skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on ReminX (http://www.reminx.com), a system for anxiety reduction through reminicence therapy.
Should I also interpret this generously and assume that you only counted roads and train lines with the same amount of people traveling on them?
Spring MVC framework tutorial
Apologies for looking a gift horse in the mouth, but it's a bit terrible that most of the URLs in the book are bit.ly links. I guess you can play link roulette...
How to survive and thrive in a down market
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That's a very interesting question, especially since the training data is also (partly) generated by the software in a self-feedback loop. For the case of Leela Zero, most of it has been generated by Leela Zero itself based on its own algorithm, but some of the data has been supplied from the data set generated by the Facebook ELF Go engine. (They used it as a shortcut to catch up to the level of ELF, and then surpass it.)

In order to reproduce the current best-weights then, one would have to record exactly what versions of Leela Zero and ELF was used to generate which subsets of data, and which subsets were used to create further subsets of the data. I don't think anyone has kept that information around, so I'd guess the current best-weights will not actually be reproducible, ever.

In future, one can imagine other software that could keep track of this information, and then be actually able to reproduce a particular resulting set of weights.

However let's step back a bit. On a high-level, nobody actually cares that the results are not fully deterministic, they only care that it is a faithful representation of what the source code does. This is true both for software determinism and for weights-model determinism. Being deterministic is a (relatively) easy property, which when we achieve it, allows us to verify that the results (binary software, trained weights) don't contain backdoors or other unpleasantness that's not visible in the source code. But the latter is what we "actually" care about.

If we can achieve the latter property without achieving determinism, then we are also mostly satisfied. That would involve being able to examine the model directly and see what it does, and see that it doesn't contain backdoors or other things. I can't even begin to imagine how to achieve this, it is a hard problem and the solution to this, would also solve the criticism of these AI weights/models being opaque and not really contributing much to human knowledge.

Determinism is still useful for other purposes though. If you know exactly how something was produced, you have much greater control and understanding of how to tweak it, which might actually help us with the aforementioned goal of deeply-understanding these weights from a human perspective.
How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies
"The Cryptopals Crypto Challenges" (a.k.a. Matasano Crypto Challenge)

https://cryptopals.com/

"This is a different way to learn about crypto than taking a class or reading a book. We give you problems to solve. They're derived from weaknesses in real-world systems and modern cryptographic constructions. We give you enough info to learn about the underlying crypto concepts yourself. When you're finished, you'll not only have learned a good deal about how cryptosystems are built, but you'll also understand how they're attacked."
Marine colonial cnidarians could theoretically fight also for that title, but the oldest alive Black corals are dated "only" 4000 years old or so.
Any feedback on Google Hangouts Chat?
People are usually able to control their impulses. But controlling an impulse is not free: it consumes energy and willpower; it's a fight. I think people getting rid of their smartphones are making that move: getting rid of the struggle against their impulses so they can use the saved energy in other things.
> These valuations don’t come unwarranted, with the report from Tou Tiao also noting that the firm had sold $2.3 billion worth of ASIC chips in 2017, raking in $1.25 billion in net profit from last year’s operations.

$1.25bn in net profit? Wow.

For comparison, NVIDIA's net profit for 2017 was around $3.05bn, up from $1.67bn a year before.
I reported it to afnic too. Since it does use the same domain name maybe they will act.

Look like it's a copy paste of the .com one, with same download links.
Your landing page takes five hundred years to load.

If you cannot do well such a simple thing as landing page, how do you have any courage to promote your actual product, which is much, much more complex than a single page?

If anything, all your marketing pamphlets are now working against you, not increasing confidence in your product, but rather decreasing it.

Perhaps you should do your best first, then hijack threads with shameful self-promotion?
I think Twitter does that to all celebrities.
Sysadmin trained offshore replacements, sat back, watched ex-employer world burn
May I add:

>> I can communicate with my fiancee even when she's in another country (international sms = fail).

> It facilitates instant communications. Email across the planet has been around since day one.

Do you even need instant communication in that case? It's not like you're going to have a quick unexpected meetup or some "hey I'm quite busy can you go get the kids?" Not to mention time zone issues.

>> When I'm on the train I can do something meaningful to me.

People didn't die of boredom before. Read a book, magazine, work on something on your laptop if you must. Also people seem to lose the ability to just take a short timeout from everything, just to think about your life for a bit, remember some good old times with friends or family you might have lost, and so on.

>> When I'm not on the train, I can know when it's actually going to arrive so I can do something fun instead of waiting on the platform.

