skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My theory is that writing articles about "the robots commin' to get ya" is someone's business model. Exactly how that works I can't fathom. But there have been so many articles like this in the past couple of years (vs the actual probability that robots are really coming -- which is pretty low) that I have to believe there's a command center somewhere where someone is running some kind of disinformation operation against us..
"I don't think a "universal semantic" was ever a design goal of the semantic web."

And I'm pretty sure it was the whole point. Nobody would ever have written as many reams of marketing material if the pitch was "Hey, someday, you'll be able to reach out to the web, and with specialized software for your particular domain you can access specialized web sites with specialized tags that give you access to specialized data sets that can be fed to your specialized artificial intelligence engines!"

Because that pitch is basically a "yawn, yeah, duuuuuh", and dozens of examples could have been produced even ten years ago. The whole point was to have this interconnected web of everything linking to everything, and that's what's not possible.
Exactly, Cloudflare's virtue signaling S.F. Executives made it clear in an open letter that they are totally ok with squashing "hate speech" because of their Moral obligation.

That day, I made the point that they just screwed themselves. They should never have ever impeded any traffic ever because now there's precedent.

Virtue Signaling Leftist shoot themselves in the foot again.

#LiberalismIsAMentalDissorder
City Museum is indeed very cool, and you might be right about it being one of the coolest things in STL. However, that might also be it's biggest problem.
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Writer here. Could you please elaborate on the difference between the two?
Well, now I know about YTS and Showbox...
Depends on your swimming ability. You can easily drown if you panic when large waves land on you and force water into your mouth/nose. or if you get swept out by a rip current and don't swim sideways and keep your cool.

Don't try it without a lifeguard nearby until you're experienced. Be confident momentarily being held underwater against your will. Never take your eyes off the ocean, because not all waves are equal in size or period. Personally I found that swimming out past the waves is the most difficult/frustrating (you need to be past them slightly in order to catch them).

Not all beaches are created equal. Some have exposed rocks, huge waves that can lift you and smash you directly into the sand (YouTube "the wedge, Newport beach" to see what I mean), or deadly currents. So research before you go.
Given the health and medical play, I think they're questionable in at least a couple of ways.

- There are no actions to be taken based on microbiome data

- There's no government oversight to the quality of their sequencing or bioinformatics

- The reviews don't indicate the kits are useful
https://www.highya.com/ubiome-reviews

Maybe a good comparison would be if Theranos gave you a 'subjective wellness score' instead of standard test results
> Despite Mozilla's kowtowing to the video streaming industries, Firefox users have continued to switch to other browsers anyway: market share has dropped from 14% in 2014 to today's woeful 5%. In other words, Mozilla betrayed its core mission to preserve the open internet, for no gain whatsoever.

I think this is very disingenuous, for three reasons:

1) It pretends like it's a certainty that Mozilla's market share wouldn't have fallen further without the move.
2) It pretends like whatever effect implementing/not implementing EME would have had could be predicted by Mozilla at the time with 100% certainty.
3) The article doesn't at all mention all of Mozilla's efforts to keep EME from being standardised in the first place.

Which is a shame: an otherwise interesting article has an aftertaste of also being a misleading propaganda piece, even if I agree with the goal of the propaganda.
When I cook I use much less sugar and salt than foods bought in store or at restaurants without losing taste. Taste buds also adjust. I find a lot of the food I buy way too salty and sweet now.
That's exactly how fingerprint locks work on the Pixel. First unlock after boot requires a password, after that fingerprint can be used. It requires password entry about once a day or so as well for additional security.
Without GApps.
I don't understand...you are saying the problem is everyone stops working? If that happened then none of this would be a problem. The point of production is consumption, if no labour is required to subsist then work has no function, production has no value, and none of this matters...that isn't going to happen, and it isn't what the author is saying will happen.

I am not sure what you mean about education (I don't know what "shared environment" or "randomness" means in this context). I am sure everyone here knows there are tons of issues...it comes down to: if you had to build the education system today, would it look like what we have now? No, quite clearly not. The situation in every country is obviously very different but that is what it comes down to: inertia. There is nothing intrinsically difficult though, we have got this far after all.
Does this actually emulate OS-specific interactions such as gestures?
You beat me to it. Also, per

> Calvin was able to achieve a throughput of over 500,000 transactions per second. For comparison, Amazon.com and NASDAQ likely process no more than 10,000 orders/trades per second even during peak workloads.

