skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google in particular created the general outline of the modern mobile market by disempowering handset manufacturers from cost-effectively creating lockin and platform-style ownership of consumers by (1) giving away Android and then (2) holding the reins in a bizarre contortion of open source.

Unfortunately, as smartphones become globally distributed, 'free' market-driven growth is slowing. To maintain growth, Google needs to get access to the largest mobile market in the world, which incidentally is also one of the most diverse and the least Google controlled (as Google Play is banned): China.

Secondly, Google is under pressure from the market for the potential for political or regulatory backlash. Management is therefore pressing for a solution. https://www.pymnts.com/mobile/2018/google-growth-mobile-sear...

In my mind Google is still a dichotomous organization with evil sociopath capitalist leadership and weird little hubs of naive engineering who think their experience and quinoa represent company values. (Only half sarcasm; not sure if this is accurate but suspect it holds some truths) Applause to this guy who popped the bubble and quit.
He asked you for some citations or sources and you reply telling him to get out of his media bubble?

Real helpful, thanks.
I recommend giving each node process an Apparmor profile.
Well, productivity isn't everything, not everyone times all their activity in daily life and decides what to optimize for.

Maybe the author has that time to invest on tooling and doesn't care about how he would save a couple of hour by pushing a button on medium. Just because you did it unconsciously doesn't make it a trap.
> I am not aware of anything even on the fringes of science that would permit a superior communication technology over EM

In another comment you mentioned things such as gravity waves, neutrinos, etc. You also mentioned that these things are far more expensive to generate than EM. I think those particular facts are "engineering problems to be solved" rather than just fundamental laws, yea? I never fired off a neutrino, I know you need a sun or a particle accelerator to do it, so I get why it's considered expensive, but is that inherent?
Because carbon has the richest chemistry, making it the most likely basis for life:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/lab-rat/shine-on-you-cr...
Wow! When I first learned web development way back when, I was surprised that something like HyperCard's lock screen didn't exist/wasn't possible. Being able to do this on an element level is a huge improvement over that. This is great.
This actually happened in te 19thh century:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War

TL;DR, Michigan and Ohio almost fought over who got the city of Toledo.
So I would say first, respecting pronouns is not a rule unto itself, it's encompassed in a more general "be respectful" rule, whose interpretation is informed by our social norms.

Second, for a group seeking social cohesion a certain amount of censorship is desirable. We also don't allow people to casually disparage people of color because if we do those members of our community who are people of color would either leave or cause a ruckus, neither of which we want.

Third and lastly, mistakes are tolerated, we're people not caricatures and know that the pronoun stuff can be difficult to track. If you slip up you'll be given a "look" and a chance to correct yourself. If you don't correct yourself, and continue to slip, interventions slowly escalate from friendly reminders of the form, "hey, please watch what pronouns you use" to longer discussions about why your behavior is not acceptable in this context. We use this same approach for people who use unacceptable language, or have trouble controlling their volume when speaking, it's the only way to keep a group of random people tolerable to be around.

As I stated, you are immediately shown the door if you are intentionally misgendering someone. So if someone tells you they want to be called she/her/hers and you very emphatically refer to them as he/him/his a dozen times in three minutes you get the boot. Just as we'd throw out someone who was being extremely rude to our members in a more conventional manner.
Right now: "The Untethered Soul"

Books that have brought a lot of influence:

. 4hr Body

. Captivate

. Good Calories/bad Calories / How we get fat

. How to cook everything

. I will teach you to be rich
The point is that in NYC you have other transit options. In LA you (realistically) dont.
I read the 4 hour work week when we (wife and myself) were already travelling and working on our own companies (this was when it just came out first by the way); we both scaled down to working max 1 day a week, found that that made us create more and more projects. Found out we really do not like not working.

What kind of company did you start?
Well, my optical sensors(i.e. eyes) provide me with enough information to discriminate a cat from a bag, so I suppose with enough processing we should be able to do the same with a control system. Cars have an added advantage that their vision systems could work in lower light and non-optical wavelengths. I don't see any fundamental issues with getting self-driving cars working. It may not happen in 5 years, but it will happen.
"For a New Liberty" by Murray Rothbard, not only solidified my understanding of power, politics and the state already explained in "Anatomy of the State" by the same Rothbard, but also opened my mind about the eternal struggle between power and liberty, aggression and defense, the essential traits of life in the whole universe.
omnivore's dilemma - fantastic look at modern day industrial food supply chain and consequences/alternatives. perfect amount of science, business, psychology analysis applied to a topic that affects all of us 3+ times a day
So, should I be in 100% cash right now?
Oops We Just Spammed Our Customers
It's possible that they are using the orbital angular momentum of photons to communicate and we would not have discovered it, because we are not yet listening for it.

