skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't have much time to backstab you. Once there are several civilizations cooperating, the backstabber is up against everybody else.

Cooperation means you trade your minimal chance of winning a winner-takes-it-all game for the risk of meeting a player who doesn't understand that cooperation is the best move. Given that the other players are space-exploring civilization, I would say that they at least give us the chance to cooperate.

The problem may be that it's not them being evil but us being unable to cooperate.
Arch Linux is based on a rolling update, so my understanding is that you shouldn't have to jump to FreeBSD (nice as it is in some ways) to avoid a release-based upgrade.

I've only been using it for a little while on a couple systems, but seems nice enough. (Mint or regular Debian for years otherwise.)
How does the GDPR force any of that?

Anyway, that's whataboutism.
If the non-profit has a known affiliate code, adding it to any random Amazon item should be sufficient.

There is also AmazonSmile, although I am not 100% sure whether affiliate links still generate revenue when using a Smile link.
m$, _$

not expecting code like this in 2019
> By that logic, we shouldn't bother securing wifi APs because everything's encrypted at the application layer anyways.

Sure. Why not? I do banking and I read my email on public, untrusted networks like airport and hotel wifi, Starbucks and the internet.

I see not problem with that.
Those were his words.

These were his deeds :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosendo_Rodriguez
It matters tremendously. Think about the economics of bird flight vs. plane flight. Why is it that flight has been around for almost 100 years now and yet we still aren't flying everywhere? The reality is we can always come up with subpar ways of doing things, but there's a reason birds have evolved as they are today that we just can't replicate ourselves. We mastered long haul rapid flights, but bird flight generalizes much better. They might be slower in long haul, but they are much better and short haul and medium haul and have evolved to work in groups to make long haul possible. So yes, analogously we can create intelligence in a different way, which we are, but it likely won't generalize as well.
Let's face it, the tech industry is is not renowned for a lack of hubris.
TLDR: because their legal documents were in order, but judged too complex.

Which was apparently worth violating the rights of the defense too (Google Europe is located in Ireland, and therefore under EU law needs to be sued in Ireland. Can we do this to everyone now ?) (not that there was any court case or defense done at all, again a fantastic precedent)
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"Why not move the weather station to the bedroom for a couple of nights?"

which he did, not too far further into the article?
Hey y'all. (At least in USA) ask for a provision awarding attorneys fees and costs to prevailing party in the event of a dispute over major contracts.

Disputes happen less frequently, go faster, settle more often, and are easier to fund if necessary.

Suspect parties that won't sign it (or at least discuss their reasons).
Still, anyone can read the metadata. Perhaps we should address that problem too, somehow.
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Personally I'm a fan of the dotted zero since it looks clean and doesn't get confused with an O or an Ø. I guess it could get confused with a theta but how often does that show up in variable names?
But it did make all the naturally occurring elements heavier than iron with a similar process.
You don't necessarily need to meet them head-on & emerge victorious, just delay them long enough for backup to arrive and/or deter them, again by showing that you will delay them.
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Interesting. It really look nicer
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High-Fidelity Streaming Is the Audio Revolution Your Ears Have Waited For
Went looking for devices for the bedroom, but ran into an article about plants that might help in that setting:

https://thewgnews.com/planting-hope-air-cleaning-house-plant...
What level was it at when you started noticing those effects? And how did you measure productivity?

I have a sensor and try to keep readings low. My girlfriend isn't quite convinced though, especially in winter....
Yes, but each "trial" exists in a simulation that is many orders of magnitude less complex than the one evolution used over billions of years. The result is that the knowledge learned from each trial is many orders of magnitude less useful.
> It is hard to know where to direct my rage. Should I be furious at the drug manufacturers that refuse to develop generics? Should I be angry at the P.B.M.s and insurance companies that juggle prices and formularies to maximize profits, passing along huge co-payments if they don’t get a good enough deal? Should I be indignant at our elected officials who seem content to let our health care system be run by for-profit entities that will always put money before patients?

> The answer is all of the above. But what’s most enraging is that drug manufacturers, P.B.M.s and insurance companies don’t have to pick up the pieces from the real-world consequences of their policies. That falls to the patients.

I think this is an important and balanced quote. Often in the public debate, drug pricing and access, which are two separate concepts, are conflated. A drug can be priced fairly but be inaccessible to patients because insurance companies and PBMs want to hold costs down. This often happens with drugs that treat lots of people. Because of the high volume, insurers will have massive expense for covering a drug, even at fair (i.e. Cost effective) prices. So they fight tooth and nail (often using the media as a weapon) to reduce price. Drug manufacturers won't lower price (often bc they will lose money if they do), so insurers deny

An example of this is CAR-T therapies. Cost effectiveness research shows that cost per QALY is within acceptable ranges but payers make it hard to get the drug. I think the same was true of the curative hep c drugs but don't recall the cost-benefit analyses. These drugs were incredibly effective and many people would benefit from them, so payers saw a huge potential expense and denied care until competitors emerged

In some cases though, pricing is the bigger issue. This often happens with established drugs where manufacturers increase prices, or drugs with limited competition.

