skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "No we can't teach them," she said. "We try as much as we can to not interfere with the gorillas. We don't want to affect their natural behavior."

Tsk. Like the Prime Directive but in the real world.

Well, isn't it the natural behaviour of gorillas to learn? If they can learn by observing humans, without the humans specifically intending it, then what's so different, or unethical, if it's done with intent? I think this is just splitting of moral hairs that is missing an opportunity to help the gorillas protect themselves against poachers.

Anyway, if we left the gorillas on their own, without interfering, they'd eventually be wiped out by poachers and others.

P.S. It strikes me that the center's workers could have actually shown the gorillas how to dismantle the snares and are only pretending to be surprised at their "unprecedented" behaviour. But I'm proably just paranoid and jaded.
sounds like wrong because different
That's a rather contrived example and completely fictional.

How do you get that verified number of clients that "have all sufficient 5 star transactions with the rest of the network"? What if a 5 star company doesn't want to treat with a no-star client? How does a no-star client become a 5 star client?

Do no-star clients just have to hope and pray with no/low-star vendors? Or hope a 5 star vendor takes pity on them?

Also, what's the difference between a "5 star transaction" and a "4 star" one? Why not just "Successful" and "Unsuccessful"?

You just make the claim that "the automated verification tools are already in place to make cheating unprofitable."

That's a huge leap already. I don't grant you the assumption that they would exist. How do we even get there?

It's basically: "Assume a perfect system. See, it's perfect!"
Ask HN: Is a Masters in Computer Science Still Worth It?
With the rise of the coding bootcamps, I've started to wonder if I should get a higher degree (I currently have a bachelor's in CS) to differentiate myself in the job market long-term.

On the other hand, by the same token, there seems to be a surging interest in lower-skilled programmers and a corresponding lower emphasis on highly-skilled ones.

Is a Master's a better or worse investment than it used to be, in the realm of Computer Science? Do employers care? Are there any anecdotes from people who have seen a notable return on that investment?
I tried Hákarl[1] when I was in Iceland and I do not think I have ever felt so betrayed by a food. It really destroyed my interest in trying any other aged fish dishes, but one of my friends loved it.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl
What is a "naughty step"?
What do you mean steam powered cars? When I think of an X powered car I think of putting X into the car to power it. You put petrol in a petrol car and electric power in an electric car. You don't put steam in a steam train, aren't they actually coal powered? According to Wikipedia, steam cars just ran on petrol, but the combustion engine was external, and the car was less efficient overall. Steam engines don't seem to make sense for cars.
But this is today possible using cloud.

Earlier we had power plants designed in the old way because we didn't have computers which could analyze and predict and neither we had the solid state thyristors.

So today you can hookup lots of control systems to cloud.

This is similar to flying wing aircraft which were not feasible back in time but now they are making their way into mainstream.
Ask HN: What lookup services do you use to ID a caller?
As most of us are probably receiving a high number of scam, telemarketing, robocalls, what techniques or lookup services do you use to ID the caller?
Yes, the only thing blockchain really does is relieve you of the responsibility of trusting the record holder.
So how do you gas it up? Full service stations are rare outside of NJ these days.
What a useless an arrogant response. Have a nice day
Could you give examples of this? I use Gimp non-professionally a few times a week. (Photo development work is done in other apps, including RawTherapee and Lightroom.) I must say that I find GIMP incredibly easy to use, much easier than Photoshop for example (but also much less powerful than Photoshop).

The tools consistently make sense and are where I expect them to be, and I find the menu bar to be well set up. Dividing the different functions into Image / Layer / Colors / Filters makes a lot of sense to me. (I do use the system GTK theme with color icons, which I don't think is the default, but it makes the tools much easier to see for me.)

