skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doesn't point 2 (something exists of necessity) negate point 1 (clear it doesn't have to exist)?

they are talking about different things. The universe is contingent, but something other than the universe (that is not contingent) is required to explain the existence of the universe.

> On point 3 I fail to see logical need for external cause. Existence could simply be an intrensic property of the universe.

Could the universe have been in a different configuration than it is? More matter, less matter, no matter, etc.? There is no contradiction in those configurations, therefore we must admit that they are possible. That means that the universe needn't be (as it is, or at all). If something could be different than the way it is, then rationally we must suppose there is an explanation for the way it is.

> Besides it just shuffles the "cause" issue up a level. If God can exist "just because he does and always has and is without external cause" so can a universe.

"God" at this point is just a placeholder to the solution of the problem of infinite regress. The universe is not a suitable stopping point for reasons stated above.
Would have liked a more substantive article on the subject...
Isn’t there survivorship bias by looking at notable successful IPOs?
Yeah, we get it, you're lazy, can't be arsed, you want someone else to do the work. We like configurability, decentralization, freedom of choice. We are different people. We will never agree. I suspect your kind outnumbers my kind by about 99 to 1.
Generally, seed funding is difficult to obtain through institutions. If you are an expert in your field or have compelling career experience coupled with a novel and provable idea you may have luck through institutions.

However, you are more likely to build relationships with individuals who can afford to give you money. You'll likely end up with better terms and you'll have a better experience. I tried to raise through a regional angel program and we backed out as their terms were troubling and their lead fund manager difficult to deal with. I've heard similar stories from others as well.

If you can, find people who care about the field you are starting up in and get to know them. This is also a good litmus test for the potential of your idea.
Compressing Prime Numbers: Kolmogorov Complexity 101
https://peering.google.com/#/infrastructure send to say otherwise. It's in the best interest of both parties, so not sure why they wouldn't have done this.
Just read the thing. It’s short.
Or perhaps a return to analog, non-digital, older media such as paper film and video rolls will serve as "probably true".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqb4V9GxaBo

If I am not mistaken, Cantrill stole the line from this skit.

"The good old days." I actually went to a Star Trek convention as a kid back in the late 70's/early 80's, don't remember the year.

It was a different time. "Cool" meant something different back then. People really could say "Get a life!" and it was not an insult. It was truth. There was more to life back then than computers.

(There still is, but today this simple truth is being lost on many more people.)
> I love going on Freenode

Funny this is the worst possible IRC network to use - so many channels are overly restrictive which leads to a crappy user experience. The usual claim is to "combat spam" but most other networks (OFTC) don't implement these policies and have little to no trouble with spam.
Could YouTube provide more structure and moderate by subcatgories?

Say I say I'm an expert in chemistry and education - then I would be available to moderate chem Ed videos.

I'm not convinced this isn't an attempt by YT to claim they tried and it had unintended consequences they can't avoid.
What Is an Android Custom ROM?
Thanks for the insight you are dead right about the managements view.
Get approval from legal, they probably don't care, they just want to make sure everything is square.

Assuming you have a reasonable company and you aren't infringing on any IP or trade secrets, you're probably fine and will get approval. The main thing here is that they don't want an employee releasing something that conflicts with the interests of the business.

People tend to over-inflate these myths and have never actually spoken with company council on the matter.
Isn't the deep ignorance of the voters the entire point of a deep fake? It's knowingly a fake, so by creating it you are already trying to pull one over on someone. When the president of the US can say "I never said that" even with video/audio evidence of him saying it while also screaming about deep fakes, the slippery slope is being greased. It's not hard to believe that viewers that only get information from a single source will fall for it. Even if they hear arguments it is fake, they will not research it on their own because their single source is never wrong.
Check out: https://weechat.org/. It's my favorite. Runs in a shell so you can use it on most operating systems.
Back in the MLA: A survivor of academia returns to a troubled field
>Psychology
>Persuasion

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion is a must read. Also, Robert Greene books, such as the 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, etc. are really good as well, but the 48 Laws of Power gave me a weird feeling. You should also read Edward Bernays, as he's one of the fathers of modern marketing/media. (Disclaimer: I'm not a psychologist).

>Mathematics

I like to go through text books, but my absolute favorite book that I've read is The Motion Paradox by Joseph Mazur(brother of the great Barry Mazur) - it's what really sparked my interest in mathematics. There's also Fermat's Enigma(reads like a novel, really nice). I also have another book called Problem Solving Through Recreational Mathematics, published by dover thrift editions. It's a fun book, with a bunch of puzzles based on various subjects. Also A History of Mathematics is a nice read too, mostly for reference, but you could probably make reading a chapter a day a thing.
android is great /s

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/googl...
If you have <20ms latency (possibly a bit higher), I don't think it will inhibit the skill cap for most shooters.