Insulin is an example where both pricing and access are not great, i.e. PBMs / insurers and manufacturers are probably equally at fault

Drug pricing and access is a complex and highly competitive negotiation between manufacturers and payers and the media is a powerful weapon used in this negotiation. Lots of lobbying done as well. And there are many behind the scenes players with a stake in the debate (i.e. Hospitals wanting the public to blame drug companies for high healthcare costs). This seems like a balanced article to me, but take articles about healthcare with a healthy dose of skepticism
Drama free? Have you found drama in IRC channels before?
The horse's mouth: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2018/12/msg00032.htm...

Downvoters: If you're honest, then do your homework instead of downvoting. If you're dishonest, and you're trying to cover it up, shame on you--you're as bad as the abusers in Debian.
Current ML algorithms have been worked on for decades earlier. They are gaining momentum again due to big data and computing power.
Not really, I rather be paid less but work remote and have more freedom with my time and where I work.
You are talking about s-curves, if I understand it correctly.

Few notes: first, exponential growth does not necessary mean fast growth, some of the technologies can still be in early phase or depend on some future advances (compare time for tv to capture the world vs smartphones)

Second, the decline of exponential growth of a technology does not mean it can't be replaced with a nother technology with better prospects (i.e gas cars vs electric cars, etc).

I would argue if that you zoom out for a bigger picture, technology as a whole does show traces of exponential growth.
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Less. Closer to 10%
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Those scrub the air of pollutants. No way they lower co2 sufficiently though. Plants reduce co2 by growing. Which they do....slowly. By contrast a human will spike the air in a room quickly by breathing.
I'll explain it all much much easier. In India, there are very few jobs that pay money. Coding is usually the only thing one who becomes a coder, could do. Alternative is back to work in the fields for food at best. So it doesn't attract people who would be best coders, but just most greedy and socially competitive ones (and in any Indian collective office politics are super complicated and elaborate, any Westerner gets pushed out quickly because we are simply no match for them in politics).

That should be the case in any poor country. If you want 'coders by passion', people should have a choice of passions, each of them making comparable money. Otherwise complaining is like complaining that arranged marriage where you either marry who you told to marry to or go f..k yourself, lacks love and passion. It was simply never meant to be otherwise.

This is why coders from rich countries tend to be better. And even in Russia, coders from Moscow are better than provincial ones, for the same reason: working on Upwork from a poor provincial town is your only way out of poverty so if you stand any chance, you grind your way up there whatever it takes, and doing same from Moscow is one of the many options to make comparable money so you do it only if you love coding.
there is no proof that this is true in general, so it is worth trying to find 1) an inefficient way in order to 2) postulate an efficient way...

for example, overlay onion routing, size blurring by appending random length random bits,... with oblivious transfer even the APT-server does not know what you downloaded (but that would require a large amount of information..., nevertheless oblivious transfer might still be a useful tool when used as a primitive, perhaps just to send a list of bootstrap addresses for p2p hosting of the signed files etc...)
The extension is the equivalent of Githubinator from Sublime. It solves the use case of quickly answering questions from your team mates about where is a piece of code - copy the URL from your IDE and share it with them.
You are right. I guess I took my assumption from the Waymo cars which have only one sensor on top of the car (or so it seems).
"I believed in ... for ... years" is not an argument, it provides no facts, it serves as a tool to psychologically influence the reader.
Ask HN: RPi Cluster or a Dual Xeon? (How to compare Arm to Intel?)
I have a text processing project (and I asked a few questions about this here already). It's currently Bash, GNU Parallel and other command-line tools. It's getting moved to a C++ queue type design.

I'm trying to decide on an 8 node Raspberry Pi 3B+ cluster (about $500) or buying a used Dual Xeon (12 core) desktop (about $800, HP Z820).

The RPi cluster will help ensure my code scales well. However, I don't quite know how speeds compare.

8 RPi's x 4 cores each = 32 cores
2 x Xeon (12 cores) = 24 cores.

The RPI's are 1.4GHz 64-bit quad-core ARMv8 CPU, 1 GB RAM.

The dual Xeon is 2.5ghz each, 64gb RAM.

How can I accurately think about the cores and speeds of each to decide what to do? This project will get larger within the next year and there will be more files to parse, manipulate, etc.

Edit: typos

Edit 2: typos

Edit 3: clarify RAM Z820 comes with

Edit 4: formatting
You're responding to someone mentioning AlphaGo, surely you've heard of AlphaZero. A trained NN can be good at several things.

