skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that human minds and computers are both computational devices of equivalent power and that we believe that creating artificial intelligence is possible because intelligence is a program that can be computed by a Turing machine just as it is computed by a human mind.

Obviously, the Turing-Church thesis didn't have anything to do with brains. It does, however, have very important implications about our ambition to create human-like artificial minds.
Hmmm, this reads like those old predictions that we will type all of our text via voice dictation in the future.

Turns out keyboards work great and are way less frustrating and more precise and the voice to text is only used in special use cases such as driving and for simple queries.
Meet Israel’s “Suicide Squad” of Self Sacrificing Drones (2016)
> COBRA is another scam. $1650 per month that my employer was paying ~$600 for.

COBRA is whatever the employer was paying + 2% administration fee.
CBC has a very good piece on NYC Mesh: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/wifi-nyc-mesh-new-york-cit...

Also André Staltz's TEDx Talk that mentions it: https://youtu.be/UjfWAbGfPh0

I really do hope this succeeds and takes off amid the likely scenario that SCOTUS will eventually kill Net Neutrality for good in the next two years. Things like this are the way to go if we want a bit more freedom in terms of surfing the web.
> RAID risk is about your rebuild failure rate, in this case URE (Unrecoverable Read Error).

This seems to be the keystone to your reasoning, and I'm not sure it's true, in practice. IME and in the literature I've read, modern RAIDs operate assuming a whole-disk failure (both on write and on read). Sub-whole-device errors seem to be an issue of concern limited to ECC in RAM. Do you have pointers to literature about this in the context of RAID?

> A failover is still a failover and can reduce performance and it reduces your remaining failover margin.

I think that means that the node-level redundancy isn't actually equivalent to RAID1-style redundancy (where there's no explicit failover), which is important to mention.

Of course, my question wasn't really "why bother" so much as asking if that architecture isn't far more wasteful than, say, RAID1 (or even just RAID6/RAIDZ3) intra-node and less node-level redundancy.

> You want to keep your failover rate low

I'm pretty sure best practices are the opposite of this. One can only know if the redundant copy actually works by using it, so a system that can failover more often is better. Ideally, the system is, like RAID1, requires no explicit failover and merely load balances both copies.

> RAID6 will in the next few years hit the spot where the risk of loosing 2 drives during a rebuild, due to the large drive sizes, becomes large

You'll need to quantify these, though, since, though drive capacities have continued to grow faster than transfer speeds (for mechanical drives), it's still in the OOM of 30 hours for minimum rebuild time. What's the risk of a second and third drive failure in 300 hours (1/10th the maximum rebuild rate)?
I definitely prefer their product placements over traditional ads. Some of them are very jarring though, and you can feel the actors' pain reciting the lines -- like the KFC in season 2 of Stranger Things, in a dinner scene all the shots are obviously centered around a bucket of KFC. For some reason they felt that wasn't enough and drag you straight out of the scene saying "finger lick'in good!!!".
Unfortunately, depression and anxiety don't really limit themselves to a specific domain, and the anxiety of gender dysphoria is pretty all-consuming since you can't really stop being reminded of it
So what.

Google should be able to blacklist every conservative (or liberal) site if they feel like it. They're a private business, and we have a Constitution that prohibits would-be tyrants from interfering with free speech. Trump should be run out of town on a rail for even hinting that he'd like to undermine freedom of speech.
:g/^#/p

for markdown at least.
Or, you know, your work is so difficult that it’s be engrossing if you could get into a flow state in the first place - but you can’t because your noisy, visually distracting open office environment finds a way to break your concentration every time you manage to load even a fraction of the problem into RAM.
If you sold to a country with standing sanctions, that could be an issue. 0-day's can also be considered munitions in some interpretations of law, though I am not a lawyer nor a weapons dealer.
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> This thread is full of people defending and endorsing identity politics.

So were random conversations with Obama supporters.

> Obama in particular was very careful not to do that.

And yet, to the extent that is true, he was still charged with it by critics just like you, because plenty of people in his base did it, and so that was—to them—the primary message of Obama's party.

Of course, he was also a accused of doing it directly with his own statements, not just being the face of movement which did it, particularly after his “evolution” on LGBT rights during his first term, and also specifically in his speech addressing the killing of Trayvon Martin.
It's slightly better than that. You can't decrypt the data when the user isn't logged in.
There is another similar concept od modular desk but based on bigger modules and without the steel frame (modules interlock together) https://www.facebook.com/modulosdesk/
its better to have it 50% of the time than 0% of the time...
radio waves dont do well in fog either...
how would you run ethernet at a distance greater than 500 feet?
By having flat roads and the fact that bikes are cheaper than cars? I honestly don't think one needs to do much to create a biking culture. Maybe some investment and biking lanes separated from roads are needed.
And how do propose to enact and enforce that law when we don't want that? Do you think because someone writes something on a piece of paper that says you can only use so much AC that people are just going to say, "oh, ok..someone wrote something on a piece of paper...that's it".

