skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, I remember that bit too - I found myself agreeing with the Duke group as well. I grew up pretty upper middle class but I am absolutely poor compared to the circle Holmes' family was in, and I grew up pretty smart but definitely stupid compared to the circles she was in at Stanford. Its far easier to make a comfortable living off of a trust fund and family connections than actually having to move up the ladder at even Google.
Too bad it wasn't launched 4 days earlier so this could have been on 2018-08-08
What's the actual legal argument here? What's the text of the regulation? Why does Google interpret it to mean this whereas Amazon and Microsoft don't?
> When memories and the connectome are finally understood

IF.

> simply scan the brain

Simply?

> I do not want to be "flesh and bones" when we will have better alternatives.

IF.

> Do you see the absurdity of what we are?

We are no more absurd than your vision of what you wish to become, with the one note that we are what we are and your wishes will very likely remain just that.

The whole cryogenics movement is strongly reminiscent of a religion: it costs lots of money, it makes vague promises of an afterlife and 'freethinkers' are relentlessly attacked by the true believers.

Show me the proof, until then it's just another scam.

> and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me.

There is some hot air involved here, but not that one.
Wow. Any idea what would've happened if they hadn't gotten it fixed overnight?
Just correcting some vagueness from the above comment.

Most tailwheel airplanes can do wheel or 3-point (stall) landings. For example, I've done both in the Decathlon, a very common tailwheel airplane.

Also, I watched the video and although the builder is an intelligent guy, you're supposed to know the stall speed of your airplane. Many of the speed indications are based on that.

It looks like he should finish the test flight program.

Note that many homebuilders don't allow resale (instead they take a chainsaw to the spar for liability reasons.)

Read about John Denver's fatal homebuilt resale accident to see why.
Notwithstanding what others have said here - I think it depends on the market and the lender. When I looked to add a second property, the lender refused to consider the rent being earned from the first property, saying "Your tenant could move out at any moment, so we don't include that as part of a borrower's income in making our decision."

What I suspect happens is that once you reach some number of properties, you become a commercial borrower, and different rules apply. A former coworker owned most of a street of duplexes at one time, and he had no problems getting loans.
I mean, okay to the second part, but as to the first part, who is going to pay to run your simulation?
I dunno, sounds kind of interesting. Imagine the pain that creators feel when their images get reposted without credit or permission. Sometimes this can even lead to financial losses for the creator.

A lot depends on how this is implemented, but it would be great to have more options than a watermark and low resolution as ways of protecting your work.
The parent's `sarcasm` tags were apparently swallowed in HTML sanitization. :) It was meant to sound like a horrible idea.
Negative. I work at GitLab. I can assure you that GitHub getting acquired did not have any bearing on the speed at which we made this migration happen. It's been in the works for a long time, and in none of the meetings I've attended has anyone said "Github now is owned by Microsoft, we need to get on GCP FASTER."
This is a good question, but you should realize that it's a very contentious issue in the US. Most people will assume that you are "trolling" even though you are likely asking genuinely.

Explaining from scratch, the US has two approximately equally dominant political parties. It is presumed (by both sides, and probably correctly) that reducing the ID requirements will primarily benefit the more urban Democratic Party, and that making the requirements more stringent will benefit the more rural Republican party.

Possibly motivated by self-interest, the result is that about half the population believes that requiring greater voter ID is "obviously" a good thing, and about half believes that it is equally "obviously" a bad thing. The side in favor ID expresses this with concerns about fraudulent voting, and the side against ID talks about disenfranchisement.
Use a mixer.
Looking back ~125 years, if you said to the average person that we could identify him decades later from an object he touched, before the idea of fingerprint identification was well known, it would have sounded ridiculous. These days, decades old murders are solved with DNA -- hypothetically needing nothing more than a single cell. In both examples, we assumed simply that the information (fingerprints or DNA) was preserved. The technology for cryonic retrieval might be very far off, and the economics might not make sense, but if the mental information was preserved, then a possibility exists.
Checked.

It knows my political affiliation, movies I like, music I listen to, kind of work I do, my financials, my weaknesses as a programmer, what clothes my kids wear, what books I read, what mobile apps I use and how often, videos I watch and who the fuck knows what else under the covers.

Disgusting. How does one run away from this?
Doesn't matter. In places like those the same people could simply fake vote with the perfect-counting machines. (Or the machines can be simply replaced with identical looking, but hacked ones.)
What it says for me, is 'No acitivity.'

And it's been saying that saying that since I clicked 'Activity controls' on the side there, and unticked every box.

