skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The macOS installation instructions are missing a few details. They should include information about (1) what to do with the previous server addresses, and (2) whether the Search Domain should remain the same.
If we act based on this logic, then we should not use internet today, because it started as a military project. Well the telephone was created as a tool to talk each other not to browse on the internet. We can add many examples that initial usage changed significantly.
I can defitely see some of the upsides-mostly a lack of judgemental views and just pragmatic solutions. Some examples are the varying effectiveness of prison systems around the world. Similarly for treatment of mental health issues or addictions.

What I find hard to gauge is the potential downside to thinking without free will. There's no accountability so anything goes, or even a 'then why bother at all' infliction.

Personally I think we're moving in the right direction on this and could move somewhat faster so thus kind of awareness and discussion is great. I'm less in favor of taking it to the extreme and hoping that it wasn't too far. Maybe a small population will do that experiment for larger groups to watch and learn from.
The shipping forecast is awesome[1]. If you're a surfer in Britain, grab a map [2] and learn how to visualise what's going to happen with the waves over the next couple of days while listening to the broadcast. Especially useful for North East coast surfers where the waves are short lived but can be surprisingly ok.

[1] As is 99pi
[2] https://imgur.com/a/pb7nPr4
Part 2: http://web.archive.org/web/20180726093121/https://plus.maths...
I don't have the sense this is a bottom by any means. Certainly there will be a bounce but I expect to see long term decline (imo).
"Media does not spread free opinion; It generates opinion" --Oswald,1918 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West#Democr...
If you can ascertain objectively that your boss doesn't care or understand about your work, you can pretty much conclude that your environment is not emotionally healthy for you. Leave if that is the case and if you can find another gig elsewhere.
Oh man, my first TV when I was a kid... SLAP hey it's fine now, start to sit back down, starts jumping around again, sonofa...

You probably jammed one of the mechanical components, striking it again probably dislodged it.
Some pain points as a residential user:

- IPv6 ready hardware. I went through several routers (Asus and similar), and it wasn't until I ended up with pfSense that IPv6 actually worked for more than a couple of hours.

- IPv6 ready software. Some software just gets slower when it first tries IPv6, fails and falls back to IPv4 (especially noticeable browsing the web). Some software gets all confused about IPv6 being present and stops working.

- IPv6 requires DNS, even with static prefix (I have dynamic prefix). For servers, that means per-server dynamic DNS entry. Very few DynDNS providers supports dynamic AAAA records, at least when I checked last year. And getting DynDNS clients working on the servers was a nightmare.

For IPv4 I just need to keep one DNS entry up to date, with plenty of DynDNS options all around.

- Dynamic prefix requires firewall rules to be updated when prefix changes. I wasn't able to figure out how to configure this in pfSense, though I admit I had lost some motivation at this point.

As a residential user who still gets a proper IPv4 address from my ISP, IPv6 doesn't really bring that much to the table. I still have to fiddle with my router/firewall, and at this point IPv4 NAT is a lot simpler to configure (linking rules to NAT entires for example).
Although "Hospitals are prohibited from turning patients away in the US (and I wouldn't want to live in a world where they could do so)." is technically true. For instance if you have aquired Hepatitis C and went to a hospital in the US with no insurance, they will not consider treatment to cure the disease. They will help make you comfortable with your chronic disease until it kills you.
A bad migration can be worked around by a clean install, but blindness can't, so there's one. Legal reasons are another (e.g. the Americans with Disabilities Act).

OT: does anybody know of a site with similar interesting content and discussion to HN, but with a fraction of sociopaths closer to that of the general world population?
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I would like to know this as well. Does genome sequencing through providers like Dante Labs guarantee that the data is not stores and/or shared? Are some providers better about this than others, and if so which ones?

Also, once you have the data, are there tools to analyze your sequencing without resorting to a web service? I don't mind setting up instances or a cluster for this purpose.

I am thinking that if genome analysis keeps improving in the insights it can provide, we could get to a point where some outcomes are predicted with near certainty. This data would be worth...infinite amounts to insurance companies.
Username: ivd0

Thanks!
NVIDIA is the major obstacle to FOSS for a decades already. So they keep their spirit even now. Mainline Tensorflow, for example, still doesn't support OpenCL.
To my impression the activity is largely equal at the moment, though Gogs still has only one maintainer, so if the bus hits...

Most of the core stuff is the same, so for simple git repo hosting I don't think it matters.
Yes it's not what is currently (19 years after IPv6 RFC) considered best practices[1], but that's what my ISP hands me, so that's what I got to work with.

