skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As a counterpoint, I would like to say that a lot of research still is 'routine intellectual work'. Movers and shakers are rare and far apart.

While this is very true, the "movers and shakers" are the ones who set the standard of a research culture. Frankly, that's why the US has a major research advantage over most (probably all) countries that strongly embrace tiger parenting.
Model predicts we're the only advanced civilization in the observable universe
While you cannot reference an undefined variable in Go, you can still dereference nil pointers and invoke other operations that result in a panic (some of the standard library functions can panic).
I really want to like Home Assistant, but at least on Windows there's some gnarly concurrency issues with it the last time I looked: it launches two Python processes and one of them fails every time.

Also, there was no auto-discovery of LIFX lights and I was told I needed to re-implement the LIFX protocol from scratch because no extra dependencies were allowed in the discovery module.
Oh man, Boris is awesome, I watch his stuff almost every other day! Are you from Poland?
To capture attention and make money
Individually, our votes don’t matter much, but if a lot of voters cared enough for it to become a major issue, politicians would follow suit.
" The concept of a soul is an abstract non-scientific belief, so given its an abstract concept with no scientific basis, why do we make a distinction between one form of life and another?"

A 'soul' is a rational and scientific concept, it's just not materialist or rather, the kind of science we are used to daily.

As far as souls, more complicated, but maybe one simple answer is that more complex and intelligent forms of life have a deeper access to 'the soul' and that it's not like a step function, rather ... some kind of increasing gradient from inanimate matter, to plants, to animals, to humans, to the 'next level' of life.

My second answer relates to the first, i.e. 'Scientific' in sense that his is literally how we divide the universe at least biologically, i.e. life/not life, then domain, kingdom etc..

Please reconsider the notion that 'soul' has no scientific basis, as many would consider that the 'soul' or 'spirit' or 'animus' or whatever is literally the thing that distinguishes us from inanimate material - otherwise - according to a purely materialist perspective you cannot be alive i.e. there is no such thing as life - you are merely a random bag of particles that appears to be alive :).

If you believe that you are alive, that there is love, intelligence, happiness, experience, consciousness, and that you are not simply a purely random bag of particles, then it logically follows you must 'believe in something' that is not bound by strict materialist ideals. This metaphysical concept is not new, and we have some words for that, usually: 'soul' or 'animus' or 'spirit' or whatever. It's not irrational and it's not unscientific, it just by definition does not fit within materialist framework. And to be more clear - materialist science holds as a presupposition that 'everything is a random wave/particle/big of energy' - it is not a 'proof' kind of thing. It holds as a presupposition that 'there is nothing more'. In essence, materialist science starts with a premise of denying all other views, and then goes on to try to explain everything through the lego-blocks of matter type theories. Which don't explain life very well at all.

Sorry for all that. Short answer: Animals are on the spectrum of life, as are we, and there's clearly a relationship there and we can therefore infer a degree of their experience and status in all of this to some extent.
Thank you, will do!
The reason behind varying estimates. People seem to tell programming is an act of typing.
The parent describes a theoretical extreme, but it doesn't happen in reality. When have these things ever happened in wealthy countries? Has anyone ever starved to death during an emergency in modern times? Has there ever been "complete chaos"? I have complete confidence that my neighbors and I can govern ourselves adequately for three days, check on the indigent, and help anyone who needs it.

We can invest endlessly in more contingencies. Perhaps there is a level of emergency preparation that is worthwhile, but 'prepping' for complete chaos, etc. is a waste of time that could be put to much more beneficial uses.
The part that saddens me the most is that real security checks, not the security theater which we have now (cops rummaging through backpacks), will only be implemented after something really devastating happens.
Why Latent Dirichlet Allocation Sucks
The reason for the secondary rings, and the explanation for their outward travel, is a straightforward application of potential flow, namely that lines of vorticity induce rotational motion that falls off at 1/r. As the rings approach each other, they induce outward motion, and any instability or imperfections in the rings cause closer points between the two rings to induce more motion. With a bit of mental squinting, you can see how the primary rings would pinch off to form the secondaries. A similar thing can happen to passenger jet contrails, causing paired contrails to form a string of rings. Conspiracy enthusiasts point to these as evidence for “Aurora” or other exotic propulsion schemes, but they’re really just a rolled out version of the phenomenon in Dustin’s tank.