There will we information displayed at the platform and inside the station. Plus announcements on the speaker system, which are faster, more accurate, and I don't have to pull out my phone. Fun fact: at least in Germany, it's not that the train company is obliged to adhere to the prognosed delay. So if your smartphone tells you the train is an hour late and you decide to visit the nearest paintball establishment for an hour you might find yourself missing the train since it only arrived 45 minutes late in the end.
Membrane Framework – An Elixir framework for multimedia streaming applications
How does stop hunting work in currency markets? If you want to go stop hunting, it seems you need to be able to push the price down somehow, no?

On an unregulated BTC exchange, that's fairly easy to do (e.g. wash trading).

Short of collusion between many high-level actors, how do you do that in the interbank market?
I personally consider it an equally or more enjoyable experience once you know the story and all the tricks.
This is correct french, and there is no way this was machine translated.

Source : am french
200M/2% is still pretty bad, isn't it? IRC clients worked perfectly on machines with less total virtual memory 20 years ago (and before).

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
fubar 2922 0.0 0.1 61648 26668 2 S0+ 19Mar18 22:58.73 weechat
I agree.
Some frameworks have too much abstraction that it feels like everything happens magically.
Anyway frameworks are very good when you need to build something fast.
- Hi, I'm anonymous alcoholic, I decided not to carry a bottle of alcohol with me at all times.

- Have some self restraint for crying out loud.
The Slow Web (2010)
We’re talking about SF, so unless your office is in Bayview/Visitacion/deep Outer Sunset|Richmond there’s a restaurant within 15 minutes walk
Is the scientific paper fraudulent? (1964) [pdf]
I really don't understand how you could describe it as "abuse" to raise questions about the DUP case; are you challenging any of the facts raised in the article - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-44624299 ?

Btw. the Leave campaign also received public funding both in direct cash and to cover the costs of public mailings for example.

It's all very well saying the spending limits should be scrapped but they were the rules in place for the referendum. You should campaign for a change in the rules, not covertly abuse the rules through shadowy shell companies and later - when exposed - argue that the rules shouldn't exists.

Regarding the euromyths site, do you really find the newspaper's protrayal of EU foreign aid/development fund spending to be honest? I guess there is a certain subjectivenss to the question but I simply cannot reconsile the content of the the newspaper's stories

"The Commission not only missed the entire point the journalists were making - that EU member states struggling to pay their own healthcare and welfare bills should not be forced to fund trapeze lessons in Tanzania - but then also engaged in this embarrassing and condescending exercise as well."
This is where you've veered off from making any sort of reasonable point I could argue with to practicing the same EU-bashing the UK newspapers have been doing for years. The UK government spends about 15B EUR from it's own budget each year on foreign aid. The WHOLE OF the EU spends about 4B a year. The UK contributes NET about 7% of the EU budget, so on a pro-rata basis, the EU development fund costs the UK 250 million a year compared to the 15 billion it spends directly. So your "consern" about healthcare and welfare spendingn is completely misplaced or disingenious.
This depends only on system input energy statistics.

At low temperatures (the lower you go) and low radiation (the lower you go) there is not enough energy in the system to exceed activation energy and break down DNA (meaning statistically it's extremely unlikely (arbitrarily) for enough energy to enter the system in a short enough period of time to break down the structure) (there's always the minuscule chance that some wavefunction posits enough energy into the system of course).
Which programs or projects you made donation to?
"MARTIN HAMMOND, a speech therapist from New York, spoke for half an hour on the `The psychological ontogeny of sibilant speech impediments' before anyone realized that he was talking about the psychological reality of a different type of lisp; whereupon he was removed from the workshop by the security guards."
Reptile: a LKM rootkit that runs on Linux kernel 2.6.x/3.x/4.x
It reminds me the Zoho Streams [0] feature in their Mail service.

0: https://www.zoho.com/mail/streams.html
Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet
Chains are pretty cheap bought in bulk
He means Stripe (he introduced himself earlier in the thread), don't know the answer to the second q
My list:

- Wikipedia, 2 x $20

- Subler, Mac MKV to iTunes converter/muxer, $20

- Sublime Text, editor, not donation but ST is usable for free, $80

- OPNsense, firewall/router, $50

Donating is ultimate approval of the work, it means a lot.
I feel like my expectations for a president have been unrealistically set by the TV show the West Wing where president Bartlett is often staying up until 3am reading hundreds of pages of policy reports, not getting into Twitter fueds and refusing to read anything handed to him.
Maybe convert it with Calibre?
Ask HN: What's  most valuable in HN echosystem?
Ask HN: What's most valuable in HN echosystem?
I do have a smartphone (only because I use the GPS/maps function a lot) but effectively I do the some thing, I only ever answer if it's a number that I know and I feel like it. I hate phones, I hate being interrupted out of the blue, I even hate listening to voice messages (I don't even do that anymore). If it's important they'll send an email or a text that I'll be able to read when I want and that'll be easy to reference later if need be.

> Most people find this utterly unthinkable and seem to project their anxiety of not having a phone on to me. What about emergencies? How do you do this? How do you do that? What if this happens?

