skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anarchism as a political philosophy does not "want a society with no laws or rules".

It wants a society where power (social, political, economic, etc) is not distributed based on a hierarchy.

Some misinterpret this as meaning that anarchists oppose the structuring of power in general (a.k.a. chaos), but in fact power can be organized through all kinds of non-hierarchical forms.

Anarchism as a broad philosophy is not prescriptive as to how power /should/ be organized, only how it should not. There are many complementary and competing ideas about how a society or group can best structure itself to minimize hierarchical power, and anarchists argue about these a lot.

They also actively experiment with them, and often the experiments fail. But sometimes they succeed, and those discoveries help all of us expand our possible modes of social organization. So basically I think even if you don't subscribe to anarchist philosophy, you should not be so dismissive of it.
I have a question. Please excuse my ignorance but I thought that once the world has a working quantum computer, the world as we know it will be destroyed. Since a quantum computer can solve any NP hard problem in a polynomial time, it would mean it could break any kind of crypto, any kind of security and can brute force anything. Why hasn't that happened yet since its 2018 and we already have quantum computers?
Horrible article, an unbalanced piece written with many fallacies.
Libraries provide lots of value for communities and that’s exactly where we should not start to save money.
Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away
People write reports on smartphones?

Everyone around me can def use a keyboard. Not ten finger touch type but near enough
I suspect because there's no-one left at HP who even remembers their legacy. Or those few that do are happy to see it live on.
One technology breakthrough for ARM over x86(which has little room left for improvement at this point), could be a watershed moment for the chip manufacturers
Huh? The cherry picking goes both ways I guess. For those places where people actually live in NYC, you’ll find parks and even parking, sidewalk cafes, cleanish air, beaches, even deer, etc... it seems scary to those who only visit, but it is completely livable to those that actually live there.

NYC is much larger than Manhattan.
Apple's Internal Guide to iPhone X Battery Replacement
The first example provided in the article (indeed the first sentence) is “How do I double click?”, and I want to focus on this.

As a kid in the 90s, I just took double clicking as a necessary evil. But after many many opportunities of trying (mostly successfully) to teach it to both the elderly and to kids, I've gradually grown to hate it. It's such a horrible gesture, difficult to perform, complicated to reason about and entirely disconnected from any real-world metaphor.

May double clicking die off and vanish, never to be found again, except for in the annals of bad ideas.
I agree with this:

Carly was a terrible leader but she, in a sense, was selected for her known personality by a system that had already gone off the cliff. A number of books came out around that time about the HP board and its internal/external conflicts.

I had a job for a while watching the current HP for technological and business developments and it was like being a gawker at a side show.
The only one I'm aware of is in Common Lisp: https://www.dropbox.com/s/n5k9pikkcx5besa/QUANTUM_INTERPRETE....

It doesn't take much (LOC) to implement a simulator. You can understand how one works by reading the source: https://github.com/adamisntdead/QuSimPy
I've organized a group of technologists who are interested in working in our local community to improve understanding of how technology is used or misused in the public sphere. It was my answer to all the times I had to ask "what can I do to help stop this problem/help this effort?"

But it's a side thing and it could be a lot more effective if I could spend more time on it.
Owning a car in the bay allows you to get to some of the best hiking / running trails in the world! Get a car, then get outside! (or just do whatever makes your happy :)
YouTube/ the best classic video compilation #16 – Funny Cube mix
> But if you look at the PC magazines from the late 80s/early 90s

What was the reach of those magazines? When I was young I was the only one in my high school class with a computer. There was some self-selection going on.

Today, with $300 (inflated dollars, so much cheaper than in the past) you can get a very nice laptop and program your heart away if you so want.

