skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Best”? No. But evolution isn’t even trying, and only gave us what we have by trial and error. Most of those errors are worse. We’re descended from the mutations which were not worse, but every mutation was random and unplanned (by any reasonable use of the word), all the way back to the primordial soup.
According to Wikipedia[1] the title goes back and forth. In 2012, the latest year for which the article has numbers, India had more. Despite being 1/4th the size of the US.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arable_land
The host is James May of Top Gear and The Grand Tour. He does a lot of quirky documentaries for the BBC like "Big Trouble in Model Britain." It's two episodes and pretty interesting and I have minimal interest in model trains.
DRM and they screwed Doom music! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh7nZ9t2eJA
> Only about 2% of the U.S. population is of full Ashkenazi Jewish descent, but 27% of United States Nobel prize winners in the 20th century, 25% of the winners of the Fields Medal (the top prize in mathematics), 25% of ACM Turing Award winners, a quarter of Westinghouse Science Talent Search winners, and 38% of the Oscar-winning film directors have either full or partial Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.

So what percentage of the population has partial Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry?
The causes are the same, the effects accumulate over time
For now. There is absolutely no reason to suspect that won't change in the future.
Where don’t they in the developed world? I’m confused by your comment.
>In some sense DG is the foundation of all modern AI/ML/DL approach.

in what sense? i love when people say pretentious things like this to sound authoritative.

just because you take derivatives doesn't mean it's calculus. DG is not calculus - DG is calculus in spaces aren't globally flat but are locally flat. very different.

>The bar is just too high for normal people

in most schools that have DG classes they're junior level. certainly this class is a junior level class

http://brickisland.net/DDGSpring2019/grading-policy/

(no i didn't attend CMU or any similar tier school so i'm not speaking from a place of dunning-Kruger)
Actual paper.[1] This looks like someone's science fair project.
This chemistry has lower energy density than nickel-iron (Edison, 1901). Iron batteries are commercially available.[2] Not much of interest here.

[1] https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S2468067219300318
[2] https://www.essinc.com/energy-storage-products/
GitLab.com is hosted in the US. The GitLab on prem software can be hosted wherever the hell you want
Most probably wrong. Code and requirement tracability is mandatory when we do safety critical system. If you have an audit, they can pick a source file or even line of code and ask you to find why it was added and the associated requirement. They can also ask you to show the test report where it was tested
> So now we're automating a 5 minute job that can be done by the office assistant, which will be performed 730 times.

Mandatory xkcd reference: https://xkcd.com/1205/
I was looking for exactly this only hours ago, and did not know exactly how to phrase it in my google search. Such a bizarre coincidence.

From page 8:
"The manifold assumption is powerful because it lets us
translate many of the things we know how to do in flat Euclidean spaces (e.g., work with vectors,
differentiate, integrate, etc.) to more interesting curved spaces."

To be clear, it's not that I have worked with this in the past and merely forgot or something like that. I was thinking about linear transformations and essentially had the idea of taking that power to curved spaces and had no clue what would get me there or if that was even possible. Thank you for posting this. You saved me a lot of trouble.
> I've seen some countries move towards renewables, but nothing on the required scale.

This is a form of a tired and invalid argument that one often sees. It's basically "nothing can ever happen for the first time." It also ignores the details of just what has been happening.

Renewables have declined in price very quickly. The timescale for this decline has been shorter than the lifespan of installed generating infrastructure. This is very unusual for power technology, so if one is not careful one may be misled, as you apparently have been. We're in a weird situation where that installed base is obsolete. It's still there, churning away, but only because its capital cost is written off. And some is being ripped out because it can't even earn its operating costs now.

What you want to look at is not this set of stranded assets, but the choices being made for new capacity. That is becoming overwhelmingly renewable. General Electric, for example, is in a world of hurt right now because the demand for gas turbines is collapsing. And nuclear fission or coal with steam turbines? Dead technologies.
From an Open Source developer point of view, yes, of course. Open Source projects should not be hosted with them. Period. It completely betrays the spirit of the licenses the code is released under, which guarantees access to anyone, regardless of political, religious, etc.
It didn’t ask for my social security number. I would have remembered. I don’t know my wife’s ssn by heart and I filled it out for her.
So you are following your own advice, fighting in the streets against the Trump Regime ?
This argument never made much sense to me because overall IQ is correlated positively with health and longevity. Sure, it might change the nature of the afflictions we get, but mostly this just feels like an argument from just comeuppance, when in reality nature doesn't give a damn about being fair.
Interesting I assume you are referring to this post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20294801
Obligatory Dilbert: https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-07-11

(Obviously not saying OP is an uninformed pundit — topic just sparked a funny memory)
How the Plastics Industry Is Fighting to Keep Polluting the World
This article ends abruptly
Antiques Road Show: The Real State of the U.S. Military
There is so much content. Great content, too. The miracle of over 100 years of mass media recording tech. And, you know, 4000ish years of written word records and storytelling. Ad-supported web trash is mostly just a distraction from better things that can be had used for just a little money, or checked out from a library. My life'd probably improve if it all went away (Web would have a better wheat/chaff ratio, I'd be less distracted by junk).

