skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also a regular listener to ACW. Where is it covered that they use machine learning?

According to the latest podcast, which goes into this topic in detail, they don't use machine learning at all (but would like to try it): https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1205801/south-korean...

Instead, they're finding missile sites by manually tracking information leaks in various places. E.g. that podcast discusses how they found a secret South Korean site partially from publicly available images (it had a really distinctive design), and from things like browsing the LinkedIn profiles of people known to work there, which would mention that they worked in some nearby town or county.
I know. But programming languages usually don’t have the modulo relation but a modulo operator that sends each number to a special representative of its equivalence class. For positive numbers, everyone agrees that this should be the smallest nonnegative number (i.e. the representative between 0 and n – 1). However, there are two conventions for the representative of a negative number: Some programming languages return the largest nonpositive number (the article calls this the remainder), others return the smallest nonnegative number in this case as well (the article calls this the modulus). I chose to write mod and rem instead of % to be able to make this distinction.
It's tangential here, but, seriously, let me ask:

For those of us here with > 15 years in the business, when's the last time you really felt a BIG uptick in performance or responsiveness from a new computer upgrade?

I buy a new laptop every 3-4 years, and I buy a nice one, but generally speaking I feel like we've been kind of flat in terms of usable power for a while. 6 or 8 years ago I switched to an SSD, and THAT was a big deal -- easily the most dramatic uptick in performance since I moved from an AT clone to a 386 in 1991. But since then? Not so much.

My laptop is smaller. It runs longer on the battery, and is generally cooler. The screen is better. But in terms of how long it takes to boot, or open large data sets, or whatever? Not so much different than 5 years ago.
well if you don't know anything abut china but its language (which is already a start) then yeah you 're not chinese to someone who lived all his life in china. you are an american.
O and the sales culture regarding donations is quite distasteful.
1960s Technology: The IBM 029 Card Punch
I can agree firsthand, people think a site, any site, is safe because of the padlock...
:facepalm:
> failed career as a race car driver

Unless I'm misreading, he placed first-in-class at Le Mans a few years ago. SUre, his racing career never _took off_, but I wouldn't call that any sort of failure.
I found the troubleshooting section really helpful, especially the part about exposing a single entry when linking with Alexa. Once I did that I successfully linked the two.
That's exactly it

slow (3), medium (5), fast (7), elite (Threadripper)

If you don't want to spend more than USD$800 on the CPU alone, don't look at the elite/threadripper line.

What is your budget? That is the first question you need to answer instead of trying to understand the entire line of chips, look at how much you have to spend, and then find the fastest one within the budget.

It's useless to try to think about the entire line of CPU's when you will only buy 1 chip (unless you are representing Dell and need to buy thousands of chips)
Absolutely. Speaking with only the knowledge I’ve gained from working at a department that deals with blood banking for a well known university I’d say a lot of outcomes have to do with agendas. No system is perfect and you’re right- there has been a lot of good. My fear is that more “credible” research will be done to “prove” that patients need more medication. I’m not saying don’t take meds if you need them but in many cases they are not needed and can actually be really harmful. All I’m saying is that it can improve life for some it can also reduce quality of life for others.
Will Google be pushing out a fix for this vulnerability?
Same, I had bad experiences with the early Athlons and bought Intels after that, never had any stability problems. But now I'm seeing douchey behaviour from both Intel and nVidia. I've been a big fanboy because of the performance, but the business practises are becoming polarising, and AMD seems to have caught up or surpassed in performance terms. Plus, they handled the vulnerabilities disclosure much better (even a smug 'AMD processors are not affected' on more than one).

I always used to root for Intel because AMD made their entire business model off copying (later licensing) Intel's x86 designs (including the model numbers), but that's becoming a lot less relevant now.