If every civilization that invents a radio gets past this phase we are now very fast (as we are soon going to do) advanced civilizations don't bother to encode their messages in a way that we listen now (we look mostly for phase and amplitude encoding)

Photons carry both Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) and Spin Angular Momentum (SAM) OAM is relatively recent discovery (1990's). They exist just not in the light beams level but also at the single-photon level (very surprising).

Detecting photons with orbital angular momentum in extended
astronomical objects: application to solar observations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2011/02/aa14844-10.pdf

Optical orbital angular momentum (2017)
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/375/2087/2015...

Entanglement of the orbital angular momentum states of photons
https://www.nature.com/articles/35085529
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. It really opened my mind to so many fascinating mental constructs. I’ve probably read a half a dozen times and take something new from it each time I re-read it.
The original Smalltalk refactoring engine didn't take off until it was packaged as the Refactoring Browser. But the real utility in it was making arbitrary scripting of meta-level and syntax driven code transformation very accessible. You can literally be an order of magnitude more powerful with refactorings with a tool like that.

Python is a good language for for this sort of tool. There is a lot of potential for the power of Python harnessed to rewrite Python.
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Never really been one to enjoy popular books on philosophy (Alchemist was overrated, Monk who sold his Ferrari cliched, The Secret just boring ...IMO) and picked this up at a used book store. The book truly put a new perspective on life for me.

Perhaps it was a combination of the time when I read the book: Undue stress, massive imposter syndrome, that feeling of not moving ahead in life, and the oh-so-messed-up quarter life crisis, but this book was an absolute eyeopener for me.

Find your own meaning in life, and live your own philosophy instead of aping a "master" (spiritual or otherwise) because a "master" is someone who has shaped his own philosophy and that will almost NEVER completely apply to you. In the book, when the titular Siddhartha realises this and starts off on his own journey, something clicked within me and I started making genuine attempts to get past my (mostly) self-imposed problems in life. Can easily say this book helped me get through confusing times and come out better on the other side

Truly a life-changing book for me, and no wonder it's been popular for over half a century!

----

The Art of War, The War of Art (except the final bits of the book) and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance come in a close second, each having shaped the way I look at decision making processes and influenced my general life strategy
Thanks for writing this so well.
Without taking a stance on your post, let me also add:
It is quite hard to have a fair discussion about this topic, because there is a significant amount of misinformation around.

China Daily (state-sponsored) pushes in the US a lot of pro-China-regime sentiment. (Right now on their web page there's a hagiography of Xi).

Epoch Times (Falun-Gong sponsored) appears to have gone all in for one party in the US, pushing daily misinformation and echoing lines from other countries attacking the West. My best guess at why Epoch Times has so much disinformation is because of feeling close to one group in the US due to christian identity, but I'm not fully sure.

A good article on state-sponsored influence operations, with an emphasis on China, is here:
https://warontherocks.com/2018/01/contrasting-chinas-russias...
> Person who works 180 days out of the year has 2 other jobs to help pay bills.

Imagine my shock.

>“I can’t tell you how many letters I got this summer that said final notice.” Cooke, who makes about $69,000, often skips doctor’s appointments to save the co-pay and worries about paying for her eldest daughter’s college education.

My full sympathies to those who are struggling to get by, but something here just isn't adding up.
The reason Bezos is the richest man in the world is he successfully tapped into facilitating the supply chain and has continued to fill different roles of the whole funnel and on a massive, growing scale. His success is shining a light on the future of using autonomous systems to further reduce costs and increase profits, however that doesn't lead to any individually owned system or organization to being incentivized to allocate their services or products to take care of society's basic needs. This is where government should come in, however then you have competition against what's best for society - you have layers upon layers of for profit systems pressuring the system for their own advantage, their own specific needs to succeed and benefit the most, at the direct or indirect cost of others and society of a whole. Jeff and no one should have to shoulder these costs on their own, though he certainly is heavily benefitting from the status quo, and the exponential benefit weighted towards his scale and foundational transactional layer they support, and so it's good he's directing some resources - however whether his core values and efforts are attempting to solve the deeper problems or if he and his companies will simply pressure existing systems to benefit their own systems they excel at primarily for their own benefit, and not the benefit of the system as a whole, is what we should be questioning.
From Littlewood's Miscellany:

"Schoolmaster: 'Suppose x is the number of sheep in the problem.' Pupil: 'But, Sir, suppose x is not the number of sheep.' (I asked Prof. Wittgenstein was this not a profound philosophical joke, and he said it was.)"
How is the article seriously trying to argue about the "level of disconnect" between google and the rest of the world based on them being disappointed that Trump won?