So sure, make your sites, services, and content so annoying that I stop using them, and close copying loopholes, somehow. Or ban spyvertising and let it all go down in the flames of the prophesied ad-pocalypse. I really don't care a bit either way.
"Credit monitoring" is not limited to merely paying the surveillance companies themselves to give you a heads up if they're working on a new conspiracy against you. It is only within their own paradigm that the general concept of credit is subservient to their own databases.

My credit is self monitored. Any credit/contract taken out claiming association with my public identifiers (eg name, SSN, etc) but without legal notice to my longstanding address of record is prima facie invalid. So I review all of the junk mail that comes into my mailbox, which does cost actual time, primarily due to the negligent operations of these ambient-authority-demanding surveillance shitheads.
I mostly agree with you here, but I think your rhetoric lets (those currently viewed as) the perpetrators off too easy. The companies are failing in their duty, but the fraudsters are actively malicious. Beyond the rhetoric, I don't think you've actually proposed reducing our punishment/pursuit of those people. Your proposed solution is very interesting.
I have used them maybe in a weird way. It might be a really stupid way too, but it made my life way simpler.

I had some legacy code that was being repurposed and I couldn't touch the production environment, not even to build again.

I could have tried building new VMs, but in the end I defined the build process with a Dockerfile. Environment variables, compilers, external dependencies, all of it done when you ran "docker build". There was a small script to orchestrate that and copy out the results too.

The build environment was consistent, it was easy to tweak, and I could build for centos 6, centos 7, and suse 12 on any machines. That let me use my test box to implement and test any environment changes before it moved to production. It also let the primary developers build their own versions of it whenever they had made a change that needed testing.

It's not at all like any of the use-cases I read about, but it made my life so much easier.
Is it possible he edited the code? I don’t see the append in the blog post.
Man makes doodle, gets job offer from Google
How about this by Gary Becker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Becker

Becker, Gary S & Tomes, Nigel, 1986. "Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 4(3), pages 1-39, July.

"The authors examine a number of empirical studies for different countries. Regression to the mean in earnings in rich countries appears to be rapid. Almost all the earnings advantages or disadvantages of ancestors are wiped out in three generations."
Indian scientists develops Maglev Train with 800 kmph speed
> If you read their privacy policy and ToS you'll learn they are able to sell your data as part of all the free services they provide you.

So my choices are let a 3rd party pay the credit agency for that info and I get nothing, or let CK pay the credit agency for that info and I get something for free.

Sounds like CK is still the better deal.
I am sure these best genes will "trickle down".
Didn't bother to read the article, because the title seems silly. Firstly, we don't have a clue about the genetic architecture of intelligence, so genetic engineering is a ways off. Secondly, what is GRM ("Genetic Rights Management") going to look like? Copy-protection of genes almost seems like a contradiction in terms.
No, some container went rogue, and in the process dragged the Docker daemon which annoyed him PLUS he'd learnt that it was possible to run containers rootless and daemonless SO he changed his setup. Please RTFA.
I’m also curious on what Bethesa sends back since there doesn't seem to be a lot of justification in having auth in the first-place (example: multiplayer is local only).
Interesting. My gut instinct is that Iran is a small country, but apparently my gut is wrong. It's in the top 10% by population and by area. [1] Of course "large" and "small" aren't well-defined. You could make a case that there are only two "large" countries (China, India) and all the rest are "small."

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by...
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Completely wrong.

It is like asserting something about C based on GCC specific behaviour.

Java is not a single language implementation.
And most (over 80%) of countries are way smaller, so there's that...
So there should be no protest then ?
Of course it is the point of sanctions. But this is also why sanctions are wrong. As Ron Paul repeatedly said, sanctions are akin to war.
Shouldn‘t one protest the bombing of cities because „that‘s the whole point of war“
The roots are when they moved the Boeing Headquarters from Seattle, where they made airplanes, to Chicago, where they did not.