I upgraded my desktop's Geforce 550Ti with a Radeon HD 7850, and though it's gotten off to a slightly rocky start (Windows logins are noticeably slower, seems to be a known issue), performance is great, benchmarks showing it on par with the 970m in my laptop. When the Haswell i7 needs to be upgraded, I may start looking at a Ryzen. Never thought I'd see the day.
Compared to some of the Adobe products I have to use, 500MB would be a dream.

There was a time when I couldn't have two Adobe products like Photoshop and Illustrator open at the same time. They would just continue to hoard resources until my machine locked up and I had to reboot.

Even today I have a fairly robust system (i7 processor, 16GB of RAM and a 3GB Video card) and running multiple programs still makes all my fans kick in and start whining at me.
We're working with Amazon support in trying to pin down why this is happening but the support response time is slow. Our end looks all fine and the majority of people are able to link their account.

You can try some of these troubleshooting steps[1]. If you are on Twitter or Discord, PM me (@balloob) your username and an exact timestamp that linking failed so I can forward it as another example to Amazon.

[1]: https://twitter.com/clstokes/status/1019039457339535360
Based on this datapoint? I don't think so. They're vulnerable to other side-channel attacks.

Both AMD and Intel hire really smart people, but this stuff is really, really hard.
"If you don’t, or can’t handle reading things typeset in LaTeX"
i.e., if you don't like beautifully typeset mathematics and would rather read tweets with emojis in them.
Yep fully agreed - eager to see where they go - mass adoption is huge but I think because their platform targets newb and prosumer audiences it'll be easier. Also, the website does a good job at showing features - some competitors out there are NOT doing this enough. Privacy aspect + edge vs cloud is what triggered me to get it :P
1. It is not a matter of "need", rather a matter of comfort and practicality. (I leave in mountains).

2. I do have half a dozen different types of shoes (something like 1 or 2 pairs of army boots, 1 for cycling, 1 for MB-hiking-gardening, 1 for gardening, 1 pair of tennis shoes to wander in and around the house, and probably 1 old worn spare one I forget about). It doesn't mean I buy them all every year. I haven't bought any in 2017 or 2018. The army boots are 5 to 10 years old, same for the hiking shoes I use for mountain-biking (4 years old?) and gardening (15 years old?), since I cannot really hike any more. The tennis/cycling shoes are dying but they were already dying last year and in fact they are still good enough :-) So I probably buy only 1, perhaps 2 pairs, in an average year.
Where do you buy your sensors, and which ones do you use? Sounds like they are all over the place so they need power and wireless (or a lot of cabling....)
Regarding the tag line:

https://goodwillsp.wordpress.com/donate-to-goodwill/

Seems there are variations based on region.
> It's a really sad thing you're being downvoted, as I made a similar comment about a year ago [1] in defense of WikiLeaks to over 30 upvotes. HN seems to be getting more and more active with their downvotes towards information that doesn't fit their current perspective.

> [1] = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13816762

I don't see myself as a defender of WikiLeaks. It is, for example, hard not to admit that the Democratic National Committee email leak and the exchange between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks (at least to me) has some kind of "smell" [2].

My argument rather is:

a) the position of WikiLeaks (if there exists one) is far more confusing and sometimes self-contradictory than it looks on the surface (in this sense, I am both somewhat sceptical of the "WikiLeaks defenders" and the "WikiLekas prosecutors").

b) do not trust any side as "authoritative". Consider multiple different sources - in particular the ones that do not agree with your personal opinion - and conceive an opinion on the whole story.

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-sec...
I'd rather be a replacable cog than a crucial lynchpin. I prefer to look at my job in the same way. It's much less stressful that way.
I am not with the company anymore but I think the quote originated from a VC who made this analogy during a pitch and the founder liked it so much that it was used it most of the pitches from that point on. Of all the places I would have never thought I would get much critique on it on HN but I absolutely agree that it is lacking clarity.
First, I wanted to say I really enjoy Home Assistant!

