skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. There are many ways plants and even animals reproduce that result in genetically identical offspring and this is generally referred to as cloning.

For bacteria this is usually the normal way of reproducing but it happens in animals like famously sharks. But it happens in chickens, turkeys, reptiles, snakes.

There's also a cool intermediate form, like with plants. Trees and flowers are of course famously both male and female, but usually require sex to reproduce (sex in the sense of contact between male and female reproductive organs, through insects mostly)

There's even controversy because the list of animals that haven't been caught cloning themselves has been growing shorter and shorter over the past 30 years. But of course as soon as anyone points out "given this long list of animals where females can clone themselves, isn't it pretty likely humans do this as well, on occasion", everyone loses their minds (and no, the Jesus argument makes no sense: of course a natural clone is always female).
I don't think that's a charitable reading; where's the factually incorrect generalization? To be clear, this reads more like critical theory than science, as such the conventions and rules of science do not apply. Similarly, rigor in argumentation in critical theory (and some philosophy) often takes a back seat to communication of exploratory ideas like these. At any rate, the assertion you point out isn't the main object of the paper, but it makes enough sense to hold: we live in a society "that presents itself as an immense accumulation of" commodities, and what can be commodified will be commodified.

How do we interpret that claim? I'd argue not necessarily in an empirical sense, since to do so would assume we have tools to measure every phenomenon, and we can't fall prey to operationalism either, which has taken over the social sciences.
This assumes all SPAs would ignore unknown parameters they see in the fragment part. Even if the SPA itself doesn't use "targetText", it could still try to validate the fragment and abort with errors on unknown data present.

Also, this would require the "targetText" parameter to live peacefully alongside other parameters. (That in turn would require there were a standard definition of "parameter" inside the fragment at all)

E.g, if Chrome encounters an url with an existing fragment, it would somehow have to combine this with its own targetText parameter and hope the SPA still understands the combined fragment.
There are positives if you live on an ice-clad mountain, or a country that's mostly ice-clad mountains.

There aren't many if you live in a river delta, or a country that's mostly river-delta.

8.5m people live in Switzerland, 165m in Bangladesh, to pick two examples.
MMM yes not sure I believe you Ireland succeeded because it had an educated English language work force who would prefer to go to England to work. Plus massive tax subsidies' that screwed over their eu partners whist still collecting eu investment as a depressed area.
Time doesn't exist therefore you can't travel in it.
“Why did Joseph marry a 14 year old girl?”

Ex-Muslims can do similar thing with "Why did Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) marry a 6 year old girl?"
Did we prove that early birds vs night owls exists on a biological level ?

As in, after taking into account individual habits / conditions: coffee, alcohol consumption, quality of sleep (noise/light in the room), physical activity, stress level, usage of artificial light before bed, &c.

If I strap a 10000 lumen blue light in front of your face every single night until 2 AM for a few weeks I guarantee you'll turn into a night owl by the article definition (shifted melatonin and cortisol production cycles).

They kind of make this point themselves: "genes can even shift a person’s natural waking time by up to 25 minutes." and in the linked article "the mean sleep timing of the 5% of individuals carrying the most morningness alleles is 25 min earlier than the 5% carrying the fewest.".

If genes only account for up to 25 min then the rest might come to personal routines and behaviours.
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Next headline "America Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Chinese, Chinese Report Says"
There was a strange and mutually self-supporting pair of ideas in the Plan 9 community at the time:

1) "Shared libraries are bogus."

2) "Anyone who likes normal-looking user interfaces rather than plain boxes with text in them is a poopipants."

Both of these propositions are contentious to say the least, but what bothered me was that two propositions were mutually supporting while being (to my mind) orthogonal. The obvious and most compelling example of a shared library on the Unixen at the time were all the various UI libraries (Motif and various other abominations; all of them huge and unwieldy). It seemed necessary to accept that these libraries were obviously Completely Unnecessary to buy into the Plan 9 idea that shared libraries didn't do anything worth mentioning.

I'm sure it's possible to design a better UI library (or maybe even a wacky user level file system for user interfaces; in fact, my honours project in 1993!) but at the time the way people made interfaces that looked vaguely like what other people expected computer programs to look like was to use big-ass shared libraries on Linux.

This was also the way (dragging in one of those godawful blobs like Motif etc) that anyone might have exerted themselves to port across a (not completely pitiful) web browser, but the degree of aggressive disinterest in supporting Other Peoples Code was extreme (Howard Trickey's "ANSI POSIX Environment" or "APE" didn't get much love as far as I could tell).

It was quite undignified to watch people struggling with text-based web browsers or firing them up on non-P9 boxes because of the inability to support the web at the time.
> For example, I don’t watch TV. I don’t commute. I am currently not in a relationship. These were all active choices.

