skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that just blurring the text input is sufficient for obfuscation, There are known methods for reversing blur like:

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-uncover-blurred-information-in...
http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~ihradis/CNN-Deblur/
You don't think that the capacity for rational thought makes a difference?

It seems to me that even with our limited intellects, we have already figured out an awful lot of what there actually is to figure out. We know all of the stable elements that make up atomic matter. We have identified and measured a huge range of the fundamental universal constants and it seems unlikely there are many more left undiscovered. So we can make reasonably good guesses about what the upper bounds of possible technology in our physical universe are. No FTL for example.

Of course you can refute that by appealing to ignorance - maybe there are technologies we can't conceive of and modes of existence beyond our comprehension. Well ok, but maybe there are fairies at the end of the garden path. That's not an argument that's tractable to rational analysis, no matter how rational you are. It can make no predictions and can never be tested so it's not much actual use.
You are confusing service with software. All major operating systems have built-in VPN support. Check the network settings on your phone or computer. There will be a section for VPN settings.
The opportunity cost of animal based diets exceeds all food losses
Do OpenAI Five Dota 2 bots communicate?
That's not even a solution.

User clicks on your site. You redirect to a fake search page and then redirect to your page after setting a cookie. Now back button sends them to the fake search results.
I'm willing to bet the license agreement in OEM firmware updates that also include the microcode patches, has this language.
* 2 bedroom in cool neighborhood: $2100/month

* office space (3 people) somewhere central, shared facilities, private office: $2000/month

* residential gigabit (min 1 year contract): $60/month

* food for one month, either eating out or buying decent groceries and cooking: $800/month

---

Those are off the top of my head. I'm not very interested in living in a cool neighborhood and rent where I live is more like $1400 (office space is presumably correspondingly lower).
I wasn't aware we were there with USB-C. I still need a dongle every time I use anything. But more importantly, I was in the camp of "I barely connect anything to my computer other than power, and MagSafe worked so well I forgot it was ever an issue, but then "USB-C charging" regressed things to the point where I thought I was charging but nope, turns out the connector was slightly out and my battery is at 5%".
Netflix's system wasn't so much a thumbs up/thumbs down system that we all know and love - it was a frankenstein system where you couldn't see how many thumbs up/down a title had, rather you saw a percentage on how likely you are to enjoy that title based on the thumbs you gave others. At first glance it looks like YouTube's system but in actuality it was very different.

https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-thumbs-rating-system...
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It's very rare for something to scale sublinearly in the number of bits :-)

complexity(2∗∗1024)/complexity(2∗∗762) comes out to about 1500x more work.
As another response mentioned, the "socially agreed upon limit" is the speed of traffic. I must have missed the meeting where we all got together and discussed what the speed limit ought to be.

The speed limit is often arbitrary and that's part of the problem. We become immune to posted limits because the ones posted on highways and major roads are obviously inappropriate and not updated as technology and zoning changes. Then, many drivers ignore them when they do matter e.g. neighborhoods, school zones, curves.

You're almost never going to be affected by someone simply speeding - it's drivers who speed _recklessly_. I'm fortunate enough to have never gotten into an accident even though I've driven all around the world. The person that's going to cause an accident is the one speeding AND weaving between cars or tailgating.

Either way, it's irrelevant. The point of the thread is that speeding tickets are little more than a financial instrument for local, and sometimes state, governments.
I really think any techie would appreciate the consitency of two of the three alphabets in Japanese. (Hiragana and Katakana) The very fact that both of these alphabets are the exact same phonetic pronunciations, but written slightly different to visually distinguish them, is the only complication. But that they are designed specifically to distinguish between Japanese and foreign words is just brilliant.

Their Kanji script/written alphabet is a travesty left over from cave paintings and Chinese. But the spoken language is easy, easy to learn. The variations with polite (public or hierarchical relationships) vs common speaking, seem to mainly affect verb conjugations.

But their sentence structures are reversed from ours, but many languages seem to be, but they have fewer words, and make a number of a assumptions about context that make speaking actually less complicated, but require more understanding.

Also, they don't have any exceptions in pronunciation like English, which is huge. The extra effort saved on this alone can balance out the other complications.

This is my limited experience with a few years training in the language, family members learning it and a few relatives that lived there for years. (one permanently now)

Feel free to correct any errors I've thrown out.

My point is that Japanese can be easier to learn than other languages, but for reasons that may not be obvious.
"Kubernetes for Android" would definitely raise a lot of eyebrows.
Also agreed with the zwave sentiment on a hardware side lightbody. I'm building out a multi car garage at the moment for the wifey and looking for something that adopts to multi-room voice commands and automation. So far tried a few open source pi configurations but felt at a loss for additional benefits. Home Auto was nice and did good stuff! Moved to Snips recently (someone mentioned them in the thread i think?) and have really enjoyed it. Tried out their live console which is quite nice. Privacy is an added bonus in my opinion but the multi language support (french) is fantastic. A ton of cool projects going around though.

