skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google has signed a contract with ICANN as it is a registry and a registrar. In that contract it has agreed to limit behaviour that affects the security and stability of the name system. This behaviour of chromium is in contravention of that contract.
Thanks. The URL's protocol element threw me for a loop.
Honestly, "Those are the eyes of a rat" is a fairly tame insult compared to the kind of toxic drivel Jones usually says, and seems like weak grounds for termination.

He should've been kicked off long ago, but I fear that having this particular example be the "final straw" is only going to strengthen the alt-right's persecution complex.
It's because institutions everywhere have been caught lieing repeatedly and maliciously. Public trust in institutions has been seriously eroded because those institutions have not been acting in a trustworthy manner.

People are being trained to not believe data from any organized group
Plus benefits. A contractor or consultant will charge more.
Could you please work a little harder to stick to substance?
As much as I'm tempted to agree, decentralization perhaps risks even more. Opsec compromise is only one SPOF for a signing service; the state might coerce the CA into handing over the keys or issuing an intermediate for MitM.

Do you shard across 20 nations? If so, you have to contend with 20 intelligence agencies. It might make more sense to keep all the eggs in one basket, and have new baskets ready to go if a canary triggers.
He should start a blog or a magazine. Marginalizing harmful and admitted liars is fine.
> His legacy lives on in US legislation: All 44 states that run lotteries have enacted laws preventing the profitable replication of Mandel’s strategy. In effect, this secures him a title as the first and last man to ever successfully game the lottery by buying every possible combination.

This doesn't seem true? He didn't buy all of the tickets in question, he only bought most, and people have been running lottery syndicates under the same logic which buy some or most tickets to ensure winning for centuries. Even Voltaire ran one.
That's exactly right. www.pool.ntp.org is the project site. pool.ntp.org is for getting an NTP server. Which one you get will depend on your location and random chance. That server will run NTP, but what it happens to run on port 80, if anything, is up to the operator of the server.
Fall over yourself all you want to defend free speech, much respect to you. My parent debunked the specific lie that UK police stretched a law to fine a man for uploading a gif of his dog, and that is what I was applauding. Predictably, the replies ignore the lies and rant about free speech.
Eclipse with PyDev is amazing with that, definitely. It lacks a crucial goodie that PyCharm has, which is an icon to indicate a method is overriding a parent implementation. Other than that, it's amazing and very mature when it comes to python development.
I agree with your thinking, but with this particular example: you'd wish. See: every other data leak that happened over the last decade. It seems data leaks are harmless to companies.
> ... in history, there is rarely a single “correct reading”, but rather many interpretations that at time reinforce and at times weaken each other.

As I was reading the GP's interpretation of these historical events, it occurred to me how difficult it really is to get at a reliable interpretation of something like this: I've already read a couple books on the subject—but I can see room the cracks so to speak, where the GP's view may be more accurate.

That said, difficulty isn't the same as impossibility—and yes, it is technically impossible (or at least meaningless) for certain definitions of 'correct' interpretation, but if you're okay with correct up to "for all intents and purposes"—then it's a non-issue. For instance, in this case there is a pretty definite question we'd like answered: which innovation was the limiting factor on our original development of general purpose computation: increased memory capacity, or theoretical knowledge of general purpose computation—or was their role more alike than different?

Depending on how things actually played out, there are definite things you can say about that. For instance, perhaps we need at least 500 bits of memory for general purpose computation—did we have access to that while no one had yet thought to build the general purpose computer because we were still waiting for Zuse, Turing/Church? If so, we answer one way; if not, we answer the other way. The only case where it gets endlessly complicated, perhaps giving apparent grounds for claiming impossibility of correct interpretation, actually fits neatly into the last option I mentioned in the original question statement: that there wasn't a significant difference in the two innovations' roles as limiting factors.

It seems valuable to understand the difficult and limits of interpretation, but I think more harm is being done than good speaking so generally of "correct readings" being impossible.

> Using the imperative “read”, “learn”, etc is also heavy handed and unnecessary. It’s the kind of language bad teachers - the teachers who have to use their authority rather than mentorship skills - tend to use (“Check out those books for more” flows much better, for instance).

I really wish this was better known. It's a pretty consistent pattern and useful to be able to recognize. My read on it is that it's typically used as a defensive strategy—a way to prevent an interlocutor from questioning the speaker any further on the subject.
Spirited discussion! I think for the average Joe, this change does not matter (i.e neither good, nor bad). Two better changes: a) highlight https / secure connections even more prominently, and b) detect and highlight misspelled domain names (a major cause of phishing attacks). Rationale is that for the average Joe, a clear warning that they are about to go to a bad site is more valuable than looking at the accurate domain name.
> “Those are the eyes of a rat,”

There's no way they can ban him for saying that yet still claim to enforce the rules equally for all political affiliations.