Ok so you don't need to quit your job, but you have to end your relationship. I do find this questionable.
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Which makes this whole episode so bizarre - they suddenly changed their mind on the value of having a HQ2 (and 25k jobs in a HQ) completely, after such a long and public buildup? Something is fishy here.
Gun control. Simple. Don't worry about the robots, worry about the guns.
But wouldn't they expend more energy moving the water up the mountain than what it will generate? Second law of thermodynamics and all, I don't see how you can give water the same potential energy it had before it flowed through the turbines.
NY made the offer to Amazon. If citizens of NY don't want their government to be able to bargain with a business or organization on an individual level then they should take that power away from government.
We've had lethal robots for decades. They were called rockets.

The only thing that changed is - now everybody can make it's own lethal robot.

I don't see why guns/explosives on robots should be treated differently than explosives/guns without robots.
I don't understand. Because you can't do a couple of things, it's not production ready?

What about programming your remote from your desktop without having to install programs and drivers? And the producer not having to develop software for various operating systems? (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Linux...).

Think about timer switches. Setting up the timers with your phone is easier than on the switch itself. And it's probably cheaper to produce.

It's just too bad Apple has turned from an early adopter to a slow follower regarding Web API's which makes it harder for manufacturers to go the Web Bluetooth route.
Currently reading a great book on this topic:

https://www.amazon.com/Army-None-Autonomous-Weapons-Future-e...
good news for UX
IANAL but does it matter whether it can be enforced or not? There are plenty of types of crimes that cannot be easily detected or prevented and are indeed committed at high rates. But they are still forbidden and should remain so.
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Dear Medium developers, let me summarize my experience with Medium in one image:

https://i.imgur.com/E0MYinp.png

To blog writers, please reconsider hosting your blog on Medium.
Yes I thought it was "machine" politics at work looking at it from the outside.

That's machine in the American political sense BTW
What's New in Kotlin 1.3?
I don't know if it's just me but what I noticed right away in those screenshots is that the older Windows 3.1 interface is much easier on the eye that the modern one. You can easily tell what's clickable and what's not, the contrast is good, the fonts and colors are consistent. All that while using a fraction of the resources.
There's a big difference between a jerry-rigged bomb strapped to a quadcopter and a purpose-built killbot produced by a nation state. Strong international sanctions against warbots are a good idea, even if it won't prevent every terrorist from making their own low-rent version.
When people leave
> What is stopping twitter clones from popping up?

Networks effects.

More precisely, The fact that you can't read and reply to someone's tweets on a clone, due to Twitter's terms and conditions, and copyright law (enforced by states).
The Wisconsin Foxconn saga should teach us all to be highly skeptical of the claims that companies make when seeking these types of subsidies: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-06/inside-wi...

Analyses of the Amazon-NYC story should factor in the probability that the 25,000 promised jobs would never have fully materialized.
Or almost as if you move away from friends and family. The human condition.
The bottom one looks prettier, yes. Does it also take into account all the problems the first one does?
Or "America Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans".

Oh wait https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/08/07/6360262...
Too many debates I read online today assume that the city was going to hand Amazon a $3b check. Some sort of misunderstanding of how taxes/tax subsidies work.
Fair enough, although it is the case if the host OS is different then the container, VM would be a better name then I guess.

So maybe not kernel, but the entire userland/OS of the app is still statically linked with containers.
We do not use C to build web apps
> One company should not have bargaining power over an entire city

But they do and I don't think there's any escaping that. It's natural.

The problem comes with the various state and local governments wanting to subsidise things like this. They can offer things that perhaps objectively disadvantage the nation but help locally. Of course NY is go bend over backwards to get Amazon HQ2. All those people. All that income tax. And they're allowed to. That's the problem.

I think this is one of the things that the EU does fairly well. "State aid" is furiously complex and often outright illegal because allowing a single country to offer beneficial rate will usually mean the collective EU loses out on tax.

The famous example is Apple getting their corporation tax down to 0.005% in Ireland for putting all their EU business through their Irish books. Apple are allowed to do that. Ireland is not. Ireland were forced by the EU to collect a sensible rate retroactively.

Would it be a bad thing if local or state subsidies over (eg) $500k had to undergo federal scrutiny? If taxes were a little more balanced? It might mean that national planning could be more effective and encourage growth in states that cannot afford to subsidize (eg Louisiana, Mississippi).

