skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is so underrated how easy to use scheduling with Erlang/Elixir. Plus Supervisor/children concept makes it so easy to have a system that runs for years.
So does that mean serving static files from a SQLite file would be faster than something like NGINX?
The equivalent is buying her a $30 Chinese router that supports IPv6 and comes with a firewall enabled by default (or is configurable).
> laying a dumb pre-manufactured pipe

Which is extremely expensive because it has to withstand huge forces trying to crush it like a an empty coke can..

Hyperloop is neighter "cheap" or "easy" to create. Its approx. 10 times as expensive to operate than "Mad-Lev" trains and 100000x as deadly if something goes wrong.

Malfunction in electric train means that it has to stop.

Malfunction in Hyperloop means all passangers are dead.

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Watch Thunderf00t rant about hyperloop and read his sources. This project is nothing more than a scam to fetch investors money.
China’s Chief Justice Rejects an Independent Judiciary

https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20170119/china-chief-justice-co...

Quote: “We should resolutely resist erroneous influence from the West: ‘constitutional democracy,’ ‘separation of powers’ and ‘independence of the judiciary,’” Chief Justice Zhou, the head of the Supreme People’s Court of China, said in a speech to a group of legal officials in Beijing. “We must make clear our stand and dare to show the sword.”
That's a plausible mechanism, within modern liberal society anyway, supporting Taleb's claim:

> ... when they say "IQ works well between 70 and 130" it means: "IQ works well between 0 and ~85, maybe"
TLDR; "Artificial life" is a misnomer for efforts like this which are simply play on cellular autometa type variations. This phrase is extensively used by biologist to constructing actual living physical cells using non-living material. This paper is not about that and I hope folks stop calling this "artificial life".

Important bit:

Life can be defined as the capabilities of self-organizing (morphogenesis), selfregulating (homeostasis), self-directing (motility), self-replicating (reproduction), entropy reduction (metabolism), growth (development), response to stimuli (sensitivity), response to environment (adaptability), and evolving through
mutation and selection (evolvability). Lenia, the subject of this paper, is able to achieve many of them, except
self-replication that is yet to be discovered.

Above definition wouldn't be agreed upon by many biologist because the entire concept of environment that is as complex as universe is missing. It's easy to create something that can "thrive" in 2D grids with bunch of simple rules but quite another thing that can thrive in a computer called universe which is simulating 10^80 atoms at once where all quantum and space-time rules aren't even known to us.
Describing a tax incentive for private capital as a "social program" stretches the bounds of credulity.

Furthermore, speaking as a resident of one of the designated "opportunity zones", it's already full of luxury condo developments.
I hadn't seen this before, really cool. Found more information on Wikipedia:

> In 1991, the United States Congress passed the ISTEA Transportation Authorization bill, which instructed USDOT to "demonstrate an automated vehicle and highway system by 1997." The Federal Highway Administration took on this task, first with a series of Precursor Systems Analyses and then by establishing the National Automated Highway System Consortium (NAHSC). This cost-shared project was led by FHWA and General Motors, with Caltrans, Delco, Parsons Brinkerhoff, Bechtel, UC-Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and Lockheed Martin as additional partners. Extensive systems engineering work and research culminated in Demo '97 on I-15 in San Diego, California, in which about 20 automated vehicles, including cars, buses, and trucks, were demonstrated to thousands of onlookers, attracting extensive media coverage. The demonstrations involved close-headway platooning intended to operate in segregated traffic, as well as "free agent" vehicles intended to operate in mixed traffic. Other carmakers were invited to demonstrate their systems, such that Toyota and Honda also participated. While the subsequent aim was to produce a system design to aid commercialization, the program was cancelled in the late 1990s due to tightening research budgets at USDOT. Overall funding for the program was in the range of $90 million. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_self-driving_cars)

7 years later there was the first DARPA Grand Challenge, where no cars completed successfully. There's a great episode of startup podcast with interviews of the original competitors: https://www.gimletmedia.com/startup/grand-challenge-season-6....

It's interesting to wonder whether and how much farther we'd be with self driving cars and computer vision in general if the government had continued to put its resources behind this project.
Seems like these stations are a novelty for just about everyone. Kind of like candle-lit dinners. You can turn the LED lights to low, but real candles are cool. Or LPs... pretty cool indeed. But those novelties don't rely on the government to make sure candles are made and LPs of popular albums are available.
And why does higher variance imply a shifted mean?
It's always two steps forward, one back. I've used Netflix on a half-dozen devices and the latest version on PS-4 is the worst. Some improvements, but then adds things like five-second autoplay at episode end and autoplaying ads for shows when you view the menu.