There have been thousands (maybe more) tweets by people with blue verification checkmarks calling Trump an orange oompa loopa and much worse. No one has been banned for that (rightfully so imo).

There's been a ton of pressure on Twitter to ban Jones but using this tweet as an excuse shows they are in no way politically neutral.

This comes one day after Dorsey stood in front of congress and said they don't have a political agenda and previous examples of right wing censorship were "a mistake".

Ironically, one of the only places you can see actual footage of Dorsey saying this is on Infowars:

https://www.infowars.com/watch-rep-markwayne-mullin-reads-sa...

This is not an Infowars endorsement, it's seriously the only place I can find this video aside from Breitbart.
This looks interesting. Whilst I agree with other commenters that it's hard to compete in hardware I think there's a good niche for this product. Google isn't going to start selling TPUs so something off-the-shelf for machine learning might make some real traction. Best case, lot's of sales to cloud providers (amazon, microsoft etc.) and lots of custom houses. Worst case would be acquisition by MS or Amazon.

Having said that, it's certainly true that Nvidia are tough to beat. But right now we're in a bubble, VC will throw millions at companies and big corporations will throw billions at acquisitions. So I think it's probably a very profitably move in general.
I think that's somewhat missing the key nuance of the point. There are actually two debates:

1. Whether to regulate the internet.

2. Whether a specific regulation is a good one.

How often have lawmakers and regulators proposed things that would significantly break the Internet and online communities/activities? It seems to happen continuously, a few times a year.

I think you're somewhat missing the key nuance of a point. There are actually two debates. 1. Whether to text while driving. 2. Whether a specific texting is too distracting.

Here's the thing, though. Is legislation a remedy for bad internet legislation?
Yea its an overly complicated distributed doubly linked list.
That's all good advice. I see a lot of movement among solution architects (pre-sales), support, technical marketing managers, developers (although less so), etc. Sales is, as you say, a largely orthogonal skill set, and often, personality. I won't say someone can't transition between the two worlds but I'd be hard put to name an example off the top of my head.
> must claim fiduciary duty to shareholders

This isn't true, and I can't tell if this view has been promulgated by decision makers who want to hide behind it or the shareholders to whom the mythical duty is owed. Probably both I guess?

"modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else"

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/13-354.html
For reference for anyone curious: the US has a final energy consumption of 6.0kW per capita, the EU average is about 2.9kW. (2009 data)

At that point, China was at 1.3kW/citizen, Africa at half that, India on the level of Africa and the middle East slightly below the EU with 2.3kW.

Wikipedia [2] uses world bank data instead which seems to measure differntly, but the relations are roughtly the same.

1: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/final-energy...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_co...
if you fill out your hackernews bio/profile with contact details we can follow-up with you.
How Amazon's Culture Enables Innovation
A useragent is literally a user's agent, it is supposed to help its user browse their target website. It is not supposed to help the target website show things to the user.
The thing about persecution complexes is that those who have them will find persecution in anything, so it's kind of a waste of energy to worry about what might trigger those prone to thinking in such a way.
That phrase is going into my verbal toolkit.
On Redis master-slave terminology
Hiding the URL would be a terrible idea, no matter how much "simpler" it would be for the average user: it would either only be enabled for a handful of websites chosen by Google (which would mean having an inconsistent UI) or create a lot of security issues (what if someone creates a website and manages to also display "Wikipedia FR" with a similar layout?).
Is anyone else starting to see parallels between Google's attitude toward "progressing" Chrome and Microsoft's attitude towards IE in the 3-8 version days?
Show HN: Free Invoicing Android APP: Updated Invoice System
The main purpose of probiotics I've heard of is to repopulate a gut that's been wiped out by antibiotics. This experiment was performed on 25 healthy subjects; its results don't seem to bear on that purpose.
The Web Animations API is nice but it's a working draft that's only supported by FF and Chrome, no Safari or Edge.
unless they need help
and get one of those .1 percent to help them out
Twitter Permanently Bans Alex Jones, Infowars Citing Abuse
Bingo, straight across the middle. See that, I never thought I was going to get optical and quantum in the same headline but there you go. You never know with bullshit bingo.
It does seem tame, but a quick search suggests it may be an anti-semitic dog whistle.
Programming would be trivial if things were so simple.

The reality is, that "either it creates revenue by being what users want", or it enables creating more of that later on, or prevents the speed of creating more of that from dropping, or prevents the whole thing from catastrophic errors (like in this article), ...