Maybe if you are only considering the small scope of just the order transactions, but they are actually writing way more data to their databases such as logs, metrics, current state for things like shopping carts. In my experience, what teams have done is split their data off into their own siloed database to minimize scaling problems, but this becomes super painful when you want to join your data with others. If spanner can hold all of our data, scale, and handle joining across all of it, that sounds like a huge win.
Stored Proc biz-logic architecture was a big thing in the 2000s. MSSQL with its T-SQL were very common (and its polymorphic AND multi-table return types, could make for some very interesting control flows sometimes).
There was a lot of bitterness about it back in the late 00's and early 10's, and it drove a lot of ORM adoption.

I worked for a shop in the late 00's and early 10's that had Very Big Database Servers doing several hundred million transactions per second (100+ core, multiple RAMSan, etc. type bare metal servers), and stored procs were the way the go. They were basically the interface layer to the data, and it allowed us to keep the interface (or even version it) but change how access happened behind the scenes, like splitting a table into partitions, or replacing a bad performing query with a differently structured one that did better, which made it a non-concern for the frontend code that was responsible for getting data and formatting it, and didn't really care about _how_ that data was retrieved.
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I think that the part most people have a hard time with is when to actually start paddling for the wave. I think it's easier to just start riding waves on a bodyboard and not concentrate on the standing-up part yet.

Just get the hang of which waves are good, when to paddle and catching waves. After that, concentrate on the standing up part.

Source: Not an instructor, but I started as a teenager on bodyboards, then moved on to regular boards. Haven't surfed in a very long time unfortunately.
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It's not the big of a deal. The farm I get my milk from has a machine like this: http://www.aquatech-bm.com/bottle-washer-bottle-cleaner/

It's little different than a heavy duty dishwasher that you find at a restaurant. They get much more efficient as you scale up -- when a large brewery washes beer bottles the costs are negligible.

The inefficiency introduced are externalized costs that get accounted for. Instead of paying a bulk hauler or the city to haul, acquire landfill, etc, you end up with a closed loop.

The same thing with other packaging. Plastic clamshell packaging reduces shrink for the retailer (thus providing ROI), but the inconvenience of cutting it open and cost of dealing with disposition of the waste is a consumer/local government problem.
> i wouldn't sweat it. people design those interviews to make them feel better about themselves rather than as an effective way to gauge someone's aptitude to work there.

Same reason I dislike that sort of interview. Of course the thing to do is to throw in a spanner.

"Hmm, so I guess you didn't read about the Modified Banach-Wiles-Kolmogorov algorithm? I thought that was where we were going. Ok let's do it your way."

Throw this bomb on the way out, of course.
It seems as if the onset of development is always coupled with horrible environmental problems. Another 20 years in the future, Africa will have more money to mitigate them.
Good for you for realizing it! Seriously, that is more than many people ever do.

I've struggled with similar issues, and my impression is that arrogance primarily comes from two misjudgments: thinking too highly of myself, or too little of others. The first was reduced as I realized that I too can and do make mistakes. The second gave way the more I learnt to appreciate and value the people I interact with.

I believe that this second aspect is key. Arrogance is offensive because it belittles others. Humility respects and appreciates the other person. Arrogance thinks my knowledge/skills/wealth makes me better than others. Humility sees the good in the other person, their skills and character traits (that may be very different from mine), and values them for it.

Being humble doesn't mean denying what you're good at, that's false humility. It means appreciating people for who they are and what they're good at, and then treating them accordingly.
Calling Bruno a scientist, or saying he was killed for doing science, is quite a fantastic stretch. And where this article is concerned, the Galileo affair stretched something like 20 years and his house arrest in the papal apartments, overlooking the Vatican gardens, was largely the result of decades of political intrigue and him having accrued enemies.

Sadly, these Protestant and Enlightenment myths persist to this day. Ignorance at best, bigotry and intellectual laziness at worst.
That's not what the link you posted says.
Your cat might (and probably will) die before they like sushi roles, so your understanding of eventually might not be canonical.
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It's a struggle for me, too. People sometimes rest on their assumptions even though new technologies and paradigms can invalidate old rules (I'm sure everyone has lots of examples).

I found that constant communication and scenarios help bridge the gap between how they think things work and how you do. It doesn't always work - a lot of time people don't care to discuss things in detail.

But sometimes it worked and the other person came to realize a new way of thinking. Sometimes the discussion made me realize I was the person using invalid assumptions :)
I understand the point but: a link is a link is a link.
Reading this has made me tempted to look a little deeper into some of these sites.

My dad recently sent me a series of articles from a news aggregate, including one that basically what-about-ed a politician in response to the recent allegations surrounding Brett Kavanaugh. Oddly enough, all of these articles were from the same site with a pretty generic name (think something like "currenteventsamerica dot com"), all had a conservative tilt, and had little to no information on who ran the site.

I don't really know where to begin aside from looking into who owns the domain.
I went surfing with a friend a couple years ago. I made an error while donning the wetsuit and ended up irretrievably wedging my head into the sleeve. Had to have my friend unwedge me.

