skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this is one of the major reasons why I support that the US is going after China.

It's a disgrace that previous politicians from both the EU and the US have just let China steal from the west through technology transfer and not actually enforcing IP.
I have no idea, haha.

I also know 2-3 people who are very smart AND don't have anxiety/executive problems, but they have social issues. They tend to burn out themselves and the people around them because they think their intelligence and work ethic is the base-line and the rest of the world is just dumb and/or lazy.
"Two of Elemental’s biggest early clients were the Mormon church, which used the technology to beam sermons to congregations around the world, and the adult film industry, which did not."

Well played, Bloomberg. Well played.
> It would be reasonnable to build the simulated universe as similar as possible to the outer universe.

... said one Tetris block to the other.

I would say the world is full of simulations, and while many will try to simulate aspects of the real world, there are just as many simulating completely or at least hugely different things from our world.

At some point a simulation may have the goal to understand the existing world. But once that field has been harvested enough and simulations on that scale have become a commodity people would probably move on from the things "that are", to the things that "could be", or are even impossible.
Tree-shaking is already there:

https://github.com/aspnet/Blazor/issues/1076
Show HN: Mstime – measure and visualize code performance in (ms), 2 KB gzip
Academics Expose Corruption in Gender Studies,Feminist Studies,Sociology Etc.
I’m guessing this is a question for blind.
Depends how you think about it.

What if you ran Conway's Life simulation, and suddenly on you screen appear cells ordered in the form of text messages like "Hi, I am aware that this is a simulation, I want to talk with the entities outside it".
Im impressed as well. But I'm sure its not as impressive as what the NSA is capable of. If you're reading an article about this - its because the US government wants you to know about it. The US has been doing this kind of stuff well before the Chinese or anyone else... And yes, totally agree that this is probably fairly common place. Some comments have shown that this happens with run-of-the-mill hardware like credit card scanners.

This stuff also reminds me of the Snowden revelations of hard-disk firmware hacking. Very similar conceptually to what is described in this article - albeit without custom hardware.
Yes. Exactly. Kubernetes is adding complexity needlessly. People are so dumb, they can't understand that more isn't always better.
Agreed, nice site. On Windows 10, the sliders do not work in Firefox 62.0.3, and they do work in Chrome 69.
The comparison is misguided, I agree. Those teeny 20 watts the brain is using are extracted by killing plants and animals. How about measuring the amount of death per computation?

Also, let's not forget about the enormous time, space and energy used by evolution to make humans. Nothing we invented can rival that kind of resource usage.

Even in Deep Learning, performant models require more data and compute. You can't obtain the same accuracy from running a computer for a day compared to 500 TPUs for a week. Humans have had lots of time to train and evolve, computers not.
Remove reliance from the Chinese supply chain?
Seems like run-o-the-mill big corporation FUD to me, and not even particularly well executed distribution of said FUD. Doesn't strike me as overly newsworthy. Am I missing something here?
>BTW at least saccharine ad ace-k are already known to be carcinogenic AFAIK

Not according to the National Cancer Institute [1]. The amount of misinformation in nutrition is frustrating at times.

[1] https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/d...
That's, what, a bit less than $200k per inmate?

Food, shelter, plumbing, facilities upkeep, medical/psychological care, and very high security costs? That really isn't a surprising figure. Prison are incredibly expensive. It's a great argument for minimizing prison populations to only people that pose immediate threats to others and focusing as much as possible on reducing recidivism.
I think those scientists should hire the researchers who keep discovering escapes from VMs/containers. Depending on which iteration we're on, there might be some simple low-hanging fruit like a BIOS call we could make. ;)

Aside: read "Microcosmic God" [1], an interesting sci-fi short story by Theodore Sturgeon [2].

