skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of the Lighthill Report:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthill_report

The full text exists somewhere online, but I can't find it on my phone.

Edit: summary to save you the click:
"Published in 1973, it was compiled by Lighthill for the British Science Research Council as an evaluation of the academic research in the field of artificial intelligence. The report gave a very pessimistic prognosis for many core aspects of research in this field, stating that "In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised"."
The "if" is the problem. How many projects are they unable to work on because no for-profit company is interested?
Yes that’s true, most of the work and moderation is done via mailing lists (like in Linux dev or with IETF/RFCs) but when we’re talking about the infrastructure I would expect something more efficient. Sure someone must notice it and report it, but I don’t get why it takes so long. And just to avoid misunderstandings I’m not talking about censorship, but actual WTF situations as this one described in the post where it’s obvious what is happening with Bitcanal.
If you'd ever had to support some old Fortran or Cobol littered with gotos you'd probably sing a different tune. I'd guess you've never seen that sort of mess though. It's gotten pretty rare.
Nobody uses iMessage in China because SMS is expensive.
iCloud data in China is stored in a datacenter in China where the Chinese government can access any data any time they want with no warrant whatsoever.
This is what happens when the same term is used for different conditions. Imagine if someone put forth a cure for lupus (an autoimmune disorder), but lupus was called "immune system disorder", and people replied "my immune system is one of my favorite parts of myself! I don't mind getting a fever occasionally."

Going back to the article, whose details you might have overlooked in your first read through.

> In the trial, 42 children with autism who played the games for 20 hours got better at recognizing facial expressions and at related tasks.

Would being able to recognize faces harm your self-identity and quality of life?

> The players who made the most progress in the game also showed the greatest improvements in their balance,

>The researchers are assessing whether the players also improve their posture and balance while getting dressed.

Would being able to balance on your feet and dress yourself be harmful to you?

> aims to improve various aspects of attention, especially cognitive control, or the ability to juggle different tasks and ignore irrelevant information.

Would being able to ignore unwanted distractions hurt your productivity?
> It’s easily observable that the vast majority of people don’t have their own opinion on any subject that receives significant media attention, because their opinion is exactly that espoused by said media (this includes entertainment as well as news).

> Since the remain faction had almost complete media support, we must conclude that brexit voters were persuaded by other factors.

Only if your belief/premise is right.
https://rjevski.io

I thought about putting more effort in there and using it to voice my opinion on some things (laws & regulations in the financial and telecoms sector, etc) but honestly I don't think anyone would bother reading it, and my views would most likely offend a lot of people profiting from the things I'm criticising and this could hurt my career down the line or bring potentially unwanted attention.

Sometimes I wish we'd go back to the early days where everyone is anonymous and you can post shit all day without major real-world consequences.
And there is also ``form parameter design'' for ship hull geometry. It is also generative, but perhaps it more typically makes use of deterministic (nonlinear optimization) solvers to generate the geometry itself. (Implementations vary - I show my bias (or just inability to shut up) here as I am trying to finish a PhD in this as we speak)
The main similarity I'm going for in this comment is that the user specifies design constraints and the program generates ship hull shapes that meet those requirements.

Tie generative methods in with solvers for hydrodynamics, motions, structures, stability, etc, and one can conceive of automating the ship hull design spiral, or sections of it anyway. That's not to say that some of this is not already out there in commercial software.
Facebook faces record UK fine for data misuse: £500,000
Server is based on a very minimal seed. There are no graphics drivers or anything X or desktop related. The seed is ultimately very close to what a cloud instance of Ubuntu will include if you want to give it a spin.
U.S. readying new tariffs on up to $200B of Chinese goods
It’s spectacular on a 5k monitor! Thanks for sharing.
> ... the fundamental problem was centered around a shared architecture of destinations and shared code.

From an architectural perspective, there is absolutely no difference between a micro service and a library. The only real difference is in the dispatch mechanism.

The problems around configuration management are the same problems we've had as programmers for decades. It's just that the people who are keen on micro services are usually not old enough to have experienced the pain in a different context.

Should shared libraries be in different repos, or should you put everything in a single repo? How do you deal with versioning? What happens if one app wants version 1 of the library and another app wants version 2? How do you deal with backwards compatibility of the API? Do you make a whole new library when you decide the old API is incompatible with the new vision? Blah, blah, blah, blah. None of this is a new problem.

I can't remember which version of Windows it was (maybe 7?) where they were seriously delayed mainly because they had so many programs using different versions of libraries. Integrating it at the end was apparently complete hell. Since they wanted to have separation of responsibility in their groups, each group was just pounding away implementing the features that they needed, but not integrating as they went -- because that would mean lots of cross team communication. The exact same thing is likely in a large organisation with a ton of micro services.

