skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They dont need super humans to gain technological superiority... just the best hackers: engineers and scientists.

Our relatively enlarged skulls are the result of a random mutation which gave some human/monkey, 2.4 million years ago, a diminutive, inferior jaw.(1) They would have looked like a freak at the time.

Russian scientists have bred dog-like creatures from wolves in the last century. In other words, they dont necessarily need to know which genes or pairings produce their desired results. Trial and error is sufficient. And I dont imagine every nation state is beholden to ethical standards. All they'd need is educated guesses, and then to select their desired traits from a litter of humans, euthanize the rest, and repeat. Hopefully this is not happening, as it makes me feel ill to think about.

Of course, human gestation and maturity has a longer turnover, but gene editing could produce accelerated results compared to classical breeding of traits.

1-https://www.nature.com/news/2004/040322/full/news040322-9.ht...
Advertising and academia are controlling our thoughts. Didn’t you know?
Just in case anyone else wonders, SCT = Signed Certificate Timestamp.
Having neighbours with significantly lower IQ is not something that anyone wants, so if the procedure works rich people would be most interested to apply it to everyone.

But until a working method is found and proven safe, no rich people will be going out of thier way to become test subjects. In fact it is more likely that poor people will be paid for testing improvements on their children.
I'm not the person you replied to, but yes. I can't think of many subscriptions I have that I wouldn't happily pay more for if it meant having one central place to manage them all, overseen by a company that I fully believe gives a shit about my privacy.
There's also this quote from the article:

"The trouble started, the couple said, when their 10-year-old son was nearly hit by one of the vehicles while he was playing in a nearby cul-de-sac."

Driving annoyingly cautiously is definitely unwanted. However, running over one child will see the technology shelved for about two generations, at least. So I can see why at this point the algorithms are still made such that the car stops at any sign of potential trouble.
Better payment and people didn't care about proofs anymore.

It's okay to leave a few edge-cases out if it simplifies the solution drastically and doesn't lift the error rate too much.
Likely because it's not a requirement for anything. Is PE required for anything in the US?
What a fascinating project. I wonder, however: If the asteroid is so flimsy, might the spacecraft's maneuvers influence or even destabilize its orbit?
Why not Signal (https://signal.org)?

It is e2e encrypted, iirc has the backing of one of the WhatsAoo founders, is free software, and the nonprofit foundation running the servers has $50 million in the bank.
Is your bank not one place? You can just block the payments
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I remember punk bands/fanzines using .tk back in the early 00s. I’m quite surprised they’re still around :)
Which doesn't have end-to-end encryption by default - and no business model?

Actually, I don't get why people would ever recommend Telegram.
You can also 3d print one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJV1R802ZBk

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:123252

https://www.yeggi.com/q/pythagorean+cup/
Good on you. As pointed out in Matthew Walker’s “Why We Sleep”, most doctors don’t have a lot of experience or training in sleep science. I’ve heard of magnesium supplements for increasing melatonin levels, since your body needs it in the production of the latter. Do you think that was the underlying cause?

While I’m here commenting, my breakthrough moment in getting good sleep was having a strictly enforced bed time. It took a couple weeks of struggle and mediocre sleep to get there, but it has made getting to sleep a lot easier now.
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How dare they!
WhatsApp can go fuck itself the very moment I see one single ad in the app.

I wanted to pay. I wanted to shell out, what was it, 99 cents/year? I'll gladly pay for others that are less well off, maybe even anonymously through a "give a random person whatsapp". But that's not possible anymore.

Or alternatively, keep the ads not to estrange non-western countries and market segments that refuse to pay. But at least let me communicate with people without seeing ads.
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Because second hand parts are worthless?
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The antitechnology Luddite movement will grow increasingly vocal and possibly resort to violence as these people become enraged over the emergence of new technologies that threaten traditional attitudes regarding the nature of human life (radical life extension, genetic engineering, cybernetics) and the supremacy of mankind (artificial intelligence). Though the Luddites might, at best, succeed in delaying the Singularity, the march of technology is irresistible and they will inevitably fail in keeping the world frozen at a fixed level of development.

- Ray Kurweil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzwe...
> I am in control with Apple.

Steve Jobs is laughing in his grave.
They claimed they were forbidden from blocking the wbesite because 1st ammendment. The court told them that was wrong, and that 1st ammendment didn't prevent them from blocking the website.

They have other reasons for not wanting to block websites, and they should have used those.
No. But they did cone up with a design that allowed infinite login attempts.
Here's a comparison. Author says Signal stores the least amount of metadata.

