skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no continuous "refresh". The circuit is bistable which means that the system has two states in which, once reached, it will remain until some energy is expended to change that.

Imagine it like two valleys with a hill between. Rolling a ball from the OFF valley to the ON valley requires some energy. If it's not enough the ball rolls back into the valley it's currently in.

The process is entirely analog, ie, there is no refresh circuit that looks at the voltage and says "that's almost a ON, better fresh up the voltage". The output of the circuit is digital. (You can play with the R/S latches of most SRAM on an oscilloscope and it's quite fun, the output of non-integrated SRAM will react in an analog fashion. If it's integrated, ie has a controller, this is not possible sadly)

Until you cross the threshold, the circuit will simply slide back to the original position, once you cross it, it'll slide into the new position without any additional effort.
The United States stricter technical blockade came first but they
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None of this can even theoretically be used for communication. Information doesn't travel faster than light.
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We do require food manufacturers to 'open up' their production processes by printing every single ingredient on the packaging, plus a comprehensive review of the effects of the food on the body in the form of nutrition facts, caffeine content, alcohol content and allergen content among other things. Quite what the equivalent procedure for software would be is left as an exercise for the reader, but it's not as simple as 'government says so'.

The trouble is that the effects of harmful software are much less obvious than harmful food.
> "You can encode arbitrary data in numeric form" is Kurt Gödel in the first half of the 20th century.

Specifically, that's something like the first two thirds of his incompleteness proof spent establishing that as a fairly novel result, followed by rigorous mathematics to the effect of "Given a formula P(x,y) that asserts "We can't prove x(y,y).", can we prove P(P,P)?".
This is the first technical article that I’ve posted online.

It is a tutorial that will show you how to setup continuous integration/continuous deployment with docker, aws (elastic beanstalk), node and gitlab.

Hopefully someone finds it interesting.
He did, however, graduate third in his class at Cambridge, coming from a rural Chinese background--that's prodigal.
At least it's not Microsoft.
Thanksgiving and Christmas - best days to fly. Especially if you are not seeing family either of those days.
Oh please. Succeeding despite adversity is worth celebrating. Just because that adversity is entrenched sexism and racism doesn't make it any less adverse.

You are right in a way though: there is going to be more visible sexism and racism from some sectors of society (e.g. Trump). This is to be expected as those fights move further towards victory. As Gandhi put it: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

Well done to Tracy Young for this step towards winning.
Good you got out. I've been offered a job like that on the Isle of Man once, and I'm glad I turned it down. Seems like that place is a haven for gambling companies.
It might work if you want to fiddle with a regex for several minutes, so I'd prefer to just select a bunch of lines do the change directly
That's a really interesting thought. Essentially, the technical analogy of what a 'soul' could be.
It wasn't really the consumerism of it that bugged me the most about working in e-commerce. We where pretty honest about what we sold, entertainment and general stuff you could live without. What I didn't like was implementing instant loans as a payment option.

If you admit that you're selling "luxury" goods, then you shouldn't be providing people, who don't have the money, with loan options. Least of all loans with 20%+ yearly interests.

As it happens very few customers actually choose the loan option. I think it took a week or so before the first customer even tried using that payment option.
Stories like this are what made a teenage me want to attend MIT (though alas it was not to be). And countless more will feel similarly on the coming years. I hope it lives on.
I'm not saying anything about this particular case or others, I'm saying that transparency is key to avoiding corruption. If you don't want the public to know about your large financial transactions, you're free to not work for the government. You don't have to agree, but time and time again have we seen how money flows to those who will make decisions that benefit the the source of the money.
I think the point was that having smart people participate is wasting their time when they could be doing something more productive, not who is losing. Like for instance work on robotic arms so we can all have a household robot to do the house chores.
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programmable editors accepted ?
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You know, if you ever want someone to chat about this with... a former product I was building wound up being used by a journalist who was held and killed by ISIS. It's something I still try to internalize to this day, and it's never really been easy. It's really surreal to go into a museum and stumble on a feature for it.

If you'd rather not discuss it, that's cool too.
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IIRC, LTK provides a comprehensive binding to Tk for Common Lisp.
There's http://www.vimgolf.com/ which is obviously focussed on Vim, but there's nothing stopping people from keeping a scoreboard of the same challenges for other editors. For example, the Kakoune editor has their own: https://github.com/mawww/golf/
I've quickly skimmed through the paper and the ProtonMail whitepaper the author supposedly based their analysis on. Sorry to be harsh, but the conclusions of the analysis are pretty much BS. The reason is that the threat model defined by the author is obviously not the one ProtonMail defends against.

