skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "The hilariousness of it," Donoughue added, "is that they restricted one of my member's accounts, and he's a Lord."

Maybe there's something about British class relations that I'm missing (I'm not British) -- can anyone explain why it's particularly hilarious or even unexpected that they would have restricted a "Lord"'s account, as opposed to anyone else's?

(Tangential question: does "Lord" here mean a member of the House of Lords? Or anyone with an aristocratic title? Or something else?)
Hard to imagine a reason we would screw something up so badly intentionally....
As I understand it, the first person had a harder time comprehending while sober, because of his regular pot consumption. Compared to how well he comprehended sober when he didn't regularly smoke. So both think pot affected their comprehension, although one feels more affected when high and the other one when sober.
Pretty sure this commit[1] is related to the fix. I'm guessing perhaps you could bypass the blacklist of configuration settings you cannot change via HTTP by adding whitespace to the key?

1. https://github.com/apache/couchdb/commit/2cec527cd183f8b247f...
We just got the acceptance and apology email. I’m not going to get upset about it. But I’ll float this idea, for anyone who didn’t get accepted, would you be interested in a discord/Slack/whatever and share feedback of each other’s progress?

The thing I will miss most is the weekly focus to deliver some progress. No reason that can’t happen in a non-official capacity.
DM me on Twitter if you’re interested:
https://twitter.com/Martin_Adams
> high-tier datacenters

How many people (even tech ops profesionals), these days, know how to tell the difference? Of those that do, how many don't just keep their mouth shut because their bosses don't want to hear it?

These details are just trusted to "the cloud", instead.

Of course, the airport itself isn't a datacenter of any tier, and that "last mile" can be the biggest redundancy challenge, anyway.
I just got the acceptance error email, I feel pretty let down.

I even woke up early (AEST) to check emails and was wonderfully surprised when I got the first email at 6.30am. Not a great start to the day.
Hi guys,

Most websites discussed on Hacker News or Reddit, have no link to the original post.

I made this for websites who want to show that people ARE talking about their pages.

(also this post will be embedded on the link above!)

Feedback appreciated,
Ben
You are correct that it is complicated and drawing firm conclusions is challenging. That doesn't mean we can't draw any conclusions ever.
It's also ignoring the fact that internet has gotten faster. Back in 2006 plenty of people were still on dial up, or low end DSL. Everything would have loaded in ~> 2 seconds for them.
I'm very sorry to say it is not a joke - it was a very serious mistake.
2018.34 a Quick One from Tyndrum – Weekly Changes in and Around Perl 6
but what good is a safe without a key. esp when the only way to open it is through the manufacturer
The only star that matters in terms of bending light affecting the measurement of parallax is our own Sun, and that's taken into account with modern survey missions (such as Hipparcos and GAIA).
It’s a poorly ignorantly written article from a non-tech point of view. Respectfully.
The thing is it is supposed to solicit insider information exactly like this. Potentially it incentivises people to change outcomes if the have the resources available, but at least we will all know in advance.
Has this been reported anywhere else? Seems fishy
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Uhh, no. Non-fps games.
They seem to imply otherwise on this page:

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT202303

EDIT: On a second reading it looks like there's a difference between the "on server" encrypted data and the "end to end" encrypted data. Backups are covered under the former but not the latter. Shame.
Linux: https://download.docker.com/linux/static/stable/x86_64/

Win: https://download.docker.com/win/static/stable/x86_64/

Mac: https://download.docker.com/mac/static/stable/x86_64/
Can anyone suggest a 4 GPU build for a non-GPU budget of USD 1500 to 2000 (i.e., not including the cost of the 4 GPUs, which will vary depending on which GPU is chosen)?