[1]: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-690
Medicaid is one of the largest buyers of the Hep C cure.
There is a running experiment in Seattle, WA, to have more
palliative care facilities for chronic public inebriates [0]. "It's a lot cheaper having them spend the night at 1811 than at the E.R. or at the drunk tank," Mr. Meyers said.

It still seems that "1811 Eastlake" is operating as of 2016 [1] and is looked as a model for San Francisco as of 2011 [2].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/05/us/05homeless.html

[1] https://www.desc.org/what-we-do/housing/1811-eastlake/

[2] https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-looks-at-Seattle-...
Gitolite, Redmine. My company and my personal static web sites. Syncthing, if that's self hosting (there is no host.) Etherpad, to experiment on Google free collaboration.

I had a Mattermost server a couple of times in the last few years but I really don't need it.
Lindows launched in 2001 IIRC. At the time, Wine didn't have regression testing, so someone hacked up a simple test-runner in C, called it "winetest.exe", ran the tests on Windows 95, 98, NT 4 and XP, and submitted it the Wine project.

The idea was to capture how actual Windows works, so Wine could implement how Windows actually works, not how you'd think it works just from looking at API docs.

http://test.winehq.org/data/
We may see history repeat itself. Back in 2006, stock prices were really high, like in the 40s. The Opteron was getting heavy adoption in the server market. But the stocks just kept sinking. Purchasing ATI for a huge sum did not help. Intel would need to crawl out from the Pentium 4 architecture, which just did not scale well and was simply not as efficient. Of coarse this did not stop Intel from pressuring all the big PC makers by doing shady deals to have their chips featured rather than AMDs.When Nehalim came out in late 2008, Intel would retain performance crown for the whole decade, which was not so good for the consumer.

AMD finally got Jim Keller back in 2012 to help develop Zen. This would prove to give them a fighting chance. He lead development of the Infinity Fabric, successor to his Hypertransport, which would allow the Zen to be so modular in adding more and more cores so easily. He was previously head of K8 architecture which lead to the successful Athlon 64 and Opterons. We also have to thank him for transitioning us to 64bit. He later departed and working on the A4/A5 CPUs at apple in the iphone 4/4s and ipad 1/2 respectively. These chips also helped Apple dominate for nearly a decade in CPU performance. Jim and Raja Koduri made a great team at Apple at that time. Jim would head to Tesla next, and Raja would head back to AMD to help create Vega. And now Intel has the duo. Will they be able to give us another decade of dominance from Intel? Exciting times coming!
The fee would be paid at the point of converting your crypto to the 'Credits'(which users would happily pay, they already do when converting to Fiat).

Your not using the blockchain anymore when you buy something with 'Credits', just as you aren't using the blockchain when you;

convert crypto to fiat -> use fiat in a shop.
"aural duvet" is a wonderful turn of phrase: just the sound of the words is soothing
Luckily crypto saved the Vega. You can't really buy them for MSRP.
I have started reading HN via this page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/active

because it shows flagged posts. It's not just comments. More or less any story that might attract comments of a conservative bent are immediately flagged, like the recent story about how Twitter is shadowbanning prominent conservatives.

I might go looking for an extension or CSS change to disable the greying out of downvoted comments too. The greying achieves nothing. There's virtually no real spam or abuse on this site, so a grey comment almost invariably means someone made a good point that someone else couldn't refute and didn't want to. They're often excellent posts.

Don't expect it to change. The moderators here like to claim they're unbiased but I've seen very frequent cases where they tick off someone and warn them they'll be banned simply for not agreeing with whatever extremist ideas are coming into vogue in California - but the posts were written politely and made good/logical points. Meanwhile people supporting the opposite position with comments that throw around terms like "nazi", "racist", "trash fire" or whatever are left alone. And of course the blatant flagging of posts or comments simply for their viewpoint is left unaddressed.
At least messages are still E2E encrypted. If you avoid all other facebook systems and restrict the apps permissions I think the damage can be contained to a decent level.
suggestion: post under a new username....they can make your life miserable.
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Slashdot got it right - give a set of reasons you can pick when moderating. This not only makes sure every moderation gives a justification, but also sets expectations about what sort of comments are wanted or not wanted.

Unfortunately Slashdot also undid themselves a bit by introducing "Overrated" and "Underrated" which adjusted the score without needing to provide a justification. I always wondered why they did that.
Yeah, that stood out to me, too. It's kind of funny that they're using the "open" as a competitive advantage against Google, when they no longer have that competitive advantage.

I bet they wish they had stayed open right about now.
Mars opposition and closest approach during a total lunar eclipse eh

That's a lot of red at once
I found this article a bit odd; in my mind, some parts seemed to contradict others in strange paradoxical ways.