Those people who would have read those magazines are now on various internet programming/forums, hacking minecraft. It's only the magazines which disappeared because now there are better ways to disseminate technical info. The absolute numbers of hackers probably remained similar, it's just that now there are a ton more computer users, so they get diluted.
So it's a just immutable, distributed linked list of signed nodes with a consensus protocol like two stage commit, paxos, isis and maybe overlay network and peer forwarding to bridge some gaps?

Sounds traditional distributed systems but now with signatures involved.
I cringe a little when I hear "advance into management". Management is an entirely different job, not something that is an upgrade over an individual contributor role.
1. True for this discussion, but I still feel that it's important to point out that this is just one option. Money can have intrinsic value, like making it out of gold coins.

2. True, but NOT in this case. The US government finances it's own debt. So the US borrowing more does NOT represent a willingness (of anyone but the US government) to borrow to the US government. This is true for most/all governments worldwide.

3. True, with MAJOR caveats. If we're talking about 5%, -5%, then sure. If we're talking about a 50% shortage, then we're in the danger zone. If a government finances it's spending to a significant extent ... well there's no historical examples of it ending well. Even "when it works" it's very bad for the people living under such governments. Likewise, it's very bad for a government to run a large surplus.

So 3 only applies for "small" values of unbalanced.

4. Sadly, not true. This is a myth coming from the fact that the financial world effectively rewrites history to "erase" bankruptcies. If you reintroduce them it becomes clear that if you owned a global debt index, say, you'd be screwed.

(so, sorry mr. Bogle, you're only right for very recent history (given "too big to fail") and frankly, you know damn well that you're wrong for the long term).
I think it comes down to the ROI on adding pedantic "safety rails" to stop people from accidentally killing themselves with the wrong end of a basketball. Fact of life is that stupid people do stupid shit, and sometimes smart people do even stupider shit.
So if you had enough time, you would end the Anthropocene? That's intense. I hope you get the time though; it's about time we accept our future!
I think iOS's IME expects you to segment things yourself, rather than typing several words strung together and then pressing the suggest button?
A quantum computer can't solve any NP hard problem in polynomial time as far as we know.
I've worked for two separate companies as a remote worker, and with neither did I have to take a discount. Most companies want to pay you for the value you bring, and are not willing to lowball and risk losing highly-talented employees.

There are a few companies out there that play this game (Gitlab [1]), but many others (Basecamp [2]) that pay you what you're worth regardless of location.

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16051062
Ethanol is in many of foods that we consume from yoghurt to bread and even fruit.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5421578/
Because the end of the last ice age was only 12,000 years ago; and in that time frame, if that warming was caused by a prehistoric civilization, there would be a ton of evidence for that civilization's existence.
>Like ISO9001, popular among companies is a process spec that requries auditing that ensures your company has a documented process for engineering, production, etc among other things. Companies slap ISO9001 compliant on fucking everything. But ultimately it means shit to an end user and only company to company relations do they care a little.

Sure, but that is a "process spec" (that the marketing people have managed to transmit as representing "better quality" whilst in reality, and at the most it represents "same quality").

I was talking more about "product specs" and "tests" performed on goods/materials.

If I tell you that reaction to fire of a product is:

Class B-s1, d0

(UNI EN 13501-1; EN 13823; EN ISO 11925-2)

you have no way to understand (nor does usually the technician that may be assisting you) what (the heck) it means.

You will find tables giving you the corresponding classification in your country (so yes, the government is involved as well), usually different from the ISO standard and you will know that B means "not likely" inflammable, the s1 means that it emits "a little" smoke when in fire and d0 means that combustion will not produce burning drops of material, but you don't know in which conditions the tests have been made.

To have an idea of the mess, check this:

http://www.cdukltd.co.uk/uploads/download/NatTranslEuroclass...

When you check (indirectly, like from here):

http://fr.polymerinsights.com/testing/flammability/en-iso-11...

how the tests are performed, instantly, and no matter what ISO, your government or any local Law says, you will want to have A1 materials (non-combustible) only in your home.

