skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are more likely to tell family and friends that they hate your company than tell them that they love it.
> The Rust borrow checker prevents a lot of issues in C(++) code. Including thread safety. Nim does not provide anything new in this regard.

Actually Nim does offer something new in this regard. See https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#guards-and-locks.

> While Mozilla support does help a lot for sure, a lot of the hype around Rust (imo) comes from people trying it out, just falling in love with and then promoting it

AFAIK Rust was a much different language before Mozilla officially adopted it (wasn't the borrow checker implemented after Mozilla sponsorship?). So not only was it not the same language, it wasn't known at all. Don't underestimate the power of full-time developers working on a programming language and having the support of a well known organisation behind them.

Sadly a lot of the hype is simply "omg, Mozilla uses this langauge" or "omg, Google uses this language".
Ask HN: What should I include and exclude on my resume
I graduate next month with my B.A. degree in Computer Information Systems but I cannot determine what I should include and or exclude from my resume because I have zero experience besides my school work and I don't have an online portfolio of anykind.

I don't want to include past job history because it's in no relation to my degree but, I still should have a resume to email out.

Any advice?
I've been using this tool for a couple of days now. Got an invite for the beta. It looks really refreshing. Simple to get started and I love the clean look. Still figuring out all the different things I can do in it. I'm bummed out there's no mobile support yet though.
And I have a /64 from my ISP giving me about eighteen quintillion addresses, but no sane/supported/easy way to further subnet that locally. IPv6/rfc7421 is great ...
We're receiving these spams from practically every continent. They ask for about 850 USD in btc, so tey always make about 6-12,000 USD per operation. They usually cash out in less than 5 days.

I grew tired of reporting their IP addresses to their ISPs, which definitely don't care. Specially the Asians.
There's absolutely no reason why my cable bill couldn't encapsulate all of the payees. None. It's just a failure to upend the status quo. "They are made by different companies"... Companies pay eachother all the time.
You’re preaching to the choir here.

I’d love to see a data science community around Racket in particular. In fact, you can do quite a lot in Racket today, just with not nearly the libraries and tooling as Python or R.

But as a consolation prize, R is pretty Schemey, and has the best collection of libraries for data around. It’s been a dream for years to figure out a way of making use of more of R from Racket, but time and deadlines keep getting in the way.
it's not exactly arguable that the aircraft did the wrong thing

I still think it's arguable that the "right thing" is for the plane to say "Hey, I don't know how to fly this thing anymore, so I'm giving up! Oh and since I'm so confused, the plane is in alternate law, so all of those nomal-law protections you usually have aren't there." and then handing over control to the pilot that hasn't been actively flying the plane and expecting him to suddenly figure out what's been happening and why the autopilot gave up.

Since the pilots did pretty much the opposite of what they should have done, maybe the plane could have done better itself, even with the unreliable airspeed?
So what are the right arguments?
Herman Hesse: Outside Man
I had a plastic toy of Feathers McGraw on my desk, the evil penguin (disguised as a chicken!) from the Wallace and Gromit movie, “The Wrong Trousers.” Looking for a preliminary working title for the compiler, I used the first thing that came to my mind that day. I’m somewhat superstitious about names for software projects, and things were progressing well, so I didn’t dare to change the name.

Great!
There's a difference between socializing for a few hours with work people---many of whom may be new and/or have very different styles---and socializing with long-time friends and family. If you have a bit of a hard time socializing for a few hours with strangers and if a responsible amount of alcohol helps a bit, I'd say you're probably pretty okay :)
I suspect it's controversial because HNers think you're referencing people like James Damore and/or people who wrap themselves in the mantle of "diversity of ideas" when they start making racist or sexist comments.

Is that the kind of "diversity of ideas and experience" you're talking about?
Linux on Any Android
Until a team with resources comparable to the OS X team puts in the effort to polish some Ubuntu derivative and make it work flawlessly with one or a few particular hardware configurations, Apple will still have an advantage that many are willing to pay a premium for.
Well, a halt on Moore's law (which we're already seeing) can very easily "stop transistor based computers from doing it" in any realistic way.

There's no contract signed with the universe that we will be able to design ever faster computers forever (or even just for 50-100 years more).
Or better yet, live in persecution that makes it harder to succeed with manual agricultural labour but easier through crafts and trade, build your culture and religion about literacy and education, and remain a tight ethno-religious group with social pressure (both from within and outside) to inter-marry.
China is a totalitarian state that is not accountable to the people of its economy.
Given the variability in phone dimensions, it seems like you'd have to buy a phone specifically designed for your laptop, or vice versa.