Creative insight or intuitiveness… What are those exactly? Intuitiveness is so vague of a concept I feel it could accurately describe how some NN behave on the surface, if you didn't know how they are implemented. Intuitiveness in humans is just hidden layers.

Corollary: if you had perfect knowledge of how the human brain work you wouldn't find it so magical and it wouldn't feel so out of reach to replicate its high level emergences.
Thanks, I had forgotten about those.
This thread is going to quickly devolve into the pro-type safety vs. the pro-flexibility camps. Look, if you looooove declaring types and somehow thinks this reduces bugs, great. If you just want to focus on the logic of your app and don't feel like managing the minutia of how the computer stores a number or string, great.

But if you want to declare one is fundamentally or empirically better, then you need to get a grip. We can all like different things, it's allowed.

The one core thing I'd like to stress, however, is that TS is not JS. If you use TypeScript, you are not using JavaScript. They are cousins, sure, or maybe uncle and niece, but they are not the same.
> Simply put, editorial and opinion sections are supposed to be like that. It's not an error; it's by design, and it's a design that has existed for as long as editorial and opinion sections have existed.

There's a difference between cherry picking stories to support a narrative, and bending the truth. The NYT is engaging in the latter.
A bit off topic but out of curiosity how does this playout? Was there a period of time (in recent history) where Saudi scholars were seen as preeminent in Muslim thought and now they aren't? What kind of impact does that scholarship have? Is it something that would have been read by Imam's and then subsequently disseminated to adherents or is it part of most Muslims religious practice to stay engaged with the scholarship?
Depends entirely on what replication goals you have setup. My simple cluster (not EC or XOR) mandates 2 copies per chunk at a minimum. My 1-byte file was unaffected by a single chunk corruption, even on the node in which the corruption originated.
You'd need hundreds of houseplants to mitigate the co2 created by one person completely, I am not sure if a few would be better than nothing.
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We are born with pre-programmed information about the structure of our environment, IE instincts. Why should an AI be held to higher standards?
Ask HN: What's the state of the art on data mapping?
It seems like a big part of software development involves transforming data between different structures and formats while preserving the meaning:

- XML -> JSON
- RDF/XML -> JSON-LD
- JSON -> HTML (rendering)
- HTML -> JSON (scraping)
- Relational DB -> Objects (ORM)
- FOAF -> Schema.org (ontology mapping)
- Photoshop -> Sketch
- Imperial -> Metric
- JPG -> PNG
- REST -> GraphQL (proxy)
- French -> English (translation)
- TypeScript -> JavaScript (compiling)
- XSL -> XSLX (upgrade)
- Model -> ViewModel

It seems like for every new pair of data, we reinvent new tools and techniques from scratch. The best ideas in one domain have to be rediscovered in another. Manual effort is required to find the right conversion tool and execute the conversion. Data integration is a nightmare, and costs companies millions of dollar. Consumers are stuck in data silos and proprietary formats, and can't move their data out.

Don't we have some general theory on data mapping, that we could use to formally map between all these different structures and format, and automate the whole conversion process? Something along the lines of semantic mapping or parsing expression grammar?
Kind of makes me wonder if they paid to be there since

1. Whatsapp is competition for google

2. Doesn't seem what people would be wanting to find when they search for web.
the only thing the author neglected is forcing you to read it because he has.
It’s also the first fine to be handed out after the GDPR came into effect (the other fines on the page are for infractions discovered before May 2017). Which is one of the reasons the GDPR was passed: previous laws had much less teeth when it came to fines.
> Let's also consider the social advantage of those who do imbibe with those who don't in regards to building relationships with superiors at your job.

why not consider the social advantage of having other hobbies/interests in common with superiors? at one internship I had, one of the senior VPs would routinely come into our room to talk to my mentor about good places to go hiking over the weekend. as far as I could tell, they otherwise had no real reason to interact at work. does this unfairly exclude people like me who aren't outdoorsy types? do we need to do something about it?
That doesn't mean they are regulated enough.
Do these need to be a whole house system or can they be installed just in one room?
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> inches upward

I wish it inched upward... So much software now-days is bloated crap.
In a child/parent relationship those very issues could be due to the parent. However, there are just some people who are toxic and the estrangement is fully warranted.

I'm a bit confused by your government rant - why would that bear into wanting to get away from a toxic parent? Or are you saying because the government could possibly do that they shouldn't, as family should be the more important safety net, even if that family is toxic?
> but have a hard time believing that can be done via computers.

Much of the skepticism isn't about whether this can be done in theory. It's about "how close" we are given the current state of the art (beating Go, chess, deep NN, etc).

One can be (I am) simultaneously blown away by these accomplishments and believe that we have hardly scratched the surface of AGI.

