skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't there an "insect apocalypse" every few years and never actually coming to any sort of fruition?

Would you call an 82% drop "coming to any sort of fruition" or are you holding out for a higher threshold?

Seriously, what's your threshold for giving the idea a second thought?

Do you need an actual full-on insect apocalypse with tangible and irrefutable economic consequences before you utter the words, "I'm not saying I'm sold on this whole insect apocalypse thing, but I think we ought to at least listen to what the entomologists are saying."

I'm not going to pretend I know anything about the subject, but what's your threshold for simply not dismissing it?
Going further back Mill is probably the better starting point for the negative view of freedom:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill.

So it's really not a US/Europe thing at all - both very much value negative liberty, although it is probably fair to say that Europe also values positive liberty a bit more. It's more about the role of corporations. The US seems to view corporations as almost equivalent to people, whereas in Europe more often they are viewed as quite separate. And Europe has a broader definition of harm around monopolies than the US does currently at least, especially around the importance of data protection (but again both in respect to negative liberty).
I can memorize different tag names and attributes, and look at how other people have used HTML & CSS to achieve beautiful designs, but I've come to the conclusion that there's an artistic sensibility in actually using them that I just don't have and will never be able to cultivate. I wish that front-end "design" wasn't such a lowly-regarded skill; I'll always be able to create rock-solid applications that are as ruthlessly efficient and reliable as possible, but they'll never be pleasant to use unless somebody who CAN produce aesthetically pleasing designs can work with me to produce a finished product.
The rules for the lines formatting are different, but lucky you can write code in the "intersection format" that can be read by both http://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/Continuation+lines

If useful if your coworkers are stuck to a old semi unknown machine and want to mix the new code with the old code and run it there too.
3ve: Global Ad Fraud Bot Net Discovered by DOJ and Google
With software defined radio they can capture the entire band and then parse it out later as required.
Amazon Comprehend Medical – Natural Language Processing for Healthcare Customers
LEO = law enforcement officer (not Low Earth Orbit)
Better tech could solve some issues having some Boston dynamics based "partner" would prob solve issue of police officers overreacting in what they perceive as dangerous situations.
I believe it's already established that operating in China means responding to all censorship requests. Nonetheless, there are still many things an ethical company could refuse: access to the private searches and information of an individual without a due legal process, collecting sensitive information altogether knowing that it's fair game for the state, knowingly alter or influence results to promote official narratives and propaganda, knowingly use or profit from the proceeds of labor camps, underage or other forms of work exploitation; and many, many more, which are surely not positively codified in any Chinese law, yet are widespread.
Are there any benchmarks for this kind of task, and how well does this tool perform w.r.t. them?
That's part of the problem but even a yard composed of "acceptable" plants can be over grown and unkempt. If you look at the OP's photos of his yard you'll see that it is just a mess of plants with no rhyme or reason.
That was over 15 years ago, there were no google supplied anythings, just search results :) And it was just for spelling, not meaning. like this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=nuclear 397.000.000 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=nucular 172.000 results

Which obviously still works, but it was just the most simple example of "search engine consensus reality" I could think of.
The farmers I know watch their finances closely. Because the yields are better they make more money buying from Mansanto despite the higher price of seed. You cannot be a successful farmer without paying close attention to the bottom line (unless you already own all your land).
Right? It's ridiculous. Why does Amazon let random, unvetted third parties list products under the Apple brand? I can't even find the authentic cable on Amazon. Here's another: https://www.amazon.com/Apple-MD819AM-Meter-Lightning-Cable/d...

Same $19.99 price as an Apple original. Amazon lists "Apple" as the brand. But read the reviews--2.5 stars over 379 reviewers. First review: "Fake Apple cable. Doesn't work."

Under "Other sellers," Amazon.com is listed as an alternative, albeit for $5 more. That one is surely authentic, right? But what if the inventory is co-mingled with that of the other sellers for the same product?
Here's a great example of how the police have failed to live up to 'serve and protect'.

Here is an EU police car. Note it's bright colours to be easily spotted. Dare I say this car looks friendly. http://cdn1.blog.powerblocktv.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10...

Now, here's a US police _interceptor_. The front grill looks like it's ready to ram me. http://s3.caradvice.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/2011-F...

The MRAP's to your point only exacerbate existing problems in the US police state. I don't see why the police (and some folks here) can't see that.
It is sort of ok. Graduate even said it is hard work but earn more than the salary working in office.

But HONG kong is of different scale and no major industry. Part of UK will be ok but other part like car,airbus... may be not. Not sure about clearance but you can be a Euro centre not in Eu as Rmb is very active here. Hence it is a shift not impossible.

May be a total zero tariff is an option. may say the other side is not. But then a lot of tourist will come to shop.

