skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of these are ironically myopic: "10,000 years: If globalization trends lead to panmixia, human genetic variation will no longer be regionalized, as the effective population size will equal the actual population size. This does not mean homogeneity, as minority traits will still be preserved, e.g. the blonde gene will not disappear, but it will be rather evenly distributed worldwide."

That prediction makes the rather questionable assumption that humans will still be primarily, if not entirely, on Earth in 10,000 years! Interplanetary colonization will likely dwarf the regional evolutionary isolation we've experienced on this planet. In the longrun it will likely even trend towards speciation (as a more reasonable prediction further on does hit on.) Consider that a European, an African, and a Japanese all share an incredibly recent ancestor.

The exciting thing about interplanetary colonization is once the technology starts to become robust, our potential growth and expansion is effectively unlimited. It would be like if the western frontier in the US was uninhabited and somehow went on to infinity. The implications of this are difficult to even imagine.
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Just noodling about the economics, 7 passengers at $200K each is $1.4M gross revenue. So assuming very low earth orbit (basically you just need to be above enough of the atmosphere that you won't re-enter before the end of your first orbit) that is still a very low cost for a Falcon9 launch given that the second stage is not recovered. So you need to recover both stages operationally "close" to where they lifted off so that you minimize refurbishment/transport costs.

I'm guessing that would be that the second stage provides retropulsion to get you back to nominal zero velocity over the return point.

So that would be launch, booster returns to the pad, and the second stage pushes you up enough to insure an orbit, then your orient for return. Enjoy the view etc, and then the second stage relights to cancel your velocity to 0 as you arrive over the launch facility (you'll have to scoot 1000 miles or so east as well given planetary rotation) and then separate for a parachute landing of perhaps both the capsule and the second stage booster.

Sounds pretty complex. But you would have to recover all equipment if you wanted to have a chance as meeting the economics of that.
The whole package is 166.4 MB for Linux (PyQt5 is 117.9 MB ). This is even much bigger than Electron's base bundle size. This matters much for Linux devs who want put everything into a single package (e.g. AppImage) to avoid dependency problems in each Linux distros. I hope Qt would divide Pyside 2 into components (for example, QML) so that devs can easily optimize their package size.
SIM swapping is not the only threat. There are potential attacks to which your carrier’s customer support would be completely oblivious to, since they happen at the network level and exploit its design flaws.

The only solution is if the industry pushes for it and demands their suppliers (Ericsson, Huawei, etc) that they defend against it, but it will never happen.

PS: toll-free numbers are definitely reachable from VoIP. Maybe not shitty consumer-grade VoIP, but entreprise-grade providers (sometimes used by carriers themselves) like Twilio or Nexmo will definitely reach it.
I think Vitalik has being quite honest and realistic about it: "So total cryptocoin market cap just hit $0.5T today. But have we earned it?" [0]

[0]: https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/940744724431982594...
As of today, we wouldn't be able to detect a same-tech-level civilization even at the closest star with the amount of effort we have given this, so there is no paradox in my mind.
Yes, they list a beta ConnectIQ (Garmin device app) app, but Garmin has some nice and more compact devices with heart rate as well (e.g. vivosmart 3) and those don't run apps.
Wow - where is the love ?

I think this is great. A mattress is something we spend loads of time (some of it quite fun) on top of. So why not research and build your own. Excellent craftsmanship and a great write up.
This is effectively a solved problem, but it does require some tooling.
Pre-commit hooks can strip things like execution count and/or outputs from the notebook: https://gist.github.com/minrk/6176788
I was unaware of iPhone SE's pricing. I stand corrected - you're right about the price.
The locked status and unlockability, is being done on request of carriers. Because they order thousands of pieces, they get to say what those pieces should do.

If you do not agree, get your stuff elsewhere, the carriers will get the memo eventually. Yes, I know that you would have to pay the full price, and with carriers you don't have to, but then the locked status and customized firmware comes as a part of the price for the convenience.
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What is market practice to ask for other shareholders to buy you out for total investment of $10M/equity is 32-60% if debt is converted into common stock? Our equity is some preferred shares, some common. Additional investment - long-term debt convertible into common stock).
And where you work. I've had Dubai-based companies try to sell me on "work here, pay zero taxes". (I politely told him I cared more about human rights.)
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Emojis are ephemeral, imprecise symbols which in the clients discussed are generally used for short term communication, not persistent information storage. Like the ASCII art they originated from, their implied meaning often doesn't survive font changes.

I wonder how many of the people apparently incandescent with rage at the "authoritarian nature" of vendors changing a gun to a water pistol to bring into line with other vendors had similar objections back when Microsoft changed their original scifi toy gun to a pistol back in 2016...
Imagine that we have the technology to cryogenically freeze and revive you with your subjective sense of self intact. Now consider two scenarios:

Scenario 1: We freeze you, move your body to a different location, and revive you.

