skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly would have preferred to have parents who were older and more mature than the ones I did have. And when I think of my peers who had older parents I think they benefited.
My $2k hearing aids got stolen when the office I worked on got burglarized (seriously, who steals custom fit hearing aids?). I replaced them with the $500 Bose Hearphones and haven't looked back. My hearing aids were not high end, the only advantages it had was that it was more discreet and it's batteries lasted a whole week, but with the Hearphones I also get noise cancelling(love it on bart and the open office), easy access to volume control, it's rechargeable, it connects to my phone via bluetooth so I can listen to music, take calls, talk to Google Assistant, etc. All for 1/4 of the price of my cheap(by hearing aid standards) hearing aid.
Great idea! How did you market it?
As far as I know, it's not a shortage of helium, it's a shortage of cheap helium.

Back when blimps were a thing, the US stored a shitload of helium in a big cave. In around 2007, the US government was like "We don't need all this helium" and started selling off the reserve at super low prices.

Helium is often just vented to the atmosphere when mining natural gas, so we could capture it if we wanted, but right now it's not really worth it since we still have some cheap helium sitting around.
As far as I'm aware it is not alleged that Marcus Hutchins caused material damages to Americans, it is alleged that he sold his malware to Americans.

I could be wrong, but I don't think the federal government has ever claimed that any Americans were infected with Kronos.
> Regulating cities so they don't do something stupid is reasonable.

States should forbid cities from funding the creation of sports stadiums then. They're almost always disastrous.

https://news.stanford.edu/2015/07/30/stadium-economics-noll-...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/sport...

(Of course that would run contrary to corporate interests, so don't hold your breath. It's clear who these states are trying to protect, and it isn't the cities.)
"AI is whatever hasn't been done yet." - Larry Tesler (sometimes quoted as Tesler's Theorem.)
it was a checkbox in a training ledger that nobody else cared about. People were passing around unencrypted csvs on flash disks, sending them to their gmail accounts via email. Parent company at one place (healthcare provider) couldn't even reconcile how many patients they had each year. (It was under 15k, so we're not talking like millions of patients)
The article is almost complete junk. It has however served as a catalyst for a somewhat interesting discussion here.
Hutchins had exceptionally talented representation (one of his lawyers, whose name appears on the plea agreement, is a nationally recognized authority). There is no chance that "charge stacking" intimidated him; his lawyers certainly would have informed him that the charges he faced would group, and that he'd in effect serve time based on the guideline range for the worst charge he was convicted of.
Where is it alleged that some of his victims were in the United States? I'm sorry, I just can't find such a claim in the court documents.

In fact, the DOJ press release specifically names a bunch of countries that aren't the US https://www.justice.gov/usao-edwi/pr/man-charged-his-role-cr...

>According to publically available information, since it was created, Kronos has been configured to exfiltrate user credentials associated with banking systems located in Canada, Germany, Poland, France, and the United Kingdom, among others countries.

Of course, given the nature of the malware it's very likely that at least someone in the US was affected.
American exceptionalism: America is the only country that does these things.
https://blog.floydhub.com/colorizing-b-w-photos-with-neural-...

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$10k per hire sounds like a lot, until you realize that engineers add hundreds of thousands of dollars in value to their companies per year, if not much more. And good hires are worth their weight in gold.

So clearly, Triplebyte’s success is at least to an extent the result of their delivering value to their clients.
Self-programming is a viable option.

In the past HA companies had a problem: audiologists weren't technical and didn't know how to program the increasingly sophisticated hearing aids. So the fitting software (1) automatically produces a reasonable fit and (2) at least the ones I've used have a section that asks questions and makes adjustments based on the answers.

It's also worth noting that there isn't really a "correct prescription" but rather it's an art of arriving at settings based on the client's goals and feedback. The audiogram is a diagnostic tool but only a starting point for determining HA settings. From the HA dispenser's perspective, adjusting settings costs them time and therefore money after they've made the sale. From the client's perspective, you'd need to visit the audiologist for every adjustment. Self-programming avoids the problem.

The programming hardware, software, and used hearing aids are all available on ebay. The prices are such that your average HN reader wouldn't have to worry too much about replacement costs if a HA breaks or goes missing. And the flexibility is great too.

