skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Berkeley can only tax soda because the court hasn't ruled.
That's because there is no "disaster". Apart from sucking for the ~thousand residents who are living in the area where the lava is now flowing, there is no effect on the rest of the island.
Also local governments such as Los Angeles are planning to ban Diesel and Gas by 2030. So I guess people on vacation visiting will get a huge fine, car impounded, etc for just visiting?

I think local governments are overstepping their bounds. Now if it has to do with sales of gas/diesel within city limits that would make more sense, people who disagree can just go give money to the next city over if they prefer liquid over electric. However couldn't find much info on it, just a pledge right now. I think they did it to despite Trump for dropping out of the Paris agreement. So I'm hoping it's more of just trying to create PR than actually creating any new laws.

Plus that's a huge area where I doubt every one can afford to go buy a electric, plus electric seems limiting for road trips or for RVs. Then you also got classic car collectors too. Just imagine being told by some city you have to buy a new car by a certain date and gas stations all closed by then too.
Yes. This is why I use iwantmyname.com
I support harsh penalties on anyone who tries to noun a verb.
This comment makes way more sense to me that the original blog post. Yes, nobody should be relying upon docker as their distribution platform. That's pretty terrible. Ubiquity I've observed seems pretty uncomfortable just supporting the major distros, I actually wrote some docker stuff to pull down their .debs, crack them open and install the binaries inside on a fedora/centos system. That's closed source for ya.
Thanks! Most of the technical aspects are covered in our white paper: https://bitpress.network/assets/bitpress-whitepaper.pdf
When shipped by land, coal is almost invariably shipped by rail.
You’re going to see more regulation going forward and less “asking for forgiveness”. GDPR is the beginning. Cities are sick of companies shipping products carelessly for profit and being first to market. No different than the scooter fiasco happening right now in San Francisco.
And it's worth emphasizing that we don't need to have particularly high confidence that this trend continues for it to motivate working on AI safety. All we need is the lack of high confidence that it will stop.
It would be very suspicious if our day was such an even number of milliseconds. It isn't, but still pretty cool! Things like this are what leap years are for, after all.

Or does that count? Is that caused by a partial day in the revolution of the earth around the sun or a failure of a day to fit into exactly 24 hours? Or both? Are we talking solar or sidereal days?
That really is a superb quote.
Product Dev: Challenges of Monitoring and Alerting on Sparse/Infrequent Data
I fiddled with an idea where I wrote unit tests and used them for a scoring function to train a model. Writing the number of tests and encoding the logic for a simple Linked List took orders of magnitude more code than coding the list itself.
Cash is anonymous as well. Exchange of cash can be anonymous.

And just because something can be used in a harmful way, doesn't mean it should be illegal.
I think at this point, consumer are more interested in their rights being protected than in more competition.
I find it so surprising that Greek was once the language spoken by scarcely educated people in a big part of the ancient world. I am Greek and I can manage koine (I can read it, though I wouldn't be able to, you know, speak it), mostly thanks to my exposure to the new testament when I was young, but I find Latin a much easier language to learn.

I guess that's saying something about the ability of humans to learn language at any age, or about the misconceptions we have about what is an "easy" or a "hard" language to learn. Still, I can't shake this feeling that if there was one language that it made sense for so many people to learn so they could easily speak simple things to each other, that should have been Latin, not Greek- the English of the ancient world, not its German.
Senators vote to begin debate on repealing changes to net neutrality rules
An implementation I’ve seen had all ports locked down on the laptop itself and physically locked with a plastic plug that can’t be removed without leaving evidence.

The keyboard and mouse were connected to a dock.

On the OS level only HID devices were allowed via USB you could bypass this if you had admin rights but it would leave a trail.

The idea behind these like most other security controls is to prevent accidental leakage and to make it difficult enough that intentional leakage would likely be detecte on time.
It is because users aren't linked to their bitcoins, it is however very traceable.
> Each year is cumulative/compounding. At the end of the three years, your investment is down to 0.909 * 0.88 * 0.777 ~= 0.6215, so you've actually lost 48%, not 43%.

You're correct on the idea but wrong on your math.

1-.6215 = 0.3785 ... Successive positive compounding leads to compounded growth, but successive negatives lead to diminished losses (because in year 2 you're only losing 12% of 90.9% , not 12% of 100%)
> Don't just teach them to code (the machines will do that). Teach them how to build networks and truly understand network protocols.

Building networks and understanding protocols is something machines can do TODAY. The entire internet was built to survive a nuclear war. It can reshape itself, and it most definitely understand network protocols. By definition, protocols are the language of machines over the network. And it's been like this for a few decades.

