skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been suspicious of things like Roundup weed killer for a while. Over the last several years, I've stopped using residential weed killers on my property, and I have noticed a little uptick in monarchs and fireflies recently.

Of course, it's more annoying keeping your yard looking immaculate without those chemicals - you have to pull weeds more, but it's not really that big of a deal.

The "easy" path often has its downsides.
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One of my favorite software jobs was working on an in-store UI for creating custom apparel, not because of the software stack but because I got to sit in the store, in the mall and work, observe, and help people use the software. Seeing their struggles and questions and ideas was truly the most inspired I have ever felt working with any software.
Does it work for less well structured Data?

Digits of pi you can translate to characters and twine a story, but loosely associated facts are more tricky.
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And what if my property includes part ownership of a business? Stocks, maybe? Including in my IRA or 401k? Then you're taking my property.
> Without those we might as well go back to storing content locally which let's face it - is mostly retrieved quasi-legally through BitTorrent.

But at least it's always available and will not disappear between the moment you first watch it and the moment you want to show it to your spouse.

I really expect (and hope) to see a resurgence of torrenting in the wake of ongoing balkanization of streaming platforms.
What if there's a comment like:

// User should only receive positive deposit from this code

But someone finds a vulnerability to withdraw instead of deposit. The code allows it, but the comment says that shouldn't be allowed. Did they act in bad faith, with fraud in mind?

And to add on to that, could you consider function names as part of documentation/proof? ie. deposit()

And to add on to that, what about the actual code: if reasonably prudent person were to read the code and assume it was made to deposit only, is that sufficient?

I would assume a judge would say yes.
"Life is complicated, but in general humans have been becoming much more respectful of the environment as we become more wealthy." - This is highly reductive and untrue. Increases in wealth directly correlate to higher rates of consumerism and more resource intensive diets. Just because wealthy countries are talking more about environmental degradation, doesn't mean they are making significant strides to reduce impact. Take the much talked about environmental agreements that pop up every other decade for example. Both the Kyoto protocol and now the Paris Agreement have done little more than pay lip service to the fact the environmental destruction is an existential threat to humanity. Both international agreements were non-binding in their terms and had exceedingly unambitious goals to reduce pollution and waste (as relates to avoiding detrimental increases in temperature and collapsing ecosystems.'

"The other alternative really boils down to a belief that it would be best if humans weren't around." - This too is overly reductive and amounts to nothing more than a straw man's argument. Are you to suggest that the only way to reduce pollution and environmental impact is to get rid of people entirely? How about tightening emissions standards, banning/taxing destructive materials like plastic, putting immense taxes on dirty energy? All of these measures are oft talked about, half-heartedly implemented for the most part, and could do much to reduce our impact all without addressing the population (not that that isn't an issue in and of itself.

The problem with the argument that we should just plow ahead full steam, hope that we can technologically solve our way out of the problem, and then clean up the mess afterwards is that we don't actually know if the problems will be solvable in a couple of decades when the time arrives. We simply don't know if this will work and the further destruction that happens in the meantime will make the challenge all the greater. For example the risk of armed conflict due to resource scarcity or famine (look at Syria right now) or the unforeseen consequences of fully collapsed fisheries and desertification of farmland is a very real one, and should be viewed as a direct danger of climate destruction. We do know, however, that taking extreme measures to reduce emissions and our environmental impact in the present will make this problem easier to solve. I simply don't understand how some find it valid to respond to such an impending risk with nonchalant suggestions that we'll simply solve this one later.
There's an equitable remedy for that, a quasi contract, yielding quantum meruit damages if it's any good.

https://legaldictionary.net/quasi-contract/
If my understanding of the pwn2own event is correct, it's not a CTF event and the exploits are typically developed in advance, and then demonstrated during the event? If there are 2 or more exploits which all work reliably, who is determined to be the "winner"?
> Why would it need to be tested in court?

Because the law is not clear as it is currently written. On one hand, the minimum safe altitude to operate an aircraft is 500ft. So it's pretty clear that anything above 500ft is considered a public thoroughfare.

The FAA claims to own and regulate all US airspace down to ground level. The FAA also says that drones must be operated below 400ft (clearly an effort to keep drones and manned aircraft safely separated). If we embrace this version of the law, then drones can operate from 0ft to 400ft with impunity over private land without any legal repercussions.

On the other hand, it is established law that a property owner is entitled to the full enjoyment of their property. In a famous case, United States vs Causby, military bombers were flying at an altitude of 83ft over Causby's house and chicken farm. The courts sided with Causby and established a precedent that a landowner does own some portion of the airspace over their land. However, it did not establish a specific altitude.