If it creeps up into the 40's and 50's though, it will for sure.
Google was (ba)loons, FB was solar powered high altitude drones.
As I recall Facebook tried to commandeer the “internet” for Indian citizens by provided a subset of the real internet.
Hyperloop: The Future of Intercity Transportation?
By definition every game requires 'decent' internet. The fact they will still charge full price for the games and games you could've bought on disc or steam before are now 'internet required' ... means I'm out. Not just for the premium version but for the hardware and free versions as well.. After Google Wave and Google Reader ~ I'm not going to invest solid dollars vs hardware on premises.
If I buy a game on PS4, I can be reasonably confident it will continue working for as long as my PS4 physically continues to work. And then I can sell it when I'm finished playing it.

I don't understand why I'd want to buy a game on stadia instead for the same price, not have the opportunity to resell it, and be at the mercy of Google shutting down the stadia servers whenever they feel like it.
Comparing Service Meshes: Linkerd vs. Istio
Weechat websocket
“No, comrade. You’re mistaken. RBMK reactors don’t just explode.”
I didn't catch the daily number. It just seems like they should pick the bigger one and stick with it so users don't need to parse.
"when journalists attack rich people, or attack the technology industry, they’re really bidding for status"

There's a lot of that going on these days.
The Secret Life of Matt
My question is if you had to pay for Google AdWords and your site was inaccessible due to GCloud outage, do you have recourse on SLA for paid clicks? Or is that money paid to Google AdWords lost?
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I prefer the subs tho mainly because the voice acting in different languages is usually not great - movies’ original languages usually sound much more natural.
> For sake of argument, if you have a monthly bill of 10k (a reasonably sized operation), a 1 day outage will result in a refund of around $300, not a lot of money.

Probably literally not worth your engineer's time to fill in the form for the refund.
On a Journey
Yes, it’s called Skack now.
City Journal is such conservative bullshit I can't even.

There is a lot of loneliness- as there has always been for humans, who have unique capabilities in migration and adaptation. Humans can survive loneliness.

There is a higher measure of divorce, which of course is often painful at the time, but it increasingly leads to improved "family" dynamics down the road.

Levels of acceptance for kids who are "different", while still suboptimal, are so much greater now than ever before. To be a gay kid in the City Journal's golden age for families- no thank you.

Opportunities to facilitate human connection through digital means have never been greater.

City Journal is garbage. Doesn't deserve HN attention.
1. Put people into a swimming pool inside of a model space suit filled with air.
2. Add weights to balance out the excess buoyancy caused by the suits filled with air.
3. Profit?
Google Assistant is having an identity crisis, mixing accents
Hm, seems like it stores SSH key passwords in plain text?

https://github.com/Crystalnix/termius-cli/issues/132

Any comment on that?
I think you're putting the cart before the horse. These types of things often develop out of need or emerge organically within a group.

The main problem with doing too much from the start is that the process of defining the governance model of the organization is part of creating the organization. If you want to find people who want to be involved in something like this, it's likely that they want to be involved in the definition of the organization itself, not just part of the building of the outcome of the defined organization.

When building a community, which is effectively what you are doing here, a sense of ownership drives motivation and passion. Try to find others who would share your sense of passions around this and define the structure with them.
Facts about the Boreal Forest
Why do you assume that the only way for people to have food, education and security is through taxation?

Why do you assume that without taxes the system would devolve into poverty and extreme inequality?

The economy is not a linear equation with taxation and poverty as inversely related variables.
Michael Bloomberg Promises $500M to Help End Coal
Why would Apple not be able to buy Falcon 9 launches? SpaceX is in the business of selling rocket launches.
Google Tried to Prove Managers Don't Matter, Learned 10 Traits of the Best Ones
Fucking money.
Interesting information. There's definitely a bit of marketing going on there, but it seems that they have at least some peering. Without concrete public evidence otherwise I'll concede that Google must have great peering.
I believe you already know this, hence the "probably" part, but such analog media can easily be produced from (modified) digital media, thus no credibility.
EU, Brazil and China have banned way more harmful pesticides than the USA
All these meta heuristic type things (simulated annealing, GAs,...) are really just fancy dress on MCMC adapted for mode seeking (usually via importance sampling by scaling).
Specifically in this case the evolution bit is a sampler and evaluation function is the log likelihood.
Nothing wrong with that, MCMC is awesome. But you need to put in the features of your particular problem if you want good performance. i.e. if your input to cost surface mapping is continuous and you can efficiently calculate a gradient then you would be silly not to use it. Your sampler will be much more efficient.
not really, still it exists.
Why would I assume that 100% of suicides are linked to loneliness?

