skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, first, let's keep clear exactly what we're talking about here:

A machine that attempts to imitate a human well enough to trick people into performing a specific action, an action that involves commitments of time and money.

I have a specific and a general objection to this. The specific objection is that this thing tries to trick people. It sets up a "frame" that is intrinsically deceptive. That's it's goal.

In another comment s2g quoted:

> Giving it an obviously robotic voice when it calls. "People will probably hang up," he said.

It is designed to trick people. That's bad. When you do it in business, we call it "fraud".

My general issue with this is that it normalizes the blurring of the line between real human people and ersatz Artificial Intelligence "people". This is something that's going to be a serious problem on a deep level. There's evidence of this sort of conceptual melting right here in this thread. How long before folks are trying to marry their toaster?

Last but not least, there's the meta-problem: the disconnect between the techo-elite innovators and the masses.

Think about this: As a businessman, when the phone rings and there's robot there trying to give me money why would I hang up? The robot only called me because someone wants to make a sale (from my POV) so that's the "opposite of a problem". This is the meta-problem: the technologists are so effin' clueless yet default to starry-eyed optimism.

"We are as gods, we might as well get good at it."

Conversely, save me from the folly of young gods.
You misread Elia's tweet in the first place. "Not willing to accept reality" as a reason for suicide is not about being delusional, it's about literally refusing to accept reality, where you are an outcast and nobody wants you around.
No "Chain of possibilities" pattern?

Also, far too few classes with the word "Context" in the name.
It's required in New York as well, but I can't imagine that is seriously deterring people from riding bikes.
Am I safe from this exploit if I disable Javascript?
Wow. And I'm assuming you cannot name names, for the benefit of society, because lawyers.
The code running the copier likely did an unlink(filename) when done with the job. And once deleted, it looked like it was gone from the point of view of looking at a directory listing of the drive.

Of course the programmer writing the code did not consider all those "undelete" utilities that exist to "undo an unlink(filename) operation" and how they might just be used to recover the files.
And if your browser is configured to use a predictive search engine you've just sent the contents of your clipboard to Google or Microsoft (or other search provider).
Combining ideas from parent and grandparent:

sum(planet.get('moons', 0) for planet in target['system']['planets'])
zooooooooooom
This sounds very much like you're arguing against female engineering outreach programs and diversity hiring.
> And on top of that, in the realm of database engineering, Amazon is absolutely a newcomer, they've got another good 15 years before they can even start to be in contention for "reliable and trustworthy database vendor"

They did hire a bunch of experienced engineers. I'd rather have them actually contribute to postgres (which amazon pretty much doesn't do, some bug reports aside).

> Presumably, upstreams like MariaDB and PostgreSQL have forgone similar enhancements for a better reason than "only Amazon employees are smart enough to figure it out".

Some of them are harder to do if you don't have as much control over the environment as amazon does...
>What about GMOs? What is the harm in not using them?

lower crop yields, more starvation, more malnutrition
U.S. 'net neutrality' rules will expire on June 11: FCC
I think you are confusing between specialization, and a degree in sub-branch. A degree in CS is always valued more than a degree in say IT.

On the other hand, a degree in CS with specialization in Networking, would be more valued than a plain degree in CS.

I'd say if you want to specialize, do a master's. A degree such as above would put the holder in really bad position if that field goes into ice age. In case that happens to master's degree, you always have your bachelor's degree to fall back to.
Strangely enough, I often find my self impulsively writing (n & 1) to check for even/odd numbers. It just feels natural to me -- maybe because the first C programs I wrote were for µCs, where this kind of bit-twiddling tends to be used everywhere, and, correspondingly, people know what (n & 1) does. Sure enough, even on microcontrollers (n % 2) has no overhead compared to (n & 1) when optimisations are turned on.

It only ever caught my attention that writing (n & 1) is weird when some TAs looking at my code didn't understand what I was doing during my first college year.
Shame I can't find it but I saw a study where a sociologist was monitoring a single town for decades and recording how far children would wander by themselves during the day. In the seventies it was around ten miles, with single-digit aged children wandering through the woods and into town and even doing errands for the family.

Around 2010 I think it had declined to about 200 yards max. It's really extremely sad. I wouldn't want to be a kid now. I wouldn't want to have those memories of childhood. It's part of several reasons I don't think it would be ethical for me to reproduce at this time.

People's fear is a sliding scale, and a child's safety is one of those things that the human psyche gives infinite value. That really screws up your ability to manage risk. People are even more afraid now, even though the causes of early death are the lowest they've ever been and we've marched ourselves into a joyless panopticon where nobody really decides their own destiny from an early age.

These kids are going to absolutely hate us.
Linked lists are easy. People are struggling with safe linked lists, because they think they should be as easy to write as an unsafe ones.