I don't for a moment believe it's all Google has on me, but you don't have to live with it.
What is better for society: a warning that says something is toxic, or pretending that a poison is perfectly harmless?
In case anyone wants to disable tracking(?), this is the page you need I believe. https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols
Lambda Calculus – Step by Step
Google has a stronger privacy statement than any other public DNS provider and certainly better than your ISP’s. They provide DNS because a faster web is better for you and for Google.
Aside from having to use Google Apps for work, I do not use any Google services - that url you posted shows totally blank for me -, but I would be very surprised if Google uses their DNS to reconcile "passive" activity back to an individual user. that really seems quite over the line in terms of intrusiveness - is it confirmed they do do that with their DNS?

edit: to answer my own question, it looks like OP is misinformed, here is the (very explicit) privacy policy about their DNS service: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy

note that in the (wonderful) GDPR world, its very hard for Google to do a sleight of hand with this stuff and actually be doing anything mischievous.
Science. Fuck yeah.
According to the article, the vulcanism starts two hundred thousand years before the impact.
Yes.

There are work-arounds, sure. Maybe you could even build them into the submission process. But they should still be identified to begin with.
Microsoft and AWS don't seem to have any problems complying with the law
And what is the strongest possible interpretation? How are we supposed to follow that rule when it's subjective on what is strong and what is invalid reasoning?
I spend too much of my day looking at the LinkedIns and Instagrams of my friends and peers who are at "top companies".

1) They all have legitimate accomplishments. They have USAMO/USACO medals, chess trophies, ISEF distinctions, National Merit Scholarships, multiple research papers, etc. Because of this they are all interesting people and have significant pedigree, even if some of them went to similar schools as me.

2) Almost all of them seem to be very photogenic and have wide friend groups who do expensive activities with them (flying, skydiving, Europe trips, skiing, traveling to Thailand, flying to Colorado for the weekend to hike, etc). Even when they're not spending money they're still doing cool stuff, like going to expensive company events or traveling in business class to events.

3) Their friend groups are also accomplished, highly pedigreed individuals. Meanwhile I moved to a new city without knowing anyone now that my intern cohort moved to better and more impressive companies.

They all have the money to do anything they want without any real fear, whereas I do not. I don't have their wide friend groups at my company, and the lifestyles of the people at my company are decidedly "normal" because of my peers' advanced ages and differing priorities (many have kids and didn't go to elite schools).
Click 'activity controls', untick the boxes.
Courts Don’t Determine Scientific Facts
I think that used to simply get you a deportation. Now of course Trump et al. is incarcerating illegal border crossers.

See also:

For the first improper entry offense, the person can be fined (as a criminal or civil penalty), or imprisoned for up to six months, or both. This is considered a misdemeanor under federal law (18 U.S.C.A. § 3559).

For a subsequent offense, or a reentry (or attempted reentry) after exclusion or deportation, the person can be fined or imprisoned for up to two years, or both. (See 8 U.S.C. Section 1325, 1326, I.N.A. Section 275, 276.) This is considered a low-level felony under federal law (18 U.S.C.A. § 3559).
Highly Available DHCP Server on FreeBSD
A script for exporting all files included within a series of commits
134,742,054 BCE? I really underestimated the early hominid tech stack.
This is my job, I run my own startup (in profile)
There is generally a mitigating control for this by hand counting a small number of ballots and making sure the % numbers match up.
Google DNS is not used in any way to associate to your Google account. They say exactly everything they record and how it's stored and used.

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy
Is that mostly due to using their DNS? Anyone know of alternative services to use? Does google section off this data as not for use internally?

Crazy, interesting, and a little scary.
Why did GitLab go to Azure in the first place?
Once the pain of being who you are is greater than the pain of changing who you are, you can use that pain as a catalyst to kick start the process.

To keep that change it's all about habits and discipline but even then, you will have days where it will be hard and you will ask yourself if the change is worth it. When that happens you will need to have a strong reason, a reason that connects to the core of who you are.

You cannot hack the process of becoming someone different.
Any other form of ID?

Is there some sort of proactive movement that tries to make this a non-issue by making people get usable IDs?
Do you have to prove your name and address somehow? Or you have to simply say it and they see if it's on the list?
I have not read the journal paper yet but I have a concern: people saying they get angry frequently in a survey is not the same as people actually getting angry frequently.

What if those who overestimate how frequently they get angry also overestimate how smart/intelligent they are?

Studies from the lab (or using surveys) hide certain aspects of human behavior and so I feel a lot of research work (mostly in the wild) is needed before generalizing (even correlational conclusion such as this).
How about 99.99%? The Soviet Union managed that in 1984. If your elections aren't secret, you may as well not bother. And it's impossible to have secret electronic elections.

> The counterpoint of decentralization - there is a single point where final counts happen.

What voting system are you talking about?
Vote-buying is already criminalized under 18 U.S.C. § 597 [0]. Several states have similar laws [1].