I will add to this the cost of 4 GPUs (like GTX 1080 Ti or higher).
Show HN: Tool for Discovery and Aggregation of Legal Notices in Source Code
What about a password reset to the mans non apple email address?
Whoops, clockify not clocker. http://clockify.me

It's buggy (components reloads on server response even if you're in the middle of updating something else) but it's a free toggl and works decently well.
I was like you and started keeping a clonazepam with me for situations where I might need it. Turned out to be the worst decision of my life. Pretty soon I was always carrying the pill with me. I felt safe having the pill with me even though I never used it. Pretty soon I couldn't go anywhere without the pill. In fact, my anxiety increased even more because I now had to make sure the pill was always with me. Activities such as white water rafting become impossible because the pill might get wet and dissolve.

My advice, be careful. For ten years I kept a pill with me and was limited on what I thought I could do. I finally got help and have been pill free for around 6 months now. Everyday is a exposure but man it feels great not having to worry about that dang pill. And once you learn to deal with anxiety, you will never feel better.

ps. You are not coping with anxiety.
Headlines false, I just did this a few days ago.
Thats an interesting ideological argument, whose practical effects would be negative. Vast majority of the high quality education software out there isn't open source.
How do you think being high affected your work?
To be clear, they provide access to the phone backup, but not the phone itself.

In most cases though, a phone backup is an identical substitute for the phone itself.
I literally gave you the other point of view in the exact format you presented your ideas. If you find that an unreasonable format (and you should), that's on you.

And related: the reason these people all hate aggressive drivers is because they are literally killing scores of people.
50 to 100 years is a very short time.

For millions of years, nothing had the capability to eat dead plant matter. See the carboniferous period.
For what it's worth, the Mastodon instance I'm on (and several others) bump the 5kchar limit to 65kchar and even 1Mchar.

I have legitimately seen 2MChar toots. They were automated, but gigantic Megachar toots.
Yes, FUBAR is an apt description....
FMI and S-functions: What’s the Difference?
I believe this is the case for unencrypted iCloud backups. If you put a password on your iCloud backup, I'm not sure they can do that (as then it becomes E_iCloud(E_yourPwd(backup)) - doesn't look like they could do much more here than recover the user-encrypted backup).

Anyone care to confirm?
Imagine a protocol for a download:

Required
1. Download finishes
2. Download fails

Optional
3. Download progress (for updating a progress bar)

This seems legit to me. Would one really want the added overhead of having to implement 3 as a separate protocol?
> - Why does stealing $7 three times get someone a life sentence, but stealing $7MM once get zero jail time?

It doesn't--stealing $7 isn't a felony, and no three-strikes state predicates a life sentence on three non-felonies.

But to address your general point: there are two different kinds of things. Criminal law isn't just about the effect, but the culpability of the offender. Is the offender a "bad person?" How bad is she? The outcome of killing a person can be anything from no crime at all to murder depending on the mental state of the person who did it--accidentally, recklessly, or intentionally.

"Stealing" is easy to prove and easy to understand as something intrinsically wrong, so we draw a harsh, bright-line rule against it. Financial "fraud," however, is much more complicated. With fraud, the actual transfer of money is voluntary. The crime instead relates to the circumstances surrounding the transfer. What representations were made, etc.? In this case, the $7 million was "excess fees." What exactly is "excess fees" and why are they such a clear violation of social norms that the person belongs in prison?

That's why we have civil actions. Civil actions address a broad range of conduct that we want to discourage, but which isn't so obviously intrinsically immoral that we want to send people to jail over it (even when they involve lot of money). As folks correctly point out below, the underlying conduct could support criminal prosecutions, which may still come. But the SEC's civil suit serves a different function.
Apple to Debut Low-Cost MacBook Air, Revamped Pro-Focused Mac Mini in 2018
I thought I'd scribble on the back of the envelope.

Henry Markram, a neuroscience person with a desire to emulate the human brain believes it takes 1 exaflop. It's a start.

Existing supercomputers reach 50 petaflops. 50 billion petaflops is 50 million exaflops.

Is this 50 million brain EM moments?

It's possible it was in the ballpark of a human brain emulation although I strongly suspect a fair comparison isn't easily comprehensible.

