skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, people have been going into solitary retreats for thousands of years, many require it to become enlightened. Not including these data points makes psychology more of an anthropology survey rather than hard science of the mind. There’s this assumption that they just can’t figure out what’s going on with their mind so make blanket statements based on confused hypothesis. Almost all of Asia would dissagre since their culturals have countless examples today and in the past that completely disagree with this point thus making it not a universal study of the mind but for a limited set of people in a specific culture.
> The parks are heavily curated and managed — think of them as open air museums.

Most museums in the UK are free to visit too. They generally have donation boxes which is a great way to let those who can afford to do so support the museum. And those who can't are not excluded.
No law can be beneficial if the individuals and institutions applying it are corrupt and abusive.

In theory the Soviet Union and other communist governments had lots of laws outlining a fair and equal treatment of citizens, in practice they were disappearing people.
I'm not sure if this has changed, but I remember a Chase(?) ATM asking me if I wanted to save the setting.

Maybe it's not a thing anymore?
Have you tried simply using a seccomp-isolated Linux executable for each tenant? (with rlimit or cgroup-based resource limits)

You have to create a process for each tenant, but that should be much faster and take much less memory than V8 JITting JavaScript or WebAssembly (Linux process creation is very well optimized).

You can try static linking, dynamic linking or even just forking plus an ad-hoc executable loader in userspace.
That "abstract concept" - well this is how it gets implemented in the real world.

A corrupt government and an overreaching regulation (look ma, two oxymorons in a single phrase!) and this is the price you pay for... for what? What did you actually gain from gdpr?
I wonder if it's hard to resolder it. It's not a problem physically for experienced repair service, but may be Apple locked it with software.
That's so frustrating. We ran into the same roadblock.
Of course they forgot the real security implications with json, eval should be the least of the worries. See for comparison https://metacpan.org/pod/Cpanel::JSON::XS#SECURITY-CONSIDERA...

and they didn't fix the outstanding problems in the spec. still the simpliest and most secure transport protocol of all.
> Sex workers have a screening process that demands your IRL identity for safety.

This is one-way only though. I'm sure sex workers do not want their IRL identity out in the world.
Wait but Why: Neuralink (2017)
That's just cultural. In India, they are all courtship services, and present themselves and matrimony / marriage sites.
Rabies enters a nerve cell at the bite site. It then travels along the nerve axon to the next cell. It does not proliferate at this time. Cell by cell, via the axon railway to the brain. It then proliferates in the brain and kills large numbers of brain cells and causes death. If you have antibodies, they can somehow block the axon travel.
The Milwaukee treatment was a success - the only one? Perhaps that girl had some immunity?
In any event, once it hits the brain the body starts to mount it's own immune response, and apparently the anitivirals she was given, along with the induced coma, allowed her immune system to overcome the rabies.
My anecdotal evidence is the opposite. But I do not trust that to judge about reliability in general. The prices for used Macs are consistently higher even after 4-6 years than for comparable PC and this is much better statement about quality.
> Presumably, someone who the journalists wrote about alleged that the journalists were not complying with GDPR in how they obtained and used the data.

That somebody is the chief of the ruling party, Liviu Dragnea, president of one houses of parliament, who almost got to be named prime minister if not for an earlier conviction for electoral fraud.

He was now found guilty in a second unrelated criminal probe, and is appealing the sentence while at the same time trying to steer the legislative process and pressure his own party to decriminalize a large swath of offenses pertaining to his case, namely abuse of public office.

The journalists have recovered a large trove of damaging documents that are related to yet another criminal case (3rd, if you're counting) in which he is being investigated.

The head of the data protection agency is a former colleague from the same party and is herself under criminal investigation for fraud. Yeah, so these are the watchers.
> I mean, you're in the US, so you should definitely know what that's like.

Whataboutism aside, most definitely, hence the opposition to such "good" laws in the first place. The perspective of taking the good-with-the-bad status quo compared to the alternatives is rooted in rational precedence.
But do they dock or do they land?
Healtgcare.gov wasn't hacked. It's users' systems were hacked, and the hacked client systems logged in to healthcare.gov through normal means.
Tech Village Podcast EP 21 – IT “Rock Star” Culture
I feel like you're being deliberately naive.

When people talk about crime being legal on Wall Street, they're referring to the many cases of fraud on the scale of billions of dollars that result in no jail time for the people involved. Sometimes there will be fines, but the fines are significantly less than the amount of money the bank profits from the fraud.

For a couple quick examples that immediately come to mind, see everything that led to the 2008 crash, or Wells Fargo creating checking and credit card accounts without permission.
Right. But your proposal maximizes profit but minimizes access for the poor. It's a good choice for a business, but profit isn't really the goal of national parks.
Arguably it's still language-specific: the difference is that the language is now WASM bytecode instead of JavaScript. You could already compile from other languages to JS.
This is a very good article about the different computing units inside servers and smartphones. However I found the discussion of AI and neural nets to be confusing and seemingly unrelated.
> Why do all websites look the same?

