skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree it doesn't hurt but at the same time, I'm a strong believer in "too many cooks in the kitchen". Especially when you add to the fact that Elon Musk and his team of engineers are not experts in search and rescue.

Also, where was he during the first few days of the rescue? All of a sudden this story has international attention and he steps in.

He's that kid that tried to build a crazy contraption to save the cat from the tree when all you really needed was a sturdy ladder.
I'll bite. By equally distributed, do you mean random? Sure, you can control population that way, but not without brutal authoritarianism, depriving innocent people of their reproductive rights and invasion of their body.

If you mean non-random, then who decides? Morality, productivity and purpose are culturally and individually relative. Having the majority or even a powerful minority decide what future children should be born is even more authoritarian than the first approach.

If you're worried about the planet not being able to support too many people, there are many other options that promote kindness, respect and privacy while promoting a sustainable environment.
Dragon flies love to eat them.
How about an iPad?
Sometimes I think the same. But then again I think that this is a very depressing view because it’s somehow deterministic: there’s absolutely nothing in this view that can be attributed to yourself, because either it’s in your genes or the place you were born.

That’s why I don’t like that thinking. I want to believe that you’ve were given a spectrum from a start and that you can move in that spectrum if you want to by exposing yourself to luck (you’ll probably say: depending on your genes...)
What packages would you like to se inn our repositories?
I'm hoping this leads to a better integration API for password managers in general on iOS. I use Bitwarden, and it's a real pain to log in to native apps using it - you have to copy/paste between the Bitwarden app and the app you're logging in to.

I've spoken with the Bitwarden team and they indicated that it was a limitation of iOS and there wasn't anything they could do on their end.
Try making a bunny hop over a pothole on a recumbent. Upright bikes are far more versatile, just imagine recumbent cyclocross.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16530423.
These other factories would have to be completely retooled. It would take a long time and a lot of money. It's not like changing the die in an injection mold or something.
I remember this was the big debate several years ago when the idea was first promoted. However, Google and some non-profits appear to be moving ahead with the blessing of local governments. I'm assuming that with the relatively short lifespan of mosquitos and birds, we'll be able to see if there's an unintended chain reaction in these local ecosystems in a few years time.
Distributing them as repackaged binaries would be against the terms. I'm unsure what distros ignores the terms and packages them anyway. It is a clear liability for any larger distributions at least.
A coworker of mine likes to say that Java developers never stop writing Java – they just start writing Java in other languages.
I would think so. When I was a child we had only two genders. Sometimes we'd say "sex" rather than gender, and then we'd blush or giggle.

But it's great that people are more free to be themselves. Watching "A very British scandal" currently, and it's sad to see in 1960s England, being homosexual was a thing that could end your career, put you in jail, or drive you to suicide. Alan Turing RIP.
Humans love to eat wheat, but we wouldn't starve if all the wheat was gone.
That, I can sort of see if I squint at it. Obviously, the less the colonizers were involved, the better for everybody.

This, however:

>The British typically left behind a better developed local administrative apparatus, legal system, and business network.

is massively overselling it, I think, and is somewhat contradictory to the point that article is making. If the british left it behind, was it local? Or was it simply that the british did not utterly destroy local organizations in some areas they colonized?
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> "almost never the most talented people reach the highest peaks of success, being overtaken by mediocre but sensibly luckier individuals."

One can be talented at many different things. Perhaps the people at the top were talented at a less obvious but more relevant skill than those who didn't "succeed".

Looking strictly at monetary success, people who succeed purely and obviously by luck (lottery winners) generally do not stay successful very long. They quickly lose their money.

AFAIK, the bankruptcy rate for people who get rich via working on something is far less than people who were randomly assigned riches. This would seem to imply that the former are doing something differently.
They should've paid for the full version to wipe out the remaining 20%
The grandiose tone of your message suggests you believe you are giving some insteful advice but all I see is a single suggestion grouped with a lot of that weird marketingspeak every single programmer, for whatever reason, feels they need to emulate on their blogs.
Good point. Isn't this already defined though? For example, you cannot shout "fire!" in a crowded courthouse when there is no fire and expect to walk out without any penalties.
I agree, no amount of flat mega-pixels is going to map a real feeling of the physical art. But the art also gets popular and that means queues, selfies, noise, pushy crowd, security, glass.
I dream one day there will be decent technology to experience the art remotely and alone with all senses, kind of VR where you will be able to see all dimensions, brush shades, surface roughness, reflections, touch and feel the material, in the surrounding and companion of your choice.
Quoting Steve Perlstein of the Washington Post, who recently wrote:

Let’s recall those heady days of 2006 when home prices were rising 10, 15, even 20 percent a year, allowing millions of homeowners to refinance mortgages and collectively take out more than $300 billion in cash from the increased value of their properties. Some spent the money on furniture, appliances, cars and vacations, adding fuel to an already roaring economy. Others reinvested it in the already booming real estate and stock markets. When it finally occurred to everyone that those houses and those stocks weren’t really worth what the ­debt-fueled market said they were, markets crashed, banks flirted with insolvency, and the economy sank into a deep global recession.