A bomber at 83ft was deemed to infringe on private property rights, but should a small drone at 83ft be judged in the same way? It's not clearly defined in law right now, that's why it needs to be tested in court. Or alternatively, the legislature needs to adjust the laws to make it clear.
Actual bombs were dropped on Pearl Harbor regardless of the historical questions about whether or not there was foreknowledge of the attack.
I work in networking infrastructure products in embedded systems. I never understood the appeal of agile/devops style development for anything whose failure has immediate and widesperead consequence. For e.g would you add features to a deployed compiler in an agile manner? (throw it out there to see what sticks?)
I agree, but at the bottom of the article it states that the article is an excerpt from a book about the great firewall. From this context, I can understand the scope of the article. An article centered around your statements here would be interesting to read.
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Something I don't understand:

I thought that when using LSTM for classification, the input vector for the sentence was a single vector of length 300, recurrently updated with each word in the text. And for the averaging method, it was a vector of length 300, the average of each of the vectors of length 300 for the words in the sentence. At what stage in the standard process would a matrix of size V*300 be used to represent a sentence or document?
A self-managed portfolio consisting of various government bonds. Ever since I started working, I have been saving >30% of my annual income every year. Not accounting for the income from the portfolio or for raises since, this means that every year of savings, the portfolio can replace 1.2% of my annual income (assuming an effective yield of 4%). Been doing this for over 20 years now.
I think this sort of response is really unfortunate. I don't think their reply was at all out of order, they simply extended your argument, and I would have very much liked to read a genuine reply.
A DDoS is not "hacking". I've personally seen DDoS much bigger than the one described in the article over things as trivial as League of Legends online gaming.
>>Bringing the third world up to first world is what is needed.

Again, the biggest hurdle to that is politics. There are deep geo political ramifications on any thing that causes change in economic equations at such massive levels.

Mostly its also the will of the people. The world is indeed a giant stack ranking system, and people do indeed believe in ruining anything it takes to score the most points. Most people do believe in things like their civilization, nationalism and racial supremacy.

If you think of it as a whole, space, asteroids and what humans could do if they work together. The very concept of economy feels like something that limits human progress.
I was scared to click on the parent link at work because I KNEW this term had to have a second "urban dictionary" meaning...
The article does make that assertion, and it is as an illustration:

> The result was a series of visualizations that map the wide gamut of potential effects researchers could detect in the three repositories, and they reveal several important things: One, that small changes in analytical approach can lead to dramatically different findings along that spectrum. Two, that the correlation between technology use and well-being is negative. And three, that this correlation is very, very small, explaining—at most—0.4 percent of the variation in adolescent well-being.

> To put it in perspective, the researchers compared the link between technology use and adolescent well-being to that of other factors examined by the large-scale data sets. "Using technology is about as associated with well-being as eating potatoes," Przybylski says. In other words: hardly at all. By the same logic, bullying had an effect size four times greater than screen use. Smoking cigarettes? 18 times. Conversely, getting enough sleep and eating breakfast were positively associated with adolescent well-being at a magnitude 44 and 30 times that of technology use, respectively.
Smart contracts should not be compared with traditional contracts. They have very little to do with each other and it's an unfortunate name that even Vitalik himself regrets. They are just persistent scripts that run in parallell on a decentralised network. Using them for legal systems is a very niche use case.
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> You think your offbrand Smart TV is going to update past a couple bugs? They already made all the money they are going to make off that TV and they are done.

Honestly, who cares? I mean, it's a TV. It should not need Internet to work, and it definitely shouldn't need software updates. Displaying video on a screen is a solved problem.

The very fact you can use "software update" and "TV" in the same sentence signals a pretty big problem - a problem of companies selling you TV as a service, and customers accepting half-done pseudo-products.
There's really 2 things that you get. The first is that by having servers close to clients you can minimize latency, and you get scalability for free. The big architectural difference is that generally read/write databases become extremely challenging so you either have to get into some crazy CAP territory OR you architect around essentially event sourcing/logging. It works great for some applications, terrible for others.
I'm disagreeing on "the potential impact is a lot smaller", because we have seen time and time again that executing a script in a sandboxed environment can quickly turn into running machine code with the user's privileges instead.
What does this say about prediction markets? I wouldn't implicitly consider them gambling, just as the financial markets are not precisely gambling.
The purpose is to remove the middleman to have an autonomous outcome and by that they have succeeded. However, just as contracts have evolved over time after iterations have been found to have "bugs", I'm sure these will as well.
I was surprised when I first learned that this was a novel philosophical concept, because I recall reading a Renaissance-age Italian story(maybe from the De Cameron?) that talks about this:

