skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, first of all, PloS One, while a useful journal, is not a traditional journal. This is partly why these researchers are able to get away with speculative claims.

Let's go back to fundamentals. Humans are closely related to Chimpanzees, Bonobos, and Gorillas. The ancestral Chimp-Bonobo-Human likely first diverged from Gorillas (by such a small margin that it's still debated). Then about 6 million years ago the (Chimp-Bonobo)-Human split happened. In fact after the split, about 1.5m in, more interbreeding likely happened. Chimps & Bonobos split about 1 million years ago. We're thus as closely related to Bonobos as we are to Chimps!

Since we currently have humans in Europe, Asia, Americas etc. (obviously); we know that at some point our ancestors travelled out of Africa. However, so did other hominids. This very likely happened multiple times. This started happening immediately after the split, and kept continuing. Again nothing new here: Many animals travel across continents, diverge, etc. I expect we'll continue finding many side branches of various hominids, great apes, and monkeys all over the place.

However, those are not our ancestors.

In particular, Homo Sapiens itself travelled out of Africa relatively recently, and encountered others that it sometimes interbred with, sometimes wiped out; including Neandertals, Denisovans etc. We do have DNA from Neandertals and Denisovan, which you can track by sequencing the genome of bones.

But either way, big picture, we split from the other Great Apes, and migrated out of Africa in waves, the most recent and dominant one being the Migration of Homo Sapiens; which is by far, genetically, our dominant ancestor.

Homo Sapiens evolved in Africa and migrated out.

Let's analyze this at a deeper level: "Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa" is a deeply problematic statement. We can first examine what we mean by "birthplace of mankind". A lot of early hominid species, either in Africa or elsewhere did not acquire any of the characteristics we associate as "human", for millions of years. Certainly not 6+ million years ago.

Given we all seem to agree that we diverged from Great Apes, initially, in Africa, we seem to mean something else by "birthplace of mankind", potentially involving higher cognitive abilities, ability for language, imagination, larger social groups etc.

In particular, any suggestion for this leap to happen outside of Africa garners great popular attention compared to other scientific advances in this field.

If you dig down deep enough, I've found that this is because it often supports peoples nation-creation myths and beliefs about "races".

There is zero evidence that this particular remain had any capacity for language, thought, or anything remotely resembling human - very normal given ~6m year difference.

Homo Sapiens did evolve a large brain, language, imagination, and an ability to organize -- in Africa. That makes Africa the birthplace of mankind, both symbolically, metaphorically, and literally.
I'm a fan of privacy legislation, but your comparison is a little strained in my opinion.

You have to consciously decide to take me toothbrush, and it deprives me of it. But just seeing me walk by puts "my data" into your mind, and arguably doesn't harm me.

Clearly, when a phone network sells my location data to the highest bidder, I'm harmed. But they do need to know my location to provide me service.

In general, I think we want services to collect no more data than necessary, discard it as soon as possible, protect what they must store, and disclose it to others as rarely as possible. But all of those things are murkier than "don't take my toothbrush."
It sounds a lot like when the FBI provides a non-functional bomb to a suspect and arrests them when they try to detonate it.
I've not used Berkshelf, but I suspect your problems were related to Chef and the fact that they've built their own dependency system that also interacts with Bundler/RubyGems.

Anecdotally, my company has used Ruby since around 2004, and Bundler since its first release, and we never had any issues. That doesn't mean nobody has ever had any issues (clearly! [2]), but it generally seems like Ruby package management is a solved problem, and that it would be a good model for any dependency system to use.

Bundler does have one feature (or misfeature) that Russ Cox criticizes: "bundle install some_gem" can cause unrelated gems' minor (or maybe it's minor) versions to be upgraded even if you don't tell it to. I've never liked that, and would much prefer to use "bundler update" to perform explicit upgrades. But I don't think that behaviour is at all tied to its solver, or that MVS is needed to fix it.

[1] https://github.com/bundler/bundler/issues/5068

[2] https://github.com/bundler/bundler/issues
I guess De Beers must be selling the synthetic diamons with a much smaller profit margin? A couple of years ago, makers of synthetic diamond jewelry said they would cost about 60% of natural ones ("Baruch says savings may be as high as 40 percent in some cases; this is especially appealing to savvy millennial shoppers." --https://www.racked.com/2016/6/14/11872830/lab-grown-diamonds...), and now Lightbox will sell them at 10% the price of natural ones.

Unlike mines you can't really establish a monopoly in vapor deposit ovens, so in the long run competition should drive down costs. It makes sense that De Beers would want to fast-forward that process, particularly since the price of natural diamonds is kindof arbitrary anyway.
> Deep Learning makes feature engineering obsolete

I think even if you avoid constructing features, you are basically doing a similar process where a single change in a hyper-parameter can have significant effects:

- internal structure of a model (what types of blocks are you using and how do you connect them, what are they capable of together, how do gradients propagate?)