[1] http://1pezeshk.com/wp-content/pics/2013/01/microcosmicgodth...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcosmic_God
The underlying research article (https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/23/10/2454) is set up as a "no-fail" experiment since it infers toxicity with the slightest change (inhibition or induction) in a very sensitive reporter (luciferase). They are NOT measuring change in growth rate of the bacterial cells, the traditional measure of toxicity (aka IC, or inhibitory concentration). The study has positive and negative controls, but this assay is poorly controlled relative to how it is being interpreted (impact of artificial sweeteners on human gut microbiome).

The only way to accurately calibrate this novel assay for relevance to human health is to expose the bacteria to a wide range of natural foods (e.g., avocado, spinach, berries, honey, etc) and show that it does not return a positive result. If nearly everything is toxic, the assay is not useful. However, if most natural foods have no toxicity signal, then the assay has genuine value.
Check out servicestack.net . I'm not affiliated in any way but it's a pretty sweet framework that runs fast back end in dotnet core, Typescript API generator, fast microrm, caching, etc etc, all open source , with templates for all the common UI flavours. I use it whenever possible
Not really. It's expensive, a dick to program, no FP support and single thread performance is rubbish. A cheap ARM is a better deal now and they are quoted in uA/MHz for performance so you can trade off your performance on the fly.
Wow but that's overengineered. Just put a dead-man switch in the steering wheel.
Did you ask for clarification in those discussions whether the 70 cents was adjusted or unadjusted? or are you assuming the one that you believe you can disprove?

As I said, keep on fighting the good fight.
> Reddit was and can never be that bad simply due to subreddits.

Vote manipulation on reddit in 2018 is way worse than vote manipulation on Digg ever was. Due to the centralized categories of Digg, the userbase was unable to hide away from content they didn't like and that brought the community together to collectively take part in rejecting the influencers. On reddit, there isn't that same sense of a cohesive single community. In the past, there might have been a sort of collective identity of "redditors", but that's gone away as the site has grown. Nobody says, "Oh yeah, I go on reddit" anymore, they say that they are are active on a particular sub.

I wonder if reddit could have done anything differently to maintain that "redditor" identity among their userbase, is it just a function of their growth? I think it's mostly just their growth, but they accelerated it by not being more careful with what subreddits were defaults and their responsibility to curate them. I remember when the frontpage of reddit transitioned from generally being longform content, to generally being shitty image-macro memes. I also remember when /r/politics used to be a relatively balanced source of news.

If you do something that makes your happy and heavy users rescind from being globally active to just being active in their tiny niche subreddit, you can't expect your global sense of community to be maintained.
But we may have heard about it.

Like my father, who runs his entire gas station/towing company/repair shop with Excel macros. lol.
If Mexico is at all like the US there should be 1 in 10000 daily newspaper journalists among the population. Add maybe as many for all other forms of journalism. Then they are just twice as likely to die then the average Mexican as a result of the drug war. Given that even the cartels probably kill more working age people then children and retirees the rate might be totally normal. The shocking thing is however how many people are killed in total in Mexico. Whatever their line of work
> and, from what I've read, would be higher cause the tests have changed.

That doesn't sound right - the Flynn effect causes IQ tests to get harder over time.

Also, I believe IQ reliably deteriorates with age.
It's the difference living in a homogenous culture vs a diverse one like the US.

Plus the fact that due to the gun love culture police never know who's going to have a gun and so their behavior goes from helping people to protecting themselves.

It's a pernicious attitude that has sad to say destroyed the good will that people should have for their police.
" It also has the downside of requiring extensive use of more advanced features like interactive rebasing."

This is true. In the early days of mercurial (back before it was clear that git was winning the popularity contest) there was an extension called Mercurial Queues[1] that made it really easy to work this way. The downsides were: it didn't handle conflicts well, and it could totally destroy your work if you weren't careful. Since then someone has written the Evolve extension which is Mercurial Queues done right. That, sadly, came about after git had "won" the popularity contest.

