skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the analogy lacks. You can know quite a bit of for example the Kurdish conflict in Turkey without knowing the names of the Turkish sates in question. The province centric approach is one of the major problems that foreign powers faced in for example Afghanistan or Iraq, where the cultural spheres dont align with province borders. As a worst case, what good does it do if you know the name of the province but brought a translator speaking the wrong language.

A similar argument could maybe be made for voting preferences /political leanings of the different regions in the US to give a more practical example.

But yes that is rebutting my last comment. You dont necessarily learn the state names by learning the context.
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Kristen Jacobs' talk on low level container networking at Kubecon 2018 in Seattle.

https://kccna18.sched.com/event/GrWx/container-networking-fr...
Indeed.

DNA is the most fucking complex and complicated programming language. We have barely any understanding of how the whole thing hangs together, let alone how it's parsed and written, and how it all translates from stem cells to whole organs, an immune system, the complex interrelation between organs, the nervous system, the whole gamut.

And that's not even touching on the nature of mind and consciousness in relation to the body, a perhaps even more enigmatic mystery than the whole story of DNA itself.
Can anyone recommend a good resource to get up to speed with Java's new features since 1.8?
I sure remember my racist Republican family members living in their own bubbles long before the Internet...

I remember “liberal” and “conservative” media empires before the web...

I remember gerrymanderred 50/50 political races before the web...
Eh. With gene drives we already have the technology to selectively target or not target particular ethnic groups.

Bio weapons are amongst the top threats we pose to ourselves as a species.

There’s a youtube series by a guy who made a virus to cure himself of lactose intolerance via gene therapy, that was pretty eye opening. To go from what he did to making a targeted bioweapon is not that much of a leap.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY
World leaders are getting more stupid before our eyes though, it's not like this tech is only available until Christmas or something. Couldn't targetting specific ethnicities seem feasible enough at some point that someone just might try it?
This is the key quote: "For as long as there are people on the road and victims in the thicket, divided by dream barriers, this will remain a phoney civilisation."

Of course, people throw up their hands in helplessness. Or, for some, there is helpless guilt. But it needn't be so. It was Adelle Davis who once wrote: "It is part of my creed — of my religion if you like — that when you have the ability to help your fellow man, that ability ceases to be merely an ability and becomes a responsibility."
Everything is awesome until you have to go through the installation for Tensorflow and OpenCV which is a real PITA. Are there any alternatives for this also would Tensorflow Lite work better for RPi?
Isn't it funny the Palm Pre was in some sense what Electron apps have become? Just an anecdote - I understand all the differences between them but I didn't even think at the time the Pre came out that it was "ahead of it's time" but I suppose it was - then again there was also the iPhone that killed it as well.
The public count was over 60million deaths (he moved entire populations from a country to another), without accounting for all those not coming from direct orders but caused from small villages militia in an era of speech and thought repression.

1984 was written at that time, after all.
Out of curiosity do you use virtual environments? I had this same problem until I became very liberal with my use of virtual environments.
Amazing and exciting.

If anyone is working in this area and would like to discuss, I'm eager to. I've been working on an independent thesis in the area for a few years and have extensive notes and extended ideas towards general intelligence theory and A.I.

I hope to contact the Levin lab about assisting with work there too; so maybe collaboration on some open-source support tools?
> Hence the equivalence I claimed is a precise statement

They're obviously equivalent.

My point is that what's easily noticeable in one incarnation of the theory is different than what's easily noticeable in the other incarnation (or if you prefer, expressible), and switching our language for the same abstract structure can highlight different interesting features of it. And further, there's still utility to using topological perspectives and language to discuss the integers or naturals, even if it's equivalent to set theory.

I do appreciate the reference to ring localization -- will have to look at that further.
How does this actually work? Does Windows keep a log of files accessed or copied? Or does the company install additional security software that audits this?
> Then the Germans sank the Lusitania and became the chief bad guy.