Now, 12 years later, it’s happening again. This time, however, it’s not households using cheap debt to take cash out of their overvalued homes. Rather, it is giant corporations using cheap debt — and a one-time tax windfall — to take cash from their balance sheets and send it to shareholders in the form of increased dividends and, in particular, stock buybacks. As before, the cash-outs are helping to drive debt — corporate debt — to record levels. As before, they are adding a short-term sugar high to an already booming economy. And once again, they are diverting capital from productive long-term investment to further inflate a financial bubble — this one in corporate stocks and bonds — that, when it bursts, will send the economy into another recession.

Go read the whole piece. Whether you agree or not, it will make you think:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/beware-the-m...
That’s not what they said. They said they distribute everything left over after debts to inheritors.

> Either the court figues out if there is any inheritance and distributes everything left over after settling any debts...
This is not some mom & pop shop, when multibillionaire companies sign billions of dollars of MOU, it has to be worth something.

You could argue MOU is jack shit in general, but saying MOU is jack in China but China is great to do business with does not a computer, considering some of the largest companies in the world are signing MOUs and going ahead with their project just fine.
I'm having a hard time understanding what is cowardly about complying with Chinese law when selling products inside China. There are many laws in the US I don't agree with, but I'm obligated to comply with them for as long as I choose to live here and remain a citizen. For example, its essentially US law that Apple's officers have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholder's best interests. Not participating in the Chinese cellular market over principle violates that principal of law. If you want Apple to be "brave" then persuade the US Congress to require that Apple not comply with repressive Chinese law; or convince Apple's shareholders to prohibit the same. Short of those outcomes Apple is doing precisely what its supposed to be doing.
FWIW, we will probably need to figure out an effective way to fund non-commercial drug research anyway, since pharmaceutical companies are really only interested in certain classes of drugs (mostly drugs that treat symptoms of chronic conditions, rather than drugs which permanently solve diseases or drugs which treat short lived conditions).
And the evidence to back up your assertion, is where?

Here's mine... (excuse my lack of formatting.)

The synthesis step of stochastic superoptimisation finds the next candidate program P’ by drawing an MCMC sample based on the previous candidate program P. It proposes P’ by randomly applying one of a few mutations to P:

* changing the opcode of a randomly selected instruction

* changing a random operand of a randomly selected instruction

* inserting a new random instruction

* swapping two randomly selected instructions

* deleting an existing randomly selected instruction

The MCMC sampler uses the cost function, which measures how “close” to the target program P’ is and how fast P’ is, to decide whether to accept the candidate P’. A candidate is more likely to be accepted if it is close to the target or very fast. But even programs that are slow or distant from the target have some probability of being accepted, ensuring we explore novel programs
Fair point! I'm not an economist by training, just a hobby/armchair economist :).

That said, this economist that some HN'er recommended seems to think earnings are strong and much of the buyback is funded by repatriated money if I understand him correctly.

http://blog.yardeni.com/2018/06/buyback-bonanza.html
What happens by chance in the first generation will happen by design in later generations. Unless the altered mosquitoes differ from normal ones in a new and unpredictable way every generation from now to the end of time, they will eventually be detected and avoided.
It's tough when the cancer is sentient, distributed, and has a sense of morality.
It's not just a hard conversation, it is an impossible conversation.

The only viable avenue is education and even then life is very much geared to beget more of it. And that's before we get into life extension.

The better alternative is to get off the planet. The only reason we are exhausting the planet is because there is more of us every day and the same amount of planet to be divided.

Or there might be some man made or natural disaster around the corner, one thing is for sure: it will not continue this way for much longer.
It's interesting that 10 years ago, people avoided this subject completely - The authors of such papers would have been accused of being jealous and lazy.

Now, the idea that we are not a meritocracy is basically common knowledge, it seems that more or less everyone (even among the rich) accepts that this is the reality.
I don't think that society has ever been in such a state of economic self-awareness before.
Unfortunately, all this doesn't seem to change people's attitude towards wealth; if anything, the rich are getting even richer and the poor are literally being wiped out in the opiate epidemic.