1. Best explanation of Mercurial Queues: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/08/a-git-users-guide-to-mercu...
As someone who has used a few SuperMicro boards in custom builds, I would like to know which motherboard models have been affected. It's not clear to me from the article whether that is even known at this time.

I'd also like to know of a recommended work-around. I have always had IPMI "disabled" as much as I can; assigned a non-routable IP address in the BIOS in case it flips to a failsafe mode by piggybacking on the main NICs. But is that sufficient? Is BMC ~= IPMI?

Has anyone found more technical details yet for system administrators who don't work at the thirty companies contacted?
The evaluation of the test is simple. Your willpower is measured by the amount of hard work you dedicated to the problem of your own choice during the time interval of the test (which is your choice as well).

So if you truly have no incentive to do the test, then you have no incentive to do anything that you choose to, and zero willpower.
Seeing as how every use of expression trees I've ever seen in C# is something like "try in vain to make it so people don't have to understand SQL", perhaps you will forgive me for not being particularly impressed by it.

I view C#'s expression tree stuff as a neat experiment. It's cool. But it doesn't and shouldn't change one's programming life.
Huge endorsement for this one - I’ve been working my way through it and I’ve found that this has helped me level up in my language skills in a way that no other method has so far.
Facebook is taking its time regarding the recent data leak too. Potentially 90mil users affected and there's still no statement what happened to their information. I fully understand Facebook might not even have this information, but it's a poor excuse if you ask me.
What does having N-number of GC'd languages have any relevance? Your OS is an "app browser" with a variety GC language-based apps running happily alongside one another (Go, Java, C#, Elixir, etc)
Anecdotally I've noticed when I chew large amounts of artificially sweetened gum (mentos pure fresh) throughout the day, I will have restless legs throughout the night.
I did an analysis of score/title trends a month ago and found that there really isn't a trend per se even among the biggest subreddits in terms of post performance and post titles, but selection bias can be hard to overcome: https://minimaxir.com/2018/09/modeling-link-aggregators/

That said, I haven't been a fan of Reddit's Ad Units, which feel very /r/fellowkids ironically.
Couldn't the same be possible on routes?
If this is a simulation then it’s pretty mundane. If civilisations had the power to simulate universes, i can imagine vast numbers of more extreme or interesting universes. Heavens, hells, dramatic and artistic experiments. The mediocrity principle coupled with the fact that we’re in quite a boring universe seems to indicate that either the majority of simulations are quite mundane for some reason, or we’re likely not in a simulation.
No, it's far more likely that we're the result of an emergency overload dump of a runaway thaumic reactor experiment run in the squash court of a university for wizards on a much more sensible flat world. There's far less hand-waving in that narrative.
Having you tokens stolen is probably more likely than those other things.
Any community with anything to do with media is going to have completely organic hype posts, just because real people are actually excited for the thing to come out.
Well, yes. Comparing top .01% to top 1% is akin to comparing top 1% to general population - NOT akin to comparing top 1% to top 2%. So a big difference should be expected/not surprising at all.
Maybe we are being simulated by a benevolent super-being playing The Sims
I suspect the simulation hypothesis is false. It relies on the premise that computers will get faster and faster until eventually we are simulating universes, but I suspect this will not be the case; we have been running into physical boundaries in making CPUs faster for quite some time. It's true that simulating a universe would lend itself well to parallelization in some respects, and it's also true that the universe would not have to be simulated in realtime in order for it's occupants to perceive it in realtime, but still it would be a monumentally expensive undertaking with current technology. Quantum computing may give us some big shortcuts here.

I also read a clever paper some years ago that assumed a minimum amount of energy required to perform a computation, and then asked, if our CPUs continue to double in power every year, how long will it be until we need to convert all the matter in the observable universe into its rest energy to power our computer? As with all numbers that double on a regular basis, the answer is shorter than you'd think.