The test that classified the material as "B-s1, d0" (among the best classifications after the A1 or non-combustible) equates more or less to say that your toddler with a cigarette lighter did not manage to put your house on fire in 30 seconds (but it says nothing about a larger flame or a more extended time).
Agree with everything you say. Been living in nyc on/off since the past 10 years. I love it.

One terrible thing about nyc is the subway. It’s been getting worse every year.
Some people commute 2+ hours in the Bay Area too
Luckily, most old Atoms are really simple in-order processors that aren't vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre.
This article talks primarily about people from Japan, whose script I imagine is much easier and faster to enter via a smartphone.
We use windows in an enterprise setup in the company I work for. No candy crush or forced reboots. Enterprises control all these via group policy, that's what enterprise edition is for.
some of their features are also pretty half-ass baked. like time tracking.
I don't care how they're updated, I just care that they are. If that's by checking, it's fine by me.
The BBC now routinely use iPhones for TV and radio newsgathering

They also routinely report "someone said something on Twitter" as if it was actual news. It doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Watching TV in the 50s made you good with knob adjustment and basic electronics maintenance, just because things tended to break and also tended to break in fixable ways.

In particular, tube replacement was pretty common DIY and even nonspecialist corner stores would sell tubes and have self-service testers:

http://travelphotobase.com/v/USOK/OKCH66.HTM

In similar analogy, I wonder how many people today know how to replace a lightbulb and will do it themselves, and what that would be like in a few decades...
That's not how quantum computers work. They ("quantum networking") significantly increase security as you can tell whether a qubit has already been observed (eavesdropped) or not. Also, there are proven asymmetric cryptographic algorithms that work with quantum computers. Algorithms based on factorization (RSA) won't be safe any more but you still need a large amount of qubits (around 1000s - don't cite me on this please) to break them, which has not been achieved yet.

Definitely not the end of the world.

edit:// And they can not solve any NP-complete problem in polynomial time. That is a common misconception and not based on facts.

edit2:// Researchers working on quantum computers actually don't believe that they will make it mainstream (partially due to their complexity like cooling them down to near zero Kelvin) but instead be specialized systems available via the internet for rent - or something similar. More on the side of predicting complex systems like the weather than powering your smartphone. Then again, who thought the PC would make it mainstream.
It is a quantum computer emulator.
Regular binary computers can model quantum computers with a smallish number of q-bits (dozens) by the time we get to a quantum computer with hundreds of q-bits all the regular computers on the planet together will not be able to simulate it.
If disabling ME would only prevent me from watching Ultra-HD Blu-rays, which I don't watch, I'll disable ME immediately if I only could.

That won't breach any obvious contractual obligations of Intel/AMD with Hollywood.
I think it goes hand in hand. Employees who are proud of their company will do their best to make outstanding products, or provide excellent services.
I break a Trello board into four columns:

1. Habits which have some weekly frequency (meditate 10 mins 3x/w) and are all aligned to one or more...

2. Goals which are measurable (complete 3 headspace packs) and all align to...

3. Values which are unique to me (mental health) which agree with...

4. Principles or rules of nature which apply to everyone (better mental health leads to more happiness, happiness leads to better life quality)

I create a board every quarter to re-adjust my values, goals, and habits.
Another interesting Civ clone is C-Evo:
http://c-evo.org/text.html

For a long time it was small enough to fit on a 1.44 floppy!
I'm on a bit of a tangent, but it appears that a lot of people are beginning to use voice-recognition to recognize Japanese and Chinese, or are sending the actual voice clips instead of manual input methods such as handwriting recognition.

Granted, this is my very limited experience. Perhaps this could be a competing way to help communicate in foreign languages.
File a bug :)
It’s actually a really nice element to the LG TV’s from the last 3-4 years, along with the “Magic Remote”.

Super intuitive compared to Samsung, Vizio, Sony, and any other TV interface I’ve seen.