Scenario A could still happen, but seeing as it's explicitly illegal, the likelihood of it causing widespread voter fraud is unlikely.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/597

[1] http://www.lrc.ky.gov/Statutes/statute.aspx?id=27347
I grow tired of "written in Go" or "written in Python". At least Rust means high performance and no GC.
How does authentication happen at registration time? Can people use a passport? Do they need something that has their address on it? What about homeless people?

I saw a post recently on Reddit claiming that a taxi (or uber or lyft or whatever) driver's car became a registration station. That doesn't seem to be too "secure".
Hot streaks in artistic, cultural, and scientific careers
Sure, started, but...

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6256/76

> The existing Deccan Traps magmatic system underwent a state shift approximately coincident with the Chicxulub impact and the terminal-Cretaceous mass extinctions, after which ~70% of the Traps' total volume was extruded in more massive and more episodic eruptions. Initiation of this new regime occurred within ~50,000 years of the impact, which is consistent with transient effects of impact-induced seismic energy.

Then there's the possibility of another impactor coincident in time to Chicxulub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_crater
What kind of ID homeless people can get then? Can they vote? Register to vote?
> And that’s exactly why the push for socialized healthcare scares so many Americans.

I don't understand that - why does it scare Americans that we do it cheaper despite having a more dispersed population?
> Most tailwheel airplanes can do wheel or 3-point (stall) landings.

Yes, but very few of them can touch town tailwheel-first.
No because it was also caused by an engineer, so this could lead to terrifying incentives.
Standups should be strongly limited in time. If you’ve got a big team, then each person has less time to summarize what they’re working on today and what blockers they may have.

For smaller teams, each person could have more time to talk in more depth about what they’ve done and what they’ve got planned, but that doesn’t scale well.

Ultimately, they are something you don’t appreciate until you don’t have them. Then all hell breaks loose, and people much further up the food chain start wondering why you and your team are still working there.
In prior TLS versions the server certificate is sent unencrypted. So a passive eavesdropper gets not just the name but a certificate for that name from the server. This is fixed in TLS 1.3
I work almost exclusively in embedded C and even I can’t agree with this. Just for starters, those two statements are not mutually exclusive.
I use Google GSuite for some of my email needs and to sync chrome.

I use a different Gmail account for maps.

I use DuckDuckGo for search.

Instead of Google I use third parties for everything else they do that they listed on here that they track.

My history/activity on their servers was limited outside of tracking my location.

I would love a decent alternative to Google Maps but nothing I’ve used comes close.
Not sure what apps you are talking about, but not many core apps have been rewritten in Swift.
AWS, as a system, allowed this. AWS, its employees, made such a mistake. Pretending processes somehow don't involve people blindsides us to obvious problems in real implementations.

Possible lessons: Why is it so easy/tempting/overlookable to misconfigure a bucket that an AWS employee could do it? What lessons can we learn from, for instance, Google Apps, where you don't usually misconfigure your file share? Upguard's conclusions are what you should be taking away, not "AWS buckets are fine from a tech standpoint".
After spending a few days in Santa Monica and using Birds, I mostly agree. Scooters can be used safely on sidewalks, but many people - probably most - don’t do that. They go as fast as they can.

The only thing close to a close call I had in three days was a kid running out from around the corner of a building. I was able to stop in time, but to be fair I was in a roadway, not on a sidewalk, and I had slowed because I saw a blind corner coming up. A bicycle or car would have had a harder time stopping than I did, for that matter.

I also got to see a guy clothesline himself on a tree limb in Westwood. That looked like it hurt.
I do know a lot about maps and I think many cartographers and "neogeographers" would agree that your characterization of "cartography" vs. "making infographics" is incorrect.

An infographic is simply a visualization of information. A simple bar chart -- with keys and labels -- is an infographic. Every map IS an infographic. If you are mentally separating them, I'd be curious what your criteria are.

Cartography is "making maps" -- that's essentially it. And of course, for most professional map-makers working beyond a local scale, you DO need to have a basic understanding of projections and both 2D and 3D space. "Mercator's the worst, your source data is frequently in some weird state-specific projection, etc."

But the software draws all the maps from data now, at least the base layers. Nobody is using a slide rule and pages of handwritten trigonometry calculations to draw maps with pen and paper. So I think the number of people working on "the serious study of mathematics... projections of different aspects," etc. is pretty small, just the programmers working on GIS implementations, or maybe figuring out new LIDAR scan precision algorithms, or publishing in geographic journals with new algorithms for storing geodata.

I'm certain that almost all of the cartographers I've met at GIS conferences -- the Google Earth/Maps team employees, even municipal GIS analysts who simply create purely informative and very plain maps of properties -- would agree that the maps in question are all aesthetically pleasing, informative, and successful examples of high-quality modern cartography.