For example, from your quoted section:

> Mathematics is not there to be discovered, it is part of the patterns of reasoning in all of our brains.

Isn't that the very definition of elegance? He later says, talking about A.J. Ayer's definition of "non-sense":

> Wigner freely admits that his idea about maths comes from a feeling that can’t be verified by known scientific methods

Elegance, while there is often a wide collective understanding of what it means in mathematics, is essentially a subjective, aesthetic property; an intuitive one. Is this not exactly what:

(a) Wigner means in that quote,

(b) A.J. Ayer means in his definition, AND

(c) the author refers to as "patterns of reasoning in all of our brains"?
The original Core 2 Quad processors were dual-die, and they got a lot of negativity for being a fake quad core... Funny how things change.
> You can’t recast HN’s comment system as a material security weakness just because you learn that people who disagree with you can also read your public comments

This is a false equivalence. Hacker News comments are public. (HN also doesn't sell ads.) Facebook messages and private content usually aren't.

Just because "the API's that were used there were available to the entire world" doesn't mean "everyone knew exactly what they were." Everyone didn't know what they were capable of. A very small section of the technologically literate did, and most of them were profiting off the status quo.
I think an ML model is not free if training dataset is not provided. You can't inspect it for vulnerabilities and you can't modify it in the common interpretation of the word.

Whatever difficulties this view presents, this is the only view that makes sense.
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”In the U.S., Coinbase also partnered with Shift for a traditional Visa card. But many European cryptocurrency companies who provided Visa cards had to go back to the drawing board because Visa stopped working Wave Crest Holding — Wave Crest Holding was the card issuer for all European cryptocurrency cards.”

A proper crypto backed Visa or Mastercard debit card would be the thing. Large companies are hesitant to get involved, because these are also great for money laundering. Just like the gift cards.
Ask HN: How to deploy to on-premise enterprises?
Hi HN-ers,

Hopefully some of you folks with enterprise experience will be able to help me.

I'm exploring how we can deploy our software on-premises to enterprises and see that deploying a virtual appliance is a common way. Are there any other better ways of doing this (i.e. Docker image)? What are some other things I need to think about?

How will I manage to keep the software updated with the latest features for a client while maintaining consistency across the code base?

Thanks in advance.
I don't know about all that. There's plenty of software out there that is much more complex and isn't as bloated. Granted multimedia software can get pretty 'heavy' but still. I feel like iTunes for Windows is very low priority and fewer resources are allocated towards it which I find a bit sad, I used to use iTunes for years and now I rather just listen to music off my phone or from a browser from Google All Music Access.

Although even my Google Play Music app seems to have some annoying bugs lately that are starting to irritate me, like if I download songs for offline listening and I'm connected to the internet it still redownloads the song. Or how it always winds up failing to download albums for offline listening despite it streaming just fine at the same time.

I mean I thought we solved playing audio files ages ago, most people listen to pretty standard audio files so I'm surprised we dont have snappier apps to listen to music with. I can totally see an Electron app emerging that gives a better experience than iTunes, which is embarrassing given how many resources have been allocated to iTunes as a whole.
I guess you haven't actually read the article, since you would have found your answer in paragraphs fourteen to seventeen:

> The shape of a bird’s wing is not something that evolution can mess with with impunity. It is very closely wedded to a bird’s way of life. Long pointed wings are better for fast flying in a straight line, while short rounded wings are good for making rapid turns or for quickly taking off.

> The conclusion was inescapable: only cliff swallows with wings short enough to take off vertically from the tarmac to escape an oncoming car had managed to get away and spread their short-wing genes in the gene pool. The tardier long-winged ones ended up as ex-swallows on the hard shoulder, their long-wing genes excluded from the pool. And, as the surviving swallows became ever better adapted at evading approaching vehicles, the number of casualties plummeted.

> When researchers consulted the bird collections of eight natural history museums in North America and took measurements on the shape of the wings of 312 starlings, they discovered something interesting. The starlings’ wings had gradually become more rounded over time, because the secondary flight feathers (at the bird’s “lower arm”, closest to the body) had become elongated by some 4%.

> It is precisely this quick-response benefit of more rounded wings that may be one of the reasons that the settler starlings evolved. In those 120 years since Schieffelin had released the starlings’ founding fathers in Central Park, the human population in western North America (the part of the continent that the starling expanded into) grew almost fifty-fold. What had been tiny settlements when the starling arrived blossomed into metropolises in a matter of decades. And with urbanisation came new dangers for urban birds: cats and cars. It is quite likely that this is what caused the American starlings to evolve a wing shape that helped them get out of the way of a pouncing cat or a speeding motorcar hurtling towards them.