This comment would have been better with a whiteboard.
I hope that the US military kept/keeps a firm grip on the nuclear arsenal and the CIA never gets their hands on a suitcase nuke. The organization has a history of some very questionable ops.
" Logically everything is an emergent property of complex systems including plants, animals, and us."

I'm sorry, but I fully disagree, please see my note above.

This is a materialist view that presupposes that there is only matter/energy and laws that govern it - and only with that (unproven) presupposition first in place, can anything such as you have described be 'logically inferred'.

For example - you mention 'morality' - from the purely physical perspective, you are merely a random wave form, there can be no intelligence, experience, consciousness - let alone morality from that perspective.

It is considerably logical that our current version of materialism is a very helpful tool for understanding some material aspects of the universe, but that by it's own definition is not very useful in terms of understanding life itself.

Materialism is like a ruler we can use to measure stuff. But it gives us little information on 'who is using the ruler'.

'Soul' or 'spirit' or whatever - are the words that we use to crudely describe that which seems to otherwise differentiate life from other stuff, beyond merely 'complexity'.
Show HN: HtmlLibrarian – Scrape html only once ever
This sounds interesting. Quick questions.

1. Is it possible at all to release some source code related to this? I know it's a big ask but I didn't want to leave without asking :)

2. Would it be ok to describe what this solution looks like a little more? Is it /etc/hosts being edited using a service? Is it at a deeper level? Do you use your own DNS server?

I'd love to adopt something similar, hence the curiosity :)
Vaping and youtube has taken smoke ring blowing to new level https://youtu.be/zVXR7xttUeo
I do agree that top-tier cities are not built on low COL as their prime selling point.

However, I will also point out that low COL can have advantages of it's own for the ambitious, particularly for those pursuing their own ideas rather than climbing the corporate ladder.

When rent is $500/month (or less with a roommate) and bars, restaurants, etc are also cheap, it requires much less difficulty to pursue your idea. Even modest savings will let you live a normal life and last you years of trying to make a go of it, and you could get by indefinitely with a part time job if you don't have that.
The best old movies will live forever thanks to the lists from AFI, BFI, etc.

Eventually we’ll likely have better versions of things like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_consider...

(Right now it’s still missing NetHack and a bunch of other basic stuff.)
I think OP knows that.
Out of curiosity, which one do you think your daughter would pick?
I don't know what's a more terrifying thought; we're alone, or we're not alone.
Additionally, the thought that we're not alone and we're not the most advanced species. If that's the case, then why haven't a more advanced species made contact yet?
A 4x20 LCD, which works because I'm running on mains-power:

https://steve.fi/Hardware/helsinki-tram-times/

I do have a couple of epaper devices, and they would be ideal but for their terribly slow update-time. I like the clock showing Time & Date (or Time & Temperature), and having epaper update every second just isn't possible. Even if it were then I suspect updating so frequently would negate the potential power-saving of using epaper in the first place.

I do have a nice epaper device for showing weather & weather-forecasts, that works on batteries and updates every 20 minutes. But for trams I update departures every 2 minutes.
> Wikipedia says per capita GDP using PPP (which I believe is the appropriate conversion for this purpose) is ~$4,300 per year

No, you shouldn't use PPP adjustments in this situation. The price for laptop is what it is. And the only money they have to buy it is the money they have (without any adjustment).