The Zimmerman Telegram helped, too.
Some of the better talks are yet to come

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/index....
Seconded. Pyenv has made life much better for me when using system-wide py utils.
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I don't think you're engaging in good faith here.
And what happens once discarded gene-editing technology is available to 14-year olds? There are few technologies in history, including nuclear, that haven't eventually been available to curious teenagers.
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It's not housing. It's basically lack of time. Japanese are allowed to work almost all of their waking hours. So they do. They pretty much have to because rent is on average always as high as people can afford. Not much time for anything else.
More like half a decade: Baldurs Gate was released in 1998 and Knights of The Old Republic in 2003.
As an aside - if anyone is interested in learning a whole lot about negotiating/diplomacy throughout history, including Yalta (I think), I recommend the When Diplomacy Fails Podcast with Zack Twamley:

http://www.wdfpodcast.com/
while i don't agree with OP about it being politically motivated around the current government.
Most of what he says is true. There is no new law, there are other draconian laws like POTA, TADA, Sedition Act and AFSPA in place which give the Government already enormous power which they don't hesitate to use. The current government and many past ones do certainly abuse such powers nothing new expect it is spilling over digital domain more than ever before.
The new UI is the most anti-user-friendly thing I have ever seen. They took something so simple and made it absolutely hard to use. I work with many non-tech people and they hate it. Skype is done.
If people die of famine during your reign and not from a direct kill order, that doesn't make it not your fault.
Formlabs also now being labeled as a unicorn hasn't helped matter.
There are some videos of hawks being trained to hit drones.
> So when people felt power, they really did have more trouble getting inside another person's head.

Interesting research, I'll be curious to know if it gets confirmed.

Anyway, I can offer a REAL, striking example of how people can change once power "goes to their head".

This is a real story, I was there when it happened, I saw & heard all, I was sitting about one meter away...

This took place in the early 2000s, I was working, as a contractor, in a BIG company. In the room we were several contractors, working for several teams (with different bosses). One of my coworkers was a political refugee in France, he was a political activist at home (an african country under a dictature) and had to flee, so he went to France. I knew he was into politics because during pauses he would talk on his phone and take appointments & the like (I was sitting in front of him, so I heard part of it).

One morning, as I arrived (he was usually the first in the room), he told me that something bad had happened... His teenage daughter was supposed to come and visit him in France (his family was still living in Africa), but at the airport she had been arrested by the police and had _disappeared_ with no news...

I don't think I need to insist on the seriousness of the situation & the fears that he must have had. Police in dictatorships are not know for being nice... You can easily imagine what could have happened to her.

Of course, this had been done in order to put pressure on him.

Then his boss entered the room, to talk about their project.

(Now, I swear that everything is 100% true and not exaggerated.)
My coworked started, again, to explain the abduction of his daughter to his boss.
His -loud- boss's reaction, with half a chuckle: "Ha! you're a man who brings trouble!". Then he left the room.

I was speechless. To be perfectly clear, this was NOT a "defensive laugh", the type of laugh that you do when things are bad and you don't know how to react, no he REALLY did not care.

My coworker, dismayed, turned to me and said "You know, that guy and me, we used to be like fingers of the same hand. Since he became a manager, he's gone crazy".

I could tell a lot of other horror stories about that manager. A few years later he even cost me my job (I refused a contract that would have put me in his team, this got me fired).

For those of you who may be wondering what happened to the daughter: her family "bought" her back. Corruption goes both ways...

A sad example of how power can kill someone heart...
That's not a fair comparison. America's population is nowhere near that of Europe and our states don't have soveirgnty. Do you know the subdivisions of Russia or China? There is a lot of parochialism in thinking America is in any way comparable to the entire continent of Europe.
>Yeah because there are loads of CCTV cameras pointing at the sky...

At an airport? I'd hope so...
Check out Atul Gawande’s article in the New Yorker on the topic: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-ha...
The enemy doesn't - It could still be useful for the own party.

Are they remote-controllable?

It'd be great to get some insight into this.
Many game developers use Discord to organize beta tests, gauge feedback, share announcements and manage and measure their community following in general. The fans feel good for being included in the process and the devs feel good knowing roughly how many people they can expect to buy their games at launch time. I hope they figure out a good way to monetize this, since I see it as their killer app.
Goldman knew 1MDB was doing something corrupt. Other parts of Goldman didn't want to do business with 1MDB. Goldman looked away because 1MDB paid $700MM for some bonds that should have cost $3MM to issue. No government entity would pay 10% to create some bonds.
IntelliJ is aware of SQL in text strings, and even validates it against the database schema.

I like my SQL right next to the code that sets parameters, processes results, etc - mismatches are apparent (and also validated by IntelliJ).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_espionage_in_the_Unit...

Also you can read up separately on Harry Dexter White.