I think the problem is if people have come to expect to be able to join you by phone and you suddenly stop answering they will get worried and/or frustrated, you changed the rules. I know a guy whose wife freaks out if he doesn't answer the phone and doesn't call her back within the hour even if she knows he's in front of his desk at work and is very unlikely to spontaneously combust. It's because he's built the expectation that he would always answer the phone.
I have google-analytics.com blocked in the hosts file on several machines and it usually speeds things up.

> If QUIC only works when the network has no partitions

Eh? Why do you think that?
Evidence of 250 massacres of Indigenous Australians mapped
In Finland at least, most employers provide your phone and contract. Of course you can take a separate one but then you’re carrying two phones.

I’ve been dying for gmail and workplace (fb for work) to add a feature so I can stop work related notifications after 17. Having this at iOS level would be great also.
I guess these cards might also be useful to help see through a drunken haze.
I'm getting a different installer file from this website with not as many ad bundles detected : https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/23c3a4564265bc996ab61c1227...

Anyway, this wouldn't be the first time an open source software is packaged with some adware. Unsavory, but I think within the limits of the license.
How Successful People Stay Calm
Last year I was looking for a tool where one team could provide chat support to customers - of course the customers should have their own space, in tulip this would be organizations. Zulip comes with some good UI ideas for a chat system, the multi-organization experience was not so great.

Unfortunately it was not possible to have users take part in several organizations - so each support team member would need to have one account in each organization - that gets messy really quick.

I do not think that this is a very edgy use case, but it is an indicator of some underlying design limitation. Having users limited to 'org' does not seem to make sense - instead it is obvious that one wants to have users and groups and some sane way to fine-tune rw permissions and visibility between groups and objects that groups create.

I was wondering if such an obvious limitation in the basic design was somehow induced by the use of Django. A programmer with some DB design experience would have spotted that quirk in a very early stage. I understand that Django traps new users into these kind of constructs with its obscure db layer - this is the microsoft principle - 'hiding complexity' in the end leads to hiding knowledge and makes people produce problematic results.

It is a good example of how the use of a framework can destroy a good software idea. Hopefully some people with good db knowledge can fork the frontend and build a better backend for Zulip - obviously Elixir would be a good fit with its soft-realtime channels for this kind of communication software.

Zulip is still good enough for more simplistic use cases, but you could use any php chat system out there without the incredible installation and maintenance overhead that python brings in - absurd over-complication seems to be another symptom of the framework disease, people just do not seem to know that they are in the 'absurd zone' because they have never seen how it can be done in a much easier way.

The tools you use make up your view of the world, so you can not understand what people with other tools are even talking about as long as you do not try them. A good lesson for every developer to stay open-minded and not let productivity pressure eat your learning and research time.
Reagan took a pretty relaxed approach by all accounts.
Except it's not? It's totally proper French, even if it has some grammar errors, but we're usually not that good in grammar so yeah...
Seems like they have learned nothing from Facebook rout!
I found a good antidote for an existential mood is that even if you consider that a human life is probably pretty meaningless, you can still have fun for yourself.
I would say Starling is more comparable. Both are licensed banks with FSCS protection.
Corner Office: Dan Schulman of PayPal on Guns, Cash and Getting Punched
There is rush. Tell that to people who die because medical technology is delayed years. Or companies that fail or never materialize because the products take too long to produce and are too expensive.

Tell that to the farmer who's crops go bad.

Not everything is the same.
> an overly dramatic deep manly narrator

As a side note, if you ever wondered why all those trailers sounded like they were voiced by the same guy, it's because they were: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_LaFontaine
Examples? There's some subject and possession disagreement here and there ("Cette clé, que vous définissez ... accéder à tous ses autres mots de passe"), but otherwise looks pretty good.
Are we saying that in the last 70 years or so, we managed to litter space so bad that this is actually a problem?

Help me understand here: aren't we talking about a volume of space with a radial cross section significantly larger than the surface of the earth?

I find it hard to believe we've launched so many things that collisions have become likely.

Any actual data out there on the number of objects in orbit and the likelihood of collision?

What am I missing?
Every now and then I read some of the early RFCs to remind myself of how nice it is today, and yet how much sheer fun it must have been to craft some of the protocols, so I recommend those as extra reading material - no need to read specific ones in sequence, just search for them as topics arise.