So the laptop is more like 3 months of salary. For a typical US programmer making $120,000 a year that's (kinda sorta) equivalent to buying a $30,000 car.
I've seen 20-year-old Marines maintain EA-6B Prowlers, I'm sure they can figure out DARPA's fancy new wheels.
The paper that this article is based off of was posted on HN a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17302924

Direct link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
You misunderstood that statement and said the exact opposite.

They refuse to implement level 3 automation, instead they roll out the same technology as driver assistance technology (level 1-2).

Find me a company that says that they have mind blowing level 3-4 technology and will not make assistive technology is with it. Ahh, there is one, Tesla. Autosteer is just lane keeping assist, but admitting that would mean Tesla can't claim to be futuristic. Why Tesla makes the claim "twice as safe as human" and refuses to give out assistive versions of it's technologies is horribly misleading bullshit.
I'm getting pretty good at working that out.

Note that this isn't a dig at any particular project, I know FOSS is hard and free time is scarce (and so is funding).

Quick ones:

1. Date of last commit to main repo

2. Number of issues open on Trac/Bugzilla/GitHub/Jira whatever (note, I'm taking a point off if you use Trac, only because there's still an instance from 10 years ago sending me emails that I can't unsubscribe from)

Takes more time:

3. Number of open pull requests/mailing list patches and general discussion around them

4. Any kind of clear and updated roadmap.

Edit: number one these days should be an up to date and working CI/CD system with published artifacts, including for Windows.
Not sure. I'd be surprised if they did. I've run into quite a few people who pay of for WSJ, but not as much NYT. I think maybe it's because WSJ has a tighter paywall + is a little more straight-laced when it comes to journalistic integrity?
What if the failure mode was it just being a regular wheel again? I suppose it's competing against letting the air out of the tyre so it might still be worse
Maybe, but this works. Sometimes that's enough.
Even if there are more advanced species, maybe they can't travel far enough to contact us. Or maybe they contacted other civilisations and we are just too far to bother.
alignment of forces would be a real pain. I expect the little rockets would just spin the item around. Also, I would expect much of the existing space junk to already be spinning in random directions for this approach to be really difficult. (didn't read the article - perhaps it's explained there?)
I like a game that doesn't take itself too seriously!
From the article;

>In the end, the team’s conclusions do not mean that humanity is alone in the Universe, or that the odds of finding evidence of extra-terrestrial civilizations (both past and present) is unlikely. Instead, it simply means that we can say with greater confidence – based on what we know – that humanity is most likely the only intelligent species in the Milky Way Galaxy at present.
No. I'm saying they move there because of the existing communities in place, and they live in cramped condtions in order to afford it.

>I am claiming that if one of the most populous cities in the country/world sees a high degree of poverty in a demographic it might be because that demographic has a high degree of poverty.

You could actually look at the overall numbers though instead of extrapolating from a non-random sample.

You'd find that Asian Americans are less likely to live in poverty than than any other minority group, and even less likely than the general population.

Clearly NYC is an anomaly. That anomaly is caused by disproportionately large number of poor Asian immigrants.

The only thing this demonstrates is that people from Asian countries poorer than the US disproportionately move to NYC. It isn't in any way useful in a discussion on Asian parenting methods or the benefits of education.
Site seems down? Also looks like a repost from a few days ago [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17373506
Moving to API design-first in an Agile world
Maybe "stated mission"? Do you believe that Facebook's mission is actually social connection?
I couldn't be more thankful that they finally had an effective paywall. Increasingly their content falls in the "guilty pleasure reading" territory for me - entertaining, addictive but not ultimately nourishing. (Now if only Reddit would go subscription only!) I also doubt the sincerity of much of the writing and wonder about the extent to which it's shaped by considerations along the lines of "let's deliberately state this point just a little less defensibly to make it more likely that the readers get worked up enough to respond".
I am not sure to whom embrassment this is.

