skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the costs of diversity. People don’t work together towards shared goals anymore since they characterize the other people benefiting as un-American/unpersons.
They say views use razor, so in all likelihood it's asp.net core.
> A stock typically has no utility because the share percentage is so small the only thing you can do with it is sell it to the next fool who wants to start the cycle over again.

It's quite clear you don't understand finance from that comment alone. Buying and selling stocks allows you to allocate your capital as you see fit. Capital markets provide companies with liquidity and allow investors to partake in the upside. They reward well-run companies and punished mismanagement. They are a net positive for society.
Resurrecting a Dead Library: Rehabilitation
I can determine whether an app is trustworthy, sure. But you know what? Sometimes I actually want to install an untrustworthy app. Sometimes an untrustworthy app is the only app that does what I need.

Your argument, by analogy, is “you should trust people to know not to sleep with people with STDs.” Well, you know what? Some people want to sleep with people with STDs. Sometimes those are their significant others. They still don’t want to catch something.

In both cases, the answer is the same: a condom.

A sandboxed App Store is, basically, a brothel where condom use is enforced. You can meet strange apps, play with them, and not worry about it. Because of the brothel’s policy, nobody the brothel hosts is risky. Your safety is enforced at the level of choosing the source.

Whereas something like Ubuntu’s PPAs, are more like a bar. Who knows what you’ll catch? Any individual app might decide to “wrap it up” with SELinux/AppArmor, but you can’t enforce it at the app-store level.

(Also, completely dropping the metaphor: the iOS App Store is frequently exposed—at least for free purchases—to children or even infants. This is actually a capability people want. This is certainly not a case where the user can determine for themselves whether an app is trustworthy.)
AI Gives Thanos a Soul in 'Avengers: Infinity War'
Took something as big as Amazon to topple Walmart. It’s going to take something even bigger to topple Amazon in the future. That should scare people. Scale begets scale.
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Blazor – web framework using C#/Razor in the browser via WebAssembly
this is the exact same issue with bandwidth costs. when you have major companies using up to 90% of the world's bandwidth it squashes on the resources of the little guys. this is why net neutrality was, in some aspects, not that great.
Intel CPUs without firmware updates because of redistribution limitations? How can Intel make that mistake? Intel, please, reconsider that, for your own good.
The AI-first startup playbook
I've found this too. The terminal usually stays the same because they are contracted to specific airlines, but the gate is fluid. For example, my wife is flying home today and her arrival gate was only announced a couple of hours ago (she's taking off just about now).
> In other words, it made me feel fine just hanging out in my apartment doing nothing.

I've experienced this as well, but I don't consider it an inherit downside. To me, this is just my personal self being satisfied and at peace with not needing more than I have. Frequently I like to smoke alone in nature, just so I can rest peacefully.
> You never really hear about people who prefer on site over remote.

Surely you used this phrasing because you wanted to be corrected :)

I've worked both remotely and onsite and I prefer onsite. I enjoyed working remotely for the first two years. Grocery shopping mid-day on a Monday! Going for a run at 11 am! No commute! Cooking whatever I want for lunch! Awesome!

Then it got old and wore down on me. I don't like working remotely anymore. I have worked on a team which was exceptionally well-suited for it: almost all communication happened on Slack, video conferencing was a strong part of the culture, managers didn't try to micromanage, etc. But after a while I felt pretty de-socialized and disengaged from the atmosphere of the company. My work output and productivity were fine, but I found myself really missing human interaction. I staved this off somewhat with meetups and by working in a public place, but it never really replaced what I enjoyed about being onsite at HQ.

I have two (very obviously anecdotal) observations about working remotely. First, most of the people I knew who worked remotely did not adjust their lifestyle to take advantage of that time. They did not exercise any more than their onsite counterparts. They didn't really run any errands in the middle day. I generally observed that their work and play time wasn't really divorced; in some cases they didn't seem to have a work life balance, irrespective of the corporate culture. The time they saved by not having a commute was usually spent doing more work.

Second, most of the time when I voice my concerns about long-term remote work and point out the problems I personally have with it - or the problems I've personally observed - I am told that this is not an issue intrinsic to working remotely. I think that's probably true but not really relevant, and frequently used as a dismissal of people who try to voice legitimate reasons for not working remotely.

