skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In summary, because we think we're special. Which brings to mind my long-running thought experiment: what if we're no more special on a larger scale than our own stomach floral are on our scale? Maybe there's no one else out there because we're the special oil-eating bacteria, only instead of oil we eat carbon and oxygen, turning it to "harmless CO2". Then, like many bacteria, we consume all of the carbon and oxygen and die off.

Or maybe it's just the vast distances involved and some harsh physical reality. Warp drives, FTL, even approaching the speed of light, perhaps it's been tried repeatedly on one of those planets that's billions of years older than ours. And after billions of years and the best minds of planet Argwagh toiling away, turns out that c is the universe's speed limit...period. And when asked, "who wants to spend the remainder of their life in a tin can for the cause? And to doom your descendants to the same fate?", not a single hand went up.
Sally Weber and holographic light: Art in a state of constant flux
Same. What forced me back to using ed, ex and vi was the then-design of unix: if you were in the middle of recovering a truly borked server then only the static binaries were available.
It remembers me a book: The Best Enemy Money Can Buy, by Antony C. Sutton.
Humans will be fine. Dumb humans on the other hand...
I love this series! I might have to learn R just to use rayshader.
Hacker news has been overtaken by evil insect-like people that hate freedom, and goodness itself.
Ajit Pai admits FCC lied about “DDoS,” blames it on Obama administration
> There's yet a further subdivision to be made too, as there's getting a murder off the street (justice),

The standard term for that is “incapacitation”; “justice” is more ambiguous.

> stopping more murders (prevention).

“prevention” is usually broken down into “incapacitation” and “deterrence”.
It's important to remember history a bit. Google left China[0] after it was hacked as part of Operation Aurora[1]. It had been serving a censored version of Google Search from 2006-2010.

[0] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-approach-to-chin...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora
> Any state with a wide margin of victory for either party effectively neutralizes the power of an individuals' vote. For presidential elections specifically, I live in a very blue state. No matter what my vote.

The presidential election is less important than your local elections. I live in a very blue state as well and nearly every year, our state supports the Democratic candidate. However, the majority of the local and state governments have had equal representation over the years, including electing several independent candidates. THOSE elections have far more impact on my day-to-day life then who's president for a few years.

If you want to make a difference you can. If you feel like your vote doesn't count, then I would refer you to the time when Jesse Ventura ran as an independent candidate in Minnesota. The Republican candidate in one of the debates said, "If you vote for Jesse Ventura, then you're wasting your vote" You know who won the Governor's race that year? The guy who was told if you voted for him, your vote didn't matter.
AlibabaGroup #newretail grocery concept, Hema
I think you misread the question, which could perhaps be more clearly phrased as "What’s worse to suck into a jet engine - a bird or a bird-scaring drone?"
That's really great to hear!
There's a huge list of explanations on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Hypothetical_exp...
Does this happen prior to netfilter? If not,

iptables -t raw -I PREROUTING -f -j DROP
For the time being GDPR is quite a joke. The guys that actually did planet-scale tracking never stopped and the little guys that did nothing wrong posted obnoxious notices on their sites. If I had to guess, it will take at least a decade to get things moving.
I think the parent meant: What's worse to suck into a jet engine -- a bird or a bird scaring drone?
Sure, centralized services are popular, but there's nothing unrealistic about decentralized/federated ones, it's not a pipe dream like the blockchain craze. The main difference in end-user convenience is the difference between "@username" and "@username:server.net".
Quiet you. If we don't constantly overengineer solutions to simple problems a lot of our industry will be out of a job.
> If there is one thing I fail to understand it is the impulse to electronic-ify our elections.

Not that I'm disagreeing with you, but why would you expect anything different? As a layperson, why would I treat computerized voting any differently than online shopping or ordering an Uber or something like that?

The software engineering community deserves more blame for this type of thing. It's unreasonable to expect laypeople to be experts on every technology they use, and this crappy voting system didn't exactly write itself.
Same, I started looking into WASM yesterday, and was disappointed to find out you can't do DOM manipulation as that was my use case.

From my brief research https://github.com/WebAssembly/host-bindings is the repository to watch for progress.
Diebold salespeople.
I've had a similar experience with most of my grandparents, they suffered unnecessarily while we were unable to do anything. One grandmother died peacefully only because she had Alzheimer and she was out of touch, but the early period of Alzheimer was unbelievably degrading to her and to our memory of her. Why would anyone want to go through that?
Looks cool - Considering your data-analysis focus, will you be adding: SQL language interop, Postgres data source component/nodes for functions(critical for me)/ views /tables? Would then become much more interesting.
The US prison system is fantastic at one thing: teaching anyone who goes in how to be a criminal. You dehumanize people, pack them in tight, 2-to-a-cell in solitary confinement, and force them to fight each other to survive. They gang up for self defense, fall into negative paths and those follow them outside. They can't get jobs outside because nobody in the US will hire a criminal. Now they have no money, nowhere to live, no support system, no healthcare (because God forbid) and no way to make a living. They didn't learn to survive outside, they commit crimes and they're back in. 75% recidivism [1] seems almost low for such a process doesn't it? At least inside they get food, housing, healthcare and work - talk about socialism.

