skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I assume, that when I die, this perspective goes away as well, I consider death to equal a total loss of consciousness ability to percieve.

The perspective goes away, but the ability to perceive is not part of the perspective. An old telescope goes offline, but the scientist is still there, peering through other telescopes. The body dies, but that which experiences the world through it doesn't.

This is from "the perennial philsophy" (cf. Aldous Huxley), if you want to look into it, though a bit esoteric and not easy to find a contemporary simple explanation of it.
> “To date thousands of apps have been investigated and around 200 have been suspended — pending a thorough investigation into whether they did in fact misuse any data.“

Sounds like typical PR spin, with a “no update” update. No proper numbers mentioned. Adjectives used to hide the real numbers. Most of the time this is done because the worst case scenario is being hidden. When it says “thousands”, it could mean 2000 and a few more. When it says “around 200”, you bet it’s 190 or so.

When they find violations they’re just going to ban the app? That’s it? Don’t they even consider legal action where possible?

What a waste of time and what an insult to the intelligence of the readers.
Nah. If they're chasing a bad guy out of a building, this is great stuff: just like a barking K-9 officer, bad guy will either run or surrender. With a little armor, he won't be able to shoot it. And with some simple kind of IFF (infrared coded beacon maybe?) you could keep cops out of its sights.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-476_dbfi.pdf
It’s likely we already did, along with boxes, cables, half of each of the moon landers, an electric car and a few American flags.
Maybe it's wise to split the project into two: the backend API (service) and the frontend UI / UX?

This way, if you're ultimately only interested in the service you're not dragging around the UI stuff (even if you're not using it).

Maybe?
I don't avidly follow Tesla, but love reading about production processes. Did he mention the simulations would be released somewhere?
This is similar to the idea mentioned, but again... requires you to be logged in and tracked. I liked the first implementation of it, not sure about the current form. https://contributor.google.com/v/beta
Have you ever done consulting?

The problem is that the company can’t judge the size of the problem they have. When you don’t know what you’re asking you are very likely to get sticker shock.

If two agencies put in a bid on your job, where one is planning to profit on rework (dishonesty) and the other is estimating for all the unknowns, you’re going to go with the first guy because you like his price better. And then you’re gonna get taken to the cleaners.
The Stop Snoring and Sleep Apnea Program Review – Christian Goodman
Whether it's one VM or multiple, you still have to write the configuration management code (Puppet modules, Ansible roles...) to do so, and some of them will need tweaking for specific applications (e.g. in Python, installing libxml or libmysqlclient for pip dependencies, in PHP installing the various dynamically loaded extensions), which is where the rabbithole of complexity begins.
There's been a lot of FUD against PoW and some of it is warranted. The problem is saying "PoW is a bad solution to the problem" doesn't provide any path forward. PoS is not a solution, and neither is so called dPoS where block producers are nominated by or purchased from the development team. Lots of smart people are working on better PoW algorithms, more resistant to centralization and hopefully at least one succeeds. Otherwise a new model for trustless p2p exchange of money will need to be developed.

It seems to me a lot of so called "decentralized currencies" are moving away from the model that brought billions of dollars into the market, in favour of recreating shitty versions of what already exists. To do this they dance around terms and attempt to claim they're actually MORE decentralized for reasons blah blah blah. I have a feeling the anti-PoW is orchestrated FUD from teams building decentralized-in-name-only platforms like EOS and NEO. Yelling about electricity costs and how "trust is needed!" is getting old. People like the trustless idea, even if so far it hasn't turned out well. A platform that lets you run "unstoppable dApps" when stopping them only requires shutting down 21 known nodes isn't unstoppable at all and is frankly worthless.
It also does not and never did support consistent history or multi-device.

And it never will, because having some way to identify a message is a prerequisite for even phrasing the question "does device_foo have message_x synced yet?"

Bouncers don't count. They reintroduce centralization as a way to solve the problem. It's a solution, of a sort, but it's a fairly poor one if your original aim was decentralization.

And "working fine" is also frankly a bit of a stretch, isn't it? I can't count how many times I've seen a "netsplit" in freenode or the other IRC networks. That means messages aren't delivered. It's so common we have a word for it: "netsplit".

I shouldn't dunk on IRC too much, because at least it's honest about itself for being simple, and there's a virtue in that. But if we were to construct a statement like "IRC manages reliable message delivery without any concept of message IDs", then that would be false (or technically, vacuous), because it doesn't manage reliable message delivery.
State-of-the-art MEMS and microsystem tools for brain research [pdf]
you're conflating the success of the technology with the success of its users.

