skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure ad hominem applies, since it isn’t trying to discredit his argument by nature of his background.

The comment is definitely off topic and doesn’t add anything to the discussion, however.
You'd probably have to charge something like a borrowing cost. There isn't really a risk free way to do it - if you short a stock and it goes up 100x then there's a liability there and if the customer can't pay up then the broker is stuck with it.
How Third Wave AI is solving the false positives problem in network security
Agreed. I had to double check to see if Zuckerberg was an immigrant. He's not. But at least one of Facebook's founders is. You're right - it is misleading.
For anyone else who didn't know about Ripcord:

https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

Their first marketing bullet: "It's not made from a web browser" :D
> I don't know, but I'd say after a definition of "AGI" has been accepted that can be falsified against, and actually turn it into a scientific endeavour.

Uhh, that's the Turing Test.
You're correct that container root file systems should be considered ephemeral, and writing anything that needs to be persisted to them is a smell. However you can mount persistent volumes to a container specifically for the purpose of deploying stateful applications and referencing persistent data. How safe you can consider that data to be depends on the underlying tech that is provisioning the storage. For example a GCE persistent disk with the retain flag set is probably pretty damn durable. I would still back it up, however.
Directions for adding in Dark Mode/Theme into Slack 4.0 using Windows (It should work mostly the same on other OS's, but you'll need to tweak it a little):

1. You'll first need the ability to open .asar archives. This can be done with 7-zip along with the following package: Asar7z (http://www.tc4shell.com/en/7zip/asar/). Follow the installation instructions on the site and keep in mind you need administrative privileges to copy files to Program Files.

2. Completely close down Slack via Task Manager → End Task (Simply closing the application is not enough, you must kill it in task manager)

3. Navigate to the following file in your user app data
C:\Users\{usernamePlaceHolder}\AppData\Local\slack\app-4.0.0\resources\

4. Find app.asar and first create a backup

5. Right-click app.asar and select 7-zip→Open Archive

6. Navigate down to the dist folder, right-click the ssb-interop.js file, and select Edit:

7. Scroll to the bottom of the large block of unreadable javascript (it's minified) and paste the code snippet to the bottom of the file.

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
$.ajax({
// Note: change the URL to whatever css file you want. This one works well enough for me. I have it locked to a commit to prevent XSS
url: 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laCour/slack-night-mode/5e3b2ba1303cf98775c386994730d9f87e8e8218/css/raw/black.css',
success: function(css) {
$("<style></style>").appendTo('head').html(css);
}
});
});

8. Save the file and close the archive in 7-zip. Reboot Slack.

Note: that you'll have to reapply this fix every time Slack pushes an updated
An honest conversation about burnout (JS Party podcast)
> Why is Google still making denials and statements after settling the action?

This is standard in any settlement, which is typically a release of liability. Part of the boilerplate in these contracts is that both parties are compromising not because of guilt but because of the uncertainty of litigation.

Even were Google in the right, a long protracted legal battle against claimed discrimination will constantly remind people that there’s alleged age discrimination. Nipping the negative PR in the bud is probably clearly worth it.

As an aside, ageism is pretty apparent in most companies where I’ve worked. There’s a huge expectation of “up or out”. I was on a hiring committee where I’m ashamed I didn’t stand up for a candidate who the committee decided had too much “experience” to be slotted at level X and therefore not offered any job. At least that shame gave me the courage to speak up the next time I ended up in that position.
Having lived in manhattan I can attest that the cars are just about the last source of noise pollution I noticed when contrasted with larger vehicles and construction.

I think a 1% increase in taxes would be totally justifiable for quality of life to replace all the garbage trucks with electric vehicles (or at least buy em some damn mufflers!)

Maybe we can divert some R&D funds to engineering a quiet jackhammer.

If I had stayed in the city any longer I would have become a politician running on the platform that we use all the subway trains as garbage / freight / delivery haulers, and put light rail up and down the avenues. cars banned below 110th st (you too deBlasio !)
> build it in the protocol!