They backed the other candidate, wouldn't anyone be reasonably dissapointed that the candidate they backed lost? On top of that _half_ the country backed the other candidate. It's not like google took a position that was the opposite of the vast majority of America.
Speaking from daydreams and not experience, I’ve always thought the combination of http://leafo.net/guides/parsing-expression-grammars.html and http://terralang.org would be a great toolset on which to build a language.
Wasm-worker – Move a WebAssembly module into its own thread
This is just ahistorical politics and jingoism under pretense of some greater cause. When China was making its great leap forward entire groups of minorities were segregated in the US and were fighting for their basic rights and continue to face discrimination.

If you have a problem with surveillance you should have an even bigger problem with 'democracies' neck deep in surveillance and arbitrary 'secret courts', 'secret orders' and 'secret processes'. Yet there is near zero mainstream dissent and protest and Assange and Snowden continue to be stranded, surely if people care so much about human rights there would be much more robust activism and genuine efforts to get these individuals back, roll back surveillance and hold people accountable?

If you want to talk about human rights you better have an explanation for the devastation of entire countries and millions of lives in the middle east starting from Iraq to Libya to Syria on entirely made up premises. And the incessant meddling in South America and other regions of the world. China has nothing compared to the scale of destruction and human misery caused in just these two regions.

No country has its hands clean. What is the problem with China developing under their own system? Democracy did not magically form here and in Europe, it took hundreds of years of struggle and its naive to think China and others will make this transition in decades. They are not threatening anyone, at this very moment the US is threatening Iran and meddling with coup plotters in Venezuela, actions that could potentially led to the loss of millions of lives, destabilize these countries and devastate entire regions. This kind of brazen hypocrisy cannot stand in informed discussion.
Apple hopes you'll figure out what to do with AI on the iPhone XS
1. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius - practical advice on how to arm yourself every day.

2. Man's Search for Meaning by Frankl - no matter how bad you think you have it, it can be worse, and you can find meaning.

3. The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen - it's the journey (not the destination) and <i>pay attention!</i>
I suggest "Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation", available free here: http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/ It's an undergraduate-level programming languages class textbook.

Other books burn a lot of time on things like lexing and parsing; this one does not. In the lisp tradition, it assumes s-expressions and gets to the juicy bits of programming language semantics immediately: lexical scope, first class functions, objects, etc.
At the very bottom of every page there's a search bar. Just type whatever and hit enter
What are the books?
Have you tried to use Weibo?
Chart: The AI-Mazing Patent Race
Tuesdays with Morrie
it is relevant because people keep making an awful argument there's not enough water for people to live in cities (LA, SF) , when the taxpayers of the state are literally subsidizing half-dozen monster dams & aqueducts so a commercial enterprise can take vast majority of the available fresh water and use it to grow crops like rice or almonds in the California desert and sell them abroad.

also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Aqueduct
A guide to logging in Java
It does seem to be worded that way.

I disagree with that statement, but there is still a financial incentive issue. Having gained your first degree, you have a choice between starting to earn real money by leaving academia or starting a PhD (possibly via MA/MSc), which might be self funded or on a meagre stipend unless it is in something very marketable. Following that, probably 3 years in a postdoc position at the same salary you could have been paid 4 years ago. So now 7 years on, you might be able to get a lectureship, still only earning as much as those who have finished their 1 or 2 year milkround graduate training position.

As you approach 40, you might become a reader, at this point your salary might be at parity with your peers from your undergraduate days who are working in charities or government jobs, but all your private sector peers are earning way more.

As you enter your 50s, you might finally become a professor. At this point, your salary matches those old chums you had who went into business, but only because their income peaked about a decade ago, and you have now caught up.

At pretty much any point along this journey, you will have options to jump ship and earn more.
FLANKERs flanking!

ASCC reporting names had occasional triumphs like that but often they were blocked and had to pick more mundane names. The original Tu-22 was BEAUTY but became BLINDER to sound less appreciative. MIG-15 went from FALCON to FAGOT likewise.
The background radiation is actually the universal communication band broadcasting the entire knowledge of every civilization that has ever existed but sadly it is encrypted so appears to be random.
IIRC, the code in question was written under an NSF grant, and probably not that hard to obtain.
I imagine a lot of sensors are detecting the same silence or non-zero EM signal most of the time (when adjusted to be as-if they were pointed in the same direction, anyway) and differences are the rarity.
> What law would this violate?

Once the party was informed, and thus had knowledge, of the national defense sensitivity involves, it would seem arguably to facially violate the Espionage Act of 1917, as amended; in particular, 18 USC §§ 793, 795, and, if they attempt to publish the pictures, 797, and/or, if the order originates with NASA, 799.