I guess it's all for naught if you continue to allow lobbying, but every little helps, right?
...in part because the 80386 supported virtual memory.
What about thorium reactors?
Title is misleading, that is not what the study really suggests. That study also doesn't do a good job at discriminating between causality and consequence. Nonetheless, they are careful in their conclusion and suggests that it is more an organic way of doing things. Smaller teams are more focus and will work with a lot less, and the PI will try to get famous, so new stuff it is. While bigger team are going to carry own, try to get it to the next level. It's lot more incremental, and that is the way it should
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Polar vortex may have killed a significant amount of invasive insect species
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this is actually systemd-paymentsd

[0] man systemd-paymentsd
You don’t even need to make a change to hardware. Fly a big enough drone into a building and it’s lethal.
Because even if removing the patent system meant that the invention was kept secret from the public, it would most likely be reinvented many times in that 15 year time. The worst part of patents is that they extend even to others who do the legwork themselves, and frequently stifle an entire area (for example, 3D printing exploded in popularity and accessability right after some key patents held by stratasys expired, and this was in the best case of a company actually developing the technology they had patented).
> Think about it: If you were to force absolutely everything to be statically linked, your KDE app would have to include the ENTIRE KDE library suite, as well as the QT libraries it's based on, as well as the X window libraries those are based on, etc etc. You'd quickly end up with a calculator app that's hundreds of megabytes.

That is false. Static linking only links in the the parts that are actually used, which would be a small fraction of the total.
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For those who don't want to watch the video:

The Verge sent YouTube DMCA takedown notices for videos that parodied a (apparently bad) tutorial on building a gaming PC made by The Verge. After appeals by the authors of the parody videos, YouTube has restored the videos and contacted The Verge's parent company Vox Media with concerns about their abuse of the copyright strike system.
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> There's a big difference between a jerry-rigged bomb strapped to a quadcopter and a purpose-built killbot produced by a nation state

Aren't we already there thought? Don't the US already have semi-autonomous flying kill-driods? The ones that occasional crash Pakistani weddings unannounced.
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I'm not saying it's a good idea, but from my experiences on social media (forums, mailing lists, chat rooms, and the modern facebook/twitter/etc), most people want an echo chamber, surrounded by people who can discuss whatever event but generally agree with their opinion.
But deep down, it is a performance principle: luxuries like pointers, virtual functions etc. are suitable for complicated but rarely executed code, while important loops should access arrays of components (or something very close) without unnecessary cache misses.

If memory accesses were as cheap as 40 years ago, inheritance vs. composition would be a lofty debate about elegance and architecture and programming language semantics and taste; now it has become a much more practical and detailed tradeoff between difficult design and bad performance.
ACLs don’t
Killbots have superhuman strength.

You'd need to classify their ability to pull your arms off as a 'gun'.
OkCupid hijack, sale of stolen accounts on dark web, flaws in WordPress plugins
Dopamine framework: Fast prototyping of reinforcement learning algorithms (2018)
Explainable Text-Driven Neural Network for Stock Prediction
It's true. Companies are amazingly reluctant to pay developers to support open source that is absolutely critical to their business operations. As a result they don't have a leg to stand on when code that they rely on - but don't pay for - doesn't work. You know all those crazy disclaimers about how this code MAY NOT BE FIT FOR ANY PURPOSE WHATSOEVER IN PERPETUITY PLEASE DON'T CALL US IF IT KILLS YOUR DOG AND BURNS DOWN YOUR HOUSE? That's the level of support that a lot of companies are willing to go for.

We developed a library for regex matching used in a lot of security products, and I was always blown away by how little support people seemed to want/need once it was open sourced. Support contracts? Follow-up? Feedback of any kind? "Nah, we're good".

As a corollary of this, companies that don't even acknowledge the open source that they use or provide feedback have only themselves to blame if the developers of those projects aren't recognized for their work. If you do OSS development at a BigCo, and no-one bothers to tell your management that they are using your stuff, it's pretty hard to make the claim that the development is still worth funding.
You could do that with a regular privately owned airplane too, and arguably more damage.
This is the same people that “just say no” to syntax highlighting for instance.
Unfortunately many people seem to expect free software, free support, and features they want added for free, without expecting to contribute or join the community themselves. This imbalance (imho) puts extra burden on open source devs and is where the issues happen. :/
Something I haven't been able to find: did NYC actually withdraw anything promised for Amazon to back out, or did Amazon just get buyer's remorse after seeing the mixed reaction the city had?
I went through a very similar thing writing my own toy/hobby game-project. It started out as a classical straightforward OOP design, but once I started adding extra stuff to it like animation, a scripting engine, etc. I really started to feel a lot of inertia from the design and the awkward forced hierarchies I had built. Over time I've been incrementally flattening the design to end up with the kind of hybrid/half-way design mentioned in the article, which borrows some things from ECS, but still has distinct game objects implemented as classes.

