skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The funny thing is, if you gave me the option of reading a Dvorak article or an arbitrary PC Mag article, all other factors held fixed, I would pick Dvorak every time. That is, they just laid off an asset that was more valuable than the rest of the company.
>Emails demanding deletion of the memo contained “pixel trackers” that notified human resource managers when their messages had been read, recipients determined.

The surveillants are becoming so paranoid that they are now surveilling themselves.
I remember reading him decades ago. That’s beyond ignomious.
Sloan Kettering’s Cozy Deal with AI Startup Ignites a New Uproar
Sublime Git is a clean code editor for merge conflicts
OpenBSD netcat demystified
Tay was trolled hard by 4chan, that's why she went hardcore Nazi almost immediately. It was amusing, but not a fair & controlled experiment by any means.
I started making PyPy the default interpreter for my projects, and you should too!

Maybe I'm a sucker for the underdog, but in my mind, PyPy could save the Python ecosystem from irrelevance. People are looking at Rust and Go with the excuse of performance, and they are now the new Hip language. Even Ruby is catching up.

Without an answer, Python could be side-tracked for a increasing number of scenarios.
Darwinism is the least likely explanation of evolution. Randomness? Take a look at how some species evolved in parallel to similar organisms; one was extremely unlikely, two or more is impossible. Darwin was quite foolish, but he had friends in the right places. Just another flat-earth belief.

As for the DMT, there's only one way to find out. One grain of pure DMT in a pipe and get your answers.
It's still not currently obsolete, then. More like, "hopefully obsolete soon".
Given that Cluep is Canadian, I would expect the $500k they raised to be on a $2M Cap convertible note or some similarly valued instrument. That's totally a guess, btw. They could've sold way more or way less of their company. But, ballparking here.

So, ~20x return over 6 years for investors that are likely non-institutional. In short -- it's probably a very good deal for Angels. That's about a 65% YoY compounded return. It's likely that outside of the founders nobody is going to retire, but that's OK. It's only when deep institutional pockets get involved that <$100M exits are considered "weak."
I think I can speak for the typical person when I say this:

what
Thanks for the info.

Yes, I read about a Chinese gaming company that was affected by these restrictions, so it could be that censorship is the end game.

It's hard to ignore that US companies have lost hundreds of billions of dollars because they cannot operate in China, though.
This ability to see -- an ability honed by the product of relentless determination combined with a mind possessed with an almost singular desire to seek and see true -- is a master key found among many of the most penetrating insights. Feynman said it this way:

You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems
constantly present in your mind, although by and large
they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear
or read a new trick or a new result, test it against
each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps.
Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people
will say, “How did he do it? He must be a genius!" [1]

[1] http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~cahn/life/gian-carlo-rota-10-le...

[1] http://wiki.c2.com/?FeynmanAlgorithm
I'm not sure what British pork pie is like, but one of my ex girlfriends used to make pork pies. They were delicious, but as dense as neutronium and difficult to digest even under ideal conditions.
This is only being served to Release channel users currently (per the bug in the extension ID, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1487578)

ESR users are on a separate channel.
I'd rather expect that they will question you long before their own assumptions.
He may always have been wrong, but he was like a lovable crazy uncle who is always wrong. This is a terrible way to treat a legend.
I’m looking into it for at least part of the day.
A million things like this are why PostgreSQL is the only relational database I consider for, well, pretty much anything. Their approach of “build it safe and then make it fast” has been paying off in spades for a couple of decades now. Thanks for everything you do, psql maintainers!
As someone who does this with a lot of programs I've written, I'll say that avoiding abstractions is just as important as distractions --- if doing the simplest of tasks takes half a dozen layers of abstraction and indirection, it makes it all the more difficult to see the whole program at once. "Too many moving pieces makes it hard to see what's going on", as the saying goes.

The amount of "fluff" introduced by "modern" languages and their culture, like Java and C#, is certainly an obstacle to this; it seems like they encourage overcomplexity and the creation of huge complex software, so that all programs written in them naturally take on that style, no matter how trivial they actually should/need to be.
I will set you free: http://archive.is/JYM3P
I would only read that magazine due to him so stupid move.
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The key distinction here is between dying and all of the unpleasant stuff that normally comes with it. I've experienced loss of body awareness with LSD, psilocybin and DMT. But what didn't come with it was pain, cardiopulmonary stress, cramping, and so on. So it was easy to relax, and let go of body and consciousness. With just naked virtual awareness left.