Edit to add: it wasn't until Khrushchev that the crimes of Stalin were revealed, and that was 1956. See the "Secret Speech" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Cult_of_Personality_a...
Might make sense. I've noticed a trend where people who come from less privileged backgrounds are more empathetic/compassionate, possibly from experience or out of necessity, whereas their more wealthy/powerful counterparts have the luxury of treating people however they please.
Pretty much every major messaging product with e2e encryption has had child pornography and terrorism claims made against it.

Maybe they want to avoid that publicity, even if it costs them some of the most paranoid users?
If Java were to support to scale/fp-like match statements with case objects and unapply methods, it would probably be good enough to obviate Scala (It would still be distinctly worse though).

Pattern matching is such a powerful feature. I wish more languages (like python) would realize it’s value and add it.
Speaking as a somewhat average joe, we dislike Bank of America for giving us terrible service and hitting us with obnoxious fees, but we really hate Goldman Sachs & friends for torpedoing the entire American economy with their greedy fraud.

Wall Street investment banks have a much, much worse reputation than ordinary retail banks.
Yes I have always DBANed my work computer on the last day of a job. Haven't done that since SSDs so not sure it is as effective anymore.
>"But is it justified?"

Yes, any time you defraud investors the damage done to your reputation is more than justified:

http://fortune.com/2016/04/11/goldman-sachs-doj-settlement/

>"I doubt your average joe even knows what GS does beyond being a “vampire squid.”"

Yes and even sophisticated investors(hedgefunds) did not know what GS does when they bought their Abacus synthetic CDO product and were hookwinked:

https://sevenpillarsinstitute.org/case-studies/goldman-sachs...
So people can donate to person X but if they don't claim it in time, the money is given away to all the other users that are using the service? That seems really shady to me that donations would be redirected like that. Either keep the money in escrow forever or don't take unsolicited donations without the person's consent in the first place.
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Maybe in part, although I think girls, more so than boys, also tend to be raised to care for others as well as express their own emotions, which would make them better at reading others' emotions too.
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Look, I’m no big fan of China, but why do we suddenly think they’re out to commit genocide? Let’s calm down here.
His purges really messed up any chance his military had early on, but there was a weird and amusing follow on. He started rounding on another group in yet another of his paranoid, murderous purges: Jewish doctors and the so called Doctors Plot.

Unfortunately for him this included stroke specialists and he had a stroke. He received no care other than having a rug wrapped around him while he lay soaked in urine.

There is an excellent series of books about him by Simon Sebag Montefiore and his death is covered in Court of The Red Czar.
I refuse to update to the new monstrosity UI... so if they eventually make my version stop working, so be it. Bye Skype.
Wow that's great!
Are you doing code reviews? They shouldn't be allowed to commit code to master until you're happy with it if it's that bad.
5x seems like a good approximate
however, long-term consequences of the genocide against the russians are huge, e.g., the population size would be comparable to the one in the US
The author tries basing his “lessons” on one historical moment, to little avail. The gap between these two concepts is enormous and the logic connecting them is simply too shallow to offer the needed support.

In wiser hands, this article would be worth reading.
This talk by Nabil Hassein at Deconstruct is perhaps the best talk I’ve ever seen given to a conference audience ever, let alone in 2018. I feel lucky to have been present for it.

https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/nabil-hassein-computing...
Yes! I also loved both of those talks, especially Nabil’s.
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> There are few technologies in history, including nuclear, that haven't eventually been available to curious teenagers.

...because the world has been ended by kids making their own nuclear weapons? What?
It's an issue with the responsive layout. If the window is wide enough the overlap goes away; narrow enough the TOC goes away.
This is great. I’ve sworn since I’ve moved to Pasadena that the air has been much fresher than my last neighborhood.

133 down to 53!

I’ll have to take my lungs out for a drink to celebrate.
Nothing can beat Charles Stress talk in my eyes: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you...
The IAS program is underway since 2017 http://www.math.ias.edu/theoretical_machine_learning
Shameless plug for my talk in haystack in April, which was a couple years of casual research rolled up. I really enjoyed giving the talk and I've had lots of great feedback, so thought I'd share it with y'all.

"Algorithmic extraction of keywords, concepts, and vocabularies."

