operator, and has a very significant potential for abuse.

One of the nice things about Python is that it is highly succing while disallowing the sort of expressions that are too information-dense to be easily understood, which has been a critique of mine in other languages of similar use cases (Clojure, Haskell, I'm looking at you).

Succinctness is good if it allows expressing ideas in a way that maximize comprehensibility and go straight to the point.

But truth is, nobody's missing out on serious functionality by not being able to do an assignment on the same line of code as a conditional. It can be very slightly annoying, possibly. But I look at the examples and I'm really not convinced that this feature is so orthogonal and useful as to merit inclusion.

It feels like accepted PEPs are slowly coming under less scrutiny and disregarding the idea of feature orthogonality and low overhead.
You have to wonder if the evidence of lack of consciousness could just as easily be a result of the lack of any sensory input whatsoever.

I mean what does a brain do with absolutely no external stimulus at all?
No, SubstrateVM and Graal are both open source.

The enhanced versions compile to faster code, pretty much. You can do without them if you don't want to pay.
Has this professor ever actually worked in industry? I would like to know so I can avoid those companies.
I think Yogi Berra said it best:

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice - in practice there is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage#Min...
I was reading this article earlier today, and had the same thoughts patio11 was having in 2008. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392524

Nice to see it's survived for so long.
here's an impl of something like (but actually probably nothing like) 1. in the above tl;dr

(disclaimer: i dr)

https://github.com/ransomw/botiful-soup/blob/master/mibot/sr...

as i recall, there's a lot of neato REPL-y graphvis to try in

https://github.com/ransomw/botiful-soup/tree/master/mibot/de...

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while i'm here, let me mention: Gärdenfors books like "Geometry of Meaning" are hearty food for thought about natural language semantics
It's funny how we all try to learn principles and how to be effective in the abstract, but in reality most companies promote asshole nihilist freaks and are dysfunctional, so none of it matters.
The original author provided hard numbers in dollar to back up his argument well. How can anyone say this is about nostalgia?
It's not necessarily my opinion, but one can decriminalize use without fully legalizing.
This isn't hard. Education, treatment, alternatives are the answers.

We have the means to do all of these things and get much better value for society per dollar than we do now.
Sounds like the dream city of strongtowns.org.
He hasn't broken down though. That law exists because it's dangerous to stop on the hard shoulder.

Rule 264: You MUST NOT drive on the hard shoulder except in an emergency or if directed to do so by the police, traffic officers in uniform or by signs.

Rule 270: You MUST NOT stop on the carriageway, hard shoulder, slip road, central reservation or verge except in an emergency, or when told to do so by the police, traffic officers in uniform, an emergency sign or by flashing red light signals. Do not stop on the hard shoulder to either make or receive mobile phone calls.
We are already past 400ppm. Going to net 0 emmisions is not enough anymore.
Awesome. I actually think that there is a lot of potential for using block storage over FDB to bring extreme fault tolerance to legacy applications without rearchitecting them. Because block devices are unshared (and you can use FDB to ensure that robustly) conventional OS caching works well, and you can get relatively normal performance. Of course FDB storage engine is currently not very well optimized for this use case, but since FDB is scalable you can "just use more"

I wrote more about this on the FDB forums: https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/block-storage-full-fault-t...
Oh, that will work so well when they have 10 million of these things running around!
I don't want to like viral hippo, but I certainly do like the smarts behind it.

It reminded me of a "mad cow disease" word document we shared around the place back in the 90s, which had a picture of a cow with VB rolling eyes..
What is the standard called and where can I read about that?
Adventures in Rust
1) Yes, databases are just object stores with indexing and querying, which are an abstraction on filesystems, which are abstractions on block devices.

2) Rados is an object store, which is an abstraction on BlueStore (effectively a filesystem and replacement of FileStore), which is an abstraction on block devices.

3) HDFS is an object store, which is an abstraction on filesystems, which are an abstraction on block devices.

