skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, but this is such a weak argument.

1. A "lessons learned" isn't days or weeks or months of harassment. Almost always are the punishments for the crimes grossly outsized.
2. "But no one was hanged here" can we please move beyond this adolescent measures of consequences. Losing a job, losing your social circle, being ostracized from society, and potentially dealing with threats to your person and in many cases family are absolutely devastating and life altering.
3. " We won't be missing her otherwise insightful looks into the situation in the Middle East" Yes speech should only be for the enlightened people that, let me guess, tend to 100% agree with your viewpoints on things.

At the end of the day, these toxic reactions, and counterreactions for that matter, destroy lives and imho are largely responsible for a lot of the polarization in society today. As if a person can be summed up by one or a handful of statements when you know nothing else about them and their life. It makes me sad anyone even tries to justify internet lynch mobs or worse wrap them in some halfcocked moral framework to justify their action when we all know its for that dopeamine hit or righteous indignation and patting yourself on the back for "being on the right side of history" despite 1. that target moving almost yearly and 2. that to think that you have to look past the piles of broken lives left in its wake.
Given this remarkable amount of standardisation (also internationally, see ICAO annex 14 [1]), and the clear distinction between runways (white markings, white and green/red lights) and taxiways (yellow markings, blue lights), it is even weirder that pilots keep landing on (or trying to land on) taxiways [2], including even Han Solo [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standards_And_Recommended_Prac...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_759

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2017/mar/25/harrison-...
It seems so !
They suggest others ideas on the contributing page [0] :
- Improve the documentation or write unit tests.
- Triage tickets and review patches created by other users.

I also imagine that reaching committers through irc will bring some ideas to work on.

[0] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing...
Let me know if I messed anything up and I'll fix it, it was a quick copy-paste.
Here’s a question: if the universe is directly observable- we know it’s real because we send probes out there into the solar system, wouldn’t a simulation have to simulate not only the entire universe but also the brains of every individual and every living thing for that matter? How likely that computing hat powerful would ever exist? Would this not be an argument against simulations? Don’t even get me started on multi-layer simulations. What kind of supercomputer could ever handle that?
Or, if potatoes had to be shipped at market cost, potatoes from far away would be less competitive to potatoes grown closer.

Net result would be better prices for local farms, less road maintenance needed, no impact to the end consumer overall (less taxes to support less roads).
Almost all people do, deep down. The Vikings, the Mongols, the Romans, the Aztecs, cannibals, headhunters, human sacrificers, they are us, and are not that far removed in time. To be human, really, is to be breathtakingly kind, selfless, and noble, but it's also to be cruel, bloody, and vicious. Christians call that bloody side of us the "natural man," a creature in direct opposition to the "spiritual man," who values life and goodness. Gandhi called this dichotomy the "animal" and "human" lives. Hobbes called the lust for physical power over others a, "perpetual and restless desire". If you want to create a safe and good society, you can't ignore either half of human nature.
"Rationality: From AI to Zombies" and SlateStarCodex are what you're looking for. These are by far the best resources to learn practical rationality and logical thinking.
Intel Cascade Lake Support Posted for the GCC Compiler
What Is Serverless and What It Means for You – Part 1
I'm looking up Prions: apparently they don't have DNA or RNA at all. Which makes their "killing point" far higher than any DNA or RNA-based organism.

IE: it will require higher temperatures than our food can safely get to to sanitize a Prion.
This seems pretty cool, I do like that on the surface at least, Apple seems to care a little about privacy.
Why would you assume that? The set of required messages for drivers will increase over time, adding power saving commands, new hooks for higher level Android bits, and so on.

"Your WiFi only supports Android Kernel API 3.9. You need 7.0 to run this version of Google play".

