skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Italy declared a state of emergency over the crisis in 2015. But quarantine efforts — which can involve uprooting beloved, ancient trees — have been opposed by environmentalists and some farmers,

That's always the problem with stupid environmentalists (as opposed to smart environmentalists): they can only say no, but they never propose an alternative solutions to the actual issue.
A judge granted a habeas corpus order for an elephant
Adults find their way through the world as it is, not how they want it to be. Grow up. When you've earned a bit of freedom from the stupid gatekeepers, you can do it your own way (entrepreneurship, networking, contacting, etc). For now, pay your dues.
A cease and desist letter must be in the mail.
> the horse does not enjoy it

That's a bold statement. I don't even know where to begin, there are so many levels here. Like, why would you even make such a claim? I mean I'm not against the claim per se, but it does not seem like you have any evidence, or that you even looked for it. Seems to come right out of some human moral position instead, one that is not rooted in nature, given how many "weird" sex stories and video documentation we can find easily these days about all kinds of animals. Like dogs humping pillows, chimpanzee "using" a frog, quite a few stories about dolphins, etc.

Back to the human/dolphin story here, there also is a pretty well-known (or at least well-published) "man had sex with female dolphin" story, example article: https://www.unilad.co.uk/animals/guy-who-had-sex-with-a-dolp...
Because Google doesn't work that way. You don't have a Hangouts account, you have a Google account, which you added to your phone, not Hangouts.
Was it done on company-paid time, or on your own? What does your work contract say about writing software?
> No amount of regulation can change fundamental economic facts.

You know, you should take a course in law. Usually they're given by people with relatively high positions in the justice system. And then, not in the first class, but say the 10th lesson, ask the professor.

"Do tell, prof, do you think lawmakers actually do a good job ?"

And I would expect you then get a 45 minute rant about just how inconsistent, unrealistic, constantly violating basic legal principles, ... lawmakers are. Including several horror stories.

One example given was equality between men and women. Now don't get me wrong, I'm 100% in favor of equality. In marriage, this is pretty new. Unfortunately there's entire books full of laws about how to apply the previous non-equal rules to children, houses, debts, cars, fines, ... and so on and so forth. And the marriage equality law, surely it tells judges how all the other applications of marriage and divorce law now applies, right ?

Heh.

No it doesn't. So we get decades of inconsistent, per-state, ... judgements that get criticized for being, well inconsistent, cruel, corrupt, ... by those very same lawmakers.

Fun, isn't it ?
Just a quick note on this - byobu isn't a tmux alternative exactly. It actually uses tmux (or screen) on the back-end. So it's more like a nicely configured tmux.conf/.screenrc with standardized bindings.
Lexus comes up with an advertisement written by Artificial Intelligence
Blog post about understanding Fristons ideas, also consider the amount of reseacher comments it has provoked: http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/04/god-help-us-lets-try-to...
Animated QR data transfer using GopherJS and Gomobile
I'm asking because I was interested in reviving (at my scale) farming on my mother's caribbean island. Lots of space, sun and rain, but farming is still seen as a burden (remains of colonialism organization). I think there's a lot of things to be improved to make it both simpler, greener (ketone was used for decades there). Ultimately to give people back the amazing vegetables that grow there naturally and avoid importing low quality ones (also social benefits of people being in nature more).

Do you have advices or references to read about this ?
How does this refute the sentence you quoted?
> MPEG-LA is not locking up technology that already existed or other people developed. Its members are the folks who originally developed this technology. It’s notable that no open-source entity developed something like h.264 first.

Note that its claims are not necessarily founded on anything e.g. MPEG-LA created a patent pool for DisplayPort, VESA claims the tech is completely royalty-free.
So he's saying that concentration of "wealth" is bad, and war is bad.

A quick glance at the definition of moral gives, "a person's standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do" which suggests that they may be fluid. Are killer robots necessarily any less moral than killer humans? We seek to replace humans with "robots" in many cases under the assumption that they perform better. I suppose in the case of killer robots this could mean more effective killing, or perhaps it could mean more accurate strikes and less civilian casualties? (I'm not saying I am an advocate for military AI, just posing some questions).

Finally, suggesting that we need to focus less on incremental progress when DL still isn't completely understood seems premature. I'm not sure another great leap in AI is on the horizon until a leap in computational power or a new framework is discovered.
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I get what you're saying, but seems a little harsh. And also makes me think of:

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw.
Right, but can it read email? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Principles
Trump accused Hilary for the same reason in 2016.. Lets see how he defends himself this time.
Russia’s Cozy Bear comes out of hiding with post-election spear-phishing blitz
No. Absolutely not.
> To start, EVERY utility function that is both increasing and sublinear will agree that Kelly is the best strategy. Whether square root, log, or bounded - it doesn't matter. The details of your utility function are unimportant.