I prefer my http server fast, works over firewall and less depends on other services.
Reading sci-fi (or playing Stellaris if novels aren't your thing) indicates to me the latter is intensely more terrifying
Being not alone is far, far scarier given worst case scenarios. Much better to die than be captured by a malicious higher intelligence.
True, there are 100 per cent people on vendettas hatchet jobs but more reputable publishers are better at curtailing the ill-will of a single writer.
A child being struck by a vehicle is almost always immediately obvious to the driver of that vehicle if nobody else.

That said, I wouldn't ban magnets myself, though I'm against selling then directly to young children.
I like how the (brief) opening cut-scene ends with Doomguy losing patience with the computer trying to narrate to him after only a few seconds, and smashing it. The game's attitude to storytelling is established quickly and decisively.
MyEtherWallet Review: It This Web Wallet Secure?
The whole basis seems to be picking a range of values for the variables in the Drake equation rather than a single value for each variable. As a result, the variance multiplies significantly meaning that they find a 30% chance we're alone in the galaxy as the lower end of the deviation (and the higher end being the common notion that there should be abundant intelligent life everywhere we look).

I hope they didn't spend too long making this "study" of tossing conservative estimates into a theoretical equation.
The Trinity device was on a tower, so perhaps more like
an air-burst than a ground-level event.
edit: 100-foot (30 m) tower
Why assume an alien species would value contact?
Good refresher on how horrible and pointless these are. We have so much nuclear capabilities in the US, with submarines especially, but also airbases around the world and missiles too that we can easily withstand an attack. For that reason, we should make it our policy that we will never launch a first strike. The reason is that there have been many many near misses. We know that China and Russia also have lots of capabilities for return strikes - yet even with this knowledge of mutual assured destruction we have had near accidents and they must have also. By saying we won't make a first strike we really lose nothing, but this should reduce that chance that a mistake could lead to launches. Russia and China should do the same.
Why is being alone terrifying? If we're alone it would be less "interesting" but it's not really scary. Are you accounting for a "the great filter is in front of us" scenario?
Mankind is well-established as a malicious higher intelligence.
Of course, it's not usually something so blatant. My point is that your intention is to surmise as correctly as possible. Usually PRs pick up on fastidious detail to discredit whole story. Mostly these are genuine mistakes that are inconsequential to overall narrative and that could've easily been clarified.

*EDITED for clarification.
Generalized Data Structure Synthesis [pdf]
I would like a tutorial on how to make one that can chop up the neighbor's cat please.
While Nintendo did own 49% of Rare at the time they did not have any control of how Rare built its offices or how the company was run. They obviously had a close working relationship with the Stamper brothers and Joel Hochberg but I don't know of any Nintendo input on general operations.

I'm not sure how you would characterize flashy bullshit, but the Rare offices were basically based on the same premise as the old offices up the road at Manor Farm... isolated developments teams in their own buildings (or at least their own floor) with a central building containing HR etc. Yes there was a full restaurant, but Manor Farm had that too, and it's kinda essential if your offices are in the countryside. The entire office was designed to be a distraction free as possible.

True the building had a bunch of expensive environmental features to help it blend in to the existing rural landscape and to reduce carbon footprint but I'm sure it was way cheaper than building or leasing any kind of generic office space in London or heaven forbid in SF.
Link to the implementation: https://github.com/CozySynthesizer/cozy
Because they've seen enough TV to know that we're dangerous.
Your server already depends on DNS, presumably (unless you force everyone who visits it to use its IP address).
There are a few possibilities. The main PDF commands for text are "Tj" and "TJ", so you can try searching for them. Text commands must also be between "BT" and "ET". Maybe a bit harder to search for are the other two text commands: ' and ".

TJ is "Show text, allowing individual glyph positioning" which means strings are not necessarily in the PDF as the strings themselves, but have glyph positioning info mixed into them. This is the most common issue I've come across.

Another possibility is that the fonts have been combined/compressed/butchered, so that they're not using ASCII/Unicode (this can sometimes save space by combining bits of multiple fonts. Searching for Tj/TJ/'/" should tell you if that's the case. If it is, technically there should be a translation table somewhere in the PDF file (so that clipboard operations work in PDF viewers). Look for CustomEncoding, I think.

