skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it isn't; that's ridiculous.

The concerns section explains that broad interest categories (traits shared with thousands of other people) are revealed to ad networks. That's it. No "surveillance machinery", nor is there any mention of "mass propaganda and behaviour control".
> So when a human thinks about a cat, she can probably picture the way it moves, hear the sound of purring, feel the impending scratch from an unsheathed claw. She has a rich store of sensory information at her disposal to understand the idea of a ‘cat’, and other related concepts that might help her interact with such a creature.

Except a very large fraction of people don't think this way (eg. those with aphantasia), and Helen Keller certainly didn't, yet seems to have been as smart as any of us. So obviously intelligence does not depend on having a huge breadth of sensory experience.

It's quite tiring how much posturing about what's ‘really’ missing from machine intelligence doesn't last past 5 seconds of basic fact checking.
Yeah, LDAC is mostly supported in new versions of Android. It's really impressive on the Sony Wh-1000xm3 headsets.

https://www.soundguys.com/ldac-ultimate-bluetooth-guide-2002...
Mine goes all the way to 11, for that extra push over the cliff.
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Not bad, not great. I've heard worse, I've heard better. They get the job done, but I otherwise have nothing of note to say about their sound quality. That's the thing about being unremarkable: I by definition don't have much else to say. :-)
Yes, nice article on that here: https://hackernoon.com/java-is-unsound-28c84cb2b3f
Yes I liked its implementation in the fuzzywuzzy python library.. worked like a charm when trying to match street addresses and business names.
More hyperbolic than facetious. It can’t be a good thing to disenfranchise the holders of your strategic resources en masse, and farmland was the easiest to point at.

You’re right that it’s extremely unlikely to get so bad that they get forcibly nationalized. However, my understanding is that market conditions are pretty bad for farmers right now, and have been for years. Any change that makes things worse for them will likely drive some to other lines of work and reduce overall production, driving food prices up.

This particular effect is probably extremely small in practice, but I felt the need to remind HN that not all value is produced in cities.
The main thing it is you can't really add async when you need it, because if you have written enough sync code, turning it into async amounts to a major rewrite/refactor of the code including choices for dependencies, code for parallel code execution are different in async etc.
For those interested in this approach, but who would prefer fewer moving parts on the actual machines, I have had great experiences with Vault's signed SSH CA support, which includes the ability to get very short leases assigned to specific user accounts: https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/secrets/ssh/signed-ssh-cert...

It's possible the Keybase CA bot solves other problems, but as far as "quick to get started," one cannot beat `curl -sSfo /etc/ssh/trusted-user-ca-keys.pem https://my-vault:8200/v1/ssh-client-signer/public_key && echo 'TrustedUserCAKeys /etc/ssh/trusted-user-ca-keys.pem' >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config && systemctl restart ssh-server`
Consumer hardware probably isn't fast enough to have that level of natural movement and detailed lighting in real time for physics-based clothing. So I agree that the claim is true.

Of course, the animated clothing in those pants wasn't from a physics engine. I'm sure similar results can be accomplished in 3D if they're not phsyics-based.
> Roomba’s are very good at what they do

Provided you want them to clear a surface that's mostly empty of obstructions. Wires are the bane of their existence, but also cloth and big pieces of paper that can't be ingested by the vacuum.

They are relatively ok for office settings, but the models without navigation would take until the universe heat death to clear big open floor offices properly.
The same could be said for gameplay data though. My point is it isn't some insurmountable cliff. You get out what you put in.
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Curious what you're pairing them with? Not had to re-pair my, er, pair at all. I have iPhone 6s and 2012 MacBook Air.
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Perhaps that's what it's about today, but when it actually started back in the days of the C64 and 300 baud modems it was about pushing the tech to its limits just to see what it could do. Generally the only people who would actually see it would be people who downloaded a pirated game and had the demo play before the game started.
I thought you work remotely based on your past comments??
As someone who has been working with IEEE 802.3 (a standard longer than 5000 pages) for the past four years I can tell you for every spec there are at least hundreds of people who understand the intricate details.
Neat! You'd probably like Exapunks too.
I'm sure this will not be a popular opinion, but it's really too bad that more chemists don't have the altruistic drive to reverse engineer such things and open source them, so to speak. Maybe open source is the wrong term. Put the formulas and procedures on the dark web and dumb down the procedures enough for desperate amateur chemists to tinker with.
The problem is that the issue itself became a polarized political point, which resulted in the people who view politics more similar to sport teams than steering society to hardline for/against the issue without even knowing what the issue is about. And I attribute this phenomena wholly to our big political leaders, who go in front of a camera and devote themself fully to solving complicated situation [x] as the cornerstone & identity of their party, automatically causing the other party to fight against it; in this case I believe it happened with Gore during the 2000 campaign. Without this whole polarization effect carbon reduction could have easily been non-eventful manner that CFCs or smog was handled in the 70s, instead you have people denying/evangelizing the effect just because the guy on the TV with the matching letter next to his name told them to.

