skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at their materials[1], it's IR based and needs calibration. I'm sure it's output is interesting, but likely not super accurate given their started assumptions for the calibration process. Better sensors may be required before drawing any conclusions!

[1]: https://www.netatmo.com/en-gb/helpcenter/air-care/4/installa...
Nobody I know did, I suspect most people outside of the USA would say the same.
Or their investment in SoftBank.

It’s got to be pretty weird to work for or in a WeWork and know what sort of regime you are sustaining.
Disturbing Rise of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
Intuitive everyday logic does
work a bit different

This is true.

Intuitive everyday logic does work a bit different in most people from propositional and first-order logic, in particular with regards to or and implies. For example, most people's or is the exclusive or you mention. But both logics can explain each other. For example, not, and as well as for all is pretty similar in formal and informal logic, and, as you know, those three are a basis for all of (first order) logic.
YouTube: How to keep track of which episodes I already watched?
> We took legal action, they ignored attorney's demand to return our app id. Can't afford to escalate further because we're already few months in debt. We are 100% in the correct side of the law and had full rights. But nothing could be done.

It seems they tried that route but then resorted to DMCA when the money for lawyers ran out.
Thank you - the URL is currently timing out, getting a 404 from google cache and isn't found in archive.org if you give it the url.
CNCF is currently tracking 45 open source projects and closed source products in the monitoring space:

https://landscape.cncf.io/category=monitoring&grouping=categ...
Steam/Valve has a great PR opportunity here. They could pay out all the money to the indie developer and then use their legal might to sue the publisher to recover the stolen funds.
Wouldn't be the first time (see AOL, Yahoo, Pets.com, etc).
if you were able to prepare for the btree stuff, the css stuff will be a joke to learn. that is my point.
I suspect both! I should compare a $250 one with the $20 one
I think we'd have to ask a similar question if CEOs are currently in a CEO pay bubble.
I find nothing in the article that shows 5G is not secure. It is a blatant appeal to increase FCC's power and funding.

Shame on the NYT for publishing unsubstantiated position papers written by a political operator ("By Tom Wheeler, Mr. Wheeler is a former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.") under a misleading headline.
Total med school enrollment is constrained by the number of residencies and supposedly the AMA. Meanwhile, the numbers of grads for other health professionals (Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants) that can fill some of the same roles as doctors has skyrocketed.
(Nice drawing).

Hopefully the assailant only sat up on the bed after our guy tore it open and slid inside the frame. Still, he stayed hours at first, holding the bed 10 centimeters from the ground.
Most services report what they are, and even the server often, when you connect. If you connect to an IP and it's serving a website then I don't know why you'd care that reverse-lookup isn't configured correctly, you're not hiding anything?
>I can see that they don't want to make demands on a service they get for free, when HTTPS isn't even necessary for the use case

you could imagine a situation where https would be optional for APT mirrors. Then the package manager would have a config flag to use any mirror or only https-enabled mirrors (probably enabled by default). This would allow to use https without creating any demands to organizations that host those mirrors - if they can they would enable it, but it would not be required. The https-enabled hosts could also provide plain http for backwards compatibility.
"Ever" is a very long time. But I'd be comfortable saying AGI won't arrive in my lifetime, at least not electronic AGI. Note that I single out electronic AGI here due to both our complete lack of understanding of how to model intelligence, and the prohibitive energy cost of modelling the brain if we did understand how to do so.

OTOH advances in genome understanding could yield e.g. a super smart chimp, or dolphin, something like that. That would also be "artificial" intelligence then, and it would be general, just not electronic.
Not uncommon in most rural areas, from my observation. I see it weekly, more or less.
I don't think anything like the singularity will ever be possible, because the ability to speak language for oneself and invent complex reasoning is spiritual, not merely physical. Humans can do it because we are inherently spiritual beings, a union of body and spirit. (I know most folks here don't subscribe to that assertion... I'm not here to argue it anyway.)

But even if that isn't true, humans are not merely the product of our biology. Each of us has undergone an $age-year period of training, 18 years of which was on someone else's effort and time. I doubt someone is willing to put in that much personal investment to raise a neural net like his/her own child.
This is a great point. They might all be insulin’s, but the “tweaking” the author refers to means real benefits to patients.
I don't really blame them, because I've seen it as part of pretty much every 5g promotional material I've seen.
Except the high salaries won't end given the level of productivity found within the technology industry. Tech companies as it stands today are some of the most profitable companies out there, it's this profit that enables them to further compete for talent and pay people more.

