skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, Ryanair passengers don’t admire anything about Michael O’Leary. They pay the fare (and the surcharges, and the charge to pay by card) and then tolerate the journey.

No passenger thinks he’s a lovable scamp or a shrewd businessman. They just buy the fare they can afford and justify, if it happens to be Ryanair then ... grin and bear it.
I certainly do not trust my phone to turn all radios off on airplane mode or with wifi or bluetooth shut off.

I could pretty easily verify my suspicions but I think others already have.
Yup, Svelte is hot and Postgres is always a good decision! Thank you for the details, really interesting project!

Once I built a CSS based browser MMO myself as a challenge. I used Clojurescript and React on the front end and Clojure with a simple in memory key-value storage. My solution was basically a turn based architecture, but many turns happened in a sec, so it was semi-realtime.

CSS means I didnt use webgl, just pseudo 3D with divs and transforms. Field of view was small, but playable. :D
Is there a way to do that for HomePod?
> Secure enough to process $50 trillion in 2018.

How is that any indication of its security?
it's truly hard to know how this will affect her career. If the lawsuit is successful and she proves she was a valid whistleblower with a legitimate claim, some employers may consider that a sign she is a high-integrity researcher. But more hiring managers or deans would just see the whistleblowing as a proxy metric of difficulty to work with.
>A few months after the engagement no one will ever care for the rest of your life,

A big fat white stone on a finger will draw eyes for so long as a woman wears it. Every woman your wife meets will make a judgement call based on that ring for the next 20 years.
The cutoff of those types of programs never made sense to me. There is really no financial difference between a family making $124,000 and a family making $126,000, but suddenly that extra $2000/year means they can afford to pay the $50,000/year for tuition? If I was the sole earner for the household making $150,000/year, it actually makes more financial sense for me to go ask my boss for a $25,000 pay-cut?

The University of Wisconsin, my alma mater, recently introduced a similar program called "Bucky's Promise" (https://financialaid.wisc.edu/types-of-aid/tuition-promise/) to give 4 years of free tuition to any household with an AGI of less than $58,000/year. But if you make a penny more than that, you don't get any of the benefit? It just doesn't make sense to me.

These universities are incentivizing people to game the system.
As others say, society does to some degree, but isn't the real compensation for such things living in a society where people help each other in these circumstances? Not everything has to be a financial transaction.
20MPG?! You must be driving an American car. ;)
In both the case of the phone and the Peloton, it allows someone who can't afford the item to pay for it on an installment basis. On an individual level that access to credit might be useful, but it's another form of leverage which is not always a great indicator.

In fact, if people are making use of that option unusually often, economists get worried. Prior to a recession, consumers often feel more confident (and take on more financial obligations) than they have the resources to keep up with.
And no doubt many more companies being more unsuccessful using PHP too.

If you really must go comparing apples to pears, a marginally less worthless metric might be the percentage of each that has worms in.
VideoGorillas’ Bigfoot super resolution converts films from native 480p to 4K
Probably a reference to this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spie...
That sounds good, but realistically, and perhaps somewhat differently from what most people imagine, denser city living (as opposed to suburban sprawl) is probably the best bet for the environment for most people who can't go live in the woods.
No, we are losing the war.

Open Source is not an impediment to Microsoft's attacks on users' freedom.

You can get a job on LinkedIn to write code on GitHub that runs on Windows and talks to a server deployed to Azure with a single click from within the README.md .

In that ecosystem, permissively licensed Open Source software just helps Microsoft exploit you.

Which is why Microsoft unironically love Open Source and are very happy to see paid and unpaid shills shout that from the rooftops.

Dumping soon-to-expire patents to get goodwill from people they need to encourage into or prevent leaving that ecosystem is a strategic move that is designed to make sure you don't escape in the long term.

Pointing this out isn't shitting on the poor, defenceless corporation.

It's just not being fooled by their attempts to fleshmask Open Source.

They still hate Free Software.
An obsolete measurement of volume.

Only a few countries are too immersed in their self-centred past to use the world-wide metric system.

That refusal to progress has cost millions (billions?) when different units have been used without conversion.

http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/
Personal preference is valid only to an extent. At a certain point, with enough scale/team size/complexity TypeScript becomes invaluable. I've worked on projects that would have been intractable without TypeScript.

This is a huge problem with front-end. Too many people who don't know what they don't know, and think their use case is the only one.
Buy a big fat moissanite or cubic zirconia, and no woman will ever be able to tell the difference.
And then you adjust your prices until supply and demand are back in balance. The excess/dearth, by that overly simplistic definition, becomes roughly 0. Even though the underlying issues haven't gone anywhere.
The WSL looks a lot like the embrace step of an embrace-extend-extinguish doctrine. I'll believe them more when I can write user-facing apps against their posix subsystem instead of requiring people to jump through many many hoops to actually install it.

