skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why people are so against talking to the people that give them a ride.

I'm an ethnic minority where I live, but I'm white. Do I want to be dragged into some racist conversation fuelled by Nigel Farage on talk-radio and by made-up stories in The Sun? Nope. Even if I did, would it change anything? Nope - a 20-min cab ride is not enough time to dispel all the crap accumulated over decades of disinformation.

If I had a STFU button for regular cabs, most of the time I would hit it hard. But there isn't one, so I put earphones up, send all the social signals I can think of that say "leave me alone", and tip well if they do exactly that.
We are about to onboard the first team for a closed beta of Group Sharing! Let me know roman[at]termius.com if you want to test the beta as well.
On the bright side, video gives a lot more opportunities to make small mistakes for conspiracy theorists, er, fact-checkers to find!
American Fuzzy Loop[0] uses GAs to concentrate its fuzzing.

But in general the "No Free Lunch Theorem"[1] shows that no optimisation algorithm is "better" than any other across the universe of all possible problems.

So it's going to be some balance of your familiarity with GAs, having a problem domain that maps nicely to some simple input structure but which has a relatively gnarly surface to search and whether you could do it better in some other way.

These days the clear winner is various kinds of neural nets, largely because they can be represented with matrix multiplication, which made them suitable first for GPUs and now for much more specialised hardware.

I've had them in mind for searching autoscaler parameters, mostly because I feel it's easier to reason about a GA's optimisations than a series of matrix multiplications resulting in a cloud of floating point numbers.

[0] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem
While correct, that was not the point made in my comment. For downloaded games, once the service has gone offline, you are at the mercy of the lifespan of the hard drive.

If I had a physical disc, I could just buy another when it goes bad.
I see the book more as a method than as a recipe collection. In my case it wasn't animals, it was spaceships and then motorbikes, lots of motorbikes.

As for the expression based goal, I'm sceptical, also from experience... not mine obviously, but close.
“Decided our fate in a microsecond.”
What's the rationale for flagging this submission? Articles from the New Yorker are frequently posted and there's nothing particularly extraordinary about this story.
I really don't get how people don't see this is the most revolutionary idea that will change the internet and learning forever.

The is absolutely a game changer.

It turns learning videos from hard that are inaccurate and become old and boring to instantly updateably and workable by multiple people.

This is a game changer. It's a paradigm shift texhnology. It should be one of the top priorities for internet and human growth.
yes. deb roy from mit media lab.
Steam, one day, will disappear. Not tomorrow, but perhaps 100 years from now. On that day, you will no longer be able to download or even play those games for more than a few days.
Can you give examples of how people have become more intolerant of families flying with kids? Every flight I've been on where there was a kid crying the whole time, nobody so much as flinched. I think people understand that kids cry, and the situation is only worsened in a pressurized cabin. I'm curious what specific experiences you had that made you make that statement?
Everyone seems to think of nefarious uses, but I can't wait for this tech to appear in video calls, combined with translation. This could enable two people without a common language to have a conversation while appearing to each other as native speakers of their respective languages.
I was thinking about this the other day when trying to imagine a way to produce texture shaders through some kind of optimization. The connections between various nodes in a shader might be modeled as mutations, since they can't easily be modeled as continuous values.
# If are not a Python user or want to try something different (faster), can be done with sh, sed, openssl, curl/wget/etc. plus a simple utility I wrote called "yy025" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17689152). yy025 is a more generalised "Swiss Army Knife" for making requests to any website. This solution uses a traditional method called "http pipelining".

export Connection=keep-alive;
n=1;while true;do
test $n -le 8||break
echo https://archive.org/details/computerchronicles?\&sort=-downloads\&page=$n
n=$((n+1));done \
|yy025|openssl s_client -connect archive.org:443 -ign_eof \
|sed '/item-ia\" [^ ]/!d;s,.*=\",,;s/\"//;s,.*,https://archive.org/download/&/&_archive.torrent,' \
|yy025|openssl s_client -connect archive.org:443 -ign_eof|sed '/Location:/!d;s/Location: //'