If the measure of success for a technology is that a lot of people are using it and working on it, then Docker is tremendously successful. If the measure of success is that the company building it is profitable, I have no idea. If the measure of success is that the founders can raise a lot of money and then take some off the table ... gonna bet successful here; they've raised $248m. Whether or not it's a good way to run applications is entirely irrelevant based on those definitions of success for the technology.
I've cancelled two accounts with them before and never called an 800 number...
Not a lot though. These things were expensive even for knights.

Similarly the usual days did not have as much animal produce as today.

Remember that these people were professional soldiers with at least a few hours of strenuous exercise a day combined with relative leisure In prayer. (Compared to peasants or even modern day workers.)
I'm not sure that's the answer. I got an eye-opening view of the problem when I took a trip to Southeast Asia a couple years ago. Being in the third world, there's very few recycling plants to process plastic waste. The next best option, as you've implied, is landfills to sequester plastic waste...sacrifice that land to keep the rest of our planet clean(er). But even that's hard in many places.

On many of the islands I visited, people did make a conscientious effort to throw their plastic garbage in bins and do the right thing. And that worked great, up until one of the massive deluges of rain that the area gets would come. And since they had no landfill area that was far enough from the water, the rains would wash the entire landfills out to sea in a massive river of plastic waste. It was one of the most depressing sights I've ever seen. On one of the scuba dives I went on, we found ourselves surfacing in a debris field that had washed out to sea and it was astonishing to see the magnitude of it. Collecting everything together, as in your suggestion, just led to a massive batch dump into the ocean and it didn't do anything to keep the waste out of the ocean.

What we really need is a way to simply produce less plastic products. Increased use of glass, increased emphasis on reusing what plastic we do have and, yes, new technology to replace plastics with materials that break down faster so that when they do end up in the oceans, which in much of the world is inevitable from the moment of creation, they don't cause the amount of damage that plastics do.
This statement is not strictly true but in context correct. Any volcanic eruption is full of really nasty gasses like carbon monoxide, sulfur, chlorine, and even fluorine, to name just a few. This comes from the content of the earth already (well, all the garbage comes from the earth originally also). But like you implied, adding the tiny amount of garbage generated by humans to the mix to an entire crustal column of rock would have insignificant impact on what comes out on top.
In the military they are called After Action Reports.
Not sure where you're getting that "~100x50" figure, do you literally mean they're transferring a 100-pixel-wide image 50 times per second?

The closest thing I can see them mention in that paper is their adoption of the "zig-zag scanning" rather than raster scanning. But how many pixels that skips over is very variable dependent on the input image.

There's also the "super-pixels" thing, but that's pretty standard for video compression right? Macro-blocks and B/P-frames, corrected with occasional full-resolution I-frames...

They also note the effect of distance, both in the abstract and in the results.. 720@60 at 10 feet, but only 480@10 at 16 feet. Not remarkable results, but they're not lying in their abstract...
It's interesting to watch the spiral down the drain of mainstream media. They're so desperate for eyeballs they sink to these lows.

It won't be long and they'll be gone.
Still a better love story than Twilight
EU budgets €12m for 18 year old EU citizens to travel free across Europe
That exact paragraph is the one I'm complaining about. 31 and 48 are qualified averages (for wealthy landowning males and the same who survived to age 20). "Many lived long past 60" is talking about the outliers of the Templar population. What was the average?
my employer keylogs all computers and does sentiment analysis.
I like this quote:

> ... time is no more defined by a clock than pressure is defined by a pressure gauge, speed by a speedometer, or gravity by a graded spring. Time is not defined by clocks. It is naturally fixed, manifest in motion, as with the celestial bodies. By defining time by his clocks, A. Einstein detached time from physical
reality.

Einsten mistook his clock for time! Or reified time with a clock.
Modular architecture for fully non-blocking silicon photonic switch fabric [pdf]
Sure, the work is done by inexperienced staff — that’s how we train them. But the work is reviewed by someone with experience, who should correct any mistakes before the client sees them.

We try to staff experienced people on engagements, but they get bored and leave the company because all we do are bullshit implementations. You have to give people career progression opportunities, which in consulting means managing teams through execution and training them up.
Uninstall or Disable PGP Tools, Security Researchers Warn
Education law. The federal government is requiring states to comply with its mandates or lose funding.
Here's a different take, another thought experiment Re: death, from Sigmund Freud, Reflections on War and Death:

“We cannot, indeed, imagine our own death; whenever we try to do so we find that we survive ourselves as spectators. The school of psychoanalysis could thus assert that at bottom no one believes in his own death, which amounts to saying: in the unconscious every one of us is convinced of his immortality.”

[Edit: Frued->Freud]
That's really the kicker here. He was trying as hard as possible to make these look official.

Had he just kept a folder of ISOs on his computer at work, and burned images on-demand for customers, and just wrote the OS version on the disk, he probably wouldn't have had a problem.

Instead, he had a foreign company burn the discs en-masse on consumer-grade CDs, and slapped trademarks on the packaging that he didn't have the rights to.