And while this isn't necessarily a deal breaker for AGI, it's not encouraging that we still understand close to nothing about consciousness.
They may have been high. The Taliban is known to have given suicide bombers drugs before sending them to their deaths.
Agreed, and the games industry may be the clearest example of this. In 1985 the developers had to actually ship a finished game, there wasn't the opportunity to release a half-finished product and update it later. Compare to Fallout 76, which was very clearly unfinished at launch.

Edit:typo
Client-server distinction.

It sounds easy ("derp, back-end is server, front-end is client") but it's really quite a mind bender when you think about it. Take a given piece of website code in a given language. Where is it being executed? Some "front-end" techs (Node, Webpack, Uglify, etc.) will be executed invisibly on the server. Some "back-end" web techs (cookies, redirects, OPTIONS requests, TLS) enable some invisible client behavior. Some (PHP) are dual-purpose, executed in two stages, some (conditional comments) are hacks that exploit this duality. Some (OAuth2) are orchestrated dances between back-end and front-end. It's really not so simple when you think about it.
I realize without context it is impossible to tell but I’m intending to mock the “you just don’t understand exponential growth” position I’ve been battered with. (by Kurzweil but more often his acolytes)
> Let's also consider the social advantage of those who do imbibe with those who don't in regards to building relationships with superiors at your job.

Ok, but that "advantage", or lack thereof, is not exclusionary only to non-white, non-males, which was a fundamental premise of the article.

You're shifting gears between:

"alcohol is evidence of, and further exacerbates, a diversity/inclusion issue stemming from a heavy bias towards white males"

to:

"alcohol is bad for the workplace, regardless of context, because it is exclusionary and leads to problems and implicit/explicit social and health consequences"

This post carries a similar theme to many before it: tech worker(who maybe or maybe not drank in a work-context in the past) gets "woke" about it and decrees that it's bad.

The line I quoted from your recent comment alludes to what I think is what most of these articles are truly railing against:

the implicit, unstated social hierarchies that are created in a given workplace, and the advantages they offer to their members in terms of choice project assignment, progression, recognition, and overall career satisfaction.

Guess what? Remove drinking from the workplace, and the exact same thing will happen anyways. It may not form around drinking. Or, in all likelihood, it still will, just unofficially after-hours, which is likely to be even more exclusionary, because there will be no impetuous for forced inclusion.

We as a species have been building complex social hierarchies for most of our history. That will always select for individuals who are more "social" versus ones who are not.
I googled 'running breathing nose or mouth' and read articles on first page, and general consensus is that you can't take enough oxygen during intensive exercises by inhaling through nose only..
There is some of that, certainly, but you can misapply any solution and perform poorly using any tool or personality.

For your information I find the new breed and k8s FUD
to be more of a reaction rather than an educated, seamless
and practical systems approach.
Indoor air is 1000+ in most places that don't actively ventilate. The higher outside air is, the less effective ventilation will be.
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Granted, the other way of looking at it has been the fact that we've managed to devise a system that has managed to be stable enough that investment yields consistent growth over any 10 year period (including the Great Depression, and the more recent "great recession"). The extraordinary measures needed to prop up banks in the late 2000s was not really all that large of a catastrophe. How many other economic systems can claim the same?
Mint on my Lenovo P51 has been brilliant. There were basically zero issues to get everything working like sound, sleep/resume and network (common sticky spots). Being a ThinkPad, there were also some utilities to do more specific things like power management to only charge to 80%; mine's usually plugged in, this is supposed to help battery life.

I can still dual-boot to the Win10 it came with, but it's been a month or two between typically.
Self experiments like these are a great re-enforcement of how insanely hard it is to do accurate, reproducible science. This submission tells us absolutely nothing due to the lack of rigor applied.

SO many potential confounding variables, there is zero value in what is being done here.
Space travel

Edit:
Actually just anything involving astronomy
You can still fwd to 5*256 people. Not sure about the effectiveness of this limit.
Citation needed. I just checked accounts.google.com > privacy settings and it seemed reasonable. I think having links for details made it much more clear than dumping everything together.
what applications, exactly, are waiting in the wings for more mobile bandwidth? i can already stream video in both directions...

i think i'd prefer more innovation in terms of security and privacy rather than more bandwidth that nobody really knows what to do with...
If Google - who commands a practically infinite legal, and engineering budget - cannot comply with this vague law then nobody can.
Ask HN: Companies offering Summer Intern Programs for international students?
Technical internship programs in Software Engineering and data science.
Did anybody have any luck getting Viewpoint to boot under Mono on Linux? Followed the instructions (set clock back to nov 1990, etc.) and loaded the Viewpoint image and after diagnostics it just flashes MP codes 7 and 323 over and over again.

Interlisp booted and worked, though.

EDIT: was able to get the Viewpoint image to boot by selecting 'Alternate Boot' "Rigid"