I'm not doubting that some people have trouble using GIMP but I have no idea what those problems are, because most people aren't specific about what parts of the UI confuse them. I've yet to see a graphics editing program that was at least as powerful as GIMP and less confusing.
2m amateur radio band endangered?
I wonder if we should show them how to write software?
"This is like saying a fair and balanced account of the Kent State Shootings must include a discussion of students throwing teargas at the national guard[1]" would perhaps be a more accurate historical comparison.

But I think a reductio ad absurdum to Godwin in this case makes the point more eloquently. I.e. that the GP is making an appeal to a balanced treatment of violence of "both sides" where one side is literally a totalitarian government that the people in question have no non-violent recourse to replace.

1. https://omeka.library.kent.edu/special-collections/items/sho...
Hey, that makes me feel a bit better about some of my software projects too! ;)
>If you have to track your hours to be paid (or not terminated), then you are by definition not a salaried employee: you are hourly.

Every law firm I know of has their associates keep track of hours and all are on salary. I assume the lawyers know what they are doing.
I quit my job, and moved to another state only to be presented with an egregious unenforceable noncompete on my first day of the new job.

Signing it knowing I was in the clear was the best of a couple bad options.
Attacking Weakly-Configured EAP-TLS Wireless Infrastructures
The problem here is that poachers could have guns, so even though gorillas are extremely strong, and a gorilla with a knife is a scary prospect close-up, a poacher with a gun wouldn't have much problem killing the gorilla.

The solution is simple: give guns to gorillas and teach them to shoot them. Now we'll have gorilla warfare...
You can sell unsorted lego by the pound (on Ebay they will fetch ~$8/pound), if there are no minifigs or special bricks. If you have minifigs or special bricks, and are willing to pull them out and sell separately, you'll make much more.

Prices on Craigslist in higher cost areas tend to be higher, as usual. If you live in a higher cost area, buy on Ebay, sell on Craigslist.
I just spent $60 for some quick image work we needed, worked well and it is easier than trying to find someone long term.
It also works to practice with coworkers, friends, and really anything with a modicum of intelligence and a limbic system.
I wonder if Lawrence Tabak has any personal financial interests in US cancer drug companies.
I wish you all the best, and thank you for the greetings! :-)
> if there's also a written contract, they overrule any unwritten agreements

That typically only applies in situations where the agreement is otherwise ambiguous. The most common example being "A: We verbally agreed to $1 and I signed. B: But what you signed say $1.10" often in these situations the written contract win.

However in this case they are in a written format explicitly clarifying the contents of the contract which you are allowed to do as long as the interpretation you agree to doesn't meaningfully diverge from what was written in a way that doesn't follow standard practice. As the doctor said it is common practice to avoid consuming alcohol with medicine that has known interactions with it. Even if the original contract is unambiguous no one is going to side against OP on the topic of "we both agreed that it meant when taking certain medicines" since the original verbiage didn't follow standard practice by the clarified verbiage did.
As of this month a Google post claims that the anti-adblocker stuff is still under development. I can't find any sources claiming it is in 76, so I don't think it is.
I look at it from this standpoint. It is highly unlikely in many parts of the world that the government now laying claim to an artifact has any relationship to the government if any at the time that existed in the same area. Just because you live in the same area should not automatically be an absolute right.

The care of the artifact must be weighed against those who seek to claim it.

Even items freely given have had attempts to take them back. I also am greatly concerned with antiquities returning to areas which have experience real strife if not outright wars. Especially the rash of religion based conflicts even between sects of the same. We have seen the destruction visited upon irreplaceable sites and this must be a consideration before any object is sent to a claimant.
"Kids these days are so rude"
Your first paragraph contradicts your second paragraph.
Fun with LEDs and CircuitPython
One thing unclear to me from this paper is on what sources of information did they classify the orgs by model -- was it only by founder and executive claims, or were there other sources? (Simple example: when an executive claims the Star model, was the top-salary component of that checked against available industry salary info?)