But if you're already willing to use C or C++, you've got no reason to avoid unsafe.
That seems like something they should probably fix
Hey awesome! I'm glad you like it. I built that whole system from about 100 customers. I don't work there anymore but I did really enjoy making that stuff work.
Enhance your Java application with R using GraalVM
> Imagine graduating now with an undergrad in big data--that sounded like a good idea 5 years ago.

Is that a good analogy? Big data started out as a marketing buzzword, whereas AI always was an academic field of research.
Yes, however you can do:

Ctrl+V, Ctrl, T

To paste then remove formatting.

Personally I still use notepad or the address bar.
Letting GC take care of lifetimes is a big plus for many applications. Rust's ownership model buys you a lot --- no GC overhead (space, not just time), fearless parallelism, more powerful static invariants --- but it costs you development effort, and depending on your application the costs can outweigh the benefits.

Rust improvements like NLL will hopefully reduce the costs. I think we will discover more ways to leverage the benefits, over time. However, I also think it might be interesting to let people opt into a Rust dialect that hides lifetime issues, e.g. using a lot of implicit Rcs and (Ref)Cells.
I'm sure Monsanto and the GMO lobby's objective was saving lives in developing countries, not profits. When they pushed GMOs bundled with pesticides and herbicides they did so aided by the corruption in these countries, where the farmers were doing quite fine replanting seeds. Now they're abusing a BASF product to ripen tomatoes overnight.
You may be protected from the specific examples provided in the blog post, but, on the whole, you will not be protected. Most of the underlying vulnerabilities here can be exploited with simple HTML and CSS.
>If I turn off my tv during ads on a cable show, am I now stealing?

I think this is an excellent analogy.

What if broadcasters transmitted control codes that could reconfigure your TV or even disable its functions? You're watching something, a commercial begins and suddenly your TV's volume is maxed out by the broadcaster because they want to reach people who left the room. You try to set it back to what it was, but the controls don't respond. You try to mute the TV but the function appears to have been disabled. Changing channel doesn't work. Turning it off doesn't work. It's as if they were saying "So... You actually thought you could get away with watching our stuff for free, huh? You think you're so smart... Now we've made it so you HAVE to watch this commercial. See how you like THAT!" This attitude is straight up hostile to the subscribers. It attempts to control them, lest they escape from the publisher's money-making machine. Such audacity, right? How dare they not watch my commercial! Can you imagine the rage and indignation the publishers must feel?

How much time would it take before TV manufacturers realized TVs which ignored the broadcaster's commands were objectively superior to those which didn't? The broadcasters would probably call use of such TVs "stealing", too. They'd probably call these manufacturers a "brotherhood of non-standard television manufacturers". They'd probably force narratives saying "hey I hate commercials as much as the next guy but really it's stealing if you don't watch them". They'd probably lobby for laws that criminalize devices which automatically remove ads from recorded footage. They'd probably try to introduce new ways to control the user's hardware in order to make the user do what they want.

This is what Javascript does. "I see you're using an ad blocker, so let me just put an overlay on top of the text so you can't read anything without "paying" for it." Sometimes publishers take issue with something as basic as copy-paste: "trying to select a portion of my page, huh? Must be a lazy pirate trying to clone my website. I'll manipulate the clipboard and make it contain a scathing message instead, just for you!" It's so hostile, sometimes I think they hate users and only see them as potential click-throughs and conversion rates. It's dehumanizing.
gVisor is not a good poster child for Go. It hacks generics into Go via a preprocessor!
Indeed. I can only think of one other, which probably holds the record.

https://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21571379-richard-pla...
FCC fines robocaller record $120M
A lot more, if the Amazon preview is any guide. It covers this ground with just the first couple of pages of chapter 2.
Calendar, email, signal. And music to play in the car.

I can live without the web browser.
Being illegal is what makes it secure.
>These kids are going to absolutely hate us.

The decline has been going on constantly, over many generations. If the trend continues as it has, these kids will think we were too lenient and restrict the movement of their own children even further.
I regularly code on my phone in the park these days -

http://www.instagram.com/p/BicfdE6AwsK
- Hackers gain access to Bangladesh's Central Bank computer network.

- Over months they quietly observe user activity and credentials, incrementally escalating their privelages until they gain access to a connected SWIFT server

- The attackers wait for the optimal weekend, which included a national holiday, so that central bankers would be least available and able to communicate.

- On that weekend the attackers send a series of wires from Bangladesh, to NY, to the Philippines, totalling near $1b

- The attackers cover their tracks by deleting digital records on the
Bangladeshi systems and interfering with their printers

- When the money arrives in the Philippines it is laundered through a complex system of casinos involving Macau and North Korea

- In the end "only" $81m was stolen, rather than $1b, because one of the wires referenced an organization with the word "Jupiter" in its name, which by dumb luck happened to be a word on an international blacklist due to a completely unrelated company with a similar name that broke Iran sanctions, triggering an investigation.