You don't have access to the interprocess cache snooping in software. This is CPU interconnect internal shit, and you actually need access to the local memory bus for correctness. mmap in its fully glory is only really worth having if you can share pages from the buffer cache.

And even if you did, and you turn a ten nanosecond operation into a ten millisecond operation, counting the network packets you send (a factor of a million overhead), without the assumption that all the peers are reliable and never fail, the abstraction still breaks. And if you assume all your peers are reliable in a distributed system, you're wrong. Damned either way.

> I've never seriously looked at 9p, but the page you linked strongly suggests to me that it's more abstraction if anything

No, it's a single abstraction, instead of dozens that step on each other's toes.

> Great. I get it. 9p is a basic transport method that gives some introspection for free

What introspection? It's just namespaces and transparent passthrough. Unless you're talking about file names.
It's not perfect, but we've used it extensively.
Saying “it’s all fine and dandy until the democracy falls down” is a pretty circular argument to the fact that America stands uniquely in the democratic free world in its liberal control of guns, amoung peers who have lasted several times longer than America's total existance.

In fact it’s a completely nonsense response, and one might point out that America is also fairly unique in its seemingly ill-functioning and over reaching government. Nobody reached for their guns after any of the post-9/11 constitution slashing, nor over any of the hundreds of documented abuses of power, corruption or citizens-United bribery that happen all of the time.

But sure, if cradling your firearms at night imagining a time when you gloriously rise up in unison against some big-brother style figurehead (while your other freedoms are eroded bit by bit) is an effective coping mechanism I guess that’s a good thing for the controlling oligarchy.

I can see why the promote it so heavily.
In most cases, don't you still have to educated and/or affluent?
Whoa, cool, Keybase should definitely have this mentioned on their own page.
I just don't get why replaceable standard-sized lithium ion batteries have pretty much completely failed to take off other than those 18650 flashlights and vape pens.

The proprietary replaceable batteries are an improvement over non-replaceable but in anything other than cameras the replacements seem to get discontinued by the manufacturer by the time you actually need one.
You just won the “I dropped the production db” achievement.

It’s surprisingly easy with docker, especially when dealing with .... legacy systems.
From an energy efficiency standpoint, yes.
I went to get the update on my Mac, and it shows a new version from July 8. The release notes say: "Slack is a little faster, thanks to a few small but important changes". Huh?

This seems to be the right update (4.0.0), but on Slack's website the release notes [1] show the release date to be July 15. Is this the same version as I'd get via the Mac update? If so, what's with the press push today (Verge and others), if this has been out for weeks? Also, why is it described as "a little faster" and "a wee bit faster overall" (in the web release notes)? Is it a wee bit faster, or much faster?

1: https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/release-notes/mac?geocode=en-gb
Yes, I used to hold that view too. But actually it turns out that the null hypothesis is that mind is at least partly immaterial, because all attempts to demonstrate the opposite philosophically are fraught with difficulty. I’ve found that the thought of Aristotle and Aquinas, when explained by modern philosophers, best explains to me why that’s the case.
Something like that :D. I was thinking "recette" as in "recipe" but somehow only the word "receipt" came to my mind so I thought "oh, it must be one of those words that are the same in both language".

I am a bit tired.
Last I checked, their margin rates were ridiculous. So that description isn't as far off as you might think.
The issue isn't reselling branded products.

The issue is selling fake products as a branded products. Amazon makes this easy to do by commingling inventory and not matching/tracking sellers to inventory items.

This fact by itself would probably make Amazon liable for product liability claims in any court in the US, it's traditional CDA liability sheild notwithstanding.