Paddling takes a LOT of effort, and you do a lot of it. Catching a wave is about timing, and balance, in that order. I managed to do it exactly once in the couple hours we were out. I'd do it again. :)
The point of all competition ... to the benefit everyone else, surely?
People who hate Nazis so much don't seem to have a problem with Communists, even if they have a much higher body count. Gee, I wonder why...

But that's beside the point.
Can you elaborate more? In what sense? They are certainly vulnerable if you compromise the system which has them saved. Are they vulnerable to a brute force breach? Likely not, brute force is always a slow process, no matter how you speed it up. Is X vulnerable should always be phrased as Is X vulnerable to Y.
I always figured a recycling system would rinse their inputs before melting them down, and that any remaining food or labels would be burned up while melting them down, and end up as slag.

The only reason to wash your recycling is so they don't attract bugs - because for some reason our culture don't put recycling in any kind of bag or proper refuse bin.
This will be amazing. I used to install Verizon 4GLTE home devices and it could have been great without the horribly low caps on data usage.

If 5G allows for 500GB+ caps, then cable cutting might extend to internet cable cutting as well....
Fear sells.
When my eldest was much younger (10-ish, maybe?) he ran across the concept of tensegrity structures somewhere, and after a few small-scale trials with chopsticks, we ended up building a tensegrity tower out of garden canes and twine. For being quite rough-and-ready, it seemed surprisingly stable. Fun times!
Yup, Google clusters also originally had machines with 1 or 2 CPUs! SMP on Linux was a new thing!

Nowadays you easily have 32 cores on a machine, and each core is significantly faster than it was back then (probably at least 10x). That is a compute cluster by the definition of 1999.

So for certain "big data" tasks (really "medium data" but not everyone knows the difference), I just use a single machine and shell scripts / xargs -P instead of messing with cluster configs.

You can crunch a lot of data on those machines as long as you use all the cores. 32x is the difference between a day and less than an hour, so we should all make sure we are using it!

Common languages like node.js, Python, R, OCaml, etc. do NOT let you use all your cores "by default" (due to GILs / event loop concurrency). You have to do some extra work, and not everyone does.
You asked WA for the result with 100 digits of precision. It probably is 1 to that precision.
Premature abstraction is a problem for engineering.

But what about scientists who are not too fussed with engineering considerations but would like to explore such things? Then this extensibility can be valuable.
I'm not convinced that functional programming will grow in terms of devs using it daily, but it has been very useful for myself in certain contexts (especially when I wrote math based libraries using permutations, heavy recursion, etc). The results of this seminar are awesome!
In some states, many plastic bottles also have a deposit. I have never heard of a $1 deposit, but I assume it's very effective with certain audiences.
I disagree, though that was certainly a big factor, particularly in speeding up the pace of user loss.

In any case, it's probably not a healthy perspective for Mozilla or its community to just write this off as Firefox being the victim of a big ad campaign for another browser. Mozilla had real problems and missed opportunities, and that's where their focus rightfully should have been.
Quantum fintech is going to make blockchain fintech look like child’s play.
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right, brute force your way in without a key
There is some of this in the "Bobiverse" trilogy which I very highly recommend. Funny and Smart.
> There is a lot more development, infrastructure, happiness and success here than the majority of "First Worlders" have any notion of.

For ages, I've been trying to think of way to monetize this ignorance (or information asymmetry, if you're feeling generous). The only advantage I know is that this ignorance results is lack of first-world competition, which can be huge advantage
Pro Tip I learned the hard way: Don't pee while submerged in a wetsuit. Its not nearly as porous as one would hope in this situation.
My nomination would go to the chromium project.
I wonder if the saboteur will also make a comeback then.
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As long as technology marches forward and evolution creeps forward at a snails pace, there will be a point in the future where robots are better than humans at doing any job, not just repetitive manual labor. That point of singularity has not occurred previously in human history.

The only real debates to be had are when that will occur, a thousand years? A hundred? Ten?
Replying to my own comment. See (4.4) in the article and the discussion after it. The error in this approximation is like exp(-pi^2 c). (4.10) in the article translates this to that we should expect about 4.2c digits of accuracy, since log_10 exp(-pi^2) is about 4.2. This falls out of Poisson's summation formula, according to the OP.

Generally I'd expect a numerical integration scheme to have an error like h^k for some constant k - for example for Riemann sums the error goes like h^2 and for Simpson's rule like h^5. h is the distance between the sampling points and so is analogous to 1/c. So this doesn't just follow from Riemann summation.
Is Cirrus mentioned in the blog post? I can't find it.

Right now, the way key compromise might be detected in RPKI is that a human network operator notices a signed object which is obviously suspicious and posts it on a mailing list. This is the same way that CA compromise was detected in the Web PKI before CT.