The Linux kernel already has a stable user space ABI. If your hypothesis was valid, you would be able to upgrade the Android userspace on an old kernel with no problem. But you can't -- and that's with just one well specified ABI with a standardized, portable subset to worry about.
That's not really how market cap works. Market cap as calculated doesn't equal the amount of money put into the system.
I don't think re-packaging subprime debt was so far away from willful and reckless.
It’s a fight against bubblegum pastels in trailer for the Lego Movie 2
If we were able to enact ethics compliance regulation, I'm pretty sure gamification would be pretty far down our list of things to regulate.
The censoring on hacker news is starting to wear me down.

Since someone else decided who am I allowed to talk to (rather NOT to talk to) I have no choice than to really consider why am I still around here.
Apple has made it clear they're aiming for longevity. iOS 12 actually improved performance for older phones.

That's why you're being downvoted.
Even if they are all stoned I don't recall anyone at SpaceX mixing up metric / english units...
I have nothing to hide and why wouldn't I want ads that better reflect my preferences?
Deported Rapist Re-Arrested in California
I went from 23mm tires to 32mm, and my first ride I felt like I was floating on clouds. Feels so smooth in comparison.
I expect it to break even or turn a profit. It's the most perfect way to gauge it's true economic value. Unfortunately for tax payers, it's only subsidizing otherwise intolerable commuting conditions, and acts as a strong subsidy to downtown property owners.
Building the Linux Kernel with Clang Is Becoming Popular Again
With NixOS and GuixSD you have easy to deploy, easy to update immutable systems with IaC built-in and no containers at all...

They can be used also for development create isolated FHS environments with a simple text file describe the environment, again without containers.

That's one of the reason I consider them the future, you have:

- built-in infrastructure as code

- built-in immutable servers

- built-in orchestration/provisioning

All with human-readable, easy to manage, text files.
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Yes. But we want sanitization procedures that DON'T destroy our food as we cook it.

The general idea is that we cook our food to kill stuff, then we eat our food. But if our food is destroyed before its sanitized (ie: a Prion which can survive to 270C+), then the sanitization method simply won't work.
What an insufferable way to present an article! Having to click next to load each paragraph and image is just idiotic.

I'm not even sure the pictures really having anything to do with the paragraph for the image.

Idiotic.
You can find plenty of stuff that those three groups agree on that would horrify modern people. It's a really poor argument.
Art of the Problem posted a video on modern error correction (LDPC codes)
Really? I'd definitely disagree. I find the 105 materially nicer in feel, plus obviously having the 11 is nice, too.

The maxim in the cycling community where I live is that 105 is fine, but Ultegra is worth it if you can afford it, and Dura Ace is just showing off. I think that's pretty accurate.

(Of course, it probably needs updating for Di2/eTap...)
HTML stagnated badly and this was exacerbated by the "we can just let Javascript and/or CSS handle it" effect. With a less-free Javascript it'd have been necessary to add things like sortable tables and better form elements to HTML itself. Frames might have been improved to fix the various known problems with them, rather than abandoned. Social networks could still exist just fine and, judging from how things like Basic HTML Gmail or Craigslist or HN compare to more "advanced" websites, would have performed a whole lot better.

That a cross-platform application distribution platform might have arisen anyway is beside the point. It'd have been nice to keep that separate from the locked-down hypertext platform that keeps the user in control. We've lost the latter in gaining the former, rather than having both.

[EDIT] I'm with you on humans being the problem over technology in general, but in this particular case I think there were technical reasons that Web 1.0 was destroyed in the creation of Web 2.0 and we were left with one crappy platform that constantly betrays and tricks its users rather than two, at least one of which isn't capable of betraying its users the way this one does. We're where we are because no-one treated Javascript (or anything else with its capabilities and liberties in the browser) as the fundamentally terrible idea and permanent trust-ruiner that it was. It's inherently and unavoidably a security disaster for the Web, not in terms of secure communication between client and server or whatever, but in terms of practical personal security for the users and their data.
How do you know what is a "market wage" for a NYC subway worker? It's not like you can compare them to someone doing the same job in the private sector.

>how do you tell a tax paying private sector mechanic [...]