Why this question came to mind, while I was reading and then skimming: some of these models we see claimed as attractions for recruiting and PR purposes, yet industry chatter often suggests that, say, a company that's been claiming the glamorous Star is maybe more the less-glamorous Bureaucracy or Autocracy.
What are you talking about? There are so many legit people offering legit services there. Yes, many of them are first timers, but their site clearly lets you choose people based on reviews and ratings.
Panda porn shown in attempt to get two to mate
I had to let someone into my work to do generator maintenance the other day, and he handed me an iPad to sign that said literally nothing on the screen except 'signature'. He seemed surprised that I wasn't going to sign something I couldn't read.
In Russia, website don't work
Anyone uses "chilling effect on investment" in an argument for something is probably lying through their teeth trying to deceive you.

See also: trickle down economics, safety regulations, consumer financial protections...
And more importantly, the Model T was a factor of 6 cheaper than the competing steam cars.

External combustion just sucks. Heat exchangers, or indeed anything that transmits heat through solid/fluid interfaces, are not something you want if you can avoid it. The ICE has the advantage that the working fluid carries most of the waste heat away from the vehicle.

Interestingly, we're seeing the same thing play out in stationary power plants today. Gas turbines are beating steam-based power plants (coal, nuclear), because they have much lower capital cost.
if you buy a new erp, and it comes with a set of best practice process, and your management and employees all insist on transposing the new process onto the new software, in some cases why even buy the new software. its a different coat of paint on the same thing. youre buying a new erp for the change in process, but you refuse to adopt it.
At the end of your article:

"I understand that AD affects many families who would very much like to have an intervention for the disease, and are anxious to see this trial clinical proceed. Nevertheless, I do not feel that this trial is warranted based on the existing data. Additional studies are needed to understand the mechanistic connection between HSV-1 infection and AD, and specifically to clarify whether infectious virus, or viral proteins are involved."

Sounds like it's not yet in the realm of proven effectiveness.
Very awesome, but a bit outside my budget considerations... right now, looking at about $3500 for a 3950X build, and that's about my max on this. If they do a 32 core for $1200 or so, might be able to swing that.
Isn't that only in chrome, not chromium? I didn't think that was being upstreamed.
Better to use accurate language like "5 more moments" or "time to wrap up" or "one last ride", to avoid messing up your child's budding sense of chronology and numeracy.
Tesla Autopilot Perception Lead Leaves to Join Self-Driving Truck Startup Embark
I mean it's not like they're exclusively doing this to ethnic Chinese-Americans, just anyone associated with the PRC. You're taking it out of context.
A new approach to cleaning heavy metals out of soil
I dont know why this was downvoted. The other way really works too. Adults adapt to what child does both consciously and subconsciously. The difference is that the child at that age does not do it for purpose, they dont plan yet.
You're probably thinking of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parol_evidence_rule.
Exactly. It's more natural to allow humans to poach them out of existence than it is to potentially equip them to protect themselves from the same?
>O- donors can only accept O- blood so it is important they keep donating to give to other O- patients.

Actually, this isn't quite true, according to what I've read. When an O- person needs blood, they usually give him O+ blood, not O-, because they want to preserve it (and because they may not know the patient's blood type). The first time this happens, it's no big deal, but then the Rh- recipient develops antibodies to the Rh factor. So the next time the O- person gets a transfusion, they probably die.

I'm an O- person, so I wasn't too thrilled to read this. Luckily I haven't received any transfusions yet, so I have one free "life"; after that, it's game-over.

I hope this new research works out.
I'm curious as a future parent: How old was she, and how do you think she would have responded with an explaination of what was going on: She's jealous because she sees the baby getting more attention than she is, and explaining when she was a baby, she got just as much attention and that you love them both equally.
Kimberly Bryant Started Black Girls Code with Her 401(k)–and Taught 14,000
I feel that if any human was found to be teaching gorillas how to do human things, they would ultimately suffer punishment like Prometheus who taught humans how to use the fire of the gods.
> "If we could get more of them doing it, it would be great," he joked. Karisoke's Vecellio, though, said actively instructing the apes would be against the center's ethos. "No we can't teach them," she said. "We try as much as we can to not interfere with the gorillas. We don't want to affect their natural behavior."