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/why-i-asked-my-friends-to-st...
Not even considering older generations..

Between 80s and 90s, Brazil was a very closed market and it was almost impossible for companies such as Atari to sell consoles there.

So some local companies started to develop their own non-authorized-clones, like Milmar producing the Dactar console, which was a blatan copy of the Atari 2600 with some "improvements" like the joy stick with extra buttons..
> Choosing to embed a copy of content you don't own into a permanently-public record is a greater offense.

Anybody making copies of that record, and anybody distributing them, would be (and probably already is) breaking the law.

But then, the one embedding it only broke the law once, by making and distributing one copy of the protected work, same as reposting it on a temporary web mirror. Worse, with a web mirror you make and distribute copies for every requests...
I did my PhD in Civil Engineering and a 2 year postdoc in Austria (home country). I saw absolutely no future in academia, chances to get a permanent position were really slim and you could only go from one project to the other, which you had to hope to get funding for. Additionally, I was not happy with the group I was at.

So I decided to quit and found a new job at a small start up that is developing and providing consultancy for a CAE software. It was the best decision I ever made. I also did simulations during my academic life, but the pace has picked up significantly. I'm still at the forefront of research, but instead of pondering forever over minuscule details I'm now making stuff work. While the pay has not increased a lot, it's still better and I don't have to worry about getting funding, even though we do some research project, but if we don't get them it's not a huge issue. I have quite a diverse range of responsibilities including some managerial duties and I have grown and learned a lot in the past two years.

To sum up, it was great to leave and I wouldn't return unless I would be offered a professorship. I was extremely lucky with the company I work at and I think being in a small company allows to not just be another number in the system but actually contribute in many different ways. Obviously you need to have the right kind of people (incl. bosses) for that to be possible. Clearly, in a small company the human component is a crucial one.
Very good find, but SJ was using a slight-of-hand here. While true, privacy has always been a feature of Apple products, this was said during the Amazon iBooks lawsuit when Apple suddenly added this 30% in-app purchase restriction.

SJ was obsessed with control more than privacy and believed developers would make a mess of his beautiful iPhone. Every decision always started from that angle.

No, I believe privacy that we understand it today is wholly Tim Cook. This is his vision for Apple and how he wants to run the company. Good for him and it definitely plays better against Android.
Other than the slightly obscure menu option to get to your list of subscriptions, how nice is the process to cancel an Apple subscription? Any of them – an app, Netflix, whatever.

1. Navigate to list of subscriptions.

2. Find desired subscription in list.

3. Click cancel.

Nobody else does that and it is so nice.
To be expected. Sooner or later Facebook has to make back the $19 billions it spent on WhatsApp.
International money transfers hit $613B this year
ADS being ADVERTS (as per the original headline), not (as I supposed) a TLA
That one hit for me too. We mostly stopped at 1995 with a small leap in 2007 (ZUIs coming from iPhone OS).

Current experiments are more or less a remix of those two — interface less (assistants) are incredibly far away in the future to be able to replace current UIs completely.
>>Some programmers are some of the worst luddites out there!

Pretty much all the programmers.

Just see what treatment Lisp got/gets in the industry. Programmers hate meta programming with a passion.
I do the same with listening to NPR, the BBC World Service, or some Ken Burns documentary. Sometimes just some classic tv works too. Anything to provide a bit of background noise and something for me to listen to other than my own repetitive thoughts. Plus having a bit of background noises drowns out any other noises that might wake me up. And if I can't fall asleep, at least it's something interesting.
Here is the stackoverflow trend chart Fwiw.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=flutter%2Crea...

My limited experience with Flutter made a very good first impression.
I'm sorry to hear that, I never had that experience in my post-doc phase. May I ask in what field/location that was?
OK, I understand the angry, hungry hordes. But if you're far away in NM or Idaho you might not experience that.

Still, better to have the guns than not have them. If you have them, you get to decide. If they're a 200 people rushing you're toast, but if it's a small group you have a chance.
Plus you decide the hiding place /bunker, if it's seen from far away or not.

Gold and silver...the idea is that people might start trade eventually and other than tools /guns gold and silver it is.
> you're one of the 10 vetted apps that do what yours does, instead of 1 out of 100 on the Play Store.