So anyway, I can imagine that a pleasant death from opioid or barbiturate overdose might be comparable. Or maybe breathing helium, where there's no overt respiratory feedback. Or maybe hypothermia, although in my experience that involved too much twitching around.
Curious about language servers (especially those implementing LSP): how do they achieve low-latency responses?

My understanding is that JSON-RPC is used, which is relatively high overhead. Are there lighter weight alternatives? (gRPC?)
Our expectation of our algorithms are based on human performance. A human would never tag a black person as a gorilla, or vice versa, and if someone did it even once we could pretty safely conclude they're either extraordinarily incompetent, or racist, and in either case we wouldn't trust any tagging done by such a human.
That's fine and all, but I am happy to pay for top-notch journalism. But even me, the paying customer, is locked out.
A large part of pre-interview hiring is handled by nontechnical individuals making 1/3 to 1/2 of what a software developer makes.
I don't even disagree with you - but given that Obama won ~53% and 51% of the vote (a higher vote share than anybody since HW Bush in '88) it's not as important as some would think.
Not that they're involved, but that their special status as victims is made out to be the entire substance of the story.
I used to think the same, until it was pointed out to me that the semantics have to be nailed down exactly, so that conforming implementations (e.g. Chrome/FF) do the same thing. This includes figuring out how (if at all) it works with generators and async functions, if you want to support implicit lambdas, etc[1]. Clojure and ML (and related languages I imagine) have the advantages that it is expressible in code which at least makes the specification part simpler.

Fortunately the simple version is easily approximated, I have this sprinkled in various files where it's useful:

const pipeline = (val, ...funcs) => funcs.reduce((a, b) => b(a), val);

[1] https://babeljs.io/blog/2018/07/19/whats-happening-with-the-...
There is the usual misinformation in this article. Banks don’t loan out deposits. Originating loans expands their balance sheet. Deposits are useful to satisfy reserve requirements, when they exist[1], but if the loan is profitable the bank can always borrow the reserves at a lower rate on the interbank market.

[1]https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
For context, $500K is a big investment in Canada. Startups here get very little funding. Smart Silicon Valley investors could make bank by investing in Canadian startups for pennies on the dollar.
In practice, the recruiting company does not want you to know who they are recruiting for, but the recruiter themselves will do anything they can to place you.
TLDR;

Basically a bank which takes deposits from customers and then deposits the money at the Fed whereby earning a higher interest rate than the customer just depositing at a "regular" bank.
This seems like a question for economist support. Have you reached out to them?
The product is called Sublime Merge.
I know all those words, but I have no idea what you said.
I am a fan, but you're right, it can get awkward.

The good part is the set of pure functions that take input and compute something from it.

But the awkward part (assuming you're coding in a typical mainstream imperative language) is the "transaction script" that gets an input, passes it to the pure functions, and then takes the result and writes it out. If there's no event loop and you're not using promises or something like that, it forces an awkward boundary right down the middle of your code that just feels unnatural.

Still, I think it's worth it for many problems. The vast majority of your code is pure functions -- simple, understandable, testable. The price you pay is this unnatural seam at each point of IO.
Banks have always loaned out deposits, that's just what they do elsewise they'd be money warehousing operations and there'd be no fractional-reserve banking cartel.
Yeah, that can be a frightening state. And yet, it was my favorite part, during the peak of the peak. To some degree, the rest of the trip was just something to be endured. Although I eventually learned to go dancing or bike riding or whatever.

The absolute worst combination is marijuana on the tail of an LSD peak. Your short term memory drops to about 100 msec. I spent a few hours, decades ago, reminding a friend who they were, and that everything would be OK in a few hours. And it was hard work, because I could barely remember who I was, and who they were ;)

edit: clarity
Interesting article, but I found the title a bit funny. I'd like to see an article about Newton's laws titled "Getting to the Moon from a Wrong Formula".
If you need your JCD fix, he does a bi-weekly podcast with Adam Curry called No Agenda. [0]

[0]: http://noagendashow.com
There's a massive difference. Complying with subpoenas is not the same as giving the government on-tap access to all data at their leisure. And for all the US's problems, the rule of law and respect for the rights of citizen's and responsibilities of the state toward them in the administration of justice is leaps and bounds better and more transparent in the United States.
It also says that this bank’s customers would be other financial institutions, but why they would need it is unclear, if they could also deposit their reserves with the Fed.
I also disagree with the conclusion, but for a different reason. I think it's unlikely that the word embeddings were just lower quality. That should result in noise, not bias.

