skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I recall Minecraft's snowball started with geek dads watching Notch live coding and buying the game for their kids. https://youtu.be/MhQ70O1MiXc
Could it be that with Quantum Computing computational power will continue to increase exponentially?
It’s not that different than communist systems that result in a class of people who leverage their position to enrich themselves and their families.

The problem isn’t the economic system, the problem is human nature.
BankID is really nice,
I think when I move back to Aus I will feel like I've gone back in time.

I don't know about Canada but I feel like if you tried to implement this in Australia there'd be a lot of paranoia over a system like BankID with regards to privacy or gatekeeping
Mostly related to the tooling around those things, especially when dealing with groups of machines sending logs to a central system. It's worth remembering you are still using journald when using one of the syslogs, it's just forwarding all the journal messages to the syslog socket.

As the tooling catches up this gap will close. For example the json output of journald can be really useful, that said, most of the tools still require some change of the output from the binary format which they can't read to a text format whether that be json or syslog... and the binary format in general being a general pain point if (read: when) things break (such as corruption of the whole journal past corruption point vs one section of text in syslog).

It's worth remembering that journald was designed for local system use. It's just one more of the reasons I had some hesitation with systemd but got shouted down by everyone on the systemd bandwagon.
I unfortunately just saw this, but need to tell you: please don't post regional flamebait to HN. It leads to flamewars like this one, which we emphatically don't want here.

We've already had to warn you before about not breaking the site guidelines, and unfortunately it seems like you've been breaking them a lot. That leads to getting banned here, and I don't want to ban you, so would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site as intended from now on? The idea here is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.
I think one YouTube comment named another good reason: The animals were too easy to kill.

"The problem is obvious. The animals were too easy to kill. Imagine trying to chase down a real rabbit or deer with a sword. You will never catch either one and if by some chance you corner them the deer would actually stand a chance of beating you."
FYI, google translate for Japanese is pretty unreliable for lone uncommon words. It seems to rely heavily on internet-trained ML, and does pretty well with phrases and sentences, but for single words I see it return nonsense fairly often.

As an alternative, https://jisho.org/ is super easy to use and hasn't let me down yet.
Why not no religion at all? Because then we can't have Christmas concerts or Halloween dress up days because though these are all quite commercial, have religious origins and are still observed by many as religious events.

So, we end up with a mess between keeping people happy from every angle at once (where no one is particularly happy) instead of sticking to a logical position that angers some and is a perfectly fine solution for the rational population.

Edit: The down side of my perspective is that mob rule will alter what is ethically acceptable to teach children in the future. Which is a real concern.

Edit: I don't think the schools have any business teaching kids about sex either, let the parents do that. (I don't want to live in a communist dystopia because we forget history)

Edit: (Removed some personal view points.)
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IMO you can't just hijack a thread like you're trying to do, if you want to talk about Uyghurs, there are threads about it already, or, just create your own.
So I, like many on this site, also have privacy concerns about these assistants [1], but I have never seen it [2] give obviously incorrect answers such as your anecdote. Obviously Google Knowledge Graph occasionally gives blatantly wrong answers, so maybe you just caught it on one of those days.

[1] In spite of my concerns, somewhat hypocritically, I have a mini in my bathroom which I received as a gift. I find it quite useful for listening to podcasts/music/audiobooks and switching between them purely by voice.

[2] From both personal usage, and usage at my friends' places, I find Google Homes as accurate as standard Google search, which is to say, very accurate the vast majority of the time.
How could a unprivileged program keylog my sudo typings? (I am running Wayland)
Because police leadership is elected, or appointed by someone who is, and their opinions tend to reflect the local politics.
Duck Duck Go is also closed source and privately owned.
I run Steam under a different user account (and X server). It takes care of the junky home directory problem. However, the main reason is because I don't trust all the random game developers.
Multiplayer Windows games in general ship anti-cheating software implemented as kernel modules that are more invasive than even draconian DRM.
It's interesting that you say this. I find that I had about as many good/great English teachers as I did in other subjects, but there weren't many mediocre English teachers.

I had a math teacher who literally never got up from his desk, visibly counting down the years until he could collect his pension. I had similarly checked out history and science teachers.

The not-good English teachers I had, however, seemed mad at the world and out for blood. The name written on an assignment had a stronger correlation with the grade than the content, so the only path to an A was to stroke the teacher's ego

I even had a pair of friends do a blinded experiment to confirm this. They each would type out their assignment, then would call each other and flip a coin; Heads they write their own name, Tails they write the other person's name.