The same highly productive nature per employee is found in virtually every other high paying industry, most of which have not seen the pay for the higher end of those in the industry fall over time.
And if you don’t agree you just don’t understand exponential growth.
or he was on the balcony, facing the building describing the the fire was on his left hand side. Amazing read, amazing he made it out, his training and being calm helped him, luck was a factor as well.
We can set the single setting (Do not track), but websites can ignore it.
I know we live in the app age now but apps don't have many of the properties that SMS and phone calls have, including that they aren't federated and typically disallow alternative clients. Due to this, you can't just use some secure app, but you have to use the app that the people you want to stay in touch with use. For SMSs you have a very wide choice of frontends. I'm already using non-SMS apps but I'd love them to become more like SMSs: federated and with free client choice.

Edited to add: Also, as long as phone calls and SMS are around and used we should strive to work to make them more secure.
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The developer seems to agree, “The law defaults to letting them get away unless you can pay several year worth of salaries and wait several months”. But when you’re out of other options, you do what you can.
Actually, you could not argue. I'm Polish, so I may not know local law very well, but at least here the theory is that a punishment must, amongst others, allow the person to have a hope to come back to society, to remake themselves. This of course unless it is decided the person is unredeemable. So no, you can't argue in both directions. The judge has to pass a judgement that will take this into the account. Having a person be left with billions of dollars in debt that he has no hope to repay in a hundred lifetimes is not acceptable judgement, at least here.
I get your point, but I think you’re overgeneralizing.

(1) the salary / equity combination I’m talking about is not just FAANG, it’s basically every large SF tech company. I don’t work for a FAANG but the deal is almost as good.

(2) I specifically moved with my wife and kids to SF to make it easier for my wife to stop working — she wanted to focus on the kids for a few years. One income here was worth more than double what I could earn in Raleigh and this is the first job I had in my career that offered comprehensive medical for the whole family, not just me.

We live in about the same amount of space as we had in Raleigh, it just costs more.

Lastly, while I would prefer to have a little more space for a less absurd mortgage, I’m not interested in living in any suburb. So when you compare housing in the central city of Raleigh (or Austin) versus SF, the comparison is less unfavorable.

So, sure, if I was willing to live in the suburbs I could have more house. But I’d rather deal with less space than is ideal than have to live in the burbs. No judgment intended, it’s just not the lifestyle I want, in the same way it sounds like city life isn’t the lifestyle you want.
Are We Ready for a Sky Full of Drones? Recent Airport Attacks Say No
Four-legged robots for everybody [slides] [pdf]
+1 on open sourcing the code. If you post it somewhere, we'll take a look to see why the Adam optimizer isn't behaving as expected in your implementation.

It may also be helpful to compare your code with the Fashion MNIST Colab example here:
https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/tpu/blob...
"What if the asshole dies and you're still estranged?" Such a question reveals an ignorance of how toxic people can be. And in my book, blood relations doesn't get you a get-out-of-jail-free card for being an asshole. My family has assholes, leeches, the works. Quite a few I get along with, quite a few I can go to my grave having never spoken to them again and have not one regret for having eliminated stress and conflict from my life.

Not that I've willfully cut anyone out of my life. I do have one sister that stomped off mad one day, never to return. Good riddance, and contrary to whatever fantasies you might harbor, you will not be missed, Sis. The rest I just don't go out of my way to contact. I'd pick up the phone if any of them called. Hell, my estranged sister could call and I'd pick up. But I'm not going out of my way to add difficulty to my life.

So maybe I'm a sociopath, or maybe I'm more enlightened, you choose. But I just don't get this putting up with shit just because "we're family!".
I always felt that Kurzweil’s timelines were too optimistic not only because technology may not evolve so fast, but also because it fails to account for the delays that government regulation imposes. So many of the vaunted leaps in medical technology, for example, are going to require years and years of testing before they get approval for use. Other whizbang technology of the future might be prohibited from the consumer market because governments see it as too dangerous.
What does multi-dimensional even mean, in the context of intelligence? Sounds like a buzz word.
Not if he eats any more pills
Gell-Mann has to do with the contagiousness of poor logic, not the fact that there are stories you like and stories you don't.
This is a tough question to answer. What constitutes "back end" has changed significantly over the last 5-10 years - an Amazon AWS infrastructure engineer does vastly different day to day work from a small startup engineer.

For you specifically, I'd recommend picking up a web development framework like Ruby on Rails. It will teach you every aspect of building websites: Interacting with databases, writing server endpoints, creating front end web pages, user authentication, deployment, and probably version control. I would consider all of these things to be the bread and butter of typical "back end" engineers (except for maybe the front end stuff.)

From there, you can broaden your knowledge in any direction that interests you. If you like building interactive applications, you can look into front end frameworks like React or Vue. If you want to focus more on back end, you can learn more about relational databases (Head First SQL is a great beginner resource.) Lots of directions you can go.
You missed last week - available housing stock has started to grow.
He did this to physically shield himself from random shrapnel. His purpose in opening the balcony door was to give the impression that somebody may have egressed.