Attempts have been made before, like the Asus Padfone line, but it never really caught on.[0]

[0]https://www.asus.com/Phone/PadFone_S_PF500KL/
I doubt most here in Denmark know it. The war ending was horrible for the country (we were neutral war profiteers and sold to both sides at extremely inflated prices). The war probably only matters to the older generations, if at all, because for the rest of us it is overshaddowed by the second world war.
Feel free to ban anything you want at work. And the people who work there will select for if they want to be a part of it by becoming or remaining employees. (There are, of course, things that are illegal to ban)

I personally want to work somewhere who values me as a responsible human being, and expects me to behave like one. The more a workplace feels like they have to micromanage their employees like children, the more I would expect their workplace to be filled with people who act like children. And I personally wouldn’t want to work somewhere like that.

Hire intelligent, respectful, ethical, empathetic, mature adults to do interesting work. Fire the ones who don’t live up to it.

I expect workplace requirements to be spelled out in terms of expected behavior, expected performance, expected results. Define the outputs.

And take responsibility up the chain. IMO the right policy is not to ban alcohol entirely. Rather, if an employee behaves inappropriately the employee is responsible, but if the manager created the environment which lead to the behavior (whether that be approving the purchase of a keg and cheering for a keg stand, or not stopping that engineer from being verbally abusive at the daily stand ups) the manager is also held to account.
I'm not a fan of the prohibitionist policies. Finding people who can't control their behavior is good.

I tend not to drink around work because of the expectation of professional behavior and I'm just uncomfortable around people I have a professional relationship. However, I've been at companies who have cut alcohol because a few people are sensitive. (I'm not referring to those who are alcoholics that have self-discipline issues) It's annoying.
[Cockroach Labs engineer here, I worked on statistics]

All table statistics are stored in a system table (system.table_statistics). CREATE STATISTICS scans the table, calculating statistics on a column, and adds a new row to system.table_statistics.

We still have a ways to go in making statistics automatic (right now it requires a manual call to CREATE STATISTICS) and more useful to the optimizer (which currently only uses basic stats). We're working on that right now for the 2.2 release.
Mein safe spacen!
I don't know why this is being downvoted. It's an actual strategy used by the CIA to change walking patterns to avoid detection.
Opponent of Neutrality Wins Seat in Senate: Does the Internet Need Protection?
Why would an alternative hypothesis have to be "reasonable"?

Reason is just a category of how we see the world, not necessarily some ultimate truth.
Against the Current: What We Learned from Eve
The implementations at https://github.com/search?q=Base58 don't look like they use a bignum package, nor do that look particularly slow or complicated. The main encoding loop for https://github.com/luke-jr/libbase58/blob/master/base58.c is:

for (i = zcount, high = size - 1; i < binsz; ++i, high = j)
{
for (carry = bin[i], j = size - 1; (j > high) || carry; --j)
{
carry += 256 * buf[j];
buf[j] = carry % 58;
carry /= 58;
}
}
>This sort of thing is more expected to come from a sensationalist magazine, and not from the official communication channel of the highest-office in the land.

This is the office that tried to push "alternative facts" as a rationale for the disagreement between Trump's claims of the size of his inauguration crowd and the photographic evidence. I mean, you lived through the same election cycle as everyone else. We saw the crazy train coming from miles away and for some reason the American people decided to board it.

Not only should this sort of thing be expected, it's apparently the sort of thing people wanted.
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Right now we are excited to find a Full Stack developer who is strong with react and react-native to join our team. Part-time and/or remote would be considered for the right person

We are also looking for a freelancer who is strong with UE4 (C++ and/or Blueprints) to help simple UE4 mini-game.

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Realistically that extra 25% is already taken up by the OS, GUI and other resources (AV, IDE, Electron apps, etc). You're already at a disadvantage to most server platforms.

I've been running 16-32GB for a very long time now. Servers can go into the multiple TB ranges.
Metaculus Predicts Elon Musk's Future
The scientific method needed strict rigor to compete against a superstitious world.

Now we are seeing that there exist things which only MAY be repeatable experiments but reaching consensus falls outside of that particular method.

I think eventually we'll find a gradient of reality where natural selection isn't the end all be all, just as much as spontaneous creation wasn't either. Learned behaviors being inheritable genetically being just the tip of the iceberg. Heresy now, but I can see where this goes.
This is really a lot more subjective than the write up makes it out to be. There's no generic algorithm for determining whether or not someone needs a new job.
i have one of those i should upgrade and give away. can you recommend your ram and ssd?
I forgot about the point that they physically provide the devices, which might be relevant somehow. But how could they use financial-industry-like controls to prevent themselves from being compelled by a government to certify a man-in-the-middle attack? How can the processes distinguish between "we believe this statement is true" and "the government compels us to state that we believe this statement is true"?
This quote stuck out for me too, and is clearly, as you say, "inadequate". Also, no invention comes from a single brain; the biggest software systems we build, for example, are designed by many, many people. No one person can even understand something as complex as some of our large-scale software systems. And yet, we build them and they work.
Glad I'm not the only one who had a problem with that reasoning.
So in this paradigm mind is to brain what movement is to body?
I would say halting oracles are a possibility that have some degree of mathematical traction:

https://www.am-nat.org/site/halting-oracles-as-intelligent-a...

