skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps XML and JSON are secure by virtue of the fact that their built-in security features can never be broken.
> But SARA doesn’t rely as much on “high-order” functions like AI since those are harder to certify. (“To be FAA certifiable, you need a certain level of determinism in the outcomes,” Van Buiten says.)

i've just recently finished peter watts "freeze frame revolution" of the sunflower cycle, where the gate-building spaceship eriophora is mostly on its own for thousands of years while the crew sleeps, guided by an AI called "the chimp".

-- spoilers --

one of the key ideas in this book is that the ships AI - the chimp - is not advanced at all, with a synapse count of roughly the chimp. anything more intelligent would get unstable and develop its own motives, so the original builders constructed it to be comparatively dumb and thus stable, predictable and deterministic (the humans are woken up only in case something unexpected happens which requires more creativity and brainpower).
Back then it was widely recognized as malware, that wasn't a controversial classification. These days if you categorize such software as spyware/malware, you get a ton of pushback. It's become normalized.

When did this happen? Obviously it was a gradual change, but when about was the inflection point? I'd estimate sometime around 2007.
> Feed them data from a radar altimeter and they can hover like a rock.

That's not good, right?
I know many, many H1Bs around Silicon Valley. Many are making more than me, a "domestic talent". My base salary is over 200k/year. I know one making $300k base at one company and $600k base salary at another. I know many others that are making the same as me, and the only ones that make less are the less talented ones which is right.
I found red LEDs with USB power (so <2.5W) to be pretty good. They are available for decorative purposes.
I agree that it's a political problem, but your solution is baffling to me. Instead of addressing the inequalities above ground, like millions of homes going unused while millions of people are homeless, you want to let a private company put poor people in mole-man colonies underground??
There was a good period of time where trains, trams, and underground trains (from 1863!) were available as "mass transit", while cars were either not invented or rare luxuries. I don't think it makes sense to include horses in that.
I'm confused, what makes 'autistic burnout' any different than regular 'burnout'? The stories linked in the post seem to be just describing burnout, though I've not clicked into the linked pages. What am I missing that makes autistic burnout different?
Much thanks.

In your example, you mean the indices are shrunk if you know the size of the table? I knew about specialization and deopt, but never suspected the principle could be applied to vertex indices in the GPU.
I feel like the use of metrics is often just a crutch to avoid real management/leadership decisions. Sprints are meaningless overhead unless they are coupled to important deliveries. Often they aren't.

In my real world experience software doesn't get delivered within sprints, it gets delivered when it's ready. And decisions about what to deliver aren't made by the sprint team.

Anyone can pad story points enough to look like a sprint super-hero. The key focus should be what are you building, are you building it the right way, and what can we do to deliver it faster/better. Sometimes the right answer is stop holding meetings, and just get out of the way and let the team focus on the problem without interruption for a while.
As my possibly-psychopathic, but well-intended manager once said: "the more you cost, the more we want to replace you".

Other gems include: "I love when employees buy houses or have children. It means now they're tied down and are less willing to leave".
You will find a little more details here:
https://www.monarc.lu/news/2019/03/01/monarc-280-released/#m...
Has DENY 31.13.x.x broken any important things for you? I'd be curious to try it on my home network.
This is a general issue with what is taught as world history, from school textbooks to the doorstops of Toynbee and his ilk. They all start with "western Europe and the societies derived from it are the world" with a brief mention that China is over there, too, and then trace the history of the societies that western European mythology claims as predecessors (Rome, Greece, Egypt). If you compare this to the space and time occupied by humanity on earth, it's ludicrous.
Having two kids was the worst. Twice as many, still a noob parent. Poor kids, poor mum and dad. I mean we were nice to them but always exhausted.

Was lucky. Got some good advice. Listened to it. Kids and parents are more happy now.

We now have more than three and it is still way less stressful.
That idea really doesn't square with the initial investment made. What changed QoQ?
number 35. contradicts what you said
Slightly off topic, but do you use something other than iTunes for this process? I'm looking for a good way to manage a FLAC library.
Anecdotally, I have seen the same thing with anti-anxiety medication. Not sure what medication it was exactly, but some folks that are close to me have had a much higher incidence of panic attacks when they abruptly stopped taking their medication. Same deal - they thought they were fine, then a week or so later, it was just panic attack after panic attack until they refilled their prescription.
Of course it is freedom of speech. The only thing that was distributed was text: an encoding of an idea. The act of using that idea to build something to defraud someone is the criminal act.

Jurisdictions censor all kinds of speech, and maybe you think this kind of speech should be censored, but at least in the USA you would have to argue incitement which is a stretch.

The historical example was the publishing of the PGP source code in book form to distribute it. You might consider the software to be "military grade arms" but describing to someone how to build it is just an idea.