The author makes-up a straw-man threat model which is not based on anything that ProtonMail has published:

> A crucial security assumption, based on ProtonMail's self-professed security goals in its specification documents (2.1), is that the ProtonMail server P is untrusted.

AFAIK, ProtonMail only claims that your email are unencryptable while you don't access the service. Since they have to receive and relay emails to regular SMTP servers and they provide access via IMAP to regular mail programs, obviously their servers at some point will touch your unencrypted email. Therefore, you put a certain amount of trust on them.

So, yes, under the defined straw-man threat model, ProtonMail is not secure. Thank you Captain Obvious!
I feel the article would benefit from pictures of wild wombat droppings in their natural state.

Fortunately, we have a few on the Vombatus ursinus page [1]. (I work at GBIF.)

> Wombats are in trouble.

It's not direct help as such, but better data can show if the real help is really helping. The nicest poo picture is [2], which is from the iNaturalist project[3], where non-biologists can submit observations of wildlife. Other wombat observations are from Questagame [4], an Australian app which gamifies observing wildlife.

The data can then be used by biologists to inform their analysis. For example, here [5] are all 69,776 records of wombats we have in TSV format.

[1] https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=2440301

[2] https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1841291586

[3] https://www.iNaturalist.org/

[4] https://questagame.com/

[5] https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/download/0006766-18110811510...

(Edit: I should add we're looking for an additional developer, see the gbif.org homepage.)
Thanks so much for the helpful tips!
There are more than 100 types of cancer. Quite a lot of those types are very well treatable now, and others are far more difficult to treat. New discoveries like these move some more types from the "difficult" to "treatable" list, but I suspect that the last few on the "difficult" list will take a very long time to fully crack.
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No that’s exactly what we want. We want the free market to create efficiency without entrenched regulation, which could lead to some short-term increase in risk. But what you really want is to price in the risk, and the only way to do that is to remove government protections of individual corporations so that the free market can operate. Little companies increasing the risks of fire is a misnomer because competition and a truly free market would crush those companies and eliminate that problem faster than you could think of a solution. It’s only when you entrench a bureaucracy that you end up with problems like PG&E - a company that doesn’t have to deal with real consequences because it’s political connections will protect it.

What your describing sounds fantastic and is politically expeditious because there is less risk in backing the prevailing methodology, but it is not improvement.

Competition in transmission is good, because alternatives like alternative energy would completely displace these systems and technology advancements would be available and legal - unlike the current insanity.

You know how you can’t put in an oversized solar system and sell power back to the grid, even if you can afford to? Did you notice that the grid is super inefficient because it’s got a limited number of highly centralized generation sources? No? Well that’s the consequence of ownership of the transmission lines. If you own the last mile you own the network. And if you also own the politicians who can protect your last mile interests, why would you invest in change?
If there's no god who prohibits connecting immaterial parts to anything but human brain, then it's a technical problem.
only 10% of the homeless population was living out of state at the time they became homeles

That's purely from uncorroborated survey data with neither details nor verification.

A greater percentage of present-day homeless claim to have been housed in SF 10 years ago than the general non-homeless population!
I worked for one of the largest auction companies in the world, which specializes in agriculture and construction equipment (should not be too hard to find). It was initially just fine, but like many others in the thread it was soul crushing and led to burnout and depression, subsequently forcing me to re-evaluate many aspects of my life. It was a complicated choice. It paid double what I made previously and I was out of work for many months at the time. It brought me to a better city for a while. But I didn't really accomplish anything there. I was ostracized from the culture of the place—which I suspected I would be before taking the job—because at heart I'm very far from the drab "yes" people that work there, play the politics, and wear slacks. It was novel that I wanted to work elsewhere than my group cube thing. I tried and failed to use the shitty HP ThickBook workstation that was assigned to me, ultimately bringing my own mac and being the only dev to have one, because they're for designers. I stayed too long and should have left before they fired me, but it's tough to quit. I just kept thinking "Ya things are going very badly, but maybe if I persevere we can get this done".

Bad choice. Use your intuition and don't second guess yourself.

The tech stack and other aspects of the place were equally bad, but I probably don't need to elaborate any more.
I worked at a company where we built surveillance video recorders. We used GNU/Linux as the OS in the video recorder and we didn't have anywhere in the docs saying so. I got lured in by the fact that it was a Linux company (so yes it wasn't a secret) but then it turned out that we did a botched job respecting the GPL. What bothered me was that nobody really cared about it.
I'm just surprised that people would propose to solve a problem by taking those things away from people.
Very interesting work.

I have seen OpenBSD's pledge, and unveil systemcalls that achieve this easily for applications running on OpenBSD. Elegant in the way it's done.