It seems that luck plays a bigger role than ever and yet the consequences of winning or losing are becoming more extreme at the same time.
> I thought this was a long running and common behavior for software engineers when they were making projects for themselves instead of work

One might imagine that, in the age of the "GitHub resume," these types of things have fallen out of favor.

Then again I've noticed I reserve my jackassery for mock test data, even in private repositories, so who knows?
I'm not very familiarized with this problem space. Could someone explain what why this is useful, and why you'd want to use it? What are the problems that it solves? I looked through the README, but I'm a bit lost.
India no longer home to largest number of poor people in the world. Nigeria is
Regarding #2, the Ruby sensibility on pulling in dependencies is very different than the Node world's.

As an arbitrary example, consider the deps of two similar packages, delayed_job (Ruby, https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job) and Kue (JS, https://github.com/Automattic/kue).

Delayed_job has two dependencies if you're running on Ruby (rather than JRuby): rake and sqlite3. Neither rake nor sqlite3 have any dependencies of their own - in production mode, of course.

On the other hand, Kue has nine direct dependencies, each of which have their own. The full dependency tree of Kue has one hundred and eighty two separate dependencies.
>Shortly before Zhang's theft was discovered, Apple sent out a lengthy cautionary memo to employees warning them against leaking data to the media. In the letter, Apple said that in 2017, it caught 29 leakers, with 12 of those individuals being arrested and charged.

being an Apple employee seems to come with statistically high risk of being arrested and charged :) And autonomous car projects across the industry remind the Klondike.
Have you ever tried to go back to no longer writing SPAs?

Sure, it's easy to work with at first but then you start to realize that every framework and every language has different ways of doing all the niceties that you now expect. Asset pipelining, layouts, conditional rendering, and template helpers all end up becoming stuff that every language has to individually develop with varying levels of success.

Even with those features baked in, you probably still want to modify the page using JavaScript, anyway, so then you have to re-render parts of the page without the aid of the expansive view system that rendered your page. And, of course, the more JS you put in your app, the more you have some bastardized hybrid of a SPA and a server rendered page.
do they hide offensive emoji's in other countries? would the hide the Israeli flag for phones sold in Middle Eastern countries? I would love to find a published list of what Apple does censor to accommodate specific country or regional issues.
Your comment is fading, and I upvoted even though I don't really agree with your premise.

I do have a respectful question though - are you, personally, acting to save those 50,000 kids? Is there an effective organization out there that accepts donations for this kind of thing, and if so, are you giving to them?
I'm of the unpopular (but realistic) opinion that people can talk all they want about how AI should be used, but it's not going to be up to them to decide.

Corporations and military will do what they want (in private if needed) .
Apple has 5,000 people working on autonomous cars
The US has the largest number of imprisoned citizens despite China and India having populations that are multiples larger as well as how the US deals with collateral damage with things like drone strikes, actual concentration camps for children after it was taught in schools about how bad it was last time the US put japanese in camps, police black sites in Chicago, and various other abuses.

China is not good but the US has zero ground on to say it's better.

If you are a business operating in either nation you are actively participating in human rights abuses or you close down ala Lavabit
I mean, you could make an argument that the UK or Germany might not participate as much as China, but the US is certainly one of the world leaders in stomping on human rights. Forget the homeless population and separating families, just look at our mass incarceration programs. We have something like five times the percentage of our population in prison as opposed to China.

My point isn't to say China is good, only that participating in human rights abuses and authoritarianism are endemic to all the major powers and there's no point in singling China out here. If you're working for the government chances are you're working for an organization that is authoritarian and abuses human rights.
There’s a lot of fuzzy argumentation here. Hands undoubtedly make tool use easier, but simple tool use has been observed in corvids and dolphins, but there’s no sign of world domination by crows and aquatic mammals. Likewise, monkeys and non-human apes have hands and have been observed using tools, but they are certainly not human. Even raccoons have hands.

What makes us human is the combination of intelligence and tool use.
I'm with you, it not just AI, it is basic math and all science that makes predictions, and that is why we pursue them at all. This article strikes me as an article/advertistment for a "Dick and Jane" first reader type of explainer, for business people to alleviate some of that hype. Maybe that is what the book they are hawking is about...
Vitamin D causes autophagy.
Start writing tools for sysadmins. Think of all the times when you hit a wall
because there was no inventory database that could be queried from command
line, not just browsed through a web UI, or when you wanted to coordinate
several backup systems but keep them separate, or when you wanted to run
a well-defined script on a remote host after an event, or when you wanted to
plug in your own data processing into a monitoring system, or run a command on
a set of servers with some of them being temporarily down -- and later review
the run reports, or maybe to keep syslog logs in some place that could be
queried and not be as brittle and slow as Elasticsearch.