Right now it just looks like something they were forced into doing because they were losing on the devtools market.
For larger amounts, look into “Norbert’s Gambit”.

Basically, but a stock that trades in Toronto with CAD, call your broker to move it to the US side, then sell it for USD.

Convert any amount for 2 brokerage charges (2x$10 for me).

Yes, it exposes you to stock market fluctuations for that stock for a few hours or days (depending on your broker), but at least you get to stay in the market instead of the money being “dead”.

Arbitrageurs keep the prices exactly in sync several thousand times per day.
I disagree. In fact, the opposite could be true. The focus on material possessions like clothes, diamonds, cars, homes, and just in general -- consumption -- has made us less healthy than we otherwise would be and we don't have money to spend on good food, the time to exercise or find peace of mind.

Just because we got bigger houses and less polio in the same timeline doesn't mean those too things are correlated to the same cause. In my experience, most of the scientific researchers producing cures for disease and prolonging life aren't doing it for material wealth. There's a deeper drive to it than that.

Maybe the progress in healthcare proceeds against the tide of social forces. It probably does, considering doctors artificially limit the supply of doctors, precisely so they can buy bigger houses, fancier cars, and more jewelry.

It's estimated that Jonas Salk would have made $7 Billion if he'd patented the polio vaccine.

I believe if we are going to reverse the damage we have done to the planet, we have to invert our social reward structure. We should shame those who spend extravagantly and praise restraint.
In the context of the title though, ACH =~ SEPA
A review of a book by a serial fabulist (Drexler) compared to that of a bozo moonlighting as a science fiction writer (Bostrom) done by a psychologist on a subject none of them have the slightest whit of a clue about.

> All of this seems kind of common sense to me now. This is worrying, because I didn’t think of any of it when I read Superintelligence in 2014

Dunning Kruger is something that should come to mind here, doctor. People who know a decision tree from an echo state network kind of saw that as being incredibly dumb when it came out.

What has happened in the last 5 years isn't that the field has matured; it's as gaseous and filled with prevaricating marketers, science fiction hawking twits and overt mountebanks as ever. The difference is, 5 years later, rather than the swingularity-like super explosion of exponential increase in human knowledge, we're actually just as dumb as we were 5 years ago when we figured out how to classify German traffic signs, and we have slightly better libraries than we used to. No great benefit to the human race has come of "AI" -and nothing resembling "AI" or any kind of "I" has even hinted of its existence. In another 5 years I'd venture a guess machine learning will remain about as useful as it is now, which is to say, with no profitable companies based on "AI," let alone replacing human intelligences anywhere. And we'll sadly probably still have yoyos like Hanson, Drexler and Yudkowsky lecturing us on how to deal with this nonexistent threat.

Meanwhile, the actual danger to our society is surveillance capitalism and government agencies using dumb ass analytics related to singular value decomposition. Nobody wants to talk about this, presumably because it's real and we'd have to make difficult choices as a society to deal with it. Easier and more profitable to wank about Asimovian positronic brain science fiction.
>You can also make fire with two stones.

I'd love to see that trick.
I mean when I read the comments I rolled my eyes because clearly not all clothes are made and designed for every single human configuration out there.
> the U.S. consistently underestimates the degree of corruption in many other countries and the degree to which the "state" that is ostensibly our ally is actually a fiction, with the majority of actual daily life ruled by family, ethnic, or business ties

A related comment in that vein is people the west often don't get that people other places correctly see their corrupt semi-authoritarian governments as their best real option.
In Julia it's easy to see the difference between promoting to full number tower and sticking to 64 floats (ed: note difference in result 0 vs 1):

julia> using Benchmarktools

julia> @btime floor(0.49999999999999997+0.5)

0.027 ns (0 allocations: 0 bytes)

1.0

julia> @btime floor(0.49999999999999997+BigFloat(0.5))

280.594 ns (6 allocations: 336 bytes)

0.0

julia> @code_native floor(0.49999999999999997+BigFloat(0.5))
.text
; ┌ @ floatfuncs.jl:152 within `floor'
subq $24, %rsp
movq %rsi, 16(%rsp)
movq (%rsi), %rax
; │┌ @ floatfuncs.jl:152 within `#floor#543'
movq %rax, (%rsp)
movabsq $jl_system_image_data, %rax
movq %rax, 8(%rsp)
movabsq $japi1_round_16005, %rax
movabsq $jl_system_image_data, %rdi
movq %rsp, %rsi
movl $2, %edx
callq *%rax
; │└
addq $24, %rsp
retq
nopw %cs:(%rax,%rax)
; └

julia> @code_native floor(0.49999999999999997+0.5)
.text
; ┌ @ floatfuncs.jl:152 within `floor'
; │┌ @ floatfuncs.jl:152 within `#floor#543'
; ││┌ @ floatfuncs.jl:152 within `round'
vroundsd $9, %xmm0, %xmm0, %xmm0
; │└└
retq
nopw (%rax,%rax)
; └
Thanks for the reply. But, that sounded very unsecure. What happens if a third party cashes it first, you say you didn't share the picture, the merchant says they didn't share the picture?
What would be the downsides of TypeScript, from your perspective?

