skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To expand on that, Higan[1] is a super accurate SNES emulator that requires a decent CPU to run at full speed due to all of the weird quirks and on-cartridge chips[2]. For the popular games, typical emulators are probably good enough, but for true accuracy of all the quirks and special chips you need quite a bit of compute power. In the case of Speedy Gonzales, at least for a time (not sure if it's still the case) the only emulator you could actually beat the game on was Higan.

By comparison, Analogue sells the Super NT which is their own FPGA SNES that uses micro USB for power and probably requires about as much power as a Pi, but is comparable to Higan in terms of accuracy. Their implementation still uses physical carts though, so they skipped on implementing the special chips that were contained in the cartridge of various games. For _that_, there is the SD2SNES flash cart which runs its own FPGA for most of the chips (SA-1 support in beta).

[1] https://byuu.org/emulation/higan/
[2] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-...
That’s quite the non-central example. Gamesmanship, cheating and being the only San Marinan or Guamian able and willing to represent their country in some sport excepted do you think a normal person is capable of becoming conpetitive at an élite level in most sports?

It didn’t work for Dan McLaughlin when he tried to go from nothing to pro in golf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_McLaughlin_(golfer)

http://thedanplan.com/
If the filament is the cathode, you’re going to have to feed it DC for heater voltage.
Almost all of those things are very subjective, including even typing discipline. C# has a strong static type system, right? Well, it has dynamic features and is hardly strong compared to, say, Haskell.

Wikipedia has all the hard facts, though not in an easy-to-query format.
What about emulators? Did bochs and qemu need to get permission?

I'm not really understanding the legal basis here. Did these companies get patents for the instruction sets? Since instruction sets are really like APIs, can people get patents for APIs?
The reason why we let copy written works remain that way is because then the profits of the artists work will always get eaten up by bigger companies. This is especially true in the digital age. Instead of artists profiting, corporations from netflix to amazon to spotify would profit instead of actual artists, and at least for big brand characters, Chinese toy companies would be able to undercut those who spent the capital building the brand around a given character.

So much of the American economy and brand is cultural exports, and this would absolutely destroy a huge chunk of that.
Unless and until Oracle relicenses ZFS in compatible terms.

My theory on how this might happen is an independent implementation of BtrFS that extends from ZFS code, sharing it whenever possible.

Should such a thing emerge and surpass current BtrFS, what else could Oracle do but throw in the towel?
There is no such program. This was the thief's lie.
> I don't think they've done anything Mickey-related in a long while

Check out Disney Junior.

There's like 3 or 4 different unique TV shows on-air daily that all feature Mickey Mouse in one form or another. (Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Micky and the Roadster Racers, Minnie's Bow-Toons, Tsum Tsum, Mouskersize, probably a few more.).

And that's just the shows -- there's brand new Mickey merch in toy stores all across America today. (There's even a Steamboat Willie plush toy in Target stores nationwide right now, if it hasn't already sold out - https://www.target.com/p/disney-mickey-mouse-90th-special-ed... )

We aren't in the target demographic for this stuff, so it's easy to forget about it. But Disney heavily promotes Mickey to the very young kids.
Great points, let me try and explain better where the group O(1) appears in basic QM. An amplitude in QM is only defined up to a global phase transformation e^it. To be more clear, given some amplitude A and a real number t, we will calculate the same probability for any measurement by using the amplitude Ae^it instead. Well there is the group O(1) right there.

What's super interesting is that this fact is literally the reason why charge is conserved. This can be seen by expanding our horizons and instead of only looking at Ae^it, we instead replace i by its matrix representation, and then also add the matrix representation for the lie algebra elements of SU(2) i.e. the pauli matrices. Then for QCD use the 8 lie algebra elements of SU(3). This kind of progression seems very natural and intuitive to me, which is why I included this in the original comment.