With sufficient social supplementation, investment in corporate culture and communication and self-discipline, I think just about anyone can do well as a remote employee. But it's also legitimate to say that you don't really want to make that investment (as a company) or want to do what's needed to avoid working too much and not seeing other people enough (as an individual). Remote work can work very well, but I do not think most people should work remotely.
AI could make dodgy lip sync dubbing a thing of the past
Thanks! I will check it out. I tried Rimworld but after playing it for 20+ hours I began to see the patterns and non-randomness of the game (I have been heavily biased by DF). Plus everything the other in response. Im gonna check out your blog when I get the chance (currently on vacation).

I have just (just!) started making a DF like game but will be based off the D&D world. I am starting from the bottom because I want the challenge and have less priority on completing the game (and more on learning/challenging myself). When I mean bottom, I have almost finished creating a path finding algorithm that should be much faster than the current ones out there (geared towards 3D grids like DF). I also created a line of site algorithm that is symmetrical and (so far in testing) angle/corner perfect. World generation will be based on tectonic plate movement (bare bones version created).
Trains and buses don't run on demand from point to point.
> Still, there are more choices than Amazon.

There is always a cost associated with trying to change a job, one that may be difficult for a poor person to pay. You need to do research to find these other job choices (and you really may not have many choices depending on where you live), apply to multiple places, show up for interviews, etc. Doing all these activities takes time and energy, which a person, who is possibly already struggling to make ends meet, may not have. Imagine coming home from your grueling warehouse job where you had to pee in bottles, putting together a dinner for yourself and your kids, doing some basic chores around the house so that your place doesn't turn into a shithole, and then finding the energy to do all the things you need to do for finding a job.

It's easy to pontificate while sitting in our cushy tech job chairs, where if we don't like the current job, there'll be 10 recruiters blowing up your email with job opportunities, about what a person who may be less fortunate should do.

> I think it's just easier to blame Amazon than for people to make different choices.
It is possible that some blame lies with both parties, but Amazon definitely shares a clear (and rather heavier) burden of blame here, and there is nothing wrong in calling that out.
Why does AI stink at certain video games?
> That is a 34% improvement

That graph is completely misleading then. I can understand why they don't want to show actual y-axis values, but at least put relative values on that axis. Even "60%" and "100%" would do.
For articles/ebooks, I'd put in a plug for BeeLine Reader [1], which I created originally for use as a speed reading tool but learned is very helpful for many people with dyslexia. We are currently doing a couple studies with accessibility researchers to better understand how it helps and for which specific populations. Any feedback would be appreciated!

1: http://www.beelinereader.com/individual

You can read Kindle books using our iPad app and browser extensions (via the Kindle Cloud Reader). Both tools also work for news articles or arbitrary websites.
This is correct; I knew it but didn't try to illustrate it for simplicity.
Pretty much all high-performance processor designs are affected by some Spectre variant or other, as speculative execution is pretty near universal. IBM is making firmware patches for POWER9 available, with at least some level of mitigation (though not for some older POWER models, which they've desupported).

(Besides, it's not as if Intel is uniquely good at dealing with these sorts of vulnerabilities. The reverse, if anything -- meltdown was a particularly nasty variant which seems to have primarily affected Intel processors, and not even other manufacturers' x86 variants.)

See https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/potential-impact-processors-...
You are not supposed to expose kestrel to the open internet. It should always run behind a reverse proxy like nginx or, in this case, IIS.
Hitachi to launch AI analysis of hospital leftovers to hasten inpatient recovery
I originally wrote a much longer response, where I argued that in order to group laws together they must have something in common -- and there is nothing that is obviously in common between copyright law, patent law, and trademark law. They all protect different things in different ways, and arguing that they "protect ideas" doesn't really get you anywhere (it doesn't help clarify much -- because in what way can ideas be protected -- and it also isn't really true because those laws protect specific things rather than a more nebulous concept of an idea).

But I found that there is actually a section on the Wikipedia article for intellectual property that outlines the basic argument against the term[1]. I understand why you might find my argument silly on its face (of course people with much more stature than me have used the term "intellectual property" before, making it silly to argue that the term itself is not used anywhere of significance) -- but my main argument is that it is not really easy to come up with a single unifying idea behind "intellectual property laws". You can fairly easily come up with a unifying idea behind "fraud laws" (use of deception to profit in some fashion), or even just "property laws" (people who have a greater claim than anyone else to something are granted certain exclusive rights to it). But the fact that even the Wikipedia article for "intellectual property" cannot describe the concept without immediately breaking it down into the specific sub-rights leads me to believe that it is fairly hard to describe the common idea underlying copyright/patent/trademark laws.

I was probably too forceful in my original response, which wasn't really fitting (since I actually agreed with the general point being made).

> (^) Man, that's awkward. If only there was a term to denote that set that I just needed to name.