EDIT: Products liability law is complicated, but generally even if Amazon wouldn't be treated as a seller, they could still be held liable for their negligence in providing the wrong/defective item out of their (commingled) inventory. Amazon doesn't match sellers to inventory items so they have literally no way to defend themselves from such a suit especially if the seller can show that they provide products straight from the manufacturer but Amazon commingled with other sellers' inventory. (I'm aware of several such suits that were almost immediately settled by Amazon with NDAs attached.)
Or more to the point, you cannot claim they are being sold directly from the manufacturer.
Docker 19.03.0
You are off by at least 3 orders of magnitude.
Are they hostages?
I totally agree. I'm pretty sure it's the only good thing Trump has done in his entire presidency, but someone needs to challenge China's export supremacy.
The Bible. Mark is the shortest gospel so a good place to start.

I can't think of any documentaries but I usually enjoy this podcast, https://thisculturalmoment.com/.
Crazy idea that likely won't ever occur, but imagine if we had a program like the military, but for NASA, where you sign up to "join NASA", and after a stint, you can either stay, or retire out with funding for college (maybe with the option of returning to NASA if the education you receive is relevant for their missions)?

In a way, Trump's "Space Force" could kinda lead to that, I'd just rather it not be a military focused effort, but something that advances humanity's best things towards space travel and exploration, rather than its worst (violence).
It's better than many server side rendered pages, the things that work have nothing to do with where the rendering happens.
Thanks for posting this link. It's quite nice.
Sure - they are called stack-based or concatenative languages (although they don't actually have to use stacks for implementation):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack-oriented_programming

The historically interesting/successful ones are mainly Forth and PostScript, but there are some successors of interest such as Joy.
Some arguments are here: https://phys.org/news/2005-11-unmanned-space-exploration_1.h...

Retrieving a sample is cheaper with a robot - Luna-24 costed a fraction of Apollo. Knowing what to retrieve while having flexibility of choosing surface regolith, separate rock, samples dug out from a better place or else - that's where humans win.
That isn’t really why they get residency, it’s more of a hedge on the Chinese government, you never know when it will come down on you for a good or bad reason.
>a study found that refugees ended up paying more in income taxes than investor immigrants

Citation?

I mean, presumably there's a citable study out there somewhere.

That immigrants in general pay in more taxes sounds plausible. That refugees are a greater net positive (taxes in minus benefits out) than investors, who are basically all wealthy enough to use minimal government services, seems like a stretch.
Thanks, makes total sense.

So basically the only drawback I see is that all employees from behind one corporate NAT using same browser will count as one user.

But don’t see a way around that if you can only use IP and User Agent strings.
> We’re partnering to develop a hardware and software platform within Microsoft Azure which will scale to AGI.

This sentence might by itself imply they are farther along than they are, but in the context of the whole article I never got the impression they were close to actually building an AGI.

> The most obvious way to cover costs is to build a product, but that would mean changing our focus. Instead, we intend to license some of our pre-AGI technologies, with Microsoft becoming our preferred partner for commercializing them.

This read pretty straightforwardly to me. Pre-AGI seems like a shorthand for useful technologies like GPT-2.

Reading the article I never got the impression they'd solved AGI, or were even close. The context of the article is a partnership announcement not a breakthrough. I could see how a few people who are very unsophisticated might get a little confused as to how far along they are. But I assumed they were writing for people who had heard of OpenAI which pretty much eliminates anyone this unsophisticated.
> It's a sort of bucket list item for me to write a Shouts & Murmurs. I would never expect to be paid for that, so I guess I am undermining the market?

I'm surprised that you wouldn't expect to be paid for writing something that got published in a prominent magazine?
It's french for "recipe".
I can't tell you how much it pains me that syncthing doesn't support iOS. I would donate money to a project that added iOS syncthing support.
Sounds like a good reason to soak all the rich, not just the foreign rich.
Like most of my peers, I've been following this project with some interest. The key insight for me is how big an inhibitor lack of capital is for us poor countries. Our private and public sectors combined could not fund this project, and that saddens me a great deal.
Preserving Laptop Stickers – A Post Factum
Sure, but even if you're openly a reseller, Amazon doesn't have to let you on their platform.