I would think that the main danger is in habituating the gorillas to humans, teaching them that we're safe when we're not. It may be better if any human interaction with them is aversive but not damaging, like pepper spray.
The smell and texture were such that I felt an urgent need to temporarily become a vegetarian. But one other HN'er was present at that dinner and gave in to peer pressure, maybe he'll chime in.
Millennial gorillas are killing the poaching industry.
The purpose of a consent form is not usually to create a contract but to comply with a statute requiring written consent to be obtained.
Not software probably, but could be a plan B for Uber's "driverless" cars.
The idea that anyone person or entity should be able to 'own' information about curing cancer is such a moral abyss.

When someone talks about "stealing" in this context, they are revealing that they care more about their right to rent seek from the poor than basic human decency.
Microsoft’s xCloud can’t and shouldn’t be compared with Google Stadia
Looks very interesting! I think you have the right approach, doing an "easy" thing safely to start with.

Have you experimented with stereo cameras for telepresence? How does it compare with multiple fixed cameras?
> If this was a commercial project, his income would be magnitudes higher.

If it was a commercial project I imagine there would likely need to be other staff involved, and adoption would be lesser. Whether that ends up being more or less money for him in specific in the end (or whether the project/company would survive) is not without question, in my mind.
Give them a way to transmit video tutorials to other gorilla's, skip writing.
Gluu is possibly an off-the-shelf solution: https://www.gluu.org (I’m not deeply familiar with its authorization capabilities)
Poaching the poachers....
Yep -- I'm talking about ARM Cortex equipped internet connected boxes -- think residential solar, 5G rollout, small cells -- all on a genuine internet of power.
> My 2018 motorcycle tops out at 110mph

This is a silly point of fact. Motorcycles have been capable of achieving far greater than 110 mph for a long time; a top speed of 110mph puts your 2018 vehicle on the low end of the speed range for "motorcycle" class vehicles (as opposed to scooters, mopeds, ebikes, etc). My random 1997 low-end 600cc sportbike could exceed 130 mph when it was 15 years old.
You swear to it in writing or in the witness box.
Your edits don't matter unless the counter-party initials them.
This seems useful. Is there a point at which you think it would be useful to phase out the use of a specialized safe-word & transition to a more widely understood form of signalling discomfort, or using other strategies such leaving the situation or reading book or putting on headphones etc.?

Have you had situations where this "safe-word" is used where you felt the situation wasn't severe enough to require shutting down, and asked your son to try to communicate his needs in plain language?

The safe-word sounds useful but I know that for my kids I would not be comfortable with them "pulling the fire alarm" merely because a discussion was uncomfortable for them, I'd ask them instead to find a way to make their request in plain English. My concern with overuse is the "safe-word" turning into a _substitute_ for expressing one's needs clearly.

Cool system tho! I might try it out.
Based on the quality of some code bases I suspect that we passed that point long ago.
> Sure. I'll take that bet. It will be a disaster.

I understand the "bet" here is figurative, but it's pretty sad to bet on the misery of others. We should have realistic expectations for how this project is likely to work out, but we shouldn't give into cynicism before the project has even gotten started.

You'll probably end up proven right, but in this instance, I hope you're wrong. You should hope you're wrong too.
Nah. 2 kids or similar age are easier then one pretty much after year one. They spend a lot of time playing/interacting together while if you have one, you are sole source of social interaction.
I sort of naively assumed that any binary classification task on images nowadays would be done with a deep NN.