How do you tell a tax paying public sector mechanic that they're going to lose their pension and health insurance?
Parent comment is likely referring to some findings from Operation Epsilon in the Farm Hall transcripts. Googling those terms will get you the underlying details.

I for one tend to agree with the conclusion that Heisenberg could have initiated a German Manhattan project had he desired.
What do you mean by "fair"? I think the BOM cost of most smartphones is going to be more than $50.
As a historical note: George Peabody was famous for helping the homeless in London and there is still a statue of him outside the Royal Exchange.

> George Peabody, an American financier and philanthropist, is widely regarded as the father of modern philanthropy.

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

He also donated the money he had promised to his partner Junius Morgan.
hopefully it's a nicely decorated one :)
> western religion

> rational

404 Error Not Found. But seriously you aren't going to find it. Very simply: They believe they were put on this earth to serve a purpose and that god will protect them and when he doesn't it was all part of his plan.
There is a well-developed theory for the measurement of intelligence.

And even if there wasn't, even a child can rank-order the intelligence of different animals, or different humans that they personally know.

It's true that trying to quantify the intelligence of creatures more intelligent than any we've seen before would constitute extrapolating beyond the dataset; this doesn't imply there is nothing beyond the dataset. Imagining that the current dataset limits the possible scope of outcomes is simple anchoring bias.
I obviously don't have all the data about why Google is or isn't shutting Google News down.

But given that we are in 2018, not right after 2001-09-11 as when it was created, even if Google News doesn't add anything positive to Google's bottom line or PR (big, BIG "if") there's a huge cost to shutting it down to Google PR, since it's another example of Google shutting a popular product.

If the EU is doing this, it actually gives Google an excuse, in case they wanted to shut it down anyway. And nobody else would make a replacement because it's just not economical.

Yes. I agree that "being logged in while browsing the Internet" has value to Google.

You may disagree on what that value is. I may be way off, but it's a Fermi estimate. I encourage you to plug in the numbers you would estimate, and see what monetary value Google News has to Google, and see if a link tax with amounts that news sites would actually care about makes economic sense.

> That's a bit of mental gymnastics here.

I agree. It's more a counter-point to "obviously Google should pay" than a suggestion for a better model.

> Nobody is giving anybody a freebie here.

On this we agree. Both supply-side parties add value, and all three parties gain value. To say that one of the parties is a "leech" is not accurate.

If the EU forces Google to pay a meaningful fee to news sites, then that may (in my estimate: extremely likely to) completely erase any benefits, and it'd be rational for Google to bug out.
@kentf. Great review and great article (keto friendly -- N/A). :-) Like your other articles too. Nice job!! I also have a lifetime account and give it a thumbs up. I use it for a few weeks, get burnt out, take a few weeks off, and then go back to it. My suspicion is that it's not creating individual scientifically backed AI tracks customized just for for me, or whatever they imply. I think that back story is BS. But it does work great for me. So the exaggerated marketing claims don't bother me at all.
The Borg may turn out to be prophetic. We could turn into a hive mind of sorts.

I've already been calling Internet fads, echo chambers, and meme outbreaks "Borgsongs." I seem to recall this term from STTNG for the omnipresent hive signal experienced by Borg.
Why do you want ads at all?
Practical Tips for Better Tech Talk Slides
> and missed that the person is disabled

Unfortunately, that's very unlikely to be true. When Brent's account first followed her she commented on it, suggesting he ask his mother what philosophy was.

It's pretty clear from the conversation that followed the controversial tweet that she was deliberately talking down to him as if he were a child.
Ask HN: Why is Atom a whopping 845 MB on my Mac?
That is insane for a text editor. For comparison VS Code is only 192 MB on my Mac.
Plus it is common knowledge that this graph seems to match almost perfectly with the massive prolonged economic crisis in Italy.

Somehow that seems to totally escape everyone here.