This is simply false. This is easy to check for the sqrt utility case. You can calculate the optimal proportion for a single bet and note that it's different than for Kelly, and then you can calculate the utility-function-given-that-you're-about-to-make-a-bet and check that it's still proportional to sqrt. So by induction you are always going to bet the same proportion no matter how many bets you have to make, and this proportion is different from Kelly.

> The result is that with 100% odds, a player following Kelly will eventually wind up ahead of any other static strategy that you could choose.

This is true in the sense that the probability tends to 100% as the number of bets tends to infinity. But this doesn't make Kelly optimal, because in the event that the Kelly isn't ahead the expected utility of the other strategy could be much higher than Kelly.
yes, from a skim read, there didn't seem to be a lot of meat here.

lots of the "popular metaheuristics" as described won't be anything approaching state of the art, and i doubt their test bed considers problem instances that are hard or of industrial relevance. so the paper sort of seems to be about a method to compare the performance of uninteresting algorithms on uninteresting problems, without doing any comparison.

tangentially, in contrast, here's something from a vendor of commercial discrete optimisation software (from 2016):

> Pasco Shikishima, a Japanese leading food company (¥165 billion, equivalently $1.6 billion, in annual revenue), has chosen LocalSolver to solve what is probably the largest real-life optimization problem in the world.

> MIP solvers needed the original problem to be decomposed into almost twenty subproblems, each one solved separately, then leading to a poor global solution

> Pasco's supply chain involves 15 factories in Japan, each one with several production lines, and more than 100 distribution centers. Pasco's catalog contains more than 1,000 products. 900,000 orders have to be executed each day in Pasco's factories. For each order, Pasco has to decide where and when to produce it. Moreover, Pasco has to decide where to source raw materials and which routes to deliver distribution centers. The goal is to minimize production and distribution costs over several days of horizon, while respecting production and distribution capacities. Here is the scale of a LocalSolver instance solved by Pasco to plan the next 3 days: 32,670,717 expressions (that is, intermediate variables) including 8,307,431 binary decisions, 991,251 constraints, 16 lexicographic-ordered objectives. This model was solved in 3 minutes of running time on a modern but standard server, including input and output processing times.

https://www.localsolver.com/news.html?id=70

this probably would have been a pretty fun project to work on, given that there was already an incumbent optimisation system in production, so a lot of the required prep-work and IT infrastructure for being able to gather and clean the input data for planning would have been in place. a sub-percentage improvement in optimality of the solution at this scale might translate into tens of millions of dollars of net profit for the company.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18461563
Why would anyone advise using GNU make instead of cmake? It is well known that make itself is insufficient for complex builds. This led to development of meta tools like GNU autotools and cmake. I would argue that cmake is better and saves time over using autotools.

That said, I am really impressed with Google’s meta tool called GN which generates scripts for a build system called Ninja. This tool chain is based on performance, and the scripting is much easy/less ugly than cmake.
Implement Key-value store by BTree
Importing Data from MongoDB to MySQL Using JavaScript
> If the user is over 18 you don't really need the day and month, year is enough.

But if the user is 18, you need them. It would be a really weird UI if it changed this dynamically... I wouldn't expect anyone to implement that.
This is why every kid I know has only one Pixar film they rave about and that's Cars, objectively one of their worst films. Pixar films used to appeal to everyone now they just seem to try to appeal to people who grew up with Pixar and are now adults.

I'm not talking about the gender politics angle, I'm more just talking about they have moved from telling stories about a simple whimsical idea that captures all imaginations which follows through to emotion to maybe trying to be too clever and maybe poignant with their ideas, it's almost like they're writing to the target of an adult Pixar fan that needs validation for their interests rather than everyone.

Just feel like they've lost the joy along the way, putting a Pixar film feels like I'm going to be in for a emotional slog now rather than something enjoyable, can't imagine any child getting excited about watching Inside Out or Up (I understand this is a fan favorite for good reason, but is it any child's favorite?)
Data Science isn't about a mess of tech debt, glue and unsupportable plumbing
Heck this site doesn't even work with noscript. I'm outta here. /s
Who is better off are the companies that run customs,
This looks like a good reminder that Google isn't just a loose bunch of tools, they have developed a full integrated ecosystem.

If it's not what you want then it is overly intrusive and exceptionally hard to manage so you control just the functionality and personal security you want.