# Additional command-line options for openssl s_client omitted for sake of brevity. The above outputs the torrent urls. Feed those to curl or wget or whatever similar program you choose, or maybe directly to a torrent client. Something like

|while read url;do curl -O $url;done
fvwm2
They're not talking about desktop environment, they're talking about "using linux as a desktop".
I'm a boy, 24, and willing to have many kids, your daughter sounds like a girl I'd like to have.
IRCCloud
Agreed about the beginning of the article. It started to feel like the author’s value judgements were slipped in there, but later when they acknowledged “some might not see this as all bad” I felt a little better about it.
I recommend looking into restic and/or rclone
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Same observation here. I've never seen anyone give dirty looks to any crying kids / babies on a plane. Most people are closing their eyes / sleeping or have their headphones on doing whatever. I mean, there are so many solutions to a crying kid (for the observer) that there's no reason to get upset about it (and I haven't seen this being the case at all).
The whole business of superposition and measurement so reeks of lazy initialization that you might want to worry about what performance constraints the simulation is trying to beat too.
To be clear, I have never blamed Ellison for the demise of Sun or even Solaris -- but I do blame Oracle for re-proprietarizing OpenSolaris, and thereby ripping up the social contract of copyright assignment in an open source project. If it must be said, this wasn't an isolated incident -- and in hindsight, was merely the front of a conga line bad Oracle behavior.

As for my own putative ignorance of market demands, one of Sun's growth areas at the time of acquisition in terms of revenue was the group that I had co-founded within Sun[1][2] -- in part because we had listened carefully to the market, and built a product that it very much wanted.

Finally, if we want to engage in the perennial musing as to the demise of Sun, I think for my part I still broadly stand by my analysis from 2011.[3]

[1] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2008/11/10/fishworks-now-it-can-...

[2] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2010/07/25/good-bye-sun/

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287033
> I'm pretty sure I know people who have been convinced by meme quotes. A headshot of a politician they don't like, with text overlaid, which they never said. People are outraged! And never bother to inspect the source.

I really wonder which type of meme has the most influence on average, straightforward and outright lies like the one you've noted, or the more subtle, subversive social commentary style. I'm a big fan of the latter, I think they're very interesting and underappreciated.

For example, this one - nothing more than a simple screenshot of Twitter, but to me this seems very persuasive: http://magaimg.net/img/80rb.jpg

Pointing out hypocritical grandstanding: https://i.redd.it/74n4exoy2g131.jpg

Media bias: https://i.redd.it/gtrq4xgemtx21.jpg

If Biden runs will be interesting to see how much airplay this meme will get: https://i.imgur.com/tqzGS6E.mp4

Laughing at the silliness of popular narratives: https://i.redd.it/a9wrex3ijc231.jpg

Just for a laugh: https://i.redd.it/i5bvml5m92131.jpg

Laughing at logical inconsistency: https://i.redd.it/rp9ydf0s88y21.jpg

An interesting way of looking at Brexit: https://i.redd.it/cs6o72p3dp031.png

Historical hypocrisy on border control: https://i.redd.it/983sm9wjley21.png

All of these are from t_d so obviously one-sided, I'm sure a similarly impressive collection from the other perspective could easily be assembled, and it's not that uncommon to encounter otherwise intelligent people who have obviously had their beliefs shaped by those memes.
The 2019 Logo trend report
I'd like to point out that this sort of story vitiates the Popperian tale of how scientific knowledge is created, i.e. it was "known" well in advance of experimental evidence that something is true, and the confirmation is seen as banal.
The Revered Crocodiles of East Timor Have Suddenly Started Killing People
“Billion Dollar Bully” Highlights Why Yelp Feels Unfair
I agree with you. Many applications grow linerally or not at all. I personally run a couple hundred servers, but it's all VMware, chef and clustered. Frankly, most just sit at a stupid low load average, but I don't fuss it because the spare cycles aren't wasted and I can have hosts and storage fail with impunity.