Certainly the US government might want to reign in this interpretation and might love to create a new exception, but there is no intrinsic reason for a rational individual to insist upon that interpretation.
Deep Learning in Clojure from Scratch to GPU: Learning and Backpropagation
Maybe we need a law that simply makes it illegal

Legal frameworks are of little interest to many SV-style companies. "Move fast and break things" includes laws.

See also: Uber, Airbnb, and all the billion-dollar companies that repeatedly have to pass out non-apologies even though they're supposed to be staffed by the smartest people on the planet.
Convert Python source code (.py) to Jupyter notebook (.ipynb) with p2j
Well I never used CDs. Unfortunately what.cd got taken down, but a couple years ago, it was probably the biggest and most complete collection of music in the world.

Nowadays, I also just use spotify since I don’t have a quality source for music. But if what.cd was still around, I would dump spotify in a second.
> It always baffles me how the people who can't stop critiquing Western European civilisation end up hiding their money here.

It's about as baffling as when governments that constantly criticize others for violating human rights have no problem selling weapons to those exact same parties, and letting their oligarchs/royal family/well-connected goons buy up expensive properties inside of their own borders.
Or instead of buying with them, you could have bought yourself and rented to them. This is what I did for the first approx 10 years of property ownership. My first place was even just a 1 bed flat, but had a separate kitchen, so I was able to rent the living room as a second bedroom. At the time, the rental income was enough to pay the mortgage, and tax free under the "Rent A Room" scheme[0]. From some quick calculations, I think this is still a viable approach, although the rental income is unlikely to pay the full mortgage now, and some of the income is likely to be above the tax free threshold.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/income-tax-rent-a...
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As far as retention goes, that's going to depend on which data. The rules are different for different data. For financial information the general rule is 7 years. But that varies wildly on circumstance.
THIS IS AMAZING!
Prosecutors: Uber not criminally responsible in fatal self-driving crash
> "why you never take pictures of these special moments?" ... If I would have my eyes on the phone it wouldn't be special. 10 or 20 years later I still have rich memories of those times where it mattered and I guess not having a phone/camera with me at the time was big part that it actually became a great memory.

For me it is in the other direction. I do not avoid social media (think I am on most on them...) but interact sparingly (less than once a month). Still I am sometimes an obsessive photographer exactly because I know I have a terrible memory.
Exactly.

You have to realize the difference between a "pricing search" and a "low fare search", to use ITA terminology.

A "pricing search" knows which specific flights it goes through and you just find the fares (keep in mind the carriers file like 600 fares for planes with 20 seats). The airlines could always do that. Before ITA came along in 2001 or so that is what you were waiting on in the travel agency while the agent tries different flight combinations by hand.

"Low fare search" is also finding the flights. The carriers could not generally do that without ITA. There are exceptions such as Southwest which had a fare structure more like buses that kept the combinatorics down.

But in addition to the immense amounts of fare and rule data that pile on your if you search 400 itineraries out * 400 back you also have the seat availability system. No carrier had (probably has) a system that can answer the amount of "seat" queries that a single low fare search causes.

Keep in mind "seat availability data" has nothing to do with what seats are available. It is a high-frequency (10 Hz or whereabouts) way to turn fares on and off.
oh, fantastic! I'm stealing your line
This thread just seems like changing the goalposts. It started with someone saying that Trump won the majority of the votes. Which is just not true.

That is all
I'm sorry to be that guy, but if after all the shitty news about Facebook tracking and selling your information you are still using Facebook than you deserve to be tracked and sold.
LoopBack 4 February 2019 Milestone Update
or "never invest in a business you consider bs"
Part of the reason that timezones are so annoying to work with, is that it's often easy to forget about them.

Getting rid of summer time will just make this worse.
Apparently 10% (I just made this number) of people working in tech industry are working to collect, store, and process personal data. It is shocking to see how few of these 10% speak up.

We put Hackers into jail for stealing personal data. Not comparing them together, but from moral perspective they seem equal to me.
I don't mind artsy websites and animations if the topic is artsy. I hate them when they're supposed to show information and they present it as if using an eye dropper.