Having lived through the original yellow-coax Ethernet years and filled out actual site registrations with the infamous "ICBM Address" field, there is a lot that I can directly relate to.
/!\ minor "Thor: Ragnarok" Spoiler inside

A good recent example is "Thor: Ragnarok", I usually avoid trailers but I watched this one because I don't care much for superhero movies anyway. They reveal in the trailer there is a Thor vs Hulk fight. Then I actually watched the movie and I realized they spent a good 15 mins building up the encounter between Thor and a mysterious champion, and the reveal itself is clearly supposed to be a major twist. I definitely felt the trailer took from my experience...
Energy Production and Changing Energy Sources
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Probably one of the rare instances of a real-life joke/pun happening without any of the involved realizing it's happening until it's over.
Dated how, because normally you date permafrost on the layers, but worms by their nature move. Perhaps they're (much) younger but burrowed down?
It's proper french. I think I can be fooled by this website.
The latter case is very usual.
Lenovo Smart Display: The Google Appliance
Facebook also removes 4 Infowars videos, including one it previously cleared
It's like park architect that create what they think are beautiful paths that surely everyone will like, only to end up after some months with with organically created paths made by users walking on the lawn.

The best way is to create the park with no built paths, let people settle in for some months and then come and build over the paths they created themselves.
That's because while the clothes themselves are sold for 10x or 100x the price they cost to make (which is dirt cheap, these stores pay the sweatshops close to nothing), the difference is spent on having stores in high rent areas in most cities.

This is part of the branding strategy for stores like H&M or Zara. Many of the items on sale are of similar (or slightly better) quality with what you find in cheap outlets at the edge of the city, even the ones that sell en-gross. But having a store in an affluent part of town gives them more credibility and a better image.
Nice to learn that Bulgarian is not the only language that is so precise about relations. However, many of these words are disappearing from usage as families get smaller and younger people don't learn them.
Variously: SMS; the "call my landline and speak the code to me" options some systems have; 2FA app on an android tablet; special purpose just-shows-a-number dongle. None of this is great, though. I believe you can run 2-factor-auth clients on a Linux box somehow, but I've never investigated that.
Pretty ironicly, Terms of use warn to be very careful when downloading files with an exe.,. Vbs,. Lnk,. Bat,. Sys, or a suffix com., Because these files may contain a virus or spyware !
Xiaomi phones (not sure about others) allow you to have two separate "spaces". Not sure how it works under the hood, but it's basically like rebooting into another Android instance - even the Google account is not shared, apps are not shared, nothing. You can switch between these spaces from lock screen simply by entering a correct password for the one you want, you can configure what notifications and when can "bubble up" to the primary space, etc. It's an awesome feature.
> The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Juncker relied on more than a dozen of the cards while explaining trade topics to Trump

The article wasn't too clear on whether the flashcards were for Juncker's benefit or Trump's. The Serially Sedated or the Conceptually Challenged. Yay, politicians.
> multicellular creatures

Then plants also qualify.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/02/120221-olde...
I thought this too. Obviously not a very creative use of the domain squat. Worth reading:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandjacking
Don’t fear AI’s children: Prioritized list of immediate AI challenges
Longer term, this will be fixed when https://bugzil.la/1411425 is resolved.
For me watching a movie after one of these trailers is like participating in a magic show after the trick has been revealed.

You still enjoy it, looking for small details and appreciating how good or not the magician. But you won't get that sense of amusement of not knowing what's going on or where it's going.
I went to their city tour in Austin Texas and they said they where going to fully integrate Jenkins with Bitbuket and Jira. I suspect Bamboo is in trouble. I kept asking where their Hipchat under red hat image was with no answer. At the meet in great I was told by Hipchat Engineer to look for an another solution! I wonder if they new then?
Virtual Data Entry Clerks and Its Benefits
If you have a lot of data entry requirements in your office. But hiring a person in-house for the job seems impractical. Use virtual data entry clerks. For more info - https://www.sastabpo.com/outsource-to-india/virtual-data-entry-clerks-and-its-benefits/
Try https://chat.zulip.org/register/
How to Setting Up a Small Business in Ireland?
Layers are not an abstraction, it's an organization-system for the configuration. Anyone who has more then a handful lines of configurations develops some system to avoid the infamous .emacs bankruptcy. And Spacemacs comes with dozen packages pre-configured, while offering the option to allow the user to choose from hundred more package-configurations.

Similar slow startup. Majority impact on spacemacs startup is the regular search for package updates. Without it the startup-time is relative tame, though there is of course some place for improvment if you aim for <1 sec-startups.
Hah, the Linux version points you to the original website (only the Mac and Windows versions appear to be modified)! The year of the Linux desktop is truly here.
Ya.. this is an especially funny case because I can't imagine Russ wrote this adhoc on Twitter, this looks like something very much prepared, then dribbled out, which makes me a bit sad for the world.
Still sour about that Google fine then?
You say "/s", but for some reason, many people still hold the sincere position that dependency management is something that can just be tacked on to a language as an afterthought.
You're aggressive and vehement.

It's not me. The post uses those terms. It seems you didn't read the post.

I'm not part of your "world". Some people complain about Slack. I say IRC is better.
Programming Patterns. Introduction