In another occurrence, I had gotten on a teacher's bad-side and so the grades on my papers had a hard ceiling of a C. I asked my dad for advice, and it was roughly: Talk to the teacher, apologize for "not applying myself" offer to redo back assignments. She didn't even have me redo any back assignments, but suddenly I was getting As and Bs again.

Another occurance: I got my first paper of the class back with the only markings on it "58, almost an A paper." Here was the dialog that ensued:

----

Me: How many points is this out of?

Teacher: 100

Me: Is the class graded on a curve?

Teacher: No, straight 90/80/70

Me: So how is 58 "almost an A paper?"

Teacher: Well, just a few tweaks and it would be great,[encouraging tone] I'm sure you'll do well in my course!

Me: ...

----

To this day I still have not figured out what was going on in that teacher's mind. It was a rare real-world moment where I honestly couldn't tell if I was being trolled or not.
Is Quantum Computing computational power increasing exponentially now?
Please don't post generational flamebait to HN. It starts generational flamewars on HN. Those are seriously lame and boring.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> More lack of understanding I would guess.

I admit, I lack an understanding of how racism and nationalism both boil down to "my tribe is better than yours". I'll go even further and question whether you just made that up.

> Racism and nationalism aren’t about hate. They are about pride and superiority.

Is this an opinion or a fact?

Wikipedia says:

"Nationalism is an ideology and movement that promotes the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people) especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation's sovereignty (self-governance) over its homeland. Nationalism holds that each nation should govern itself, free from outside interference (self-determination), that a nation is a natural and ideal basis for a polity, and that the nation is the only rightful source of political power (popular sovereignty)."

I see no need for pride, and a sense of superiority certainly isn't required - I find the idea that my country is superior utterly comical.

> Nationalism is often confused or manipulated as patriotism.

It's also often confused for other things, like a sense of superiority, or National Socialism.

> The feeling of superiority enables other behaviors — people feel justified to take negative actions against other humans because they are lesser than them on some axis.

Perhaps, but this isn't an intrinsic part of nationalism.

> These aren’t made up meanings.

They are interpretations, made up by the author who wrote the interpretations. If the word nationalism has been redefined (as seems to be the case based on comments and voting in threads such as these), perhaps we should get a new one to represent the Wikipedia meaning above. As much as people here seem unsatisfied with my willingness to hate others due to my nationalist beliefs, I refuse to do so to make others happy.
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It could be that the slowing of Moore's Law results in a more diverse array of specialized computing hardware. After all, the resurgence of ML didn't happen because x86 got fast enough, but because video games - of all things - funded the maturation of a whole new category of massively-parallel chips.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait to HN? You've been doing it a lot, and we've already had to warn you a lot. I just posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21502690, but there were several cases before that and plenty of other guidelines violations that I only just saw.
As I remember from setting up a server way, way back is you want to give that JVM as much memory as you can trow at it.
Geez, they survived by eating other ants that were unlucky enough to stumble into the bunker.
I wonder does the compute power per dollar have to level off so soon?
For some problems, perhaps - but it could also be the case maintaining entanglement becomes exponentially harder with an increasing number of qubits.
Asus motherboards (and probably others too) support a mode where you can split the x16 into 4 x4 connections and use https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboard-Accessories/HYPER-M-2-X1... to mount them.
Sharing the DevOps Journey at Microsoft
Patriotism is perfectly normal, nationalism is not. You could argue that nationalism is an extreme version of patriotism, being that it takes a love and faith for one's country and uses it at the expense of others.
Yes - and on two fronts.
The number of qubits that can be entangled is currently going up at an exponential rate, and with each additional qubit the power of the machine (in a certain sense) doubles.
You're shopping online, with a credit card. You don't have to trust anyone... You can't lose. That's by design of Visa, MasterCard, Amex, etc. You'll always get your money back.

So try a few online stores... There's a few you've probably heard of, Newegg, DSW, Chewy, and more. We'll earn your repeat business, otherwise you move on to some other online store.

That's how this business works.

How'd you come to trust Amazon in the first place? You tried a purchase, and were satisfied with the experience. They earned your trust just, like any store, physical or virtual.
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Thank you for that, it was excellent.
OK, then I should have expressed it better - it's vanishingly rare. Even armed officers are expected to de-escalate when possible, rather than shoot. There's been some questionable sounding incidents amongst the very low numbers of actual shootings, and of course there are sometimes major cock-ups - a couple of which that sounded seriously negligent.

Wikipedia says in the year 2011–12, conventional firearms were used FIVE times. At the time there were 6,756 Authorised Firearms Officers and 12,550 police operations in which firearms were authorised throughout England and Wales. Which doesn't sound like UK:US convergence to me. :)
I'm with ya, as long market forces are still at work I'll vote with my $'s every chance I get.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21302825
Let me fuel your paranoia a little.