But, there's a far more worrisome subset of the simulation hypothesis; when we train an image classifier, we show it a whole bunch of pictures of cats and dogs and "train" it. It stands to reason that when we want to build a general purpose AI, we will need to train it with general experiences. You could easily do that by recording a person's entire life and then feeding it to an AI. Hard to start recording a person right out of the womb, but you could make some minor modifications to the recording so that everyone in this "recorded universe" thought it was perfectly normal for everyone to not remember the first four of five years of their life.

If this hypothesis is true, then I have good news; when you "die", there will indeed be an afterlife. There will be several in fact, as you are instanced across many servers and put into service doing natural language processing for users of the iPhone MMLX.
> or it'll give you the shits

I believe that's a common side effect of sugar alcohols like xylitol.
The abuse component is completely unnecessary.

It's not about the type of labor or physical effort but the completely inhuman conditions. How the heck is that a contradiction?
I checked the photo.

AST2400 has option for two spi memories, one overrides the other by default. They simply put a microscopic spi flash in place of the second "recovery" flash.

I heard before the rumors of Chinese server mobos "talking" some gibberish on ICMP, so that must be it.
Thanks, I will look into it. I was also thinking of looking into CDFA grants this winter during farm downtime. But many federal grants require university participation and I didn’t go to school in the US. This somewhat restricts how I can gain access many of these grants and opportunities even though I am a citizen. It’s just time consuming even though I am sure it’s possible.
Managing service mesh on Kubernetes with Istio
Server Side Blazor will have to store the current Virtual DOM Representation in memory for each client, so that it can do diffing on it if a request comes in for that client and return the diffs.

1MB is my estimate for the Virtual DOM and associated independent state for each client. I was not factoring in the SignalR per-connection memory footprint, I imagine that would already be pretty optimized?
The first thing that come to mind is that you can self-host cryptsend, while it doesnt seem to be possible to self-host send.firefox.com
Maybe time to buy your financial hardware from somewhere not china?
I've recently analysed pricing of various storage providers when thinking of building a side project, and I was surprised at how costly the services were.

S3, Drive, Dropbox, Spaces, B2, Box, several Object Storage solutions. Some cases storage was cheap, but the transfer was costly. Everything seemed costly for the simple use case of providing an end user 10GB monthly upload + ~50GB bandwidth at low cost.

A vps with additional storage seemed to be the ~better~ most feasible solution to me.

This sounds like a terrific thing to host on a vps.
Thanks! It's a tiny library and my team is using it in production, so I plan on maintaining it for a very long time.
Totally not on-topic but the attorney's name -- Kelly Canary -- is unusual enough that I googled it. Is she the former lead singer of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickless ?
Given that there’s video from 4 decades in which Trump advocates for tariffs, during which time he wasn’t a politician, it would seem that they are something he believes strongly in.
The Flynn effect is misunderstood to be some sort of general humanist truth (because psychology classes generally present it as such), but the existence of a reversal in the Flynn effect in recent years may indicate that it was just a circumstance of the 20th century and not something that we can assume will continue forever.

Flynn effect and its reversal are both
environmentally caused (2018)

https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/0...
The key is not to confuse IQ as an isolated effect, but rather study it as an interactive effect, e.g. taken together with grit / perseverance, IQ likely becomes one of the best explanatory variables for success.

IQ is not a definitive 100% accurate predictor for intelligence, people expect that, and it doesn't work like that. But it doesn't mean it's not a predictor.

i.e. a lot of people say 'Feynman had an IQ of 125, I had an IQ of 140, but I'm not smarter than Feynman, thus I question IQ as a predictor for intelligence'. But that's a bit like saying 'Tyson was a small heavyweight boxer, but he's a more successful boxer than I am while I'm twice his size, thus I doubt size as a predictor for boxing success'.

Same with things like getting a college degree, and comparing your degreed success with that of Bill Gates who dropped out. It doesn't rule out education as a predictor.