Scenario 2: We freeze you, make an atomic copy of the frozen version of you, move the copy to a new location, and revive the copy.

(The reason I want to freeze you rather than simply anesthetize you is that I want there to be no possibility of any physical changes to your body or brain while you are unconscious.)

Unless you are a dualist, you must concede that your external behavior after being revived must be the same in both scenarios. So any experiment we do on you must have the same outcome in both scenarios. So no experiment can determine whether your subjective sense of self is the same or different in the two scenarios.
So being a small claims court case, there is no written opinion.

However, here's the other side to this particular claim.
" the vast majority of Lord's 61 pledges came after the arbitration clause was added and that Lord accepted the new terms of service when he added additional funds to his initial pledge. "

My guess, if he was to appeal, the end result would be a ruling saying "The stuff done before the arbitration clause get adjudicated, the stuff after goes to arbitration"

This is what has happened in the past. But in general, you are allowed to give contracts retroactive effect if both parties agree and it's explicit.

This would probably leave Lord with a claim for basically nothing.
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I've been seeing repeated mentions of early warning systems for a lot of diseases, but not too much technical development! I think I could hack something together that would be an interesting proof of concept and function as an effective early warning system, using my ML and Public Health background. Of course, I don't know who to directly sell to, its not like most businesses or consumers are interested in reducing disease burden, government folks seem interested though!
But there's no saying that future versions of stock Android will work on a specific device. Because it's open source, many OEMs just take the OS and don't upstream the drivers they write. And because Linux has no driver ABI, they need to be recompiled from source for every new version of the OS (and modified accordingly too, because there's no stable driver API either).

That's why project Treble was done.
People watching videos on Youtube are not SpaceX consumer/customer.
Or am I missing something?

Here is a full SpaceX manifest both past and future:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceX/wiki/launches/manifest

As it stands right now, they are most likely the largest rocket company right now (or at least the top 2), they seem to be adding more order every other month. Not a sign of their customer base losing confidence in them.
Universe (YC W18) Is Hiring an iOS Engineer (Remote or NYC)
We believe that the internet is better when more people can build it. Universe is the first website builder designed from the ground up for mobile. In less than a minute, anyone can make a beautiful site from their phone. This is possible because of our breakthrough modular grid editor, which makes building a site as fun as playing with Lego (https://vimeo.com/260165283).

We just hit over 170,000 sites created, finished YC W18 (https://techcrunch.com/gallery/best-y-combinator-startups-20...), and raised a $4mm Series A from top investors (http://techcrunch.com/2018/06/20/mobile-website-creator-univ...)

You can check out our app here: http://apple.co/Universe

We're looking for an iOS developer to help accelerate our progress.

You'll take on tasks throughout the stack. You will expand the editor: adding new block types, more complex layouts, and more customizations for each block. You will help build tools that are easy for everyone to understand, so that buying a domain, setting up metadata, and adding pages are super simple. And you will advance our Magic Builder, a personalized design “assistant” that generates a unique site by asking you just a few questions.

Our app is native, taking advantage of the many frameworks Apple gives us. It is built entirely with Swift. The bulk of the user data is stored in CloudKit though we do maintain a few of our own APIs. We're hoping to convert those APIs from node.js to Swift soon, so experience with Vapor or Kitura is a bonus ;). We use programatic autolayout for the majority of our UI. We do believe in Unit Tests, but we don't have enough yet.

This is a full time position open to anyone, anywhere. We are a distributed company with an HQ in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

We're looking for someone sharp, internally-driven, and passionate about building powerful tools for everyone. If you're interested, shoot us a note to join@onuniverse.com.

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Oh god... I forgot punkbuster even existed, what an absolute pile of garbage. So many hours wasted on dealing with that shit and reading redundant and useless forum posts where everyone just copy pasted the same shit over and over.
That is a significant amount of work to engage in for someone who is already in a compromised mental state :'(
Not a valid comparison. The eggplant emoji might mean something other than eggplant, but if you change it to a watermelon you can’t even recognize it as the same symbol, let alone guess at the intended meaning. This is why it’s disturbing: it actively obscures interpretation.

Granted, I’m assuming historians will use the emoji set at time of writing, but that’s not trivially available.
At first, it sounds like an anti-neutrino can "spontaneously" emit a positron to form a W boson, instead of finding an electron.

On re-reading, it's like the neutrino "bumps" the positive charge out of the proton. Like the neutrino interacting with a down quark will convert them into an up quark and a positron.

Edit: Inverse beta decay, commonly abbreviated to IBD, is a nuclear reaction involving electron antineutrino scattering off a proton, creating a positron and a neutron.