Sorry only slides and no video:
https://www.slideshare.net/MaxIrwin/haystack-2018-algorithmi...
This will be amazing for shape optimization. As it seems one can describe various shapes with very little control points and parameters. Furthermore the relation between the control points and the final spline is very well behaved and thus great for use in an optimization. Great work!
Good catch. Notably, this is pre-replication crisis, and the evidence is kinda underwhelming anyway for the claims that are being made. The theory that increasing the salience of personal power makes experimental subjects less empathetic could've been tested more directly than that. And as for a practical application to things like fairness and pro-sociality, what we know about e.g. the well-established literature on "Dictator" vs. "Ultimatum" games strongly suggests that people in a position of power are only marginally less pro-social/"fair" to others, if that.
As regards to recording and storage, they are identical. Both store everything you say after the keyword until it stops recording.

To make the choice which route to go, you need to figure out which one has more integrations that are useful to you. Try integrating your other stuff with both and see which works better. Also try asking both the same questions and see which gives a better answer.
Don't those all fall squarely under #2 (supposing the act won't bother anyone)?
Except its none of those things. The courts have held that not subjecting yourself to advertisements is covered under the "Fair Use Doctrine". This is why Ad Blockers, Tracking blockers, or both are not only legal, but built into every single major computing platform. This is now taking that concept and allowing me to pay for things I like.

I would love to hear how you think Ad Blocking is blatant copyright violation, or how linking to content on the internet is misrepresentation.
So, should we put laws in place to prevent that kind of fuck up or is the "whataboutinnovation" screaming horde already owning the debate ? /s

edit: it's a loaded question. It happened with the agro-industry and it's happening with the AI industry and the biotech industry right now.
Because humans judge the quality of the message by the messenger. If the messenger is unknown, we (likely) just focus on the message
That's an interesting contrast to the increasingly non-interventionism sentiment around here, but I agree.
Frankly whether we agree or not, nearly all the government's are actively spying on it's citizens.. Buzzwords like Right to Privacy is just like that only a buzzword. So , if a government needs someone's data, they will somehow take it.
That's an unwarranted statement. I'm just pointing out that you make comments under the guise of being "impartial" and supporting rational debate, when in reality you're clearly biased towards one political party.

Your comment was framed as "why can't people freely talk about which politician they support", which is a fairly neutral statement. But, afterwards, you proceeded to say that Trump has been beneficial for the U.S, which is a partisan statement (that most people in the U.S disagree with as per a variety of polls), and furthermore, you claimed that a vast majority of the people in the U.S would support Trump if it were not for their bias against Trump/conservatives, which is an incredibly subjective and partisan statement (and also plain wrong - because many people just dislike Trump's policies).

I mean, just look at this sentence:

>Why is it implied that the other party decides whether a position is right or wrong by simply choosing the opposite of what a politician they hate chooses?

You claim that people who don't support Trump's policies do so solely because they dislike Trump, instead of considering the fact that many people just dislike Trump's policies because they are just intrinsically bad.
I'm wondering if comments like this, that place "mainstream" somewhere in the mid 2000's, are being made by people born later, who grew up with ps2/gamecube and then wii console gen. They strike me as not being very familiar at all with the actual success and market penetration of videogames before then.
you should tell the telegraph that story
I mean, it's no shocker why bankers were eager to pay the Clintons hundreds of thousands of dollars for speaking engagements, and it's not because of the Clintons' keen market insight.
Their stock price is down ~40% YTD.
HomePod doesn’t store anything.
Why are you putting words into my mouth, and then ask me to calm down? I asked a question, it was a serious one, so calm down and let someone have a honest shot at answering it.

I was responding to someone talking about world leaders, after all. And maybe targetting on not being an ethnicity would be possible to, but who knows? So it seems China might actually be more vulnerable to something like this, having so many Han Chinese. I have no clue with what that corresponds with genetically, if anything -- but how you get from what I said to "us" "suddenly thinking" that "China is out to commit genocide" you'd have to explain, the opposite seems much more "obvious" -- the most obvious thing to engage with would be with what I actually wrote though.

The overarching point here, to me, is maybe opening a pandora's box for a few benefits, most of which we could mostly have with good diet and being nice to each other, and possibly giant or species-ending drawbacks, might be a bad idea, and how "nobody would be so stupid because it would be indiscriminate" doesn't strike me as very convincing. Not even if it was necessarily indiscriminate I would be convinced by that, but let's just take that bit for granted. Why would it be indiscriminate though? Serious question, serious answers please.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPBzj90Su8A

They irradiated their own planet ?
When you release something it becomes subject to natural selection. It would evolve to target everyone. It’s still dumb.