skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed that the strategy is an interesting part.

Another interesting part will be creating an AI / neural network that can utilize inputs that are closer to human level inputs (e.g., using the frame buffer and audio out as input to the neural network and passing the outputs of the neural network to a keyboard and mouse driver). Just let the network train itself without having a human laboriously determine the topology of the neural network. Such a neural network can then be applied to several different types of games / problems much more quickly than at present where significant human labor is required to generate deeply customized neural networks for each game / problem.
Well you use water. My question was whether paper plates (which I - wrongly - assumed were pretty much free from an environment point of view) had a lower impact than purifying & transporting water (and the maintenance of pipes/etc) needed to wash conventional cutlery.
> Besides a few neckbeard types, does any significant number of people actually care about Mastadoon?

The problem with this kind of argument is that it also explains why nobody uses that neckbeard internet thing and everyone still uses telephones and TV.

And, in a way, that is true. But the internet still exists.
what model/year? Are you a PCA member?
I handle my clothes as a combination of LRU cache in each drawer for clean clothes and min heap for dirty. Ish. I agree with you that most people probably do something like this as well. It’s not rocket science, just computer science.
You have a point, I could have qualified my post with an 'if these hot temperatures continue in Europe' to hedge since the effects of climate change don't necessarily appear as super-linear phenomenon - there is scope for significant variation.
The root problem was abusive posts, spam and bandwidth use (for binaries). These are still problems today, even with centralized identity and reputation management.

Incidentally, PGP/GPG use was surprisingly high on Usenet (nowhere near ubiquitous) back then. Many newsreaders supported it was pretty common to see signed messages and the corresponding geek code block. It did little other than help resolve arguments about spoofed messages... and as a badge of geek cred.
"It is" is "C'est"
Sorry that was my fault, while I was making the website and asked some people with working phones to take screenshots I got bullied out of the devs channel and wasn't around to tell them not to screw it up
First off, I have to say I’m surprised and disappointed at their response. I’ve met members of the Wahoo team at CES and have been using their gear for years, it’s uniformly well-designed and the connectivity is pretty much bulletproof, which is pretty amazing for the glob of IoT gadgetry that is a modern cycling sensor network. I hope they come back with an update.

Second, the ELEMNT is a terrific cycling computer, but it’s so optimized for cycling that I expect it would be useless for any other activity. If you want something to use for biking AND hiking, I strongly suggest that you look into a Garmin triathlon watch.
Yes, it seems that every user already has a private|public key pair. It's just that instances are apparently storing users' private keys. And that, for what it's worth, seems like a horrible idea.

But whatever, if users had control of their private keys, they could easily move. As long as routing depended on public key hash (as with Tor .onion sites) instead of user@instance. More of a web model, instead of an email model ;)
Microphones are already quite good. If you can be seen, you can be "heard". That has been true for many years. I think there was a scene in the movie Enemy of the State involving cone mics. The difference with this technology is that someone can "hear" you even if you're around a corner.
Moving is pretty easy. Everything is staged in a priority queue, all boxes are “databased” by room -> type. Also since I’m lazy, it’s pretty good easy to classify things that are wasting time, though a good distraction is definitely sometimes worth it.
That seems like an overly complex scheme to solve a problem that XMPP solved years ago with SRV records.
Why Generic Outsourced Assistant Services Like Exec, Operator, etc. Failed
side note, I was involved with development of tox for quite some time, and made the website that is being linked to here

avoid tox its full of bugs
Here are the Kaggle Kernels Dockerfiles:

- Python: https://github.com/Kaggle/docker-python/blob/master/Dockerfi...

- R: https://github.com/Kaggle/docker-rstats/blob/master/Dockerfi...

https://mybinder.org builds containers (and launches free cloud instances) on demand with repo2docker from a (commit hash, branch, or tag) repo URL: https://repo2docker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/config_files.ht...
does remote work even if it is asia?
Disk encryption is just a button you click on install (Actually on most OSs now its the default)
Yes, to flesh that out, the Internet has morphed into "telephones and TV" :( For all too many, at least.
Can anyone suggest any better alternatives, even paid ones?

I absolutely love PGSQL and it's a great software, but it severely lacks in good tools.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Hunt
This is where we get into some intriguing comparisons. Microsoft’s P/E is a solid 48 and Alphabet’s hovers around 50…but Apple’s is a meager 17. Caricaturing just a bit: “Apple still trades like a steel mill going out of business.” In more sober words, investor actions say Microsoft’s or Alphabet’s future earnings per share are safer than Apple’s, hence the premium they’re willing to pay. With a P/E of 50, Apple’s Market Cap would approach $3T…

I am definitely a fan of Apple’s products, but I don’t see anything in the future that can make Apple’s revenues grow at an above market rate.