- loss function (great results come only if you use a fitting loss function)

- category weights (i.e. improving under-represented classes)

- image/data augmentation (self-driving car won't work without significant augmentation at all)

- properly set-up optimizer

The good thing here is that you can automate optimization of these to a large extent if you have a cluster of machines and a way to orchestrate meta-optimization of slightly changed models. With feature engineering you just have to do all the work upfront, thinking what might be important, and often you just miss important parts of features :-(
€10M is not the lower bound in penalties. It's the upper bound for breaches of data protection obligations (except for very large companies, with turnover >€500M/y).
> … my personal feeling is the less Javascript in my life the better.

I couldn't agree more. But I also feel much the same way about GNOME; that's why I use StumpWM[0]. It doesn't do everything out of the box which GNOME does, but it's extensible in a dynamic language, which means that it's easy enough to add most everything.

0: https://stumpwm.github.io/
How to get robots to learn the way humans do
CO2 turns into carbonic acid, which dissolves coral. More CO2 = less coral. Less exoskeletons of all sorts, which is Really Bad for the ocean.
#Babchenko said that he had found out about an assassination that was being planned against him and joined up with Ukrainian security services to catch the killer, and add that according to their info, Russia ordered the murder

https://twitter.com/polina__ivanova/status/10018358919487078...

#Babchenko: "Special apologies to my wife. Olechka, I am sorry, but there were no options here. The operation took two months to prepare. I was told a month ago. As a result of the operation, one person has been captured, he is being held."

https://twitter.com/polina__ivanova/status/10018329989946613...

Police said that they had made one arrest in connection with the alleged assassination plot.
Visualising the Volume of a Sphere
Where do you get these cheap diamonds from China or India?
There are plenty of rights that aren't "practical". The right to vote is a HUGE pain in the ass, you have to organize massive elections. Property rights means you have to have huge police forces. The right to protest comes with enormous practical difficulties. The right to education means that you have to have expensive public school systems. The right to an attorney in a criminal trial means that the court has to provide one, at some expense. All of these are "rights", in all modern free countries, and they are all "magical rights created by law". That's what a right IS.

You're making the wrong argument. You're saying "this is not a right that can logically exist", which is nonsensical. Of course it can. What you should be arguing is "this right is far too burdensome on society and should not have been passed". I personally disagree with that, but it's at least a valid argument.
Mainly because I knew how to use split a file and use scp already. I didn't feel like researching the options and syntax of a new CLI tool.
> an average accuracy of 75–80 % was achieved and using the RNN model an accuracy of almost 95% was achieved.

What does that mean? Bitcoin doesn't move more than a few percent per day, so predicting a value at day T+1 equal to the value at day T should give me an accuracy of at least 90% without any effort!
I argue that's actually a misconception of many scrum practitioners. It's not really "get feedback often", it's "get feedback early". "Often" is just a bad approximation of that. The difference is most obvious with retrospectives - if you just do them often they feel like a burden. What you want is to get early opportunities to improve .... but that's not necessarily through a very frequent retrospective! You have to let things crystallize a bit, so that people can observe the effect of process changes & give accurate+reasonable feedback on it.
Don't sign up for 15 year commitment with anyone! Who knows if the DoE will be doing work that interests you in 2035. If you don't like the work, you won't be able to leave.

You should be able to make enough between tuition waivers, being a teaching assistant, and summer internships to live cheaply through grad school. Then when you're done you'll be free, with your new PhD, to pick the awesomest job you can find.
Yeah, but the main "business" of Imgur seems to be memes and other nonsense, not image hosting. And again, nobody will pay for memes.

Competitors like CloudApp or Droplr do image/video hosting much better.
Minus the Revelations book, it's great.
In what way was the murder staging required to save this man's life?

Edit: removed unnecessary language sympathetic to one side or another
Hi, many thanks for your words and the question. Testing waters with the concept right now. On one bright side, this project would like to help every PhD thesis become its own business or career for the author; on the other side, it would like to assist the authors to get however the most out of their theses and the skills they gained as postgrads. How? I have filled a business model canvas and will throw some tests up against the wall in the coming months, hoping something sticks.
What's the chances of finding the real reason on Hacker News? There'll be thousands of reasons given, you'll never know which one is true.
"Normally, this would be super dangerous, but WebAssembly is designed to run safely on remote computers, so it can be securely sandboxed without losing performance."

I'm staring at this sentence hoping the author is being supremely sarcastic...
One point to take note of is that the GP already knows the fact you're describing. He just chooses not to believe it.