... The IBD reaction can only be initiated when the antineutrino possesses at least 1.806 MeV of kinetic energy (called the threshold energy). This threshold energy is due to a difference in mass between the products ( positron and neutrino ) and the reactants ( antineutrino and proton ) and also slightly due to a relativistic mass effect on the antineutrino. Most of the antineutrino energy is distributed to the positron due to its small mass relative to the neutron.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_beta_decay

To state the obvious, since the Neutrino is massless, its energy can only come from momentum. Hence the distribution of the 1.806 MeV from the Wiki article above:

P+ to N: 1.293 MeV
Positron: 0.511 MeV
total: 1.804 MeV (rounding error?)
I have heard of that as a correlation without proven causation. People with health problems might need more sleep perhaps.
>> I'm curious why author decided to completely disregard reinforcement learning.

Most probably because the vast majority of its applications is in game-playing and not human-level AI (as in general intelligence, capable of tackling free-form tasks in the real world), which is the subject of the article.

To substantiate this intuition further:

a) Agents playing arcade games, Go, chess, etc, are still constrained in "blocks worlds", even if they can beat humans in those worlds.

b) To my knowledge, self-driving car systems actually deployed are not trained using reinforcement learning, or even deep learning (for anything other than vision) but instead make use of the SLAM approach discussed in the article. I might be wrong on this and would welcome a correction.
Or this:

https://steemitimages.com/DQmbiPZbjmskYPjMc2FuSGV4AcfDwjsNt6...
Emoji is controlled by corporations that are concerned with maximizing the value of their platforms which will lead them to a PG13, disneyfied, milquetoast worldview.

I wouldn’t worry too much. People will combat this with creative workarounds, such as using the eggplant emoji to represent a penis.
>Any kind of writing system allows this.

The meaning of the words will change over time, but not the words themselves. So someone who reads it will know what the words written actually were, and just have to lookup any differences in meeting between when the words were written and now.

Imagine for a second if we took Shakespeare and rewrote it with modern day English, and then made the claim the new version is the original Shakespeare... I think we would see the problem with that. But that is what happened with emoji. It isn't that people look back, see as collections of pixels, and realize now those pixels mean water gun while in the past they meant firearm. When they look back, they see water gun.
I would just change the duration of a second. It would be probably easier to change a few physics constants here and there than to fix all the broken code.
It were the logical reaction if "as closed as possible" and "the current situation" were the only two possible states. And with your proposed EU-ban, Google would leave massive hole in the market for handset makers to fill with alternatives, in a market large enough to motivate such development. That doesn't sound like something for Google to want, I believe their market position is better than that.
Even if we create life in a lab under naturalistic conditions, that doesn't answer the question. How often do those conditions occur on planets in the universe? We need an actual number. How often does life arise given those conditions? We need an actual number for that, too.
The that DoCoMo emoji is IMO unambiguously happy, being based off of the kaomoji:

^_^

While overscores can be used in both happy and sad or angry faces the use of carats in a sad/angry face kaomonji would be very unusual; see e.g. [1]

1: http://kaomoji.ru/en/
No different from a regular mattress made of the same materials.
It's been suggested that perhaps one way to find evidence of extrasolar life, would be to find exoplanets whose years are integer multiples of their rotational periods, i.e. they've done what you describe just to eliminate leap years and make their calendars easier.
How do you eliminate wasteful jobs without backlash? Stop hiring and let attrition take care of the problem?

In 2009, they'd have to look to increase employment elsewhere.
Your description of 3D printing fits well with the REPL too, though; it's also not magic, and it's a prototyping system, not for production.
Hey jsd1982. Sorry for the late reply. You are right, I didn't describe the term "pipeline" explicitly. A pipeline is a compilation of functions which do "something". We used/use "priority" to determine to order of execution of these functions. We already noticed that priority is probably a bad name and we actually need something different (https://github.com/gaia-pipeline/gaia/issues/19).
We are currently working hard on the documentation part (https://gaia-pipeline.io). The project is really early. I hope we can improve within the next weeks/month a lot! :-)
A number of Science Fiction works talk about how prediction is more accurate the further out you go into the future, but how predictions in the short term are not so much.

Like the episode of Deep Space 9 where Bashier works with the other genetically modified humans. They talk about how eventually the galaxy will come to an end due to entropy, but their predictions for the Dominion War had too many variables to accurately predict close up.

Psycho-history and Foundation is sorta like this, but I think Issac Asimov doesn't do as good a job with this story/theory/believably.
What. U.S. life expectancy from birth is around 78.
At about $40k/kg for gold, I get 2,500 metric tons. The ship was about 6,000 tons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cruiser_Dmitrii_Donsko...) so it theoretically could carry that, but it would be over half of its maximum load. Add in fuel, engines, guns, about 600 men, their food, etc. and assuming (unlikely) it would still float, you would have to be suicidal to take it to sea.