I no longer feel confident if I add something to my list that I'll be able to find it later, mainly because the interface has changed so many times that I have to remember what to do.
It's a very difficult problem to solve for small independent blogs like this... without handing over your data to Disqus or some 3rd party captcha system. Not everyone is comfortable with using those.

Not that it isn't still a problem and trade-off.
There is endless mental thrashing on these topics precisely because there isn't a solution. Having a singular massively-connected social graph is more and more clearly not a sustainable environment for humans.
The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard A. Platyrhynchos (2001) [pdf]
Envelopes, whatever. They cared more about interface and recommendations when they were an e-commerce company and not focused on pushing original content.
>Behind every feature change (like auto plays), there's a product manager who's tested changes to show that it maximizes some short-term metric.

Or some director/executive who insists a pet personal preference be added to the product despite protestations from the entire team.
We know exactly how to quantify it: When you have a network of neurons that is connected in such-and-such a way, where the neurons behave in such-and-such a manner, and are in a given initial state and evolve over time, you have what we call consciousness. I don't think anyone has a falsifiable objection to this.

I think one of the underlying problems is that people want a cold, objective quantification of a word that is inherently emotional and subjective. So when the objective definition does not align with the emotional experience, they dip into mysticism or philosophy, neither of which is testable science.

Really, the word "consciousness" is not a scientific word, it's kind of like trying to quantify God.

Can we test a being's self-awareness, decision-making ability, etc.? Yes. Is there something "consciousness" that is not testable? Then that part is not science. We can really really want it to be science, and keep looking for ways to test it, but until we do, it's just conjecture. (Personally, I think that once we're able to model brains that we agree "are conscious", all of this feeling of mystery will fall away.)
Are moving satellites in space easier to take out than a stationary antenna in Colorado?
Note: The article is from March 2018
AB testing is just NHST. This destroys every area that adopts it.
Exploring and Explaining the “Santa Claus Effect” [pdf]
For a billion people it's micronutrients.

And they are not succeeding.

Screw improving education, cheap pills between 0 and 2 years can permantly increase IQ for millions. ( Or to put it another way stop millions having a retarded intelligence )
Regarding collateral damage and/or political fallout? Yeah, probably.
Not to mention it's impossible to even charge for this service. I guess you could encrypt the stream, but a single key leak compromises everything (unless you assume devices are connected to the internet, which defeats the purpose of the system).
Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes - https://in.udacity.com/course/scalable-microservices-with-ku...
This is a classic discussion in the intelligence literature. For example, the cattell-horn-carroll theory[1]. Usually meauring general intelligence involves measures along a bunch of different problem domains.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattell–Horn–Carroll_theory
Iowa is not flat. It's not the Rockies, of course, but it's got a lot more hills than you'd think.

Try biking across it. I have and it ain't flat.
There are ways to reduce the risk, though, depending on your workload. It is possible to use the sd card just to boot, with all actual file systems in a USB attached device. You can also use some of the (very limited) memory as a ram disk for things with lots of writes...
Hulu without commercials doesn’t have commercials in the middle of content.
I think there's a pretty noticeable difference between docker/microservices and actual weaponry.
I Am the Girl That STEM Lost
> Hyperloop is neighter "cheap" or "easy" to create. Its approx. 10 times as expensive to operate than "Mad-Lev" trains

Is this across the board? I'd imagine the cost estimates would differ depending on where the line would be located - on raised platforms, below ground, or at ground level e.g. a highway divider lane? Or is Hyperloop impractical for pretty much all of the use cases?
It's not about the motive power; it's about speed.
If they're great, why not publish the work to GitHub?
Gives you an idea of well recommendation engines work in the general case.
The most salient anecdote Taleb tells about himself is the one where he's going onstage to debate an opponent. He asks his publisher if punching the other guy in the face would be against his contract, and his publisher notes that it would be very good for book sales.

All Taleb does is punch people in the face nowadays. It's probably very good for book sales. He notes elsewhere, rightly I think, that the goal of anybody seeking PR should be to get the attention of somebody more famous then them: since it's much easier to pick fights than make friendships, and either will do, he picks fights with anybody he thinks has prominence. I believe it's a persona, and he's a very good method actor.

It's also really annoying if you think some of his ideas are very good, as I do.
I'm uncomfortable with that for the same reason I'd be uncomfortable with "if you connect rocks in such-and-such a way, you have a computer." It's not a very enlightening explanation.
I'm considering browsing with a default style of img { display: none !important; } and disabling it when something breaks.
It is. Because this data does not need to be transmitted for this to work.
Yes, but even so, the write wear leveling algorithm in a $50 consumer class SSD and dwpd (drive writes per day) are vastly better than microsd media.
> with less experience and much less time than Supreme Court judges.