I see math as very distinct from physics. Math is a language for understanding universal truths about abstract concepts, and as far as QM is concerned, I think what it says about nature is that there are a number of symmetries besides the ones found in classical physics. The mathematics of symmetry is all tied up with complex numbers, but it could all be done without it if you really wanted. I believe that by understanding the mathematics of lie groups and lie algebras we gain a much better understanding of the relationship between complex numbers and quantum amplitudes.

I even think the question "why are quantum amplitudes complex" potentially raises a number of red herring questions that wont help us understand nature better, when what we really should be focusing on is the role of the mathematics of symmetry in QM, not complex numbers.

(P.S. I am going from memory here and may have gotten some details wrong and apologize for being possibly misleading by accident, its hard to communicate this kind of thing but its fun to try)
Static Type Checking for Python 3.6+
There is no such Amazon system. This was merely his lie when he was caught. Don't feel bad.
I came across a tool that will generate a bit-for-bit identical Debian container [1], using Debian package snapshots.

[1] https://github.com/debuerreotype/debuerreotype
Let's consider this claim from the NYT:

First, nearly all of evolution, likely including on the Galápagos, is very slow.

How slow? Well, over the past 40,000 years there should have been nearly no change at all.

Why no change in 40,000 years? Well, we can consider people in Japan and Western Europe and the rate of change in mitochondrial DNA and conclude that the most recent common ancestor was about 40,000 years ago. Then each of those two peoples are necessarily closer genetically to their most recent common ancestor than they are to each other. Since they are so close together now and each of them even closer their most recent common ancestor, there's been nearly no change in those humans in the last 40,000 years.

So, we don't expect much change in the plants and animals on the Galápagos in the last 40,000 years either.

But in the last 40,000 years, the climate has at times been warmer and colder than now, both significantly, and since the plants and animals are still on the Galápagos now, that is, lived through those warmer/colder times in the past, we have to conclude that there is no "giant evolutionary test" in the Galápagos now or soon.

So, the NYT is running a story about the dangers of global warming. They have been running lots of such stories for years, have the stories something of a continuing narrative.

IMHO here I just debunked one of the NYT narrative stories. I've done that before going back years. As a result, I place no credibility in the NYT. In short, to me on paper the NYT can't compete with Charmin and on the Internet is useless for wrapping dead fish heads or starting fire place fires in the winter. I no longer pay any attention to the NYT except occasionally to debunk their nonsense.

There really is a giant evolutionary test going on now, with great severity: In the countries more advanced economically, including the US, especially in NYC and with some irony with the readers of the NYT, the birth rate is so low we're going extinct, literally. Since we are going extinct so rapidly that on the time scale of evolutionary change we could be extinct in the blink of an eye, the situation for people and civilization in the more advanced countries is a severe "giant evolutionary test". If we don't go extinct, then we will be in one of the fastest periods of highly significant evolutionary change in all of earth's history.

So, we have some advice for the NYT: Since to stay in business they will need readers, they should just f'get about reproduction in the Galápagos and pay attention to reproduction in NYC.

But my conclusion is that the NYT has gotten a lot of ad revenue from eyeballs from headlines of scary stories in their continuing narrative about the big threat, "the sky is falling", of global warming. They ignore any and all debunking and will keep the money making narrative going as long as they can. If this narrative fails, then they will find another one. As bad as such a narrative is, there is a letter from T. Jefferson about the newspapers that shows that in his time the papers were much worse than even the NYT.

So, where am I wrong?
The rather extreme losses associated with electricity > heat > heat engine > electricity seem like an absolute deal killer. Assuming they are at an extreme 50% round trip efficiency you need to be extremely cheap to have a hope of breaking even. Worse heat has fairly low energy density and cools over time so they can’t really scale the up or down that much.

