skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with what you're suggesting. It's tempting to think humans think procedurally, because that's how we study algorithms. I think this is very misleading. Algorithm is an abstraction of a step-by-step process; studying algorithms in an applicative fashion would be harder simply because they're different sort of things (algorithm is abstracted out of something else). Computation, on the other hand, is a larger category where you're not interested in a particular algorithm in isolation; instead, you have N algorithms and M data.

Your hypothesis doesn't pass any test, if you look at most of the code written today, this very minute, you'll see that it is mostly written in LC-like manner. I'm also not suggesting it is purely applicative, but most PLs seem to be a cross between two models, LC getting more traction recently (look at programming languages I listed above). Compare how popular C was a few decades ago vs now. Our web browsers' native language is javascript, which is essentially lisp in a C-suit, and people started using the same language on desktop and even in embedded devices. Where is C, Fortran, Algol?
Scientists hope AI will illuminate the mystery of dark matter
It is only for overseas military from WV using mobile devices for voting on foreign soil.

No cause for concern.
Because ~200ms reaction time isn't exactly accurate when people are comparing focus on one action versus focusing on many things at once. Reaction time is going to be delayed then for humans (unless they happen to be expecting it at that particular moment), but for bots that doesn't happen.

So this current ai is uninteresting because bots can always instantaneously begin to react on any feedback, whereas humans have to pan and drag the camera around to look at different feedback in the first place, let alone react. Mechanically, humans also have to move the mouse all over the place and think of key combinations, in addition to reacting. Not just clicking a static box on cue.

It -would- be interesting if bots were limited just like humans to the camera view, -not- an API that continuously feeds them information. The bot would then have to learn how to prioritize working the camera, and it would be limited to only what the camera sees, etc.
"the regulators halted trading after a request by Tesla" could be true and not mean what you seem to think their statement means.
The smaller that bubble gets, the greater the chance of a drone actually striking a bird, which could become a major legal liability [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migratory_Bird_Treaty_Act_of_1...
I thought the losses were nonlinear and complex? IE 10,000km is not 30% loss
Are there any D3D12 platforms that don't also support Vulkan?
Astronomers watch a star go supernova, fizzle out, and then burst back to life
The problem is that Fermi’s paradox assumes interstellar travel to be an inevitable and achievable goal of intelligent life given enough time. Why should that be? I would argue that assumption is itself far more self-aggrandizing than what this article accuses the doubters of being. Why should we assume that intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy that has progressed hundreds or thousands of years beyond our level of technology would even value interstellar travel? Maybe by the time such technology is possible, other grander frontiers that the human race cannot even perceive will be more compelling. Or maybe the practicalities make interstellar travel impossible. Why do we assume this is even a solvable problem given the resources available in a typical solar system? Or that such exploration would then be sustainable beyond the first leg?
More secure yes, but photoshop does exist.
Space Station Crew Photographs Raging California Wildfires
I agree that you shouldn't be able to obscure where the speech is coming from - some of the laws around television ads were supposed to help with this, but because of the organization thing you mention they're mostly of the form "paid for by people for a better tomorrow" or something else equally useless.

Ultimately I think that was what the decision was about - that there need to be better controls and fixes for how campaign finance currently works, but that the citizen's united solution (that lost) was not the safe way to do it.
Considering 15 minute flight time, 2 hour battery recharging time, and several miles runway circumference, I guestimate you would need around a 100-200 drone system to maintain constant surveillance around a medium size airport.
Just out of curiosity, had you already watched the embedded video ("Prototype Quadrotor with Machine Gun!") – of the quadrotor with the machine gun & the self-destruct ability – before you wrote your comment? The gentleman in the video didn't strike me as someone terribly concerned about product liability.
So we are another kind of special to deserve observation and galaxy wide bubble of silence.
You mean companies like Apple?
Mei uses AI to improve relationships by analyzing text messages
I'm pretty sure that's not the way it was presented at all. Modifying original works is actually an allowance of copyright, not a restriction. It's called Fair Use, which states that "transformative" uses of copyrighted material, or "those that add something new, with a further purpose or different character, and do not substitute for the original use of the work," are "more likely to be considered fair." [1]

Extracting the user's data out of the page is what's _allowed_; since that is the part of the page that Facebook does not actually hold a copyright claim to, I'm pretty sure you could make the claim that extracting the user's own data out of the page into a structured format for the user's own use is transformative.

The part that wasn't allowed was literally making an ephemeral in-memory copy of the page as-is, which included Facebook's copyrighted HTML.