It’s likely that cloud computing will continue to see decreases in costs, which means the availability of computing will continue to raise after Mores Law has stopped giving.

Quantum computers might play a role in increasing computational power in the next decade.

Right now a lot of AI research is low hanging fruit recently made available with advances in CPU and GPU. After the advances dry up maybe more fundamental research will produce much better results with our current technology.
Wozniak isn’t in the top 0.1%. He lost his fortune and makes money via speaking now.
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Moments ago, in Hong Kong, a man opposing the protesters was lit on fire
Can AI Replace Teachers to Grade Student Essays? A Lesson from US Schools
very wisely pointed out and I second this based on my own experience
btw you can support the author of this project here: https://staticcheck.io/sponsors
VMware ESXi on ARM
Makes me wanna install Ableton and just play with it. What a well done commercial.
Yet AI beat humans at every strategic game out there, from Chess and Go to StarCraft2. We don't have general AI, but in some fields, human understanding have already been outpaced.
Even his opinion on Apple products is largely irrelevant nowadays as he was wrong multiple times.
In the other direction, I've seen gtl invert the meaning of sentences on subtle variations of the なければ pattern, which is probably a fairly small error in the problem space but, well, inverts the meaning of the sentence. A good reminder that parallel corpus machine learning does not see the world the same way you do.
What makes them a horrible consumer bank? They didn’t really have a consumer division before. If Apple partnered with, idk, Bank of America you could have a prior experience to project.
Welding masks may not be rated for solar, but given that they block out the insane amount of UVA-UVB generated by welding, and our atmosphere totally kills UVC, you're good to go as long as you aren't relying upon the auto-darkening ones.
Same. Many thanks to Valve for their work. I went linux only before proton for ideological reasons and the relatively recent strides with proton, the steam client, and moves like this really make me happy to continue to be one of the 1%rs running steam on linux and support valve for their efforts. I can't wait to buy an index vr headset and try to dev with it in godot.

Valve, if you are reading this, just please make sure source 2 has a linux compatible editor! One thing I miss is modding source games.
You could look at this from a couple of angles. From the healthcare business side, it's controlling costs, plus either regulatory compliance or revenue support (e.g., through provider lock-in).
From the tech side, it's whether something developed 'in house' can be 'sold' to the private market: the economics about government institutions 'crowding out' private ventures argues that publicly funded innovations should not deny private profit opportunities. In the public sector this is controlled with ethics regulations that prevent organizations (and individuals) from benefiting from that effort: they legally cannot market or sell that work _at all_.
With an open-source system, it's (business) risk management and (provider) lock-in concerns. Proprietary systems are used to satisfy both. Safety risks arising from cybersecurity concerns are almost always chained to something already managed by existing processes with an insurer at the end of the line.
And the SpaceX Starlink launch happens 2 hours later at 9:35AM ET. An interesting astrophotography opportunity to get a picture of both Mercury and a zillion little satellites transiting the Sun.
Sorry to hear that, you rightfully should have charged back your payment. That's a massive stick in your corner as a consumer. It's expensive for the retailer to deal with, and too many risks having their Processor close their account. It's also the reason Amazon freezes your account if you chargeback something.

Sounds like you were buying from an arbitrage seller, our more commonly called a drop shipper our crossdocker in industry terms. Basically they don't stock the products they sell. They buy goods when they sell goods, and hope you won't notice. Sometimes it works out, if their source can ship quickly... But in your case... It didn't. That's not really an online store... Unfortunately, only online reviews will be able to help you stay away from that.

I can't speak for all online stores, and certainly if your organization has an approved vendor list then things are set... But many of us are happy to accept PO's, setup NET accounts, and more. You'll also get a more personal touch with a company that cares about your business instead of you just being another number.

As an aside, take a look at Quill for office supplies. They'll treat you right.
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The same sort of thing happened in Wales, the result was an out of office email auto-reply ended up on a roadsign.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7702913.stm

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/man-responsibl...
People are living in pod houses, only due to metropolitan convergence and the consequent increase in the cost of land they've been stacked on top of one another, called condos and are sold for multiples of the proposed Futuro.
Oh yeah this is super dope. The reason why this works is that Max is a 3rd party programming interface for audio, and Live can interface with Max, hence "Max for Live." It uses some subset of JavaScript. Anybody can develop stuff like this and a lot do, but it's quite challenging in my experience and fortunately Ableton does amazing work like this and always releases their own Max stuff.
Not sure I saw a single rally in Europe where people demanded their data should be kept in the EU.
Not sure I saw a single rally in Australia/UK where people were saying “yeah, block that porn for us”.
>At least in the US, police departments were primarily created by the elites to protect the elites from immigrant masses.