CT was useful well before Chrome used their weight to make it required for all new certificates because it was no particular burden on a few people (CA or not) who saw a lot of certificates to add them to CT. This gave the people who might not see a lot of certificates but want to find something weird a corpus to dig into.

Same idea applies to RPKI. But yes, setting up Cirrus took very little of my time.
Short of a meteor/nuclear strike, I can't imagine mass starvation in the US, we simply produce too much food. Without QE, there would have been economic slowdown, banks would have been shuttered, but IMO life would have otherwise carried on as normal.
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I would also add is there additional vulnerability just from an attacker examining the public key with crypto whatchahosy magic
I don’t know how long ago, but in my experience of interviewing with Jane Street (at least as an intern), they were pretty upfront about the lack of expected OCaml experience, and I was able to complete all of the on site interviews in a language of my choice. The HR/recruiting team seem eager to improve their process based on people’s feedback, so maybe this is something that took time to get right.
> True, but you have missed the part that makes C++ safer than C.

Of course C++ is safer than C.

I was just responding to what I quoted, which unfairly lumps "unsafe" and "C" in the same turn of phrase, implying that avoiding C-like code avoids unsafety as well.
This kind of wild speculation is exactly why there is so much disinformation spreading around, and why those who want to sow disinformation for their own purposes find it so easy to do so.

The article you yourself linked to mentions no connection to Reddit. A top level comment in the original link points to the Reddit admins stating that the user deleted their own post and it was not censored by the site.
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Some of the really big rounds have been for therapeutics as well. Denali raised a $250M series A a couple years ago.

There is just a ton of money right now.

Even for companies like uBiome whose business strategy is “we’ll sequence your microbiome and <waves hands around furiously>”
Hotlink sounds a lot like hyperlink. Really it just sounds like people need to protect their content with licenses and "website experiences" with terms if they want to enforce restrictions on how things they host publicly are used. I agree it seems rude that they didnt give the owner any warning, but meh.
The fact that this cost consumers money is such an obvious symptom of a larger problem.

In case anyone hasn't seen this twitter thread before: https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/906257077215133696

The history of credit companies like Equifax are extremely dystopian. We should be working to find replacements for such systems.
...we are talking so maybe that it is proof that the business works...maybe the author is a robot preying on human weakness...is this how they get us?

Srs though, ppl aren't particularly interested in being told that stuff is okay or even learning from past experience. The present is always extremely unique and very dangerous.

For example, I am not from the US but follow US politics...as far as I can tell, every election over the past ten years has been "the most important election there has ever been". I remember 2012 specifically: it was hyped into oblivion but was totally inconsequential.
I may be a bit confused. I apologize in advance if I misunderstood.

With the desoldering the chip to read the data off, you’ll get an encrypted blob which is encrypted with a securely random 128-bit key, so it’s impossible to crack. the Key and the users password are embedded inside the TEE and cannot be read out - the TEE only provides an interface where you can supply a candidate password, and if you get it correct it’ll provide you the 128-bit key to decrypt your data. It has an internal delay and counter, and will destroy the key if you get the password wrong X number of times.

So I’m not sure how you might go about being able to brute force the password, given you can only brute-force online, which is slow and will only give you a small number of attacks.
When a job disappears due to automation, it’s bad for the person losing their job, but it seems to be good for everybody else.

Is this always the case? Is there a tipping point where automation becomes not good for everyone else?
> Your cat might (and probably will) die before they like sushi roles, so your understanding of eventually might not be canonical.

Do you... have a cat? It's harder to get them not to eat the fish you don't want them to have.
I think it already has. A lot of 2016’s drama was in the rust belt. And while some of those jobs went to China and Mexico, probably even more of them were automated away.
You summed up my concerns better than I could.

I remember when uBiome launched out of UCSF. I remember thinking “ok, they’ll sequence your microbiome and then...what exactly?”
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A single satellite mildly misbehaving on occasion won't necessarily cause catastrophe. You're normally connected to more than the requisite 3 satellites anyway, so you might notice less accuracy, but not anything terrible.

Most of these systems are designed to work if you lose GPS entirely, so they fail gracefully.

Planes won't actually fall out of the sky if GPS makes mistakes. That's y2k fearmongering.

Why is it hard to believe that a group using GPS for a unique purpose has unique needs and detect unique issues?
Steam is apparently officially launching in China with the help of Perfect World who have been distributing Dota 2 in the meantime.
I assume that this will let Chinese viewers to watch TI9 on Steam.tv or on the Chinese equivalent.

I heard positive reviews for Steam.tv during TI8 and that it surpassed the Twitch experience at times.

Source:https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/11/17451484/steam-china-anno...