You may not need NOAH. For a Phonak hearing aid you only need the iCube II (programming device) and Phonak Target (programming software). The NOAH software is an optional place to store customer data which is useful in a clinic that sells hearing aids from different manufacturers.
I actually agree with you. If you can accept that consciousness is basically a computer, then there isn't really anything mysterious going on. I probably could have phrased that better.
Thanks for posting this. I have been missing the Cmd-Shift-Power ever since getting a TouchBar.
We got gigabit fiber in Berkeley last year - so nice! - so the California restrictions must not be too restrictive.
>Until a few years back, I regularly used an old Cromemco System III computer that was built in 1979

Please don't take this as sneering -because I'm genuinely interested in late 70s micros!- but what did you use the system 3 for? Can you tell me about it as a computer? It's not a computer I know much about and I'm interested in what you would've used it for, especially recently.
Isn't that a little tautological? You rightly observe that there are uses for LEO and GEO, but you are responding to a question asking "what can we do on the moon?" with "well, we can put propellant in cislunar space so we can do stuff on the moon."
Congratulations on becoming a grandmother! Sorry I didn't think of a better example of the kind of user I'm thinking of. "Bob the accountant", mentioned by someone else, is probably a better example.

I've also run several generations of OpenWRT and I've decided it doesn't make sense for me to spend time maintaining it. For example, I'm interested in installing something like Zulip (an open source team chat service) on my router, but I know from experience that anything special I install in OpenWRT requires custom configuration and will need regular manual maintenance and upgrades. It's a big time commitment and I have to be careful with my time.

In a better world, I would tap to install Zulip on my router, automatic upgrades would be enabled by default, and I would be prompted to also sign up for a Zulip-oriented encrypted backup subscription service. Having spent only a minute or two to install Zulip, I would gladly pay for the backup service since the developers proved that they respect my time. I would no longer feel the need to sign up for another cloud service. Privacy would win!
AI developments are more like battery storage improvements. Just 10% improvements year over year, in hardware, in architecture, in algorithms, in data capturing and labeling ... they've just really started to add up.

But 10% growth YOY compounds very quickly.
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Noisebridge is a spiritual rock for hackers in the Bay Area and around the world. It deserves your support!
Be careful making assumptions from those graphs. In some cases they include employee owners and in other cases they don't. For example, for Pagerduty, one of the cofounders is missing, presumably under "Other" since he's the only cofounder that's an employee. But for Google Larry and Sergey are listed. So I'm not sure how it was decided who goes in the graph.
Chinese spies stole trade secrets from Dutch chip machine maker ASML: report
The idea of justice is not to provide some benefits to people who where accused of some crimes. If someone has committed a crime, then justice system shouldn't help him. If on the other hand the person has not committed besaid crime, then the justice system ought to carefully prevent wrong accusations and ensure a fair trial.

The please bargain system does neither of that.
Those are just reinforcement learning. Again, standard systems, been around for ages, the whole movie WarGames (36 years old) hinges on an RL-based supercomputer gone wild.

They're not something else, they're still just really, really impressive lookup tables.
Hacker posts over 4k sensitive documents from Mexican embassy – news
Wow I'm impressed by the revenue for such a site. Congratulations!
It’s not a free market if the barriers to entry are so high even Google has trouble
I am sorry but this looks too much like Java to me.
> Fewer elements on screen at once matters very little for performance on the C64 if they're rendered with sprites

Videos of this game in action beg to differ. The only time the game seems to slow down is when there are two or more animated sprites, usually enemies, on screen at once.

This is compounded by tile-based scrolling being available in NES' hardware but not the C64, so scrolling is a costly operation — AND there are more enemies on screen at any time.

On top of this, the NES could have 64 sprites on screen at once, fully animated at full speed (barring any other slowdown). The C64 can only have 8. That's not a negligible difference. With certain tricks you can display more, but the performance of this needs to be balanced against the rest of the game: SMB already has more complicated physics and more visible items on screen at a time.

Giana Sisters was developed with the limitations of the C64 in mind. There's usually not more than one enemy on screen, the enemy typically moves slower, and animations equivalent to those on in SMB either have fewer frames or none at all.
You didn't mention what that utilization rate was, but it makes perfect sense to me. Using those cards so much gave the impression that you "needed" the credit line, even if you paid it off by the end of the month.

If you have a $50k limit and spend $2k/month, paying off in full, it doesn't really impact your score much at all. If you have $1k limit and spend $500/month it's a big risk.