This question puts two things in the spotlight:

1) the all too common software developer's ignorance for the art of design

2) the all too common designer's ignorance for the art of frontend software (which is usually data retrieval and entry, using common and learned UX functionality)

There often is a lack of humbleness regarding putting what I (designer) fancy behind what users need.

OTOH devs admire things like material design today or bootstrap in the old days as a way to "solve" design. Yet, those frameworks only touch half of what design is needed for (common UX patterns, don't come across as unprofessional) and fail at the other. I.e. there is no uniqueness, subliminal mood, branding, emotion or even recognizability in most pages/apps that use those frameworks.

The idea of letting A/B tests guide your design decisions gave us the many ugly things Google did in the past. And while they certainly improved on design, material design breathes the same spirit. The spirit of design as something "to solve".

Luckily with material design's CDK this spirit seems to be solved too :-)
California’s next governor wants to build 3.5M new homes by 2025
My theory is that bonds between people arise out of shared suffering/challenges. Thus lifelong friends were often at school together, or in the army, or somewhere else unpleasant, or at least occasionally so. There's reduced scope for this after the age of 30, obviously, unless you take up a dangerous sport or something else risky.
The "web" has certainly changed shape, not always for the best. Things have become monetized and a lot of websites are now a business model serving ads and tracking scripts, not providing quality of content.

On top of that there is the blanket of censorship that is being
pulled over us all.

I have nostalgia for the irc days.
Bike lanes in the US are incredibly unsafe for bikers and scooters, and accidents easily result in death of the biker/scooter.

Scooters and pedestrians sharing a sidewalk is also unsafe, but accidents are far less lethal.

The problem is that bikes/scooters are adding a third distinct speed fundamentally incompatible with the existing two, and that takes up a lot of space costs a lot of allocative inefficiencies (what if there are lots of cars and pedestrians, but no bikes/scooters at this moment?). There's no easily solution but if we're going to ask scooters to share space, at least choose the one that is less fatal, as annoying at it is for pedestrians.
If you think Bay Area is closed off never move to Seattle.
AI is not “magic dust” for your company, says Google’s Cloud AI boss
i wonder what would happen if such an AI newscaster interviewed the president
This generalization is very misleading. Many national parks are massive, with vast tracts that can only be reached by days of hiking or an off road vehicle or an aircraft. This is true even of extremely popular parks like the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Zion, Joshua tree, Smokey Mountains, and Denali.

The Yosemite valley in summer for example can feel like Disney in terms of crowds, but that is just a small area of the park’s land. The entire eastern part of the park is far less busy even along the roads, there are plenty of remote trails for backpacking, and then there are true wild spaces without any official development.

The national parks offer a range of natural experiences that can suit almost everyone.
I don't see as much negative behaviour from people in Facebook, as I do in online platforms which are anonymous.

Maybe it's just my friends aren't a meaningful sample of people, or maybe it's that-- since you connect with your friends and a lot of people you know IRL, it's less common that these are people you'd hurt with impunity.
I thought SMM was just a special mode of the main cpu itself?
Oh man, the licensing costs for any “per core” software are going to be insane :D
Kudos. You just made a case for why the browser-based web is so great, and how much more room there is for improvement.

Yeah, you're right. Yelp sucks. But ya have to believe, in time, someone will put the user first and get the experience correct.
https://reddit.com/.compact

https://i.reddit.com
I knew I remembered that island...

> Siskiwit Lake is the largest lake on the island. ... Siskiwit Lake contains several islands, including Ryan Island, the largest, which contains Moose Flats, a seasonal pond, which contains Moose Boulder. When Moose Flats is a pond, Moose Boulder becomes the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake in the world.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_Royale

(Emphasis added.)
I know this article is explicitly from a creator's perspective, but as most people reading it will be backers, I wanted to chime in.

Specifically, it seemed to me that many of the features that made IGG appealing to the author are things that are undesirable to backers. Pervasive, cross-site ad tracking? Hidden product tiers and partitioning of backers? It seems to me that IGG is trying to merge crowdfunding with ecommerce, where such tactics are obviously de rigueur.

From my perspective, however, the original point of crowdfunding platforms was to provide a place that good ideas without funding could have a second chance to see the light. In my mind, this makes crowdfunding perfect for things that target niche markets, or are very "out there", or want to explore ideas that generally would be difficult to pitch to the mass market. Instead, what it seems to be evolving into, and what it should not be (in my opinion), is a place for companies to soft-launch their latest DNVB idea.