There are still blank spots in sysadmin's tooling, but nobody looks this way.
And there are still companies that know that they need tool writers.
I don't know the exact status of iOS in China, but, for example, if iMessage still works there and iOS is still secure then personally I'd call it a victory. Being able to provide a dystopian society with privacy, end-to-end encryption, etc, at the cost of censoring a flag. "Ends justifying the means", etc, etc. We all know the arguments. But the real world is messy.

For reference, I've been to Taiwan. Beautiful country. Censoring their flag in China is a cheesy move on China (and Apple's) part. But again, I'll take that in exchange for the other pro-privacy victories Apple can make.
Just FYI, as an author and reviewer for some of these journals, I would suggest that the value added by their news pieces can be compensated for (and not in a good way) by professional editors in pursuit of "impact". The review process becomes intensely political. As is well known, a suitably well-known senior author can get just about anything sexy enough accepted, and the referees can be easily overridden by an eager editor. Although the news divisions are editorially independent, they face a fundamental conflict of interest: biting the hand that feeds them is unlikely to lead to enhanced rations.

Nature and Science are less bad than, say, many Elsevier imprints. In most cases I feel like Nature or its daughter journal genuinely improved the manuscripts we sent them, at least the ones they published (and some they did not!). But this is also true of eLife and Genome Research. NEJM is wonderful to work with as an author, but in retrospect I sometimes wonder if they were too nice to us (Stockholm syndrome?) and have had this thought about some well-regarded specialty journals. In such cases, it is hard for the news staff to justify reporting on the underbelly.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I had a paper last year in a journal with an impact factor of 15* that was accepted in 15 minutes. It took longer to sign the copyright transfer agreements than to "review" the work. (I have the timestamps on the emails to prove it, although I'm not going to do that because one of my coauthors is an editor.) There's just no way that peer review was adding any value in that case. And yes, it has already been cited by other groups.

* Yes, IF is a silly metric. But the parallel is just too good to pass up. One minute per point of impact, I suppose.
By being popular enough to have providers package the software for them. For example, Chrome is available from a repo maintained by Google itself.

https://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/

OTOH, you're basically giving Google root access to your machine.
I found the frustrations with microservices too setting up a pretty substantial ETL system using Amazon Lambda among other services.

Originally you couldn't trigger Lambda functions from SQS (seemingly the most obvious integration). You could use Kinesis but small print says Lambda concurrency is restricted to the Kinesis streams which gets very expensive.

Visibility/monitoring into most microservices is not good (Iron.io is quite nice but any concurrency is really expensive). I don't like the workflow for deployment and testing either.

So I shifted to single EC2 instance with my application and Beanstalkd w/ my own configurable workers. Way cheaper, easier to manage, normal programming workflow, etc.

For some use-cases Lambda and other services are really nice and efficient but there's usually a lot of hidden limitations so be sure to spend a lot of time evaluating before committing. You often spend way more time fighting the microservice drawbacks than the benefits are worth.
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I suspect he's extremely serious about publicity. Was he going to build a submarine for kids before they ran out of oxygen? Not likely. But now the world knows about the Boring Company.
Not exactly “releases”, but freemidi.org gives you a lot to play with.

https://freemidi.org/random
Thanks for the clarification, guess got it wrong. :)
>Tesla invented battery management technology to scale up bundles of small lithiun ion cells.

I dispute that claim. They may have created a solution for use in their vehicles but did not "invent" anything, they just upscaled existing solutions and used existing know-how.
My takeaway from the book was that it wasn't so much about militarism as it was a critique of universal suffrage.
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Building the world's first creative agency on the cloud.
I understand your point but the problem is that the title is "Arch Linux AUR Repository Found to Contain Malware" (and not, for example: "AUR Repository Found to Contain Malware"). I would argue that the implication (I guess reputation-wise if that matters) starts with the "Arch Linux" part. It's easy to jump on Arch because of this regardless of the fact that the AUR is not supported. At a cursory glance plenty of people (though incorrect) will equate this to "Arch Linux contains malware"
Because your entire series of posts in this thread thus far have been nothing but questioning the motives of Elon Musk and his fans. Even if you're correct you're a hypocrite to complain about someone doing the same to you.

And you're not really accomplishing your goal anyway. The only reason I knew that Musk was even involved in this whole mess was because of his detractors. You're basically signal boosting Musk without even meaning to. I don't personally see any reason to doubt Musk's stated motives but even if he is seeking publicity and attention the best way to deal with that sort of thing is to ignore it.