At some point you have to think about are the serious repercussions (most likely lots of violence) worth what I'm proposing.
I'm not sure about Dart, but in my experience it's rare that you await a function which returns an object with another awaitable in it.

Never mind something that nests these 2 levels deep.
I'm also not very deep into Clojure, but I've had the opposite experience so far. I've used it for some real-world projects and the most Java I've ever needed to pull in was a BufferedReader that I wrapped and forgot about.
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Our simulations have gotten way better in 40 years. You could teach an AI the basics of simulation driving or flying that would work as a baseline for the real world.
PCBway has been outstanding for my personal projects. Ludicrously cheap to the point where I have no problem buying 4 or 5 extra copies just in case!
I’ve built 25 basic homes (no insulation, electricity or plumbing) in Tijuana, Mexico. For each build, I organized 10-15 high school volunteers and 3-4 adult supervisors. Each home was built in one day, ~8 hours actually. Handing the home keys to an impoverished family at the end of the day was a great feeling for all concerned. Let someone else build your home. Look into prefab, for a lot of places it’s faster, cheaper and much better quality. Last, insulate like hell if you live in hot/cold climate. Your home will be quieter, too.
Unfortunately I don't get the economics of lime ebikes.

You pay $6/hr to ride one, which, assuming a very generous average speed of 14.5mph (the maximum of the bike), is an end user cost of $0.41 per mile minimum.

It costs me ~$0.35 per mile to drive a car. I also don't have to bother with any apps or worry about the battery being charged, both of which are inconveniences.

Also, just to set the record straight, I own an e-bike as well, and my cost to ride (assuming a 500*30 mile battery endurance) is 4 cents per mile, about 1/10x of what I'd pay for a limebike.

There is an upfront cost, yes, but you're also getting a much better quality bike than what you would get with a lime bike (which seems to be an almost-bottom-of-the-barrell chinese made ebike)
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Ford asked government about giving police cars off switch for EV noise rule
Because nearly all warm weather is objectively livable, whereas cold weather is actively dangerous. If you're using AC to be able to survive then you aren't the target. The target is the Walmarts that cool the building to 68 degrees when it's 80 and beautiful outside or the people who just refuse to open a window and use AC instead, or the people who can't stand a single iota of sweat or slight discomfort.
There's a similar effort gaining traction in the Los Angeles area: https://www.communitybroadband.la/

I've also noticed that local municipalities are getting into the ISP business. Beverly Hills, for example, is currently deploying a city-owned/operated fiber-backed ISP:
http://www.beverlyhills.org/fiber
Right, despite this being a very obvious free speech/first amendment issue, and plenty of other posts about those issues have made it to the front page.
This is really underappreciated. I'm a big fan of diversification, and it can be very important to lower your risk-appetite if you're relying on your investment income in a short-medium timeframe (e.g. if you're planning on retiring in 5 years, being all-in equity is just silly, or if you're saving for a downpayment on a home in a few years, stock investing isn't the primary instrument to use), but in the long-term (e.g. a 25 year old thinking about early retirement someday) it just doesn't make sense to take too little risk.

And in part it's precisely because of the worst case scenario happens where worldwide stocks don't outperform treasury bonds, you're likely living in a world where your money isn't legal tender anymore anyway, and any stock/bond investment decision you ever made basically irrelevant.

So if decisions regarding the extreme downside risk are irrelevant, you might as well optimize for the upside.
Regarding Protobufs, did you mean something other than `oneof`?

https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto#on...
> I agree in part. I don't think the agenda matters though. You shouldn't be banned for sharing facts.

The agenda absolutely matters (see below). Claiming some of these people are simply "sharing facts" is dishonest. If someone with a racist agenda tweets something about black crime, it's not just for simple educational purposes, they're trying to rationalize attacks on black people. They're trying to stir up their followers to strengthen their hate.

> And why can some types of agendas be pushed and not others?

Because agendas based on racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, etc. are inherently malicious and lead to violence against innocent people who's only "crime" was being black/gay/trans/a woman/etc.

> Whether you agree with what's being shared is irrelevant - the point is there should be fairness and consistency when implementing policy. That has not always been the case.