I'm not sure what you're point is because you just restated what I already said. They are abstraction, and they work just fine without any performance issues because that is the trade off of having an abstraction.

What I also said is that emulating low-level layers on a higher-level interface (like a block device on top of a database or object store) will never match the original block device. What is untrue about this?
> You never see someone getting locked up or fined for copying discs for personal use. All of the cases that I'm aware of involved distribution and profiting.

Because in most places there's a distinction between copyright infringement done as part of trade and copyright infringement for personal use - which is what I said in parent post.
Portugal didn't legalize drug use, we decriminalized it, which is not the same. It's still illegal, you just can't go to jail for using or carrying small amounts. Usually you get a trip to the police station, you're searched for drugs (which are confiscated), and you get a date to go to a meeting with a psychologist, who will usually try to convince you to give them up or, depending on the case, to enroll on a treatment program.
Hindley-Milner monomorphizes the type of a function inside the body of the function, so if you make a recursive call on a different type the type checker will complain. There are many subtle "gotchas" with type inference that are often not encountered by most programmers. Unless you've implemented a type inference engine yourself, you probably don't know about these sort of restrictions.

Here is an example of the type error (I used the datatype from the Wikipedia article on polymorphic recursion):
https://repl.it/@CalebHelbling/PolymorphicRecursionError
So? That makes doing the same to animals morally acceptable?
OpenIndiana Hipster 2018.04, Drops Gnome 2 for MATE and Adds KPTI for Meltdown
On "Wisdom of the Crowds": Group average on its own is no good, but some creative aggregation can be better than either member on its own (and of course better than naive averaging of any sorts). As a practical example, see for instance Metaculus. Excerpt from one comment[1]:

"Since Dec. 1 2018 (sic), the MP has been on the "right" side of 50% every single time, and (in a more meaningful measure) has a mean Brier of 0.048. (Though those are both about to be spoiled by the NASA-LISA question, probably.)" [2]

You can compare metaculus vs. community predictions at [2]. The corresponding community score would be 0.119 during the same time.

[1]: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/666/will-this-question-r...
[2]: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/track-record/
So the reasoning is X thing might cause crime (of the real variety), so let's make X illegal, so that anyone that does X is automatically a criminal, even if only a subset will actually go on to commit real crimes.

As for the public health implications, there's probably way more effective ways of mitigating that than making them criminals. It's a range though, those that cause significant harm to others should certainly be taken out of the system. Alcoholics are frigging annoying, and highly disruptive, but many aren't actually violent criminals.
Massive roundups of wild horses on public lands called for in Congress report
You said he's "not some scammer looking to fleece a few people and make a quick buck." Look at this e-mail:

https://blogs.microsoft.com/uploads/prod/sites/5/2018/04/Ema...

I have no idea how anyone, after reading this e-mail, can conclude that he was not trying to scam buyers into believing they were buying something other than counterfeit material, unawares, and then sell it to customers who were equally unaware they were buying counterfeits.

"Work hard and get these moved to any other buyer. No nomral company or buyer will notice such isuses and every month you spend sitting on this product is another month XP get's older and my assets become worth less." "I have not seen the return that I was expecting to use for my India project buddy." Those are Lundgren's _own words._ And nobody who read the article you wrote and linked to would have that context. They would, in fact, have your words to the opposite.
> If I managed to find someone to pay to get a copy of your post, would that mean you'd lose money?

Indeed, I would be losing a non-negative amount (call it X) of money that I could have earned, if you were to commit that crime. You should rather ask me for my permission. I will then have my options to lend you my copyright either for free (X = 0), for $y (X = $y), or not allow you to do so at all. If you do it anyway, then my losses would be at least the amount you sell it for; I might have been planning to sell it for more when the demand rises.

I am not sure if I am immediately granted such a copyright for my comments here, though.
To be honest, I'm just as baffled in the other direction. Have you ever seen a Linux Mint system? It's hardly Gentoo. What problems are you imagining, once the setup is completed? (It should be obvious that I didn't hand my dad a Live USB and say "good luck"). Installing software is simple, safe search and click in something named "software center". Updates are the same. Performance tends to be much better.