The only reason knowing low level network protocols in a world where machines can code anything (which makes them better analytical thinkers than humans) is to beg the machines for mercy in their ancient tongue.
FYI - HN does not allow users to downvote direct replies their posts. So it's not the person you're responding to who downvoted.
Given HN’s high traffic rate it could implement a simple genetic algorithm to randomly display a couple of new articles, selecting with clicks & comments. Could limit this kind of seeding to posters who have had previous posting success.
Ash output is apparently already declining, so even though the trade winds are expected to slow it appears the NWS just canceled the ash warning: "Cancelled the Ashfall Advisory for Kau District as volcanic ash emissions at Halemaumau have decreased since Tuesday evening. However, vog will be particularly thick today on the Big Island as sea breezes and upslope flow will collect the plume over the island."
I'm not the person you're asking this question to, but I thought I'd reply anyways.

No, it doesn't really bother me. Why would anyone care that I get up around 7AM on weekdays, drive to work around 9, stay there until 5, and then drive home?

On weekends they will see me going to Target and the grocery store. Sometimes another store. Sometimes I go to visit my family in another city.

I really don't care if people have that information. Many people (not me) post that information freely on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.

There are some future situations in which I might care that I am being tracked. If that were the case, it's highly unlikely I would bring a phone with me.

Would I prefer not to be tracked? Probably. Does it bother me that I am being tracked? Nope.

I suspect these views line up with the majority of people in the US.
This case was about exports.
CRF works quite well, it's actually what I utilize right now to approach recipe parsing on https://cookalo.com/. It's based on CRFsuite with Python bindings for data training on already labeled recipes. If you build your own app and want to do some comparison, feel free to run some benchmarks against it.
xkcd for everything: https://xkcd.com/297/
Sounds like the definition of escrow
The articles you cite seem to support the idea that miners are moving to areas where clean energy is under utilized.

I agree with your point about the local issues caused by this. It doesn't refute the idea that miners are using energy that would otherwise be unused.
There's no reference to them intending to ban phones in the article, at least not that I could find.

The "portable devices" in the actual body of the article is phrased differently from the title, like so:

portable storage devices like a USB, SD card, or flash drive
nearlyfreespeech.net provide great service, notifications and overall highly recommended. been customer with several domains transferred or registered with them over the past tears
Even after 10 years or so, when the tooling is good enough to match the debugging experience we have now, it won't be a moot issue. There will be a much more common problem where you want to examine/modify the source code for a site, and you can't, because that site only published the non-debug WASM. One of the things that keeps the web platform healthy is the way that client-side sources are pretty visible.

In response to "But JS can be obfuscated/minified" - Minified JS is still much easier to examine/modify than WASM, and it's really rare for a site to deliberately obfuscate their JS beyond minification.
What is ZLAT?
Advertising is a prisoner's dilemma: every ad slot your competitors buy is a slot you could've bought instead. Seasoned companies don't advertise because ads are effective -- although in some cases, they are; they advertise because they're worried their competitors are attaining wider mindshare.

Small, local companies frequently fall into the mistaken assumption that targeted advertising on Facebook will drive sales. Advertising should only be assumed to drive mindshare, whose link to sales is often discouragingly weak.
It's harder to get on the home page than it used to be, but not because point inflation. It's because there are more submissions than ever before, but still the same number of stories on the home page.
But they aren't determining international commerce policy. The coal companies are free to ship it out through Texas, or Wyoming, or wherever will have them.

There's a difference between "I don't want guns in my house" and "I want guns to be banned in my country."

It's not Oakland's responsibility to ensure that the coal industry can make money in Oakland.
There's a pretty full functioning project from several years ago (seems actively maintained) that has similar goals here:

https://github.com/creationix/js-git

I think it was initially crowdfunded.
Surprised it took them so long. Outside of exfiltration, there's the issue with sketch USB sticks with malware making their way on to your network.

It's amazing how many people will plug in any flash drive they find in a parking lot.
I'm not sure I'm reading the same thing you're reading. Yes, OpenAI has a mission to work on ways to make AI safer (that is, prevent AI from completing goals in unexpected, "hacky" ways) as it becomes more capable. But I didn't find much of that in this article.

What I read from this article is that we're currently in a trend where the more compute you throw at machine learning, the better solutions you end up with. Nothing about general AI, it's just that you can train deeper, more complex neural networks that can handle broader and more complex versions of the problems they're designed to handle.

This can have implications down the line which still have nothing to do about AI becoming smarter (in the general intelligence kind of way) than it is today. If all input/output problems out there have very deep neural networks behind them, and those neural networks are constantly training simultaneously, and that has a positive economic output, we'll see tremendous amounts of FLOPS that pales cryptocurrency miners by comparison.