In a large codebase, having typings, even basic ones, go a long way.

I don't know about the term static typing or if that's what really helps. I also annotate for readabilities sake. For instance, it's nice to know a variable in python is only intended to be 'ACTIVE' or 'INACTIVE':

from typing_extensions import Literal

ActivityStateLiteral = Literal['ACTIVE', 'INACTIVE']

# Lower in the code, e.g. inside a flask view
activity_state = ActivityStateLiteral = request.GET.get('activityState')

For TypeScript:

type ActivityStateLiteral = 'ACTIVE' | 'INACTIVE'

// e.g. react component
const activityState: ActivityStateLiteral = props.activityState || 'ACTIVE'

That leaves me no doubt when I/a team member comes back 3/6 months later that I'm only dealing with 2 possibilities of what that variable can be (or should be). The intention itself also valuable, even if incorrect.
Yes, I was just picking out one example I've seen where even if people do what they're taught, they'll end up doing bad statistics. As you say the problems don't end there.
They can but that could pick up way more people and not be accurate enough for location tracking. Cell sites can have a range of multiple miles.

Phones have a much more accurate location history since they can localize using AGPS. And with google location history turned on it stores that location to googles cloud.
> a democracy in the vein of Western liberal democracy with enlightenment values

I might add that I don't disagree with the Indian government being Hindu nationalistic, and I am happy to discuss the flaws of the Indian government, but not under this notion that we are somehow in the same bucket as China, and that only the west is holy in the world.
It's been a while since I studied this but if I remember correctly Hitler strongly suspected Stalin would turn on him in the next year or two, once Russia had mobilized a larger army. Hitler's decision to launch a surprise assault wasn't so much hubris as it was a strategic choice between several tough options.
Yes, especially for those who can't spend $100+ on yoga pants.
Aside from the occasional crashed Mars lander, technical people in the U.S. get along quite fine thinking in the units best suited to the task at hand. I develop film in my apartment, and I use metric units while developing black and white but conventional units while developing color slide film — because the processes are documented in those respective units.

I don't know what kind of car Cranky Bill is driving, but if it's new enough, chances are he could crack the manual and figure out how to switch it to display values in liters/100km. My motorcycle does that, and my last car did it. I set my motorcycle to display temperatures Celsius, speeds in whatever the local country's unit happens to be, and fuel efficiency in mph.

Also, he might just look up the stats for his car on the Internet.

Bill sure is cranky.
“日本の象徴に殺されるの感謝しろ”アナログ絵１１３で霊団から賜った“お墨付き”について（祈）†
I just meant that cutting calories while cycle training has a long history (though I would describe it as healthy)
> Biden's son got > $1B from the Chinese not so long ago to run a private equity firm.

I was surprised how little attention that story (https://nypost.com/2018/03/15/inside-the-shady-private-equit...) got in the media.
Keto or anti-keto -- one of those.
If you can afford it, it may be very helpful. However, it does have specific requirements for licensing and possibly missing components necessary for your applications or that Vendors will assume you have for theirs...
It doesn't have to be "let every site store 600 MB or none can store more than 5 MB". Seems like a great thing for a permission really.
> despite being obviously false as there absolutely are people that make 250kish and purchase homes worth over a million

Yes, but my point is not whether they can but whether they should.
My guess is that besides whatever the microphone, camera, and radios on that device can capture, there's no classified information on it. The microphone and camera can be dealt with by keeping the phone in a somewhat sound-proofed box, or just powered off.

I would hope there's no classified data access via WiFi at the WH, so perhaps that device's radios are of little importance. I'm not going to address the possibility of the radios being used to gather emanations, but keeping it on for very limited time periods is a mitigation.

(Yes, even so, the radios and microphone could perhaps be used for clever side channels for exfiltrating data during the times when it's powered on, but I'm sure there's lots of those side channels. This is partly why we have SCIFs, so again, not an issue.)

In any case, provided all he does with that device is tweet, provided when he's not tweeting it's powered off and locked away, provided the device is never ever taken to a SCIF, and provided there's no access to classified data over WiFi at the WH, I'd tolerate the President (whoever it might be) tweeting from a consumer-grade mobile device. That said, my preference would be for the President use a room for the purpose, and wired devices maintained for the purpose of tweeting.

The twitter account itself is of relatively low value.

Of course, perhaps he and his staff are quite careless with that device. Perhaps that device has been the source of many leaks! I thought NSA wouldn't let the President conduct the nation's business on an unsecure device, so I assume he only uses for tweeting, thus carelessness would be about the microphone, camera, and radios.
Lots of things are status symbols.