They were created first and foremost for slaves, not immigrant masses. History gets too sanitized for my liking in this country and we miss important lessons because of it.
With Medical Bills Skyrocketing, More Hospitals Are Suing for Payment
Given rule changes even without devolved government repeats of the Liverpool reservoir would be much harder. Dinorwig used already existing disused quarries - not flooding a pristine valley.

In the case of Scotland it's been the Scottish government looking at using lochs. No idea what the case is in Wales.
If you got to make money, you got to make money - Thats okay.

Major worry here being if I dont be a "money earning user" for Youtube i.e. I have ad blocker and I do not monetize / upload videos, will I lose access to ALL my Google products? (All being analytics, webmaster tools, gmail being 3 main ones)
Let's build it in MUMPS, a 51 year old language that originated on the PDP7

It’s funny. You got Ruby guys out here who think every problem can be solved with a new DSL, and you guys actually have a DSL and want to get rid of it! Maybe the grass is always greener on the other side?

Nah. C

Also traces its roots to the PDP7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)#Early...
One factor: the computational cost of training any extremely expensive model is amortized across all uses of that model.
Thanks for the clarification. I haven't checked your numbers but they seem reasonable.

FWIW, I think deaths, regardless of fault, is probably the best number for an apples-to-apples comparison. If the Uber car were driven by a person without a dash-cam, then there is no way they would have been ruled at fault.

Similarly, I have been involved in 5 collisions (most were not my fault). Of the 5, 3 were reported to insurance and only 1 was recorded by the police (For 1 other the police were called, but the dispatcher (on the non-emergency police line) said "Are both cars driveable? (yes) Is anyone injured? (No), then don't bother us!" (By comparison, in California even a single car collision on private property must, in theory, be reported to the police).

Deaths, at least, will get recorded by the CDC, if nobody else.

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However, I don't think that deaths are necessarily the best number for considering "failures" all deaths are in some way a failure, but most failures do not result in deaths. Nobody even had to see a doctor for the 5 collisions I mention. I've fallen asleep at the wheel and crossed the center-line without getting in an accident, &c. humans make a lot of mistakes, but most of them do not result in a collision, and most of the ones that result in a collision do not result in a death.

I also think it's inevitable that computers will become better at driving than not just the mean or median driver, but 90th percentile or more, at which point it would be immoral to not, in some way, encourage self-driving cars over human-driven cars. My guess is that we are less than a decade away from that point, but I could be wrong.

Certainly the lack of a safety-culture in the automotive field (as compared to say, avionics) is a huge barrier to be overcome, and that's a social hurdle, not a technical one and I can only make wild-ass guesses as to when that will change.
Sure, the older 737s. That's why most of the 737-200s still in service are up in Canada. The high bypass engines on the NGs and newer are too big to easily fit gravel kits on.
the resurgence of ML ... because video games - of all things - funded the maturation of a whole new category of massively-parallel chips

Fake news. It has far more to do with the rise of distributed computing than the existence of GPUs.
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A voice input command line is exactly what we need.

Unfortunately people want to pretend that natural language parsing can be solved, which, at least, for English is impossible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_flies_like_an_arrow;_frui...
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Sounds a lot like http://www.engrish.com/
Also helps to share the notes. Very often two people leave a meeting hearing different things.
Specialized fields like games aren't necessarily a problem - computers have been beating us at arithmetic for decades, and it isn't exactly world shattering.

Also, a minor nitpick: AI has not succeeded at beating the best players at SC2, though it did beat the vast majority of the ladder.
It's a computer version of legos that is actually playable.

Lego tried making some brick building games but they were universally awful. A couple hundred bricks and the computer slows to a crawl. Their later games don't involve building at all.

Minecraft scratches that building itch, with a bucket that never runs out.
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I’m pissed some leaders of the movement like Joshua Wong and Denice Ho are still playing tragedies like this to push their agenda.

I don’t think there is a leader in this movement in Hong Kong [1], and definitely Joshua Wong or Denice Ho are not leaders of this movement, that is, the majority of the protestors do not follow whatever agenda they set. The protestors act by consensus, and their action has largely been fueled by the unchecked police brutality, and recently by the death of a student during protest [2].

[1]: There are numerous news articles on how leaderless the movement is, and just to cite some recent articles: https://thediplomat.com/2019/10/inside-hong-kongs-leaderless... https://wtop.com/asia/2019/10/how-tech-has-fueled-a-leaderle...

[2]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/death-hong-kong-student-f...