Just as an example, depending on how cloud solutions keep up, maybe startups on the cloud won't be so competitive anymore. It's an interesting trend to point out and keep track of. And yes, OpenAI's involvement will probably be to learn about how this can lead to unsafe use of AI, but again that's not what I saw the topic of this article being.
That's ridiculous, of course bitcoin has value.
GPS is passive, so there's no need to disable it in airplane mode.
Couldn't agree more. One of the most startling things for me while mapping is just how different things can be when you're actually on the ground and armed with local knowledge compared to looking at some satellite imagery, streetview imagery or similar. It's totally obvious why any map that is automatically derived from relatively low resolution data will necessarily contain mistakes.

A map is one of the oldest forms of written communication. Some people think maps came before written language and as such are an intrinsic part of what it means to be human. Just think of the amount of information being conveyed by a map! We don't accept computers making other written works, why accept computers making our maps?
Because the pattern in the filter closure would have to be generic over the length or am I mistaken?
My understanding is that the problem with transit isn't just a resource problem, you literally need the power of the state to invoke eminent domain in order to build the infrastructure, making it a purely political problem that can only be solved by using political channels.

And the model you list is still in use today, if you take into account that roads are also 'transit'. It's just not the kind of transit that you and I want to see implemented.
That seems to be failure of subsidy, not so much crypto.
I blame that on docker hub. It's the fault of Docker - the company. They have a security scanning software that they decided was an enterprise feature. This sort of issue is to be expected if you claim that security to be an enterprise feature.
Repeating of history and what does it mean for AR/VR designers
Beta tester recruiting – Munnie and Savvie
That's a very cynical take.
Google support is completely garbage paid or free
$1 says they give out IBM branded USB keys at trade shows ;-)
I haven't done it myself yet, it's on the to-do list. There is a lot of academic material on PID autotuning, not always with neural networks but that seems the most straightforward way. A Raspberry Pi is probably overkill for the job, actually.
Would someone explain the purpose/origin of using 'compute' as a noun like this instead of a verb?
"The median today, in 2018, is around 150 points -- double what it was when I joined the site in 2011. With a bit of hand-waving, we might be able to claim that "HN points are worth half as much in 2018 as they were in 2011"."

This is to be expected if HN has a larger userbase now than in the past.

More people voting means more points are given to popular posts.
Yes, most tarballs do not support random access (there are some metadata extensions that allow this). This makes large tarballs annoying to use on systems with slow disk I/O (even a hard disk may be too slow (to the degree of being annoying to work with)). This is by far my biggest gripe with the format. Certainly, smaller tarballs are a very handy format as long as you stay inside the Unixy world of computing – and as long as you keep looking out for the various incompatibilities between the different tar implementations.
It's actually incorrect that AZ got better results that AGZ with less compute. The graph shows the large AGZ, which somewhat exceeded the rating of both the small AGZ and AZ. AZ did slightly outperform the small AGZ, but did so while using a similar amount of compute.

On the broader point though, I agree with this. We say that compute and algorithms are complementary in the post. Much of the time, when you come up with an algorithm that allows you to do something that used to cost X compute in 0.2X compute instead, you can use the new algorithm to do something significantly more impressive with the full X compute.
The response to js ports are usually favorable as:

1. They're (generally) portable across browsers and backend (nodejs)

2. There exists a much larger JS community than Rust. Given the js community's familiarity with website/webapp design, likelihood of a js port ending up in a real product quickly is high.
Cheesemaking tips from the ancients
You'd use Python as the language for the recipe that turns (in this example) a given .c file into a .o file, while leaving the Makefile to do what it's good at, declaring the DAG dependency tree needed to incrementally build it.

The point is that people conflate these two things. They open some random Makefile and see that it's mostly doing stuff with shellscripts, and think "oh I should do this all in Python", and then write some monstrosity that doesn't make a dependency DAG and thus can't run in parallel or be easily understood.

Instead they should have split the actual logic they found in shellscripts in to Python scripts the Makefile invokes.
Some years ago a similar company called Shweeb was doing the same thing with human powered pods. They got $1M from Google as a grant and then disappeared. I was disappointed because I really see myself using this kind of transportation, here's hoping they make it.
to list what is in a tar ball
`tar -vtf tarball.tar`

to extract a particular entity
'tar -vxf tarball.tar path_in tarball_to_entity`

edit: good points on it not being efficient for large archives, just demonstrating it is possible.
Never thought I would live to see a morality argument about how we move our ions. Not taking a side or poking fun, just in genuine awe.
Berkeley is also only trying to tax soda sold in berkeley. Oakland's issue is that they're trying to control the item being sold in other places, just because they're being brought through oakland.
Talk to a congressperson who knows about cyber like Ron Wyden.
What's the altitude in feet? because that sounds a LOT like my trip to Wyoming, I was at either 8400 or 8600 feet, I don't recall which.