Those are the trade-offs engineers have to consider daily.
It was Done Daily, the Services had extensive labs handling film.
Very interesting result. I wonder how did I manage to keep finding startups that use emacs or end up in friend circles that use emacs in college. Makes me very curious now.
VideoCoin Up for Consideration on Bitfinex Exchange
What tools did you use to generate that page ? There are a lot of useful elements that would be awesome to replicate and use.
Then they just award it to your peers for your work - see Prospect Theory from Daniel Kahneman (winner) and Amos Tversky (deceased).
It seems like every comment by someone the left doesn’t like is a kind of dog whistle.
> You can't possibly say that with any confidence.

Assuming your module's interface isn't too complicated, it shouldn't be terribly difficult to write a test fixture that fuzzes a module, and verifies that its memory consumption does not go outside a certain bound.

The first round of bugs you'll catch might be design flaws more than true memory leaks - places where the module isn't designed to limit its own memory usage in the face of adverse (or adversarial) input.

Get those pinned down, and then you can use it to catch memory leaks with confidence. Let it run for less time if you're only worried about catching fast leaks, and for more time if you need to catch the slow ones, too.
Music touches me deeply. It gives me joy when it matches my mood but makes it nearly intolerable noise when it does not.

I feel great excitement when i discover new music like, endorphins en masse.

I think we do not derive pleasure from music but the feeling that there is another human being that feels the same way we do.
Using git pull (or some equivalent) to update a production environment is fragile and just asking for trouble.
No matter what you think of Jones: Silicon Valley is digging their own grave with their blatantly obvious double standards towards "hate speech" and other forms of harassment.
Yup, that's exactly what I did. Your email doesn't show up (needs to be in the blurb not the email field) so just drop me a line.
I did not downvote you, but the official statement claims this was the last straw, and not a response to a single offense: https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1037804427992686593
Set up Sublime Text for lightweight all-in-one data science IDE (2015)
this is actually the main reason I cannot use Safari. It always boggled my mind that they made this decision.

For power users, they never look at the url unless they want information from it, in which case the `www` is valuable.

For low tech users, it can lead to straight up incomprehensible issues, like sites not rendering properly (think of a `m.*`).

The UI gains are so small, that part of the screen is never really looked at, but needs to be there, and typically has tons of horizontal room... I don't get it
Humans can't digest cellulose. We call it instead dietary fiber, and it's important for our health. Not sure if this shark is actually directly digesting the cellulose or relying on gut bacteria like ungulates. This shark possibly notwithstanding, I don't believe there are any vertebrates than can directly digesting cellulose

Regularly consuming plant material for nutrition seems like enough of a bar to render the shark an omnivore.
A magazine would be great, as that's going to be the quickest way to bankruptcy.

Will not shed a tear when Q makes Alex Jones look like a lame mainstream reporter and his audience, seeking the "truth", moves on from him to the latest, greatest purveyor of utter nonsense.
How we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes [video]
Can the energy used to water desalination from the sea ?
Doesn't mean they're wrong. There's a reason they don't like those words/phrases.
>There's no way they can ban him for saying that

They didn't ban him for saying only that.
Here's a part of their official statement on the matter.

>Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope. We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy, in addition to the accounts’ past violations.

https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1037804427992686593
Indeed. Heat pumps routinely have efficiencies[0] around 400%-500%, because they're not really "producing cold", they just move energy from one inside to outside (or the other way around).

--

[0] - of course that's a specific meaning of "efficiency"; they're still less than 100% efficient in terms of energy expended on moving other energy around vs. theoretical minimum.
it worked well enough until they could do something better. Never let perfect be the enemy of good.
For a healthy dose of skepticism, check out the New York Times article "Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It". It points out, among other things, that a 2010 National Academy of Medicine (then known as the Institute of Medicine) report found that most Americans get enough vitamin D, and that "the evidence supports a role for vitamin D and calcium in bone health but not in other health conditions"
http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/2010/Dietary-Re...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/business/vitamin-d-michae...

On a related note about sunshine, Sam Altman recommends a full spectrum LED light in the morning as his most beneficial productivity booster.
http://blog.samaltman.com/productivity
One of the points the author makes is that a lot of American communities are not financially robust. If the global economy hiccups, they won’t be able to handle it and might go bankrupt.
I remember when I first ran across PagerDuty I thought to myself, "wait, I think at my last job we just had a couple of perl scripts do that..."
Ah. the good old: lets criticize a generalization by making a generalization.

Always a strong argument :)
https://jdebp.eu/FGA/dns-srv-record-use-by-clients.html

Browsers don't use SRV records for HTTP. With them one wouldn't need www subdomain CNAME hacks.
There are even examples of TLDs that do resolve.

See: http://to. (it redirects to an advertising/malware site for me, so be warned)
Here's what was in the report:

Blockchain: - developers, 20% C-Level

I didn't interpret "-" as "0%". To me it seems more like they didn't get data for this particular trend. The same thing appears in the next line for ML.