1. Citation needed (because looks like you are pulling these numbers out of your ass).

2. And by your argument, looks like people have more choices on Android. Who would have thought?!
It depends how well you enjoy your work. Some business feels like a dream, some business feels like hammer+nail=your life.
Covers only the SF region (with a questionable data gathering methodology).
This sounds like swatting.
> a few years out of college

How good were you at communicating about software estimates back then?
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Don't like champagne, maybe the "secret" is effective marketing?
I fail to see how an EE would be able to fix the problem with a trashed ecu. Once it's gone, it's gone, and there is no way of replacing it with a similar element without the producer know-how. The SW in those things is huge and you have great interconnectedness between the different systems.
The problem in Gattaca world is not the genetic modification.
It is the assumption that worth of the individual can be judged by genetics alone, that fitness for the job can be determined by something other than merit.

In this way Gattaca is a really harmful movie, it decives viewers into thinking that genetic editing is bad, but in fact shows only failures of a non-free society, which is bad independantly from any technology.
Looks good, but I'm afraid it's generally uncomfortable to sit on.
Is below-market on campus housing an option?
Seems like it's devolved into pointless political flame wars.
One of the most interesting geology articles I've ever read.
Here's one of my favourites[1] - in Bjørnevatn, (very) close to Norway's border with Russia on some 70 degrees of latitude.

It is a shovel from a heavy excavator used in a nearby mine; offers protection from the elements as well as anything except all-out nuclear war. Weighs in at 18,000kg/40,000lbs.

[1] https://www.ifinnmark.no/ost-finnmark/norges-toffeste-bussku...
Living and working in Sweden as engineers
here i will save your time reading that long nonsense - if you don't live in China and travel there, then ask any Chinese to top up your account and give them cash in exchange. if you live in China getting phone number and bank account it's extremely easy, there is not even waiting period for bank card, because there is no name on UnionPay cards so they can give you card immediately
Chrome and Angular dropping Dart 1.0 was a lesson.

I will only bother with Dart 2.x and Flutter if Google actually replaces Android frameworks with it, and makes it unavoidable.

For iOS/Android apps, PWAs, Xamarin, Qt, React Native, Unity/Unreal, SDL, SFML, Cocos2d-x, Godot are much more appealing with CV worthy programming languages.
> The world isn't fair, and Apple isn't obliged to give away their stuff for free.

True, and you are not obliged to give pass to Apple either.
On magnesium, most people need supplements because the food we eat is deficient in magnesium. I'm currently taking 375 mg of ionic magnesium daily.

That said, you're lucky that your sleep problems are related to an electrolyte imbalance and that you found it. I've been experiencing sleep issues too, but it's not the electrolytes.

In my case I believe it's the subclinical hypothyroidism. I wake up in the middle of the night, with my heart rate elevated, like I got an adrenaline shot and it's impossible to fall back to sleep. I'm now on treatment for hypothyroidism and it seems my sleep has been getting better, but I still can't sleep for more than 6-7 hours and I used to be able to sleep much more than that.

I'm a man btw, hypothyroidism is becoming more common in men too. I now advise people to monitor the health of their thyroid and note that the reference range for TSH is not correct, the aim being to have TSH lower than 3 μUI/mL, possibly even 1 μUI/mL. I'm also one of those cases where all other blood work (FT3, FT4, RT3) and the ultrasound look normal, except for having a TSH over 10, so don't believe the Internet's bullshit (e.g. stopthethyroidmadness.com).
> here everyone calls you a physician even though you only work with animals

Just an aside, but that is a gigantic undersell of veterinarians. The difficulties of becoming one aside, just seeing that "humans-only" doctors only work on one kind of ape, compared to the many very different kinds of life forms a veterinarian has to deal with (of course they specialize too), I don't understand why one would think a veterinarian would deserve the word "only".
We’ve been sitting on zero and near zero percent interest rates for 10 years. The only reason any asset would be cheap at this point is all the other buyers attributed it with a decent amount of risk.
So basically a Luddite?
I don't want them on my roads for 20 years, and I want to continue driving myself for the rest of my life, if I so choose.
Yes.

I expect just like it happened with Brillo and its C++ Frameworks, reborn as Android Things, Google will replace Flutter by something with more mainstream market acceptance, and the UI agnostic composition engine is paving the way for that decision.
I think you're exactly right about the modularity aspect of DL; in fact I made a similar comment on this page, albeit speaking in terms of basis functions.

I have a minor nitpick regarding this point you make: not that anything is likely to beat RBF. Depending on the data, specialized kernels can help immensely. An easy example is sequence classification where something like a string kernel might work really well. Or image classification, where histogram based kernels might prove superior.