> I agree that there are alot of very subtle, but fundamental mistakes and omissions in both the design and combinations of current generation intelligence algorithms that are impeding a viable path toward general intelligence

I think that is true of specialized intelligence, and that zero progress of any sort has been made on AGI. I don't mind being wrong if you know of primitive examples that qualify.

It is unclear how to begin. Maybe rehearsing something like real biological evolution.

> , if all we care about is dramatically increasing the efficiency of solving problems humans care about, this totally isn't a problem, because we apparently don't need general intelligence to do that.

Daniel Dennett makes this point philosophically in a video I watched yesterday. Other people have made the observation that we're already surrounded by AGIs in the form human society based collective intelligences we know well.
Yeah, I got the same, I'm going to let things settle down over the next few hours and keep coding, I'm wondering if there is another rejection on its way. :)
...or the article is misleading
I'm still not sure that I was accepted, considering that I first got rejection letter, but I'm working on computer code generation using neural networks
To push the analogy, if you need a code to open your safe, but forgot to put the code in your will, is the manufacturer required to provide you a master key?
> but you and I, the readers, know he doesn't need to. He was tricked! and It was necessary! and all that.

That's the whole point. It's constructed this way to show that no matter how innocent circumstance make you, you are still guilty.

> Some deeds may never be good, but it sure looks from the story like what Ender does isn't one of them.

Did you read the second part? "Speaker for the dead"? Few hundreds years have passed and he's remembered by everyone as genocidal murderer of the past.

Maybe that's why for me "Ender's Game" means what it means, because I read it back to back with "Speaker for the dead".
How about we start our own accelerator by auditing their course? Nothing stops if we are motivated.
Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch at 500 fps
Got the same, was pretty upset after also sharing it with the team and with others...

Lame.

So what exactly is "audit track"?
Thanks for the suggestion, I've modified the graphic.
Let's get over Discord: https://discord.gg/36jp8H
I'm so sorry for the completely unnecessary emotional rollercoaster we sent you on. There's really no excuse.

Having said that, there's no reason why this should keep you from working on your company. I hope you'll decide to give it a shot anyway.
If any glimpse of success of that venture happens, soon to follow

* RaCoin

* BeamCoin

* BeaconCoin

* <insert ray synonym here>Coin
Surprised it wasn't mentioned in the video, but this is where the term 'parsec' come from. A parallax angle of 1 arc second means the object is 1 parsec away (3.26 light years).
Ack, I can't edit my post again. Good catch. I'll message a mod and see if they can update it.
Still bugged for me - the green and red turns take place on the same "turn" so I end up with green and red winning and it staying green wins - even though red went first.

This is what it looks like: https://vgy.me/wXP18k.gif
The deceased is expecting to make the necessary preparations before dying. Facebook has a system to let a user allow trusted user to takeover access, or let a user allow a group of friends to agree to takeover access; which both seem good methods of handling inheritance of account data.
A carbon tax only taxes one small part of the full environmental impact of a product.

A synthetic shirt might have less carbon impact than a cotton shirt, but its plastic waste may be poisoning the oceans.

Or, as a made up example, coconut fiber shirt may have environmentally friendly organic degradable waste and a low direct carbon impact, while the demand for coconut caused millions of acres of native forest to be burnt down and replanted with coconut trees. Or maybe it caused the diversion of rivers for irrigation endangering fish and other ecosystems that relied on the rivers. Or maybe the newly planted trees displace food crops, leading to food shortages.

There are a lot of environmental externalities that are hard to account for, and some may not be known for years.
Well, I got mine then requested to attend a lecture in person and after about 5 mins I get the email saying “nah nah” I was thinking I shouldn’t have asked to attend the lecture if they’d kick me out for that
https://get.docker.com
And yet, the page with this article takes about 4 seconds to stop loading. That's on a 8 core, 16GB RAM machine on a 400+Mbps connection.

If anything, the UX of computing devices has become objectively slower over the past decade as everything moved to the web / web frameworks.

Everything I touch has latency, latency, latency. The fastest gadget UI in my household is on the microwave from the 80's, which has two dials for UI and reacts instantly. Everything else takes its sweet time for every operation.