Similarly, you can look at BMI and say that it is a predictor for being overweight (e.g. as a proxy for health, having too much fat, dietetc). But bodybuilders have high BMIs, the proxy doesn't work for them.

The key to all these edge-cases are interactive effects. Education works, but not when interacted with forgoing a billion dollar entrepreneurial opportunity like Gates or Zuckerberg. BMI works, but not interacted with a low-fat, high-muscle training goal. Size as a predictor works in combat sports, but can be overcome when low size is interacted with talent factors. Similarly, IQ works, but not in isolation, and not in every single case, but it is one of the more useful predictors with a lot of explanatory powers.

Lastly, estimating any predictor for a small subset of geniuses (the focus of this article), is hardly an effective metric when it's based on an IQ test that is designed for the general population.

Lastly, some bayesian perspectives... the article's premise is based on: how many high-IQ people go on to become a genius. Well, very few. Perhaps that's not because IQ doesn't matter, but rather that there's just very few geniuses. Instead if you look at geniuses and look at what their IQ is, it's virtually all substantially above average.

Insomuch as he's speaking to a rare strawman individual who holds the belief that IQ is the end-all metric of being a genius then yes, IQ doesn't matter as much as he thinks. Most other people however are much more nuanced about IQ and understand you can be unsuccessful with a high IQ and successful with a low IQ, but that it's a very strong predictor for success nonetheless.
The difference there is that Korea and Japan are treaty allies with the US. Taiwan is not a treaty ally but has a very close relationship with the US.
The video player is the worst. They are preventing you from downloading the video and it's not like the own the content.

If you upload to reddit, please use imgur or another service!
Obviously done on purpose so that sharing requires you to send a link to the reddit page instead of just sharing the video.
Not GP, but first off, if we're relying on charity to ensure voting rights, something has already gone horribly wrong.

Secondly, as I've stated elsewhere, any charity or foundation ought to be required to get buy-in in the turn of new funds to keep operating. If it's truly a social good, that should be pretty easy.

Let's turn your example around: what about a foundation founded in 1910 who's purpose is to protect the family unit by preventing women's suffrage? Should they be able to operate in perpetuity without additional support from the generations whose lives their work affects?
> just write a couple of manifests to deploy a project, versus...

Whenever anyone says "just do something" these days, it usually means that it hasn't been thought through properly. Is that only my personal experience?
I think there are deeper problems in the argument than merely "it would take a lot of resources". I'm concerned by arguments in the form "I can imagine that something is true, therefore it is true". From this perspective, I see the argument like this:

1) (Assume that) we can create a simulation with intelligent beings in it.

2) Therefore, it is not impossible that someone has created a simulation in which we are the simulated intelligent beings.

3) Therefore, it is highly likely that we live in a simulation.

I simply don't get the logical implication between 2 and 3 from "not impossible" to "highly likely". I have the same concerns with the ontological argument for the existence of God:

1) I can imagine a being that is perfect and all-powerful.

2) This being therefore exists, because if it didn't it wouldn't be perfect nor all-powerful.

In both cases I see an extreme case of begging the question.
"I think I agree with what the author is saying, by and large, but it doesn't matter: if it's a mental model that works for you, you can live in the "stacked diffs" world right up until you need to "curate" all your commits into something that can be considered for incorporation into the parent project"

That's funny because he spent the whole blog post pointing out why it does matter. The tools we use and their defaults structure the way we work. Having lived in both worlds I can add my testament to that.
Why on Earth did they tie it to Siri? Why can't I drop a shortcut on my home screen and tap it? Why does Siri have to be enabled? This feels like just a ploy to get Siri usage up.
Or it was never a valid criticism on its own, but rather a shorthand to explain a toxic behavior pattern by certain people who would seek out all kinds of unsubtantiated nonsense regardless of merit (Lizard People, Illuminati, Social Marxism, etc). It's unfortunate that some people used it as a thought-terminating phrase against all conspiracies.