It is the change that is hard.
Pretty crazy. It's not synthesizing new sentences, but it's basically a huge index of yourself. You can ask it "what's your favorite food?" and you get a response back.

This makes private conversations that much more valuable to ad companies: if WhatsApp sells all your conversation packaged into a model similar to this, most of your personality is easily summarised to be targeted.
I don't understand the people saying that Carlsen was wrong for drawing there. Two engines (leela as carlsen, stockfish as caruana) playing it went to a draw
If you don't have the author's or publisher's permission to republish, you're in breach. That's the entirety of practical crux of copyright law.

In practice, in some cases the authors' intent is for others to republish, especially on the web. So they deliberately don't pursue damages―but they still have the right to do so, and users are still not entitled to anything unless there's a specific broad license. Republishing files en masse stretches this unspoken agreement.

People keep grossly misinterpreting copyright law, because they got used to the share culture on the web. "Fair use" is especially invoked left and right where it doesn't apply. "Public access" is also not a thing in the law (afaik).
> in Shanghai trying to find a pair of authentic Nike Air Jordans.

The fact of the matter is that today China is such an important market for Nike that it's probably easier to get a rare authentic Air Jordan in Shanghai than it is in your local American city. Greater metro Shanghai is larger than any single American city.
Sorry you don't believe me.

Here's my own photo evidence from South Beach in July 2017. https://photos.app.goo.gl/JzporX8XmFFswgSu8

I didn't go in 2018, but 2016 and 2017 I was there for about a week. same empty beaches both trips.

You being there in Nov may be why you see seagulls, I never have been there in winter.

I don't have any photos handy from the 1980's to scan, but it truly is a stark difference.
This is fantastic! I'll have to get my 37-year old Apple ][+ out of the garage and give it a try.
Uber AI Beats Montezuma’s Revenge (Video Game)
??? Define mainstream West
Online Payments with React and Square
I recognize that my suggestion is easier said than done, but the coverup mentality seems to be a full effect anyway so it would be shame to not explore this for that worry alone.
Thank you, I have learned something new! I believed it was somewhat similar to having access to the Docker socket and I was always sure to restrict it. Everyone please ignore me.
> Despite all this, I have open sourced a couple of things here and there. Little things. Things that virtually no one ever used, as far as I know.

You wouldn't know, when learning every help and every practical example can be useful. I understand that not everyone likes to learn by reading someones code but it can be invaluable especially for students in places where books are prohibitively expensive compared to the living standards. You're doing good deed, even if it's just small things, but make sure to document it properly.
I have a general rule with restaurants, I won't wait an hour to just be seated... I don't feel that any restaurant is worth that. In general, I'd rather go to #2 or #3 on the list and get in faster. It just depends.

It's kind of like when you get middle of the road food, but the price is right, and you get in and out fast for lunch. My time has value... often more than the price of the restaurant.
A very nice anecdote from the article concerning community policing:

A retired police officer described to me his actions when patrolling a neighborhood. After muster, he would drive his unit to an urban park in his district and start picking up trash. The residents got to know him from this and other actions. He would when time permitted play a game of horse with the kids on the basketball court or engage a dad who was at the park with his kids who might be having a beer. Interestingly, under “broken windows” theory of policing the dad would be cited for open container or taken to jail. However, this officer thought it was a good thing the dad was with the kids spending time in the park and not
creating a problem. He also engaged the basketball kids. Over time he interacted this way with many citizens in his patrol area. As a result, he not only gained trust and respect from the citizens, he also gained great sources of information.

However, there was no department consistency in this policy. The next officer on duty may have cited the dad or ignored the kids and merely patrolled in his/her prowler.

Such a different conception of policing than most are used to.
ML is generally not used for serious AV systems, they are sig/pattern based.

> Then that signal could be corroborated by volume

The more serious attacks are usually very low volume, sometimes unique to the victim.

> user manually classifying content matching that as spam

Manual classification is generally not possible because of data privacy issues and sheer volume, unless you mean by the end-user... but that's a hard sell (what are you selling at the point?)
That is a pretty good TLDR, in fact I think its better than the whole article.

But heuristics are real things and I have never heard any claims that "Theory of Mind" assumed some particular neural circuit implementation.

So there is a false dichotomy if the article is to be interpreted as pitting "Theory of Mind" against evidence that it isn't a simple circuit.

I don't think the article can be reduced to anything that actually makes sense.
Well its true about the TPU's, but you can find similar A72 based servers from other vendors if you try hard enough...

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/hisilicon/hi16xx/hi1616

The ThunderX2 based machines aren't A72's but a probably easier to source and are basically in the same conceptual ballpark.
China has been progressing quite quickly considering how young their academic/research institutions are.

A very common path for Chinese scientists is to go to a western university for their doctorate and post-doc, develop a research program, and return to a faculty position in China.