There isn't just one way to solve the problem. Mono repos and monoliths help in certain ways and cause problems in other ways. There are other techniques as well (should we implement ld.so for micro services? :-) ) But as you mention, the real answer is that the solution requires humans, not technology.
This makes sense and I agree. You will learn some about the domains you write software in but often you are in those by force and not by choice and you will only ever be so interested in the problems you face/software you build. I once got to write a compiler for financial formulas and that was very interesting but that was the exception and not the rule for most of my professional work.

Maybe you get lucky and have a hobby/personal interest that can fulfill this need to some degree (this partially has happened to me, apparently people who write software don't often overlap with people who cross stitch).

I do enjoy writing code but I much prefer writing code for problems or in domains that interest me.
touch someone, presumably.
"Maximally rational" is impossible, physically, computationally and biologically. Your second paragraph describes the effects of that, and the second sentence of your first paragraph describes the consequences: attempting to be maximally rational is often not the best strategy.
Well that will act as a deterrent then!
Carbon-now-cli:Beautiful images of your code from right inside your terminal
You want an internet discussion to start with definitions of terms. That expectation/desire is probably also an example of irrationality.

Not everything is a formal discussion, even when the topic is rationality.
So this is special hardware for a Software Defined Network? I thought SDN was meant to work on COTS hardware?
How do you decide whether the bad BGP announcement was an accident or malicious?
No, we are absolutely predicting when we are looking at a photo; firstly, we really do not see the ‘whole thing’, our eyes make quick, stereotyped (cough predictive cough) movements to a few spots on the image and mentally imagine the rest. Secondly, that’s assuming we recognized something in the image, if it’s unclear, like a grainy photo or lots of shadows, we start to make informed guesses about what could be there.

All of our sensory systems work this way - we use an enormous amount of context to bubble up predictive categories and the collect marginal amounts of information until one prediction dominates over all others.

When one doesn’t, we get gestalt like illusions; like the cubes that are projected both forwards or backwards - or dresses that are blue and black and white and gold - or laurel and yanni in perfect harmony, etc.
Mozilla is working on a new Android browser
I would rather they front load the cost for the application fee, reduce the actual license fee. And then hire reviewers with a mindset to reject if it doesn't clearly describe how to recreate a process properly, or isn't unique or non-obvious. I think another extension to the standard for patent-ability should be does this patent make something less effective (as is often the case with extension patents).
How the Era of Entrepreneurship is reshaping the structure of Hierarchies
Spring Scheduler Lock
Here's an excerpt from e-mail I just sent 7 For All Mankind's support e-mail:

"You have a California location at Fashion Island [1]. It has recently become public that the operator of that mall, Irvine Company, is sharing customers' license plate data--due to no legal obligation and en masse--with ICE [2]. Irrespective of political affiliations, I believe we share a mutual respect for customers' privacy. Hoping your brand, currently running a #WeAreMankind campaign, is wiling to speak out about this inconsistency.

Best,

[JumpCrissCross]

[1] https://www.shopirvinecompany.com/directory/store-directory/

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/10/alpr-license-plate-recogni...
One of the perks of autism/asperger is the obsessive focus on things that interest you. One important distinction between someone that is just naturally shy are problems with empathy.

You can fix some non-verbal communication aspects but it is better to invest in listening skills. By listening to what others are saying you can relate better and increase your likebility.

I disagree that you can "fix" people in the autism spectrum. It just is not cost effective and most will never feel good in business roles. Most will be natural born experts where most business roles are jacks-of-all-trades.
What’s the point of this comment?
>Zhang was interviewed by the FBI in late June, where he admitted to stealing the information, and he was later arrested attempting to leave to China on July 7.

I guess he assumed he was going to get away with it but why wouldn't you just skedaddle ASAP when you moved the data and / or hardware?

Granted he seems more like a flunky for someone rather than a super criminal as he talked to the FBI...and admitted it.
> Not maintained (last commit in 2016). So that will be something low on the priority list.

I see! Time for me to start looking for a new method of transfering files from android then, thanks for the heads up
You inspired me to look for US patent grants by year, which brought me to this table:

https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/us_stat.ht...

In 1963 the USPTO granted patents to 54% of applications. In 2015 the rate was actually slightly lower (52%). But as "The Case Against Patents" notes, the total volume of applications has soared. I kind of expected to see some sort of upward inflection around 1980 (Bayh-Dole Act) but didn't spot one by eye.

The growth rate just in this century is astonishing; there were "only" 288,811 applications in 1999. Total applications per year were below 500,000 as recently as 2009. They're now well over 600,000/year.
At some point they are.