I was wondering, how has development been since you have been with Ubiquiti?
Yeah curious to know too if Home Assistant is compatible with snips.ai? They're also heavy on privacy and essentially developed from the ground up with privacy being built into it BY design
For those who don't want to go all in on home automation, you can buy solar timers for your lights that have an on off button, but also accept your lat long as a parameter and contain a solar calendar internally; they will turn your lights on and off automatically around dawn and dusk (and variations of).
and @fabaff (Fabian Affolter)

I'm like 80% sure that guy never sleeps...
ʻOumuamua is fascinating, I agree - but the most remarkable thing about it is that it's the first object like it we've seen, followed closely by the fact that it's taken us so long to see one. Most models predict these are pretty common - it's just our lack of spotting capacity that's stopping us seeing more.

As far as collecting, I remember reading a back-of-the-envelope analysis that suggested that we might be able to catch it if we made a really concerted effort. We might then be able to hit it with an impactor (or just smack the probe into it) and do some spectroscopy on the resulting dust cloud, but it's going way too fast in an inconvenient direction for us to be able to collect anything, slow down and return it.
In other words it's always listening.

The goal is clearly to get a listening device in every home to harvest ambient conversation for marketing purposes. At first we were told the device does not actually pay attention unless you say "Alexa." Now you don't have to say Alexa. How long before the whole charade is dropped?
Replace("Government","oligopoly/monopoly/cartel")
He believes in them when it suits him.

"The iron laws of arithmetic confirmed my leadership," (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-45266718)

He, like all politicians, also seems to believe in cakes they can both have and eat.
it would be interesting to hear what hardware and sensors you ended up using.
But we arent fundimentally more complex than the cat or dog. The only real difference is the relative size of various structures. We are both as complex as creatures come on this planet.
That sounds like an interesting experiment. Is it possible they were predicting the pulse? I could imagine a scenario where they would predict and at times get it wrong and press before the pulse, but at times the timing could work out just right such that after accounting for all human latency, the press landed just after the pulse coincidentally. What other factors did your experiment account for?
About Armory's (W17) $10MM Series A
There's still valid reasons to keep an empty property though.

Maybe I don't have the money to provide safe electrical / water / heating / fire safety systems. But I also don't want a tribe of homeless people in there.

I also know someone who's kept a property empty for 10 years. He lived there together with his wife, she passed away, he moved out and never had the courage to move out all her stuff.
They're dreaming !
It’s an interesting story, though also tragic and frightening. I probably would’ve lead with reason five. It seems to me that abusing holes, in employee safety laws for disabled people, is one of the worse evils they commit.

I wonder how much of this goes around. Recently it was revealed that a local restaurant in Aarhus, Denmark, that put disabled and mentally ill to work on a type of welfare program where the municipality pays part of the wage for people who can’t work full hours, was also abusing their employees for profit. And that just another story in a long line of these.
I don't know if they were unrealistic so much as they didn't anticipate the cataclysmic demotivation that we as a planet incurred with the end of the cold war.
This is a bad side effect of low interest rates. If the interest rates were high, e.g. 5%, investing into unoccupied real estate would not be a viable investment.
385 Feet of Crazy: The Most Audacious Flying Machine
Hey, me, too! Since I was way too young to attend my first rock show or hold an air tool. Doesn’t bother me a lick because, well, that’s apparently the way I was built. Like you, I don’t even notice unless I think about it. Can’t say about the rest of my family, never asked.

I’ve always wanted to go to one of those acoustically-dead rooms, where you can hear the blood pumping through your veins. Or will I?
the motion sensors and door/window sensors are zwave.

They are battery powered, but i've had the oldest ones for almost 2 years now and haven't had to replace the batteries yet, and when I do I can get a pack of like 10 for $15 so it's not bad.

All of the light switches are zwave as well, and they go in the wall behind the toggle switches, so from the outside you can't see any difference.

