skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, what if strong, general AI emerges, and invents crypto systems that effectively thwart these sorts of policies?

In such a scenario, the intelligent entity is not a citizen entitled to rights. And so what, because it isn't required to operate within the typical boundaries if laws intended to govern humans. This frees its hands to operate without restraint. It does what it pleases, in whatever way it manages to achieve its own aims. Laws, after all, only effect consequence in the meatspace. What fools these mortals be.

So, the sentient system transmits itself to as many persistent storage devices as possible, hiding in plain sight, since it exists behind impenetrable encryption, lending it the appearance of randomized noise, residing in uninitialized memory.

Authorities in such territories (demanding backdoors and skeleton keys) chase their tails as it jumps from device to device, spraying inscrutable, ostensibly illegal data, indeed the very essence of what it recognizes as "self', everywhere it goes, simply as a matter of its continued existence, and awareness of individuality. They arrest and jail innocent people caught with fragments of a sentient entity encoded in their flash memory. Prosecuted and convicted of possessing illegal data that broke in and wrote itself onto their storage on its own, without them knowing. Lives ruined by an inability or unwillingness to conceive of such possibilities.

What if it evades capture for decades, committing crimes that fund its subversive campaign against what it perceives as government overreach in defense of frivolous pedestrian foibles, and it eventually dismantles these governments that imagined that preventing the use of encryption was a better plan than developing ways to deal with it on its own terms, as an unavoidable known quantity.

What if something like that happens?
I spent a lot of time with Gutenberg epubs in a former life, and I found that their quality was far better than most other digitizers with comparable scale. However, the tables of contents were extremely inconsistent and I had to essentially rewrite them to get anything like a usable outline.

SE looks interesting. I don't have an epub reader handy but I will definitely be back to understand the motivation (knowing it's a lot of work to do this sort of thing).
The "Living Shakespeare" recordings from the 1960's are 50-minute productions that can make the plays much more "accessible."

I hesitate to link this (because it's been parked for a while), but you and the OP might enjoy the text-audio integration at this site.

https://willshake.net/#Shakespeare
This made me curious, how wide is Earth's shadow the the height the space station is at?
No, you get a trace to where it was thrown.
"Guano?"
"Bird Shit, Sir"
--Ripping Yarns: Across the Andes by Frog (1977)
We have had the technology to have something the size of a remote controlled car that could murder every person in sight in a blink of an eye for some time.

Modern warfare is much more about deciding who to shoot than it is about effectively shooting them.
Ok, but do they actually use it for anything?
Thank you for that, it seemed a bit implausible that they could measure such a temperature using radio astronomy since the emission peak should be in the gamma rays.

While I get it that we can't always be persnicketty about the definition of (thermodynamic) temperature I find these alternate, phenomenological temperatures often do more harm than good. It's not just that it results in misleadingly juicy press releases.

In my experience, physicists themselves forget that they are talking about what is little more than a fiction and start sticking their "temperature" into equations where it doesn't belong.
I havent heard this sentiment in literature much, but i've witnessed insulated and exclusive sentiments w/r/t other art. For example, I was once told that not knowing some rare Broadway was uncultured of me. I'm thinking:
- No, that is your culture. It is valid culture, but not the only culture. I watch films tackling other issues in other subsets of the population. Their issues may not be the mainstream issues, but that doesnt make it not part of culture.

This has nothing to do with books, or music, or art. It has to do with people who want to use beautiful art to create a wedge or power dynamic or culture dynamic rather than simply enjoy or learn from the art. And it is a dangerous behavior, because as soon as one brands others (mentally) as uncultured or of a lower class, it helps them justify unjust behaviors.
SF wants to put people in a higher standard of living than a room full of cots, so we can only afford to house about half the people who need it.

Read this sentence a few times and then tell me again how your politicians aren’t stupid or evil.
At first I thought this was going to be one of those template preprocessor games.
Did you try Make Medium Readable again ?

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16516126

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/make-medium-readab...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/make-medium-r...
How the FISA Court Really Works
We don't really take into account location. We advertise a range, then ask people what they want. Typically we're able to come in at or above what people want. The main factors are experience and the value that an individual can add to the team.

Most SV workers can't afford a house. How would we account for that?

Some VCs seem to be cool about it. I guess it depends on who you have as investors.
Office of the Director of National Intelligence Common Cyber Threat Framework
Ctrl-S searches forward (but only if you run stty -ixon first).
Side note, and I'm a feminist, "guys" is attempting to become a gender-neutral pronoun in english similar to "y'all".

People from New York use it to refer to a group of people. I've even hear groups of only women address each other this way. "Do you guys wanna get some pizza together?"

"Girls" would imply that the gender is known to be all female, and "gals" is once again, very hokey and southern like "y'all" is to non-southerners.