It was near the continental divide if that helps.
It does, but so does almost all of mathematics :)
this is the motte and bailey argument technique: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey
It's possible that they care about the aggregated data and not about the individual data.
Yes a professional wine taster told me just the other day, "this is very good, not a style I like, but classic x.". If I asked them "Is this a good x?", they could tell me it was. However if I asked them to recommend a wine, they are unlikely to suggest x.

Taking this further, wine experts usually specialise in a particular region. Learning the wines of a region like Burgundy is a lifetimes study. If you ask a Burgundy expert for a wine around £50 to go with shellfish, don't be surprised when they recommend a Meursault. As an expert in New world wines you might get very different answers.
Uh, the Bigtop project mentioned in the Debian wiki doesn't seem to be working either.

https://ci.bigtop.apache.org/job/Docker-Sandbox/112/BUILD_EN...

Does anyone care?
(Large) companies & publishers have had their own typefaces designed since long (centuries) before that.

It got cheaper since the same electronic font can be used for (almost) all sizes, design purposes, etc. though, so it's also happening more often now.
I disagree with the people here who call out Benioff's hypocrisy in making this statement.

It's not uncommon or hypocritical for companies to be in favour of regulation that would prohibit things that they currently do. The whole point is that if Salesforce would currently start respecting privacy more than they'd be legally required to, for plain ethical reasons, but other companies don't do the same, then they have a competitive disadvantage. If the law requires them to do so, they can be more ethical while the playing field is level.

Of course there's still a strong and fair open discussion on how far a company should go in the "totally unethical but technically legal" arena of evil shit. But I don't see much of that discussion in this thread.

Companies often welcome regulation. I once read somewhere that when cigarette companies were forbidden to advertise in the EU, their profits went up. All of them were only advertising to compete with the others, it was an arms race without end. When the entire arms race got outlawed, cost shrunk but income did not change. Smokers didn't suddenly switch brand because they didn't see bad jokes about camels every commercial block.

I also disagree with the argument that this is a call for regulation to keep newcomers out. It's true that bigco's rooting for regulation often do this for anticompetitive reasons and it's abysmal, but I really don't see how increased privacy controls such as the GDPR (but in more places) prevents incumbents from outperforming and outmarketing the big shots. You need to come with a stronger argument about how such regulation affects Salesforce less than a tiny startup. Assuming it's decent regulation, of course - I fully agree if this ends up being a legal minefield.

But eg the GDPR is decent regulation that is really not that hard to abide to unless you're genuinely evil (I say this as the owner of a small EU-based startup). The world could use more of that stuff.
On May 15, 2017, global hashrate was 3.6 TH/s. Six months later, on November 15, 2017, global hashrate was 10.3 TH/s (source: blockchain.info). On May 14, 2018, another six months later, global hashrate was 30.1 TH/s, an increase of just under 3x in each 6-month interval. While past performance cannot definitively determine future performance, it’s a pretty strong trend.
Stay tuned.

It's not trivial to launch a new gTLD. No evil involved, just work.
Exactly. Don't forget `pkg-config` [1], which I've found eliminates most cross-POSIXish-platform linking issues.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pkg-config
> you could bypass this if you had admin rights but it would leave a trail

A move I've seen being put in place at several locations, is removing local admin rights from all users. Those with advanced needs, like developers, gets a VM which is limited to a specific VLAN, with no access to the production environments.

The principle is sound, implementation is ... difficult, to say the least.
The mechanics of speech synthesis are clear? The measure of success of style transfer is well defined?
> The only think that coal-loading can produce is minuscule amounts of dust...

That is absolutely not the only thing that coal loading can produce. The locals have to breathe air too, and the locals may very well be concerned about the breath-ability of their own air after another half century of greenhouse gas emissions, increased outputs of coal mines, etc.

Claiming that the "only" thing that coal loading does to locals' health is small amounts of dust is wrong. Your claim is provably wrong, and it seems like you're making the claim intentionally knowing it is wrong, just to say it anyway.

Handling coal at the Port of Oakland has a long list of negative consequences for the locals that you are completely ignoring, acting dismissive of and otherwise rude about how the locals feel about their own health. It's insane to suggest people are trying "pitchfork down" an industry while completely ignoring a majority of issues caused by the coal loading.
This headline reads like a Markov chain trained to generate Hacker News posts. I love it.
Free E-book: Distributed Systems Observability
Ghost is great. Would love to see support for LDAP/Oauth.
Intel announces IoT computer vision toolkit
How can I contact you? I have some questions about adversariality in AI.
Likewise ISPs are selling sensitive DNS data like crazy and most users probably think the green lock keeps them safe from that.
Be a ski instructor.

You can take a coding job later when you need to support your family that you started during your ski job. Your degree is not going to expire.

You can't take your SWE money to the grave. You have real passion for something -- many people would be jealous of that. Don't waste it.