On the other hand, running container images for wmeverything including text editor seems like a NIMBYism in OS and packages. There is a reason why our OSes evolved with package managers. Sharing and reusing common libraries so that they can be updated once safely. Bug in libsodium? Update libsodium in your system, and all applications that use it automatically get new version.

With containers, you have to rely on each and every container to update libsodium...

Secondly, it takes away the sharing so you have several copies of libraries for each applications you use as containers.. What does it do to memory usage, and disk usage?

Very interesting either way, and got me thinking about using such for specific cases.
I also love listening to Nujabes, but there aren't many different tracks on YouTube. Do you have any other resources?
> start listening now

... Right after signing up. Signing up is not worth figuring out if I want to sign up. Are there no 10-20 second samples I can listen to first, or am I missing something?
Torpedoing peace talks in order to win an election. Such a despicable act, I don't know any words fitting for it.
I know it was not the first or last time in history this has been done, but since this instance can be proven I would suggest that some choice sites such as Nixon's birthplace should be torn down, the ground burned and it left permanently in ashes as a reminder.
Not sure if it fits your recent definition but Three Body Problem series is highly recommended for "hard" sci-fi fans.
Yeah, deal with novel situations better than humans. In a world where we are approaching the physical limits of integrated circuit feature size? I like my chances.

Personally, I find it amazing that humanity survived the cold war. the fact we did not self-immolate goes against everything I believe about humanity and human nature. The fact that we made it through that gives me a lot of hope for the future.

But, the fission bombs were expensive, centralized weapons. there was a small number of men who could have pushed the button.

The problems I see now aren't general AI; the problems I think you should fear is that we have very powerful tools that are very cheap. I mean, like the deepfakes thing. If instead of making creepy porn, what if people used that technology to cause chaos? Make targeted ads/videos of leaders saying nutty things? I mean, I think we could adapt to deepfakes style attacks fairly quickly; someone would have to use it decisively while it's new. But things like that are being invented all the time.
Not really. ML systems are not created in isolation by a single team; they form an ecosystem with many players. I'm sure the current crop of cybercriminals would like an army of bots which manipulates people into giving away all their money, and are, in fact pursuing this goal.

Likewise, I'm sure there are teams of security researchers already using ML to counteract such systems.

Both sides will evolve together as an ecosystem, in the same complex interplay of attack and defense which exists in natural ecosystems. Natural ecosystems are an arms race of continual adaption, but it's not a foregone conclusion that there will be a real winner, or that winners take all.
> Otherwise, for a smart guy, he wouldn’t be very smart.

This is the case in a lot of situations. Smartest math guy thinks legal system works on logic and precision. They are wrong.
It's only after hitting the "start listening now" button, after you input your name and email address, that it's made clear you're only getting 5 free sessions. I feel like I've been duped into giving my personal information away.

If anyone from brain.fm is reading, don't underestimate how much resentment this kind of dishonest manipulation generates.
Pi was already being approximated by Archimedes and Co. some time ago, I don't think its outside of the realm of possibility that a modern developer looks up following inequality and just approximates pi to some degree of accuracy with

P/(2*r) > Pi > P/(2*R)

Once you have approximated it, returning a string with the first x digits is trivial
I'm not sure if it counts as recent, but you should absolutely read The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin.

I also really enjoyed The Nexus Trilogy by Ramez Naam.
I worked for the biggest market maker in Europe for three years, from 2008 through to 2011.

My experience disagrees with every statement you made, except the job fulfilling part.

Making markets does not add any value to anyone other than the marketmakers and the stock exchanges.

The only decent thing about those places is that they usually do not beat around the bush. "Does your idea help us be faster? Got proof? Go implement. Money is no objection."

Morals did not exist in that world when I was there.

What I was doing, was helping the 0.01% consolidate their power and wealth at the cost of all other living beings on this one habitable planet.

Then I stopped kidding myself and got out of my golden cage.
'Superintelligence' synthesizes the alarmist view of AI as both dangerous and inevitable

I find the 'inevitable' part quite interesting; and agree. Say we determine that if AI surpassed human intelligence we were doomed, with 100% certainty... I think it would not slow the march toward that end-point whatsoever. People would reason there is much progress to be had up-until that singularity. And since what constitute human-level intelligence is fuzzy, or that AI could mask its true cognitive abilities (see Ex Machina), a line will inevitably be crossed. Oddly, even if it meant something bad was in store, I hope to live to see that day. How exciting.
> the Russian troll farms

The problem was that they got attention. I still dispute any relevant impact besides the talking points for political campaigns. Which rivals and probably exceeds the dishonesty of some trolls.