When eye-candy is needlessly drawn out, it feels sluggish and unresponsive. I don't know a lot about general users, but I know the users I work with and they foremost want FLUID INTERFACES. They don't always have them, but they always want them.
I'm being honest here I don't quite understand all the math involved . But from my rough skimming of the text looks like we are sacrificing the flexibility to change any input or minor design changes for guaranteed correctness .. am I wrong
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Could it be also because HN Front page algorithm (my speculation) of favoring domains (with something like Domain Authority) based on previous votes?
Its to prevent abuse as you get a real VM to run code server in.
I appreciate the merits of having an argument based on the points raised, not the backgrounds of the participants. Especially when one of them is hiding behind an anonymous string of characters.
I'm also in the situation where I'd like to try to reverse binaries for the custom PowerPC chips in Gamecube/Wii/Wii U. I'm wondering if it might be easier to rewrite the assembly such that the SIMD instructions are rewritten in terms of standard instructions, and then just use that. I hope it's possible.
Say no more to copying code line-by-line to Jupyter notebook. This conversion just needs your code to be paragraphed, like how codes should be. Comments are converted to markdowns. Codes are converted to cell codes. It's as easy as running pip install p2j and run p2j your_code.py

Pull requests are welcome!
The ad-networks will always try to take extra value regardless of dependence. Ads exist on paid services. My Economist subscription requires me to swipe away Oracle ads. The last flight I was on tried to sign me up for a credit card. No matter what a customer pays, there will always be a temptation to make a bit more money by showing an ad.

Ads will exist until people are empowered to block them.
Your smartphone or laptop is like an MP3 player with respect to mastering, not like an expensive amplifier and speakers. Your smaryphone/laptop has an amplifier that's optimised for low energy usage, not fidelity, and loudspeakers optimised for size. Music which has been mixed and mastered without regard for how it sounds on your smartphone is sold as "24/192" or "vinyl" or such. The 192 does not matter technically, it's just an identifying mark, and some sort of identifying mark is necessary.
There's minimal need to understand their $40 billion in sales. Do they have growth or not, and what is the quality of the growth in producing profit. It's that simple ultimately.

Sales 2014: $38.2 billion; sales 2018: $39.8 billion

No growth beyond inflation. Net income hasn't climbed (roughly stuck at $9-$10 billion for the last five years). Annual debt interest costs have more than doubled to $2 billion as they've made a mess of their balance sheet.

In two years AWS will be as large as their entire business.

In the five years Oracle has seen zero growth, Salesforce has gone from $4b to $10.5b in sales. It's likely that over the next five years Oracle will again see near zero growth and Salesforce will double in size.

Here's what a successful cloud transition with growth actually looks like:

Adobe's business was stagnant for years. Then.... Sales 2014: $4.1b; 2015: $4.8b; 2016: $5.8b; 2017: $7.3b; 2018: $9b.

Their profit skyrocketed from $268m in 2014, to $2.6b for 2018. They earned as much last quarter as they did for all of 2015. The stock has gone from $60 to $250 / share.

You can tell exactly how well Oracle's cloud transition is going by the fact that everybody around them is eating their lunch and seeing growth, from AWS, to Microsoft, to Salesforce, to dozens of other enterprise software companies. Microsoft had watched its top line stagnate for several years as they struggled to find new growth. And then suddenly a big jump: $96b in sales, to $110b in sales, over the prior year. Another example of cloud transition growth in action.
Do note that the correct name for this iteration is "USB4" with no space[1].

Because naming things is hard.

[1] https://usb.org/sites/default/files/2019-02/USB_PG_USB4_DevU...
Yes, adding any sort of nonlinear distortion to audio will make frequencies depend on other frequencies, i.e. audible frequencies in the output of an effect can depend on supersonic frequencies in its input. For example, if you add a 100 kHz sine wave through a high-gain guitar amplifier, you'll definitely be able to hear it.

I didn't really see a mention of this point in the article since there was no "So when do you need 192 kHz?" section, but in its defense, DACs, amplifiers, speakers, and room ambiance are all incredibly linear in 2019, so for music listening, most super-sonic frequency content doesn't turn into to lower frequencies. It does matter when you're using the very nonlinear Apple earbuds, but if you were doing that, you wouldn't care about audio quality in the first place.
To me these quotes don’t support the idea that deep learning is at a dead end. We are only just beginning to get it to really work for real world problems and I think that will take off a lot in the coming years.

Even if all you care about is general AI, there is still a lot of progress that needs to be made within DL.

I think the point is just that we should be open to other approaches because they will be needed as well
Thanks for the links, they helped clarify my thoughts.
what.cd was continued by redacted.ch, and the community is currently quite strong.
Because every industry needs to consistently grow, forever, under a capitalist system. "The future" will always be increased austerity and sacrifice for the proletariate, never the bourgeoisie.
VanBnb 'Superhosts' invade, and locals go 'mad-dog'
Especially complicated if you want the "LTV" thing to show up in Acrobat.

As far as I could determine (I've done it and acrobat is happy), it requires fetching and embedding the necessary CRLs for the TSA (timestamp authority) cert chain before getting the signature, but you don't have the certs with the CRL urls until after you get the signature. And the URLs can change over time (our TSA just switched its cert chain, but they did notify us ahead of time).
I would imagine Waymo wants to sell them to other companies to reach better economies of scale and bring their own prices down.