He resents the implication that libertarians are delusional, and says that they "know reality". But then, attempting to buttress his realism, he implores the audience to "imagine" a world where everything works according to his will, or "imagine" a promised land just around the corner, or "imagine" this or that.

Religious cognitive dissonance is fairly weird.
Those numbers are from 2007.

The prices have increased dramatically. (Because, why not? They can get away with it.) Of course, it varies, depending on "a number of factors"

> Drug cost was $19,727.34. Total for 1 infusion is $22,278.02.

https://www.howmuchisit.org/remicade-infusion-cost/
I don't get it either.

Was he not actually shot?
Was he even shot at?
Him being found by his wife dead and bloody, did this happen?

I don't understand this at all.
I remember Peter Thiel was big on AI assisted in his book. I think it does make sense because as advanced as bots are getting with customer support there exists potentially catastrophic errors due to lack of context that only a human would have.
If you would get a 40% raise if you switched companies, would you? Should execs see you as the enemy, then?

There are no "sides", everyone is just maximizing their own payouts.

People here don't seem to mind when profit-focused engineers switch companies for better salaries, but seem to mind when companies do the same.
>It is not difficult to avoid storing data you don't need.

Access logs for one thing are pretty unreasonable to force people to avoid storing.

>Existing systems were built on the assumption that "misappropriating" PII was a lucrative thing to do. This led to abuse from the industry.

Can you point out a specific example of somebody suffering actual damages from this "abuse?"
FERPA's tied to federal funding.

The constitution specifically calls out for a "free press."
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I, personally, do not believe there is any disagreement between the Constitution and GDPR. In fact, a right to privacy has long been inferred by combining traits of a few amendments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_privacy#United_States (Of course, that constructed right is a right to privacy specifically from government actions.) And generally, we've recognized that some rights such as speech, may need to have limits to avoid encroaching upon other rights, such as privacy.
The way that works (and in fact the way that classification of government secrets works in the US) is that this information is 'born secret'.

This information is has to be kept away from the public, including journalists, but there is no law preventing journalists from publishing information about someone's health. HIPAA doesn't cover journalists, it just prevents covered entities from giving journalists information.
> But eventually the general public wises up to the unfulfillment of expectations, and drives their attention elsewhere. Here we have the AI winter.

And more importantly, business and government leaders wise up and turn off the money tap.
> while vgo would (correctly) start using the new version because of MVS.

I disagree with the “correctly” part. MVS seems to pick up a newer version mostly by accident. If you’re relying on a transitive dependency to trigger a security update, you are doing it very wrong.
I don't think the gist of successfully developing software has changed that much since the early 90s, at least in consultancy: You work in iterations where the team and client develop, refine and prioritize the features of the system until the system is good enough to be considered finished. There is an initial vision and strategy that needs to be developed in the first iterations. The UP implementations describe ways on how to do this, though the agile community has come up with more creative frameworks: design sprint, product vision box, customer service map, etc. The strategy is reviewed each iteration with the re-priorization of the features. For this it's important to have revisions on the documents created on the first iterations.

The challenge as I see it is that clients usually don't buy into this and they believe that developing software is like making sandwiches or turning buttons on and off when in fact is a discovery process of abstract things. They then demand a fixed budget, fixed time and fixed milestones for a fixed scope ("You are the expert, you should know how much time this takes."). To sell the project the salespeople from software companies deliver this, those who don't are considered incompetent. In this conditions agile methodologies are prone to fail but not for the methodology, but because most of the time those sold promises are done with incomplete information or tailored to be optimistic to sell the project. Metrics from agile methodologies show from the beginning that the project won't meet the expectations and then chaos ensues: they stop collaborating with the client to hide the reality of the project, "managers" pressure the team to do more in each iteration, they stop doing the disciplines altogether, iteration and daily reviews are treated as long meetings where people commiting errors are shamed and scolded and frictions start to emerge between all persons involved. This is where I believe the whole notion of "agile sucks" comes from.
Only criminal laws are prohibited from being retroactive, because the Supreme Court works in mysterious ways.
I submitted an earlier version of this a little while ago, but it's changed, and since it got no attention first time round I thought I'd try again.
Sounds like they cache your upload on a server physically near you, and use something like BitTorrent to haul it to a server physically near your destination. Sort of like a CDN for file transfers.

This way they can reduce the number of hops (and potential bottlenecks) between their server and destination, maximizing bandwidth.
How large of a man-made diamond can I buy and how much would it cost ?

It would be fun to have a ~600 carat diamond as a paperweight...
Scottish cuisine tends to converge on everything being covered in batter, deep-fried and sprayed with mystery 'sauce'.