I think there's room for nuance in this case, and that the penalties are outrageous, but this guy isn't innocent. He was planning on turning a profit by selling another company's IP, and using their trademarks on the packaging.
We have been doing this for ages at Google - our free Android devices track where we are, even at the toilet taking a Schmidt.
i can't blame the news for me wasting my own time, but i can blame the news for doing a shitty job fulfilling their function in society.
Clearly Google/Alphabet should have subsidiary for it if they want/have to do military work.
I'm optimizing for ultra low latency here; i.e. what's the absolute fastest I can detect a prefix match against this known string table? The final assembly version is down around the 6-20 cycle range, depending on what you're doing.

The overhead of dispatching a kernel to the GPU (and subsequent memory copy of the search string) would take tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of CPU cycles, so, it's not really applicable in this single-shot prefix lookup case.

Where it would be interesting: much larger prefix data sets (say, the name of all known cities, states, countries etc) and identifying where they occur in an even larger text corpus (like a wikipedia dump).

In that approach, you'd obviously compare against a multi-threaded CPU implementation... but, it'd be interesting to see the comparison.
Are You Hot Enough to “Eat” Here?
Isn't SAM just an extension of CloudFormation?

It allows you the SAM simplifications, but also all the CF stuff.
Elon is a high visibility person, anything related to what he’s doing is going to drive readers and media.
Pinterest does the same copyright gymnastics.
The Evolution of Sequencing Technology [pdf]
> Anyway, the attacker still need to get a hand on your encrypted email.

That is the case for all encryption vulnerabilities, and it seems a little strange that you keep pointing this out. Of COURSE the attackers need access to the encrypted text; the entire point of encryption is because we want to protect our data when someone else has access to it.

If we thought an attacker getting their hands on our encrypted email was not something to worry about, we wouldn't encrypt our emails at all. Why do you keep making that point?
If punishment isn't supposed to be a cure, and if discouraging "other criminals" is only secondary ("future crimes" might be less loaded), then what exactly is the primary purpose of punishment?
Have you done some comparison with a trie implementation (known for good performance on prefix matching, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie)
Rework is often the profit strategy when the client comes to us with a lowball price in mind. Don’t chalk it all up to dishonesty; many times we have to do exactly what the client asks us to first, watch it fail, then suggest a more expensive path for rework.

The right call is the right call, even if the client dislikes the price. But sometimes you have to let the client fail before they’re willing to listen to you (the bigger the implementation, the more true this tends to be).
This is a great article. I almost cannot watch any historical movie, the life was so hopeless back then.
> Yelling about electricity costs and how "trust is needed!" is getting old

It's still a valid concern, Pow has currently lots of difficulty to scale because of that, not to mention that the electricity needed is enormous to sustain the system.
Holy... I’m pretty sure that most of these things are illegal in Germany.

In any case, my prediction is that once these things go mainstream, companies with values that rely on trust as a core element of collaboration instead of surveillance will gain an advantage in the job market. I hope I’m right
Trademark infringement.

If his discs are fine there’s no problem from the customers standpoint. If the manufacturer is accidentally injecting a Trojan onto the discs they press, now MS has a PR problem caused by someone who is using their trademarks without permission.

I’m no fan of MS legal practices but he really fucked up and you have to defend your trademarks or you can lose them.
Just highway funds have been used by the federal government to enforce two other rules on the states: speed limits and motorcycle helmets. There have been attempts to also make national no-texting-and-driving rules.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/07/four-ti...

Trump has tried to restrict federal funding to "sanctuary cities" as a way to coerce them into prosecuting illegal immigrants. It was struck down as not passing the South Dakota test, but he may try again.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-executive-order-sanctuary...

The federal government also prohibits states from stopping federal funding of Planed Parenthood, which arguably cross-subsidizes (though does not directly fund) abortion.

https://qz.com/863101/title-x-obama-enacts-a-law-mandating-t...
I'm not aware of people committing crimes to fuel their social media habits.
I know not everyone has the option to rebel against this kind of totalitarianism at the workplace, but as a person without family obligations, I'd sooner become a traveling hobo than work for a company that wants to implant a chip under my skin or so much as monitor my toilet breaks. F* that. My self-respect has no price tag.
>If they were important, then there would be economic value to them.

What justifies this statement? It seems nearly mind-bogglingly false to me so I would be interested to hear support for it.
This is why they provided a Windsorized average too. (of people who lived till 20s)
Configuration management software is good to have for managing servers because 1) they are mutable, 2) you're not always building from scratch, and 3) you may have to support many different environments (different distros, distro versions, exact same distro with different packages installed...).