(I am also not a lawyer)

[1] https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html
Its something that is caused by the vast majority of people in the country being white Norwegian citizens. They have very few people (comparatively) who are social outcasts on the basis of being from somewhere else or not speaking the language or being a different color or all three. There is much less need for gangs as an alternative path to acceptance by a group.
Fair point. Do climate models have the fidelity to predict desertification? My intuition would be that the entire middle east will be devoid of water at 2 degrees hotter.
> We can't use satellites to measure anything other than surface temperature of the ocean

...and atmospheric temperature, and surface temperature of the land, and the solar energy arriving on Earth, and the energy being radiated away from Earth. There are plenty of things we can measure to show that there is warming beside just deep ocean temperature. We probably need deep ocean temperature measurements to predict accurately how the warming effects will be distributed, but we don't need it to show the warming is happening.

I don't know what you are going on with about the oceanic thermocline because all you've said is that there is some problem with some data related to some phenomenon involving it and that we don't have enough data to understand the oceanic thermocline.

You seem to think this thermocline problem is inconsistent with global warming. Let's say you are right. So what? You noted that we don't have good data or models for the thermocline.

We do have good data and models on dozens of things that do indicate warming. Generally in science when you have a lot of things that have good data and good models and support a theory, and some thing without good data or a good model that doesn't fit the theory, you wait until you get good data on the later before considering throwing out the theory.
> unless you want features that would turn it into a ThinkBook-like brick.

Yeah literally all many of us want is a standard keyboard with function keys instead of the touchbar. A couple regular USB ports would be nice as well so we can plug in a mouse and keyboard without needing dongles. Neither of those things would turn their "pro" laptop into a brick.
https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/blog/taking-tesla-private?redire...
Makes me wonder if I should move my e-mail account...

If you need support for Google products, it really does not exist.
My point was not about guns in particular. People use knifes for that too, or rocks, or baseball bats, and we aren't going to ban those.

My point was that there are people who want to murder, and drones will be very suitable for that, and the fact that 99.99% of people don't won't really matter.
Using machine learning to generate persuasive faces for ads
This is why I challenge people when they say that "just use your google account" is a viable approach to access control. I like GMail, but I can't really trust anyone to do my email for me.
Taking Tesla Private

https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/blog/taking-tesla-private
Are you planning on making it for Firefox?
Post-Hospital Syndrome–An Acquired Transient Condition of Generalized Risk(2013)
This is happening all over the industry, pretty much all companies just make use of open source software without giving a penny to the thousands of projects they leverage on a daily basis to make profit or even keep the lights on.

As someone who runs a small open source project that clearly states that Patreon donations are accepted and even offers some convenience benefits to donors, I often see people jumping extra hoops to avoid it, including clearly profitable companies that saved many thousands by using my software, spending extra time that would amount to more than those donations. So far I get donations from less than one percent of my estimated users.
Quantum Computing Will Create Jobs. But Which Ones?
an ethical debate and interesting.
Just the expected value of getting the $10k grant probably justifies the time investment.
> not a good course of action IMO

How so? They've just got 5% of Tesla and he's talking about taking it private at +15%. It seems like instant profit to them just from the reaction to them buying it.
It might be cheaper to enclose the blades' path in cages, or add more (possibly dummy) blades to make the path appear more filled, if that's been a problem.

Maybe a ring around the tips of the blades, and the blades double as spokes. They'd be ugly, but birds would fly into them less, and power output would get slightly smoothed by the weight shifted to the exterior of the wind wheel.
Thanks, not officially supported.
> First of all, the oil reserves in Saudi-Arabia aren't going to last forever - but they will need massive amounts of energy to maintain their cities, especially for drinking water. Desalination is ridiculously expensive, and water access will be the war driver in the entire Middle East once climate change really hits.

Somewhat OT, but... there has been enormous progress in energy efficient desalination, to the point that Israel has become a net exporter of water.
See DOI 10.1016/j.desal.2017.10.033 for more technical information on recent progress desalination.
Yeah, I wasn't entirely happy about these.

The random tables allow a corridor to end in a false or secret door (or stairs, but I stripped those out). So by the same logic, a corridor must be allowed to 'stop' or a dead-end would always mean "trap/secret" to the players.

But as others have said, it's not entirely unrealistic ;)
My main problem with multi-monitor on OSX is little mouse cursor freezes that happen every few seconds while I'm using it. I've searched and found that it had to do with multi-monitor but have yet to find a solution.

Compared to this Linux isn't all that bad. Took me a bit to find the magic xrandr invocation that would allow me to manage screen pseudo-brightness sanely. If I can find out the right way to put together a f.lux-style Night Mode I may switch to Linux on all machines.
Some phones which had 3.5mm jack removed have been opened; they actually easily had room for the jack.
Rather than user submitted content I was thinking more along the lines of copywriting your contact details and other personal details that companies like to harvest and/or sell to anyone willing to pay.
This seems to be the outcome of the whole thing in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17709068
> This is true in intel land, but AMD has kept compatible mobos for many, many cycles now.