Most end users, I think, just want something to work and are happy for all the magic to just happen. When you embrace it a lot of what it does is very clever and very useful. Most people I know who have embraced it just find the integration fantastically useful and don't have most of the concerns the more technically aware people do.
Didn't even realise this was sarcasm until about the end--this is actual advice you'd find on /g/.
> In order to innovate on the user’s experience of the file system, as we are with Project Infinite, we need to catch file operation events on Dropbox files before other applications try to act on those files. [therefore we need a kernel driver]

You can block the operation within fuse's userspace part while calling out to some helper gui program to ask for confirmation. Seems like an excuse rather than a reason to implement stuff in the kernel.
Tax collection is not tax incidence. Tariffs are collected from importers. That does not mean tariffs "come out of" importers.
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You're literally wrong. Intellectual property can't be stolen by definition. You're probably referring to copyright infringement which is a completely different thing from theft, whose application is completely different from country to country and is not sentenced the same way.
GNU OrgaDoc 1.0 Released for Managing Documents Between Computers
Good at problem solving?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwKT9XqbCI8&list=PLWy9gm0ulp...

https://jp-petit.org/science/scientific_summary.htm
Open sourcing the code is important to me because its frustrating being a senior hired onto a team of all newbs. By senior I mean a person who can write code quickly. By newbs I mean people with high insecurity that just want to dick around with code style and framework tooling.
Java File Format APIs to Create Edit Convert and Export Documents
Compression has always been a patent minefield. Even for something as simple as gzip, it was a lot of legal work. For video compression, it is much worse. I am suprise that VLC does even exist despite such a minefield.
1MDB and Malaysia: Notes and Adjacent Thoughts
Google is an Ad company, 80% of its income is from serving Ads, mostly targeted Ads.

So any Google software is serving this goal - phishing as much user data as possible. That is Chrome, Android, GMail, iOS Google Maps, iOS Gmail, Google-Analytics scripts on websites, Google DNS, any software written by Google.

Don't.
Many movies do an "art of <movie name>" book. Those are usually the best source of this. To answer the question about articles of this nature. Very rare. This person's entire blog is a treasure trove. He even worked at studio laika! <3
Personally I can't stand these tests either. I normally complete them fine.

However I've been to job interviews where they force me to code live in front of several people and I couldn't get half a line of code out before one of them will chip in with a "suggestion" breaking my train of thought. The code they want me to write is some algorithm that they have expected you to memorise.

I normally leave the interview frustrated and even when offered the job I turned them down because the hiring process has given me a bad taste.
David Hoffman's YT channel is pure gold
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So at this point it seems we are going back to how software was developed before web. Clients interact directly with database through a query language. In this case GraphQL is an equivalent of SQL and "custom GraphQL resolvers" are an equivalent of stored procedures, triggers and other business logic.

I wonder if we will see databases expose GraphQL access layers directly.
SpaceX plans shortcut to test a mini version of its Big Falcon Rocket
you should watch the clip and you'll understand
Safari is not bad too, ITP 2 is even better.
Oil quality depends mostly on how it is produced; setting aside the possibility of contaminated product, olives from different places can only have a different taste.
I'd like to know of a good SBC or at least a SoC so I can find the boards myself, that is good for video...
The deal could not be good enough, because the liability for breaking their own privacy policy would probably be much larger, not to mention the loss of user trust. Even Facebook does not sell the list.
The Final Mobile Photo Editor – PAPS
I tend to read the company report and accounts if its a listed company don't think I have ever applied to an company that had any open source.
Awesome product Grey. I also watched the youtube video shared by other user (thanks for sharing). Very good demo there and they even discussed on how the changes and release notes are fetched from the git repos.
This is a nice micro-tutorial, but it does not build you a production ready system. You don't seem to get backups, redundancy, automated updates, replicability, or anything else that most people would view as mandatory. It seems just show how to rapidly setup a one-off pet server?
Why does accelerated depreciation help a company? (It helps that they pay less tax initially, because they can offset more revenue, but then they are left with less expenses to offset revenue later, how does it help them? Or again the explanation is time value of money?)

Also oil wells' production curve should match the depreciation curve, no? (You can extract more initially and it drops off, especially as the pressure lowers, you then have to inject extraction fluids, CO2 or brine or whatever, crack the surrounding rocks, and eventually it gets abandoned as a production well.)
> they dismissed as unlikely

They didn't dismiss it! They only stated that imbecile Gioacchino Giuliani was talking out of nothing and people had better to ignore him.

Earthquakes cannot yet be foreseen with an adequate precision. Fullstop.

After the fact, judges were clearly overwhelmed with emotions when they forced themselves to read a mere pseudo-coincidence as an unknown genius researcher being silenced by the corrupt scientific elite. The judgement was overthrown in appeal, and the appeal outcome validated by supreme court, with the staement: il fatto non sussiste (there is no case).
What is their definition of language?

Comprehension of sentences by bottlenosed dolphins - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0010027784...