It is also common wisdom that gasoline demand growth (and more generally energy growth) is the most direct and reliable indicator of economic trouble, more so than any other (mostly because governments "change" (a cynic would say falsify) essentially all other indicators).

And lo an behold ! This matches the data in other sources:

https://www.google.com.au/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f...

https://www.google.com.au/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f...

(note that the last graph is without taking inflation into account, so the real "zero" level is somewhere between 1.5 and 2.5% at the moment and therfore hasn't seen a single year of real economic growth since 2000 or so, and has had a few years of double digit "real" declines)

So I think we can safely conclude that the real issue is that Italy has seen a very long an disastrous economic recession, and that they are in fact not buying a lot of electrical cars.

This is also very much not a positive evolution. This is going to have cost a LOT of Italians a LOT of quality of life.
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Weapons are just tools. The CDC did a study that showed guns are used 360% more often to protect than they are used by criminals. I would be proud of making a military weapon used to actually defend our country. The problem is our military isn't used defensively.
> The country where 96% of homes are privately owned

Romania. The country is Romania.
Human excrement efficiently converted to hydrochar
> and it was written by a green leftist

What do you mean by this? How is this relevant?
Kind of reminds me about how they say the highest level of automation of self-driving cars will be no steering wheel. Who decided that that was higher on the scale and a good thing? The "progress" defined here is complete control over all actions of individuals in society by an AI god.

These scales by which progress toward the future is measured are a key ingredient of social engineering. One task that Free Software Foundation type organizations could take upon themselves is to define a road map for future progress of technology that recognizes freedom and human dignity.
It's bizarre when people suggest it's some sort of capitalist scam that we can check ourselves out at the grocery store.

Surely all of the upsides of self-checkout have a higher weight than the machine beeping at you.

Also, they beep because your attention is spent rotating each product to let the scanner find the barcode, and you might not notice that it scanned otherwise, and accidental multiple scans cost the customer money.
extremely valid point. The initial setup isn't the challenge, it's the endless tweaks to make it fault tolerant. For anyone looking into k8s, take time to research best practices for monitoring and readiness probes.
OpenStreetMap UA[0] (Ukrainian OSM users group) give a response (via Twitter[1,2] and Facebook[3]) to OpenStreetMap Foundation on the new OSM DWG (Data Working Group) statement[4] about Crimea peninsula.

2018/11/19[1]:

> Shame on @openstreetmap! #DWG encouraged the war against Ukraine and supports the Russia invasion into Ukraine and annexation of Crimea. Russian mappers attack Ukraine in OSM! cc @OSMFoundation @MFA_Ukraine @PavloKlimkin #КримЦеУкраїна #crimeaisukraine

2018/11/21[2]:

> #DWG violates OSMF policy for disputed territories and their own decision DWG 2018-11-14 Crimea (see part 4) https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/64716645 @OSMFoundation @Anonymaps @MFA_Ukraine @poroshenko

[0] http://openstreetmap.org.ua

[1] http://twitter.com/osm_ua/status/1064445318421495808

[2] https://twitter.com/osm_ua/status/1065198343935221766

[3] https://www.facebook.com/openstreetmapua/posts/7744488795580...

[4] http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes/DWG...
Oracle Exploring DTrace with EBPF
It's possible that we find that the problem solving maximum that can be achieved on a CPU isn't enough better than human intelligence to be classified as a super intelligence.

There are plenty of reasons to think problem solving ability can be maximized (like go and chess, and image recognition, and individual differences in IQ). And no reasons to think we've somehow hit the universal maximum for proven solving ability. Especially since every year computers become better than us on some task.
Part of his advice is to take genuine interest in other people. What you may be interpreting as insincere, is someone trying to take genuine interest but failing miserably.. hence the practice part. I have found myself in those situations to be honest.
After the USSR fell apart, in Russia you could turn state-owned apartment that you occupied into your own ownership. Once per person, but basically for free. This means people who "rented" apartments will now own them.