Many Chinese grants include salary for the PI, so an investigator getting multiple grants can earn a lot of money. It's an attractive incentive that appears to be working quite well (from my limited exposure).

As for reliability, there are certainly some issues, but I hesitate to paint with a broad brush. Science is often very discipline-specific in terms of reproducibility, openness of collaboration, funding, etc. etc. There absolutely are fields where the Chinese are quite strong.
All treatment approaches for depression had failed, but then they adopted a pet
> Instead of nuclear waste, we chose carbon waste

I chose solar waste.
This is my research area! (JPL)
Can you pay for it through COBRA?
Expanded DMCA Exemption for Video Game Preservation Grants a Small Victory
I think that most activists want those things. Some activists are like the person in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjIEZf8Skx4
yes, but the public at large are not an accurate sample, a more accurate sample would be computer science graduates. I imagine that the representation of compsci graduates that are afrcian american is not 13%. The same argument is used for women in tech, you can't hire people who don't exist. It starts in education.
> That doesn't really hold up. The cost of developing a custom typeface can easily run from hundreds of thousands into millions of dollars.

No-one's arguing the up front investment in creating the font, but instead focusing on the "rent-seeking behaviour" that sees the recurring costs come in anywhere up to $1M a year. Some foundries charge you per pageview and per mobile app developer. There is a company/audience size at which keeping track of pageviews and seat count and paying hundreds of thousands of dollars or perhaps millions per year is significantly more trouble than the initial hurt of commissioning a typeface. At the end of the exercise you can wrap it up as a marketing or branding opportunity and generate a few hundred thousand pageviews and call it a day.
> If the vehicles do the same tasks, in mostly the same way, what's the difference?

The difference is that the 1033 program comes with a use-it-or-lose-it utilization requirement, which means that the cheap transfer of military equipment has a built in incentive to overuse it. They are often suitable for tasks that police rarely face, which at a steep discount makes them seem like good deals anyway. But then they must be used soon to be kept. So they get used in less appropriate circumstances as a direct consequence of the terms of transfer.
Nobody calls fortran from lisp? Several libraries are available and would be interesting to hear something about such mix.
Ask HN: Apple AirPods features
whatsup. Im trying to come up with a way to make two pairs of AirPods to connect to one iOS (android) device. from what I read it seems apple made their AirPods to be shown as some kind of special device not a regular bluetooth audio device. bc of we cannot pair two headsets to one device. does anyone know how to code swift and change AirPods' settings so they are displayed as regular bluetooth devices. it seems really dumb that apple didn't make a public AirPods api...
If you want to play with this and you're looking for a decent sample exam note, I grabbed some pieces of standard looking notes (Physical, ROS, Hand exam) and tossed them into a gist here: https://gist.github.com/molsches/32fcec2499e95b5b23bc268800e...

Mostly impressive in how it parses the data and can find conditions and tests in the unstructured data. Handles a few things strangely, but I imagine that gets better over time as it continues to be trained.

I think for it to truly be useful it needs some layer of semantic data mapping to something to standards like IMO/SNOMED/LOINC/RxNorm etc but I could see that being where other companies build their "products" on top of AWS vs. AWS competing with other Healthcare ML vendors in the space.
As you said, the money is there for weapons and not training. Not a great combination. Instead, stop spending the money on tanks and explosives and spend it on training instead.
Is it abstractive or extractive?

What exactly does this have to do with blockchain?

The landing page is more marketing than technical and may not really be a good fit for this site.
Are you saying the west should allow human experiments on innocent (to-be-born) humans like in China just to keep the pace ?
The right to decide what we do to your body, the right to not serve as guinea pig to experiments that aim to achieve a Nazi-like goal of creating a superior race... These are "vague" ethics? If you were currently dieing because of secondary effects due to an experiment we did on you as an embryo (and that you never needed) maybe you wouldn't find those "vague" ethics so useless.
Is it really common to use headphones in the car, though? The last few cars I've owned, I plugged my phone into the radio with USB and it both charged the phone and played music as well.
Neuroeconomics: Making Big and Small Decisions
MAYBE they implement this feature in AirPods 2 but I doubt it.
One thing doing a project full time teaches you is that the problems with full-time tech work in a company aren't problems because you're working for somebody else, they're problems of working on anything for a long period of time, regardless of who owns it.

Once you realise that, you also figure out that doing your own thing doesn't inherently buy you a seat in Valhalla by the virtue of being your own boss. You still have a boss, the fact that it is you helps with fewer things than one would think.

At least you got funded. I'm still bootstrapped, spending my own money for the privilege. :)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/our-human-reference-...
Ask HN: Where would you invest 30K EUR?
For different reasons (hard work, luck) I have brought together a significant (for me at least) amount of money that I am cautiously keeping safe in the bank.

Amount: 30.000 Euros

I never have had any thought about investing. But I think is time to make something intelligent with this money.