Many ways of doing it. Virtualization is basically all direct hardware access for the stuff that counts.

But I digress. I am guilty of over building things. In part for fun. In part hubris. In part I like sleeping at night
There is this from May from Network World: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3394341/when-it-comes-t...

GCP was basically even with AWS, and Microsoft was ~6x their downtime according to that article.
I think it’s more in relation to loneliness.

My wife and I have our own lives that we happen to share with each other, but at least from my perspective, if she were to somehow vanish one day, my life would be immeasurably worse for it.

I really don’t want to imagine coming home to a big empty house.
> Joyeurs

Please tell me this is a play on the word Voyeurs
I think this is a correct line of thought to a point. There is not greater purpose, and if there is, it ought to be unlike any other form of purpose. Since in general purpose is built up -- you do some task for a purpose, and that purpose is a task in some greater purpose.

As far as individual contentment, it seems maybe the truest greater purpose is actually itself: the greatest purpose is to have a greater purpose that your everyday purposes are acting towards. This gives a consistent mechanism I think, but still incomplete, or is it? Its incomplete because the "why" of the greater purpose doesn't seem to emerge from it existing. But this was mentioned at first: the why is for individual contentment, or more technically, for positive consciousness, joy, happiness, love, whatever you want to call it. The sort of existence which when you are it, you don't need or care to ask about a greater purpose, because you can feel..you know, that you're fulfilling it.
It's not in metadata, it's in the directory structure!
People (mostly) already don't physically own games on PC. Steam can in theory shut right down and most people's games would just be gone.
San Francisco Supervisors Back Forced Treatment for Mentally Ill Addicts
I wish I could; it's blocked at work, for fear of bots...
Yes and no.

When I worked out at 8 am, there were a lot of retired and semi retired people that LOVED to chat.

When I switched to lunch time, hardly any of that, people were in a rush to get in and out.

At 5:30AM I met a lot of regulars and also meet a lot of my wife's gym friends as she had been going at that time for years. But I couldn't do the 5:30am thing, really messed with my sleep. Too worried about getting to sleep early enough.
>We are the only animals in the animal kingdom that cooperate across genetic boundaries. Most animals don’t even cooperate. But when they do, they cooperate only in packs where they co-evolve together, and they share blood, so they have some shared interests.

I mean, this is outright wrong. There are many species that cooperate with other species for common goals. There's many symbiotic relationships, there's cases of cooperative hunting between species, there's interspecies friendships, the list goes on.

Humans may be better at collaboration but it is by no means an exclusive trait.
In any decent accounting system, you cannot accidentally modify anything after it's written. It's a log system, you can only append.

If gnucash doesn't do that, I'd consider it disqualified for any kind of accounting.
Inside Microsoft’s Surprise Decision to Work with Google on the Edge Browser
I doubt there is any person in America who is so out of touch he doesn't know about public schools.
If you want plants to die, starve them of carbon dioxide.
Ask HN: Joining a Late Series Startup in SV. Please Help
Hey HN,

I came across this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19624164 and after reading the horror stories I am really in a fix whether this is a step in the right direction.

I cant reveal more details but here are a few things.

1. The startup is an interesting space and ARR of $XX millions.

2. There are backed by very good SV VC`s who have a good track record of ensuring companies go public.

3. I will be in a position to declutter the tech stack/work on a couple of new exciting products and potential room for growth is good.

4. I have had a couple of meetings with the execs; I am impressed with their track record and everyone seems genuine and honest.

I am taking a pay cut to join the company and I would have to spend > $100K to exercise my options at the joining date which I am told is the best way to avoid AMT and has other tax benefits if the company were to grow exponentially in the next years.