I am not talking about the time that it would take to decide a case. I am instead using the Supreme Court as a general example of where on the scale of freedom/ censorship that platforms should take.

The location on that scale should be "What would the supreme court do?" I think that they have chosen a good balance, is why.
In the current solar minimum, sometimes it's the only station I can pull in on my shortwave receiver :-/ It will be sad to see another SW station go off-air. There's still plenty of fun to be had in other modes and bands though.
Don't some rocks contain silicon, so really pure and doped rocks make a computer.
Hispanic students also do better in Texas than pretty much everywhere else in the country.
I tried that. The lack of mentioning voice data in their privacy page is disturbing.

Except one mention:

>Developers: Developers using our SDK or API will have access to their end users’ information, including message content, message metadata, and voice metadata.

Since voice metadata is explicitly mentioned, real voice data must also be stored somewhere.

Also,

>... your activities within the Services

is very vague. The lack of mentioning voice data is probably because of the huge backlash. Wiretapping every user.
I assume you mean Null Hypothesis Significance Testing. Can you elaborate or provide sources as to why this destroys adopters?
A related aside...

I have a desktop background photo from the very early 1900's... it's of a copper stamping mill that was not so far away from where the article is set. However, in that image there's a "ghost image" that was on the original plate that you can faintly see.

I couldn't resist and ended up finding an online source for the actual image that was ghosted onto the plate that was my background: http://www.shorpy.com/node/11417

And then I couldn't resist finding out if I could find that location in modern day Google Maps.... and I did! The details I posted in the shopry.com link.

It was an interesting divergence for a couple of hours and I learned a fair amount about the area the article is talking about and the town of Calumet, Michigan which the photos in question document.

Ah, the modern age...

EDIT: I see that I didn't post anything about the background image with the ghosted impression on it back then when I commented... I just found another link to that (perhaps not surprisingly from shopry.com, http://www.shorpy.com/node/15713, though that's not where I originally found it)
SWI-Prolog to WebAssembly:

https://github.com/JanWielemaker/swi-prolog-wasm/blob/master...
Is this really a good idea though? I thought it was generally preferred practice to store large binary files outside of the database. Otherwise the database file will end up growing pretty quickly.
Other POV: I only check FB a few minutes everyday or so and that algo, maybe ironically, is what allows me to do so.

You have 1000 friends each interacting once per day with FB in a news feed worthy way (posting, joining an event, commenting etc). Are you supposed to look at 500 daily news feed posts to get a 50% chance of knowing what that friend you really like is up to? (pushing the trait but you get the idea)

Instead having to seep through endless activities I don't care about I can scan 10-15 posts per day and they are the relevant ones from the groups and friends I want to interact with.

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I'm fully with you on the point you make about business/content creator you volontarily subscribed to having to pay extra for you to see their stuff.
He’s claiming that high taxes are not an end for people like him, they are a means to an end. If the end is not achieved via the means then the means are undesirable. If I had to hypothesize I might venture to say that were the President to pass a bill raising taxes progressively on the most wealthy while keeping spending on social programs the same, he would oppose it.

As a third party, I’d say I find this to be the highest likelihood interpretation of what he told you and so by far.
> That doesn't mean "there are truths that humans can never prove", all it means is that we have to extend our axiomatic systems in order to prove some truths.

But the very interesting part is that you might keep extending and extending two axiomatic systems until every true statement is provable in one or the other system. However, you're guaranteed that in that case, the two systems will be inconsistent with each other such that they cannot be combined into a consistent whole.
By far the best write up is Fabien Sanglard’s Doom Game Engine Black Book [1]. The amount of detail and depth is just incredible.

[1] http://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/
Arguably LA, Chicago and NYC are fairly saturated metro areas already, and for them to be experiencing outmigration is a desirable safety valve. What's not being shown here is whether there's an actual net population loss in these regions. If there is, I suspect it's minimal.
There is a huge difference between complex carbohydrates bound up in natural fiber and refined starches and sugars. The former are the foundation of the healthiest diets around the planet. The latter are unhealthy. The current anti carb hysteria fails to make a distinction between the two.

I think you'll find you can eat plenty of carbs if you stick to whole grain, unprocessed carbs and also avoid oil. I've been on this diet for two years now and I've lost weight and feel amazing.

You can get enough Omega 3 from non animal sources but if you're worried about it you can supplement with algae-derived Omega 3. Fish get it from algae anyway so you're just cutting out the middle man.