NB I am Scottish, have consumed as many suppers as the next person and perfectly aware that Scotland does produce some lovely food that hasn't been deep-fried.
It takes effort to set up server access log rotation. It takes effort for a non-technical person to make sure their wordpress installation isn't storing cookies or logs.
I'm having trouble articulating this, please forgive:

I didn't explain "the other stuff" for why jelly bean estimating works.

The number doesn't matter. It's the shared hallucination (consensus) for the deadline. It short circuited, resolved the debate about "how long". It secures the team buy-in.

Once we had a deadline, we managed the work to match. Closest analog I can think of is Kickstarter: initial goal and stretch goals. We had the must haves (stuff listed in the draft press release). We also had dozens of nice to haves we'd sneak in, time permitting.

Agile, Scrum, sprint style estimating is too fine grained, the horizon too near, to do effective estimating.
How often are you engaging emergency braking? The last time I remember activating ABS was on a dry highway onramp due to a lapse in attention while in a fairly old commodity car, and yet despite going faster than I should have been going, the car stopped in an ASTONISHINGLY short distance.
I don't know, did you?
the point is that it's a stigma because they have made it into one because it benefits them.

to the employee, it's an artificial social barrier to getting their economic worth by hopping jobs.
It's a really funny talk, but this is nothing we haven't seen before with Java, Python, .Net... heck one of the most popular unikernel implementations is in OCaml! We'll survive having more languages in/as kernels.
One of the things about mainstream journalism I've noticed in the last few years is that for the most part is they're generally not completely wrong - at least about something on this scale. I'm referring to generally free and open western news organizations. And I know plenty of news organizations can get stories muted by governments in some cases for national security reasons, but often not as binary as this.

The fact that this happened is pretty amazing.
GDPR can't do that either.
I've got a gut feeling that judges will be pretty reasonable here, but I guess only time will tell.
The GDPR doesn't require any of that. All you need to do is show a legitimate need to store data if challenged, and access logs have a legitimate purpose (diagnostic and abuse monitoring).

Larger businesses (250 employees or more) may need a privacy policy though.
The HTML and CSS Security Checklist
I agree with you for the most part here. For the things that I typically use computers for, I would prefer to have both hardware and software protected sandboxes. There's a reason that browsers are switching to using multiple processes.

I suspect you are being downvoted for being overly emphatic. I can certainly think of scenarios where having this extra security is more costly than helpful.

An interesting point of note is that the mill architecture has been designed to have much cheaper hardware protection than other architectures. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5osiYZV8n3U
Yes, this was a really bad PR call. They literally created "fake news" about Russia, when you don't need to create anything fake to make the Kremlin look bad. This is really bone-headed.
Ember: Our Secret Weapon
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Seems like IBM is really increasing its investment in open source software and hardware for PowerPC recently. I've noticed them offering bounties for PowerPC related work on Rust, there's this recent work on Mono, and OpenPOWER has led to the development of truly open servers and workstations like the Talos II.
The only options you usually need for comm are -1, -2, and -3. It takes two arguments, call them 1 and 2. Its job is to include lines from each and both files in output (by default, you get 3 columns of output), so we want to filter by telling it to exclude what we don't want. My mnemonic is "-" means "not", so -1 means "not only in file 1", -2 means "not only in file 2", and -3 means "not in both". So now, when I want comm output that shows the lines unique to my 2nd file, it's:

comm "not only in 1" and "not in both"

so:

comm -1 -3 file1 file2
I used MATE for about a year and then switched to Cinnamon because of some issues I've had with MATE. I find Cinnamon the best DE for Linux. It has the best UI, shortcuts and the best file manager.

As for GNOME, it's way too dumbed-down. You have to find and install dozens of extensions to have a decent desktop.
The only thing I was thinking was that they wanted to test Russia's reaction to it for a day. I agree with you it probably wasn't necessary, but reads like a great spy novel.
There's a tendency to think of well-intentioned regulations that serve whatever purpose someone wishes to advance as cheaply and easily complied with by an honest actor.

This tends to not be maximally congruent with reality.
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Doing PhD in midwest is like living in jail.
Is there a way to transfer ownership of an S3 bucket? Like, can I upload a file in my AWS account, and by some means transfer the bucket and files to your AWS account? Without the actual data bits moving and incurring a bandwidth charge? That would be ideal for some scenarios.
I also don't subscribe to panspermia because first local origin must be reasonably proved unfeasible, but playing devil's advocate ¿what if our life tree outcompeted the others?
Well, I take it a level further, why get married?

Why overcomplicate things? :)

Oh yeah cause of culture, the same reason people like gold or people like diamonds or bitcoin.