Specific enough?
I don't have any direct experience here, but sensor design comes to mind. Satellite sensor design especially tends to be a secure job since they have long design/build times, and long mission lengths.
Was there a reason this was downvoted? I thought this was a factual statement, but I'm not very well versed in the mainframe world so I'd appreciate it if someone could point out what I said that was incorrect
The infrastructure driverless vehicles rely on is their own internal maps, which have lanes and signage marked out. Being able to visually detect these things is important, but it is a measure for added redundancy.

Great strides have been made in using machine learning to filter out obscurants such as snow. Perception for autonomous vehicles is effectively a solved problem.

The biggest technical challenges are related to planning. So say you're approaching an intersection. There is a pedestrian about to cross, a cyclist in front of you and another vehicle waiting to turn left across your path. As a human, you understand that if you behave one way, it will cause the pedestrian, the cyclist and the other car to respond a certain way, but if you respond to the situation another way, it will cause all three to respond differently.

Our ability to game out scenarios like this is intuitive, but for AI to predict how it's behavior as an agent will influence the behaviour of other agents on the road is a daunting undertaking, particularly when taking into account the full scope of scenarios that need to be mastered before an autonomous can reliably safely navigate anywhere.
> Agreed that it's a flight of fancy to speculate on these yet unknown capabilities, but that doesn't mean they aren't highly likely to exist.

Right, but since we have no scientific basis for figuring out which capabilities those would be, the reasonable guess is that EM is the best means of communication. It's more likely that we've figured out some basic physical limitations, even if there exists technologies within those limitations far beyond what we've though up so far.
Yes, the fight between Baryonic matter and Dark matter does promise to be quite the show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeelee_Sequence
TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1: The Protocols. It changed my life because I realised I could better comprehend systems others had already pored over and offer new insights. By comparing the contents of this book to RFCs I was able to propose numerous new remote operating system detection strategies which I published. I then had contact from a hacker group on the other side of the world, plus web visits from a swathe of militaries globally. (This was back in the mid-late 1990s when people didn't bother obfuscating their IP.) Gave me the confidence to go do my own thing in a lot of ways, including leaving Australia for its lack of R&D opportunities outside of military/academia, and probably a significant historical factor in my current position as a founder.
I Created a Super Mario Augmented Reality Game
Now there's precedent.

The court of public opinion isn't a real court, and has no rules, so setting any precedent in this way is meaningless. One guy caves to pressure, and assuredly this is what describes these events. But the next time around, anybody who chooses to, can safely ignore this incident.

This sort of thing comes down to either telling people to shove it, or not. Some people can drop that hammer every single time, others are pained by it, and take the path of least resistance.

Telling people to get bent was a thing for decades, but internet amnesia means some people have either forgotten about it, or never learned how to do it in the first place.
Obligatory "48 Laws of Power". You have to understand the rules, even if you don't want to actively participate. Greene's other books are good, too.
Experimental investigation of steam pressure coffee extraction in a [moka pot] [pdf]
"dynamic MATLAB" ;)
Why do they have to be "something greater"? Most people would be thrilled if we found the alien equivalent to a jellyfish. People like aliens because we're curious creatures and aliens are unknown and interesting.

I've never understood why some people feel the need to inject their mopey nihilism into everything.
My opinions are not of financial advice :) You can make money on a downturn as well as an upturn
Is this by chance playing on people's laziness to allow a universal centralized backdoor into applications? Will phones also use this for the screen lock?
Host Your Blog on DigitalOcean with Docker, Nginx and Let’s Encrypt
congrats ! also your grafs are pretty nice :p
Don't try to time the market unless you dont have any cash savings. Have enough cash to last 6-12 months without a job and invest the rest. You'll do better that way than trying to time the market.
Marina Del Rey and Venice are actually just neighborhoods of the city of LA. Santa Monica and Long Beach are their own cities.
I went from a 5s to an X, and I really liked the size of the 5s and always took it in my pockets. My X is still a fine fit in my pockets, and it’s a gigantic upgrade over the 5s.
> Even in 20th century, starving has been commonplace until the economy started to improve after the economic reform in 1978 (a huge accomplishment that is often ignored by western people) It's hard for younger generations of Chinese to even imagine the darker ages.

What was the huge accomplishment of the 1978 reforms that Western people should recognize? From my vantage point, they were basically the abandonment of a lot of Maoist ideas in favor of something that was more in line with Western economic thought.
The novel Contact by Carl Sagan was pretty good in this area of SETI.
Gimme the books already!
I recommend following the $TSLAQ Twitter to get a different perspective on Tesla. I've started following @TeslaCharts this year and then added some other Tesla bear accounts.

Makes you see news like this differently. Musk probably gave them a factory tour and asked them to spew some BS to the ether to help the stock.