Basically, a man sees his wife walking in the town square with the hat of a friend of theirs, and this leads him to believe that she is cheating with that friend. It turns out that he just offered the hat to her in the market, to help her carry some eggs home, and she was going to return it. So, she goes and returns it, the husband follows her, and it turns out she actually is cheating on the husband with the friend, but the hat hat nothing to do with it.
DDG's main marketing model is talking about how they believe Google is privacy threat, so they'll highlight that angle in any change.
where do you think apple maps is better than google?

google maps is the only google service i still use on a regular basis because it's clearly better than apple maps for me (california mostly). apple maps is ok for simple use cases like finding a known business, but an ambiguous search on google maps is almost always better, as is their routing.

i'd love to find a better mapping service for these more complicated use cases so i can avoid google altogether.
Very impressive indeed. I dug around and found his tweet: "uses a neural network I trained on choral pieces to generate the harmonization for your melody"

[0] https://twitter.com/daviddotli/status/1075068713936830464
60 Month CD at 3.0%? Anybody signing up for that should not be allowed to manage money ever again. Look at the yield curve, you are getting (almost) nothing for locking your money up an additional 5 years.
That doesn't do anything on my end (using Firefox on a Mac). And for me Maps.app doesn't require any modifier keys to zoom with the scroll wheel
A treaty means it's a matter of law in both countries. It may not be automatic, but if they don't follow the laws they promised to uphold, they risk voiding the treaty.
Somewhat related but DuckDuckGo Image and Map search results have been broken for months for me. I just get blank, broken images. Anyone else have this problem?

Kind of defeats the purpose if I have to use google for half of my searches.
I believe they're ignoring the concentration of salt in the brine, instead only counting the volume of 'highly salty water' that is output.
>Even the people doing OS and hardware level maintenance of the machines in question don't have access to this data.

Are you implying Google can't access their own data?

100% security is a dangerous myth. No internet connected system is impervious to hackers.
The one I linked supposedly does well in CO, where I live.
Actually it depends on how far it all gets
Ditto. (Though not 20 years).

I use these 3

alias ls='ls --color=auto --group-directories-first' # override
alias l='ls -hF'
alias ll='ls -hAlF'
alias lt='ls -clthF'

Also, incredibly useful:

alias c='clear'

I type `l` and `c` all the time. Then I get on a different machine and `command not found`.
good point - the 90% though was not referring to a single contract but overall the share of contracts that could be dealt with via a framework.
Interesting 'cause once you think of it as a lossy compression task, lots of possible tricks come to mind. One is that you could "cheat" to correct the most important errors: look at which input words have high (distance from original point * frequency of use), and save the (in their example) 300-element error vector (original embedding - estimate) for those. Since we use the most common words a lot, you might be able to recover a noticeable chunk of accuracy without using much additional space.

Really, you want to correct the errors that are important, and importance to the task is a different thing from error magnitude * word frequency. You might run the network on real tasks with the uncompressed table and the compressed table, and add correction vectors for the words to which you can attribute the most mistakes made by the compressed net. And you don't necessarily have to correct the whole vector or correct it perfectly; you could round values in the correction vector down to zero when they're small enough, saving space and computation, or save your corrections with low precision, or try another round of SVD on some error vectors and only store 30 more weights for correcting important errors (and one 30x300 matrix) not 300, or some combo of tricks like that.

(I think this paper is saying that after you get the SVD-compressed lookup table, you do more NN training that tweaks the embedding and possibly the rest of the net. The links and weights for correcting important errors could be tweaked in the same process.)

It's tempting to treat neural networks as their own black box in a world apart from other CS sometimes, when in fact there can be lots of interesting connections. Now where all those connections ought to be and their ideal weights I don't know :P
I had no idea you had to go through customs in the US simply to transfer international flights. That's INSANE!

I've had connecting flights though Moscow and Doha and didn't need to "enter" those countries or have a visa just to switch planes. Sometimes you go though another security checkpoint, but I've never had to present my passport until I reached the destination country.
I’ve been the Software Engineer on customer sites and visting call centers with 100s of users in international locations. It was a very good experience every time. I’m certainly not the unwashed developer type but some of the non IT folk did share some of the points you raised.

The experience was great and I’m trying to do the same at my new job. If anyone has the chance or can convince their managers I’d jump on it immediately.
Interesting, that's not allowed here, in Norway. See http://advokatwulff.no/tvungent-betalingsmiddel/, https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1985-05-24-28/KAPITTEL_3#....
Yes, that is true in a certain sense, but for example, a lot of fingerprinting can happen with information gleaned via javascript. Granted, having javascript turned off is also a way to finger print poeple.

