skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We could have that today. All our money is getting dumped into arms races. If we:

1. Put a 1000% tax on advertising spending.

2. Taxed property at a much higher rate, but gave each person a basic income.

3. Set a ceiling for the ratio of funds that education institutes can spend on non-professor things. (At least here in Canada they waste most of the money on things that don't actually teach skills, they just look impressive or market the university in some other way.)

4. Set caps on how much individual patents or works of art could earn before they lost financial protected status.

5. Set corporate taxes as a function of in-country sales and total affiliated market cap.

6. Punished corporate region shopping for tax havens and other advantages with trade agreements.

7. Made public healthcare optimize on happy person-years saved and with emphasis on prevention.

8. Make more areas that are 7 storeys tall so people can walk or bike to get their daily things.

9. Set high taxes on cars and invested in high speed city-to-city trains.

Then we'd have houses that were safe, but affordable. Cities that had some quiet areas, but were dense enough to be viable for everyone. Great education via well-paid professors and TAs. Reasonable returns in investments in technology and art, without Walt Disney and other soulless corporations milking the same characters year after year. Products that competed mostly on quality instead of advertising.

Instead we have almost the opposite. Nobody can afford anything because property gets sucked up into mortgage fuelled bubbles and in classes of 100 people where each person is paying $40k per year after subsidies we have professors and TAs struggling to get grants to fund their research.

Why? A single course for a four month term is $350–$500k worth of product. Where did all the money go?

Same place all the money always goes: Competition for the best students to get the best reputation to get the best students to get the best...
You'd think, but as I remember even the EMV specs can be a bit handwavy about the entropy of derivation components, and the tendency to rely on both limited attempts in hardware, and the security of keys generated and stored in HSMs (which people essentially use hashicorp to replace these days), the attack surface is fairly broad for a police service.

There is a basic bootstrapping problem with all these systems, where either you have a TSM facility of some sort, or you accept the ostensibly very low likelihood that your key provisioning protocol gets compromised.

Trouble is, if you are a target of any intelligence interest, any linux remote zero day means your provisioning server is probably going to get owned out of the gate as soon as someone seizes one of your devices.

Not checking a signature seems like an unforced error, but really, there are so many plausible ways this could have happened.
You just need a long piece of wire, diode, ferrite coil wth wire wrapped around, variable resistor and old style ear piece to pick up am radio. No batteries required. I can remember my son’s lack of interest while we made the venerable crystal radio and then his little fascinated face when we picked up some signals
HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18257811
Hardware is expensive, but how much of that expense is the CPU and how much of it is the variety of screens and cases that you would still need to have to switch form factors?
Intel Community Is Developing a More Spy-Proof Room
If you happy to work with Pycon, the easiest LR(1) generator to use and that generates the fastest Python parsers by far is: http://lrparsing.sourceforge.net/ The documentation is very good and the error messages are (by the standards of for the parsing world) clear.

The point the others have made here about error recover being hard for LR parsers still stands, unfortunately. But that's only an issue if you are doing error recovery. Most scripting languages don't.
Exactly. Except all the discussion about the hardware power of this iPad is how it's comparable to a PC laptop.

But from a software usability standpoint, it's not.
Yup! That's the one I remembered. On a side note, I wish they still made sites that look like that one.
Customers using a large-scale analytics database...
They had these programs in the United States, too. Usually very late at night on stations with powerful signals.

It's been a long time, but I believe the one that carried it in New York was WNBC (now WFAN).
They gonna combine this with facial to get better accuracy
I'm surprised you blame your lack of reading skills on the New York Times.

Because a problem that isn't perceived is, almost by definition, no longer a problem.

Look: this is basically the tree-in-forest-noise debate. And your chosen interpretation actually isn't completely without merit.

But what is illegitimate is to deny even the existence of other interpretations, and then use that ignorance for yet another tiresome and shallow attack that does not even have the self-awareness to recognise how preposterous it is to believe two dozen words could somehow expose this writer as a complete fraud while the entirety of the Time's editorial leadership missed it.
A major problem with the Resplandy et al. ocean heat uptake paper
My figure is per the 6th benchmark here https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/apple-macbook-air-...
Stick em in Evernote, 'till they fade away or become shitter reading.
But they are not necessarily planned as cities. They are first planned as settlements. Then planned as towns.
Dyck language
I wonder how hard it would be to fool them by walking differently. Are there parameters you can’t change much?
In my experience, all developers sincerely believe in writing simple, robust software, and firmly believe they are implementing simple, robust software.