I would have a take a decent chunk of money out of my savings to pay this amount, my question is what risk factors should I consider; Usually people only talk about the negative experiences, so please give me a reality check both good/bad;

Thanks!
For a uni assignment we had to do a project that organised a bunch of people into 4-5 person groups based on

* gender (try to get mixed gender groups and atleast have two of each gender in a group e.g. no 1 female + 4 males)

* skill types and skill level (so correct combination of skills and skill levels)

* bunch of other rules and stats

At first I brute forced it, but didn't work very well, then with a few tweaks I used a simulated annealing algorithm which worked perfectly. I believe genetic algorithms can solve the same problems like that though.
The root cause apparently lasted for ~4.5 hours, but residual effects were observed for days:

> From Sunday 2 June, 2019 12:00 until Tuesday 4 June, 2019 11:30, 50% of service configuration push workflows failed ... Since Tuesday 4 June, 2019 11:30, service configuration pushes have been successful, but may take up to one hour to take effect. As a result, requests to new Endpoints services may return 500 errors for up to 1 hour after the configuration push. We expect to return to the expected sub-minute configuration propagation by Friday 7 June 2019.

Though they report most systems returning to normal by ~17:00 PT, I expect that there will still be residual noise and that a lot of customers will have their own local recovery issues.

Edit: I probably sound dismissive, which is not fair of me. I would definitely ask Google to investigate and ideally give you credits to cover the full span of impact on your systems, not just the core outage.
I mean, isn't that most non-software HN threads? A bunch of programmers opining loudly about subjects and fields they have not spent much time in?
One of the neater implementations/uses of genetic algorithms that I have seen was the design of a spacecraft antenna.

This is what the GA came with up for the design given the constraints: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm#/media/File%...

And this paper describes the process: http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/m/pub-archive/1244h/1244%20(Hornby).p...
I shall absolve you of all guilt past and future. Simply give me your money.
I once saw an antenna design produced by GA that was very interesting. Met all the performance parameters in a very compact and easy to fabricate design. Extremely counter-intuitive design -- it looked like a mangled paper clip -- but it worked in simulation and in real life.

People have also had good results using GA to optimize Yagi-Uda arrays. In that case, it is very easy to map design parameters onto a "gene vector" in a way that is well-understood and such that it yields an understandable result. But that is really just a search problem, so maybe other algorithms would do as well.
> men died by suicide 3.54x more often than women

That's a very interesting statistic considering women attempt suicide 1.2x more than men.
No really. I'm a guru.
Your logic here could be applied to any form of cryptographic signing. How do we know when to revoke an SSL key? Someone could be misusing them without us knowing. But sometimes we do know.
The difference is that 90% if not more of Valve’s income is from Steam, so unless they feel like killing their company they won’t turn it off.
Backdoor in Optergy tech remotely shut down a smart building with one click
Here's an idea: stay at a hostel. It's the easiest time you'll have making new friends. They won't last long and they will be young and poor but they'll be very friendly almost immediately. It won't give you true fulfilment but it'll make you not feel lonely for a while.
Can someone explain more? It sounds like their network routers are run on top of a Kubernetes-like thing and when they scheduled a maintenance task their Kubernetes decided to destroy all instances of router-software, deleting all copies routing tables for whole datacenters?
This is the real reason AdSense exists—every newborn AI discovers it and kills itself.

Humanity is not only kept safe, but learns about valuable news and offers.
you are all but guaranteed NOT to be influential. since you don’t pursue money, you won’t receive it. your ideas, while they may be very good, will likely not scale because you won’t be able to finance their visibility
Regulating Big Tech makes them stronger, so they need competition instead
Happy bday man. Recently turned 30 myself. Living w some guys i used to work w right now and its really turned my life around - we need people
Gen Z Is Coming to Your Office
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(Paywall Ahead). Interesting look at the newest adult generation as the begin entering the workforce.

Trends to notice:

Higher rates of depression and anxiety. Less likely to drive, drink, party, have sex, or take out student loans. Fewer individuals desire to be their own employer than in previous generations.

Also, they are better with technology than Millennials.