But, we shouldn't prefer an incorrect model to no model, and the brain = mind model does not seem correct.
"I was hoping this would allow me to ssh into my phone to make/take calls and send/receive texts. Does anyone knows if that's possible?"

I send SMS from the command line by curl'ing twilio ...

curl -X POST -d "Body=Hi" -d "From=3032221111" -d "To=4151112222" "https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/${account_sid}/Messages" -u "${account_sid}:${auth_token}"

I do at least half of my testing this way, from inside my terminal that I am already working in (I wrote a little sms script in /bin/sh).

Of course this means that your phone number has to be at twilio (either source the number from them or port it to them).
Strange example. Chicago is famous for its rude drivers and honking. http://chicagoist.com/2009/11/27/ask_chicagoist_whats_up_wit...
Nice tool! I’ve been using Trello for 2 years now, but I haven’t been completely satisfied with it.. however, free plan is awesome, and I buy a cheap power-up from time to time, which lets me stay organized + stay on budget.

However, I’m very intrigued by your tool! Is there a chance you could spoil a pricing plan for Infinity? Who knows, it might be the next big thing for me!
As long as you aren't using any Adobe software.
I believe just under my own full name, although I may have specified an organization. If there's no ongoing maintenance requirement to retain IP allocations (like an annual fee), then maybe they are still floating out there attached to me in some way. I'll have to do some research.
Offtopic, but you now do "analytics on user behavior" at Salesforce. Do your analytics let you know that logging out my brower tabs overnight to show me some marketing bullshit is really f*king annoying?
You need to get a better chief security officer.
> An overwhelming amount of evidence points to this simple fact: a single human brain, on its own, is not capable of designing a greater intelligence than itself.

I mean, that's probably true.

That's why we have big corporations with multi-billion dollar R&D budgets for large projects. A single human brain probably couldn't code all of Gmail, let alone an AI.
I used to use the Firefox extension Scrapbook. It saved items to a local archive (not "local storage", but user-definable and in the normal local filesystem).

Then the Firefox rewrite killed it.

In addition to news that I'd like to be able to refer back to, I've found more and more "perennial" Web resources disappearing.

The Web is not a library. If I want to be sure I am able to refer to something more than a week or a month later, I'm finding I need to ensure I have a local copy.

Scrapbook made this easy and convenient.
1) That the rise of AI has been predicted again as "coming soon" in the 60s and 70s and nothing came out of it once already.

2) That current AI is just very primitive NNs, and all the hoopla is mostly hype (like Big Data, Grid Computing, Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Virtual Reality, 3D Printing, and several other previous fads served as revolutionary and the cure for everything)

3) That they are several orders of magnitude more primitive than a human brain.

4) That we haven't had Moore-law style increases in CPU power for quite some time.

5) That, never mind AI, we can't even make a good email app...

6) That all kind of peddler make good money by tooting AI (e.g. IBM selling BS tech as "Watson")
To make an accurate projection or statement about something, it is generally necessary that you have a sound understanding of it. This is just my general intelligence speaking here. I see nothing of note that reflects that this person has a fundamental understanding of General Intelligence or has even been in the pursuit of it. Authoring an optimization algorithm suite doesn't mean you have an understanding of General Intelligence. A non-read before even clicking on the link. Two posts today about AGI. Seems the next hype train is arriving right on schedule and its banner will be (AGI).
> You are still going on about constraints

Seriously? I merely quoted my original text to demonstrate a completely unrelated point, so you're the one harping on this unnecessarily.

> Also, before, you were going on about functional programming as if OP was not familiar with it: "What snippet in a purely functional programming language would be simultaneously intelligible and communicate the power of FP to someone who knew only imperative programming?"

Right, the point being made is clarified by the text I quoted. If you're familiar with it then you don't need it, and if you're not then it wouldn't help you.
What is Dex? I've read a lot on that page but still don't get it.
For me, it's at least refreshing to see one that doesn't rely on the implicit hazy assumption that biological intelligence is magical.
The other respondents to your comment put it very well, so I'll just say that I agree. It's not an invasion.

When the President lies, it's OK for a reporter to call him or her a liar.
Ha, yea. I was deliberately using that terminology hoping people might be able to draw some parallels with their KSP experience.
An incremental step would be for a company to not pay for alcohol. Don't allow employees to expense alcohol. For catered company events, the company could charge people per alcoholic drink or just not serve any.
The OnePlus 6T comes in 6 GB and 8 GB LPDDR4X variants
That software is either poorly written, or has low level stuff that needs to be arch specific or rewritten. Most code does not have this sort of issue.
Dash-8's are pretty small though.
I think we've seen the cross-over point for AGI in the last few years.