I think Microsoft still has a lot of growth in Azure and could probably do more on professional services.

I’m also not bullish on Google. I can’t see how relatively weak ad targeting has more growth opportunity than socials ability to target advertising better since users tell FB what thier interests are.

Amazon can still grow via both AWS and taking over larger chunks of retail.
I’d say the static typing analogue to the workflow I described is perhaps the canonical OO gymnastics and leads to much worse messes, thoughtless regurgitation of “design patterns” and wasted hours getting some tower of abstraction in place for something that you can just do in dynamic languages and make it perfectly safe and move on.

“The dynamic mess” is mostly a myth we tell ourselves because many dominant languages are predicated on there needing to be actual material benefit to type safety. In reality, bad use of abstraction will cause a mess no matter which paradigm you use, but dynamic languages at least give you the option to eschew the bullshit and just solve the problem, while many mainstream statically typed languages, even functional languages, just give you pattern recipes that gaurantee you’ll get lost in a sea of value-destructive abstraction and end up using a bazooka for every nail.
This will bite you in the ass in the future. If you are in the USA, some entities who you should defneitly pay attention to do initial communication only through mail.

For example, if the IRS wants something for you they will never call you first. Heck, they defneitly won't send you an email first. Instead, they send you a letter.

If you are in the process of identity theft, you will want to keep a close eye on your mail to verify there aren't any letters about an account you just opened.
It would be a big issue, if it was true.
Also see the book Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions:

https://smile.amazon.com/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-De...
Can’t seem to visit the URL without having to login.
We still have this in Indian colleges.
People are terribly sloppy at not discussing sensitive work, even when they've been trained and should know better, never even thinking about security implications. As a retired military guy with certain specialized, though rather dated, knowledge, I happened to be sitting in a restaurant prior to a business meeting a few years ago near a military base that has a large civilian contract support and research presence near it. There were a couple of guys having lunch at the next table and apparently "catching up". One guy was chatty. In the half hour I was there, I learned of his organization's budget cuts, where their resources were going to be refocused and what the priorities were, the likely reason certain things were cut because of specific technical issues, how much new work they were expecting on a certain program, and a dozen other things that a military or corporate spy would have loved to hear. I glanced over once and he was wearing his security badge right out in public so I was able to identify his name and organization. Idiot.
That’s a great first step! Adding the ability to customize on a per-notebook basis would be impressive.
Geoguessr was a hit with my family. My wife and kids loved to play it.
The CPU was faster than the memory by the mid to late 70s (though they did start roughly equal at the start of the decade). You would insert a number of "wait states" with an external counter to ensure your memories' timing was not violated.

At that time RAM was asynchronous, you put an address in the A bus and by the specified delay time you would have your result on the output. Later on memories were pipelined and that is when they got their clock.
My favorite thing about the furry fandom is that, for most fandoms, the thing you share is that you're a fan of something, whether that's a TV show or an artist or whatever.

The biggest thing that furries have in common is that they are fans of each other. There's no other central rallying point.

It's a culture that encourages niceness.
The Engadget link is a weird blog repost of https://www.gq.com/story/spy-or-uber-driver, which is actually a well written and fascinating story.
That kind of encryption is not helpful when the laptop is already on. You need the kind that you can mount/unmount in when you're somewhere safe like at home. I'm also getting tired of these mindless persistent replies making me repeat my points over and over so this will be the last time I'll humor them.
Psychological entropy?
All you have to do to be a furry is... decide to be a furry. That's it! The culture is super welcoming.
On the contrary, this is one of the few areas where decentralized systems are much better than centralized ones.

The problem is that moderation doesn't scale. Small communities and small instances will nearly always be better at moderation than a large platform, because they can rely on a small number of individuals to get the job done - individuals who are more likely to be consistent, more likely to pay attention to community reactions to posts, and more likely to care in general about what they're doing.

It's difficult for me to think of any large platform (Facebook, Github, Twitter, Reddit, Steam, Amazon, etc...) where moderation and general content quality is better than their smaller counterparts (Mastadon, Itch.io, Gitlab, self-hosted forums, etc...).

Large platforms also become large attack vectors. The same benefits of centralization for users - (content discovery, single sources of truth, and so on) make it very cost-effective and efficient to spam and harass users. With a decentralized system, spammers are less likely to care about whatever small community you're hosting. It's not impossible for them to crawl around the internet spamming everyone, but the cost of doing so is a lot higher than targeting a single platform.

So centralization inevitably leads to large platforms because the market for these platforms is winner-take-all, and it almost a kind of pseudo physical law that large platforms can not be moderated well. I don't want to be absolutist about it, but I'm really having a hard time thinking of even a single exception to that rule.