I even had to upgrade the firmware on a speaker to get acceptable amounts of out-of-sync (the firmware added >0.5 sec latency to aux in!).

Going back to webpages, I mostly avoid articles that can't be processed with Firefox's Reader View. Everything else is too slow -- and for no good reason.
It really really depends on the job. A call center job I had years ago was absolutely miserable as a 4 x 10 schedule. Another gig I had used the 9/80 schedule - 5 x 9 hour days, then 4 x 9 hour days, off a weekday every other week. (so every other weekend was a 3 day weekend.)

now I work in a completely different field (fire/EMS) and we have a 24 hour on/48 hour off rotation. 24 hours seems like an awfully long time, and if you're in a busy area, it can be, but for those 24 hours we live at the station.
You're right. That phrase is lame and in this context is salt in the wound.

People at YC are trying to come up with ways to make this at least partly better. If you have an idea, or anyone else has, this thread would be a good place to post it. Or email the team at startupschool@ycombinator.com.
As long as it isn't SNAFU (situation normal -- all fouled up), you should be okay.

Eventually.
I finished my undergrad in philosophy at a religious uni in the US about 20 years ago. We had a bit of Hume. The monks (most of the philosophy professors were monks) were more into ancient and medieval philosophers, with the exception of Nietzsche and Heidegger. One monk in particular loved teaching Nietzsche and Heidegger.

I would have preferred more Hume, as I later discovered.
> How else do you solve the problem of unwanted ideas spreading around?

Make the ideas illegal. Ban discussion or propagation of the ideas, including written materials. Set up a strong system of censorship to ensure that people don't try to use irony, innuendo, or sarcasm to evade the information blockade. Ensure that cross-border communication is intercepted and inspected for illegal ideas. If someone is reported for spreading the ideas, search their home and confiscate the illegal materials. Send repeat offenders to prison. Put the creators of the material in prison. Tightly control any and all devices that could be used to spread the information.

(For the record, any country that has come close to achieving this has become a totalitarian state.)
I agree. I am just trying to provide evidence of Apple being misleading about this issue.
Please take a look here: https://store.docker.com/editions/community/docker-ce-deskto...

It does in fact ask the user to login before giving them a download link. The files themselves don't appear to behind a login-wall since people are posting them far and wide. But the website very much implies that you need to register.
A monopoly on violence, not guns. The U.S. constitution does not empower you to incarcerate your neighbor.
Here's a great blog on the subject: What is Idempotence?
https://www.sendthemtomir.com/blog/what-is-idempotence
As long as you a) have experience being stoned in public, and b) don't smell like burnt flower, it's not too difficult to fly under the radar. Just try not to talk with people, however if you do, I've learned that overloading a person's mind distracts them enough to not pay attention to your slightly glassy eyes. Basically: do your job and ask them to do theirs.
/r/oopsdidntmeantodidntmeantooops
"Accurate to within 100 light years" isn't really a meaningful statement. The page you linked to is a simplified explanation that says the method is only accurate enough to be used for stars within 100 light-years of Earth, which is approximately true. We have measurements of more distant stars, but they become increasingly inaccurate with distance.

To be more precise, the relative error of a parallax distance measurement is proportional to both the measurement error and the distance. For example, the Hipparcos mission measured parallax with an accuract of roughly 0.001 arc-seconds. That corresponds to a 0.1% error at a distance of 1pc (~3 ly), or 1% error at a distance of 10pc, or 10% error at a distance of 100pc, and so on.

Note also that the page you linked was written sometime around 2002; since then, more sensitive measurements have been done, e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0484v1
Great to hear that. It might help them personally, but after confession and penance, are the sins of killing people absolved? Or just accepted?
In horrific detail, women accuse U.S. customs officers of invasive body searches
My cofounder and I were cheers-ing about our acceptance an hour ago and now we're texting about this y-combinator screw-up--we're not accepted after all!