They could say "we'll only let Apple sell Apple products here".
As is usual in cases like these, NOLA had their number.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/1/30/chinas-louis...

I remain profoundly ashamed that Al Jazeera rather than an American or local news outlet had to break this story.
Or Nest Protects at six lithium non rechargable cells. But specced to last five or ten years.
St. Augustine - Confessions (first spiritual autobiography) or City of God

G. K. Chesterton - The Everlasting Man
That's true at a lot of organizations. The cost of a false positive hire typically vastly outweighs the cost of a false negative, particularly when you have the luxury of being perceived as a premiere employer in the space (from which follows a steady stream of qualified applicants).
Nobody price matches Craiglist because Craigslist operates as a bazaar...

Best Buy and Target will price match eBay prices if sold by the product maker's ebay account.
> Multiplatform code when tested tends to show more bugs than single platform code.

Why would it make the code more robust for users on other platforms if they aren't experiencing those bugs?

Is exposing these bugs worth the extra development time? Surely just compiling with a different compiler is as likely to find bug in the compiler.

I am not saying you are wrong but you are making a lot of assumptions.
https://github.com/peterluhub/xsm/blob/master/xsm.js

The package only exposes 9 functions, and the naming is mostly consistent. There's no benefit to publicly nitpicking function names in something with such a small API.
> So then Docker is designed to treat all of those as disposable.

I don't really know if it's designed like that but I treat them as disposable and unreliable so I must have a way to resuscitate the thing when something bad happens.
E-cigs and Teslas, that is.
Yesterday I sent the BBC a complaint about exactly this kind of writing.

In this instance, the title is an outright lie, but the time on site writing-style you describe seems to be there in full swing as well, despite the BBC's revenue model.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-49012771
1. Other nations critique foreign policy, but rarely domestic policy.

2. Exactly how much of a care does the citizenry & political leaders give about some UN sub-committee condemning the US?
> You'd have to be insane to buy anything you'd put in your body from Amazon. Just this week I received an obviously used item that was "Shipped and sold by amazon.com" and sold as "new".

I bought a new mp3 player from Fry's once which, oddly enough, turned out to be stocked with a sizeable music library already.

I'd still be pretty comfortable buying a candy bar from them though.
What's Up with FaceApp?
What You Should Know About the Equifax Data Breach Settlement
This generalization isn't true. One modern example is manufacturing optical fibers like ZBLAN[1] -- they work great when you bring them back to Earth. Another new example is 3d printing organs in microgravity[2] to take them back to Earth.

The traditional example is doing basic physics that needs long duration microgravity.

These sorts of research aren't a large fraction of what's currently done on the ISS, but it's also not zero.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZBLAN

2: https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/growing-human-...
I believe what you're implying is correct. The original mental model of television was that it's live by definition (otherwise it's just an inferior and unduly complex substitute for ciné film, which was well established technology).

So telerecording was just a weird hack, and for a repeat performance you would expect to bring the actors into the studio again.
I agree with you in a way, if AGI ends up being 300yrs out then work on safety now is likely not that important since whatever technology is developed in that time will probably end up being critical to solving the problem.

My main issue personally is that I'm not confident if it's really far out or not and people seem bad at predicting this on both sides. Given that, it probably makes sense to start the work now since goal alignment is a hard problem and it's unknown when it'll become relevant.

I read the BuzzFeed article and I think the main issue with it is he assumes that an AGI will be goal aligned by the nature of being an AGI:

"In psychology, the term “insight” is used to describe a recognition of one’s own condition, such as when a person with mental illness is aware of their illness. More broadly, it describes the ability to recognize patterns in one’s own behavior. It’s an example of metacognition, or thinking about one’s own thinking, and it’s something most humans are capable of but animals are not. And I believe the best test of whether an AI is really engaging in human-level cognition would be for it to demonstrate insight of this kind."