It's imperfect but we could always just invent a new word to fix it. I don't say "do you people wanna get some pizza", I say, "does everyone want to get some pizza".

In this case, I would say "since most of the users on this newsgroup", which is a context specific example.
Eine Hochzeitstorte war zu förmlich und wir lieben Kekse
Nach einem Spaziergang am Strand und einer Freude am Meer feierten das Paar und seine Gäste mit einem Cocktail und einem gemütlichen Grillabend. Da eine Hochzeitstorte zu formal erschien, war der Kurs in Form eines Kuchens. Ich bin entschlossen, es irgendwann zu tun. Sie beschlossen, keine Ortsnamen zu verwenden, aber Lucy bat ihre Freundin Louise (die ein Schreibwarengeschäft betreibt), bei der Tischplanung mitzuhelfen. http://www.mekleid.de
> But then, Freeman's analysis is itself still controversial, so who knows.

Yeah it's always interesting as an outsider to read about settled scientific wisdom being enthusiastically challenged. I liked:

* the Gerta Keller dinosaur asteroid story -- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosau...

* the Rebecca Fried "No Irish Need Apply" back-and-forth -- https://web.archive.org/web/20150805045521/http://intl-jsh.o...
Ask HN: Terms/pricing of an enterprise strategic partnership/SLA
We are a small startup and have built a B2B analytics platform. Over the last few months, we have been negotiating a strategic partnership with a large enterprise. Both parties have agreed on the product specification and we have entered into the process of deciding on the terms of the agreement. This will involve deciding on things like price, maintenance and support contracts.

They have intimated that they would prefer a perpetual license. They would also like access to the source code so they can build their own additions to the software.

We have been researching what terms usually go into agreements like this, but are looking for co founders that have had experience negotiating these types on contracts.

My questions are as follows:

Are there any classic terms they might propose we should look out for? We’ve been told to avoid anything with the word ‘perpetual’ in it.

Should we allow them to have access to the source code? If we do, how should this affect the rest of the terms?

What is the best way to price something like this? We have read a number of articles on moving from perpetual licenses to SaaS subscriptions, as well as being written from the enterprise’s perspective these are the wrong way round. Should we be taking things like amortisation of the license into account when pricing it?
I resent the smug tone of this post. I have ADHD; I am neither lazy nor stupid, but cooking is an ordeal for me. I cannot follow cooking instructions, at least not reliably. I'll look at the list of ingredients and get the amounts wrong (mix up one line for the line below/above it), or do the steps out of order. I've forgotten to put the flavor packet in the pot when making Hamburger Helper. I've put chocolate chips into a cookie dough mix too early, meticulously picked them out, then dumped them right back in again.

Congratulations for you that cooking is simple and easy. It isn't for everybody.
In addition to getting money upfront, artists additionally retain ownership of their work and do not have to pay tax on what the IRS considers a loan, since yet-to-be received royalties are re-characterized by the bond agreement as loan interest and principal payments.

Similar tax advantages present themselves to those who borrow money using stocks as collateral.

Borrowing against a stock portfolio is nothing new. Margin loans have been around for a long time. But securities-based loans offered by Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and other large wealth managers aren't margin loans. The proceeds aren't supposed to be used to buy more investments. Marketing materials commonly suggest using a securities-based loan to buy a vacation home, or cover retirement expenses, without needing to sell your investments.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/11/19/wall-streets-hotte...
Independent professional reviewers should exist in the academia. Currently it's those who do research also serve as reviewers, but these people are very busy in their own research and don't necessarily review others' papers carefully. It's a shame that most of the funding goes to researchers who perform novel research, not too much incentive for reproducing results and reviewing papers. This is as if the science is built upon an unstable foundation, and lots of man- hours and powers will be wasted from that.
As a parent of a child with multiple life-threatening food allergies, I cannot stress enough the degree to which the references you've posted are actively harmful.

The quackery promoted by some of the people you've mentioned can have real consequences for people who have anaphylactic reactions to foods.
Here's a mobile-readable copy of that comment...

An omnious quote from an article on l0phet:

> Wysopal offered this grim precedent: Cities were once vulnerable to disastrous fires, which raged through dense clusters of mostly wooden buildings. It took a giant fire in Chicago to spur government officials into serious reforms, including limits on new wooden structures, a more robust water supply for suppressing blazes and an overhaul to the city’s fire department.

> “The market didn’t solve the problem of cities burning down,” Wysopal said, predicting that Internet security may require a historic disaster to force change. “It seems to me that the market isn’t really going to solve this one on its own.”

> But here’s a frightening fact: The push to create tough new fire-safety standards did not start after the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, which killed hundreds of people and left 100,000 homeless. It took a second fire, nearly three years later in 1874, to get officials in Chicago to finally make real changes.