What bearing does that have on whether or not loneliness is a contributing factor to overall depression in the US?
What would we call such a category of movies? Vubs?
Good point, I stand corrected/educated.

From GCP's top level SLA:

https://cloud.google.com/compute/sla

99.00% - < 99.99% - 10% off your monthly spend
95.00% - < 99.00% - 25% off your monthly spend
< 95.00% - 50% off your monthly spend
They may not take an official position, but their actions do lead to wages not increasing. Here's one example: https://www.axios.com/economists-federal-reserve-wages-708b9...
Additionally: you may request a cloak which hides your IP address, useful if you are to visit any dubious channels. on Freenode f.e. you simply ask an operator at the main channel for one and you have it.
Secondly you could also setup a Digital Ocean droplet (server) with an IRC client and ssh into that.
> teeth gnawing

Just wanted to say this: supplement [a lot of] magnesium and chew bubble gum :-)

Thanks for the answer and the link.
Very cool NASA video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0az7DEwG68A
Google Acquires Looker for $2.6B
Google invested $900 million in SpaceX back in 2015 [1]. Not sure if that counts as "vision", but it seems like it was a smart way to get into this market early.

[1] https://spacenews.com/google-spacex-investment-is-900-millio...
>I went to the docs page but it's still not telling me what it does exactly

First paragraph of their comment:

> Termius is an SSH client that works on desktop and mobile. The big difference with other SSH clients that Termius syncs data across devices using end-to-end encryption.
> and stops working in the rain

For anyone who thinks this is hyperbole, I assure you it's not, my internet quite literally grinds to a halt when it rains too much.
I've been working on an open source search engine (https://github.com/typesense/typesense) and this exact deliberation has been on my mind.

Ideally, one could offer both on-premise and hosted versions (like Gitlab), but that's really tricky and needs a lot of resources to pull off successfully.
Are supersonic aircraft for rich people compatible with a world battling radical climate change?

Supersonic passenger jets are likely to burn three to four times as much fuel per business-class passenger as standard passenger jets.
I am of the opinion that the government taxes rich people more because there are fewer of them and they are less likely to vote out the politicians who do it.

It's the masses voting bread and circuses for themselves.

Rich people only have the option of leaving but pretty much every place worth living does the same thing.
Vint Cerf Talks at Google (2010)
"If you look at the list of apps, and crucially, the list of developers that are backing Android wear, you can see the level of interest and support. Google is committed to this for the long term, we have made very significant financial investments in this. And we have an incredibly dedicated team who is helping to make Android Wear reality." Google, 2014, probably.

Words are very cheap.
Google attempted something similar with loon[0] and FB with internet.org[1] (IIRC, FB also had a few other initiatives)

[0] https://loon.com/

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/what-happened-to-facebooks-grand...

And with regards to Amazon being the only big tech company with a vision -- I hear Apple just redesigned the monitor stand. Visionary.
Doesn't a lot of the "fake news" use photoshop?
I appreciate that it's more efficient than VDOM, if it's true and continue to be true in larger scale apps. I don't see "can set any property, attribute, or listen to any event" a benefit though. To me it's such an unpleasant way of writing code to have to keep in your brain a map of all these event and prop bindings.

If you need events, Rx is much better to work with. Probably the one thing react is not as good as html elements is the lack of attributes, this causes a lot of defaultValue and shouldComponentUpdate kind of complications. However, if you really think about it all props should just be immutable (attributes) and if you want some to be updated or emit events, just make them Observable and Observer accordingly.
Kube-OVN Support NetworkPolicy Now
OneWeb says plenty about collision avoidance if you look at their FCC filings and press statements. Amazon hasn't really gone into detail for what they're doing, but the FCC won't clear them unless they explain how they'll comply with deorbiting guidelines (and it looks like the FCC expects operators of these megaconstellations to do much more than the bare minimum).
Simply because they have that data doesn't mean they sourced it illegally. Their value is likely the way in which they assemble disparate data sets, obtained with permission or purchased.
To narrow this further to the science-fiction ethical issue that deepfakes and facial recognition are both forcing to the foreground, try this on for size:

“All humanity has the inalienable right to control how their likeness is transformed by others. Consent must be given freely by either the human or their delegated representative, and no discrimination against refusal to permit transformation, whether by default or by declaration, shall be permissible under law.”
A Product Designer Who Made Mid-Century America Look Clean and Stylish
I’m confused on why it would be a waste to make shareholders better off, regardless of the fact that Amazon does not pay a dividend. Isn’t this the point of investing? It would be great to make shareholders better off and even better if we could improve internet access while we are at it.
The "Distribution of content by category" graph would be better as raw numbers rather than percentages. It's hard to tell if the non-gaming categories are shrinking in real terms or just crowded out by Gaming.
Student Claims to Release Replication of OpenAI’s GPT2–1.5B Model on July First
DLT One – A Damn Linux Tablet
Why Every Business Should Have Values
I have no idea what this was. But power distribution in a data center is hierarchical, and as much as you want redundancy, some parts in the chain are very expensive and sometimes you have to turn them off for maintenance.