This isn't just something unique to environmentalism either; I believe the same thing happened to net neutrality when Obama made a big speech about it when 90% of Americans didn't even care about it beforehand, and I'm hoping to god the same thing doesn't happen to the right to repair because all successful progress on it will grind to a halt the minute it does.
Free support for JDK 8 ended after an average of 5 years and a notice of one year. Moreover, early access and then public availability JDK 9 builds were avaialble for a year and a half before end of public support. This is at least as much time as any previous version. Add to that the fact that the current free perpetual support is cheaper and easier than ever (although it does require a bit of getting used to), and the claim that people did not have enough time to adjust sounds tenuous.

In addition, Oracle has completely open-sourced the JDK, for the first time ever, and as we had done several times before, we transferred ownership of old JDK versions to Red Hat. Feel free to use whatever OpenJDK distribution you find suitable to your needs, but keep in mind that 90% of the work on OpenJDK is done by Oracle.

Finally, it is incorrect to say that support is dropped the next time the major version is shipped as Java 9 was the last major release ever. "Dropping support" for the semi-annual release as soon as the next one is released has been the practice for at least the past 7 years (e.g. there were no further updates to 8 once 8u20 was released). What has changed is that the semi-annual releases get an integer number. This certainly confuses people who don't realize that what would have been called 9u20 was renamed 10 and so on, and that cheaper upgrades are now easier and cheaper than ever before. So I agree communication could have been better (we're working on that), but I disagree with your characterization.

To summarize, free perpetual support is easier than ever, there was plenty of time for people to adjust, and open sourcing of the JDK has opened up the field for other distributions for different support options. All in all, things are cheaper, freer, and you have more options than ever. Yes, it seems that people have not yet internalized the meaning of the new feature releases (they are not major releases, but much closer to the old "limited update" releases), as well as the meaning of LTS (which is only recommended if you have a good reason not to use the current JDK).
Related information [1] about the German secret police unit that operated in much the same fashion in East Germany after WWII ended.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
And why you should be successful? This is just life - existing and being is success.
Just wondering, but how do concentration camps full of children cut down on the heroin trade?
It has less bloat if you use lots of embedded scripts. My point is that this problem has been solved before in an even cleverer way and was used by hundreds of engineers in MySpace's heyday, so I'm surprised the authors had not considered it.
Ok, ignoring anything else, how would this be enforced? How many intermediate addresses+transactions would be needed to make that work? Especially with the various exchanges where you could bounce between currencies.
It's an autocompletion for emoji, so several letters will be missing regardless.

I'm that case, a long word like "helicopter" will be placed at a greater distance than "elipsis" despite being what I want "heli" to actually match, so I just added a "startsWith" check to override such issues.
What is the point of having an apple card? When your credit card, debit card can do the same thing AND be in a leather wallet and you can hold it however you like. What rates are they going to charge you for using this?
It has everything to do with power. You don't even need to consult the history.

Large organizations very rarely need any particular drone. The drones always need money to survive, their health insurance, stability for their family, a clean professional reputation. So the big guys takes advantage of the little guys.

Early in my career, I worked a lot and was compensated poorly for the value I brought to the business. Then I built systems that made me very difficult to get rid of without losing all the money I was bringing in. Now I make double and work 30 hours a week when I'm busy.

For any reasonably large corporation, your employer is not your friend. They deserve professional courtesy, but never loyalty or personal respect. Always look out for yourself, what you bring to the table, and what you're getting out of it. Forget anything else. If you want something personal, go home to your wife and kids at a reasonable hour. They love you.
https://www.pjstar.com/news/20170523/trump-budget-calls-for-...
It runs the other way too.

Developmental psychology demonstrates that you get very serious functional deficits if you deprive a young developing organism of its normal environment.
> Advertising's main goal is to take over your mind.

If it is, then it's doing an awful job. At the end of the day, I am responsible for me own actions, not banner ads.

That being said there are some ads that I do find disgusting which I refuse to let touch my computer, Taboola ads spring to mind. Just because I don't mind the concept doesn't mean I don't think there are huge issues with the ad industry, especially around ethics.

> The fact you (and many others) think ads aren't that bad means you've conformed to what they want.

So because I (and many others) don't agree with you, I've been warped by the ad industry? Who are "they"?
Nationalize the ISPs and build out fiber to everywhere. You don't need to worry about profitability if you aren't trying to make a profit.
Breadth can also be considered "diversity" in this case, i.e., experiencing the cat against many different background environments and the time-evolution of the sensory readings attributable to the cat relative to that background.

