skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like that bold, unambiguous answer. But really, after you've encountered one or two infinite scrolls, how much of a surprise is it to encounter the next one?
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And not so well for the Moriori[0]:

Moriori embraced a pacifist culture that rigidly avoided warfare ... On 19 November 1835, the brig Lord Rodney, a hijacked European ship, arrived carrying 500 Māori (men, women and children) with guns, clubs and axes...

A Moriori survivor recalled : "[The Māori] commenced to kill us like sheep.... [We] were terrified, fled to the bush, concealed ourselves in holes underground, and in any place to escape our enemies. It was of no avail; we were discovered and killed – men, women and children indiscriminately." A Māori conqueror explained, "We took possession... in accordance with our customs and we caught all the people. Not one escaped....." The invaders ritually killed some 10% of the population, a ritual that included staking out women and children on the beach and leaving them to die in great pain over several days.

During the following enslavement the Māori invaders forbade the speaking of the Moriori language. They forced Moriori to desecrate their sacred sites by urinating and defecating on them. Moriori were forbidden to marry Moriori or Māori, or to have children with each other.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriori#Invasion_by_Taranaki_M...
so you think cells had some insight on how to evolve themselves?
Man I have to sympathize with you here. It seems no matter the opinion you express people are jumping down your throat. I just want to say that, to me, it appears you’re doing a good job of expressing your opinion in a kind way.

I would love to see hostile tensions like these die out online very soon.
Is Seoul a city that receives a lot of sun? And are there lots of buildings that are in a shadow 24/7 due to skyscrapers?
When, if ever, does a normal person need access to a network of powerful embassies all over the world?
These are pretty funny examples considering the amount of different HDMI ports and cable versions and the fact that Thunderbolt doesn't even have a port. It's either a mini display port or a USB C port.

This post shows exactly how useless relying on physical port was.
Cool, thanks. Also curious how people end up working remote. Maybe they read about how cool remote work is (haha ok there are downsides too) and then they ask their employer to allow remote or find a new job.

Anyways, Buffer did a nice report:
https://buffer.com/state-of-remote-work-2019

and they are working on new one together with Angel List (maybe more).
Flip buttons could have instantaneous fingerprint readers.
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If people of color or those with non-mainstream sexual preferences wanted independence then they would likely have to wage armed conflict to get it. Asking for equal rights is something that can be done through the democratic system. Asking for liberation from an authoritarian government is quite a bit different in estimate.

Workers rights like striking (while still very violent in many cases) is not an apples-to-apples comparison to liberating yourself from an authoritarian regime. The Balkans illustrate this well if you want recent European history.
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> at what point can you drop out of high school and still do well in life

That means you're specialised in survival. If you do well in life, you have a higher chance of procreation. Your genes survival depends on it.

General Intelligence is like Free Will - a fascinating concept with no base in reality. A mental experiment.
Sorry for the naive question but can anyone explain why hosting an IPv6-only server can help with decentralization? As a provider of some service, say you have a website where you publish some work, is there any advantage of setting it up as an IPv6 server?
Although the general class of problem is real, this story didn't hold up under examination. Here's a follow-up article in Spiegel: https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/deepfakes-werden-erkennu...

It's in German, but Google Translate to the rescue. Key paragraphs:

'But when asked, how do you know that such a software and no voice imitator has been used, a spokeswoman replies to SPIEGEL by email: "We do not know with 100% certainty. Theoretically, it could have been a human voice imitator But we do not assume that there are some clues (but no evidence). "

'In turn, the clues she mentions have no technical relevance; they are by no means interpreted as evidence of a deepfake. The supposedly "first case" can therefore at best be termed a "possible case". Which is quite symptomatic of the debate about deepfakes and the resulting risks.'
Not sure what makes you skeptical. The technology to do this sort of scam was ready at least a year ago. If anything I’m surprised it hasn’t happened sooner (it probably did, we just haven’t heard about it). If making money transfers is part of your job and your boss calls you to make an urgent transfer for a reasonable amount, why wouldn’t you do it?
> Nope... how would someone have used (with assistant technology) the web back in the day if that would break it.

This is begging the question! You start with the assumption that assistive technologies can handle table-based layouts well, and then work backwards from the conclusion that you’re trying to prove.

It may shock or surprise you, then, to learn that in actual fact, table-based layouts caused problems for screen readers (and still do, if I am not mistaken). There are a number of other ways that websites break screen readers, and the difference today is that (1) table-based layouts are hardly necessary or even popular these days and (2) more people are suing over ADA violations for inaccessible web pages.