This is taught in tradecraft courses, and this mention along with others in the article suggests to me that he's been through some tradecraft and/or SERE-type trainings -- probably oriented towards journalists.
Install an air exchanger. Panasonic makes some that are reasonably priced.
I very clearly pointed out that no QC researcher has created, for example:

1) An actually error corrected qubit

2) A quantum factorization of the number 15

You can set yourself artificial goalposts of "hey my entanglement lasted a little longer on architecture X this year, therefore Moore's law means it is inevitable" -but you still can't factor the number 15. Please factor the number 15. No "pre compilation" where you leave out the number of gates needed to get the answer -just factor the number. Show me this, and then I will proceed to make fun of the idea that you can factor, say, a 3 digit decimal number. This is the only demonstrated interesting use case for QC, and the only reason anyone is funding the topic.

Yes, yes, "modeling quantum systems" -OK, go model an interesting quantum system for me.
Can't Debian devs just hookup their own server as a CA? No need to trust anyone outside the Debian universe.

In fact, is the FOSS community running it's own trust network still, it used to be a thing at LUGs.
Insulin demand is apparently increasing at quite a rate[0]

It's plausible that that could contribute significantly to price increases. Not, to be clear, that I'm defending that or the actions described in the NYT article.

[0] https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-diabetes-insulin/mi...
Right, and a guy who was a prince/princess one day isn’t going to be unblocking toilets the next day...
Ask HN: How does slow internet impact your work?
For those who don't have access to high-speed internet (<5mbps up/down) - how has this impacted your work?

With modern package managers (npm, pip, etc), docker images, etc - it can take significant time to download dependencies. I currently have a fiber internet connection (>300mbps), but there's a chance I'll move to a rural area with slow internet (<5-7mbps).

For reference, i use docker/ruby/go/js professionally so that requires frequent downloads, updates to packages. Everything is of course collaborated on via git.

TLDR;

- How do you manage the constant upload/download of software development with slow internet?

- Do you have any tips/tricks for managing dependencies with slow internet?

- Do you ever manage days at a time without internet access?

Thanks all!
$50k in Poland? Not bad!

This is from payscale.com:

Average Mid-Career Software Developer Salary in Stockholm $61,262
> It was 4G that gave us the smartphone

I remember using my trusty BlackBerry back with 2G. The first iPhone launched with just 2G. If you want to talk about the general rise of the smartphone, then it would be about 3G.
I don't see it as any different than "Massive 8GB of RAM, but willy nilly allocates JS objects all over (with a GC!)". I always thought the main point of having increasing specs is to have the luxury of not needing to obsess over every byte, or pixel.

Nobody except Chuck Moore pushes every piece of hardware to 100% of its capacity at all times. It's always easier to get beefier hardware than to be perfectly strict at all times.
It's a hotel in Afghanistan, a country presently immersed in turmoil.
Netflix adds 8.8M subscribers as its stock falls over spending fears
It's trivial for New York Times articles. Your link is about advertisements disguised as news (which are illegal where I live).
Raising a kid without having to change diapers sounds pretty cool.
Journalists who know their stuff can make good money running a topical blog / journal. See Stratechery as an example.
>It should be assumed that any step that requires manual intervention will be skipped by most people.

Indeed.

1. If you don't care about security, it still doesn't hurt to have HTTPS. Think of it as "extra" that you get for free.

2. If you care about security, you might still don't have the know-how to make sure everything is secure and don't have time to get into it as you're trying to get things done.

3. Even if you care about security AND have the know-how, you might still forget. Nobody's perfect. So it's good that the HTTPS is there.
Ray Kurzweil's brain has already been backed up in the Google Cloud Platform. Everyone claiming he's running out of time is just wrong!
I think it's even worse: the big problem with elastic tabstops is that you can't just adopt them on your own. You are requiring everyone who reads your code to use them if they want to see it formatted properly.

Proportional fonts are different. Anyone can use them without interfering with readability regardless of the fonts and editors that others use. If you look at my code, you will never know whether I wrote it in a proportional font or a monospaced font.
It had already been attacked and was full of international guests. In the capital city. 4-5 guys should not be able to take complete control of the hotel with no heavy weaponry. That means security is deficient or non-existent.
Counterpoint:
"Hey Siri, lock my phone."
"Playing 'Locked Out of Heaven' by Bruno Mars..."
Related side question: does anyone know when and if we would see CO2 levels in the atmosphere of around 2000-3000 ppm because of all the fossil fuels we burn (which I understand is a level that is not optimal for us)? I’m asking for a friend...
I suspect human intelligence is more than just computations in the brain. A lot of computation I assume most occur 'outside' of the brain in the gut via hormones and protein signalling. I have doubts that you can replicate human intelligence without replicating human biology.
I'm just jealous you had a grandma who watched Star Trek!
California is a fairly unique place, even in the U.S. Despite the costs of living there, it continues to attract talent and investment. The job market there is very fluid, as you can work for a competitor or start your own competitor, due to not allowing non-compete clauses to be enforced.