The answers are out there if you actually look for them, you know.
If we discovered free will doesn't exist, provably, which is my current position, I don't think anything would change.

The illusion that we have free will was strong enough that we used law to keep everything in line, make people responsible for their actions, etc.

I see no reason why either side of the coin would or should stop that behaviour.

If our actions are a result of our environment, shouldn't the environment to the best of our ability be changed such that negative actions have a lower probability of occuring?

With free will you punish people for a crime because it's their fault. Without you punish people to create an environment in which crime is not desirable. (Though resocialization / rehabilitation is probably a better option)
It is a little irritating when libraries that really shouldn't need jQuery had it as a dep. I don't mind using jQuery, but I'd rather not add it to a project just as a dep.
I find that argument similar to "without religion what stops you from murder and raping people?"

The absolute knowledge that free will doesn't exist doesn't really change much at all. It might give you a different outlook and, optimistically, a better understanding of different viewpoints.

If you are absolutely contempt to sit on the couch for the rest of your life nothing stops you from choosing that in a free-will world. Most of us would be bored and will try other ways to entertain our self. Whether that desire is founded on free will or just a predetermined evolutionary trait doesn't really change the outcome.

You believing in free will or not is quite irrelevant compared to the impact your surrounding has on you. It is even your surrounding that forms the basis of your belief in the first place.
I'm not following you at all. What does loading images have to do with WebAssembly? How will you get webassembly to block based on loading an image? Every API in the browser works on events.
Analog is hard to emulate because real components have complicated non-linear and stateful behaviors, and because real circuits are full of parasitic components, not because of "infinite" anything. Analog circuits have finite SNR and bandwidth, and the "many" of digital can easily exceed them.

Analog circuits also tend to have high variation between units. You might have a perfect simulation of the average hardware, but it won't necessarily sound like your specific hardware. You'll need to measure your hardware and tune the simulation to match. People have done this for SID chips:

https://bel.fi/alankila/c64-sw/yourchip.html
In what way? Is this not a commonly accepted truth where you are from? Or did it speak to you in some other way that I don't see?
> I'm also a strong believer that the society without the idea of the free will would be a much more compassionate, healthier and happy.

There's a major religion where one of the main theses is that everything is predestined. I haven't noticed those societies to be significantly more compassionate, healthier, or happy.
> In Western society maybe but in emerging markets Facebook is still huge

Americans and Canadians earn Facebook over 4x per user what Europeans do and over 10x what Asia Pacific users do [1]. Facebook's user base shifting overseas implies a massive revenue drop (and corresponding adjustment to value).

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average...
Well duh. But the point is that that assumption was both erroneous and unwarranted.
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There are plenty of businesspeople in my circle at least who are decent people who wouldn't dream of doing this to a partner or even an employee. As an owner of a small business I include myself in that group. Being an asshole isn't "business" - it's just being an asshole.
However, it would be nice if I could include the parts I wanna use. Similar to lodash/underscore. Now it's either full jQuery or nothing.
Futurama had an episode with endless dichotomic debates where anti-evolution would require proofs of smaller and smaller genetic gaps.
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I'm not really sure I understand what you're arguing for or observing, but notably, the article actually argues for free will existing (thus I assume not being an illusion), if you read it to the end:

> Although the Free Will Theorem can't prove if we have free will, it does have a fundamental consequence: if the Universe is deterministic, and a particles behaviour is always described by a function of the past, then we can’t have free will. And Conway is convinced that we do: "I can’t prove we have free will but I still believe that we do."

> While this and other repercussions are still being discussed by the mathematics, physics and philosophical communities, the theorem has had a profound impact on Conway himself. "It’s really affected how I look at the world. I believe that the glimmerings of freedom are in every particle – in the clouds, in everything – the particles are all taking free decisions."

> [...]

> And he immediately emphasises he’s not attributing some sort of consciousness to the particles. "You mustn’t misread it, we’re not asserting these particles make decisions, we’re not saying they have any consciousness. What happens is they act, they indubitably act, and which action the particle does is free in this sense, it is not a predetermined function of the past. And that’s not the same as randomness, oh dear me no!"

Though I'm still not sure to what extent this whole argument hangs on the third axiom dubbed "MIN", which according to the article, "isn’t experimentally testable" per Conway. Given it's also the one I don't-understand-the-most, I'm not sure how to look at the whole thing at face value. That said, the way they constructed the analogy, and how the article's author managed to approach it with an attempt at simplifying, are totally super interesting. I mean, that just the possibility of even constructing an analogy here (between something so vague and problematic to measure as free will, and something so material and experimental as behaviours of particles) is certainly stimulating for thoughts and some philosophical pondering.
The famous upton sinclair quote comes to mind:
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”