The screen-reader tools do not fully rely on HTML semantics, but they do need some logic to differentiate between tabular content and purely presentational <table>. The reason for this should be fairly obvious once you look at any actual web page—when you navigate tables, you want to go by columns and rows, but if you are reading a table used for layout, you probably just want to flatten it and go through the entire thing in linear order (more or less). The process can be disorienting for people with screen readers if your site is poorly designed.

Of course, if you just make assumptions and guess about how screen readers and assistive technologies work, there is a good chance that your guesses are wrong.
Agreed. At least it's part of the phoronix benchmark, and openbench has some results:

https://openbenchmarking.org/showdown/pts/build-linux-kernel

I'd love to hear of a more richly supplied crowd sourced database.
Isn't removing energy from our over-energized climate system a good thing?

I realize that this is a very simplistic view, but if I am wrong I would love to learn something.
You can blame Prince Charles for this
So I thought so, but I've tried grapefruit juice, and I don't get the effect. And I can clearly taste sugar after toothpaste
Priming for a sale to GAFAM huh? Surely it's cheaper just to sell...
It's a highly redundant technology. Any turbine is as good as any other in the farm. As long as the economics work out (which is the real question, and I don't have an answer), there's no particular reason to demand perfect reliability for situations where maintenance is expensive. It's just like leaving stale servers to rot in giant data centers.
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Kind of like the current ML boom. We evolved faster and faster GPUs for gaming and now are trying to use them for other things.
Mine too. But what he really likes is papaya.
Exactly, and there's not a lot of used DDR4 (w/ or w/o ECC) on the market.
Hmmm good point maybe it's the bitterness profile of the peel
Disappointed to see so much negativity in this thread. Password management is still an unsolved problem in most peoples lives. Think of your parents - are they using a good digital password manager, or do they still have a bunch of sticky notes with their passwords written out on them? Wouldn't it be better if they were using a password manager? Most people I know, especially the ones that aren't tech savvy, won't use a password manager until the UX and product experience are nailed. So far, 1Password is the only password management product I see making progress in that direction.

People complained when they upped their prices and moved to a cloud model (and in all fairness that transition wasn't handled perfectly), but honestly, the product is now way better, works on more platforms, and is totally seamless. I hope they use the investment money to continue to make the product better and to get it into more people's hands.
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I thought Apple had bought them? Am I thinking of a different password management app?
Ironic that this is the first image the article shows when describing the folding yet the comment thread was started to save people time from looking around.
>while looking at the article I just spied "09JAN19" on the back of the display

>Motorola have been working away at this for over a year.

>And (probably...?) successfully kept it a secret.

They didn't.
January 16th:
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/1/16/18185101/m...

January 21th:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/21/18191330/motorola-razr-le...

Rumoured initial release of February 2019 and the Snapdragon 710 that is in devices for over 1.5? years already I wouldn't be surprised if similar problems as Samsung's lead to that late release now.
One of these days, China is likely to bring the gun fight to the peaceful resistance. The question is, does the peaceful resistance want to be on the receiving end of a massacre, or do they want to have a gun fight? (Note well: It is unclear to me what the right answer is, either from the point of view of achieving political goals, or even from the point of view of minimizing the number of casualties.)
I've read conflicting claims on this, but I don't have the expertise to judge. Some say much of HKIX is off-campus.
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It took us millions/billions of years of evolution and a couple of years of training in real life to be able to walk through a door. It's not a simple task even for humans. It requires maintaining a dynamic equilibrium which is basically solving a differential equation just to keep from falling.
These protests show the pros and cons of colonialism. Con, in that Hong Kong's differences from the mainland are the fuel for this deadly conflict. Pro, in that these differences are behind this island becoming one of the most productive spots on Earth. The flourishing of these people would likely not have happened had Britain not leased it for 99 years. Even if China obliterates the difference, it has been irreversibly infected by the ideologies of the colonist.

What would the world look like if we could dial back the level of colonialism over the last 2k years? Hong Kong makes a case for such cross-pollination as a human accelerant.
It was already ridiculous 10 years ago. The individuals that are receptive to it are already on board. Asking them to shower less or use less in the shower is playing right into the "dirty hippy" stereotype.

You may not be able to smell the difference on an extreme-water-saving hygiene regime, but those who do take regular showers, using as much water as necessary, can detect it. Sesqui-daily (morning, evening, skip, repeat) "Navy showers", taken cold, are probably the best one can do without sacrificing inoffensiveness towards the end of the inter-bathing interval, as measured by a nose that is not already acclimated to your specific body odor. This requires a shower head with a powerful, relatively narrow spray, to blast the soap off fast, even with hard water.