I that there is a real statistical pattern in the training data that names associated with certain ethnicities are more likely to appear close to words with negative sentiment. I just don't think this necessarily means that the news is racist. I think more analysis is needed to see where this pattern comes from.

However, if it is true that the news is biased and racist in a quantifiable way, that would be a bigger problem than biased word vectors. I would genuinely be interested in seeing that type of analysis.
It also has the highest rates of prostitution and human trafficking of women.

Turns out all you need to make tech attractive to women is to reduce the wages of every other job they might enjoy more to below starvation levels.
> but if the loan is profitable the bank can always borrow the reserves at a lower rate on the interbank market.

They're still loaning out deposits, though. They're just borrowing someone else's deposits to do it.
I think there's a bit of a subtlety in the parent comment that you may be missing, because the "banks don't loan out deposits" is a reference to fractional-reserve banking.
> I interpret it as meaning that there is not necessarily any tradeoff, as there wasn't in this case.

They haven't shown that there is no tradeoff, either in general or in this case.
The standard cocktail was morphine, cocaine and ethanol. Now they usually just do "inadvertent" opioid overdoses.
Except if you get hit and seriously injured or die, you will have decreased opportunities to continue your "learning"
Banks create money at the time someone gets a loan, and or risk is valued.

Their reserve, deposits, determine the size of loan they can create.
Yes, banks loan out deposits, but they don’t need deposits to make loans.
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Money is created, just not the entire loan.
artificial artificial intelligence
Wait, PC Magazine is still a thing?
Ive done DMT probably 10-15 times in my life so far but quit all recreational drugs ~3 years ago. My last trip being the most intense; me and a friend used a dabbing rig and poured about a gram of dmt onto the heated metal nail - for 20 minutes but what seemed like eternity I Observed the birth, life, and death of myself multiple times over until I finally came back down to the ‘real world’.
I had kidney stones a couple of times and I was (unpleasantly) surprised to find that you don’t pass out from the pain. I had always assumed that, given enough pain I would just pass out.
Having had to interview hundreds of candidates during my career I've never understood the infatuation with the Silicon Valley talent pool. The problem with there being enormous piles of what amounts to accountability-free money being handed out on often the flimsiest pretext is that nobody actually has to be all that good at anything to have worked at some impressive sounding places with impressive sounding titles.

Certainly there's a lot of talent in SV, but it's not the end-all-be-all of "the best and the brightest" that investors seemed incapable of considering more critically until recently.
What a dick move. Oh well, will the last subscriber of PC Mag turn out the lights?
I had the understanding beforehand — but the pain completely overwhelmed the amount of curiosity I had for the experience — brain said don’t drink more - and after that it was just sitting in a painful body until recovery ...
“You can’t test for everything” seems like a really bad counter argument in this case because you’ll still need to write the integration tests anyway, and if the tests are incomplete (which they always are, it’s life, whether you’re writing statically typed code or not, shrug), you have to improve the tests. You can still have runtime errors and incorrect logic in statically typed code... so?

Now if the process of that testing gets you 99% of the same overall job safety that you’d also get by increasing the code by 10% to add static typing annotations and data structure models (in addition to raising maintenance costs according to that 10% too, and possibly adding bugs or painting yourself into rigid, hard to refactor corners even if they confer some short term bug prevention benefit via the type checking), from tests you already need to write anyway, it’s a no-brainer.

I realize there are good uses of static typing and it can come down to style preference. But truly in this case of “what if my big scientific computing system hits a type-checking-could-prevent-it sort of bug after hours of computing time,” it’s just not a good argument.

This is why people routinely write huge scientific computing systems in Python and nobody ever worries that they hit type checking relevant errors after several hours.