However, almost none of them (myself included) succeed at it, not even close.
This is true now, but wasn't always the case. YaST was proprietary closed source for the better part of the first decade. It wasn't until SuSE was bought by Novell that they started open sourcing their proprietary bits.
When did you look? https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/mobile-pus... has been available for over a year, so self-hosted has the same notifications experience as Zulip Cloud.
Ask HN: What prevents Microsoft from adding a 'secure mode' to combat cheating?
Could Microsoft (using them as an example since gaming is my focus) implement something in the kernel so that applications can "opt in" at the request of the user to be isolated from other processes?

Imagine I run a game server and demand that players who play on it must put their client into secure mode where even if they have root or admin rights, they can't read or write to the memory of the secure process.

Is there any technical or other reason why MS doesn't provide a secure layer inside of windows for applications like online games?
I know those two that explain deep learning from scratch:

http://www.deeplearningbook.org/

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/
When I was a kid with my TRS-80 Color Computer, there were computer magazines that had plastic "records" as inserts with programs on them [1]. You could snap out the thin plastic disk and play it on your record player so you could record it to a cassette tape to load onto your computer.

I never got it to work, because the programs were (mostly) for Commodore computers. Didn't stop me from trying. Also tried to make my own "modem" by connecting wires from the serial port directly to an old phone. (No schematics or anything... Just red to red, blue to blue, etc.) Looking back, it would have been nice to have had an adult around to help me out a bit.

Considering the crackles, pops, etc. that are normal audio artifacts of record players, I'd be surprised if the records worked for anyone, actually.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc
They still do. Inspect the HTML. They're doing some JavaScript magic and replace the link just when you click on it.
The key isn't planning, the key is population. A city without people is a ghost city. The city is as much the people as it is the infrastructure. Cities are alive.

It's like arguing that you can build a person by assembling organs in the right place. You can build a humanoid structure which mimics the human, but it's missing the most important feature: life. You can't simply instil life into something. It needs nurturing.
> they make the base OSS product harder to use and more complicated so that people actually need the support and training. E.g. having great documentation directly conflicts with selling training and consultancy.

Interestingly enough, I've heard the same criticism about OpenLDAP, that it's deliberately hard to set up and poorly-documented because the main developer owns a consulting company and wants people to hire him to set up their OpenLDAP installations. What's ironic is that this is one of the reasons Red Hat is deprecating OpenLDAP in favor of the 389 Directory Server.
The problem is that many on the bands are miserable people. It can be discouraging.

The radio is a lot of fun. (I love Morse.) But a sizable percentage of the radio-ers make you want to do something else.
It's a pretend city, but I hope it would be much better for people with disabilities. Mixed use means short trips. Actual decent public transit on the service roads for longer distance.
Some companies record as much as they can, e.g. "here's all of the user's mouse-movements, their full User Agent, etc." or "here's everywhere the user tapped on the app and which of the notifications we sent them that they responded to, and more!"

The example from the article was "one team at one of our customers decided to dump 30 million metrics on us, send all of their mobile product metrics into Outlyer"
Don't we already have a world where machines are the ones producing our needs? There's that Discovery Channel series called "How it's Made" where you see it's practically all robots. Do you agree?

> and without it, the advances you speak of will be used to funnel more wealth to the top.

All the technologies for mass production so far has indeed funneled to the top huh? And this I believe has also slowed down advancement in technology (unless it's something that is very profitable).

> split productivity gains with labor and capital

You'll be called Socialist. Giving what the laborers deserve is Socialism. "Share the means of production!"

However, the fact that Bernie had a following is a good indicator. There's also Corbin whom is pushing for a 'right to own' policy.
1 mil is only 16K per second.
See the example picture in the article. Lisp s-expressions have no concept like 'variable name: a'. The s-expressions simply does not represent that some symbol is a variable. In an AST this is common.

In an AST the elements are already classified according to some syntax. In S-expressions this is not the case.
Why Normalize()
I can stop serving you and refuse to take your money. Kind of like AT&T is doing...
It's a trick as in "all the tricks of the trade" or "does the trick", or "the trick is to keep breathing". It does not necessarily have the negative connotation everyone here seems to pick up on, just as it doesn't involve any tricks being turned, two hours wasted at the helm, games of bridge, or sketchy coats of arms.

(This post sponsored by MacOS' built-in dictionary)
Yeah. 2 mins of my life I'll never get back.
Transportation companies--truck fleet data, airplanes, etc.
They say this flicker likely provides an evolutionary advantage-a chance to switch attention. I wonder if it’s optional. Wonder also about cases like attention disorders and attention of autistics.
> Lisp nested expressions are AST.

No, they are nested lists of tokens.
> Do people just talk to random people on the radio?

Some do, just like the internet. You're random to me, and we're conversing. Remember "chat rooms" and similar (IRC)? Mostly anonymous people talking to each other. Yes you might have some people you "know" in there, but there are strangers as well.
> why would you want a single physical device anyway?