If you are not on board a ship with a limited supply of fresh water, or living in a bona fide desert, or experiencing a lengthy drought, it is not necessary to attempt this. Your individual contribution to freshwater usage is entirely insignificant compared with industrial and agricultural use. Every shower you will ever take during your entire lifetime is likely to be less than 4 acre-feet in total. California alone uses more than 30 million acre-feet of irrigation water every year. Great Plains farms collectively use enough water to deplete one of the largest underground aquifers on the planet.

It's not you. If you really want to conserve, invent or improve an irrigation scheme, with installation and operating costs as cheap as center-pivot, that uses 1% less water. Then you could shower every waking moment of the rest of your life, under a 5 gpm showerhead, and still come out ahead on planetary karma.
I see some comments talking about human pheromones and I just wanted to point out that there really isn’t any strong evidence (yet) that human pheromones exist.

“It is emphasized that no bioassay-guided study has led to the isolation of true human pheromones, a step that will elucidate specific functions to human chemical signals.” [1]

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15470677
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>How easy to maintain are these?

The current lifespan of wind turbines is around 20 years (but 15 years is closer to reality). So ... not great.
That was a really bad miscommunication - especially as we are running out of IPv4 in Europe this month. - see https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/when-does-ripe-run-out-of-ipv4-ad...
> Ever since they went to the cloud, I stopped using and recommending them to friends and family.

The whole point of using a password manager is that the passwords I create and use on my {desktop, laptop, work machine, phone} are immediately and seamlessly available to me on all of the other platforms.

As far as I know it is Cloud integration which enables this absolutely necessary and table-stakes functionality. Is that not true? Does e.g. Keepass provide this essential functionality without a Cloud integration of some kind?
They pull the breaks on their offshoots that’s true. But, one bad release out of 5 isn’t indicative of any trend.
It would follow the Backpage precedent consistently at least - and people would hate it.

If they complain about the ethics of industry are low now wait until they cause "Johnny Tightlips" to become the safe legal standard.
> I feel like I've spent an absolute fortune on 1password over the last decade. I'm pretty sure it was, what, $70 when I got it 6+ years ago? Now I'm paying monthly (2.99 or 4.99/mo x .. 3-5 years?)

Our pricing intuition around software is so weird. That's $370 over six years. If you went to a theater and watched a movie alone every couple of months, you spent more on tickets than you did on 1Password in that time.
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It will drain the battery at full load, the i9 is a 45 watt TDP and the RX 5500M is 85 watt TDP (plus display, ram, disk, etc).

However, there's no way the cooling on the laptop can support that much power draw, so I'd expect it to throttle itself way before you'd drain the battery while plugged in.
Is this what you’re talking about?

https://github.com/que-rb/que
Sure, this is a troubling new variation, but it's still the kind of social engineering that can be deflected with reasonable protocols, such as a second channel of authentication (e.g. "Sounds good boss, can you email me the transfer/order id to confirm things and I'll finish it from here". The underling CEO was as vulnerable to someone imitating his boss's voice the old-fashioned way.

Regardless of the advances in AI, I think text-based social engineering will still be prevalent and efficient. IIRC, the Anonymous hackers who targeted HBGary got SSH access by fooling the company's chief security officer. Sure, they did by emailing from the company owner's account (thanks to a weak admin password surfaced through other vulnerabilities). But the hackers didn't even know the account name when asking for a password reset. The CSO could've stopped things by asking to do a call, e.g. "Hey let me call you, I need to walk you through this part" or even just texting the phone for confirmation.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/02/anonymous-speaks...
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And if you plug a Samsung Galaxy S9/10/Note into that same USB-C, a full desktop will appear on your monitor as well using your existing ethernet, mouse, keyboard and audio outputs. Something not possible with full sized HDMI ports.
“Journalists score far lower in moral reasoning than they did 13 years ago.”
Yes because I feel like I was fucked with. Of course I'm mad.

Especially if they remove the pricing protections it might price me out of owning my own domain.
Take a look at this article that hit HN yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21525878
It's even worse than that.

I used to work with a guy who told me that the reason BP bought Amoco, and not the other way around, is that years before, the Amoco team misread the seismic map (not the chart), and bid on the wrong piece of land. BP got the other piece, and the difference was big enough that within a decade, one bought the other.

THAT is how much the data is worth.
Absolutely spectacular - wow.
> Does it still have a "mess" of different levels or protocols?

of course
I think this is the first paper on R Trees.

http://www-db.deis.unibo.it/courses/SI-LS/papers/Gut84.pdf
Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes
As I understand it cats eat grass in order to deal with hairballs in their stomach caused when they clean themselves.
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We can only rely on whistleblowers to tell us truly what's going on behind the scenes with these kinds of things.