I get most of them from amazon, and i've used a bunch of vendors over the years. Aeotec, ecolink, linear, and a few no-name brands.
It depends on how much DIY you want to do. Snips.ai is the easiest to set up and can be installed from the Hass.io dashboard.

There is also Rhasspy[1], a voice assistant toolkit for Home Assitsant. It has instructions and custom components on how to integrate a full voice assistant (wake up, speech to text, intent recognition, text to speech) into Home Assistant using solely open source tools with different choices per category. It's very cool.

[1]: https://github.com/synesthesiam/rhasspy-assistant
Sounds like the perfect opportunity for a consultant! You're presumably an expert and have technical authority that is not anchored to the company hierarchy.
Analysis of the checks and balances on the Bitcoin ecosystem
What is your skill sets?
Basically you need to negotiate for these. It's much easier if you've already done it at your current job, because you have proof it can work. And it's easier to negotiate with remote companies, because they're not in a "seat in butt is all that matters" mindset. Ideally you get a job offer, and _then_ tell them you want to work fewer hours.

Lowest I've gone is 28 hours: started as contractor, got hired as employee. Later jobs have been 32-35 hours.

I interviewed someone who has been doing this for 15 years with 4-day week (also never advertised): https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer... and I'm working on book on how to negotiate a 3-day weekend (i.e. 4-day workweek - 20-25 hours is harder): https://codewithoutrules.com/3dayweekend/
Yep. It seems the less you have more will be taken from you. I think industry’s cater to low wage earners know their customers have so few options.
There's not much "music theory" here aside from the knowledge that there are 12 notes which repeat in octaves. He mentions a few modes (phrygian, etc) but that's not particularly esoteric. The rest is relating those ideas to simple mathematical constructs and seeing what comes out.
How much should you pay for app development?
I totally agree it is useful for particularly tricky problems. It is not a coincidence that what I like the most about it is the initial discussion on the potential approaches to solving the problem. But then when we move into the implementation phase, that is when things get tiresome after four months of continuous and permanent pairing, because in my case, I appreciate silence and time to focus and think at my own pace. Maybe permanent pairing is just not an useful thing honestly. I guess I'm wondering if anyone has successfully done it for months at a time.
Kubernetes Kubectl CLI Cheat Sheet
70 hour work weeks are common in some industries or job roles. Chefs, game-devs and cruise ship staff come to mind straight way...

Most of these people are taking the hit for the extra hours for some kind 'added value', which this company hopes to compete with maybe? They just seem like a shitty marketing company though?

I consider it supply and demand, that there are places out there not demanding more than 40 hours a week for the same job.
Doctest 2: C++11, thread-safety, stand-alone assertions and more
I see the home assistant works with a family of devices. But how many of them are streaming personal data to the cloud?
Really? This is the first that came to mind for me. The only one that might "outrank" it in my mind is the Pantheon, but I wouldn't think anyone would refer to that as "Italy's famous dome", they'd just say "the Pantheon".

Plus the original title in the URL specifically calls it "Brunelleschi's dome", which even if you don't know/remember Brunelleschi, does rule out the Pantheon just from the name.
pretty much mostly zwave (from various companies over the years), with some one-off stuff on a few esp8266 chips that I got for a few $ each on aliexpress.
Sahel Sounds is a fantastic label. One of my favorite albums recently has been their "Music from Saharan Cellphones", basically a sampler of recordings floating around from mostly-unknown bands. One thing that struck me was how much drum machine there was on that album, relative to the more rock-oriented Tuareg desert blues bands, which are driven by acoustic percussion, whether djembe or calabash or a western drum kit. It's like some of the sounds of Euro dance music are getting in to the new stuff, much like how classic rock influenced the older generation.
AT&T's early dominance was the direct result of the invention of the transistor that came from their own labs. From then on, the company was committed to spending massive amounts of money into developing new technology. Even if AT&T didn't directly invent a new technology, they were still one of the few companies in the world that could actually afford to buy new toys and put them into the hands of researchers who would find novel uses for it.