It might be possible if they where starting with heat, but feeding this from wind and solar just seems unlikely.
I agree, but I'd argue they make sense at a high level just not as much on lower ones. The level they may sense on is the "design a way to keep kids busy with useful stuff while their parents work". In that sense, something that involves directly being bussed somewhere after school vs. and evening thing adds convenience.
I'm not sure my initial comment quite met that standard, although the statements were directed at groups rather than HN individuals. That might be the best I can do on the civility front.
Not only that. Amazon is aware of which packages it’s given to a delivery driver. If he returned packages that weren’t given to him that’s a major red flag.
Were it to be confirmed, would "Planet 9" actually be classified as a Dwarf Planet?
Slack cuts off access for Iranian descendants worldwide
this isnt true, stop posting about things you arent well informed on
> Hospitals are required to treat the uninsured, but the government doesn't actually compensate them for that.

How many patiens are uninsured? 10%? 20%?

This still does not explain how the hospital can bill $5k for one hour of a nurse that may be making herself $50 per hour at most.
(setq n (cond
(expr trueVal)
(t falseVal)))

This particular idea dates back to at least 1965.
> Classic tube guitar amps got a lot of their tone from the phase splitter, power amp tubes, and power amp transformers. Don't expect an all-nutube-amp.

Subjectively, the one effect often missing from preamp-only tube amps I've tried is power stage sag[1]. I've seen DSP software with it (or rather, a knob for it). In that respect, I'm not sure the solid state / preamp tube / all-tube segmentation can be justified anymore: modern modelling amps sound terrific (subjectively, to my ears), offer sonic variety (because why not), and have a completely different idea of value (comfort, power and size); With that, the NuTube just feels like it's going after an audience who won't be convinced that electrons flowing through a DSP are made of the same quantum stuff, which is unfortunate.

[1] Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INi6lepBZt0
> I think there's nothing wrong with re-using good solutions that others have worked out instead of building your own just for the sake of being different.

But that's exactly what Red Hat has done in a lot of situations. The main example I can think of is systemd. It was built to solve problems that really only appear on enterprise production systems, sadly it got adopted across the board for systems outside of that niche. Essentially it's taken what was a working system (sysV init and friends are very, very simple to configure for 90% of the desktop configurations) and replaced it with something that somehow needs continual firefighting.

Back to the original point: Not only has systemd reinvented sysvinit, but at this point systemd has reinvented from scratch:

* The UEFI bootloader[0]

* syslog daemon[1]

* DNS[2]

* A Calendar / cron[3]

* A text editor[4]

* netcat/socat[5]

* nice(1) [6]

* sudo(1) [7]

[0]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/76153ad45f09b6ae4546...

[1]: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/NEWS?id=2d1...

[2]: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/NEWS?id=2d...

[3]: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/NEWS?id=2d...

[4]: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/NEWS?id=2d...

[5]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/76153ad45f09b6ae4546...

[6]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/76153ad45f09b6ae4546...

[7]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/76153ad45f09b6ae4546...
I wonder how these results compare to Estimating Value of Fentanyl, Norco, and Oxy by Paying Users to Stop Using Them.
WeWork's product is handling landlord and broker negotiations for you. They are giving more power to the tenant as WeWork is large enough that they often carry significantly more leverage into a negotiation.
I have a mailbox at a UPS store. Solves the signature problem and the theft problem.
I think this is the real answer. When we developed flight, the measure wasn't "can we fly like birds?" We still haven't achieved that even today, but we fly in otherwise unimagined, but equally powerful ways.

We seem to be looking at intelligence in humans and thinking we need to develop that, without first defining what intelligence actually is. We don't exist in isolation, and it's likely that the components of intelligence exist to varying degrees in other organisms. In the same way that birds, bats, gliders and insects all have wings that generate lift, what are the things that we have in common with other animals?
Well, we live in an age of wonder, I heard they landed a man on the moon.
“if you formulate a [very specific type of problem involving perfect information games] in the right way”
The dystopian medium-term future is relocation incentives being paid by cities to increase liquidity and therefore facilitate competition in the "better place to live" market.