A small part of me was glad to see WebOS live on doing something!
Would you do it again? Get the PhD, I mean.
> doing something before getting stonewalled and bailing out to go ask someone to do it for them

Funny this is the problem. One of my major life lessons was learning not to always persevere, and to ask for help as soon as possible. Solves more problems faster, teaches you more ways of looking at a problem and smoothly scales to delegation.
Eh, they beat fairly skilled dota players, in a bastardisation of dota2. It had lots of constraints and their reaction speed was faster than human. Next version will have less restrictions and more human like reaction times. But let's not overstate their achievement.
Ben Recht also has an excellent series of blog posts (very related to this survey on arXiv, but broader) on the intersection between reinforcement learning and optimal control. An index is available here: http://www.argmin.net/2018/06/25/outsider-rl/
What do they mean by "observability data"?

Is this a fancy way of saying "privacy-sensitive user data"?
The Virtue of Common Ownership in an Era of Corporate Compliance
The ME is most definitely there but AMT is not. And AMT is the one with far more exposed security flaws that can be exploited over the network by virtue of AMT's purpose. Like the ones detailed in the article here. Otherwise without a shadow of doubt the ME is present in every Intel chipset since 2006.

Exploiting the ME is possible even without AMT but it definitely raises the bar in the sophistication of the attack.

The me_cleaner tool might do a good job in disabling the ME in most cases but since it's doing it by removing components from the ME FW it probably doesn't work with every OEM implementation.
A light shines on the concentration of power in Silicon Valley
> now it's just an icon on your software suite

I’m trying to remember the last time I saw this icon. Either what I’m working on has “save” as text, is constantly auto-saved or requires Ctrl-S.
Embedded computers have done a lot to ruin automotive DIY. Someone should write a short story where nobody can change their low-failure-rate LED light bulbs without calling a technician who has a programmer card with the right IoT private keys. Electric utilities are no longer common-carier and underground cyberpunk "Edisons" fabricate incandscents that disguise themselves as toasters on the grid in order to circumvent the expensive licensing deals between lightbulb manufacturers and power companies.
Building a real time NYC subway tracker with Apache Kafka
The Return of the Super-Elite
What's the tradeoff vs. just taking a direct Bayesian approach?

In fact, why use an inferential framework at all (estimating some sort of probability and using it to guide action), rather than directly using a policy learning framework, e.g. modeling this as Q-learning or multi-armed bandit problem?

If at the end of the day you have some objective function (e.g. 'making money'), some known space of actions (e.g. move this widget up the page, change the color, engage with user this way), and a reasonable way to associate those two, then isn't the company literally doing reinforcement learning over time?

It seems one benefit of a reinforcement learning framework is it maintains a set of actions that will still be explored in the future without forcing you to prematurely 'choose' whether A or B is actually better—if A is better in reality, then it will be explored more and more often and B will progressively become downweighted over time.
Google Confirms POWER9 Processor Data Center Deployment At OpenPOWER Summit 2018 https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2018/03/19/head...

IBM Begins Power9 Rollout with Backing from DOE, Google https://www.hpcwire.com/2017/12/06/ibm-begins-power9-rollout...

Google's Data Centers Now Have IBM Inside https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/03/22/googles-data-cente...

Introducing Zaius, Google and Rackspace’s open server running IBM POWER9 https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/10/introducing-Zai...

They're also a platinum-level member of the OpenPOWER consortium (i.e. they have a position on the board of directors).
Very good, well done.
I've always been under the impression that small towns aren't accessible from an aging and disabled perspective. Even the smallest tasks require a car and there's little to no public transportation. Whereas in cities, you might only have to go to the corner to grab necessities or get medication from your pharmacy.