Frankly, most web pages should not be interactive in any way. There is very little gained by using javascript on pages you aren't interacting with, and a whole lot to lose.

I compromise often with NoScript, but it changes the way you think about running code on your computer. Block first, and adjust later is a good approach for me, especially because I only visit a few of the same sites regularly. On new sites, I definitely do not want any type of javascript being run.
Interesting, are you aware if there's research on a trustless way to create a trusted setup? Basically a way to generate these random number without others knowing and to prove they no longer exist?
That's an odd convoluted definition that I've never heard of before.

I think the point the other poster was making is that "far side of the moon" is far more specific, accurate and useful term.
Some kind of extension blocking the images/js from loading?
That won’t help, because it won’t affect most of us anyway. Most Americans don’t even have a passport (there are currently 137 million American passports in circulation), and many of those who do are only using it to drive to Canada or Mexico.
Any invasive species does the same thing to a new environment. Zebra mussels, kudzu vine, etc.
Perhaps then atleast the airports & terminals where these segreations are in place should be allowed to do 'sterile transfers', and new constructions out to be designed with that in mind.

Otherwise asking someone to get a US visa for mere transfer in an airport (as I understand getting a transit visa is as difficult as other types of US visa required to actually visit US, involving the same lengthy process, with personal interviews at the US Consulates, which in big countries like China, India, Russia could be located at the other end of their country), often to the same aircraft is very onerous.

At the very least the transit visa should be a made a visa-on-arrival with a small fees. I sincerely wonder why the US want to hassle people who don't want to, don't intend to set foot on US soil, but merely want to change planes in there.
The sun desalinates almost all the rain that falls to earth everyday from the oceans.
Same. Does image search work for you at all?
I second this. I'm 41 and have seen how privatization has mainly only led to decline in the areas I care about like the environment and workers' rights. Sure we have a good economy currently, but I feel that's in spite of rampant capitalism, not because of it.

As a kid here in Idaho, I remember seeing lots of Monarch butterflies and the others that imitate them. Today I see only moths and smaller white butterflies (we still have some large wood moths in the forests thankfully).

I think the problem is that young people today think that this is how things are supposed to be. They aren't old enough to remember pre-Reagan, or the fellowships, mens/womens groups and even religious volunteer groups of my grandparents' generation - which remembered the dangers of the Great Depression when there was no social safety net, and fascism in WWII.

Just for a poll, does anyone here believe that the free market can provide solutions to the externalities listed in this thread? Please include your age and why.
Looking at some C++ extension proposals, many are definitely a case of "devs gotta dev." Fortunately most of these don't have a chance in hell of making it in.
But you are referring to the task description.
Some more detail / statements from the Board from October RE the document and efforts to combat this (imho rampant) problem:

https://www.fedscoop.com/defense-innovation-board-wants-help...

This was fun to read. I think the charge will be led by a few areas within DoD that have been newly stood up but it doesn't take long for something that works and is shiny to become a best practice especially if it brings money in the budget along.
You know why the EU overregulates? Because EU countries individually overregulate. And you know why that is? Because European people ask for new regulation every single time something goes wrong or might go wrong in the future or is a little bit unfair in some rare cases.

In the UK, we now have a debate about regulating portion sizes of ready meals, because some people are overweight. If you have voters and politicians who will even start to think about regulating this sort of thing, you're bound to end up with massive overregulation.

Sometimes the choice we have is between 28 different ridiculously convoluted and completely unnecessary laws or just one ridiculously convoluted and completely unnecessary law.

Your Unix metaphor is flawed. Countries are not special purpose tools. They don't do different things. They all do largely the same things in slightly different ways. So each country on its own already comes with all the issues that we criticise in monolythic software.
What problems did MongoDB run into? Can you link to any specific instances?
Hopefully it drowns out google results for OpenEdge ABL, formerly known as Progress. Awful 4GL programming language/database (don't ask me how I know).
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Nothing stops "everyone" from using the features which suit library developers.
I’ve heard the term “hard storage” being used more often. When using just “storage” lot of non-tech people get confused by ram or persistent storage.
Given the budgetary/bidding process that funds and contracts government and especially DoD projects, how is an iterative approach even possible? How would the CO know and be comfortable signing off on saying yes, the terms of this contract are being fulfilled?
Wow, that's a "why bother" level of compression. I guess the SNES didn't have a lot of CPU cycles left over to run a decompression algorithm, but even a simple deflate seems like it would have greatly outperformed this custom solution. I guess the big advantage is that this seems to have zero memory overhead.
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