I'm not fully on-board with the (between-the-lines) assessment in the article that this is somehow inferior to, or should just be a stepping stone towards a full-blown ECS though. At least not for a simple game where performance is not really a concern. My view is that a hybrid approach can actually be better than a 'real' ECS for those kinds of cases, taking the best of both worlds. In my case I don't use any inheritance, only composition, I don't have to fight OOP, but I can still write very clear and concise code to access and manipulate properties of my game objects. It may not be cache-efficient and whatnot, but that really is no concern for my simple game at all, having at most 20 to 40 lightweight entities active at the same time. Physics updates (which could drag down performance if too inefficient) are treated like in a traditional ECS, simply advancing the full physics sim for all entities completely separate from the game objects.

Looking forward to the next article!
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Yeah it’s really just a matter of time before Taiwan wakes up with a drone/robot army swooping in from the skies. (just for illustrative purposes— not because I think China will do this) There’s going to be a blitzkreig-like situation somewhere that a short term unbeatable technological advantage is attained and a large amount of territory is conquered over night.
I disagree. The labor was, is, and will probably continue being free. The community aspect of oss is not a form of payment, but a nice benefit. Ask any of the community supported and loved oss devs on twitter who constantly complain of being broke.
I'm not sure I follow... What specifically about this chip makes it purpose-built for spying?
So, what you’re saying is that there’s not currently $3 billion saved that can now be invested in the schools, subways, etc.
Landmines are easy to make too, still it's worthwhile to ban their use.
I wouldn't want to cross paths with the StabBot 9000, either.
But what if you can train other feature lines that will generate backgrounds and other humans? Then add in another feature line that can morph an existing human line into different views, poses and/or animations.
> Because you often need REALLY skilled developers (top 1%) to make the early tech for what you need to build when you're doing a successful startup.

Rubbish. You need an idea and to start validating it, learning and iterating, with feedback from your customers.
> Strong international sanctions against warbots are a good idea, even if it won't prevent every terrorist from making their own low-rent version.

Assuming that all nations follow. Otherwise one rogue player can have a huge advantage, and that's the general problem with trying to ban military technologies.
You seem to be knowledgeable. My VPN Provider uses 256-AES-CBC by default, at least for my particular configuration. Is that appropriate?
We do. If you’re interested in the architecture particulars (I.e. which layer types, layer shapes, layer parameters, activation functions, etc) you’ll commonly see these in deep learning papers as a directed acyclic graph with layers represented by a collection of vertices or rectangles. Other architecture specifics are sometimes noted with text alongside layers. We also have more general representations of deep models which look like, and sometimes are exactly, Probabilistic Graphical Models. PGMs have their own formal language which makes it quite easy to write complex models describing a joint distribution very simply.

However, this is different than interpreting how a deep model works. “Interpreting” is an overloaded and poorly-defined term of active research. The sense I get from my friends in the interpretability/explainability research world is that despite the buzz, there is no common definition that lends to a clear set of requirements for an acceptable interpretation of a neural network.
"There's a big difference between a jerry-rigged bomb strapped to a quadcopter and a purpose-built killbot produced by a nation state. Strong international sanctions against warbots are a good idea, even if it won't prevent every terrorist from making their own low-rent version."

Killbots built by nation-states (essentially) are already available for purchase. How does an autonomous helicopter drone armed with an AK-47 sound? ;-)

>The Blowfish A2 “autonomously performs complex combat missions, including fixed-point timing detection and fixed-range reconnaissance, and targeted precision strikes.”

>Depending on customer preferences, Chinese military drone manufacturer Ziyan offers to equip Blowfish A2 with either missiles or machine guns.

>Mr Allen wrote: “Though many current generation drones are primarily remotely operated, Chinese officials generally expect drones and military robotics to feature ever more extensive AI and autonomous capabilities in the future.

>“Chinese weapons manufacturers already are selling armed drones with significant amounts of combat autonomy.”

>China is also interested in using AI for military command decision-making.

https://www.technocracy.news/china-releases-fully-autonomous...

China and Russia will ignore any treaties on this, just as Russia has already ignored many including the INF Treaty. As in many other cases, the West will essentially tie its own hands while allowing others to literally get away with murder.
> If all you know about N is that X is different from s(s(N)), then there is no relation between X and N, and the recursive call to ¬even(N) will not tell you anything about X. So this won't work.

Won't it?

Either:

1. X = 0, in which case ¬even(X) is false.
2. X != 0, in which case

a. X can't be unified with s(s(N)), in which case ¬even(X)
is true (since X can then only be s(0)).
b. X can be unified with s(s(N)) for some N, in which case
we restart the procedure for that N.

N is either

I. even, in which case we'll eventually evaluate
even(0), which is a base case.
II. odd, in which case we'll eventually be unable to
unify the argument X with some s(s(N)). By negation
as failure[^naf], we'll eventually prove ¬even(X).

[^naf]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negation_as_failure