I don't know the laws in Sweden, but unless they have an environment similar to California the tech industry is not going to be as strong.

That said, at least for me in the U.S., the biggest bump in pay has always been from finding a new job offer.
That link claims that ALLCAPS tend to be read letter by letter.

I find that claim to be completely false, as I am learning to read text written in Cyrillic alphabet, when I do actually read the words letter by letter and I even get surprised when I finish reading a word.

In contrast, I can read text in all caps at about the same speed as lower case text. If there's any slowdown, I say I read all caps at 95% of the speed I read text in lowercase.

Later the same page says this: "all-capital text was read 11.8 percent slower than lower case, or approximately 38 words per minute slower".

In that case that later claim completely contradicts the former claim of letter by letter reading, which is IMO about five times slower, not just a few percent points slower.

In any case, ALL CAPS text is perfectly legible, and it is actually more legible than using something like cursive, including lowercase cursive.
One problem is that the public "sales pitch" for a new tax is almost always a lie when compared to what the money is actually spent on and loopholes and exemptions that are never disclosed up front. Nobody believes that a carbon tax will achieve or change anything other than taking more of their money.
Neural nets don’t vote Trump, so guess again.
The usual ratio for top flight talent in the finance industry is 10:1. A trader makes JPMorganStanleyofAmerica $5m, they get $500k compensation. That seems reasonable because there’s a direct line between talent and profit. Even so someone had to build the business, capitalise it, create the business opportunities and relationships, train and support the trader and assume all of the risk.

How much of the business risk of the enterprise is your top flight programmer assuming? Are her decisions the only ones that make any difference to the increase in profitability as a result of her work? How direct is the line between back room engineer, no matter how good and profit?

The only case where 50% or near it makes sense is for a founder owner who is also the lead talent. Maybe. Because then they are also creating the business opportunity and assuming a big chunk of the risk.
But if something is spiritual, there must be some way for it to interact with the physical world, otherwise you would not know about it. Then that way can be measured, which makes it physical...

Unless you are calling spiritual those things that can't be measured, yet?
I only see them on Fira Code, Hasklig. Oh, Monoid too.

For ligature fans: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/MonospacedProgrammingFontsWit...
My first thought was maybe silicon carbide, since it can be made with readily available silicon and carbon. But there are other caramics which have much higher melting points. Who wants a little hafnium carbide at 3958 C haha:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-temperature_ceramic...

I'm having trouble finding infrared conductivities:

https://global.kyocera.com/fcworld/charact/heat/thermalcond....

So looks like aluminum nitride might be best (first made in 1877 so we have the technology!) with a melting point of 2200 C:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_nitride

Portland cement (the basic ingredient of concrete) is made at 1450 C:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_cement#Manufacturing

And looks like any aluminum from the crucible wouldn't contaminate the concrete. Not sure about the nitrogen, but since the air is nitrogen/oxygen, it should be ok:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3130/jaabe.10.217

But I think it's important to flip the problem on its head. Since solar thermal energy is essentially free after the solar furnace is manufactured, then we might as well scale it up to provide 2-10x more heat than we need, and then choose a ceramic with the material properties we want, even if its thermal conductivity isn't as efficient as we'd like.

Keep in mind that any heat we get from this will be roughly 4 times cheaper than from photovoltaics (running at 25% efficiency) since we avoid the light->electricity->heat conversions.
AFAIK active consent is required. Not clicking a button is not active consent.
If I remember correctly, the reason they're not profitable is that their budget is regularly requisitioned to pay for political boondoggles not really related to the metro service at all.

It's not that public transport is a bad idea, it's that assholes will be assholes, and the public purse is annoyingly easy to spend on obvious bullshit and political bacon. I wonder if there's a way to structure these things so they're more resistant to these shenanigans.
In German, the words for "secure" and "safe" are the same. 5G being safe doesn't sound too far from 5G being healthy.
MongoDB didn't become a public company through innovations in fundamental distributed database technology or even through good engineering. They became a public company because once Javascript became adequate for building client software, there was a strong incentive to build MVPs using the same data structures from client to server to DB, and once you build an MVP that gets adoption there's a strong incentive not to switch databases.

That's the sort of shift in the environment that the grandparent is talking about. Fundamental CS tech was arguably better in the 1970s and 1980s, because it moved more slowly and you had time to get the details right. That doesn't matter if you're building say a mobile Ethereum wallet in 2018, because you're building for the user expectations of today, they don't care about data integrity or security as long as it doesn't fail during the period where they're deciding which tech to use, and software that solves the problem (poorly) now is better than software that doesn't exist.