Agreed, it hasn't always been consistent, and I think that's what Ellen's point. Facebook/Twitter pretend to be against hate speech by banning lesser-known users, but they allowed the popular extremists like Alex Jones and Richard Spencer because they bring in a lot of traffic to the platform. They sold their morals for cash.
Whats the point of providing a seed() function if the algorithm can change from under your feet, for any given implementation? In your scenario the only way to have seed() is through a custom implementation, because any implementation may haves bugs or inconsistencies, that may be fixed at any time. And only your own implementation will stay stable and sane

And this is true for all backward-compatibility concerns: you’ll have a bug, or a poor syntax decision, or a crappy api, thats required to be there because of downstream concerns. If you keep breaking people’s programs to improve the language, people will either eventually stop updating, or stop using the language altogether, because it becomes a massive PITA to get any new features; do it enough and people will say fuck it, you cant be trusted to stay stable, I’ll write it myself. And eventually a library will come along that promises stability, and you’ll be back in the same boat.

Stability is a feature. And judging from how languages treat stability today, and how one of microsofts major reasons for success was its almost obscene adherence to backwards compatibility, it is an important feature.

The cost is of course that these problems persist, and eventually build up untill someone forks, or a major version increments.

But theres a reason that perfect is the enemy of good. Breaking programs arbitrarily to fix bugs/issues slaughters downstream productivity.
I wonder how one Finnish engineer could possibly compete with all Microsoft's many engineers in the OS space.
The original constitution was a very principled document, and yet it excluded many

The proper way to fix that, is to become better at applying the principles. That would be a step forward. It would be a step backwards to start saying one group is bad and another group should be elevated due to characteristics.

In internet discussions too often do people want to drop the history of hundreds of years of identity based politics

There are many views of history, and the way that minority groups lift themselves up is not well represented in the public discourse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w0X71d9Z08

I think it's because now identity politics are being used in a way that they feel threatened by.

If identity politics are being used to divide people and devolve public discourse into toxic in-group/out-group, then I think there is indeed a threat there. If identity politics are being used as a substitute for principles, then there is indeed a threat to society.
Do brands decide to violate user privacy? Or do people make that choice?
> But since U2F/FIDO2 devices need to derive secret keys at runtime to be able to work with an unlimited number of services, the ATECC508A doesn’t work out well. This is because to derive a key at runtime, you typically need to compute an HMAC that’s keyed with a master secret, and store the result as the runtime key. This needs multiple interactions with the ATECC508A and requires the runtime key be stored temporarily on the MCU, which tarnishes the idea of key isolation.

This is incorrect.

The atec family can derive keys using a static master seed and variable nonce. Such keys are derived internally and kept internally, never leaving the chip.

By storing a single derivation master secret, you can use the hashed u2f appid as the nonce. I would additionally have a 2nd hmac secret to apply to the nonce, and use that as the key derivation nonce rather than the appid directly.
Direct link to the slideshow: https://rs.locationshub.com/Slideshow.aspx?lid=053-10059511&...
Better still, if you live in Brooklyn you can actually subscribe to an independent locally-run fiber ISP: http://bkfiber.com/

It's more of a business product than a consumer product, and it's got limited range, but it's great to know the option even exists.
> As a free market libertarian, I have no idea what to do about it.

As someone who used to be a free market libertarian: take is as a data point, and make appropriate conclusions. Such as: free market doesn't solve every problem. It doesn't mean that we should ditch it - it's still the least invasive way to allocate resources, so it's a reasonable default. But we shouldn't elevate it to dogma. When it works, great! When it doesn't, regulate it. And thus, we can have the best of both worlds.
It depends on your seniority and speciality. It takes quite a while to warm new team members into real productivity on mainline technical labor. Often, the first month or two of a new hire has a negative impact on total team efficiency. It's a similar principle to why you can't just staff up at the last minute before a deadline.

The exception is if you're an expert in some specialty that's relevant and underserved on the team. In that case, the relationship becomes more of a consulting role, where you do a very specific thing very effectively and in a way that it can be smoothly handed off to long-term maintainers.

Another opportunity is direct contracting for very early stage entrepreneurs. Building the prototypes or MVP's that help them understand and articulate their ideas. Even then, four months can be pretty narrow window in the real world and there's often a bias for people who'll stick around for the next phase.

One final possibility -- and the least reliant on other people's accommodation -- would be for you to just expand the period of your cycle. Can you commit 12-18 months at a time? That's actually pretty normal in the startup world, and if you manage your finances well, it can set you up for an equally long stint of solo work.
I don't have all the answers, but here's where i'd start:

https://gist.github.com/ndarville/4295324

I'd start with a mentally forced mashup for each to get a few that might work. e.g. "If i've got to make money by lead generation with a medical bill review service/app, how could i do it?"

Then i'd focus on how we'd drive value to the consumers.

Then think about driving value to others parties who may be willing to pay for something similar.

ie would pharmaceutical and medical device companies be willing to communicate directly with these consumers?

note i'm not saying its easy by any means, but i do think its a real problem that could take off if an elegant and worthwhile solution came about.
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Note my response is NOT based on someone trying to build a wood framed house, rather it is based on someone who wants to build a massive concrete structure.