Wikipedia currently says 200 tons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cruiser_Dmitrii_Donsko...), but then it would be worth on the order of 10 billion.

That still seems a lot to me. What would a warship “assigned to the cruiser force of the Second Pacific Squadron” at wartime would need that much gold for?

Also, the current gold reserves of the USA are about 8,000 tons, worth in the ballpark of $200 billion. Even after striking out a zero, this find would be about 3% of that.
When blue collar jobs get destroyed, all I hear about is the benefits of creative destruction and the people will benefit through lower prices. When white collar jobs are threatened, everyone loses their shit.
Emojis representing states of suffering number in the double digits.
Sure, which is one of the reasons why we don't currently have a Fermi paradox.
:-)

:-(

;-)

Did I miss any?

Edit: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/sefSmiley.htm
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It doesn't change very often due to top-down orders, though...
In my opinion the "big pop guys" you mention are:

A) Fantastic producers -- the production from these guys is phenomenal, and IMHO this is what really "makes the song".

B) Great at writing to a formula. The tunes are "catchy" but I cannot think of anything that would be considered really innovative musically.

There's no sin in that necessarily... it certainly takes talent to "know what works" and "know what doesn't"... and for the type of pop music they do (largely teen pop and other pop formulas), formula is fine.

I will say that pop producers like these guys tend to be really solid in the groove / rhythm department, in particular.

C) Great at artistic collaboration... big pop outfits now write in large groups. Knowing the way many musicians are, that's an accomplishment in itself. :) This probably contributes to the "solid song that isn't innovative" aspect... all the left-fieldisms of an artist are probably smoothed out. But again, this pop.

Overall the music product is a professional creation, designed for a market that always was and always will be half song-and-dance youth fashion show as one of the posters alluded to. :) Not a music style I care for personally.

But a popular one, and it takes something to do it as well as these guys do.
A more optimistic formulation would be that that represents millions of people who could be doing something a bit more generally useful than mastering the intricacies of the layers and layers of bureaucracy built up around medical billing. And probably wouldn't mind having a slightly less mind-numbing job themselves.

Too bad the US is also epically bad at supporting people in career transitions.
:forbidden: (ZWJ) :bear: (ZWJ) :on!_symbol: (ZWJ) :flashlight: (ZWJ) :bee: (ZWJ) :ng_symbol:
What if we drive it to 0, and litterally hand those people the money they would otherwise be making.
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The TFA is actually pretty clear:

> The Commission decision concludes that Google is dominant in the markets for general internet search services, licensable smart mobile operating systems and app stores for the Android mobile operating system.

And the complaint isn't about choice of OSes or any "anti-FOSS" bullshit, but about choice of search on Android and abusing their position to stop use of Android forks:

In particular, Google:

• has required manufacturers to pre-install the Google Search app and browser app (Chrome), as a condition for licensing Google's app store (the Play Store);

• made payments to certain large manufacturers and mobile network operators on condition that they exclusively pre-installed the Google Search app on their devices; and

• has prevented manufacturers wishing to pre-install Google apps from selling even a single smart mobile device running on alternative versions of Android that were not approved by Google (so-called "Android forks").
"When language is subjugated to corporate interests, we lose our ability to talk honestly and openly about the world, and some uncomfortable and disturbing juxtapositions emerge"

Great quote
Fascism and communism are not complete opposites.

Both are authoritarian political philosophies with a heavy handed approach to economic policies.

Differences come in privatization, immigration, equality of rights, and religious toleration. [1]

Both have extreme takes on ideas falling under the umbrella of socialist thought (hence, Germany's National Socialist Workers party). You can argue 1984 vs Brave New World, but there are certainly common themes.

Both differ significantly from classical liberalism.

[1] http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/politics/ideo...
Those arguing with you are clearly missing the point. Yes, language can evolve, but emoji are essentially variable expressions interpreted on read by the system reading them. Sure, the meaning of a given word can change over time such that a later reader misunderstands but this is like a blind person having someone read a novel aloud to him one year and the next the reader changes words arbitrarily.
> Emoji is a trash writing system

I read this as "Emoji is a recycling bin writing system"
I think the point the poster was making is that it's possible the issue is with the quality of your sleep. Someone getting a lower quality of sleep will need more hours of total sleep every day to be as well-rested as someone with a higher quality but fewer hours of sleep.

Of course, that's not necessarily the case. Everyone has a different genetic need for and predisposition to sleep.
Despite the edges looking a bit unpolished, the quality of the mattress itself is fantastic, better than anything I've slept on before. It sleeps very cool due to low contact surface area, and the gel immediately fits to support my back, side, legs, etc.

I briefly considered using the gel without the encasement but that wouldn't be sanitary and would be visually jarring to guests who came across the bed.