My thinking is that we're a long way from that point -- there are numerous other, small, sacrifices that can be made.
Check out the samples too: https://www.whosampled.com/Eco-Virtual/
To me the issue here is that this data is collected in the first place. It seems wrong to me that private corporations are tracking my every move.
Being a fan of the genre(s) myself, it's nice to see that Ishkur's Guide is still available. I remember finding it on Newgrounds in 2000 or 2001 and being blown away by the level of detail.
This is just not true. Google uses almost entirely immediately consistent databases and gRPC internally. Eventual consistency is hardly ever required for REST type calls even at massive scale.

gRPC has no queuing and the connection is held open until the call returns. All of Google's cloud databases are immediately consistent for most operations
Honestly, I don't see this happening.

Many packages use rolling versions from git commits, so while the PKGBUILDs don't get updated, any time a user re-runs makepkg on that PKGBUILD the latest commit is pulled and built.

In those cases, a PKGBUILD might be months or years old, but still consistently up to date and valid.
The main contra-agent to corporate censorship is competition. But the U.S. by political choice doesn't really have strong competition law, anti-competitive behavior is profitable, so it's likely most people in the U.S. will continue to have one or two choices in ISPs.

The next contra-agent is making sure states allow local municipalities to own, or regulate, and offer alternatives.

The track record for Republicans in the similar case of health care insurance is, ignore the problem of lack of competition, allow mergers and conglomeration. As a party, it's ideologically lost on both issues.

And the track record for Democrats is not really that much farther behind, they took a busted anti-competitive health insurance market and made it compulsory, while also offering no public option like a Medicare or Medicaid buy-in even though they certainly would have had the votes for it.

So either party poses difficulty with censorship free internet, but as there's no viable 3rd party, for now the emphasis should be on getting more technically qualified people elected at all levels of government, and accept that a lot of persuasion is going to be needed to bring Democrats along.
Write about it and let search engines do their thing.

There's pretty much no success in advertising a package/library - not many people randomly browse for packages and even if they stumble upon yours they'd probably forget about it the next day before they find an use-case for it. Even paid ads wouldn't work.

People who actually have a problem to solve however will search for it, hopefully find your article and if you it's a good fit they will use it.
You're only supposed to grab the tiny sliver so you can mention it to $consultant in desperation.
Not all websites are served from the same places.
Yea I don't understand the original comment... however it is true Java isn't (or at least wasn't until recently) ideal for containerization, since the JVM would not obey things like cgroup limits for memory and CPU. This was fixed in Java 9 and backported to the Java 8 (update 131) however there are still potential issues regarding CPU isolation that are not trivially solved without some explicit configuration.

For a good overview, see: https://mesosphere.com/blog/java-container/
Technology focused on urban systems is drawing billions of dollars in VC
Anthropogenic Lunar Warming!

(Humans are the worst...)
Except a large part of “local” art is derivative, contrived crap. Much is good, but the benefit of large museums like the Musee d’Orsay for instance is that there are professional curators that can create stories with the selection of art. However despite a large number of inept curators on the local scene, there are a few Peggy Guggenheim types that have an eye for new artists that are masters in the making. I like local art, but there’s a non-trivial number of “artists” that are pretentious beyond their talent and they think they are saying something when if fact, they are as unoriginal as Louvre copyists. It’s a joy to find an artist that is really good, but the signal to noise ratio is pretty terrible.
This is one example of a kernel backdoor:

if ((options == (__WCLONE|__WALL)) && (current->uid = 0))
retval = -EINVAL;

If you haven't heard of it before, and if you're not an experienced dev, it can be tricky to spot. So what I'm trying to say is that I think you're right in that it's difficult for random people (even if they have a strong tech background) to do secure code reviews.

More info of this particular one at e.g. https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2013/10/09/the-linux-backdoor-... or just search for 'linux backdoor attempt'
More than this?

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
In practice companies don't act that way.

Further, organizations can be for profit, non profit, or not for profit each of those are distinct things. So what distinguishes companies from other organizations is simply the profit motive, otherwise they would be something else.

That said, they can have other motives on top of profit seeking and need not seek profit over all other goals.
Irvine Company is not just "one company", it's HUGE... it owns half of Orange County, Newport Beach, etc. From Wikipedia:

> The Irvine Company develops suburban master-planned communities throughout central and southern Orange County, in addition to residential buildings in Santa Monica, Silicon Valley, and San Diego.[6] The company also owns and manages office buildings in Milpitas, San Jose, Sunnyvale, Downtown San Diego, Mission Valley, San Diego, La Jolla Village/University City, Sorrento Mesa, Del Mar Heights, Newport Center, UCI locations, West Los Angeles, Pasadena, Chicago, and New York City.[7]
This article takes a distinctly negative tone towards this practice. What’s the problem here? License plate data is public information, it’s the same as if a person standing on the street saw your plate and told someone else. There should not be any expectation of privacy in regard to one’s license plate or the location of its sighting.
A list of differences:

- Birth environment.