Fast forward 25 years, and that gave enormous amount of apartment ownership. Yes, rent market is chaotic since you almost always rent from a private person. And yes, there's enormous divide between people who inherited an apartment in a large city and people who for some reason do not have an apartment of their own and have to rent.
Steel might be nice, and you're right that there exist go-fast weight steel bikes, but it's also hard to find in new bikes at attractive weights & price points. The universe of go-fast road bikes is dominated by aluminum at the low end and carbon above about $1500US.

>custom

Sure, but that's pretty pricey compared to off-the-rack carbon or aluminum.

What was the actual conclusion of the study you remember? That there's no difference? Because that seems like a questionable thing to conclude, and it makes me wonder how they controlled for other factors like frame and bike weight, differences in geometry, etc.
> On the surface, these condo purchases seem suspicious.

Buying real estate ahead of such an announcement doesn't break any laws (edit: it might have violated employee agreements if Amazon has anything in there about acting on insider info, not an Amazon employee so I cannot comment on that). It's not as if this was a short dated deep out of the money call options play based on insider information (most definitely against the law; don't do this!).
I'm not sure the word "former" is appropriate.
I preferred wireless headphones when iPhones still had a headphone jack, so you might be right, in general, that I’m a pea-brained sucker, but this particular hypothesis is easily falsified.
Your are correct that Y-tube now has a lot of tracks that would likely work just as well, such as the binaural beats, etc. A problem I have with that approach, however, is that then you have Y-tube opened, and we all know where that can lead. :-)
Was this caused by changes rushed before a holiday code freeze? I know nothing about FB, but it's customary for companies to stop pushing new binaries in early-mid December and to leave ad systems alone a week before Black Friday or so.
> Fortunately, while the attack would be extremely difficult to prevent, it also looks to be very difficult to actually pull off in the wild. (...) the VU Amsterdam team said a successful attack in a noisy system can take as long as a week.

Well, if you don't know that you are under attack, taking a week isn't exactly an advantage. And if the attack can be divided among many agents, even if not in parallel, can make it harder to find out that you're under attack.
> A tax break on future hypothetical tax revenues does not cost the taxpayer anything.

By the definition of cost I think your comment refers to, it doesn't. But be aware that adding a company that size and all the employees that will follow will cost the city money.

> Especially when Amazon could have easily placed their new offices in lower tax or tax free zones.

By the definition of cost I think your comment refers to, this also wouldn't have costed the taxpayer anything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Wonderful article. More power to Jacqui and Brent. I'm seriously impressed with the position they take here on various matters. She's a minister and she seems to walk the walk more than most I've known. That heartens me. I've known a few people like that and they are always wonderfully life giving to be acquainted with.

I live with a serious disability and I have raised two special needs sons. They are adults and still live with me. Neither has ever had a job, though they nursed me back to health after doctors essentially wrote me off for dead.

So I have some firsthand experience with the challenges involved in trying to talk about life with a disability or a special needs relative. It's challenging in all situations.

I don't know that it is really worse on the internet. It certainly gets magnified by the fact that you can be talking at so very many more people than you are likely to be dealing with in meat space. But I am generally more open online than in person about the special needs in the family. I find it vastly worse to deal with the crap in person.

In most cases, ignorant, appalling remarks on the internet won't materially harm me in the same way and to the same degree that ignorance and prejudice IRL can rapidly become a huge problem. There are ways in which I do feel materially harmed by such on the internet, but it's just vastly more problematic in a very immediate way to have people in meat space putting their ignorance in my way.
- The Resque background job queue (popular in the Ruby world) forks itself to run each job, to isolate the scheduler from any badness in the jobs.

- I’ve used fork() in Ruby for similar reasons when a library had instability or memory leaks and I wanted to isolate it rather than try to find the bug (I’m looking at you, ImageMagick).

A while back, MRI Ruby got an improved garbage collector that keeps the mark bits separate from the objects just so copy-on-write would (mostly) work in cases like this.