You can usually make additional payments during the cycle so it doesn't impact your utilization. Whenever I make a larger purchase I just login and pay it off in full right away so it doesn't ding me.
If a prosecution is legally justified, a court can’t do anything about it. At best, you could hope for jury nullification (but the rules of evidence might keep the jury from ever learning the morally-exculpatory evidence), or failing that, lenient sentencing.
He's also posted a statement on his website admitting to the crime. https://www.malwaretech.com/public-statement
Check out UMAP [1]. It's an alternative to t-SNE for dimension reduction that's grounded in topological category theory.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.03426
Which would have gone nowhere without those getting paychecks from IBM, Compaq, HP, Intel, Oracle.
Learning on the job is mutually beneficial. The employee learns useful skills, and the employer gets a more useful employee. Tossing people into the deep end and letting them figure it out is short-sighted. We should expect more, even if just for the employer to do what’s best for them.
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Where is the threshold between "marketing spin" and lying?
To me, the hn version of "be yourself" is "You'll never beat Mark Zuckerberg by trying to be Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg will always be a better Mark Zuckerberg than you." (I think this is a pg quote, correct me if im wrong) That isnt saying that you dont have room for improvement or that you are your authentic self or whatever, but rather that you compete with people on the results and by trying to copy their methods you will never reach further than them. Do something unique / different. Do something that only you have insight to. To me, thats what being yourself is all about: using your unique strengths to succeed.
Seems to me that respecting someone’s feelings of “exclusion” by using pronouns that make them feel included is “being inclusive”

Not every company need change, but if a pretty minor change can have a big impact on someone’s happiness and feeling of belonging, I’m willing to change.
I do share your sentiment. I live in a country with lots of "dust". I had concerns after reading people reviews but went ahead and bought the latest 2018 version.

Two things:

1- I really enjoy the new Macbook Pro keyboard. Way more than the 2014 one.

2- It is really dusty and I need to clean every week. Partly, because I work on cafes a lot.

So far (6 months), it has been going strong. No issues (the trackpad can be annoying at times, but that's it).
I think what Turing is getting at here is actually less a commentary on what AI should do, than a shortcoming in the test. When you're looking for genuine intelligence you should be looking for intelligence. However, if your only sign of intelligence is human intelligence, suddenly getting a basic sum wrong is counter-intuitively a sign of intelligence.

In the end getting the sum wrong is an emergent property of human intelligence, we're good at things but we're not deterministically perfect like computers are. It's not better for a computer to start to share the shortcomings of humans, but it is more likely to pass the 'AI' test. Indicating a shortcoming in the test.
How do we decide who has committed a crime?
Do you really want the police to enforce every single, e.g. traffic, law all the time? I don’t think that would be practical.
> Longer breastfeeding suppresses ovulation and menstruation, so fertility is relatively rare.

> Childbirth works better squatting.

I would like to see citations indicating that these statements are true to a significant degree that modern improvements are of little value.

I can't even find data on maternal mortality before 1800.
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A possible counterpoint to that is that walking away from people has a price and it may not be easy to find people who accept you for who you are - especially if you perceive the more disagreeable side of yourself to be the more authentic.

Yes if you be yourself you might feel better, but you might lose out on friends, on a great job, on a marriage even. At the end of the day those people who regret not being themselves may not properly account for the things they wouldnt have if they had been.
There's no need for a bloody AI detector. If someone claims copyright, they submit a take-down request. And they must supply documentation to support that request.

People who have posted stuff first see the take-down request. If they object, they supply supporting documentation. If necessary, the matter goes to arbitration, or perhaps trial.

Stuff gets taken down only if the take-down request is not contested, or if the arbiter (or court) rules that it ought to be.

Also, for those who submit too many bogus take-down requests, future take-down requests get black-holed.
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New use for San Francisco garages: upscale apartments
Lisp in Small PIeces is one of the best books I've ever read.
Besides being a deep reach into programming decisions it is one of the best examples of a literate program.

By "getting ride of it" I assume you put it into a glass case on your office wall. I admit it does deserve such a place of pride.
There are libraries like nom: https://lib.rs/crates/nom or combine https://github.com/Marwes/combine/blob/master/examples/date.... that have more declarative-looking syntax. In TFA you intentionally get "raw Rust" to avoid syntax sugar obscuring what's going on.
I haven't heard of any threats directed against Darwin personally. If this is so, one possible reason is that he was extremely circumspect in the timing of publication, since he was well aware of its likely social and theological impact.