UI for end user is also stinging point so many do wrong. What else are you looking for? Purposes, end goal?
Yeah, my point was that a big company can coast without innovating. They usually have a lot of stuff to sell that they have done in the past. The pressure to rejuvenate comes from outside, rarely from the inside (surely there are exceptions as with every good rule).

If you can survive without investing, a lot of companies choose not to.
Care to provide more details ? (i don't understand why you got downvoted btw)
The west is slowly starting to realize something that China has realized for years; economic policy is not a question of economics but of geopolitical strategy. Free markets are nice in theory (and often in practice), but once you let in bad actors with the clout of a nation state, all the usual assumption behind free markets no longer apply. It's pretty disappointing that, based on what we now know, western economists aided China in gutting western industry under the guise of "China is just subsidizing the west, we'd be stupid not to take advantage." Even worse, we had already rejected that argument when applied to companies like Walmart, but for some reason we thought it would apply to whole national economies.
Let the benchmarks roll in...

https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/L1TF-perf

An estimation of man hours spent on this issue outside Intel

https://www.servethehome.com/intel-publishes-l1tf-and-foresh...

Thought frequently mentioned, Phoronix did not run a benchmark comparing before and after application of the microcode update. Excerpt: To note, no microcode changes/updates were made to the systems under test for this article, just testing/comparing the kernel patches (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=l1tf-for...)
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I can guarantee that they don’t do it as often as the convenience of and addiction to slack promote.

Or they send an email.

Or use the company ticketing system.

Or mention it during a meeting.

People are able to find solutions for most issues by themselves.

Honestly, do you think this person would get over 100 people per day to ask him important questions? He’s not a manager managing a large team. It’s addiction.
lack of ability is different than lack of desire.
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Um, is there something specific about NIST's github org you wanted to highlight?
Encryption. pfft! we're going to invest in new coal fired power plants.....

But really this decision was made in a snap by Scott Morrison in a powerplay to look tough on outsiders to the conservative base.

Right now Australia is doing it's 2.5 yearly cycle of deposing a prime minister and installing someone else. Like that Dutton guy from texas :P
It's been awhile since I've had the chance to dig into more advanced music theory but this is such an interesting framing of all of the possibilities present in both named and unnamed scales and the relationship of notes. The idea to lay it out mathematically like this and how you frame your overall thinking about scales is great. Bach would appreciate this work.

Also reminds me a bit of how folks like Jacob Collier think about harmonies and new ways to arrive at different notes. The more you can internalize these kinds of mathematics, the more you can improvise in new and different ways.

Well done! Really enjoyed this.
That protestant work ethic has a long tradition in the US. It has informed debates from slavery to obamacare. It is a great way to motivate a population to work. It biult much of early America when a lack of labour was a limiting factor on growth. But wherever labour is plentiful, or non-voluntary, such ideas quickly lead to abuse. Owners start thinking that they do the employees a favour just by allowing them in the factory door.
I don't think so. It's quite easy to imagine that a computer would outperform humans in strategies that require precise execution and coordination in teamfights. In fact, it's not specific to OpenAI; even the built-in Dota bots' strengths are generally teamfight execution.

My guess is that if OpenAI 5 trained under a different hero pool, it would be weaker than it is now. It's very hard to predict how much weaker though.
As a contrasting opinion I started reading the Ocaml book about something real world and I felt the syntax finally something fresh, beatiful and clean. But I also suffer from having to use scala everyday at work.
I would very much enjoy that.
I don’t see anything wrong with that either. Most successful startup founders tell people that startups are hard.
In Haskell, you have to opt-in to side-effects (monadic do-blocks).

In OCaml, you have to opt-in to lazy evaluation.
"Sure, someone is robbing my house, but at least they're honest about their intentions of doing so" is not a good argument.
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It would be typically be true because strong unions have funds because they have high earners employees. Unions that represent replaceable workers (say, retail employees) almost never have any leverage.
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Well, given that OCaml almost doesn't use it's optional Object Oriented-ness, that might be what you're looking for.
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the logic of free trade meets the logic of national security.

national security is going to win that one unless Australia is going to willfully become a Chinese vassal
I used it with "I am 30 years old and" which yielded your result.

But you have to use an X as placeholder somewhere.
I think this has more to do with the fact that the landlord is not comfortable dealing with someone who doesnt speak the same language. Also I have heard ( no citations) from my Japanese collegues that the laws are heavily biased in favor of the tenant. Its very hard to evict them. So a Japanese home owner ( conservative as they are) wouldn’t want to take a risk for no additional advantage.
> You're missing the point. What prevents them from doing exactly what I suggested? Regulation.