I mean, my point is that the only time you need to name them together is when discussing "intellectual property". When it actually comes to filing a patent, or registering a trademark, or suing over a copyright infringement claim, you never would reference those laws together. I agree it's awkward, but I disagree that you would ever need to list them like that (because they are naturally separate concepts that aren't much more related than any other legal concept).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property#The_term...
Do you pay more taxes than you legally have to because you have better morals?
As someone who was once semi-pro in dota (4400 MMR, get rekt), it's freaky watching these bots play. It's uncanny. Little things... Like, when the bots are taking a tower, one of them will stand in front of the tower and tank the creep wave, so that their creeps do more damage on the tower. They had to learn this.

Insta-TPing right when an enemy wastes their stun and can't cancel their TP.

Grouping up as 5 at the beginning of the game and pushing into the enemy jungle. Pubs never do this.

The most interesting part is that OpenAI appears to be discovering new knowledge in the dota scene. For example, they always take the ranged barracks first, never the melee. This is exactly the opposite of what the pro scene does. Therefore, the smartest pro team should study what the bot is doing and trust that on average it's a better idea to always focus on the ranged barracks first. After all, if it was a bad idea, they probably wouldn't do that.

The most hilarious part was when OpenAI paused the game, then resumed it. This illustrates that there is still some unexplainable randomness.

Question for OpenAI: Is it more accurate to think of the bots as 5 separate minds, or a single mind controlling 5 heroes?

EDIT: By the way, TI is going on right now! https://www.twitch.tv/dota2ti If you're new to the scene, take a peek. TI is always so high energy -- even if it's hard to follow what's going on, listening to Tobi (the shoutcaster) go nuts during the game is always a highlight.

And of course, /r/dota2 has the best memes anywhere, hands-down. https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/
Small point, marijuana isn't a hallucinogen.
In traveling throughout the US I don't really know how high speed rail is really going to improve anything outside of like the LA to San Fransisco and the existing Acela coverage area (which is essentially following the flow of I-95 anyway). Even maximizing the Acela flow would just being eminent domain to the existing private rail lines to allow expansion and enhancement beyond what they have already. Part of the reason in the Northeast and in general in the US that rail is so weird is because so much of it is privately owned while the interstates and roads are public services. You can't compel people to make efficient change for benefit of passenger rail, where as with the interstates they forced eminent domain suits through to make it happen well after initial infrastructure was established.

The other major consumer of rail in the US is freight and they don't generally need high speed rail, and so while I would enjoy having more high speed rail lines as an option I haven't been able to rationalize the use case. Private rail permits use by passenger rail but does not prioritize for it.

Here was a good slide deck that I had been using as reference for a while that has good data on how Amtrak exists at all: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/Planning/freight_planning/talking_f...
>The problem is they need a story like self-driving cars to maintain the (inflated) valuation long enough for existing investors to get out. Taxi rides alone are not nearly enough.

This is pretty much it. Making an Uber clone is absolutely trivial, and they are being outcompeted in every single international market which has one. They also have zero customer loyalty, people will happily switch to another app the moment there is competition.
Is this just marketing fluff trying to up-sell you?

Can you provide an example public git repository this would work with?
Here is the thing, at least in the case of database software, the people that are competent to set up a benchmark correctly are fairly rare. The people that have the budget for the hardware are even more rare. The last thing the world needs is for the web to be polluted by so many incompetent "benchmarks" performed by the clueless that you can't find the authoritative information that you need to do your job.

Take a wild guess about how much memory and how many disk spindles it takes to get a TPC benchmark on a modern server to be CPU limited. Take a guess as to how many weeks of engineering time it takes to perform and validate the benchmark after getting a pile of hardware delivered to your lab. The average blogger writing 3 posts a week ain't gonna do it.
The fact that metabolized THC is a THC uptake inhibitor is a part of that.
Not neccessarily. IIS could also serve as a reverse proxy/load balancer, with a Kestrel installation behind it. (If I'm not mistaken the response header is only set in static resource responses.)
Kestrel needs a reverse proxy in front of it for SSL termination etc. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/se...
Makes sense. I’m curious, what are your thoughts on vocational certificates for other industries?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)#Medical - It can relieve pain (which I would consider a health benefit in a limited set of contexts). It also has many adverse affects -- like many other drugs. So ... maybe?
Two-qubit chip draws quantum computing closer
Fair point, and you better elucidated what I was wanting to convey with a pithy statement. In my experience, it has had the effect of rewarding me for doing nothing. Deadlines don't matter. The pressing realities of job, life, and productivity, don't matter. It feels so much better to just...sit here...and ...
Totally anecdotal. My point is that I think that addiction in general runs deeper than we currently understand and that we shouldn't underestimate the potential for people to become dependent on something newly available just because it is broadly conceived as harmless.
Is this viral marketing or have you eaten thai food from Thailand in order to make that judgement call?
I use https://slite.com - it's a very nice, clean modern markdown editor with keyboard shortcuts and ability to paste images from clipboard.