Breadth also refers perhaps to the massively parallel sensor streams. The sense of touch is not one experience, but the amalgamation of millions of experiences -- one per nerve ending. So far the sensor platforms we develop artificially have on the order of 1000s of sensors, not the millions that distinguish the combination of temperature and pressure at certain "optimized" key points.

Rote and myopic counterarguments do not a futurism-oriented discussion make.
If we did that, 90% of HN articles wouldn't exist.

Though I am glad someone has similar thoughts as me!

~ Cheers
The US has 330+ million people and Finland has 7 or so... :-)
1980s: RAM in the CPU to speed up the CPU.
2020s: CPU in the RAM to speed up the RAM.
Great story. OT for the main point of the story, but I found this interesting:

> hBN for the cosmetics industry; some eyeliners are up to 25% boron nitride.

why?
Speaking of ICQ, I remember when AOL bought out ICQ and had a huge engineering success when they pulled the switch and all of sudden, ICQ users were seamlessly on the AIM infrastructure. When you think of the sizes of those networks it was really amazing.
Hah! He knows what he's doing better than anyone here thinks. Here we are discussing his ugly cheap art, browsing through his games, at almost no cost to him (writing a blog post?)

He must have had at least a few hundred sales today, because I saw this blog post on twitter and reddit as well.

That's really quite brilliant.
You get that the government is controlled by politics right? The FCC Chair is quite obviously a political appointment based on politics. ISPs get to dig in the public right of way. They have access to what is a natural monopoly of plugging into peoples' homes. Unprofitable infrastructure? How about the fact that these companies take all their cap-ex and throw it into CONTENT then beg the federal government to allow them to throttle their customers so they can charge for the content. Force indeed.
A lot of publications now want you to do anonymous authors because of this. Though it's always pretty easy to tell what University something came out of, so the prestige of a university still plays a role.
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Building your own frameworks and libraries is always a minefield. Too often I’ve seen it done badly.

Unless you’re a big company best to use what’s already out there if you can reasonably
> Edit: not anecdotal.

I think that is pretty much anecdotal as per definition.
The US constitution says that presidential electors are chosen in a manner prescribed by the state legislature. They change the prescription, just as some have changed it now.
Abundant natural resources? Finland only has timber, hardly the stuff of billionaire dreams :-)
> We are quite slow at developing the first version (it's still a work in progress) but that v1 will likely be able to build a v2 much faster and so on, leading to an "intelligence explosion".

As with everything in nature, there are diminishing returns. It is not clear that any significant leaps in 'intelligence' are possible. At least to the extent proposed by 'singularity' advocates. Or that such an intelligence would be able to completely outclass humans, either in the current form, or augumented by tech.
“Because I have bad taste.”

Seriously, it’s possible to make low-budget art that looks good. This isn’t it.
I agree outside of software development. However, the only constant in our industry is change and that change demands continuous reinvestment. The only other way to grow is to focus on complementary skills with longer relevancy and that takes real time.

Your proposed alternative solutions to switch jobs or apply current skills at work (I'm assuming new skills or understanding) are common solutions used by many developers but ultimately have significant detrimental effects on companies both from very high industry churn rates as well as unnecessary application of new technologies by unskilled and inexperienced practitioners. These are as ubiquitous as they are bad and from a principled perspective I refuse to use them.
Advertisers sure spend a lot of money on ads for then to not have any influence on a person's mind. Actually ads are designed to exploit the mind.
That’s usually down to the developer. Not the tooling.
In Wikipedia it is broken down without the cost of the tsunami damage, though it is an estimate from 2016:

>Japan's economy, trade, and industry ministry recently (as of 2016) estimated the total cost of dealing with the Fukushima disaster at ¥21.5 trillion (US$187 billion), almost twice the previous estimate of ¥11 trillion (US$96 billion). A rise in compensation for victims of the disaster from ¥5.4 trillion (US$47 billion) to ¥7.9 trillion (US$69 billion) was expected, with decontamination costs estimated to rise from ¥2.5 trillion (US$22 billion) to ¥4 trillion (US$35 billion), costs for interim storage of radioactive material to increase from ¥1.1 trillion (US$10 billion) to ¥1.6 trillion (US$14 billion), and costs of decommissioning reactors to increase from ¥2 trillion (US$17 billion) to ¥8 trillion (US$69 billion).

Three Mile Island is one where the liability cap wouldn't have mattered so much, but compare Chernobyl. And compare plausible scenarios affecting populated areas depending on the winds, etc.

The liability cap is so extreme, it is as if you had to only buy insurance to cover your healthcare deductible, and the government paid for all the actual insurance.
I'm becoming more of a fan of Everett. Wave collapse feels like nonsense, and requires arbitrary notions of "observers". I don't fully grasp the ramifications of the Many Worlds interpretation, but if it means reality is deterministic, I'll take it.
I get people who don't do it. I can't imagine a life not having kids around.