Not really, AM3+ only supported Bulldozer and Piledriver. _Some_ AM3 boards could support these CPUs, but not all that many and only at certain TDPs. It's basically the same deal as intel, you get about 2 cycles per chipset, it's just that AMD didn't release anything new for quite a long time.
> How about asking how you could improve our product?

I often have ideas along those lines but they are not usually welcome. Improvements of that nature are supposed to come from product manager/designer, not a jira ticket machine AKA dev
Are graduates of Startup school 2017 encouraged to apply again?
More precisely:

We know who gets to decide - the owners of the communications platform and those who influence them, under current democratic legislation, which is completely subject to change according to the will of the citizens of a democratic country.

It's interesting how easy it is to observe stereotypical right-wing pedantically technical justification behaviors be adopted by the left (feel free to correct me if my assumption is wrong) as the topic of specific discussion moves around various dimensions of reality.
You can't downcast it to anything you want, it returns an Option, void pointers in C are not certainly the same, it's unsafe.
AI can now tell your boss what skills you lack–and how you can get them
they did work ok in an unix environment. they had ethernets, you could run them with NFS, you could telnet into them sorta.

but they were expensive. like really expensive. not just a few 10s of k to buy, but you basically had to have a really fat support contract to keep them running. and they were really single user, so to have a lab supporting 8 users was a well over a million dollar investment. a deskside sun with terminals or pizza box sun 3s as stations was alot cheaper. and they were fragile. i'm pretty sure one of the ones we had was wire wrapped.

and they were slow. I may be misremembering, but the flashing status line at the bottom of the monitor would sometimes say the equivalent of 'i am performing a floating point operation now'. we would often reboot them overnight (it took a couple hours) so we could run for a while in the morning before the GC started bogging everything down. the little one they came out with near the end, I think it was the 3620, was largely unusable.

the difference was so marked in the end that if you wanted a lisp and didn't want the ferrari model, you could get a mac or a sun and run lucid or allegro and such for basically 1/10th the cost. and it would be faster.

just an additional historical note, the other vertical they had besides DoD AI was graphics. for an additional 20k (I think) you could get a 24 bit frame buffer with a nice trinitron monitor and they had some really pleasant software to work with.
Probiotic Supplements Might Be Giving Some People 'Brain Fog'
I think it's a great move. Prevents short term greedy shareholder strategies.
I do. I’ve worked at two of the biggest companies in the games industry, I’ve made two independent iOS games, I’m now about to get into block chain related work and I’m the founder of a service that provides automated test results reporting that is growing in usage across the world. I do think the product matters, but also perhaps more importantly you need to have personal and professional growth. I realize that growth and product are not necessarily aligned but if you can make them align it’s the best.
In this year’s WWDC I asked the same question one of the GPU software engineers and he claimed that Apple is going to completely remove support for OpenGL in about two years from now.

Regardless, “deprecated” means “no longer maintained”, meaning that if any regressions will appear in the near future, it’s possible no one will fix them, as these issues will not be prioritized.
Ok, type bound. You can still easily pass around data whose type is not concretely defined at the compilation step. Unless you’re arguing that the dynamic type is actually static, in which case this whole conversation seems semantically pointless.
> Problem is downside risk: drones get hacked, or someone figures out how to make the drones fly into planes, or herd birds TOWARD planes.

All of these things are way harder than simply buying a drone yourself and doing illegal things with it.
Thanks.
Yes, originally I just wanted to use it in my D&D game. Since I couldn't find another generator that used these algorithms, I thought I'd make it available. But I'll probably add some other algorithms in due course.

What features would you like to see?
Apple removes deprecated stuff eventually.
Dart isn’t statically typed, at least not in the times i’ve used it; it’s gradually typed.
(If this happens) What does this mean for owners (non-employees) of TSLA stock? Will you be able to maintain your holdings in the company after it is delisted from an exchange?
By including the copyrighted phrase in the emulating kext, and thus violating copyright law. Yes.
Guess Elon isn't too confident about being able to deliver the earnings he promised on.
According to various analysts, Saudi Arabia is sitting on an ocean of oil that they can't possibly find a buyer for until renewables take over completely.