The law of private property. Thats not regulation.
Try looking at https://people.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/1ml/
I doubt he codes in slack. And again, this count does not include the messages he reads, and interrupts his flow to read.

Although with this amount of interruptions I don’t think anyone can enter the state of flow.
He's probably referring to these posts on Twitter: https://archive.is/BtDaA
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I have not disabled the fast boot options in Windows and yet I am still able to mount my NTFS formatted boot drive in my Linux install. The existence of a hibernate file does not mean the disk is somehow unworkable.
“National Institute of Standards and Technology”

Does not follow and discernible naming standards for projects or repositories.
I'm curious what printer you run that uses a lot of standby power. I have checked several with a kill-a-watt and none of them seem to use more than a watt in standby mode.
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Every time I fire up an Apache Tomcat and it burns several gigabytes of memory to somehow run a simple web service very slowly...

A more famous example might be Minecraft, where even with its blocky graphics it can tax a high end gaming machine when you turn the view distance up to a range that almost no other engine would consider long. The engine has been rewritten in other languages where it is much faster, notably the Microsoft version and the Phone version.
> There is no way that we are "alone" in a universe estimated to have practically infinite planets.

What if we are a random sample of conscious life in the space of all possible universes in a multiverse? Many of them will have intelligent life in many places, but the majority have the parameters just tweaked enough to touch the edge and only produce one. Couldn't we live in one of those?

(And there is near certainty a given tuning of the parameters produces none but obviously we can't be in one of those.)
I'm very far to the left, but the military made almost all the major inventions that silicon valley has packaged up for consumer use. The iPhone is nothing but a collection of technologies designed for war. GPS, small cameras, the internet, ect were all designed by the military not by Silicon Valley.
I don't know anyone over 18 who uses Snapchat besides celebrities.
Fiber to the home (ftth) is dead cheap here, only about US$50 (¥6500) for 1Gbps unmetered. Rent for a cheap 2LDK really depends on how far to the station, how new, etc. As a bachelor you could get a nice 50-60sqm 2 room plus Living/Dining/Kitchen in Yoyogi for ¥150,000-200,000 per month. The hard part will be getting a landlord to accept your lease application without being hired by a local company. Rent guarantee companies can be used to avoid having to find a Japanese guarantor. Serviced apartments run by foreign companies will be large and well positioned, but start around ¥500,000 per month.

A short term stay in an AirBnB of 2-3 months might be possible, but you’ll only be able to get a tourist visa, so no earning an income locally and be really careful of overstaying.

Investor visas are not so hard to come by compared to US (lower monetary bar) but you’ll still a handsome sum to get one.
Companies change over time. Microsoft also isn't the same "evil empire" it was in the late '90s and early '00s.
Ironically, you have to enable JS to see comments for these issues…
Is there any context here? I know about the new Intel microcode license, but I still don't get it.
Well, algebraically, Z/nZ and Z/(–n)Z are the same. However, you have again some choice of canonical representative (and you might choose differently for n and –n). But I agree that this is a rather rare case.
Sounds similar to Providence, RI regarding expenses. I'd wager a similar lifestyle in Boston, MA would go for $1k more than what you've listed, finding a 2 BR in a cool neighborhood of Boston area is probably going to be $3k or more.
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As a programmer, it takes 10-20 min to fully “submerge” in the context and approach the state of flow. With this amount of conversations, and I presume double the amount of distraction through “checking” slack, entering that state would just not happen for me.

What was your experience?
Can you share specifically which zwave sensors you're having good luck with? I have had mixed luck with sensors.
Takes three paragraphs to get to the answer: Instagram stories.

Snapschat is busy trying to remain relevant as Instagram one-ups it again and again. Other than teenagers using it to sext, Snapchat is largely useless compared to Insta.
> perceived as being higher risk

Yep. That's what racism is.
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Yes, that's a good point that I forgot to mention in my post, Outpox.

Whilst I'm currently enjoying the flexibility of renting, I may well buy a house within the next year or two, and at that point re-location will definitely not be an option. The transaction costs of buying and selling property are eye-watering. Ideally I'd like to buy in an affordable rural or semi-rural area and continue to work remotely.
Way more affordable than I thought. I'm guessing the office space is split and a 1bedroom is 1300~?
We used to go to the "Peeling Building" in Richmond when I was a kid. That almost looks like my Dad's Olds 442 in the photo. I've looked for the building on Google Maps and Street View, but don't recall exactly where it was on the Midlothian Turnpike.