If your scared how it will affect your life, maybe it isn't for you. It's not how kids work, you make it work, period. Either you do it or you don't. Whether it's a good idea is very irrelevant.
Most people (me included) reading this think it's insane. I'm glad it works for you and makes you happy (does it?). I'm sure some pointy haired boss would love you.

TBH, if you said all this to me in an interview or cover email, I'd pass you over and maybe keep your email so I could show it to people at the pub after work for a laugh. I'm not trying to be mean, but maybe you're so deep in this that you haven't heard how it might be perceived?

You may think this is due to some buried jealousy at your ability to keep this up, but I promise you it's not. I'm thankful for the time I spent all day/night learning what I know, but I'm thankful for it because it lets me not spend the rest of my life in that cycle.
No intelligent aliens to study, so we make some.
Empowering Citizens Through Data
I think this response somewhat misses the point. The basic problem is that people instinctively feel that highly-targeted ads are creepy. People have a level of targeting that they feel is acceptable, and exceeding that level feels like an invasion of privacy. It doesn't take much imagination to come up with scenarios in which, say, highly targeted ads for divorce lawyers would feel unacceptably creepy to most people. That negative feeling can often outweigh any positive benefit people get from the targeting of ads.

One difficulty with this entire debate is that privacy is a social problem as much as a technical one. Trying to come up with a rigidly-defined model that separates benign ad targeting from privacy violations is very hard if not impossible.
ICE isn't the border force. All border security operations, stopping people from crossing and customs inspections and such, are done by a different agency called CBP.
Prototype maybe?
The system you suggest doesn't come near privacy. Sure, there is some uncertainty over which ad was shown, but as soon as it is clicked you have revealed that too. And it's clicks and page visits that buils visitor's profile, much more than ad views.
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This article is a rather poor re-telling of the situation and glosses over contextual information. In addition to the wikipedia article on this specific incident (which is itself a much more accurate record of the event), here's a truncated list of other issues at the DMZ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_border_incidents_invol...
> great to live in if you are not too ambitious or entrepreneurial.

While it clearly hasn't worked out this way (yet) having that social safety net actually should encourage entrepreneurial activity since you have a lot more freedom to fail. Once you succeed you sell out though, because it's easier to grow/expand in other locations.
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The parent isn't criticizing philosophy as a whole, just most philosophy, especially continental philosophy.

It's also worth mentioning that if you assume P and then prove not P, you've proven not P. It's not a contradiction, it's proof by contradiction. If P is "philosophy leads to the right answers" and then you engage in philosophy, concluding "philosophy does not lead to the right answers," you have disproven the original statement by contradiction. It's kind of like how anyone who says they are a liar is a liar.
Yah, I know what you meant :D And I've had success and net economic contribution.

But it's still a jarring way to think of the primary activity of five years of my life.
I have developed a dynamic and functional Javascript Voice Recognition API as a mid javascript developer. Happy Hacking! :)
Offered and available are two different things.

For instance, the COs are too far apart to drive high speed DSL to the edges of the areas they serve, so DSL 'broadband' is a dalmatian pattern even in an urban area. So you have cable, which is oversubscribed and has ulterior motives. Until your neighborhood has fiber the 'has broadband' question is pretty much on a block by block basis, and in some instances house by house.
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https://www.commonfrontiers.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ju...

https://fair.org/home/media-delegitimize-venezuelan-election...

https://www.telesurenglish.net/analysis/The-Case-for-Legitim...
I'm starting to study category theory and I'm realizing if there exists a formal theory around 'design' and 'abstraction' category theory is it.

I could be wrong though. What do you guys think?
"This kind of work" means CBP and ICE stuff specifically, not just generic law enforcement. I was aware of the latter. The examples they were talking about were about tracking down financial fraud, which I am all in favor of. They weren't helping to put children in cages back then.
Yes. They have extracted concessions and aid from the western world for decades, and have essentially never kept any of their promises. They are excellent at the game.
That assumes that "only appeals to cities" is the only type of populist that we need protection from. The electoral college does nothing to protect against things like "only appeals to white people" or "only appeals to Christians" populists, which were not a big concern for America's founders or the much whiter and more Christian rural population today.
The video game market is very different today than it was a decade ago, or two decades ago. I wouldn't compare making and selling a simple game on CD 20 years ago vs today.

Among other things, there are much higher expectations on graphics and it's a lot harder to make 3D world and assets than it was to make 2D sprites. Cheap games are also facing a fierce competition from a truckload of other cheap games and previous AAA titles. There are more games than people can play and why buy Game 2019 when Game 2015 is just as good and 75% off.