... I guess we already have those for corporations, so extending it to individuals can't be much worse. But there's currently little meaningful competition to shake out what small-scale policies are better (e.g., the question of how much your police should care about package theft probably has basically the same answer throughout all of American suburbia) and it'd be interesting to see if people make the markets work efficiently (and leave ghost towns in the wake of bad decisions).
>Since all our other services are running in AWS, the obvious choice was DynamoDB – Amazon’s NoSQL database offering. Unfortunately at the time Dynamo didn’t support encryption at rest. After waiting around nine months for this feature to be added, we ended up giving up and looking for something else, ultimately choosing to use Postgres on AWS RDS.
But facebook replaced personal websites... neo-cities would still be a thing if it worked.
I highly recommend people check this out if you're interested in voxel graphics, or a simple way to make 3D graphics if you're artistically challenged like me. We used it to make a whole game and it was great: https://www.larvalabs.com/project/roadtrip

Here are some other awesome things made with it:
https://twitter.com/HuntingFluff/status/1046417418459975681
https://twitter.com/Sir_carma/status/1051867299303440384

And in general I recommend following Sir Carma for inspiration: https://twitter.com/Sir_carma
I fully agree, as I wrote in my other comment in here. Logical symbolic reasoning is usually post-hoc rationalisation built constructively to come to an already held conclusion that "feels right". It's rare that someone changes their mind due to logic, especially if the topic isn't abstract and has real-world consequences and emotional engagement.
As I understand it, including ZFS requires all linked code to be bound by the CDDL, which the GPL cannot do.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/

"[§]3.1 … Any Covered Software that You distribute or otherwise make available in Executable form must also be made available in Source Code form and that Source Code form must be distributed only under the terms of this License. …

"[§] 3.4 … You may not offer or impose any terms on any Covered Software in Source Code form that alters or restricts the applicable version of this License."
I said this this morning and I'll say it again: There's a lot of indefensible stuff Facebook has done in the past 5-10 years that they rightly deserve to be criticized and called out for. The NYT is an esteemed news publication with a history of excellence and their coverage of FB and the other tech giants is important and something that should be extended in the interest of protecting individual privacy for unscrupulous actors.

That said, dishonest reporting for unknown agendas only hurts and delegitimizes this cause. At a news organization with the stature and editorial resources of NYT, narratives are no accident. Every word is meaningfully articulated and scrutinized before it goes it's published. NYT's decision to create a narrative for their largely technologically illiterate readership that Netflix, Spotify, and RBC could unilaterally control and access private user messages is not only disappointing and unnecessary, but harmful to their credibility and to the overall goal of holding FB accountable.

P.S. To whichever admin flagged this as a dupe, as far as I can tell this story has not been submitted. FB released two statements today:

[1] https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/12/facebooks-messaging-par...

[2] https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/12/facebooks-partners/

I don't believe this one has been posted (according to a quick search).
Lightbeam – Let's make social media ACTUALLY social
4) Cops arrest and charge you with theft over $10000 (the tracker is overpriced), interfering with an investigation, and resisting arrest. You make a deal and plead guilty to resisting arrest in exchange for having the other charges dropped.
I was just about to go to bed, when I had the thought—did i write two score? and sure enough, i did.

I meant one. I'm one score and eight.
It's estimated to have 10 times the mass of earth, putting it up in the Uranus and Neptune range: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine#Size_and_compositi... .
Oh lord, can't you pick less conflicting names? Why don't I just name my company Jeff Bezos LLC?
Just want to point out that Keurig did make recyclable pods called K-Cup Vue, but the price per cup was noticeably more so people continued to go with the regular k-cup option. On top of that, it wasn't available at many brick and mortar stores. On top of that, the size differed causing everyone to buy a different, more expensive machine.
Update: a second response from FB
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/12/facebooks-messaging-par...