They stopped being an engineering and production company and became a marketing and accounting company.
The elephant in the room is that we made requirements for getting a completely new plain design into the market so expensive and time-consuming, that Boeing cut corners and reused an existing design to get around the process.
The latter half of the article makes specific claims to how lack of FAA expertise and manpower, and increasing deference and complacency to the industry's self-reporting, led to missed signals. For example:

> When company engineers analyzed the change, they figured that the system had not become any riskier, according to two people familiar with Boeing’s discussions on the matter...So the company never submitted an updated safety assessment of those changes to the agency. In several briefings in 2016, an F.A.A. test pilot learned the details of the system from Boeing. But the two F.A.A. engineers didn’t understand that MCAS could move the tail as much as 2.5 degrees, according to two people familiar with their thinking.

> Under the impression the system was insignificant, officials didn’t require Boeing to tell pilots about MCAS. When the company asked to remove mention of MCAS from the pilot’s manual, the agency agreed.

The "change" mentioned is Boeing overhauling MCAS to have a four-fold increase in magnitude of control over the stabilizer (2.5 degrees vs 0.6 degrees). Your belief is that the FAA, even with a better-staffed review team, and less of a culture of rubber-stamping industry engineer assessments, would have reached the same conclusion? And/or do you think the MCAS change is actually not a problem it's scapegoated to be, and that Boeing was right to tell FAA to remove it from the pilot's manual?
Timestampy – Bunch of utilities useful when working with Unix timestamps
I'm currently reading the book the book, "Utopia for Realists" by Rutger Bregman. I consider myself fairly intelligent, but of course knowledgeable in just a few domains, but he brought up something that I'm ashamed to not have realized for myself.

Simon Kuznets, a Russian emigre to the US, developed the concept of the GDP in 1934, and according to Bregman, tracking the GDP was a significant factor in the US's ability to harness its manufacturing capability during the war effort; most countries had a significantly inferior understanding of their own production dynamics.

As useful was it was for the war effort, Kuznets warned that the GDP should be redefined after the war, as the country's needs had changed. Instead, military spending is part of the GDP. No party wants to significantly cut back on military spending because it would affect the GDP. So not only does the GDP encourage increased military spending, it doesn't reward so many things that would be beneficial to society, and thus little effort is spent optimizing for those things.

TL;DR: if the GDP doesn't measure it, there is no political will to address it, and if the GDP does measure it, it is a political necessity to boost spending in that area. Thus, needless military spending, rent seeking money shuffling on wall street, and advertising are richly rewarded as they are included in the GDP.
It is being addressed. Not at the level of governmental cooperation, but some of the things that really matter are being done in spite of that.

Solar cell prices have decreased by 300x over the last 40 years and continue to do so. Similarly, solar production capacity and installations have increased very significantly.

There are also more electric car companies and models than ever before.
Is there a jurisdiction which doesn’t have such suspicion? The 1A can weather a lot and carries a lot of weight. Obviously in this case the government has carve-outs for these things but I suspect other jurisdictions have bigger carve-outs.
There is a bit of precedent in Bryan Cantrill's 2008 video of Brendan Gregg shouting at some disks and inducing latency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 (HN discussion last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17388144)

But yeah, a) turning it from simply detecting that loud sound is happening to getting a meaningful audio channel out of the sound and b) treating this as a security concern instead of just a performance one (and flipping the direction of the attack, from sound attacking drive performance to drives attacking sound privacy) is novel, AFAIK.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/world/asia/study-links-po...

https://dceg.cancer.gov/research/what-we-study/drinking-wate...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/01/california-t...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2782753/

To sum up - cancer is driven by our environment, not just random mutations. As commented by others - we are doing a lot more to our environment and food sources to drive cancer (and other health problems) than random chance.

This link is for fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVnMBGXVVUI
Plenty of counter-examples. Domestic US flights vs European ones for one.
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I gave up discussing this on reddit because it seems most gamers don’t want to look deep into the business or ethical issues about situations like this, horse armor, etc.

“Give and inch, take a mile”.
I used to be involved in the online gifted community. Slightly above average IQ is correlated with generally doing better across the board. "Genius" type IQs are so strongly associated with a raft load of various problems, such as ADHD and OCD, that some people call them comormidities for lack of a better word.

The information stuck with me because I have a genetic disorder and was one of the top people in my graduating high school class and won a National Merit Scholarship. I'm certainly not looking for some "gotcha" for smart people, just trying to make my own life work.

I know a bit more than average about both genetic disorders and high intelligence. My knowledge of both is certainly not motivated by some ugly impetus.
Why would Credit Karma need to sell your data to other companies? Other companies already have the same high level access to your credit without you giving them permission to it.

Credit Karma tries to sell you services based on your credit.