Maybe Wikipedia, but I'm even kind of doubtful about that - and most of Wikipedia's quality moderation comes from a group of people who are completely obsessed with the project. That mindset also doesn't scale to Twitter/Facebook sizes.
Considering the default is off, anyone that goes out of their way to turn this on should remember how to turn it back off.
Exactly. People don’t get that. The whole allure of venture capital is that your downside risk is only the money you invested but your upside reward doesn’t have a limit. If you invest $10,000 in a corporation, that’s the most you can loose. If you invest $10K in a partnership where you are personally liable, your risk is whatever your share of the partnership’s liability is.
‘Too Little Too Late’: Bankruptcy Booms Among Older Americans
Pretty much. It's a matter of degree. The more CO2, the warmer.

So, if we could wave a wand and get to 310 ppm, that would be great! But 280 would be even better. Realistically we've got some warming baked in from feedback effects (less snow, etc) so lowering to industrial levels wouldn't get us back to preindustrial temperatures immediately.

If we magically stopped emitting immediately, we'd still see warming because of lag in the effects, feedback, etc, and we'd find it uncomfortable. With more emissions it will be worse.

So, sequestering emissions is a very worthy goal, and why stopped remains important even though we're past a point where damage begins. Damage can still get worse and we should try to avoid that.

Figuring out some way to actually reverse them is the holy grail though. We would need nuclear or solar for that, most likely.

A bit of nuclear waste in the ground is better than carbon waste in the air.
Hey there, I'm the founder of a small travel app (www.r3d.city) that is essentially a virtual geocaching/treasure hunt platform. We're just about to come out of beta, and one of the new features is seeded historical photos; e.g. heritage sites in the 1920s. We're putting a lot of work into geotagging these photos directly onto the capture location, you might find it interesting. The idea is that as you walk around some historical location, you can view images of that location from N years ago, from the exact point of view (or near enough) where that photo was taken.
This isn’t enabled by default on any versions of Firefox and Mozilla does not have a timeline for enabling this by default on any future versions of Firefox.
How much different is this from slicing in C++?

IE:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

struct Greeter {
void greet() {
cout << "Hello, World!" << endl;
}
};

struct BaseGreeter: Greeter {};

struct LazyGreeter: BaseGreeter {
void greet() {
cout << "sup" << endl;
}
};

int main() {
Greeter greeter = LazyGreeter();
greeter.greet(); // Prints "Hello, World"

return 0;
}
Hi, HN! Author, here. Yeah, I was a little disappointed by the GPL and attribution issues, too. But also, I feel a little bad not having given them too much time to respond, or too much heads up that I was gonna write a piece about it. So if anyone has a way to reach out to them, I don't want to trash them too much, and I'd be really happy to update that blog post!

But also, the other side of this is that the attribution issue is, perhaps, only 50% of my thrust here -- the other 50% being that it's actually a really cool device inside, and it's neat to see how they managed to build a device that's (mostly) competitive with Garmin's rich feature set so quickly. And so that, I think, might be what would be even more interesting to HN, rather than just torching them. If they opened the platform up to tinkerers a little bit -- perhaps if they 1) unlocked the bootloader; 2) provided /system images; and 3) enabled a switch to give you access to adb -- then it would be a really really cool form factor of a toy for a lot of different uses.
Unfortunately, most of the training that's available is worse than useless. It's fantastical, unrealistic and informed by neither research nor practical experience. It teaches physical techniques that are demonstrably ineffective, it fails to teach the core mental skills of self defence and it gives a completely false sense of confidence. Bay Area Model Mugging seems to be far more serious than most, but their website copy does seem a little concerning in places.

de Becker's The Gift of Fear is such an important work because it emphasises everything that happens before a violent confrontation. By the time most people realise that they might get hurt, they've already missed a dozen opportunities to recognise the situation and act to protect themselves. It applies not merely to the random acts of violence by strangers that many people fear, but the far more prevalent and insidious forms of violence that develop within relationships of all kinds.

Any meaningful self-defence training must include real fear, real violence and real pain. It must start with the essential skills of situational awareness, threat perception and decision-making under acute stress. It must be rooted in the understanding that skill and technique are nearly always trumped by size and strength, and that most violent confrontations have the possibility of suddenly and unpredictably becoming catastrophic.
Yep, I imagined it would be a problem in the US. I am in the UK though, where you pretty much don't have to do anything as far as taxes go when you're a simple employee, and if you do have to deal with the taxman, you can do pretty much everything online and get email notifications.