(Check out Dr. John Snow's "infographic" -- interesting history!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outb... )
What if I don't believe them?
This is true of the examples of dynamic languages you have chosen.

It is not true of LuaJIT, which is as dynamic as languages get. Error detection and correctness, sure; raw performance is not the issue you've made it out to be.

Ruby and Python were fair choices, together they must have 10-50x the mindshare Lua does.
Secret DMV office near California Capitol serves lawmakers and their staff
The problem is that you can't know that for sure. Their public statements don't necessarily reflect their internal operations.
Mars has a lot of dust in the atmopshere, which makes Martian astronomy more difficult. The Spirit rover did manage to capture an image of a comet though. There's some more detail on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy_on_Mars#Comets_and_m...

If you're interested in the concept of "alien astronomy" from other planets, I've used these "planetarium" style tools to play around with what it'd look like:

Light: http://stellarium.org/
Medium: https://celestia.space/
Heavy: http://spaceengine.org/
At least software that ran in a text based terminal would customarily come with a manual.

Snap is a lot like that magic bag in Harry Potter that was bigger on the inside. You never knew what was in there till you stuck your hands in and hoped for the best.
Well then you don't believe them. But then whom do you believe would keep your DNS data private, and by what rationale do you find them more believable than Google?
> I don't get why people so dismissive about cryonics

Lack of proof combined with zealotry.

> The information is there, preserved

maybe. And even if it is there that's a far cry from retrieving it, further from re-uploading it into something capable of making sense of that information, further still from getting something that becomes self-aware (and won't go instantly insane), and further than that from bringing the whole thing back to life. It is about as far from reality as the afterlife as peddled by religion at this point, with the caveat that maybe one day it will be done. But I wouldn't hold my breath. (Pun intended...).

> Maybe it won't make economics sense to reconstruct the preserved minds.

But it makes good economics sense to offer this 'service' to people who are gullible and aware of Pascal's wager.

> But saying it's zero chance sounds very close to an argument for logical impossibility.

It is very close to zero. So close that we might as well consider it an impossibility. It falls right into the 'wouldn't it be nice if' category of wishes. See also: Theranos and other bs along those lines.

> Looking back ~125 years, if you said to the average person that we could identify him decades later from an object he touched, before the idea of fingerprint identification was well known, it would have sounded ridiculous.

1858 wants a word with you.

> And today we know that you can uniquely identify a person and construct a model of his face from the DNA in a single microscopic cell.

You are vastly over-selling the capabilities of the DNA facial reconstruction software as we have it today.

It accounts for some double digit amount of variation. Even so, that at least has a chance of happening once you have enough information to factor in the effect of nourishment and aging. But the chances of abuse and false positive are so large that the only place where you'll see it used is missing person cases and cold case revival, and that's a good thing imo.

> The info is there

Sure, but that 'mere matter of engineering' in the middle is where the problem lies and given the challenges in any of the sub-steps required to make this a reality it is SF at best in the present and a scam at worst.
Use 1.1.1.1. Cloudflare have committed to never store identifiable information for more than 24 hours and have committed to independent auditing of their privacy protection. It's three times faster than 8.8.8.8 and it supports DNS over HTTPS.

https://1.1.1.1/

https://www.dnsperf.com/#!dns-resolvers

My Google activity page shows a big fat "No Activity". I have no doubt that they have plenty of my personal data rattling around on various servers, but Google at least pay lip service to offering you control over your data. European data regulators would be extremely displeased if they learned that these controls don't actually do what they purport to do.

https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols
Ask HN: What's your philosophical stance on suicide?
This lists nothing for me except a couple of youtube videos I watched in 2014. Look like you made the wrong privacy settings, friend.
> the fundamental problem is a deep-seated cultural preference for boys

Not simply a cultural preference but a rational economic one as the odds a man will earn more than women has quite the better odds, and given their circumstances (and motivation to improve them) people are willing to compromise on the matter. Which is not simply the result of some conspiratorial patriarchal cultural phenomenon (although I'm sure that plays a role as it has elsewhere) but rather something amplified in developing countries where low tech labour and farm jobs are more common than knowledge/service work, favouring the physical attributes of men.
There is a practical aspect to building height. Berkeley is on an earthquake fault line, and buildings in the 6-15 storey range have a natural resonance that tends to match the frequency of earthquake waves.

I'm having difficulty finding references to this, so maybe it's not as big a deal as I thought?

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/hazards/earthquakes/...
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The problem with bombing a forest fire is that not all bombs that are dropped explode. So, instead of a fire that will eventually stop being a fire, you've got a fire and an unexploded bomb.
Validating our Values
By the Chinese government, yes. Not by everyone else. In truth, we will never really know how bad it was because China was closed off back then. First hand accounts only tell of absolute death and misery.