You categorize notes in collections and you can search them, export them to markdown or pdf, and work as a team. It has Slack integration as well if that's your thing.

Highly recommended!
The word "toxic" is overloaded and there are at least two main types of "toxicity" - acute and chronic. Caffeine is indeed more acutely toxic than cannabis in the sense that one could die from taking waay too much caffeine at once, but no deaths from THC overdose have ever been observed. Caffeine however seems to be almost entirely non-toxic chronically. Aside from addiction, regular caffeine intake doesn't seem to harm one's body or mental functioning in any way. Frequent habitual cannabis use has more negative effects, such as impaired memory.
>In other words, it made me feel fine just hanging out in my apartment doing nothing.

That should be the natural state of man, though, I'd extend it to meeting with friends, cooking, playing, etc -- that is, being "non-productive". It took a lot of advertising and protestant ethic working hand in hand through opposing ends to move the needle towards full on consumption and full on productivity.

"All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room." - Blaise Pascal
> discover all possible information

Plenty of market participants are not actually doing this. Day traders, high speed traders, even index funds come to mind. And even "real" investors are influenced by psychology that has little to do with an impartial analysis of all possible information. (It's not what you know, but what
"everybody knows that everybody knows" [1])

[1] http://www.epsilontheory.com/the-fundamentals-are-sound/
This must be a case of boiling the frog slowly. I probably qualify as overly concerned with privacy (some might say obsessed). But even I am feeling the fatigue that comes along with the daily news of data leaks, and stories about untrustworthy leadership (public and private). Or maybe, because of my views, I am more fatigued? Either way, it's exhausting. And I understand why people would just succumb to it all.

I'm rambling, I guess. But I am disappointed in the results of this study. Once I had faith that people would wake up over time. But that faith is slipping away...
The LD-50 of caffeine is around 2.5g, or about 25 strong cups of coffee. (Marijuana has no known lethal dose.)
like denmark, germany, etc?
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Ordinary people aren't legally allowed to exchange bolivars for foreign currencies at all.
with a multitude of largely similar but wildly different priced computers

As an aside, they seem to be headed back in this direction once again, with what appears to be 5 different-but-essentially-the-same phones coming out on the market this september.

And a whole bunch of wildly priced desktops and laptops that don't seem to consider anything but the bottom line.
There are a lot of Interstates that don't meet Interstate standards, such as every one in NYC.
Looks like you got downvoted into oblivion, but I believe you bring up an important point that needs to be discussed, and that's "intent".

The string "x=1" can both be a computer program, and something intended only for humans to read. The Euclidean Algorithm was written specifically for humans to understand, with no intent for them to ever be interpreted by a machine. The fact that someone at some point did implement it doesn't retroactively make it the first program. Lovelace's "Diagram" was also not something a machine could directly execute. But the key difference was the intention, she specifically intended that her instructions could be interpreted and executed by a machine.
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Highest federal tax rate by year, 1918 - 2017: https://bradfordtaxinstitute.com/LibRepository/235f37bd-612d...

The bulk of the interstate highway system was built between 1960 and 1980.
Trains don't run on demand from point to point. All your Amazon next day deliveries depend on trucks and airplanes.

Trains work for some freight delivery patterns, but not nearly all. Stuff that can go by train for the most part already does.
Is this an American only issue? I was under the impression that marijuana is very popular everywhere.
Why does using somehting everyday make you automatically an addict. Are really people who are prescribed and use anti-depressant addicts. I think its more similar than not.

Using alcohol everyday on the other hand, that can make you addicted in ways pot never can...
> These projects are simply to expensive for private entities to undertake

The problem is not how expensive high-speed railway projects are. The problem is that in general, with a couple of notable exceptiobs, high-speed railway services are massive money drains with absolutely no viable business model.

If their natural unprofitability is compounded with infrastructure costs then the problem is further compounded.

That's the main reason why private entities routinely invest more money in some profitable projects but they stay clear of even investing in conventional railway services.
I used to work for a major digital signage company and we had a huge contract with Verizon for cellular fallback at every site.