All my files and apps setup they way I want them on a single device that's with me 24/7. Complete privacy and security because my data never leaves my device (except for backups to a time machine or iCloud).

I don't have to own multiple computers. I own one computer: my iPhone. There's only one device to setup, update, and maintain. If I want to have a larger screen, VR headset, eGPU, mouse, keyboard, speakers, headphones, etc., I just pair my phone to one. I can buy different peripherals for my home, my office, etc. but I don't to buy redundant computers.

Think of the Nintendo Switch.
I'm gonna save this thread for later reading!
Not in my understanding. The probabilities are only involved when a quantum superposition collapses to a classic state. Note that the paper makes it clear that probabilities are not used anywhere in their argument.
As I commented here [1], one of my biggest issues with Zulip is that the mobile apps don't have a "jump to most recent" feature, and whenever I open the app I have to manually scroll past hours (or days or weeks, since I dislike opening the app so much) of old conversations.

Has this been fixed/improved?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17623592
> You can create this utopian society by distributing capital in a way that all individuals have their basic needs provided

This is currently not even close to possible based on our current technology level. In order for everyone to have their basic needs provided for free we would need full automation for all of these things:

* all of healthcare
* all of food production
* all of shelter construction and maintenance
* all energy generation
* all transportation
* all waste disposal
* all water collection and treatment
* maintenance of the things that automate all of the above

Given that this is not the scenario now, countries are forced to tax the currently economically productive people to pay for some of these things for those not currently participating in the economy.

There is no country in the world that provides all of these things for free to all citizens because there would be no incentive for anyone to do the work to support all of the basic needs. It's already hard enough to incentivize people to work to support the economy when they have to do it in exchange for food/shelter/transportation.

>Capitalists are not workers

This is completely false. Anyone with a retirement account or money sitting in a bank earning interest is a capitalist. Even as a worker with no money earning growth, you are a capitalist selling your own labor/skills/time.
+1 for using LGPL.

However, seems like there's lots of features that is proprietary (or at least non-free licensed).
Voting needs to be localized, easy (convenient), and mandatory (fines). Vote for people who vote for people, etc.

The level of abstraction, indirection, and complexity at a national (and state) level demoralizes and creates antipathy.

You can't blame populism when no one can be informed enough to make an informed decision.

Imagine being asked to make an architectural decision on a 5,000,000 LOC project your first day on the job... then add a bunch of stakeholders telling you that their way is better (and often lying about it, or at least exaggerating the outcomes).
Right. It's just that MSRs don't necessarily need lithium.
At one employer most customers would opt-in to upload their system logs, and company would analyze to anticipate problems for preventive maintenance.

The result was a tens of terabytes a day Niagara of data.

When I left they were in early stages of Hadoop because ordinary parse/analyze was starting to fall behind.
How often do you need assembler in device drivers?
Oreilly author and project lead for an open source eclipse foundation (apache style project though!) project that runs a company. Happy to answer questions here about the how/what/why this happens.
Now you've got it! Yes, "few" in this case is 40, just as in the sand example you've given it is maybe a few hundred thousand. Just as interstellar communication might take thousands of years, the sand dune might have contained billions of grains. Context is important!

NB: The light-year is a measure of distance, not of time.
And of course, RIP Aaron... beyond sad.
How do you know human brains are AGI?
Skill Stacking: A Practical Strategy to Achieve Career Success
Yes, a lot, getting worse facing a slow network.

But dragging or middle click to a new tab is following the link. This looks a lot an issue between the numerous javascript trackers and my browser ad blocker. But no.
You see, wearing running shoes outside of an athletic context is just a mechanism for the upper class to assert that the poor don't deserve higher wages. /adjusts glasses

It's a contrived packaging of their politics.

There are some good reflections in the second half about child rearing, but otherwise... no, self improvement and exercise are not exclusive upper class values. And by my observation, the people who insist on removing gluten from their diet, or biking casually in full race gear, are more often judged negatively and then mocked when out of earshot, instead of being considered virtuous and high class.
Because elan vital and phlogiston turned out to be terrible ideas?

Human cognition affects human action which has physical effects. So at the least, intelligence is causally linked with known phycial processes. I'd say that's sufficient to make it amenable to physical inquiry.

Pulling out drastic measures like extraphysical magic, just to hand wave at an imprecise problem seems like an act of epistemic violence or something.
by their I meant LG
I think wisdom helps you live your life successfully and avoid unnecessary risks. And avoid Darwin awards. Not understanding how things work can get you killed. Or you can die younger from smoking, drug abuse or not eating your vegetables.