Which other societies can you point to that don't have prison systems that focus on rehabilitation? Do you have data that shows their recidivism rates are lower?

People don't want to be criminals, they want to live, but they don't all know how.

Clearly the system you advocate is an abject failure at preventing crime, maybe it's time to open yourself up to new processes? It literally can't get much worse.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/why-norways-prison-system-is...
The bigger the county, the tougher the job. That's why I'm saying this is so difficult; for a realistic hack you'd want to change as few votes as possible. If you really could predict the whole election in advance, you could pick and choose small counties with defeatable systems.

Targeting big cities solves the prediction problem, but makes your hack infeasible. Phoenix is in Maricopa County, which used two different types of voting machines in 2016. One of them is a paper ballot optical scanner, which prints out a paper tally at the end of the day. So you'd need to hack hundreds of these airgapped machines, and predict the results well enough to not trigger a recount with your changes, since there are paper ballots to compare against. I think this is just as impossible as choosing key counties in advance.
What's the advantage over just using ublock everywhere? Why go to all this effort and include another point of failure in your network when you can just install an extension?
http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/4/20/how-twitter-handle...

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/4/9/the-instagram-archi...
Four Cognitive Mistakes About Blockchain
Times were different during WW2. No stone, no matter how wacky, was left un-turned in the search for victory. They thought about building an aircraft carrier out of ice. They paid a bunch of academics to figure out if it was possible to make big explosions by splitting atoms (spoiler: it works very well). It should come as no surprise that they investigated releasing a bunch of explosive bats on the enemy. "Look what wacky thing was done because there was a slim chance it might somehow lead to victory" is a low effort (if interesting) article.
What I Learned from Gods Who Don't Exist
Sorry, I should clarify: Hansen's paper indicated that burning all fossil fuels would create a 16 degree C warming, which would definitely be the end of the line for us, for reasons of heatstroke if nothing else, but in the same paper he does say that the temperature can't go up to Venus levels. So nature would eventually recover.
I think the difference in intent and purpose between PYMK Inspector and Edge/Chrome is pretty obvious.
Baidu is many times more popular in China,makes little difference to mainland chinese people.
> you're giving them crap for it

Wait , what ? My comment started by "Thanks" that's a weird interpretation really...

If you have 1000 companies following the course that's like 10% chance of getting funding, regardless of whether or not there is an equity that's the point.
I use digitalocean's DNS and had no problems getting wildcard certs. It's a bit annoying to wait for the updated records to resolve but other than that I had no issues.
I believe that the difference is meaningful. Neglect is a very specific type of abuse.

Physical, emotional and sexual abuse are all very different from neglect. All forms of abuse are different in terms of the psychological effects on the abused, societal reactions to both parties, motivation on the part of the abuser and much more.
> "On Jun 31st,"

As said in Raiders Of The Lost Ark, bad dates.
> No voting system can accurately register the vote of an individual

What do you mean by this? Do voting machines have an error rate? I would assume the county would be notified and these ballots counted by hand during a recount (which is what happened in 2000).

I think 2000 was contentious because the Florida AG stopped the recount as Gore's numbers were steadily improving and threatening to overtake Bush's.
Programatic identification and comprehension of morality in software applications is a fascinating area!
I am surprised by how many times the first hit of my google query is a stackoverflow answer which has been closed due to being “off topic”, “not constructive” or whatever. I’m not sure how they benefit by being so active with their topic policing.
I initially read that as "Voat to be used in West Virginia elections" and became immediately alarmed. Always google your company name first folks.
The VLM doesn't have a native (to Alpha) compiler.
Musk's entire compensation package is tied directly to stock performance targets in the form of market value. Saying that the stock price does not financially impact (positive or negative) Musk is flat out incorrect.
Securing Yourself at DEFCON 26
It is not obvious to me that a bird will flee from anything that approaches it, regardless of past experience, simply "because he's a bird". See above about city pigeons. Or aggressive geese at the park. Or birds that get sucked into jet engines because they apparently don't consider a jumbo jet to be an obstacle worth avoiding, hence this conversation.
> This crappy voting system didn't write itself.