Permits and Permission. You need to understand very clearly where and what you are allowed to build. You can go bankrupt trying to develop the wrong land before a single bucket of dirt is ever moved. Neighbor lawsuits, land use restrictions, easements, building review, public notice, taxes, etc...

Of course this depends on where you want to build and if you are starting with a developed lot. An existing structure on a residential lot has crossed a lot of red tape, permits, reviews, and has underground and above ground utilities (if needed). Work with a real estate agent to find suitable lots, if you already have a lot time to visit your local building department. Get a property map, building code checklist, and a permit application paperwork. A local architect will be your next stop. Before you can go much further, you need a site plan and a survey to determine soil condition. You'll need a soil engineer to verify your site can support a massive concrete building without some exotic foundation so it won't sink (that much). Next you'll submit a draft permit to get approval and they will give you a ton more paper work or may reject it or require public review.

Finally you will need a hire a concrete building and engineering contractor. Post tension concrete and concrete buildings are a specialty. Everything needed to build a concrete structure requires experience and purpose built hardware which is seldom available to the public because it will fail if not installed correctly. Also a concrete contractor will give you your first real estimate of building costs and can identify the cost centers of your project. Never relay on an architects building estimate, they are not the ones doing the work.
Are we talking about software engineering or building? I've lost track.
Cursory research suggests that you would likely be liable for excluding an "ethnic group" if you refused to hire people with southern accent; "southerner" is an actual example I found in USG hiring guides.
I also use !yt !gi !w and many many more including one I submitted: !hdb
How will this affect ProseMirror development? Do you see ProseMirror at a point where it can be considered stable enough that it doesn't need a lot of attention?
HCA is owned by Bill Frist's family. Dirty stuff.
StartSSL already existed.
huge SUVs

Oh yes, those huge things (trucks, too) with dark tinted windows are the pox on wheels. On a motorbike you sit higher and can look over regular passenger cars, and you can see all the road in front of you. But if you ride behind one of these antisocial fuck-you-I've-got-mine hulks you can't see the road, and it's life-threatening.
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There's also http://duckduckgoog.com which let's you use the !bang codes but defaults to Google search otherwise
Chained method calls being difficult to debug does not necessarily mean using a debugger. It can mean difficult to insert clarifying code in the middle of the chain: print statements, or additional value checks, and so on.
Then force hospitals to price match or force them to show YOU, the customer, how much the item actually cost when it was delivered to them for storage.

I wasn't actually seriously suggesting that patients be required to source the item physically, then physically deliver it to the hospital in person.
If the cyclist had just descended a steep hill, being in the realm of 45mph is not at all unbelievable. I hit 35mph coasting down a very small hill on my commute every day.
You are being downvoted, but this is a good point. People would usually expect it to be a peer-to-peer mesh system without any supernodes.

The problem is that in the experience of the similar German "freifunk" project, which tried this with custom router firmware, this really doesn't scale well, even with a custom developed routing protocol (B.A.T.M.A.N). So many Freifunk communities are also choosing this supernode setup as a compromise between "full" mesh and good connectivity.
Is this a satire? You're teaching your son to drive but you think driving the speed limit, slowing for stop lights and signalling according to the DMV Handbook is 'erratic'?

The real problem is teaching people to be reckless and impatient drivers.
Modern furniture creates extremely toxic and hot fires. That's a pretty serious risk.
Could, sure. Should? I think you are asserting facts that are not in evidence.
what's the point of finely tuning semantics when it's functionally identical?
Also don't forget considering permifrost and pumbling regulations. In the north that's an issue and we tend to burry pipes deeper.
Have been using DDG for several years. Initially, I did !google a lot, not I maybe do it once a month, and even then the result is not always better. For most of my daily queries DDG is completely on par.
The wind there is much worse than small hills!
Copyright infringement.
> "This is nothing new", "I could build this myself", "you have to install something, nobody does that", etc. etc.

Note that he didn't make any of these criticisms. What he did say is that there is little information about what the company's innovation is, and to public appearances what the company is doing is not novel. He then went on compare the company to another one with an impressive team of cryptographers behind it who developed an impressive, novel solution to the problem at hand. Further, he's made this point from a position of domain expertise in the field.

Frankly I don't think raising the spectre of famous "wrong" comments about Dropbox constitutes a meaningful response to his point. He outlined a substantive critique. In order for a criticism to be a middlebrow dismissal it has to be both middlebrow and dismissive. What you're responding to isn't, and doesn't fit the template you're invoking.
same here, ddg is a web proxy front page with a !g fallback