Containers get rid of all these problems: Your images are immutable, you can always build from scratch, and you have full control of what goes in the image. Because of this, a plain shell script or something like Dockerfile is much simpler and easier to reason about. I really don't see the point in Ansible Container.
Applications of next-generation sequencing
No, the Supreme Court didn't rule that Congress couldn't pass laws regarding the regulation of sports gambling and userp state laws. What they ruled is that Congress couldn't choose to not regulate an area and then tell states how they had to regulate the same area.

In the case of drug laws there are clear federal laws regulating drug trafficking, so this ruling does nothing to effect the status quo.
And correct.
I've had to work with lots of configuration management the past few years, and I'm always cleaning up the mess because we did this for 2 decades. The world may not have collapsed but I sure have lost weeks or months of productive time trying to untangle messy configuration management setups.
Amdflaws was more like "if you have admin access you can backdoor the secure boot infrastructure" while this is "if an attacker manages to intercept an encrypted HTML email and send it to you modified and you use a MUA with dubious security setting with regards to HTML then you're at risk".

The issues are so different that it's probably pointless to try to rank them by severity. I personally always considered that HTML email was a terrible idea security-wise so the idea of HTML PGP sounds a bit like putting mustard on pasta. That being said the PGP/SMIME implementations really ought to detect tampering and error out in this situation, it's always better to fail early.
I hope you're joking
-Plastic is recyclable. Why would you think it's not?
-Besides that, paper bags are made up of (dun dun dun) plant material. Which means CO2 is being brought into the equation.
-The energy required to make a paper bag versus a plastic one are still neck and neck.
https://ecomyths.org/2014/05/27/myth-paper-bags-are-greener-...

I'm not saying plastic bags are better than paper, but they're not really worse, aside from the fact that people suck at disposing of them. You need to get society better at recycling. It's not really the bag's fault.
> they are arbitrarily deciding that some state gets an exception, making it non constitutional.
> ...That is why it was stricken

Do you have quote from the decision to support this? It seems to conflict with what I excerpted and the analysis I've seen.
> I give them 3-5 years max.

why?
Floss is often / typically Nylon, which will take decades. If you accidentally wound up with PTFE floss (which is apparently a thing) I'd expect millennia unless it's in direct sun.
Tampons should biodegrade at home, but I'm willing to bet there are large swaths of the US where composting anything with human fluids is illegal.

In any case, hat-tip for empiricism! Very pro composting, wish it was safer, smaller, and easier to do at home.
Also, fasting has many anti aging properties. And exercise, which I assume they got lots of.
> A new Danish study claims that low-density polyethylene (LDPE) has the smallest impact on the environment.

"In general, LDPE carrier bags, which are the bags that are always available for purchase in Danish supermarkets, are the carriers providing the overall lowest environmental impacts when not considering reuse."

(emphasis mine)
I want this model too. Unfortunately, credit card processing fees will eat most of that. We need a new payment infrastructure that's low fee and enables small digital purchases.
You don't. Perhaps they need to fit a square peg into a rectangular hole.
I’m a fan of hackathons but this feels like a “grasping at straws” solution, at least for the near term.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/995822814291673090?s=20
> Otherwise a new model for trustless p2p exchange of money will need to be developed.

That's the biggest assumption of all. The idea that there's a need for trustless p2p money, or that existing money doesn't work seems like nonsense to me.
John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories
Public/Private hybrids are not uncommon. Let research universities and private drug companies compete for grants. The rub is to make it ok to fail, and reward treating causes not just symptoms.

You are right though, it does require some government intervention to incentivize long term gambles with huge up front costs. NASA and The Manhattan Project are no different. Spend lots of money now, knowing you wont reap benefits for years. Our current system of using temporary intellectual property ownership of the formula is broken.
Feature Engineering and Selection: A Practical Approach for Predictive Models
All of this is _very_ recent.
The Road to SOA
Name names. Most plastic in the ocean comes from Chinese rivers. Western countries don't just throw their garbage into the ocean like China does. Making westerners feel guilty doesn't help fix the problem.
I believe I've read somewhere that Curse of Monkey Island drew some heavy influences from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, which originally opened in the sixties.
Mgmt looks awesome. It's just a shame it arrives so late, when stuff like containers and orchestration systems (read: Docker and Kubernetes) is taking over lots of responsibilities traditionally left to configuration management.

Not to say configuration management and traditional servers are going away within the next years, but it will probably hinder the popularity and growth of new tools like these. Sadly.
I can't think of any other term than worst-case thinking, and this post by Schneier: http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/05/12/schneier.worst.case.th...

There's more going on than just that though. It's like we've collectively forgotten that technology is double-edged. Maybe things like Black Mirror that people are referencing a lot (I haven't watched any of it so someone can correct me) only focus on one edge and that leads to things like availability bias. If popular media drives a lot of the heuristic when thinking about technology it's perhaps no wonder when not much of it is uplifting.
PGP Vulnerability in Email Clients