The Computerphile YouTube channel as some interviews with computer scientists that worked at Bell Labs during their heyday. It's incredibly interesting to hear about how they screwed around with early Linotype printers (which $100k+ in the 70s) and did things like reverse-engineer the font formats to create custom chess fonts.
Gag benchmarkers ? That is the Oracle way.
TLDR for those who are already familiar with the idea and just want to know the details: it'll travel at .2C, taking 20 years (4ly*.2), and there is no launch date. It seems all still theoretical at this stage, though they're pushing some serious funding. To report back they "hope" the spacecraft can use lasers and we will "probably" hear a few when a bunch of them report their measurements back.
Honestly, the Drake Equation, Fermi Paradox etc. feel like "One-eyed kings in the land of the blind" type of reasoning.

The "otherwise we should have met someone by now" is an absurdly weak criteria, given the distances and timelines involved.

––––

We know that life and intelligence are possible and that there are plenty of places for them to occur on:

We know the universe must be practically infinite. [0]

We know there must be practically infinite planets (here "infinite" being a substitute for trillions upon trillions.) [1] multiplied by [0]

We know that even lifeforms on the same planet may never come into contact with each other. [2]

We know that intelligent lifeforms can decide to leave other intelligent lifeforms alone. [3]

We know life can take forms that do not occur naturally on Earth. [4][5][6]

We know intelligence can take forms that do not resemble human intelligence. [7]

We know that lifeforms do not require humanoid bodies to be able to use tools. [8]

We know we don't have the technology necessary to conclusively detect life at distances beyond 2-3 planets adjacent to our own.

We know we don't have the technology necessary to disprove life – present or past – on other planets.

There is more evidence to support extraterrestrial intelligence than there is to infer that this is the only planet to harbor intelligent life.

––––

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemi...

[5] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20906-life-like-cells...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_organism

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Intelligence
That would be preferable yes.
Hello everyone, GitLabber here! We had a similar issue about this [1], and we raised another one when deciding to further clarify our documentation regarding this question [2]. You can find out more about our motives behind this decision there.

[1] - here https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/36754
[2] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/43436
> 1) The Humans, Pain Gaming, [...] are the weakest team at this event and are arguably there only because of a regional qualifier system...

I think it's totally disingenuous to call them the weakest team at the event. Two other teams performed worse in the group stage and one tied Pain's score, but still made it into the main event through sheer luck. Pain has won games against every single one of the strongest teams there.

If you follow pro Dota, you know a lot of these games hinge on how a team happens to be performing on a certain day. Just this past May, Pain played in one of the top Dota tournaments of the year with 9 other teams who also happen to be at The International with them now -- and Pain came in 3rd place, ahead of Fnatic, OG, and Mineski.
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There are civilisations on earth (uncontacted tribes) who are completely unaware of the existence of modern society. With this in mind your view seems incredibly naive.
I also recommend the podcast by the same name[0]. Especially the episodes with Jeffery Lewis. There is also a guy named Scott LaFoy who has some pretty interesting things to say, but usually on other Podcasts and across a wider array of topics than just nuclear weapons, including cyberwarfare. He's @wslafoy on Twitter.

[0] I sponsor it on Patreon, and the sponsors only slack is fucking great.
I did as well. I tried Haskell on my own in the aughts before giving up. I had some fond exposure to OCaml and SML but never got into it until I heard the Jane Street talks, heard about MirageOS, and decided to take the OCaml course in 2016.

I've since gone back to Haskell and am finally enjoying it... but I credit OCaml with getting me to a place where I could enjoy Haskell the second time around.
everyone says whatever it takes to get clicks in order to keep the price of ads up. Whether it's Fox, CNN, NYT, or anywhere else. It's all the same.
Snips is very good imo, especially if you need only these features
ICANN coming up with the ability to provide domain names in vernacular languages