Particularly bad PDF creation libraries can put characters in one by one.

Characters (alone or in strings) can also be in there as octal or hex.

Finally, particularly obnoxious libraries can do it without text commands at all, but convert everything to vector drawing commands, or even worse, bitmaps.

I couldn't remember CustomEncoding, and this came up when I searched.
Seems helpful: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29467539/encoding-of-pdf...
I would love to see a comparison between Docker Swarm and Kubernetes. From talking to peeps I've got that Kubernetes is better for a large number of nodes? I self host all my side projects with Docker Swarm and it's been so good I haven't needed to look into other container management solutions (but I've only got eight nodes).
Yes, give enough time and energy, we could build a technological hell on a perpetually wandering spaceship.
calling Ann Arbor a small quaint town comparing it favorably to Monroe is just a misunderstanding.

Monroe has like a sixth the population in the city limits and still less than half the size comparing the two metro regions. Ann Arbor is in a different class than Monroe. Monroe is a small town. Ann Arbor is a medium-small city (over 100,000 in city, over 300,000 in metro area).

Ann Arbor is centered around the University of Michigan, consistently ranked the #2 public school in the country, just behind UC Berkley. It has around 45,000 students. And yet Ann Arbor is big enough that students are still a minority of the population.

The UofM hospital is generally ranked one of the top 10 in the country, so it's not surprising for someone to go their for some special visit.

But sure, it's small and quaint compared to any real big city.
People here are critically discussing the study.

That's not "fake news" aka "propaganda according to assholes."
Is there a smarter path to artificial intelligence? Some experts hope so
Sample size 1.
As a writer I will jump through linguistic hoops to move uncapitalised proper names away from the start of a sentence - for example, a medical device called "i-gel" which I wrote a paper on. Starting a sentence without a capital is just too jarring in formal writing I find.
My internet provider Hathway (in Pune, India) used to throw up a login page every now and then throwing all my networked devices out of gear. The captive portal required doing login via browser to start internet again. I wrote automation scripts on Raspberry Pi to figure out when internet access is gone and then to do auto-login. Here is the detailed blog -

http://gopi-kori.blogspot.com/2013/08/auto-login-to-hathway-...

I have also automated all bathroom lights and lights on basin to switch on based on motion sensing using these cheap switches

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Home-LED-light-PIR-Infrared-...

This saves energy by solving my problem where I used to forget switching off the lights many times.
Sorry for being off-topic but do you have any links or tips on how to achieve this? My understand was that adding a user to the 'docker' group gives him 'sudo'-equivalent rights.
> Claiming long-range settlement or communication are impossible requires assuming a surprisingly low technology ceiling. Whatever the answer is, it more or less has to be strange.”

Considering the terrifying energies required for launching anything useful interstellarly, this quote is a bit off.

I'm perfectly capable of believing that there is a tech ceiling preventing useful interstellar travel.
The US has a major advantage over all countries. And Japan has an advantage over the vast majority of countries. The reason for that is probably how developed their economies are.
I'm not able to seek on the video he has embedded (using Chrome on Android here). I'd probably have looked for more than 10 s if I could have.
I think they're saying that most things that go over TCP are HTTP, which means usually those bits are set to 80 or 443. With SRV records we could be using more ports, and then presumably do port based routing instead of host based routing on the back end.
CAs should be able to afford to make the requests from multiple sources and compare the results.

Alternatively they can use secondary challenge-response auth which depends on some credentials being deployed to your server. Mitm-ing it wouldn't give the attacker anything interesting in that case.
well, our RF penetration of the galaxy is tiny... just over 100 years or so. and the galaxy is about 100k light years across.... so.....
When have these things ever happened in wealthy countries?

Puerto Rico?

New Orleans?