Humans have general preferences and goals built in that have been selected for for thousands of years. An AGI won't have those by default. I think people often think that something intelligent will be like human intelligence, but the entire point of the strawberry example is that an intelligence with different goals that's very good at general problem solving will not have 'insight' that tells it what humans think is good (that's the reason for trying to solve the goal alignment problem - you don't get this for free).

He kind of argues for the importance of AGI goal alignment which he calls 'insight', but doesn't realize he's doing so?

The comparison to Silicon Valley being blinded by the economies of their own behavior is just weak politics that's missing the point.
I read the article more as "maybe my work will one day be able to cure Alzheimer's and help people like your friend".

What in the article gave you the impression they had made a large breakthrough or were close to an AGI?
I think we can simplify this further. It seems reasonable to assume that any weapon deployed on the surface of the moon would be devolved and dedicated specifically for that purpose, so we can ignore playing theoretical math games :).

It would also be fairly obvious that someone was trying to move several thousand pounds of hardware onto the moon, and launch detection satellites would be even more effective at monitoring the moon. So you've got a first strike, that will be detectable basically immediately, and weapons that now need to travel ~385,000 km and survive even more serious re-entry than the ICBM's based on Earth. Or you've got a second strike capability that cost you billions of rubles/dollars.

Once you look at it like that, its pretty easy to see why the submarine launched weapons were the preferred method for threatening rapid first strike while providing a guaranteed second strike capability.
Very few prior apps did what Slack is doing [1] And there are not that many actual competitors if you start counting them.

[1] It's still strange to me that many people compare Slack to IRC and XMPP and complain that they were doing all the same things, why have people abandoned them. Even though they (and especially the clients) were doing (or capable of doing) just a small fraction of what Slack is doing.
The gov sometimes has these campaigns that sweep through and affect both guilty and innocent. Some try to keep a “get out of jail card” so to speak, if need ever be. That’s what much of this is.
Another frame: your acquaintances were frustrated at how hard it is to immigrate and figured out a workaround. I strongly believe in freedom of movement so any legal or extra-legal means to do so are all right in my book.

Rules are meant to be bent. Laws are meant to be broken.
Many people carry their phone everywhere, which was/is much less common for discrete cameras, dictaphones, etc. This also lowers the barrier to entry.
It doesn't bother you that one of your colleagues in SF doing the exact same work as you gets paid double to also work from home?
Re-Evaluating SAP's Qualtrics Acquisition in the Light of Medallia's Blowout IPO
A list of all “Gift HN” posts. Would be nice to see this grow
Researchers discover cool-burning flames in space that could lead to better engines here on earth

https://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe...
Try Ikea if there is one in your area. My local ones all have bins for tubes and CFLs.

Note that I am in Vancouver BC which also has numerous recycling depots.
Google Maps 101: how we map the world
China has the population and to some extent tech advantages but the Chinese government is very strict, unpredictable and favor individuals who are on their side.

Not everyone has an equal opportunity to make it big in China. If you care about freedom and a better future for your children, make money and move out!
Honestly, no need to put much thought in gp's comment. He just wants to show off that he is an experienced engineer that values good code and readability.

Edit: for those who disagree and downvote. Not only gp's comment doesn't adress the core issue and is a direct attack to the developer, but it cannot even be accepted as valid and helpful criticism. His point b says that it is possible that the developer doesn't value consistency, while his point a says he might be consistent with short naming. These remarks make it look more like random possible remark than ones that are really specific about this project.
Very fun link inside the article https://www.businessinsider.com/jk-scheinberg-apple-engineer...

"JK Scheinberg, the engineer who spent 21 years working at Apple and is best known for persuading Steve Jobs to move the Mac from PowerPC to Intel in 2005, was rejected from a job at an Apple store a few years later. "

I wonder if Woz himself would pass the muster :)