Note that sometimes you might want to measure how good a kernel is for a problem not by its prediction accuracy alone but also by the number of support vectors it needs - if the final model retains ~100% of the training data as support vectors, it is not a great model in some (subjective) sense since it is memorizing a lot. Depending on the data, you might "beat" the RBF kernel on this aspect too.

Regarding the training time, there are some interesting tricks I've come across (but not tried them out yet) -[1], [2].

[1] Ensemble SVMs http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume15/claesen14a/claesen14a.pd...

[2] SVMPath - algorithm to fit the entire path of SVM solutions for every value of the cost parameter, with
essentially the same computational cost as fitting one SVM model. http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume5/hastie04a/hastie04a.pdf
Engineers are special in that they ideally understand every aspect of your business if you want them to be most effective.
I would have them either enter the mental health and public safety industries or I would have them throw the algorithm away.
It still masses a million tons more than the orbiting probe

Gravity is tiny - 1/100,000th of that of earth. Escape velocity is about 20cm/second, so don’t stand up quickly!
They also host advertising. I wonder how much advertisers would be willing to pay for suicide risk flags.
Yes, it's more efficient to convert everyone to a single culture and make sure there's no diversity. It's a bit hard to do without violence, but doable.

Should we?
We are all entitled to our opinions. My opinion is that these vehicles are a lot safer than most human drivers and I do not see any justification for the vitriol displayed.

Think about it - running a car off the road so you can yell at them to display your displeasure? That’s violence and no one should be subjected to that.

Despite what people like to say, our institutions work and work a lot better than many around the world. If you want change, you have to work for it and convince others of your point. Democracy is not about acting out, it’s about civil discourse. All sides deserve to be heard, but in a civil manner.
And notice how it's not really a thing in Europe, where the cops choose to not constantly shoot people.
Or Paypal ...
increased mobility for the elderly

decreased, in fact. A self-driving vehicle can't go anywhere a cab or rideshare can't, while the latters have drivers who can assist loading/unloading elderly and their mobility aids.
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The OP shortened the headline from Adverts to ADS, should have been written lowercase instead. When you look at the original article's URL it becomes clear.
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I had medication-induced insomnia a few years ago due to some drugs I was on for another condition. It was horrible, I was so tired but wide awake and couldn't fall asleep. I would go multiple nights with zero sleep and my mind wouldn't function. I wouldn't even get close to sleeping. The doctors had to give me antipsychotics to get me to sleep since I wouldn't even react to sleeping pills.

I did learn a lot about myself and I now have amazing sleep hygiene. I don't do math or programming before bed but I will read books on the topics. Anything that makes me think too hard is gone. I've actually shifted my sleep routine to 8pm-4am so I can wake early and do programming.
See the Gallery [1] for imagery.

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Scala + Scala.js allow for code reuse between server and client

Postgres for db

Azure for hosting
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Whoever is in control of this team, needs to pick one, and stick with it. Hiring enterprise developers if you really want your MVP out the door yesterday is asking for trouble.

It also leads me to believe your product currently has a dearth of tests. Most of the bugs that are generated from refactoring should be caught by automated tests. Until you have tests, you shouldn’t refactor (always write a test first).

If your product is too difficult to test, the enterprise crowd may have a point and the initial (and further) architectural decisions have been wrong, and this suggests a lack of senior engineers.

Last point, if your abstractions are making it more difficult to test, then the abstractions are almost certainly wrong.
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I've used this a few times over the years. Pretty useful if you just want to feed a bunch of nodes and edges and get a sense of what's what. I used a python wrapper.
I don't know if it's because they are behind in cloud tech, but I do believe their privacy stance can change as quickly as market changes. As soon as selling iphones or apps on the app store won't be enough, apple will have to change its business model. I'm not saying that making money out of the data they collect is what's gonna happen, but it's a possibility.
It sounds like your friend is a local driver, who possibly makes many stops in a day, and possibly does his own loading/unloading.

I'm a long distance trucker, driving a "dry van" (the typical 53 foot box trailer). It's very rare that I touch my freight, it's either preloaded and I bring an empty trailer to swap, or I sit there while the shipper/receiver loads/unloads.

Since a trip is typically 500 to 1500 miles, all I do is sit and drive for a day or three at a time. I sleep in a pretty comfortable bunk in the truck. I take my federally mandated and electronically logged breaks.

It's mostly not physically demanding. Once in awhile appointments will be at odd hours, and your sleep shifts because of that. But in my experience, mostly not. Once in awhile you have to struggle with some aspect of securing your load (but they're usually sealed when you get them) or wrestling with a stubborn trailer, mostly not.

It's an easy job. I mostly get paid to look out the window.
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