Just recently, within the last decade, we've seen incredible advances of the usefulness of existing ML/NN based approaches. We have phones and smart speakers which have sufficiently reliable speech recognition. Ditto for vision tasks.

What's different now compared to decades past is that businesses can see the benefit of incremental improvements in existing systems. If Siri can easily be demonstrated to be more useful than Cortana, that is a significant competitive advantage, which will sell products and services.

The tech giants (and others) see this, so they will continue to invest. This isn't like in past where we tried things here and there, they didn't work as well as we had hoped, and then we stopped investing.

The pressure is on all the tech giants to keep investing, and applying that research to more and more of their own businesses (like using ML to manage power and cooling at a data center).

We're on a roller-coaster ride into the future, and nothing short of worldwide disaster will stop it. For good or for bad.
And this is a hilariously incorrect mischaracterization of what happened, see https://lobste.rs/s/fdyztr/new_user_downvoting#c_acmwjt
Kings have ever considered their own power as an end to itself, even if the small people have to suffer. They probably made arguments very alike to this one to justify the wars fought over another king's acres. And some of the small people bought into it too.

I don't want to live in that world, though. I think this as a case for the Brexit position only works if you can demonstrate that the people will in fact be materially better off (not in money but in well-being, which can factor in feelings like the one the author speaks about) after Brexit. That's a hard thing to demonstrate scientifically, since you can't run an experiment, but that's argumentative stance you'd need to take to convince me.
As usual, for something devastating like that to happen you need more than one thing to happen or go wrong at the time nowadays.
Agree on the sidewalk clutter - they are starting to turn into a nuisance in Austin downtown. I had to move two, parked side by side, on a sidewalk. My attempt to move them resulted in them squealing, causing me to feel like a thief for just trying to make room on the sidewalk to keep walking.
I've twice been mauled by pedalbikers on sidewalks. Not a fan of your plans.
To the degree something is deep, it is not shallow, and vice versa. That something is easy to measure does not per se make it less or more shallow.
Happy to hear that you like it! Mobile apps are on our product roadmap, so native mobile will be ready in Q1 or Q2 2019.
> Superhuman AGI

The only reasonable definition I can come up with for this would be "More intelectually capable than all of human society. So, yeah.

(Any other definition would still allow humanity to outsmart it.)
> Something similar is happening with "mental health", as in "we should be concerned about mental health", where "mental illness" would seem to be a more accurate term.

I don't think it's happening to the term "mental health". Maybe it is being used as a superset of "mental illness" sometimes when talking about eg. homelessness, but most of the time it talks about the general psychological health of people. Eg "People in tech need to manage their mental health".
Um. Can't you just ride slower on the sidewalk? Or are they the kinda that have an on/off switch for a throttle?
Golden Thoughts for a New Nuclear Age – from a new biography of René Girard
It's not only about prevention. It's also about recognizing when it happens, both to you and to other people. And also knowing what to do when you see, or experience it.
> Samsung DeX is supported on Galaxy S8/S8+, Note8, S9/S9+, Note9, and Tab S4.

> * Phones should be connected to an external display to use Samsung DeX.

> * Selected Samsung HDMI adapter/cable is recommended to use Samsung DeX.

> * Samsung DeX using a HDMI adapter or cable is only available on Note9 and Tab S4.

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So really, DeX only works well (with HDMI cable) on Note9 and Tab S4?
A valid point, though I'd argue that that same "power in numbers" of companies like Google means PR can swing just as hard in a positive direction as a result of a generous policy.

I think it's a question of where to draw the line. I'm sure an argument could be made that they should get rid of the bikes on their campuses because a percentage of people will hurt themselves on them or hurt someone else and be a legal risk.
I cringed just watching the man between the two cars as they are put together. That is horrendous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIUiyavOpO0
Dualist mind theory is not yet quack science, but it looks like it could be.

> It's an assumption that has been tested many times.

But it does not make that assumption.
Wow, what a lazy article, buzzfeed called, they want their listicles back... For real though, we couldn't get a paragraph per company on what they do and why they failed? I'm not asking for deep deep insights or breaking down every mistake they made but with ZERO research let me do one for Theranos:

Medical company that claimed they could run a number of tests with just 1 drop of blood. Turned out they lied about their abilities and really didn't create any new tech but used existing tech and due to the low sample size they had a number of false positive/negatives.

I think my fasts are about 90% correct but still if I can do that in a minute with no research I think that I "journalist" can manage to do that for 25 startups.
Yeah I'm aware of this, but my use case is different. I'm often abroad, but I also often need to contact numbers from my home country, so I wanted to have a phone I could ssh into from abroad and serve as a gateway