The main weakness seems to be that the Philippines does not enforce proper kyc/aml and is therefore a haven for laundering - otherwise it would be difficult to get the money to an actual human, even if SWIFT was coerced into sending invalid transactions.
Only properly educated children knows how to play with good toys.

Grew up in 90s china, clay was actually really popular because they were cost effective to provide entertainment. On the other hand, even back then there were tons of companies making shitty toys around popular cartoons.

Right now company are smart enough to make shitty "educational toys" as they figured out they need to sell to the parents.

Kids are meant to be educated. Without good art and technology education, They would just consume crappy toys like junk food.

I was lucky enough to discover the fun of dissembling and repairing electronics for my parents. But not all children are like that.

It all comes down to how we educated young kids. Primary school teachers are not the best educated and they are paid lowest. Better education will mean smarter toy industry and more educated adult in the future.

But who on earth is going to pay for that?
>does it prove her claim true that it is harmful?

Always reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKw6YjqSfM
What's the biggest missing feature or "complaint" you have? I'm doing some research.
You don't know how right you are about infrastructure in businesses. I've seen the inside of hundreds of companies over the years... everything from 5 man law firms to fortune 500, and it was a rarity to see good infrastructure.

It's a management problem, but it's also a problem because the people responsible aren't doing a good job convincing management. Which is why I think enginners/sysadmins/devs who have the ambition should start getting mbas and going for the CTO/CIO position... which is the main executive position (if it even exists) failing.

It's also why I'm working on my data science degree now. Execs don't like you, they don't trust you, and they generally don't listen well... but they love numbers and pretty graphs!
Pinboard[0] with the Archival feature.

[0] - https://pinboard.in/
What are you talking about? It has search built in - I can and do regularly search for stuff from years ago.
I'm curious then - how does the culture & process of the military get improved? Wartime, where everything and everyone that's ineffective gets discarded? Defeat, when the whole nation ostensibly being protected goes down?
I've heard that female sailors are injected with Depo-Provera, to protect them from getting knocked up... Some women can tolerate this drug, while others are maimed [0].

Progesterone is now known to be a brain hormone. Medroxyprogesterone (brand name: Provera) is a good imposter-progesterone. It's useful for suppressing ovulation, but doesn't function like the endogenous hormone.

[0] https://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/2016/08/i-wouldnt-recomme...

edit: They must use all types, not just Provera, but certainly they emphasize the options that don't require a daily pill - the implant, IUD, Depo-Provera, etc. http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=100091
The unionized idiots that allowed this should also be investigated. I'm a little surprised this -could- be pulled off, I think it'd be worthwhile to check for inside help.

Then again, maybe the USPS is in fact, just that incompetent
With old, physical systems, a bad person can easily mess with a single to a few people. With new digital system the bar is very high, most people are stumped. But when you do get over the bar, then you can mess with hundreds of millions of people.
What does that even mean?

How it is debilitating? No explanation.

Work/life balance asserts a distinction between a job and unpaid time, as if labor rights didn't draw that line. It says nothing about emotional state.

There is a strict tradeoff in many cases; you're on the clock or you're not. But many companies prefer those boundaries get ignored.

"It actually is a circle; it’s not a balance."

Maybe it's a triangle or polygon.

It sounds like an oblique way of arguing that Amazon workers should work long hours and are to blame if they're not enthusiastic about this.
MySQL has a GPL license (not AGPL) so I think they can modify and not distribute the source as long as they provide a service and not binaries.
Parents have been investigated for allowing their children to play in the back yard: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/manitoba-cfs-will-not-erase-fi...
I tried to fight off the urge to get excited about this phone but I can't anymore (been disappointed many times by linux-based phone plans). Librem, you now officially have a place in my hopes and dreams. I'm really excited.

> As the implementation of the Librem 5 goes on, we are quite aware that time is limited given our January 2019 target, and we are therefore focusing on robustness and efficiency for the first version of the mobile UI shell (“phosh”), which we wish to push upstream to become the GNOME mobile shell.

Terrific! I love Gnome shell and use it every day, and I'd love to have it on my phone. Those mocks looks great!
Looks like he is enthusiastic about other people working for his money.
I was talking specifically about the person I replied to and many others (actually most comments) in the discussion which had nothing specific about net neutrality about ISPs being profitable.
Shut down how? It's not being distributed by some fischer-price curated app store. Even if Alphabet companies essentially hire the judicial system to shut down or arrest troublesome developers for arbitrary reasons, it wouldn't stop piHole from being distributed p2p or stop others from picking up its updates and development, right?
Integration with Azure Managed Disks :
Due to the ingestion heavy nature, the disks attached to the nodes on the cluster often result as the bottleneck. Traditionally, to scale this bottleneck, more nodes need to be added. Azure Managed Disks is a technology that provides cheaper, scalable disks that are a fraction of the cost of a node. HDInsight Kafka has integrated with these disks to provide upto 16 TB/node instead of the traditional 1 TB. This results in an exponentially higher scale, while reducing costs in the inverse, exponential manner.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/hdinsight/apache-...