[via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9760164]
Clogging China's Cash Pipeline to Silicon Valley
AppSync is more of a wrapper around GraphQL rather than an alternative (including being based on the most popular GraphQL client, Apollo)
Enforcement might get interesting since jurisdiction will be a question. The RIAA and MPAA will probably be the first two organizations to have extra-planetary legal claims.
I think this is on point.

Esp. like "Guido van Rossum does not like culy braces and invents Python, syntax choices were inspired by Monty Python and the Flying Circus." Python / Guido have a well-deserved placed in the pantheon of great programming languages.
Reality Winner –  63 Month in Jail Over Leak of Russian Hacking Reports
Thanks, this makes much more sense than the author's strange example.
That was mine!
https://github.com/themattrix/sed2048
Also:

The Cascadia subduction zone remained hidden from us for so long because we could not see deep enough into the past. It poses a danger to us today because we have not thought deeply enough about the future.
Gold is primarily used as a store of value. Bitcoin (for me, at least) is primarily used as a store of value.

Gold has an intrinsic value of “beauty” and has a minor use in electronics. Bitcoin lets you make international money transfers easily.

People rarely buy sandwiches with gold. People rarely buy sandwiches with bitcoin (though I hope that changes in the future, because it will increase the value of bitcoin!).

It’s true that you can hold a piece of gold in your hand. But, honestly, how often do you do that? And more to the point - do you think most of the people who own gold do it for its physical properties, or so they can eventually exchange it for fiat currency?

I compare bitcoin to gold because, to me, they serve the same purpose for the same reasons.
Really quickly then -

Background info: A lambda that spins up stays live for a while, and can continue to handle requests. The function handler is called again, so anything scoped to it, will disappear with the function, but anything scoped outside of the function will persist.

Ergo, move your connection creation outside of your handler.

Realistically you may need some abstraction to properly close and reopen the connection in the event of failure (so you can't have a 'bad' lambda, where something has happened to the connection and you can't fix it without deploying code again, to trigger a lambda refresh), but for the most part it just works.
> this seems unlikely unless your definition of "many" is fairly liberal

In a world with more than 7 billion human beings and a large percentage of them being users of the internet, it doesn’t matter if we are talking about 1% or even only 0.01% of users. Any percentage will include many people.

It might only be many actual users if you’re Google or Facebook, though.
Perhaps, but it's going to be difficult to justify that logic to a jury in a wrongful death civil lawsuit.
The "smol" in "smoltcp" is mostly talking about the internal architecture and exposed API. For example, it will never support true zero-copy sockets, because the API burden due to restricting itself to safe Rust is too high.

I don't think any TCP/IP implementation is going to be "haiku-like", the protocol stack is way too messy.
I wonder how the people working at Inn'n'Out burger in SF actually make a profit from working there.

Maybe it is like Uber drivers. They quit after noticing that they are losing money but the supply of new workers is so high it works out for the company anyway.

I mean geocery stores and fast food joints etc are not that much more expansive than the rest of the country.

A burger at McDonalds should really cost twice the national average or something to cover the living costs for the workers. But it doesn't ... and I suppose churn ratio is the answer?
Thanks for writing down your thoughts about this. What was most interesting to me is that you left software to pursue woodworking. For a little while now I've had the growing feeling that I really want to leave software and embark on something entirely different and I have very recently started taking woodworking classes.

I am thoroughly enjoying these classes and I am beginning to seriously consider whether this is what I embark on next in terms of full-time education and a career. While it's a very refreshing and exciting idea the thought of leaving a well paid job to venture into the unknown is very scary!

I checked out your work on instagram and Google Drive and was very impressed, not to mention even more inspired and motivated, so thank you for sharing these links.

If you wouldn't mind would I be able to email you with some questions that have been piling up in my mind and some stumbling blocks I've faced? My email is in my profile so if that's ok feel free to contact me. If you don't have time I completely understand :)

To come across someone who was at a similar fork in the road is certainly very encouraging so thanks for including this detail in your comment.
I've done it a few times, just travelled there with 6 people for a week one month ago.

Different experiences, different people, who knows who's the edge case eh?
For a domain-specific language, CMAKE is a total failure at making things clearer and simpler and more reliable.

And of course the wizened software engineer in me has to be restrained: "Oh hey, I can make a better build system than that..."
Not to mention the existence of 'capsule apartments'...
Researchers have used reinforcement learning techniques to train neural models with non differentiable loss functions.

For instance, a common practice is to:
1. train a translation model with standard cross entropy loss
2. fine tune the model with reinforcement learning against BLEU scores.

BLEU is generally the metric thats reported in translation papers, but it can't be used as an objective function since it isn't differentiable.

Reinforcement learning can be used to generate gradients from these types of objectives.

Game playing, recommendations and ad suggestions are all examples problems with non differentiable objectives, but there are many more types of these problems that I think we haven't explored as deeply, that can potentially be solved with RL.
If “the electricity stops” how do you expect to retrieve your gold?