It'd be interesting to hear from someone who knows specifics of LIDAR manufacturing, though.
that’s a false dichotomy. if you love strawberries, would you sit on the one you have or go out and try to get as many as possible?
In developed countries things haven't changed that much.

If you look at London (since that's essentially the article), population has actually only reached back to its 1950 level.

But attractive cities can now pull people and investment from a global pool of billions of people and thus the market does its thing and prices move accordingly.
Data Viz of the Week: Unfair Property Taxes and Social Media Through the Years
Seriously. I was giggling like a little school girl all night long.
Actually that's a defensible position when you're mixing and mastering audio. A spectrogram won't tell you which settings sound better, but your ears will.

Maybe not relevant in the context of GP's post though. In the context of digital tools telling you two signals are identical, then I suspect they are, and if you want to prove to me your ears hear better then you're going to need a blind A/B test.
How come USB4 is one word, when USB 2.0, USB 3.0, and so on are 2? Is there an actual answer at all?
UK's insistence on keeping daylight savings is disappointing to say the least
Observability: Dashboard Patterns: Aggregate View
I'm waiting for the Purism Librem 5. Should be interesting.
A lot of web APIs, especially for B2B SaaS, come with these. Uber's does, too.
As a US citizen I do not want a single cent of tax dollars going to Larry. It's infuriating the US government is Oracle's biggest customer.
Where's the proof the have the capacity to service 100's of thousands of cars? Do they have a service center in every state? Every major metro area? Currently, they don't have a facility in every state.

I think people are right to be skeptical, buying an automobile is a major financial decision for most folks, and warranty/repair is a very important part of that story.
> Why not? Just because they have advanced type systems doesn't mean that we need to make use of those features; the same way writing a Haskell program doesn't require us to use closed type families, multi-parameter type classes with functional dependencies, etc. or OCaml doesn't require everything to be an applicative functor over a row-polymorphic existential, etc.

What specific program properties have you tried proving that have required hand proofs you don't think are that difficult? The core issue is that once you try to capture a program property in one part of your program, you have to start capturing it everywhere and it's very difficult to contain the complexity. Simple looking properties can require very deep knowledge and expertise of writing proofs.

OCaml etc. are only likely to add feature that give a good amount of power for a small amount of expertise whereas with Coq, Isabelle etc. they don't need to hold back on what level of expertise is expected from users (e.g. many users are in research publishing journal papers from the expertise required of them). Dependent types give a massive amount of power for a massive rise in the expertise expected from the user.
I recommend Parsec. I use it for gaming on remote Windows machines, but the Linux server works well too. I can access from my Chromebook or laptop with enough fidelity and good networking that allows me to do nearly anything.

I still suck at CounterStrike, but that is not the software's fault.

https://parsecgaming.com/
Why do BA and PM get higher salaries than programmers?
If voting was used as it should, sure. Right now it feels like it's used to burry comments you don't agree with, without even explaining why; like "this guy is dumb, and I won't even take the time to explain why I think so"

I'd much rather discuss with people having a counter opinion than scroll through comments of like minded people regurgitating the same thing.
I saw that picture and read up more on the story a while back... absolutely horrifying situation. Stuck upside down underground for hours, unable to move or escape even though there are others right behind you that you can communicate with until you eventually die. Somewhat unrelated, but that is part of what made me decide to not further pursue my cave diving certification
Dockerfile is being worked on.
UK have objected and wants to keep daylight savings unfortunately
Note that the difference is not large. A 128 kbps opus or AAC might be comparible to a 160 or 192 kbps MP3. So it's less than 2x improvement of file size.
> The nightmare scenario for a financial institution is someone getting a mortgage, paying it off early, and not getting another mortgage.

It seems really backwards to consider this the nightmare scenario. This is exactly what everybody wants: for people to take a mortgage once and pay it off eventually.

A business that considers healthy finances a nightmare scenario is a predatory business that needs to die.
There is more interesting stuff to read than you have time to read. No system is going to help with that, or is it really a problem to fix.

There are two problems that you do need to handle somehow:

1. Out of all the things that I can read/investigate/research, which are the ones that I most should spend my time on (defined by whatever metric you want). The problem here is, you often don't know until you read them, and you don't have time to read them all. I don't have a good answer here.

2. Keeping the list of things you'd like to read from eating up more time than it should. It can take time from your work, your marriage, or your kids - if you let it. This becomes a matter of not letting it become an addictive or obsessive behavior, or at least of recognizing when it becomes so and then stopping when you recognize it.
Because people believe they are nobly resisting capitalism by preventing housing construction in cities, as the population continues to grow and urbanize, capitalism’s most important feedback loop (high demand -> high prices -> more profit —> more supply) is short circuited.