For all the other founders and teams who had that momentary confidence of outside reenforcement -- remember how unstoppable and brave you felt in that moment! That glow doesn't have to go away with a retraction email. Hold onto the feeling. Go make great things, go make a difference.

I became a developer after spending odd hours trolling Hnews and finding learn to code tutorials; I watched all of the previous Startup School videos on my own time; and despite the discord that can sometimes occur on this platform, I really looked up to Ycombinator.

While this is a feelings setback, I'd like to just say -- I wouldn't be where I am in my career without the Hacker News community that got my started on my way. So I think what I'd like to focus on tonight (while I nurse my hurt pride) is thanking everyone here who comments and submits links and reaches out and spreads the openness and community that drew me to software in the first place.

People who run things will make lots of mistakes; communities will make lots of mistakes, too; but if we just keep talking, we'll stay moving in the right direction.

Thanks to all the Ycombinator commenters here responding to the very justified hurt and embarrassment being shared here. Cheers to a tomorrow full of possibilities.
I'm very sorry to say that the second email was correct. But you can email us at startupschool@ycombinator.com to confirm.
First product will launch in October (Nexves dot com) would appreciate any comments Jared.

Got ~1,000 users desperate to test the beta and a very compelling reason 100k will migrate in the first 12 months.

Startup School would of been external gratification of what we know is an awesome idea.

We’ll deliver.
The black market rate is the floating exchange rate. There isn't really much of an actual non-floating exchange going on.
Forced black market trading makes the currency less valuable.
I think a more appropriate analogy is that this is like a safe deposit box. You lost the key. The bank is obligated to help you out, even if for a fee to drill the lock.
I've wondered about this. How much is a full-sized CO2 canister, and is it "food-grade" or whatever is required? I realize it might seem silly to ask since it's supposed to just be carbon dioxide, but my understanding is that some canisters (like helium) are not very pure.
Its like the secret everyone knows, but nobody wants to do anything about unless they get caught. Even then when they get caught the worst punishment they will get is a days profit MAYBE. Its easier to pay a $100 million fine every 10 years than to have to pay reasonable wages.
Why not store the CO2 in limestone and build ultra-durable buildings with it (eg, the Egyptian/Mayan pyramids) instead?
I'm not actually into building an accelerator, YC does a great job, but I sure think we could teach each other something and get to know our own projects.

I put up a Discord Server, if anyone wants to talk and support each other: https://discord.gg/36jp8H
> Rothenberg’s staff included frat brothers from Stanford, and he was known for buying luxury boxes at concerts and high-profile sporting events, sponsoring auto racing, supplying virtual-reality headsets at parties he threw for minor celebrities, organizing puppy-petting parties, even renting out San Francisco’s AT&T Park, where the Giants play.

How much do puppy-petting parties cost?
Thats rather interesting, because the effect profile of clonazepam is that it takes longer to come into effect, and is longer lasting than, say, alprazolam, so I'd imagine it'd be worse for short-term treatment.
Fortunately whole theoretical debate was stupid because torture doesn't work as information extraction tool.
oh well yea, you've got a point there.
Are Carbon taxes really effective? Democrats get in, carbon taxes come with them. Republicans get in, carbon taxes leave with the democrats. I don't think taxes will ever solve this unless both sides see the issue.
You're trying to solve an unsolvable problem, based on an inaccurate premise. Social cohesion in any nation-sized group is temporary at best. The notion of a permanently cohesive society is terrifying, as it implies the end of independent thought and the elimination of organized dissent.

Conflict is an inevitable part of the human condition. Anyone who tries to "solve" human nature inevitably ends up creating a nightmare society.
I felt really downbeat for a while after getting that redaction email.

This comment picked me right back up. Thank you.
If it's data size in GPU RAM you are concerned about, couldn't you store fp16 and cast into fp32 just in the kernel? In OpenCL, you would do this with vload_halfN and vstore_halfN to convert during load and store.

You won't get double throughput compared to fp32, but you shouldn't fall back to some terribly slow path either.