Is this same approach as pyro ?
I took an open CMU grad course on the basics of AI from a year ago and generally I can understand papers in journals at an intuitive level and hack around with some existing libraries no problem. I won't be solving research problems or hired by Tesla or anything but writing amateur trade bots, and feeding predictive bids inside an app I wrote is possible with just an AI crash course. Rest of CMUs standard undergrad is pretty solid I imagine these will be good advanced undergrad courses.
Ads aren't innocent anymore. As technology gets better they are getting far, far more persuasive. It's gonna get weird once it hits a crucial threshold of effectiveness and basically make public opinion counterfeit.
The main significance is that if she stays in, she will get the shittiest assignments in the entire navy until 20 years is reached (pension retirement), and is a pariah forever. And never any promotions.
Twitter Trump Kanye West
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/824572
Another factor could be familiarity, by now people are so used to seeing C like syntax, any things else would feel automatically difficult attracting huge investments in time to learn.

Also if most developers have to learn lisp, there have to be enough jobs.
This

What I will often do is batch email. Works. Until whatever it is reaches some critical point. Often nothing does.

SMS, or a call works then.

If those happen too much, I trigger a what is worth what discussion. Perhaps my point of focus needs to wait. And it can. No worries, but for the expectations associated with it will need to be managed along with that wait.

There is a cost to everything. Communicating that cost helps with this stuff. Can help very considerably.
i dunno. only like 2 of these are “hacks”. the rest are sooo basic. and he doesn’t even have the classic swap 2 bytes/words (3 xors).
Ten years ago it was like a reef. You could find fish 5 ft/1.5m from the shore. The kelp beds were literal forests underwater. Now it's like a bomb went off. Plains of empty shells. Just death all around.
I use awesome wm.
I can simplify things. Entrepreneurship is about MAKING MONEY. Pure and simple. It’s not about ANYTHING else. It’s not about accuracy, elegance of design, creativity, new science, perfecting things, or any other boring nonsense. It’s about MAKING MONEY. As such, a certain innate greed enters the picture. The entrepreneur wishes to be rich, not right. So entrepreneurship is a personality, not a skill. Certainly you could teach useful things to budding entrepreneurs, but not entrepreneurship.
Why so pessimistic? Aren't there any independent labs where you can send your samples for testing and then see results for your self? Send to multiple labs for more control.
Hidden behind an unfair title and a distractingly provocative first line is actually a research paper, which the article also seems to brush off as not really important either.

The research paper appears to have interviewed STEM entrepreneur programs asking about their expectation vs reality for students to participate or enter into entrepreneurial activities/careers.

After molding the programs to promote entrepreneurship heavily, the response from the students to be entrepreneurs are underwhelming. The article posits that the risk taking spirit of entrepreneurship is not easy to teach and suggests to screen for it when accepting students. It also suggests curriculum improvements - teach the logistics of how to start a company in one class, and identifying entrepreneurial opportunities in another. Finally, it suggests focusing on a few core classes rather than developing many broad classes.

The answer to the title is more on the lines of "because your program can be run better" than it is "because STEM majors are less risk averse than normal", as there's no solid evidence presented for the latter other than anecdotal observation.

You can make the counter-argument that the entire population is risk averse, not just STEM majors, and it's unknown whether or not STEM majors command a statistically significant difference when compared to the normal population.
I would Akamai Nodes at the same level. A lot of times large sites leverage on Akamai infrastructure for distribution/CDN. Facebook heavily relied on Akamai (esp outside the USA) for a long time, I don't if they still do it. Youtube's very first live streaming of any type (I think it was a concert) was done on Akamai network.

Akamai was and still is a very big player. Facebook also has their on-promise nodes, but I don't think they are as ubiquitous.
Usually for the serializable isolation level you need to manually rerun the transaction.

There are some DBs that do that for you like CockroachDB.
A good part of the problem is that they substantially curtailed basic seamanship training: https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2017/08/27/navy-swo...

You'd think that someone who's being put in charge of helming a billion dollar vessel with over a hundred people onboard would get lots of training for it, but nope, it takes more training to become a cosmetologist in most states than it does to helm a navy ship.

Sometimes problems are multifactored and complex, but sometimes they're also just simple. The Navy simply stopped training people in how to steer ships, in a bid to save money and time. Turns out that maybe that training was good for something after all though.
Yes! This and only this! The posted "bit hacks" are little more than bit level manipulations exactly as intended. The Stanford hacks are truly excellent. My favourite is: https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#RoundUp...