In that sense, the choices that Kickstarter is making is to maintain the platform in a similar form to its original incarnation, which at least gives projects the chance to stand out for their ideas rather than their marketing. Marketing wins practically everywhere else already! For projects which are outstanding in their area, but truly too niche to gain sufficient traction to meet their funding goals... I'm not sure what the solution is there.

Another, different approach is that taken by Massdrop, which seems to have embraced the niche appeal of crowdfunding rather than trying to move the needle back to web sales. Of course, it does provide a sales channel, but not in a way that encourages the peddling of schlock through one-and-done, ad-driven campaigns. I'd be interested to read a similar write-up on their backend support for creators, to get a better insight into their thought process and business model.

Finally, I sincerely appreciate the author taking the time to write up their experiences and share them. Even if their goals and my (naïve) preferences are not perfectly aligned, we wouldn't be able to talk about it without this article to spur discussion.
When someone comes up with a general AI, I have a feeling its going to want to be paid...
We need innovative ways to get rid of nuclear waste first. Otherwise nuclear power is dead.
Can you run code on a GPU if the cores that can touch it's configuration registers are disabled? Or the imaging DSPs in an SoC? Does that make them any less of processors?
It seems like a useful site.

One suggestion:
The result box on mobile is rather narrow, the arrow overlays the start if the title. Not a full title is displayed at once which made it tedious for me to browse through it. Maybe make it a full width box and don't let the arrows overlay the project titles.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias
Maybe consider formulating your requested change in writing and present it to them one on on, either in person or via email and ask for feedback. Keep bothering them until they either respond thoughtfully or make it clear they won't. Also consider communicating that this is something that is personally a sticking point, that is making you consider leaving the org, but that you don't want to leave.
Hey everyone,

Feel free to reach out to me if you want any significant data on how to set up a crowdfunding project. My startup specializes in this kind of data.

Just some quick data for your interest.

As of today, within the last 24 hours.

Kickstarter has 305 projects end, with 148 of them being funded.

IndieGoGo had 205 end with 18 being funded

Ulule.com (mainly for Europe) has 27 end with 19 fund.

These numbers are pretty typical of what we see every day. The exposure on KS is much better. If you want any help reaching backers who would already be predisposed to backing a project like yours, that is what Backit.com does. Again, feel free to drop me an email, and I don't mind helping answer any data-driven questions you may have about setting up a project.

britton.mathews@backit.com
The important thing is that RAM is upgradable. New memory technologies in 5 years may make all storage to use RAM slots.
1. Go out whenever you can. For example free dancing lessons, yoga, IT conferences etc.

2. Try to rent some room and live with some students :) Super easy to make some friends that way.

3. Find people who have similar hobbies. If you don't have any hobby (programming doesn't count in real life) - then find some. Super easy to get some female friends if you gonna get into tailoring etc.
Because on mobile the primary interaction point is your right (or left if you're a leftie) thumb, which naturally falls over a tab bar at the bottom of a screen. Whereas on the Web the primary click zone where your cursor focus is, is at the top of the browser window where the navigation elements are.

There's also the obvious stuff about top-to-bottom reading order making such a layout making the navigation much more obvious when you first look at a site (which is probably want you want for most things, although not all, which is reflected in things like blogs often putting ancillary navigation elements in the page footer).

I don't think this is a broken thing that needs fixing.

I'll also note that it has taken mobile UX designers YEARS to start moving navigation elements to the bottom of their apps, driven by larger and larger screens making elements at the top of the screen quite uncomfortable for one handed use. It's required that to become sufficiently cumbersome that the trade-off in immediate discoverability becomes worth it. And you'll note that the most popular mobile apps such as WhatsApp still have all their navigation elements at the top, regardless.
I think his argument has always been more along the lines of machine learning will give the people in charge the knowledge of what it is that the citizen wants to hear and what they will believe, which means that the owner of the data then has power not by way of voting or military might, but by way of manipulation of the masses - which is a sentiment that I find much easier to believe.
Ahhh okay, makes a lot more sense. Thanks.
Specter is one class of side channel attack. When you’re in process, I presume there will likely be many more. I meant it as a more general question.
Fastly's CEO (a Cloudflare competitor) gave a pretty great tech talk on what it means to be isolated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkM1L8-qcjU

Guessing we'll see a competitive product from Fastly in the near future.
At GopherCon 2018 Julia Ferraioli gave a talk titled "Writing Accessible Go". She's challenged with some vision impairment, and shares some of her struggles in trying to be a programmer with those challenges. Of course it's contextually about Go, but I think what she talks about applies to current languages and those to come in the future.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVaDY0ChvOQ
No push notifications is an added bonus. I do not want notifications. None. Zero.
Yeah, SMM is just Ring -2 on the main cores.
Russian officials: Nope, we can’t finish fixing the carrier Kuznetsov
Facebook to End Forced Arbitration for Sexual-Harassment Claims
In the short-term, I'd say so. But I think it's realistic on the timescale that people care about large-scale renewable energy, which is the end of my generation (30ish year old) and the middle of the next, so like 2040-2050.
This guy is a hack
What if it has no microcode running?
No need to apologise :D
It is very different in our view because we build a graph that connects all experiments you do. This allows you to get an overview of your entire discovery process.
In our approach users can use the full power of a programmatic access, via our python client, and the full power of a Gui.
With amie one can see for example: which feature performed best using a model Y after a grid search that resulted in parameter Z.