One of the downsides of programming being easily accessible and easy to get a job in is that there is no required standards body to write code. There's no way to fix this. The best you can do is refuse to hire people that worked on these or similar systems, and I'm sure they will find jobs somewhere within the government-contractor software engineering space.
Only a "concern"? This "concern" seems rather definitive and is on official letterhead.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkAo-sWUwAAmZa7.jpg
That much you cannot rely on.
There has been a big push, I've noticed, towards excessive generalization. We aren't special, life is generalised. This seems to have appeared as a pushback against the thought that we are somehow special, but it has imo gone too far. The fact is, we're attempting to quantize extremely unknown unknowns, and to claim that we're not special because we can conceive of other life that is essentially equivalent to us is to make a huge set of assumptions regarding the plausibility of said life. Let the argument that exponential societal/technological growth goes on forever be a warning that over-generalisation is sensationalism!
I like mapping jk to ESC for vim/evil-mode, then swapping caps lock and CTRL for the comfy tmux and readline ergonomics. (I've tried readline's vi mode, but I didn't like it.)
That's like trying to solve global warming by telling everyone to be more efficient. Good luck with that.
I don't find it odd or wrong that companies are abiding to the law when they offer services within a certain jurisdiction.

Google pulled out because of hacking and attacks against their services, if I remember correctly.
I think there are a lot more Chinese on HN now then 2010. Also, it is increasingly clear that any action to get China to open up and liberalize more can’t come from the private sector due to a successful policy of economic engagement (and some say entrapment) by the Chinese.
I was referring to the quasi-apocalyptic belief that was popular after the Iraq War (oil was on the verge of running out, leading to resource wars and societal collapse). The Oil Drum was a good example of this[1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20060110135409/http://www.theoil...
Or maybe the drone could be equipped to zap birds with some small electrical charge. They'd learn the lesson quickly
I'm immediately mistrustful of anyone who wants to electronic-ify our elections. No sensible person with even a cursory knowledge of how bad the state of computer security is could recommend this.
Anonymous vows to take down Q
> what if we're no more special on a larger scale than our own stomach floral are on our scale?

I mean, this is kind of true already, although not exactly in that sense. Companies are essentially meta-entities made of humans, making their own decisions in the same way that humans are meta-entities made of cells, making decisions independent of any of those cells.
The gov't already has monopolies on force and law. And we can use law to limit the gov't's collection of data as well. The power to vote may not feel like much, but it's quite a lot more power than most people have over private companies.
I guess I was surprised when there was a huge chorus of "no one is saying the vote was compromised" the day after the '16 election.

I would have thought that the way there election went down with multiple narrow state wins just above the recount level would have had at least some people wanting to take a second look.
> The expert responsible for the effective WannaCry, Marcus Hutchins, was arrested last year by the FBI on six charges for conspiracy.

This makes is sound like Marcus Hutchins was responsible for WannaCry, which is incorrect.
Thanks for the info, I didn't know about FAIR or that pytorch came from facebook research.
There's a persistent bug with my Pi-Hole where every time it's active it causes my wife complains that several of the websites she wants to visit are unusable. :-D
> If we humans are now on the cusp of colonizing our solar system

We're not. And we may never be, let alone able to travel through space continuously while somehow maintaining generation after generation of life using a finite amount of resources that could travel with us. The paradox assumes so many things that are far from a given, to me it's confusing why such a great thinker couldn't see his own fallacious thinking. Maybe there is a ton of intelligent life out there that can barely get to the moon once or twice before giving up forever. That intelligent life would be like us, possibly dreaming of colonizing the next planet over while destroying itself. We could not, with current technology, possibly detect such life. We can barely detect earth like planets as is. The assumptions Fermi makes are simply too great for this idea to be compelling.
> the memory inside of a WebAssembly module can still be corrupted, specially if it was compiled from any language without bounds checking enabled.

it can be, but there are large classes of security issues that aren't possible like they usually are with those languages. eg it's not possible to jump to arbitrary locations, you can't write to executable memory, etc.

https://webassembly.org/docs/security/
Logitech gets into the wireless charging game
I might switch back to Vim
Making it illegal still reduces it.
Anyone have an opinion if this curriculum would be useful for people currently working at a startup or wanting to do intrapreneurship?
Great, so let's call it a day then, no need to try. This is fine.
Boeing and other traditional high-skill/tech manufacturers have been giving away their to China technology for years.

CEOs/Boards/State don't care though, its all about next quarter's numbers.
It doesn't matter. Any of them.
Uh. That does seem bad.
There are multiple GPS, you need to jam all of them.
Yes, of course. And you should start your research into health and sugar here: https://www.kelloggs.com/en_US/nutrition/putting-sugar-in-pe...

And if you want to learn about the health benefits of magnetic jewelry, go here: https://www.overstock.com/guides/magnetic-bracelets-benefits...

If you want unbiased research, always trust the information provided by those who stand to gain financially from only one side of the issue.
Isn't that better than generating useless data?
A Jewish bagel weighs about three times as much as a non-Jewish bagel, and is about three times as dense. It doesn't have the airy, bread-like consistency that a non-Jewish bagel has. As my Jewish friends like to say (paraphrasing), "If I can throw it at your head and risk knocking you out, then it's a Jewish bagel."
> You do realize that 420 is the police code for Marijuana, right?