I recommend Michael Greger's book "How Not to Die" for a lot more detail on a healthy plant based diet. I think you'll find it a lot easier to eat this way than you might think.
Can't you just right click and search from the context menu, since you just highlighted the term so the pointer ought to be in the vicinity.
I find it interesting that everyone’s alternatives all involve much more subjective decision making progress than A/B testing. Not that it necessarily makes them worse but it partly explains why it’s so popular to A/B test.
That's a realistic story in light of how Sesame Street, one of PBS's most profitable (and absolutely self-sustaining) franchises, was used to campaign against budget cuts back in the day. If the NIST head was a completely unscrupulous government agent (not making any accusations of course) then it would clearly be in their interest to only offer to cut valuable high-profile programs, burying their cut-able pet projects as deeply as possible. That would be the strategy that minimized the political will to cut the budget.

[0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/big-bir...
As much as I love SQLite, and while it is open source, it is a single implementation that AFAIK has no published open specification. The only way to read an SQLite file is using SQLite, and in that respect, it is for many users just as closed as wrapping something in a word document.

CSV isn't perfect, but it provides a ton of flexibility, for example, CSVs can be streamed or support parallel segmented download across a network with useful work possible during the transfer. The format is so simple that it can approach almost free to parse (see e.g. my own https://github.com/dw/csvmonkey ).

CSV is also distinguished in that regular home users with spreadsheet programs can usually do most things a developer can do with the same file. For me user empowerment trumps all other goals in software, including warts. Things like JSON, XML or SQLite definitely don't fit in that category, although I guess SQLite is at least better due to the wide availability of decent GUIs for it.

Finally as a data transfer format, SQLite has the potential to be massively inefficient. Done incorrectly it can ship useless indexes that can inflate size >100%, and even in the absence of those, depending on how amenable the data is to being stored in a btree and the access patterns used to insert it, can leave tons of wasted space inside the file, or AFAIK even chunks of previously deleted data.
This is a PDF presentation from how the original tree worked in 2016 http://mum.mikrotik.com/presentations/NL16/presentation_3994...

I imagine it works the same way now just with the added x y coordinates.
How does storing facts in the source code instead of a database make any practical sense? I mean I can hardly imagine a real-life scenario where the number of facts is so small.
Consider using all config files as `app.config.js` , you can just return a JS object and done.
Longer time Austin resident living in CA now. Property taxes in Texas are a function of your low-service State govt policies rolling costs down to the counties.

I know three families not in Travis county who left TX this year because their valuations and tax rates have soared. It wasn’t the left that did it to them.

Enjoy it while you can without Prop 13.
It's true, a glimmer of the proof can be easily grasped. The analogy between the Godel sentence and the Liar's Paradox, "this sentence is false", is not perfect but almost isomorphic. I think this is rather the most curious feature of the theorem, that a 5-year old could understand it, at least a glimmer of it. Now there is a big gap between grasping it somewhat and being able to consider its full ramifications.
As someone who doesn't know a lot of the nitty details of the kernel or containerizing, I appreciate you for taking the time explaining some of this.

So just to make it completely clear in my head (sorry!), when utilizing a user namespace rootless (non-setuid) container system:

* The user has complete read/write/execute to everything in the 'base' container. Anything bind-mounted in assumes the given privileges from the host system.[0] The user's context is essentially mapped to root inside the container, but not a 'true' root in the context of the host system.

* The user can create/modify/run a container without needing root privileges to communicate with a daemon or any other tooling.

* A user can install a rootless system to their owned directories on a host system and operate its services/tools without needing elevated privilege access.

[0] In the situation where a user maps a root owned directory to its corresponding directory in the container (/usr:/usr) the container root privilege access is no longer applicable. Other permissions (rwxrwxrwx user group) also apply inside the container from bind-mounts.

If the above is all true, then I think I've got it. All in all, I do think the idea of a rootless system is pretty cool. Obviously you need to be running a 3.8 or later kernel (unless backported for namespaces) and enabled in the kernel, but its cool tech. Thank you for taking the time to help me understand it better. This probably would have gone a lot faster if done in verbal conversation, so I appreciate you sticking it through :)

If you don't mind me asking, what came up in your conversations with the Sylabs team? Was it a case of "we'd like to wait and see as this is new[1], not thoroughly vetted tech", not developed in-house, or they just didn't want the tool to work that way? Those are just speculations I can come up with off the top of my head. If you don't want to talk about it, that's fine, too.

[1] Relatively speaking at the time. It's clearly not brand-spanking new.
With a population of over a billion, that's a really low number. The EU and the USA together have around 850 million people, and I'd be surprised if they didn't arrest a hundred lawyers within the last two years too.

One person in a thousand is a lawyer = a million lawyers in China.
One lawyer in a thousand is a criminal = a thousand lawyer criminals in China.

The scale of the country boggles the mind.
> I think the real problem is upstream: The payment processors.
In this case, the problem is Patreon itself. They aren't paying out to the creator, and apparently people are still being billed.