Are there any proposed techniques for detecting fakes that can't be easily differentiated through?
Do you think the center has a trained eagle?
See also https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa (lower-level building-block) and https://github.com/ory/keto (built on OPA)
Hmm, I guess I'm a victim of still being on a Windows Phone in 2019.
You can use relaxation for discrete variables (e.g. by using convex simplex), replacing them with differentiable variables, and then just discretize after the very end of the computation. A common trick for variational autoencoders that are another way to do generative models.
Which is to say, I suppose...

that you are not on equal footing with the government.
The fact that it's the case for the majority of tech companies is actually new.

The internet trends slides which were on the front page a couple of days ago showed just this phenomenon.
I remember long ago hearing about a cool graphene application getting patented by some public university out east. It made me really upset. There's so many awesome ideas coming out of public universities that never go anywhere due to IP hoarding.

It takes a lot of different people and perspectives to make something happen at scale. Keep these important ideas flowing and open!
I'm hoping for one that automatically redirects to mobile versions. Since I do most things on Raspberry Pi, for example, I read mobile.cnn.com instead of the www version of articles. Same with twitter. But as of yet I haven't seen anything that rewrites clicked url's that way.

That mixed with your plugin would be divine since some of the paywall popups lock the rpi up for a bit in the same way excessive graphics, never ending content background loads, animated ads, etc, do.
So,is present time the another Neanderthal moment in our history?
Any attempt to enforce intellectual property around cancer research is moral bankruptcy.

We should not value the "right to rent seek" over basic human decency and access to life-saving knowledge - ever.
Use a forwarding service, rear or virtul. Don't sell out strngers data.
It seems to me there are two smart ways to go about this. One is Startsky's path of starting their own company. The other is a company like Tesla teaming up with one or more existing big trucking companies, which would be motivated to do that to lower costs and overcome their huge problems hiring drivers.
What's the point of this though? Surely it hurts tourism to China? Wouldn't it be better if foreigners could easily use wechat pay?
Hah -- hello, neighbor!

Indeed I should've said $20-100 EACH, not total. It adds up to lots annually.
Nurburgring has a notoriously long lap. Fast times are measured in handfuls of minutes. It's an interesting fact that Teslas aren't race cars capable of going full out for minutes on end, but I'm not sure that's relevant to most potential customers.
The extension is available on both Chrome and Firefox

Slightly off-topic, but why not Safari? Is it harder to program plug-ins than the others? Not enough market share? Just don't have the hardware?
I have used this one

https://www.everyoneapi.com/

together with a whitelist of people I know plus a

https://callerid.com/

I don't have the system stacked up right now but one of these days I will put it back together.
Hákarl FTW. I got couple Icelandic friends and they said the way to make Surströmming was to dig a hole in the sand, put the fish in, piss on it, and cover it up to let it ferment, to get the legendary authentic smell out of it. Not sure how true that is.
To me this is a strangely written paper although the results might be some what interesting. They just optimize over a different set of functions than you normally do in NN training and find solutions to various problems.
That they claim that the weights "are the solution" in normal NN training is wrong. Of course the weights AND the architecture are both important since they define the set of functions you search over. That you can find solutions by only searching over architecture is not surprising since the architecture is the combination of different operations.
>Bush-meat hunters set thousands of rope-and-branch snares in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, where the mountain gorillas live. The traps are intended for antelope and other species but sometimes capture the apes.

>The hunters, Vecellio said, seem to have no interest in the gorillas. Even small apes, which would be relatively easy to carry away for sale, are left to die.

Pretty misleading for the title to blame poachers then, isn't it?
Also related: Sirlin's article on Donkey Kong Country 2's level design. http://www.sirlin.net/articles/the-secrets-of-donkey-kong-co...
Squirrel Alarm Calls Are Surprisingly Complex
Don't forget the main feature, it won't let you block those pesky ads!
I've had the same thought about rotary motors, they're interesting beasts and I wonder what we'd see if they had the same R&D investment like we saw in piston engines.

Alas I think that ship has sailed, aside from energy density the modern electric VFD wins along a whole range of design constraints(torque, size, latency/traction response, efficiency, etc).