It's not...

https://mentalfloss.com/article/62749/what-meaning-behind-42...

From the article

> You may have heard that 420 is police code for possession, or maybe it’s the penal code for marijuana use. Both are false.
Are these problems documented somewhere? I must admit I'm part of the general public that is not familiar with this.
StackOverflow New Code of Conduct
>without a massive social engineering conspiracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...
Do cofounders often have a chaotic relationship secretly, or is it mostly positive?

It’s always positive outwardly, of course, but I’m asking about the side that people rarely see. It’s hard to know what’s normal and what’s not. And that’s a problem when you’re trying to evaluate whether someone is a good fit as a cofounder.

Consider Jamie and Adam from mythbusters. They can’t stand each other. But when they work together, things get done. Are most cofounders like that, or is that the exception rather than the rule?
I looked at your other replies. You consistently reassert your initial claim without evidence. When presented with evidence, you re-assert your claims, again without evidence.

You even go so far as blaming others as being intolerant when they challenge you with evidence.

All of this makes you seem like a bad actor to me -- someone either utterly obtuse or willfully trying to undermine everyone else's very ability to have a meaningful conversation.
Besides the pain of when there is a major os upgrade.. I love my mackintosh.
weekly hackintosh post, we've been expecting you!
I'm still using the tower version of Mac Pro with High Sierra and it rocks. I upgraded RAM to 32 GB and the Xeon processors handle everything I throw at them. Opening it and changing drives is a pure pleasure. I really, really don't understand why Apple gave up on these towers and came up with something as inflexible as the current design.
Meta: Who in HN is pushing this story down? It currently has 3x the points as the "Facebook Field Guide to ML" story, currently at #1. They were published around the same time and this currently is at #6.
It seems like what you need is not a DL model, but something like HTM implementation: https://numenta.com/neuroscience-research/research-publicati...
I maintained one for a couple of years. I had a troubling configuration to support (RAID 1 for system partition, no Windows). Every time I updated (minor macOS releases), it was a nail-biting experience, and sometimes it would take me hours to recover. The forums (tonymacx86) weren't much help, even though my hardware was supported (according to them). Overall, it was a frustrating and not that rewarding experience. Lightroom is actually faster on my 2013 Pro, even though the video card I used in the hackintosh was way more powerful, so I literally do not miss anything from those 2 years.
I really don't get it.

The biggest appeal of Apple is their wonderful hardware. I dislike MacOS and it has been worse over the last years.

It seems to me that a Hackintosh is the worst of both worlds. If you spend that much time hacking around the hardware anyways, why not use Linux ?
This statement is delusional in the context of Google offering a censored search product. People in China who mind will leave China, most don't mind according to Confucianism values, this policy is not going to change because nerds in North America disagree with it, and neither is Google.
Boeing doesn’t sell tech to China. They sell them planes, spare parts, they even put a finishing center in China, but no IP transfer.

McDonal Douglas did sell MD80 machining tools to China, which is what the 909 is based on. However, this is only for the body, the other stuff (avionics, jet engines) are being imported.
Hello, sorry to interrupt the conversation. I am Alireza. I am the founder of Picovoice (maker of Cheetah).

Thanks for mentioning the quote I heard it from few friends who used to work in Nuance. But didn't know where it came from originally.

We have a very small engineering team who deeply understands machine learning and (embedded) software. I have invented/co-invented few US patents in speech processing/recognition prior to Picovoice. But have no academic background in linguistics. Having worked with computational linguists, they are definitely a solid plus to the team when their skill set is utilized correctly. I appreciate your question and curiosity. We hopefully will provide more information about the team on our website soon. Thank you.
Couldn't help but notice the irony behind this post in your "Previous Posts" section: https://martinhering.me/post/0/everything-thats-wrong-with-h...

Also, I've always been curious what the process for upgrading to new OS versions on a Hackintosh is like. Is it expected that once you get the machine in a working state, you are better off not to touch it?
So does China! 99.93% conviction rate last year. That's 3 nines! Stellar, those police get it right basically all the time! [1] Hong Kong OTOH is between 53.9% and 79% [2]. Sad.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/03/1...

[2] http://www.hk-lawyer.org/content/conviction-rates
Mercury Vapor was widely used from the early 50's to the mid-70's/early 80's
This cannot be overstated. Also, we are treating this planet like we've got options elsewhere. This is setting people up for a rude awakening, whenever that may be down the line.
And the friend of your customer's wallet.

Trade-offs are everywhere.
Chainsaws are also effective.
I feel like the post didn't really give me any reasons why I should build a Hackintosh. Also, I wish they went more into their Hackintosh build and not what they want from a mac.