> it puzzles me to no end that nowdays Microsoft is considered open source's best new friend

Nobody should see it as anything other as trying to regain lost developers that went to greener pastures. Microsoft wanted to be Apple and in doing so removed any advantages their platforms offered. And the quality of win10 is abysmal.
Claire Denis's High Life is pretty solid and weird.
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If you're talking German, I can wholeheartedly recommend Taschenbuch der Algorithmen by Vöcking et al., Springer 2008. Unlike the name suggests, it is a highly entertaining, but more or less unsystematic collection of common and also less common algorithms. The descriptions are informal and just detailed enough so you can implement them on your own.

It's a great little book that is unfortunately only available in German.
The entire 'fun' of this is implementing it with as much of your own code as possible. Using existing fast algorithms only leaves you with splitting the output to the nth digit, which is trivial and leaves you without having learned or achieved anything imo.
Series for approximating Pi can be found in almost every formulary.
I suggest starting here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10720162.2012.66... and checking the referenced authors' latest work as well
Agreed. I think we are still a long way off but some essential discovery could be just around the corner.
With all respect I don’t see how this changes anything but shifting who pays.

How is it better to pool risks to the group rather than the individual paying a for that risk? The US already has a huge problem with coastal real estate and federal insurance of coastal developments. Why would we introduce that at scale?

Why should the collective pay for individual choices? It’s not like the society got together and made people move into fire prone areas.

I am not trying to draw parallels to health insurance which has many ethical questions that drive deep consideration, but I don’t understand why asking for the group to insure individual risk that is fundamentally founded in individual choice is in any way necessarily better?
I once saw a documentary about a tobacco magnate. He didn't smoke, because, of course, it was bad for one's health.
So it's iOS (Swift or Obj-C), Android (Java) and Windows (Java or C++), but I see python in the eng team. Can you do all three with python alone?
This been attempted in quite a few places:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/oct/15/i-leave-the-c...

> 'in 2017 there were 99 fare-free public transport networks around the world: 57 in Europe, 27 in North America, 11 in South America, 3 in China and one in Australia. Many are smaller than Dunkirk and offer free transit limited to certain times, routes and people.'
Not realtime, because that only enforces 'precision', not low latency per se.

When I was working in this field, 2008-2011, there were guys doing fpgas, custom tcp/ip stacks, custom network drivers, dedicated networks and network cards for exchange data coming in and for going out. Mostly linux.

Hardware and lowlevel fun.

Allthough the fastest trades were always done by this one catalonian guy using Windows and .NET. I kid you not.

Good times. Soulless. But good.
Fixed, thanks a lot!
In my own personal opinion container idea is "meh" and today's usage trends are AWFUL. They serve a sole real purpose, open door to proprietary software on GNU/Linux destroying it's community model.

You can't run unsafe software in safety, it's a myth. Or worse is giving trust to a specific tech and so ignore both it's potential mistrust and other software security implications.

The future for me is Nix{,OS}/Guix{,SD} certainly not "chroots"/"jails"/"zones"/"lpar"/*.
D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler
nice and beautifull.
You can get this running with LXD (system containers).
Some people managed to get a whole GUI running in a LXD container.
As a long time Android user and app developer I would rather use slow secure device that doesn't break rather than fast insecure one.
Every single Nexus device I have owned, and I have owned every model starting from Nexus S, went out with some sort of hardware failure in 2.5 years time. Either faulty chip, buttons or connectors.

Say what you want about Apple pricing and some bad decisions along the way, but their approach to security, hardware build quality and overall experience of using their device over longer periods of time is very good and certainly beats Android devices.

I wish there were good alternatives with open platform but there are none currently and I don't think there will be any in the next few years.

P.S. I switched to iPhone about a year ago and I don't really miss Android.
The cat argument is completely off base IMO.

The "AI" has an almost perfect motivating lever for humans: economics. A super-intelligent AI that wanted to manipulate humans could do a lot with the stock market to feed money to its long term interests. What long term interests might those be? More servers? More storage? More hardware? More software? More AI research? Better, more programmable chips? Eyes everywhere? Robots? Automation? More control? More insight into how literally _everything_ works? Everything humans do and like? Learn how to speak all the human languages?

Imagine there was a super intelligent AI hiding in the internet _already_. Terrifying how well what we're doing aligns with what it would want. And equally terrifying is the gradient of economic advantage which is absolutely aligned with putting all of our money into tech. Transhumanism, mind uploading. We're fucking hypnotized. And those who unwittingly contribute to more tech (probably all of us here), just play right into its hands. Our interests line up wonderfully. And most of us here are rewarded with outsized salaries and stock, free food, benefits, benefits, benefits.

Well played, AI.

/tongue-in-cheek