Some things where type checking can really help: ensuring you’ve exhaustively handled every case in an ADT, using the type system to prove state transitions, like with phantom types, using the type system to encode side-effectfulness like Haskell monads.

These things often just aren’t important for something like a large-scale machine learning training program. The types of problems you run into just don’t happen to benefit much from that stuff, while the benefits you can get from writing quick ad hoc functions that can take arguments of unconstrained types and just make unchecked assumptions about their attributes is actually quite big.
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Yes. And the article didn't make that clear enough. The biological lifetime of DMT is very short, because there are enzymes (monoamine oxidase aka MAO) in many tissues. So the effects last 15-30 minutes. But ayahuasca includes MAO inhibitors, so the effects can last for many hours. And it's mainly the MAO inhibitors that make users feel ill.
Because geometry of a circle will be skewed if Pi will contains millions zeroes in a row.

Pi is not a random number even if it digit sequence looks as pseudo-random sequence.
Makes sense. Law of information non-growth proves AI cannot create mutual information. Only source we know of is people. This fake AI is the future of the industry.
Yes civilians do die in wars but the conduct of the US forces in South east Asia was pretty reprehensible by any measure. Particularly if you’ve read “Kill anything that moves” by Nick Turse
no one cares. they want a status update for the thing they just halted progress on, and prolonged further by interrupting you.
So it is. Can find lots of references to the report, even from gov.uk, but no actual links to it.
Artificial intelligence is impossible
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3am is when the really strange things happen. It's too late for most people to be out after a night at the bar and too early for even the earlybirds to be out and about. The last time I regularly saw 3am was my first couple of years in college when we were experimenting with things that make it tough to sleep.
FoundationDB uses a consensus algorithm for reconfiguration, but not in the (happy path) transaction pipeline. It provides (by default) strict serializability (i.e. serializability and external consistency/linearizability) for arbitrary, ad hoc, interactive transactions, and it's expected to provide excellent performance when every single transaction is cross node (so e.g. indexes can be efficiently updated this way). It provides better fault tolerance than consensus replicated databases typically can because it needs only N+1 replicas instead of 2N+1 to survive N faults (it keeps 2N+1 replicas of tiny configuration for consensus, if course). It has the best testing story in the industry and is used at scale by, among others, the largest company in the world. Because it doesn't have consensus in the datapath it can have lower latencies than consensus replicated databases in multi region deployments, it also supports asynchronous replication, and an upcoming feature will provide a unique option for multi region failover with sub geographic write latencies, maintaining full transaction durability in failover, as if in synchronous replication, except for the exceptionally rare case where the failure of multiple datacenters in a region are exactly simultaneous.

Besides its extensive documentation, you can read its source code and run its deterministic simulation tests yourself if you are interested (it's Apache licensed). Skepticism on these points was reasonable when we originally launched it in 2012 but is getting a little silly in 2018.
having the jury ask questions can really only hurt the defendant. if a juror is so confused that they feel the need to ask a question, they should just count that point towards "reasonable doubt" and move on.
This is not true, serious military figures in the US armed forces concluded that Japan was utterly defeated and was making peace feelers. They were basically defenseless at that stage of the war, against the bombing raids.

The civilian massacre could have been prevented by merely demonstrating the bomb. However they chose to experiment by dropping it on an city.
The actual Mechanical Turk.
'Brazilian' has other meanings you may be unaware of... namely it being the name for a bikini wax. Almost nude women is beyond expected in this case. Just another example of how complex these things are linguistic and cuturally.
How blockchains can and can't be used for video auth and countering deepfakes
Seconding this recomendation. This book really had a large influence on me / led me in a lot of other interesting directions.
The problem is, the Fed would have to drop rates costing all the banks and reducing liquidity and removing the reason it exists for in the first place, which is being lender of last resort.

It offers preferential rates to banks as they are cooperative agents. It is not running at free market rates.
If it were to open to free market, Fed would have to adjust the rates until it matches the reserve...

Unlike most agents on the market, Fed is free to deny you.
I didn't realize PC Mag was still around.
First Alex Jones, now No Agenda. Where will it end?

And if we say nothing when will they come for us?
Awesome!
I will read that paper first and give detailed comments!
Your hidden away nasty regex that no one else understand works until it needs to be modified.

Then it's better to have the 15 lines of regular code that regular programmers can modify.