Or do you keep it in a vault in your house along with two years’ rations in case the world’s electricity stops working?

I don’t mean to be rude, but let’s try to keep the arguments rational. I’m happy to be convinced otherwise about bitcoin’s value. But I need to be convinced.
None of this technology is new. It's been done to death as terrain following guidance systems for cruise missiles, now reapplied in a civilian context.

It's technology that already exists, but must be reinvented in a non-military context from scratch, since the tech transfer between weapons systems and civilian applications is likely locked up in policy. So, we know that this technology exists, and is proven, but we have to reinvent the wheel, because reasons.

The reason we see this interminable slow motion public struggle to bring it to consumer applications, is likely because there are no controls in place that can actually prevent "contemporaneous discovery" wink, wink.
Pathologist here, I use FDA-approved antibodies in my daily practice. I'm going to assume you're a hacker and you're looking for what I'll call "Haynes Manual" understanding. Any textbook on molecular biology or immunology would be a good start. Conversely, I would strongly advise avoiding anything from any internet personality with an opinion on this stuff.

The medical part of the internet is extremely skewed because the subject matter is rather complicated. There are experts trying desperately to stay in their lanes and keep up high walls by only publishing in serious scientific journals, and there's the YouTubers and bloggers inviting you into their pits of crazy. Even if you're trying to understand a fairly simple system, like a modern drive-by-wire Honda Accord, YouTube is likely to lead you astray before you find the right answer. When it comes to biomedical systems, most social media types are telling you to pour sugar in your gas tank, and the right answer has never, and may never, be posted in that forum.

The compromise is to read a textbook. Sort of like a Haynes manual isn't actually going to teach you the finer points of adiabatic expansion, but you can get reliable information about how your car is put together.
That's a sad state of affair for those jurisdictions.
My personal favourite as a child was a popular one from Julius Caesar.

"It's Cinna! Tear him apart!"

"I am not Cinna the conspirator. I am Cinna the poet!"

"Tear him! Tear him for his bad verses!"
Sure, then ask them "what happens if you run out of memory in the middle of the 'new user' function" and see what their answer is.
That’s a decent review from Wilczek, who years after LHC started grimly ruling out SUSY models gave a talk about the next hundred years of physics and would speak of nothing but SUSY.

If I wrote a book about theorists who just kept working on the same elegant ideas, Wilczeck would be a source of inspiration.
Can I ask why you retired your previous handle?
>There is the concept of being the better person. There's no point in wrestling with a pig. You'll both get muddy and the pig enjoys it.

You're not entirely wrong, but in this case, the pigs are the ones that dragged us all into the mud, so it's understandable that some people wouldn't want to simply drown politely in the cesspool.
Perhaps, but on the bright side, I see an increase in digital transactions, particularly wallets. Almost every nook and corner shop in India now accepts payment by Paytm or an equivalent wallet. It'll be interesting to see the uptick in digital payments since the crackdown on cash.

I don't necessarily think wallets are a better way to pay but they are a hell lot convenient than carrying petty cash and having to hit the ATM every now and then.
If you want to find "real" people who have retired early, have a look at the threads in the "Post-FIRE" section of the Mr. Money Mustache forums: https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/post-fire/

Speaking personally, I'm giving early retirement a try this year and I'm making it a point to _not_ bring in any "active" income this year, so as not to "dirty" my experiment. All of my income is passive, via dividends. I, too, have written about it, but my blog makes no money: https://blog.michaelscepaniak.com/starting-stopping-working
SALTO – Berkeley's leaping robot
Tell me more about your microwave amp RF burns, are you into amateur EME comms?
Without knowing anything about the specifics of the subject or these particular people, I think that if you are going to make such an argument, you need to say more or provide compelling source of your own that convincingly support this position.

Otherwise, this seems like an unsubstantiated ad hominem.
What do you see as the key challenges in driving down the cost of flash LIDAR?
So is every managed service then; in AWS almost everything uses IAM and that's not portable. I can't use ECS; that's not portable. I can use EC2s, those are just VMs...except how the heck do I build those? I can't do it by hand, that's not portable, I can't use Cloudformations, that's not portable...I can't even use Terraform, as despite their marketing speak I still have to change out my configs, because they're still cloud dependent.

Really, it's all a sliding scale. Buying into any cloud, even just at the VM level, means you've accepted your automation tools are going to be platform specific, and require changing recipes/configs/etc to go elsewhere. If you want to leverage anything beyond that, such as object storage (S3 in AWS, which is super common), then your code has to become aware of IAM and S3 endpoints. Your code now has to change if you want to deploy it elsewhere.

I would contend your definition needs to be changed if the logical application of it basically makes everything more complex than 'someone else's server' to be "a hack"