First evidence that birds tweet using grammar - https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20615-first-evidence-...
You must be rather sensatiVe if that's of the chart
NASA will send its rover to a Martian delta to look for signs of ancient life
> I trust Apple as much as Google

This sounds like a religious view rather than one based in any evidence.
Why aren't they? They're not doing it from altruistic reasons, they've just found people willing to work for less pay. Surely a king upon conquering even worse off subjects, which enables him to maintain and expand his wealthy lifestyle cheaper, can still be charged as an exploiter?
Programming culture is not hypertoxic. Maybe it is in the United States in the UK pretty much everyone just sits down and gets on with it.
"“Some rogue country will develop these things.” My answer is that one, we want to make them feel guilty for doing it"

Feel guilty?! The man may have contributed greatly to the field of AI, but that kind of comment just comes across as very naive about how the world works.

"Shouldn’t AI experts work with the military to ensure this happens?

If they had the right moral values, fine."

The military adheres to the laws of war and is lead by a civilian politician, not a pope. A nation's military carries out the policies of the civilian leadership. If you want a moral military, get moral politicians.

I don't understand why the distate at one's own military forces. These people are not aliens, they're fellow Americans, or French or Japanese or wherever you're from. At least for the major democracies, these men and women are volunteering to defend your ass. They don't get to start wars, the politicans you vote for do.

I very much want the military forces of my country to kick the ass of any threat, and if some tech such as AI could help eliminate that threat faster and with less blood than brilliant.
This neither is nor was true though. In this context pages are sent only if you are on a page which looks like it could be translated and you request the translation. That's a long way from "every page"
How would you compare this to Prisma's free tier? I've been working through a tutorial series that uses that and it's pretty nice in dev. I've not skipped ahead to the deployment story for that though.
Yeah, the word racism/racist does not appear a single time. Given how much Campbell warped early SF with his views ...
Yes points well made. Great data science can only be realized with great engineering.

Any tech team serious about data science should either upskill their data scientists in the art of software engineering or at least pair them first rate software engineers and surround them a contemporary tech team that can be pushing deliverables into scalable deployment target using tried and tested patterns of TDD and CI/CD.
No but if the humans in the loop trust the algorithm so much, they're more like executive agents of the algorithm than the ones making the decisions.

Just because you don't automate the step of actually launching the missile doesn't mean a machine can't be the originator of the order.
Couldn’t that be thwarted by thieves using car covers that were designed and made to act like Faraday cages? Like those bags they sell for cellphones?

This would prevent automatic updates to the software and remote control at the same time.
Try not to get outraged by your own misquote. I clearly said "one presumes", as in without evidence.

If there was a case where a horse was infatuated with the person doing the deed and the person was doing it for the sole purpose of the horses enjoyment then that'd be just as weird.

Clearly the weirdness is rooted in human morality. I don't think it's unusual to judge the behaviours of humans differently to animals. Otherwise it'd be acceptable to fight to the death over "access" to females; sexual consent would be a very loose concept and defecation on street corners would be acceptable.
And yet he was the one calling to not strike Syria while the democrats and their propagandists and commisars called him a traitor for not wanting to bomb them.

You have a distorted view of reality blinded by your irrational hatred of orangeman bad.
So much for “Don’t be evil”...

They really have as an Organisation lost the plot on what’s acceptable.
From a moral standpoint, it doesn't matter if the horse enjoys it. The point is the get the semen, not for the horse to enjoy it.

Whereas with the dolphin example, the point was for the dolphin to enjoy it. There was no "morally purer" point.
> It's pretty easy to generate a valid XHTML doc.

In the face of arbitrary user-content, like comments? Are you checking they don't include a U+FFFF byte sequence in there? (Ten years ago almost none of the biggest XHTML advocates had websites that would keep outputting well-formed XML in the face of a malicious user, sometimes bringing their whole site down.)

It's absolutely possible to write a toolchain that ensures this, just essentially nobody does.

> Isn't the non-strict parser for XHTML just the normal HTML parser?

Yes. It's literally the same parser; browsers fork simply based on the Content-Type (text/html v. application/xhtml+xml), with no regard for the content.

The bigger problem with XML parsers is handling DOCTYPEs (and even if you don't handle external entities, you still have the internal ones), and DOCTYPEs really make XML parsers as complex as HTML ones. Sure, an XML parser without DOCTYPE support is simpler than an HTML parser, but then you aren't parsing XML.
Sounds like the "Assassination Market" theory of decentralizing power from the 1990s.
Chromium already got caught side loading a black box binary plug-in after it was installed. One of the chrome devs. even made it clear that it worked as intended as the DRM support it implemented was core to the Chrome product and saw no reason not to silently download and execute it. So it is the same as chrome, only run it if you unconditionally trust Google.
Have you got an answer from PM staff ?
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A strong tool that will help standardize email communication for G Suite