Coda lab is great tho, and we have a lot of features in the pipeline that will actually add containerised, reproducible artefacts of your scientific computing work and environment straight from a Jupiter notebook.
"We can't make perfect laws so no need to make good ones"
FB has a few other things it can bring to the table, too. Assuming reasonable user engagement on the platform:

-They can match people with similar interests, or similar friend groups (or test the hypothesis that opposites attract).

-They can recommend good places for (individual or group) dates (with advertisers offering discounts).

-They could remind you when your anniversary or your SO has a birthday coming up and recommend gifts and locations.

-Also, it's actually one area where advertisers and FB users can actually be aligned. If you're just looking for casual dates, you could be recommended new clothes, grooming services, bed sheets (haha), or other things. If you're in a relationship, they could recommend occasional gifts that your SO might like, or restaurants.

Plus, they have a ton of experience with combatting harassment. The more I talk about this, the more I think they have a good shot of getting this to work.
The Mystery of the Havana Syndrome
> Why is there layout on the web at all?

For the same reason text in a book is arranged in paragraphs, and why magazines separate articles into headers, body text, insets, etc, rather than having all printed media be simply unformatted text.

Having navigational elements and content groups on a site (a "layout") with a predictable visual style allows users to more easily differentiate between the different parts of a site, their different functions, and to navigate those sections more easily. Typographic elements like headers, paragraphs, font styling (bold, underline, etc.) make text easier to read and communicate concepts like hierarchy and emphasis. Flow is a necessary consideration when incorporating non-textual elements such as images into a document alongside text. Modern sites must also consider how they will appear on multiple screen sizes down to mobile.

>Browsers seem like a silly vanity for me- 90% of the functionality is about allowing a remote party to control my experience. I’d rather control my own.

A remote party isn't controlling your experience, they're sending you documents in a markup language, and your browser is interpreting that markup. If you want to download and view raw HTML then you can wget the pages and open them in the text editor of your choice (I think RMS does something like that to avoid executing nonfree code), but you should realize that most people don't want to view raw metadata and have to write their own stylesheet and schema for each site, they just want to read the document.
Opossums are nearly immune to rabies. Their body temperature is lower than most other mammals', which makes them immune to many diseases that affect mammals like raccoons.
That sounds like a very good start with CPUs and memory, but you need to include GPUs and network interconnect and explain what the high speed busses between all those components look like. How do you solve that?
dchaney@sagan:/~$ racket -I swindle

Welcome to Racket v6.7.

> (class-of 42)

#<primitive-class:exact-integer>

> (class-of $vau)

; $vau: undefined;

; cannot reference undefined identifier

; [,bt for context]

>

What did I do wrong? Or did the joke go over my head?
As a gay man in SF I only just realized how different your social experience is vs a straight male i.e. because gay men are, on average, less likely to have kids, there is never a point in time (i.e. 30ish) when all your friends start getting married, having kids, moving out of expensive urban centers, settling down, etc. On the one hand it feels like you can (if you choose) live out your 30s, 40s like a straight person would live out their 20s since more of your gay friends will be in the same boat and thus maintain a social circle in a way that might be harder if you're straight. On the other hand, not everyone necessarily wants to live their adult lives like they do in their 20s.
I think the core idea of transforming many low level sensory signals into fewer pieces of information and then condensing that into knowledge is correct. But its not a new suggestion for AGI. In some ways most large neural networks already work like that. In terms of AGI research it seems like a pretty common idea.
> Teslas are basically hacked together

Don't look into CAN bus and anything by Ford, then.
Actually PCIe specifically. NVMe improves performance slightly, but it's mostly all due to PCIe.

I have a non-NVMe Samsung AHCI M.2 SSD from 2014 that gives me ~2.3GB/s sequential reads and ~1.2GB/s sequential writes, no NVMe required.
Yes indeed! Already now, under the hood, everything is version controlled :D
We plan to expose a much more fine grained access to version control with a focus on the Jupiter notebook.
We also have in the pipeline a neat (we think) visual way to see the diffs in the knowledge one builds using our graph.
My favourite part of this is that Francois Chollet (the author of Keras) specifically warns against this exact use of LSTMs in his book (Deep Learning with Python)