It has screenshots of the messaging functionality but no clarification on how permissions were granted for this, as discussed elsewhere on this thread.
I put symbolic reasoning at the spotlight for it is something that NN is particularly bad at: discrete data, hard to design, often approximate and non-differentiable measurement.

The problem is so inherently hard that we are struggling even to come up with a meaningful task, telling us how bad we are doing. That comes to your first point, I think finding the right loss function is a like a chicken-and-egg situation here. When you have the loss function at hand, you already what task and problem you are going to solve, then it becomes easier. But that is apparently not our current situation.

That is why I think DeepMind has a good reason to go after reinforcement learning, after all, that is how we human are trained, through exams and the feedbacks.

As to your point about LSTM, I am not very passionate to qualitatively claim it whether it can/can't handle short/long term memory. That is apparently task dependent, and all the concepts involved are ill-defined.
Since FB has quite a few strikes against it at this point, believing it's own arguments about why it is faultless is difficult to swallow.

Rather, if there is an honest suspicion that there was a serious breach of privacy, an independent and impartial auditor should examine the case.

Third party auditors are regularly used throughout industry to assess security and user experience. I see no reason why they shouldn't be used in this case to certify that user privacy was not breached in an untoward manor.
The search for anti-conservative bias on Google
They recently successfully lobbied for for life + 70 in TPP, and includes a similar provision in the USMCA (the successor to NAFTA) to compel Canada to bring its copyright term up to life + 70 also. The aim is to establish a new global norm of life + 70 / 95 years for corporate works, as opposed the Berne minimum of 50 years.

There’s still plenty of room to ratchet. Mexico, the other USMCA signatory, has life + 100 years.

(Disclosure: I work on this at EFF)
Faster hardware will help, but I'm not convinced that it's the answer. OpenAI Five used on the order of 2000 years of experience to train their agent. There are clearly still huge algorithmic gains to be had.

Given how we've managed to improve on nature in other domains (see solar cell efficiency, for example), I think that if we can figure out how intelligent organisms manage to learn so quickly we can likely beat nature's efficiency.
There's the "Get A Horse!" short and Kingdom Hearts 3, along with the kiddie shows the others mentioned. Mickey is still the linchpin of Disney's brand.
Hiroshima has something similar, if a bit more train than bus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astram_Line
Since FB has quite a few strikes against it at this point, believing it's own arguments about why it is faultless is difficult to swallow.
Rather, if there is an honest suspicion that there was a serious breach of privacy, an independent and impartial auditor should examine the case.

Third party auditors are regularly used throughout industry to assess security and user experience. I see no reason why they shouldn't be used in this case to certify that user privacy was not breached in an untoward manor.
>It turns out being an hour away from the nearest police patrol and being far from other people tends to encourage seeking personal freedom, less government (after all you never see them), gun ownership, etc.

Police response can be low and gun ownership high in urban areas as well.

The reason people in low population areas skew conservative is more likely that conservatives in those areas have successfully branded themselves as the party of Christianity and the sole defenders of traditional American cultural values (particularly gun ownership), and their opponents as the antithesis of all.

And, ironically (given the gist of your comment), those values tend to include supporting the police and the government more so than their urban counterparts. They don't want freedom from government so much as freedom from atheists, liberals and Democrats in government.
I agree but I just find that 90% of after class clubs are kind of a waste of time.
Yup. You can do the same in the other languages as well if you want.
IRONdb (https://www.irondb.io/)

Can house multi-tenant-safe prometheus long-tail storage as well as others (graphite, opentsdb, influx, etc.). Put it all in one place, scale it up, radically storage efficient and has strong non-stop HA guarantees. It is state of the art, it isn't free.

Disclaimer: I'm the CEO of Circonus (IRONdb's home).
There is no cause for shame for a brilliant effort that goes the way of all things.

There is no cause for pride in newly-acquired skills that rest on the backs of giants.