Best was the Best Buy of its day. I remember being fascinated by the pneumatic tube system in the store, something you only see now in bank drive-throughs.
Linguistic observation with the default setting (I am [12-50] years old and):

"i don't know what to do with my life" peaks at 20-25, "don't know what to do with my life" at 30-40. "i want to lose weight" peaks at 12-15, "want to lose weight" at 40-50.

I wasn't aware of preference for the "I am X and I do Y" scheme vs the "I am X and do Y" one being correlated to age, but the data seems to say so.
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Took over 500 lightbulbs before there was a usable one. Just dont give up.
I think because when they sold to Apple they pulled their support and binaries.
tried finding a careers page, do you have a link?
No doubt there's a baseline. There's also a point of diminishing return. Few have a lot. A lot have little. And both camps are less and less happy. This can't go on forever.
I read the article, but still don't get what's Chrome-specific about this vulnerability, or what a good fix would look like.

My reply to someone who proposed making the back button always go to the previous URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17826406
If only one in a thousand stars have planets that can support life, only a thousandth of them develop complex life, only a thousandth of them avoid extinction events, only a thousandth of them develop technology, only a thousandth of them avoid destroying themselves somehow.

That would give us about one civilisation in every 10,000 galaxies. There are actually a lot more possible stages than that too, I've seen estimates that reasonably put our existence in the observable universe at all as a low probability event and maybe they're right. I've swung either way over the decades. There is a reasonable case that long term technological civilizations might be extremely rare. It's not a foregone conclusion that we are one of many.

Personally, I have no idea. It could go either way, but the Fermi Paradox does tend to indicate in the pessimistic direction at least with regard to our own galaxy. The problem is once you say technological life is rare at the one galaxy level, it only takes a few extra stages and a few extra low probability multipliers to make any life anywhere pretty unlikely.
The 4 hour workshop/hello world for AWS, it was in the intro deck on why you should be doing analysis and what not. Probably preaching to the choir for most of the room.
Not really ironic, it tells you what the answer in those comments was
It's a joke about the license. Ad networks will have to block that IP range or risk being in violation!

Wouldn't it be nice though if you could convince the ad networks to block you instead of the other way around?
buckethead only uses lydian...
I wouldn't expect anything else from him. The man despises private enterprise and had the urge to nationalise everything.

I'd think it would be really funny to see this being attempted, where it not for the huge amount of money that would be wasted.
This species of whales has been documented diving for over two hours between breaths.

For comparison, the human record for static apnea (holding your breath underwater but no swimming/movement) is close to 25 minutes.
I was in school at Virginia Tech from '82 to '87. My summer jobs were able to pay for about 1/3 of the total cost of college.

Nowadays, I imagine it would be more like 1/10 or less.
Read the article to find out!
Will Elon Musk's 120-hour week stop us worshipping workaholism?
A nice way to do a quick visual regression test on the command line:

cmp -s <( cutycapt devserver.com/somepage ) \
<( cutycapt liveserver.com/somepage )

At Product Chart, we use this in a small bash script that reads a config file with a list of pages and tests them all for regressions:

https://www.productchart.com/blog/2015-07-19-urldiff
It's a joke.

Since you "can't benchmark" the new Intel patch, ad networks would need to block that IP range, therefore OP would never see ads. Ad-blocking at the legal-level.
Are we limiting this to early childhood before you know better? I can't see someone going through their life thinking they shouldn't be able to see properly, or have shit floating around in their eyes(I have had both since birth). I mean common sense says that's now how things are supposed to operate.
Many VPN providers claim to not keep logs, and have varying levels of trustability.
End of their 30s people stop asking why they are single and start asking why they are tired.
I checked the sponsored stories section recently and the first one was called "WHY MY FRIENDS ATE MY SEVERED FOOT" by Vice Media. I did not inquire further.

Stopped checking Stories after that.
How much of that boost remains after patches to Spectre and meltdown?
Facebook went up against Snapchat directly, pushing Stories as hard as possible in all their apps. There's nothing inherently wrong with the product, it just got out-competed by a bigger player.
No, the symmetric version is yet a third variant. What people are calling “rem” is what you get with division that rounds toward zero, whereas what they are calling “mod” is what you get with division that always rounds down. A symmetric version is what you get with division that rounds to the nearest integer, and I have not seen any language with a built-in operator for it.

To the grandparent:

> sends each number to a special representative of its equivalence class

The problem is that many programming languages have a “remainder” type % operator which does not do this in the case where the dividend is negative. For instance,

-1 % 3 == -1
2 % 3 == 2

Instead, folks who want mathematically reasonable behavior need to implement their own. For instance in Javascript we can define

mod = (a, b) => a - b*Math.floor(a/b)