- Coordinates of release into the wild environment.

These two differences alone are already enough to represent a selection pressure. A mosquito pair which is fortunate enough to have a statistical deviance in its position relative to a released population of sterile mosquitos will tend to reproduce more often than others. We absolutely expect that a pressure will exist. We absolutely expect that a selection will take place.

Assuming that the selected feature will be one which corresponds with detecting a difference between sterile and non-sterile mosquitos might be a stretch though. There is an enormous space of potential features which might be selected for. For example, mating multiple times to increase the chance of being with a fertile mate is another possible selection. Another is flying away from regions with large numbers of mosquitos which are appear to be newly introduced to the environment. Another is that mosquitos which exist in hazardous environments which usually kill mosquito possess unique adaptions which may prevent the sterile mosquitos from hindering their reproduction. The space of possibility is too large to enumerate.
yeah, but if I'm rotating a 256-bit key using XOR, is that really secure? It's 256-bit encryption, but about the weakest thing I could possibly do short of plain text.
"[In their investigation] Apple found that just prior to Zhang's departure, his network activity had "increased exponentially" compared to the prior two years he had worked at Apple. He accessed content that included prototypes and prototype requirements. .."

Seems like an oversight to find this out post-investigation vs. flagged up front?

EG - seems like a basic usage algorithm could flag this stuff especially across a small <5000 person universe w/cost-benefit vs. theft of tens-of-billions in IP.

Any corporate IT security officers care to comment on this?
Ok, I did my shameless self-promotion on the other thread, but I'll do it again here: https://trackingco.de/ is my take on doing something better than Gauges for a smaller price.
I love yay[1]. It has few dependencies, integrates well with pacman, has a useful search function, and is incredibly easy to use. I recommend using the binary version (yay-bin[2]) available in the AUR since it doesn't require compilation and has the fewest dependencies of any AUR helper.

[1] https://github.com/Jguer/yay

[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yay-bin/
The Guggenheim collection in Venice is world class amazing — in a setting that is more like the artists might have invisioned their work being displayed. Definitely worth the trip if you find yourself in that part of the world.
It might be time for a group of tech people to write some initiatives to limit these kind of business models. This kind of behavior should be pretty simple to get Californians to vote for.
He might not have realized what he did was illegal.

He might have thought that lying (or evading) the FBI is worse than the risk of being convicted for stealing secrets. (It usually is.)
If you want clients for this sort of enterprise software my former boss (who runs a successful business software development company that works with Odoo among other things) told me to go to trade shows, listen to the people there and what problems they have and see if your company can make software that solves it.
Sure - but is anyone complaining that companies are getting rich off options?

Buybacks increase the share price and that is why board of directors prefer them over dividends (since their bonuses may be tied to them) but this is simply an aligning of preferences. If I own a company I want it's value to go up.

If I could choose between my $100 stock going to $110 or my $100 going to $105 with a $5 dividend I'd choose the first since it is more tax efficient.
The Trumpwave/fashwave stuff is often other songs with only the music video changed c.f. the original Trumpwave video https://youtu.be/_k1zJV0DSvc
While I don't agree with Kavanaugh in this case, the legal reality is corporations are just as protected by the first amendment as any person. If they weren't, we couldn't have things like a free press. Painting this view as strictly Republican is painting everyone who's not Republican as at odds with the constitution.
* Her employer absolutely should have disciplined her. *

If her reaction to polite and constructive criticism from a user, and a customer, was this over the top, the reaction to a harsher comment (a disciplinary one), from her employer, wouldn't have been any better. Better to terminate the relationship before it gets nasty.
This is everywhere in academia. Peer review is like the goggles in the face of a seemingly neverending wave of BS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juFZh92MUOY

Honestly who cares about these papers in the case of ML though? Its not like running other experiments where you cant check it yourself without spending $100k. Just share the code and explain it in a blog or readme. Its usually some pdf with equations no one is solving, proofs based on assumptions that dont apply to my situations, and some cherry picked overfitting of the cv.
The first I would have trouble believing...

The second I could understand.
sometimes an application also need some locales, timezone data, etc.
Nothing is guaranteed, however I can't see how this leads to US - China equivalency w.r.t human rights.

> that's not the only thing that matters
Maybe, but you prefer to ignore it altogether when equating China and US
Whoa there buddy.

How about we be a little careful with the xenophobic talk, no?