The alternative is thinking that choices don't affect how long you live and I don't think that makes sense.
I'm just imagining a person with face dazzle and silly walks trying to remain inconspicuous.
ah yeah I might have seen that .. but too small of a disturbance to spend the time to remove it.
I know people like to imagine of all the orwellian possibilities, but it could have some useful medical cases too. It would be great to put some kind of camera in my grandparent's home to automatically monitor their health. My grandfather fell in the middle of the night, passed out, and was not discovered until the next day. He was still alive, but injured, but it could have been serious.
Of course. A school cafeteria would never give students subpar food.
The Patriot Act essentially nullified the bill of rights, allowed indefinite detention without charges, and put power in the hands of secret people/programs answering to secret courts with secret interpretations of law. They were also grabbing people to put on torture flights. That's a police state. Unlike those that inspired it, it selectively uses its Gestapo powers against tiny segments of the country... far as we know... where most people never see it. That lets 99+% of people go through normal processes (eg courts). Then, they started connecting police-state surveillance to main, enforcement agencies with parallel construction to hide targeting methods. So, more of their opponents might be eliminated through trumped up charges on top of folks that are actually bad. The Dual State continues.

You bet 9/11 had huge effect on our political system. Went from a corrupt democracy with cops and courts that went too far sometimes, but occasionally reigned in, to a police state where folks could be kidnapped and tortured with criminal immunity on those doing it. The few times they've gotten caught on this stuff, like with the leaks, nobody running the programs did time, Congress often gave them retroactive immunity, and some were expanded. That's so bad that blackmail is about the only explanation I can come up with at this point for how they're behaving. Surveillance programs make that easier to do, too, esp if running in black programs. J. Edgar Hoover situation possibly repeating but with wider net.
And, in the not so distant future after that, it's safe to assume that people will be forced to have chip implants. Why use a camera and ml when you can just tag someone?
My understanding is the practical benefit of machine learning and control systems is mostly due to simple models. Not the fancy "deep" models currently in vogue. An added problem is the high dimensional models are essentially black boxes, and are probably significantly overfitting the data, hence all the adversarial type research.

Why does the mapping of biological neural networks to silicon substrate imply the human mind is a computer?
It might be randomly killed if the app isn't in the foreground with the screen unlocked, though.
Apple executives have a long-standing habit of saying something sucks for whatever reason only to come out a few years later with the same concept only slightly tweaked.

And now that Apple's on board with USB-C, which can do video/power/peripherals, it's not inconceivable that a Monitor+USB hub would be all you need for a plug and play iOS productivity station.

It would be a trivial firmware change for the next release of iMacs to support, and an extension of their existing target-display mode.
Why splitting your BitcoinCash coins IS a bad idea during the upcoming #war
Now you are thinking like a politician!
There are not thousands of articles saying that it was a technological breakthrough. Most sophisticated doesn't mean a new technique was used, etc.

> presumably disgruntled anonymous user

I don't think you understand what I'm saying. I'm not disgruntled at all. I'm pointing out that it was not a technological breakthrough in any regard so it's wrong to identify it as one.

If someone unexpectedly accumulates the largest amount of gold in the world, it's impressive, but it's not a breakthrough in gold-mining technology.
The Shift: Facebook Had a Good Election Day. But It Can’t Let Up Now
Sure, but if your main criterion is “I am a professional expert and I know Photoshop inside and out”, then the obvious thing to do is just use Photoshop. The price is not really a problem for people doing serious work.
[Apollo cofounder here — we are indeed the same team that built Meteor.]

Yup, all three are customers.
US had 418,500 WWII deaths, and Korea had 128,650. Both within the same order of magnitude of each other. Vietnam surprisingly had only 60,000 US deaths - it is more notable for the resistance at home it spawned.

There's no reasonable way to conclude these were not "major" wars in the context of US history.
This is a good time to link to Apple Disk Server, which supplies audio files that Apple ][s can load with their built-in cassette ROM routines, bootstrapping a program that loads a compressed image, then formats and writes it to floppy disk: http://asciiexpress.net/diskserver/

( This is one of the few ways to transfer data to a vintage computer without additional hardware, at least until devices started showing up without a headphone jack :^P )

I added a similar feature to my 8bitworkshop IDE that lets you upload your own C/asm programs to your Apple ][ via cassette port: http://8bitworkshop.com/v3.2.0/?platform=apple2
Complaining? Sounds more like a feature to me. :)
the security state in the US has grown substantially since 9/11 and created very significant changes in american politics and society.

ICE is a very easy example, pre-9/11 it would have been unthinkable to keep migrant children in cages; the power that that agency has has grown immensely. there's also been significant expansion of other apparatuses, e.g. NSA surveillance of the internet, FIVEEYES, etc. the increased military investment in drones is also a direct result of 9/11 (well, technically more from supreme court decisions regarding Guantanamo prisoners, which, also, direct result of 9/11!).