Companies like Credit Karma or even companies like Facebook and Google don’t sell your data. They sell access to you based on the data they have.

The distinction makes a big difference. If a law is passed saying that a company is not allowed to give out your data, it doesn’t really hurt companies.
>I’m more than happy to let the rich buy the best genes first, if that means that everyone else will get to buy them later.

Why would they sell it to you later?

Even more so, why would they even need most people (say 80% or so)? Automation wins and AI means they don't have to, in order to maintain their status quo and build things.

It's more likely for the west to become the same way large parts of the third world already are: some highly advanced zones cut off by walls, police, private armies etc. (which get the genes) and huge areas of slums...
I'm the author and maintainer of Squashfs and I can assure you that Squashfs is not unmaintained. Over the last couple of years Squashfs has been stable, without requests for new features, and so work have been mostly only security improvements and bug fixes. But there is a big difference between that and claiming Squashfs is unmaintained.

In fact I don't know why you're claiming it is unmaintained. Got an axe to grind perhaps?
Yet he misses the fact that Java isn't defined by a single implementation and the standard library reference doesn't dictate how each Java compliant implementation is required to provide BufferedReader behaviour.
Completely new plane designs are being introduced into the market all the time. What are you talking about?
Well, that is exactly to be expected and is exactly what is predicted by economic theory: Markets only actually function under regulation, unregulated markets lead to monopolies or monopsonies.
http://www.cr31.co.uk/stagecast/trains/tt3_ham.html

http://www.monochrom.at/turingtrainterminal/Chalcraft.pdf
Docker 19.03 has a rootless option

https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/docs/rootless.md

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20542915
Look at it this way: a lot of smart people contribute to common goods, e.g. scholarly progress. So in a way, it'll benefit everyone.

I understand the counter-argument. But isn't a bit of a strange feature of the world that people kinda don't want more people to be produced with a higher IQ than themselves?
Nice observation. Maybe the vulnerability might be related to spoofing SPF and other security mechanism? They should be fixing this by now.
There is a massive difference between earnings and wealth.
Someone has to beta test genetic enhancement before it becomes mainstream. If it is currently expensive, only the rich can pay it... or pay other people to be the guinea pigs.

It understandably hurts traditional western sensibilities, but genetic engineering is the inevitable cusp of evolution. At the base it's natural selection, then civilization added social selection on top, and finally tech will finish the pyramid with genetic engineering.
s/Bellingcat/SomethingAwful Posters/g
Don't worry, this technology is promising both strong jaws and big brains
"Boeing did not build great planes because of the FAA. They built them because their culture and expertise were aligned to do so."

People say things like this, that when a company is competent, or ethical, or whatever, that it's not thanks to the government.

Yet I hear/read every day where a company says that they cannot do a given sensible, or ethical thing because it is not mandated by law. Every disclosure (e.g. privacy) I get with a financial account says that they cannot give customers more rights than are mandated by law.

I wonder what the reason for this disconnect is?
This was not regarded as a new aircraft development but a variant of an existing design. This meant less scrutiny. Variants deliberately push the boundaries of what it means to be the same design to avoid the scrutiny given to a new design
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Giving you the benefit of the doubt about the approval process for new plane designs, what does that have to do with the more directly relevant cost-cutting that Boeing pushed for: minimizing pilot training on the MAX system?
Perhaps a different way of asking the question is 'will the rich be buying the best genes?'

And the answer is 'yes' because they already are, in limited ways.

But we may be overlooking the breadth of the 'rich' in the future. Most humans today are far more rich than anyone else alive in the recent past. If this trend continues into the future, the accessibility and affordability of gene selection will make it commonplace.
At the start of our living together, me and my wife bought cheap kitchen appliances. Two years later, straight after the warranty expired, most of them died. One of them actually gave a very close call to a nasty accident. So now we learned. We buy the good stuff, based on brand experience and word of mouth from friends. If we havent the money, a second hand good one is in general both cheaper and better than the bad ones. It takes some time to find them sometimes. I know lots of people doing the same.

So you are right in the short term, but consumers learn. This will bite cheaper brands in the long term.
Same boat. I actually don't mind most ads. Then the slow page loading, CPU melting became annoying. And on mobile, even reputable sites were having ads hijack the browser. I'm done, I only use Opera or Brave now. I feel like I was a target demographic to advertise to, and they abused me instead.
generating HDD head movements in a way to encode info in the resulting noise

That's not so interesting, as anyone who has used a machine with an audible hard drive knows --- you can tell whether the system is idle, working, or doing something strange ("I'm not doing anything that would write to the disk, why is it still grinding?") just by the sound.