Kudos to the whistleblower for coming out.

Look at how this is done vs. how Apple is doing their health program. There's tons of transparency, they're openly talking about doing studies with Medical Schools, and the medical parties are publishing results.
My concern with the IP changing is if I was on vacation and my IP changes, I'd have no clue how to get back to it.
I wonder how many people feel that migrating to Python3 would have been worth doing in the absence of being forced to do so.

Dropbox invested three years of work, actually hired Python's creator, and are still not done. What are they getting out of it that they wouldn't have gotten if Python2 simply had been maintained?
Wanted to piggyback on this thread since I've been thinking about using a password manager for awhile and have never gotten around to it.

What's the best service level for 1password for a small office, like 10 people or so, that want to just share basic passwords for things like social media accounts, mailchimp login, adobe password, and stuff like that?
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There are tricks to remember the locations (https://i.imgur.com/57wRuUS.png)
Depends both on what you do for a living and how you treat electronics. Some people don't use screen protectors, others have a screen cracked so bad they have a hard time reading from it.
> Of course an hypothetical "Turing Test" of fiction-writing might be able to fool some people, and in an age where Netflix has been accused of producing content "by algorithm" this seems increasingly possible, but...

So it feels like you should be able to procedurally generate stories at least something by combining common story arches, templates, character archetypes etc. without too much effort but I've yet to find any compelling examples of this anywhere. When you look into the problem more, you realise it's a lot harder than it seems.

We've seen lots of examples of chat bots that are said to pass the Turing Test but really aren't that intelligent at all so a "Turing Test of fiction writing" as you put sounds like a super interesting next step to me.
Python 3 seems like a bit of a missed opportunity. Since they were introducing breaking changes in the first place, why didn't they go bigger? E.g. make the OOP seem less tacked on, immutable data structures, clean up inconsistencies in the standard library?
Perhaps you did. The documentary does sound quite compelling. There is no doubt that switching to a vegan diet from a standard processed food diet will see improvements. But those athletes built themselves up as omnivores.

Some examples from athletes in the film:

-Griff Whalen: went vegan 2014 out of the league 2016

-Bryant Jennings: went vegan end of 2013 (17-0 before vegan, 5-2 after vegan)

-Mischa Janiec: went vegan fall of 2015 - no wins 2 years after

-Kendrick Farris: went vegan 2014 -performed poorly in the 2016 Olympics

-Patrik Baboumian went vegan 2011 - 5'-7" and never ever part of the World Strong Men competition.

-Morgan Mitchell went vegan 2014... in 2017 finished 26th place world championships

-James Brett Wilks went vegan 2011, retired from MMA in 2012

- Lewis Hamiliton suffered depressive breakdown on twitter

Typically within 2 years after going vegan, performance goes down. So veganism based on many of the athletes in the film is a sub-optimal diet for athletic performance.

As to your comment about the Amazon, we aren't eating Amazon beef. You're right it's being cleared, to make way for soy and other processed food. When you buy a steak from the butcher it's not coming from the Amazon, it comes from your local butcher, from a grass fed field, using less carbon then your bananas from Panama.

Tim Rees (amongst other) have written several writeups about the "evidence" in the movie. https://medium.com/@timrees/watched-the-game-changers-now-yo...

Greenhouse gas emissions of meat is also very questionable. Here is a PhD GHG expert, who has looked a bit closer: https://www.sciencealert.com/sorry-but-giving-up-on-meat-is-...

As always it's not as so simple. I believe the place to start is with science-based facts.
When we break up Big Tech, should we make them subsidize all these neat and skilled professions they've effectively replaced?
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> intelligence is mostly about getting through the next 10-30 seconds of life without screwing up

This is probably a variant of Andrew Ng's affirmation that ML can solve anything a human could solve in one second, with enough training data.

But intelligence actually has a different role. It's not for those repeating situations that we could solve by mere reflex. It's for those rare situations where we have no cached response, where we need to think logically. Reflex is model-free reinforcement learning, and thinking is model-based RL. Both of them are necessary tools for taking decisions, but they are optimised for different situations.
That one conversation I had in the engineering building parking lot, with that one guy that I don't even remember who he was... he persuaded me that going into grad school in physics, chasing the unified field theory, wasn't a useful use of my life. Seeing all this makes me very grateful for that conversation. Thank you, whoever you were.
Yes, more HW would be purchased.

There's much less embodied energy in $1 of chip (especially cutting edge HW where you are covering R&D) than in $1 of energy.

Also once hardware (access to capital much better distributed than access to huge quantities of discounted power) is purchased it's portable and condensed. Much better for decentralization.