I've worked with Meals on Wheels in suburban areas. Often, if the elderly didn't live in a senior community/nursing home or didn't have family nearby, they barely left home because they physically, or legally, couldn't drive. That means they don't see doctors when they need to, and lacked food, medication and basic necessities. Taxis exist, but they're relatively expensive if you're retired and living off of Social Security.
That's not the issue. You can already disable pretty much all of the ME's functions post-boot with HAP and me_cleaner. But for people who take an interest in fully-open source firmware (coreboot, libreboot), it would be nice to be able to replace the ME firmware with something open source. But this is impossible because the hardware will only run Intel-signed blobs. By "owner control", I mean the freedom to run whatever you like on the ME. It's likely that Intel is not only unwilling, but contractually precluded from letting people do so, for the reasons I gave. Hence the claim that Intel will never let people control what runs on the ME.
This B.S. has been debunked so many times. Almost all the studies that people point to when they say "music makes you smarter" are poor quality. The overwhelming majority are not randomized or they take place over a short period of time with a small number of participants. The press releases always hype them up way beyond the actual results. There are some good studies that show interesting results, but not enough to say anything definitive.
"The BPG decoding library uses a modified version of FFmpeg released under the LGPL version 2.1 as HEVC decoder. The BPG decoding library excluding the FFmpeg code is released under the BSD license.

The BPG encoder as a whole is released under the GPL version 2 license. The BPG encoder sources excluding x265 are released under the BSD license. The x265 library is released under the GPL version 2 license. "
I don't think you understand what's really going on. Read more here - https://medium.com/@FEhrsam/blockchain-based-machine-learnin...
Maybe largely off-topic but I still remember the fun I had actually building as a kid (after reading an article in Scientific American by Martin Gardner) the MENACE (Machine Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine):

http://www.mscroggs.co.uk/blog/19

For the beads I used Smarties, so each time the machine lost I ate the "wrong colour one".
Or they could release mod tools and let players make stronger AI, like they did with Civ IV, Civ V, etc. Mod tools are coming for Civ VI...

Please do not give gaming companies further ideas for monetization. It is thinking like that that has already ruined gaming, and is responsible for the recent Red Shell fiasco.
I'm thinking about studying these for my MSc. A colleague has given me the idea of applying the Monte Carlo Dropout technique [1] (A interpretation of Dropout as a GP) to the CEAL framework [0].

On the other hand my mentor wanted me to work on a regression problem with a dataset from a cement factory. Have people been using GPs for problems like that?

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.03551 (CEAL)
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.02142 (MC dropout)
IIRC for many generations it was ThreadX, which is a proprietary RTOS.
I guess nowadays you could even shim this (if you've got many pictures and do do it correctly, trading bandwidth against user's CPU time).
I was answering specifically about algorithms.

A lot of real world problems can be solved without a programmer requiring advanced math knowledge.
> When is the last time that significant source material has been provided to some other, competing transparency organization?

The Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers were both released to the ICIJ. I don't think you would consider them a transparency organization though.

Considering only a "transparency organization" as Wikileaks competition is wrong though I think. Wikileaks' competitors are conventional producers of journalism, they just have different approaches to how the information will be presented.
It's unlikely they'll care: browsers which don't want to deal with HEVC licensing aren't going to touch it (likely preferring AVIF), and browsers which are fine with HEVC licensing support the conceptually similar HEIC.
Genetic Algorithms is a description for a wide range of techniques for adding some extra variety to search algorimhs. You maintain a population of candidate solutions and at each step you improve them by a combination of local search (like gradient descent or greedy neighbor search) and solution mixing (to help escape local minima). When doing this there are lots of ways to go about it. How to decide what population to keep, what local optimization to use, and how to mix the candidate optimizations.

If you look closely, all of these are not quite how biology works. In biology the population is decided by natural or artificial selection while in a GA there may be more factors at play (such as favoring a more diverse pool). The way solutions are represented is also different. In biology you have genes which behave according to the laws of genetics. In a GA, on the other hand, the solution representation and the operations to mutate and mix solutions are carefully planned by an intelligent designer.