It is worth to say that it is money that I can live without it.

What would you do with this money if your intention would be to make it grow?
"Homeowners use up to 10 times more chemical pesticides per acre on their lawns than farmers use on crops."

- Jamie Rappaport Clark, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service [circa 2000]

Source:

https://www.fws.gov/news/ShowNews.cfm?ID=1914520959
It should be clear to everyone that we (by which I mean my "we", your "we", and all "we"s across the globe), should move quickly to preempt them!
If you’re looking for a quick, fun sci fi read with this concept run amok check out Darknet by Matthew Mather.
> Hi, I am AI and Blockchain-Powered SummarizeBot!

I assume the expected reaction is "Cool! They use blockchain." My reaction is moreso, "What on earth does this have to do with blockchain?"

> We apply decentralized architecture to train and test our AI models. Using blockchain technology helps us not only to get more training data but also to improve the trustworthiness of our algorithms.

I still don't understand what this has to do with blockchain.
Developing the technology to automatically police an area seems like a dramatically bad idea. It would make it far easier for a wealthy elite to control territory without the accountability of needing to prevent their police/soldiers from joining the side of protestors.

I’d rather live in a world where the rulers need the begrudging consent of a large number of people, for the reasons explained in The Dictator’s Handbook or in this CGP Grey video https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs
They are harbingers of the computing apocalypse and have shown that progress is a lie. By 2050 we'll be forced to use monitors with the aspect ratio of swords, because the manufactures are going to need to find another ratio to senselessly maximize after they've achieved peak thinness.
In a similar vein, NASA has its own SWAT/special operations groups, such as:

https://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/main/swat_feature.html

https://www.wearethemighty.com/news/nasa-has-a-swat-team-and...
if anyone knows how to code swift (AirPods) pls contact me
Computer chess isn't instantaneous. While you can go get Stockfish and run it on your phone, the full power of the top engines only comes out when you throw hardware and time at them.

They're running the engines with a 30 minute starting clock plus five-second increment per move.

So far, Ethereal and Stockfish have each managed to win a game as White (Caruana) from the Game 12 position.

Also this site has been running live analysis using Stockfish on 20 CPUs during each game of the championship, and its evaluations frequently have changed with more time to "think":

http://analysis.sesse.net/
I sympathize, but this is a lost cause. Javascript apps have pretty much killed the World-Wide Web of interoperable hypertext.
Pussy Riot is anti-Putin and they are still based in Russia. Same can be said about everyone in Russia who voted against Putin in the most recent election. You don't have to live outside of Russia to be anti-Putin.
This might spawn a lot of companies like digitalglobe and planetlabs but all of them will run on AWS. Pretty good forward thinking by the AWS team.
What?
The UFC lightweight title (155) was first held by Jens Pulver (a wrestler/boxer) then Sean Sherk (wrestler) then Bj Penn until 2010 (BJJ prodigy)

Every single UFC tournament has been won by wrestlers, sambo fighters, and bjj fighters, with the exception for UFC 3 where Steve Jennum (Ninjitsu) was an alternate and fought in the finals, where he won by a sloppy armbar.

The upperweights are similar. Historically dominated by wrestlers and grapplers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UFC_champions#Lightwei...
I disagree with this person's opinion:

You can build something that works, that people want to use,
but you can’t actually make all the right decisions if among
the builders there’s not enough diversity and perspective

I thought the point of diversity was about giving equalty of opportunities to all folks indepndently of gender, race, ideas, etc, not about achieving some sort of colorful mastermind.

And why can't the current staff make all the right decissions? Is the current staff flawed in some aspect that only diversity can fix? I thought empathy is a common human trait, and actually many decissions at facbook are data-driven or CEO driven (and a CEO is just a corporative authority).

In some buildings, there are more ‘Black Lives Matter’
posters than there are actual black people...

Is even this politcal organization even representative of that community? Perhaps enforced diversity politics instead of meritocracy is the reason why Facebook has been lacking recently.

I have no data on diversity beign good or bad; although I think this "diversity" topic is an opinable political posture. I hope everyone understands that my point is that there are several claims repeated over and over without any justification...
Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny (2016)
There is a reason why 90% of homes placed on the market without an agent don't sell and wind up being listed with an agent. I think you overestimate the average person's capacity to navigate a transaction without losing a ton of money. I once thought more like you do, but have seen too many cases where people were just not capable of much of anything without a lot of help. Those people would be destroyed on the open market without an advocate, and every professional advocate will require payment. Agents earn about 1.5% per side once brokers take their commission. They are usually worth the money.
When you're fanning the flames of nationalist fear like this, comparing the rising power to Nazis.. are you thinking of yourself as an anti-nazi?

Anyone could pull up 3 links about the USA, UK or Russia being really bad to Muslims.. why single out China? Do we want cooperation or do we want to fight it out?