I never actually worked in a data center, so keep in mind I don’t know what I’m talking about. Traditional DCs have UPS all over the place, but that will only last a finite amount of time, and your maintenance might take longer than the UPS will last.
It's strange to me that people are so concerned about these deep fakes when the National Enquirer has been around for so long. It's been easy to lie to people in mass for awhile now. I don't think this changes the number of people that are open to these suggestions, I think people in general are smarter than a lot of people give them credit for.
It’s certainly possible these miserable celebrities were miserable before they were celebrities.

It may be survival bias in that I remember what I hear and no one reports on the sober celebrity, but it seems like a very fair amount of our richest, most creative, and most lauded persons in this world have their fair share of mental and substance troubles.
Netflix is a good example, because it can be contrasted with Hulu. Netflix uses aggressive dark patterns like auto-playing trailers to push content on you; people have repeatedly asked for the option to turn these off and Netflix refuses, because it gets people to watch more. They've made the express choice to rob their users of agency for the sake of increasing engagement. Hulu, on the other hand... doesn't do that. I'm not saying they're saints, but their interface respects user-agency.
i wonder how much work life balance plays a role in this. Since we're at a point of record low work life balance maybe people simply aren't making enough time to enjoy themselves in groups? Imagine if we live in a world where people only worked 6 hours a day and spent the other 2 socializing with peers? would it make a difference?
Well to be fair to the 2600 - the ibm bios brings a fair few kilobytes of code to the fight.
Looks like a 2 person tester for super sonic flight, not a private jet for 2 people. The difference is they could produce a commercial level super sonic jet someday and that is cool.
You clearly haven't taken public transportation at peak hours.. When even finding a single available seat is impossible.

No one is able to enjoy their latte and "read", people are crammed together and have to keep moving further back to allow for others to join in.

Have fun not missing your exit station..
Concorde 2.0: Can Boom Technologies Bring Back Supersonic Passenger Flight?
Machine Learning Drives High-Level Synthesis Boom
Yeah, that was silly and disingenuous. We're talking about a guy who could have retired in lavish luxury 15+ years ago if 'riches' were all he wanted. He is Mars or bust and looks like he's put together a company with the chops to pull it off.
Quassel IRC (an IRC client) does, for example.
Notice the memory and file I/O, huge gulfs in performance. The focus of my comment though was about Amazon's restrictive leaky bucket CPU allocation scheme, you can burn through your allocation of high cpu use and then get throttled to 5% of peak use iirc for hours while this bucket refills. DO lets you use much more CPU comparatively.
I use IRCCloud, and sit mostly on a few Freenode channels. It’s still pretty common for open source developers to congregate on IRC.

I used to run a personal ZNC instance when I still used IRC to socialize, but Discord killed it all, and honestly as stuff got “too big” I even left a lot of the Discord servers as well to escape the nasty annoying drama. Now IRC Cloud makes more sense because it gives me push notifications; I don’t actively sit on IRC much now.
The angry gaming YouTubers who turn outrage into views
My first business partner was a good friend from high school and college roommate after college I convinced him he could build something I wanted to try, and then gave him half the company :). We worked together for ~12 years and then went our separate ways after a few companies together. It didn't end well but that is a separate story.

New business partner, I found on HN, hired him for some freelance work for 6 months, then pitched him on an idea and now working on it together :).
One thing that you'll notice stands out if you look at this code and compare it to what a compiler might generate is the very efficient use of registers; indeed, a compiler that can do this level of optimisation/code generation would be a "holy grail", but there's been little effort towards that since traditional code generation and optimisation is "good enough" for most purposes. However, as this example shows, the actual limit is still very far away.
It’s a “feature” — things self dispose and you don’t end up with lots of junk in orbit
Possibly.

The wealthiest person I ever dated (he wasn't super wealthy while we were together just doing well, but I just saw him a month ago and he was excited because he CAN retire now but doesn't want to - he's 38) spent TONS of money doing rich people things in the pursuit of wealth, he stretched his bank account very thin over and over doing this.

Going to Sundance, Cannes, Burning Man, TED, etc to network. Spending gobs of money on impressing friends and others he wanted to be friends with. Picking up thousand dollar tabs for groups of people then minorly freaking out the next day.

But spend money to make money. Worked for him. And he got to be super self-indulgent along the way.
Yeah, I read that....but how? I can already do that with tooling I already have. What's the benefits for me over a bunch of bash and powershell scripts?
sysadmin here; can confirm.