However, wouldn't important letters (like urgent communication from the IRS or similar government agency) that could have consequences if unread be sent as registered letters (where at least in the UK and France the mailman personally hands it to you and asks for a signature)?
Mathematica is to Sage as OS X is to Linux.

Most people who don't know better mistake polish for capability.
suggestion: display the price prior to clicking, not just "low price"
If "Gloria" were truly a spy then this would imply that whatever government she worked for was inside Uber's network enough to send certain targets to their chosen drivers. And are probably able to track whomever they want like the "celebrity stalker" thing Uber was doing a while back.

Or "Gloria" was just sitting on the event because she knew that's where the money was, was up on politics and knew who Julia Ioffe is because she (somewhat famously) got fired for saying on the twitter that Trump was having sexual relations with his daughter but didn't want to say that's how she knew she was Russian.
> This is where we get into some intriguing comparisons. Microsoft’s P/E is a solid 48 and Alphabet’s hovers around 50…but Apple’s is a meager 17.

There's a legitimate point there, clouded by the exaggeration. Apple is indeed fetching a lower multiple, because it has had very low growth for years. Microsoft knows all about that, just over five years ago their PE was around 12-13 - a reward for their years of slow growth and dimming prospects.

Investors are looking forward when they hand out multiples, not backwards. So let's look very slightly forward and ask: has much changed about Microsoft and Google's profitability, or are they likely to have 40-50 PE ratios two years from now as well?

Net income for Microsoft's most recent quarter was $8.9 billion. They've got some interesting things cooking in their business lines, producing that profit expansion. Who knows if they'll be able to annualize that rate near term, if they can it becomes a 23 PE ratio - and that's most certainly what investors are betting on, broadly speaking. Investors are not reacting to last year's profit, they're plotting the next year or few. Simply put, they like what they see.

How about Google? It's the same exact thing. Without the EU fine (investors are betting that's not an every quarter problem), they reported $11.75 per share in earnings for the most recent quarter. Annualized you're looking at a far more reasonable 26 PE ratio - and that's again exactly what investors are betting on going forward. Given a relatively small amount of time, 25% revenue growth plus their healthy margins, tends to deliver on the bottom line (even if fines or occasional big capex makes the quarter to quarter results messy).

Microsoft and Google are not cheap stocks, this market overall has produced elevated multiples for nearly everything (including Apple, which just two years ago was being given more like an 11 PE). They're also not nearly as crazy priced as the article suggests. Both companies are capable of hitting the $30b plus mark in annual earnings in the next year or two.
I own meetkaori.com and we haven’t failed. It’s a small niche, bilingual Japanese assistants, but it’s an important enough niche that people find value in the service. Planning to expand to other markets soon.
The extent of the heatwaves is the difference. I saw a map showing that basically the whole world has above average temperatures this summer - past heat waves tended to be local. Much like a local record snowfall.
Facebook will crash though
I was kind of surprised too. I have some conjectures about the internal politics from the output that I observed (super friendly, super helpful support team; development team knew it was an issue, and had orders from above?).

And yes, the ELEMNT is an ok cycling computer, but I think with a few bug fixes, it would work 'at least tolerably' for hiking (that is to say, at least as well as the Garmin Edge 510 did). The Edge 510 was not a great hiking computer, but for 'datalogging with a separate battery from my phone, and capable of speaking ANT+ to my heart rate monitor', it at least captured correct data...
I left academia before Julia became popular.

What's the deal with it, does it actually add anything over c/fortran + python?
The literal translation of “Ça va” is neither “it is” nor “it goes well”, right? The literal translation is “it goes”. “It goes well” would be “ça va bien”, which is also used for both question and answer parts of a slightly longer standard greeting.

This isn’t a big distinction because I agree with both of you about the relative meaninglessness of the content of such a greeting in either language.
It’s trading at low multiples for the simple reason that it’s already the most valuable company in history and there are limits to how large a company can grow.

When you buy stock in companies with high multiples that’s because you’re dreaming that some day they’ll be as large as apple.
Ultra running, and well, just running in general.

Two nights ago I got to stand on the 5th lane of a track and watch 13 guys run a sub-4 mile. First place ran a 3:57 and missed the NC record by .03 seconds. 5 women ran under 4:30, with first place running a 3 second PR.

Earlier, I had run the anchor leg for my local running club in the 4x400.

There are few sports so accessible. The ultra community in particular is very welcoming and volunteer driven.
maybe the team never picked lineup it knew were bad, and as such never trained with them
I use the "sort first" optimization more than non-programmers in my household.

For example, my technique for putting away groceries is to take the contents out and set them next to the grocery bags, then sort them by where they're going (kitchen fridge, pantry closet, etc.). This is faster than repeatedly taking one or two items out of a bag and bringing them where they go.