ML: 20% developers, - C-Level

Does it say anywhere that "-" means "0%"? Surely some C-Level execs think ML will have a big impact on their company.
The adaptations of HPC-type performance tools to Python and called non-Python, specifically parallel, libraries might be of interest:

TAU: https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/tau/docs/newguide/ch03s0...
Extrae/Paraver: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317485375_Performan...
llel_Python_Applications
Score-p/Scalasca: http://score-p.org https://github.com/score-p/scorep_binding_python
I like this idea a lot. I've been thinking a lot lately how great it would be to have something like Flowsheets where you have a spreadsheet and language working together. This REPlugger closely matches a lot of how I end up writing code, with putting things over and over again into the REPL and seeing how they worked. I always wanted a REPL that could edit better. This is very cool and I think could be amazingly useful.

Edit: Found the github link in the video description: https://github.com/Glench/REPLugger
Very glad to see that Halide keeps being developed, despite remaining a bit of a niche language (for now).

Anything that makes squeezing out more performance from our computers while writing more elegant code at the same time deserves more attention.

I wonder if any of the techniques used in Halide can be (somewhat) generalized to domains outside of image processing?

EDIT: Ah, I see that the paper basically answers my questions, as it sees applications in ML contexts. Also, theat new demosaicking algorithm looks great, wonder if will make it's way to DarkTable any time soon?

The page of the paper[0] also has presentation slides[1] which (to me at least) feel a bit more accessible. Hope the accompanying presentation will be on YouTube soon.

[0] http://gradient.halide.ai/

[1] https://people.csail.mit.edu/tzumao/gradient_halide/gradient...
No, they're saying that `.` gets less than a full character.
Low-tech users don’t often understand that a difference could possibly exist between “m.” and “www.” at all.

However, if it shows the TLD, they can confirm it says “google.com”. Imagine they’re visiting a Paypal phishing link, to the domain:

www.paypal.com.www.com

The most important thing to show the user is “www.com”, because they’re expecting “paypal.com”. All the rest is nonessential for protecting users from bad actor sites.
It's a setting. Settings / Advanced / Show full website address to show the www.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Local inference can be important and even a requirement, so at NEXT we announced our intent to start shipping our Edge TPUs: https://cloud.google.com/edge-tpu/
Interesting. Are there IT consulting firms that specialize in this field of study?
Yes, it's this, and it's an absolutely infuriating change.
I think we're arguing the same thing -

The designers intention was to design a system that does x

In reality, due to foresight, ability, etc, they have designed a system that does y

Because their system sits inside other systems, it is transformed (think of your 1.0 to your 1.1 to your 2.2 to your html5). External design influences sand off and transform what they designed (i.e. google, the unwilling ad company)

Every system is perfectly achieving what it is designed to do by all of these designers. Reverse engineer it's outputs and you will understand it - although you will have to figure out all of its designers. In a capitalist society, however, finding the biggest designer is easy - Follow the money.

It's a bit of a truism, but I still find it to be a very useful tool. We're not talking about the code of Facebook here, after all, were talking about the social output.
Comparing Jews to rats is a classic Nazi trope. It's actually a dog whistle, for real and true.
Twitter Permanently Suspends Infowars and Alex Jones
> Try to convince yourself when you begin to doubt yourself: “It’s not me, it’s them”?

Doesn't this just put you in your own bubble? Can all criticism be so easily dismissed?
Especially since Adjustment Layers have been in Photoshop for over 20 years now.
C-SPAN my man!

https://www.c-span.org/video/?450990-1/foreign-influence-soc...

They've got the whole thing.
Thank you for replying instead of downvoting.

The problem I have is how subjective all of this is, and while they say they are trying to increase transparency I don't see it.

This action suggests they keep tabs on accounts and there's some threshold they can reach over a period of time that will flip a ban on even if the actual action that causes the ban wouldn't be bannable in isolation.

I've not seen this policy discussed around any of their other bans.

The timing is also very suspicious as all the other big social media platforms banned Jones recently. That suggests that there's some level of coordination and/or Twitter is caving to outside pressure and not actually acting on their own internal policy in a consistent manner.
Until recently, http://ai did exactly this. They also had MX records, so n@ai was a valid email address.
I suppose you’re right but I was somewhat skeptical of there being double the number of investors in dc as there are in mass (ie boston)
> Even with modern high-temp superconductors, it's a lot of expensive infrastructure, a lot of protective redundancy, and a lot of maintenance.

Which means lots of local jobs, which may not turn out so bad in the short term.
I loved his videos on linear algebra. Were far more intuitive than anything I studied in engineering. In particular, the way he describes what a determinant is, and what value it has, is excellent. I'm proud to be a Patreon supporter of 3Blue1Brown.