Not having a fancy engagement ring is a status symbol for certain circles too, or having an engagement ring that is fair trade, not diamond, self made, or some other set of adjectives. A lot of people are really preoccupied with signaling objects, what those things are changes but the drive doesn't really.
> The modern examples cited weren't nearly as bad

True.

Nowadays, it only takes one tweet to absolutely tank someone's reputation, let alone lose his or her job.
Wow, it's true. Microsoft folks can look it up on resnet.
Penetration Tools Database
Looks like different liquids can have different sizes of gallon. (Interestingly, the US "standard" gallon is the same as wine gallon.)
The justification is that better ads convert more, as he mentioned in his post. Making ads more efficient means a small, niche business can effectively spend money on ads that drive business. If you can't target well, then giant companies whose audiences are very broad are the only ones who can justify paying for ads. That's why TV advertising is dominated by huge companies - Budweiser/Chevy/etc. want everyone to see their ads, but John's vintage typewriter store will only spend money on ads if they can target customers in their geographic area with a very specific interest at a reasonable price.

Of course, the big part of your question is "to the extent that it is happening" - there's definitely an argument to be made that they're collecting too much info, but my point is merely to say that this kind of information collection allows for the kind of granular audience targeting that is disproportionately beneficial to small, niche businesses.
they can remove reload tonight and most of HN wouldn't have a reason to care, but it'd hurt some old architectures.

I personally tried to convert one of them but damn is it hard. bring out all the bugs!
>Do you have any evidence to the contrary or are you just saying that it's equally possible either was happening?

Are you really asking for evidence which contradicts a hypothetical that you have no evidence to support?
With GCC it's more of a price of being old and good.

LLVM is a lot cleaner (and they are basically even in terms of 1* benchmarks)
Hang on, the EU has had heaps from small (the Piper that went down over the Alps yesterday and the plane carrying Emiliano Sala come to mind) to large (Air France 447).
This is a stunt - but it's a pretty cool stunt
I, for one, love the ribbon...
While he made a successful comeback (however far from his first success), saying he toiled in misery for years is a little bit exagerated. Indeed, he was still the owner of a house (and probably of other goods). And this house was big enough to have a value probably equal to a today million dollars. That's not what I call to be toiled in misery.
> Human configuration

Your engineer is showing
Metabolic perceptrons for neural computing in biological systems
> This is the most interesting question, which the article doesn't answer.

He called his company's product "crap" at a 6,000-person event. That seemed pretty straight forward to me.
What about people showing off their car, perfect pictures of their vacations on social media, some set of achievements or trophies, their perfect "battlestation" computer setup, etc. etc. etc.

People are generally obsessed with status symbols, jewelry isn't really any worse than anything else.
Maybe to get internal buyin?

It's not so easy to flip the bozo-bit and write someone off if you were involved with the interview process to hire someone.
Isn't this something that only recently has become possible, and still has an accuracy cost?
It's also possible he wasn't a real problem, but when his remarks caused a temporary (big) problem for the company, other stakeholders saw the opportunity to take control.

There's probably a counterfactual universe where he remained in his position, he learned a valuable lesson on keeping his mouth shut in public, and the company re-branded and recovered on a similar trajectory.
The trouble is that we don't know what Apple is doing. It's mostly a big black box. Maybe they are tracking everyone's location and credit card transactions.

I've been on the exact opposite side of this argument for the past year, both here on the internet and IRL. Sure, we can't look inside Apple's systems, but if they say they're doing X Y and Z, we ought to believe them. Apple knows that if something comes to light after they've billed themselves as a privacy company, it will be a big scandal, so they'll want to keep their word.

Well, here we are, and now I feel stupid. Fool me once...
See also this summary of the report: https://singularityhub.com/2019/06/02/less-like-us-an-altern...

The argument makes a lot of sense to me as an AI researcher; the idea that we will somehow get to self improving agents that can do any and all things they want to maximize the output of paper clips (as in the famous Bostrom thought experiment) is miles away from how AI is done today in practice AND how software functions. I suspect most software engineers, especially with knowledge of AI, would find the 'AI service' idea which actually reflects how AI is done today much more plausible and worth worrying about than the Bostom science fiction-y fears of AGI...
Frustrating, though, that there's no good repl for TypeScript.
Someone else is paying for something they are using. Better still:they're getting paid to use it.

Of course, nobody is twisting the arm of these politicians. But the fact remains that Ryanair is exploiting this weakness to avoid paying themselves.

Type "Ryanair airport subsidies" in google and have a look at the first couple of titles. It's a mess that has been going on for 10 years now and is only now slowly being called a halt to.

https://www.transportenvironment.org/press/24-ryanair-airpor...