So they have a big problem 20-30 years from now.
Can you link some context?
In other words, it sounds like the above commenter is suggesting that seaweed might unexpectedly save us. But the actual point is almost the opposite: this means we’ve been relying on something all along that we didn’t know we needed to protect.
It reminded me of that too, especially since Nanette goes in-depth about how tension and release are tapped into to shape humour.
That's why I keep my G-Suite under my own domain. At least if it goes belly up I can move email elsewhere within an hour or so.
On the podcast they encouraged people to take the classes remotely and not go out of their way to attend in person. More YC companies are increasingly remote and so is YC itself.
Probably not. I'm sure I'd cause migraines if people were to see the code ;)

I'd probably open-source it before I abandon it though.
His post says you can have private shares or accept the buyout at $420
TSLA up 7% on announcement, high of $370.79

If you're a short seller, beware the "squeeze." If you're not a short seller, this article can be an amusing read:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen/short-sellers-...
There's always star lifting. Building stockpiles of hydrogen seems to be a reasonable step to prolong active existence in the light of inevitable heat death of universe.
Snapchat Source Code Leaked and Posted to GitHub
I'd agree that this is a fundamental factor enabling social peace (besides a culture of sincerity and trust), but aren't there in principle always incentives for competitors to eliminate one another? What if this becomes too easy to accomplish in a physical manner without leaving any trace?
In the article you're discussing:

>Either they can stay investors in a private Tesla or they can be bought out at $420 per share...
The main negative with Flutter on iOS is that your app ends up looking like an awful Google app instead of something native.
Not sure when it was published exactly but the stock price impact was visible already 2 hours ago.
Why we downplay Fermi's paradox is because most of us know that it's making up numbers, and then using the made-up numbers to reach a conclusion. Most of us have little faith in the numbers, and therefore little faith in the conclusion. Why should it be otherwise?

People love to make these big-sounding claims of Having Figured It All Out. But the data don't support the conclusions, most of us don't really buy the conclusions. That's a good thing.
Second, my intention is for all Tesla employees to remain shareholders of the company, just as is the case at SpaceX. If we were to go private, employees would still be able to periodically sell their shares and exercise their options. This would enable you to still share in the growing value of the company that you have all worked so hard to build over time.

How does this work as a private company?
Even though the code does something possibly illegal (by violating copyright) when executed -- can't it still live on github as free speech? (like an anarchist textbook or 3d printing schematic of a gun or bitcoin core)? Can't it just be demonstrative and educational, and if you download it and run it you may be held liable but otherwise the code itself is fine and legal to simply exist?
More active thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17709799
That was the previous high it hit before it was halted for this news to come out. Trading is now scheduled to re-open in 6 minutes (3:45 PM EST). Going to be a very interesting 15 minutes before the market closes for the day.
I am a bit ignorant as to the mechanics of how this would work. Can anyone with the knowledge elaborate on what this means? Im thinking in terms of a few scenarios here:
1) I read this news and want to get on the Tesla train and throw all my liquidity into the current stock.
2) I already have x number of shares. What happens to them?
3) If I dissent, am I cut a check and told to hit the bricks?
4) is he going to need to raise capital to do this?
5) would the private company/person still be able to buy/sell "shares" on some off the stock market exchange?
I’m guessing they’re referring to the fact that Apple’s EULA prohibits—or prohibited at one time, I believe it still does—running macOS on anything other than Apple hardware. Hence, a Hackintosh violates the EULA.

Not saying it’s bad or not. I despise EULAs. I think that’s what the parent means, though.
If Tesla announces this (causing the stock to rise, since the suggested price is much higher than the current price), and then doesn't go through with it, is it considered stock manipulation? I don't mean to accuse them, I'm sure they covered their bases, but I'd like to understand how it works.
I wonder start makes your setup so fragile? We have a similar number of Windows machines, and we would be doing nothing in IT this week if we were just answering support calls.

We use WSUS for updates, and barely have to touch it?

Again I don't have any problem with licensing. I tell a reseller what I want and review their response. No big deal?
> most likely cheaper than what they already spent in lawyer wages and court expenses.

Not really. They would have spent max 100 million dollars in Oracle lawsuit. Still lot less than billions to buy Sun with its mostly non-profitable crap assets.

Anyway I think Oracle seemed natural fit for Sun. The were already using in large number of their products and also selling licenses for turd technologies like J2EE app servers, portals, enterprise service buses and so on. Java EE was suppose to be big enterprise play and bring in lots of consulting revenue.

It is only recently they finally called it a day and dumped EE assets in Eclipse backyard.
I am not completely sure, but I can imagine XBox One.
Ethiopia in discussions to use digital solutions to improve financial inclusion
Is this common? Would shareholders accept this?
David Brin also wrote his notions on Fermi's Paradox in Existence

In the same novel he suggest a means for avoiding a negative AI "Singularity".
As an investor since 2012 I think Tesla would be far more operationally efficient private. Also a bit of schadenfreude but I've personally enjoyed watching Wall Street shorts collectively lose hundreds of millions of dollars over this.
There was a HN discussion a couple of days ago complaining about companies going public much later. Could the short term quarterly horizon of public investors, as pointed out here, be a big reason companies don't IPO sooner?