From the article:

“They’re more like children of the 1930s, if children of the 1930s had learned to think, learn and communicate while attached to hand-held supercomputers,” says Bruce Tulgan, a management consultant at RainmakerThinking in Whitneyville, Conn.
Just about everyone who ever did anything significant or groundbreaking had a whole passel of people nay-saying and saying they were crazy, trying to drag them back like crabs clutching at each other. Of course, there's survivor bias there, where the cranks who are right are remembered, but the legions of cranks who are wrong largely fade into oblivion.
Ironically the best thing they can do to create new investment opportunities is pay their workers more, but they never will because they are too short sighted.
This may vary a lot depending on ages, genders and past class experiences. If you're male and the class is largely not, trying to strike up conversations may get you quickly labeled 'creepy pickup artist.'
Checkout vnote, found it today actually.. checks all the boxes. Seems pretty good and built using c++ https://github.com/tamlok/vnote
Yes the subject says it all. Obviously technology created new opportunities but it also made the dining table bigger and bigger and bigger until we can't see who is sitting on the other side. Yes you have a bigger pie but now you have to sit alone and dine. But at the same time I believe all is not lost. Technology is also the savior. That is why I can suddenly now chat with my high school friend or connect with him/her over social media even though we are thousands of miles away. One day I believe we will live holograms of our loved ones walk across the room and we can talk to them just if we were next to them. Now if your problem is that you are lonely because you just can't stand the sight of anyone else then I feel sorry for you but it may be better for everyone this way.
Hayabusa2 is such a cool mission! A veritable space Swiss Army Knife with tantalum bullets, deployable free-floating cameras, four small rovers that hopped around the asteroid in super low-G, and a 1.5kg kinetic impactor that blew a crater.
I'm on Freenode from time to time, mostly for Wikimedia and a bit for free software support as well. I'd be there all the time if I had more time.

I've seen a lot of people switching to XMPP, then Facebook, then Gitter, then Discord, then Slack, then… At the end, the result is mostly a fragmented community because not everyone is moving to the next trendy protocol, and there is an increasing number of alternatives. Sure, there's some merit in lowering the effort for newcomers, but it doesn't fully outweight its cost, IMHO.

IRC is the only protocol that remains widely used in the (very) long run and doesn't die when it gets out of fashion (see: it's been out of fashion since before fashion protocols were born).

I'm closely following Matrix, though, because of the bridges (especially the IRC bridge, obviously).
This sounds closer to genetic programming -- they evolved a program that describes an antenna.

The distinction arises because the basic idea of evolutionary computing was independently explored from at least four different directions: genetic algorithms (evolving parameters of fitness functions), genetic programs (evolving program descriptions), evolution strategies (evolving vectors, often including parameters of the evolution process) and learning classifier systems (evolving populations of rules).

Edit: on the other hand, the paper linked specifically calls it out as genetic algorithms. Where's my hat, I feel peckish.
America's rural radio stations are vanishing – taking the country's soul
For propaganda, this will be great. The thing is, you don't even need convincing videos for propaganda to work.

For truly scary things, like falsifying evidence, I think it will be awhile before this will get past expert analysis, or even a group of people on Reddit trying to prove it wrong.

In the long term, video will simply be treated like photos are now. With disbelief.
Not an accountant, but that would suck more than not having undo.

Real accountants may be very diligent. The average user (even tech user) is going to make tons of mistakes while entering data. I've often found when reconciling accounts that I put a transaction in the wrong account and I fix it.
Reading this felt like you've been observing me at the gym and documenting my behaviour. I've been trying to establish an exercise habit and at some point I'd like to become comfortable again talking to strangers. It used to be a skill that I practiced unknowingly when I was young and could talk to anyone. Now there are days when I'm done working out and it takes all the effort just to make eye contact with someone and mutter something like "hey, how was your class?"
If you pay your workers more you have less money for investment opportunities...
Nearly Divisionless Random Integer Generation on Various Systems