Darwin's personal preference to not be an asshole, was one reason On the Origin took twenty years to reach publication.

After publication, Darwin was fortunate to acquire celebrity bull-dogs such as Huxley, who would take up the cause and allow Darwin to continue his gentlemanly pursuits, out of the direct firing line.
I don’t disagree, but the wealth in the Bay Area has increased significantly just in the past 20 years.

That probably took Lake Tahoe from “expensive” to “astronomical”.
This is going to be an unpopular opinion but I'm hoping someone can explain why I'm wrong.

I actually would really welcome online activities no longer being anonymous.

I feel like a large part of why people on the internet are so terrible to one another is that there's really no accountability because of the anonymity.

This is true in many areas including hate speech or posting illegal/inappropriate material.

I suppose I don't know if I think it should be LAW that requires everyone be deanonymized, but I do wish people on the internet would treat each other closer to the way they do in real life.
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Great point. Really impressed with how you've approached it!
The other top level comment explains the advice very well:

The reason the advice "be yourself" exists, and also why older people tend to be the ones expressing it, is that the danger in not being yourself is that you may wake up one day in a career or surrounded by people that do not accept you for who you are. And you end up trapped in a life where you have to pretend to be something you're not. The idea is that the younger you start being honest about yourself to others, the sooner you will wind up away from people that do not like your true self, and closer to people that appreciate you for that true self.

If you are an introvert, do not spend your life trying to pretend you are an extrovert. Instead, embrace your introversion and find a sustainable way to get the social interaction you need/want.

If you do not enjoy managing people, you will fall behind people who do enjoy it, so instead spending your years unhappy and trapped, try to find a career ladder where you can focus on being a great individual contributor.

If someone close to you just died and you are grieving, do not try to pretend that you're fine or cheerful for the sake of others. Take the time to process it however you need to.

There are plenty of other examples. This advice isn't really about how you act day to day, it's about making sure you are doing things for reasons you actually believe in.
I think there are some countries in which people are too quick to socialize things but that's not the case here.

(Except maybe in New York City where a city councilperson from Queens insisted that Off-Track Betting get a bailout to "save jobs" and where some other politicians will block cannabis legalization unless black people get the profits from it... it's not enough to take away an reason for mass incarceration...)
I sell AI and ML service-based solutions to large enterprises and if anything they're highly skeptical of AI and ML adding value and are always comparing its ROI to the alternative of basic data management, mastering, out-of-the-box analytics tools.

I'd say they're a lot savvier than anyone in this thread is giving them credit for.
Gobermint run internet would be worse than Comcast and ATT in USA.
It sounds an awful lot like you're angry Hutchins isn't facing a harsher sentence.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/8pcytm/the_3_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/7aco1w/findin...
That Atari 800 probably works fine today.

Since it's not always (ever?) connected to the internet, malware is much less of a problem.

Games probably work fine as well, as they are stored on rugged cartridges and don't depend on cloud services, internet-connected DRM, or game servers which tend to be shut down after a year or two.
I think it really depends on what you want to do. If you want to work with physical systems, computation, or data-science, then I think engineering physics is a good path.

Where I went to college, all engineering physics majors concentrated (which is essentially a minor) in one of the other engineering disciplines (mechanical, electrical, civil, computer science, etc).

If you want to work on digital only products that don't utilize what you learn with a engineering physics degree, then you may want to consider another degree.

I can't speak directly about a physics only degree, since I did engineering physics, where I took all of the same core classes as engineering students.

Motivation, experience wherever you can get it, and knowing people / networking, will get you pretty far, so I would also say, take the path that's interests you the most. Also, physics is hard.
The Human Brain Has Been Getting Smaller Since the Stone Age
Common Lisp and related languages have = as a function: it is a numeric comparison. Like under equalp, (= 1 1.0) yields true. You might think it's superfluous to equalp, but has some virtues of its own, like supporting variadic arguments (= 1 1 1 1) and rejecting non-numeric arguments.

eq is often the wrong one to use: two instances of the same number can fail to be eq.
We could have a macro like:

test_eq!(expected=(<expr>), actual=(<expr>));

Where those "assignments" could be specified in either order.

Playground example: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...