For a non tech savvy user:
How do you install software on Windows? How do you avoid viruses if you're not savvy enough to intuitively pick up on which sites and emails are legit and which are malicious[1]? How do you stop 500 random programs from slowing the crap out of your computer by autostarting and running in the taskbar? This is leaving aside the piss-poor performance of the actual OS itself, which certain tech-savvy people handle by fretting about antivirus programs and the necessity of defragmentation. Go far back enough and you can't even dismiss the former of these concerns offhand, while with Linux, "don't worry about viruses" is an accurate enough directive. I could've said the same for Windows, but the collateral damage would be the very useful "don't download random software from random shady sites". For fuck's sake, at one point Windows had a virus that could infect your system _without even being opened_ (if attached to an email that was opened in Outlook).

Aside from setting up his system, which I'd have to do anyway, I struggle to think of a single problem my dad has had in the ten years since he's switched that wasn't an unforced error that he'd do on any system (ie accidentally changing some setting like screen magnification and being unable to find his way back).

I'm actually really curious about your answers to the above overarching question, because I similarly can't imagine what computing universe you live in that is remotely similar to the one I live in.

[1] some interesting research out of MSR sometime back indicated that bad grammar and other obvious tells in scam emails were actually _intentional_, in that they filtered out all but the least savvy users, who'd have the highest percentage of susceptibility during the more labor-intensive subsequent stages of the scamming process.
> The issue is that judges used a value provided by Microsoft for the discs that is counter to fact (license =/= recovery disc, counterfeit or not) and massively inflated his sentence as a result.

You don't understand Criminal Law if you believe that statement is true. Above a certain threshold, the sentence is more of a precedent and deterrence.
Besides employment, it also prevents citizens from voting after they have served their time.
And we should listen to Peter Thiel because....
> “To ensure the success and social acceptance of this research long term, an ethical framework must be forged now”

It seems to me like the ethical framework surrounding this depends rather a lot on the outcome of these experiments. We have no idea what a disembodied consciousness experiences. Nor do we know what, if anything, they would express.
To me, the answers to these questions determine the ethics of this to a very large degree.

One might argue that the possibilities are so horrible that we should not proceed. And yet I cannot help but be curious.
It seems like your library is much more integrated into Python than the point cloud library. I have been frustrated with the point cloud library and this seems much better to work with numpy also. Looks great !
People don’t want to know what’s going on on factory farms about it because it makes them uncomfortable. A textbook example of cognitive dissonance. From ethics point of view that’s better than wholeheartedly endorsing it but not by a large margin.
I've seen a family member commit slow-motion suicide with alcohol. Nothing I saw made me think that it would be better if he had to pay a black-market markup to get his fix, or that incarceration would have benefited him, or that his incarceration would have benefited the people he hurt.
Ah yes. Starts off with BART salaries. Just revealed his right-wing intentions.
I also don't think it's an anti-car website, it's essentially site focused on the financial aspects of small towns, and they're asserting that towns built around cars are poor financial investments for the cities themselves [0].

[0] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2012/1/2/the-cost-of-aut...
How would we stimulate such a brain? Would you put electrodes on nerves going into the brain-stem?
Ask HN: Any campers here?
I’ve spent (too) many years in front of a computer. Now, I’m working on ways to get away from it. (Including setting up a truck for overloading, but that’s another story.)

Last year, @shelkie and I made Campnab (https://www.campnab.com). It helps find cancelled reservations at sold-out campsites.

We started in BC. Then, we added Ontario, National Parks (Canada and US), Washington State, Oregon, California, and those managed by recreation.gov (America).

If you’re a camper, let me know. I have some promo codes to share with those who’re up for sharing feedback.
> I’d totally not be surprised if Skype for Business is used in government branches.

It is, or at least Centrelink, Medicare, NDIS and Veteran's Affairs use it in Australia. Wouldn't be surprised if it was also used outside of DHHS.