skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
..while multiple Mars and other planetary missions are ongoing and a new launch vehicle to bring humans into space is being developed. All on that 1% budget.
I was speaking more to 2b, and it shouldn’t be expensive because the other servers should spin down after you’ve migrated. You’re maybe paying for a day of overlap if that, and you’re paying for massively reduced risk.

Fair point on the consensus stuff. I was keying in on the patroni system but reading up more looks like that’s less novel than on first read (the “framework” lines in the library readme had me worried)
More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_(structure)

Isaac Arthur: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlpFzn_Y-F0
Ideas and Creativity
Stability also improves when you have less bugs. And you get less memory leaks, what it a big worry for browsers.

But no, I do disagree. Rust is more expressive than C++ and much easier to debug. I expect the new Gecko development to be easier and faster than Chromium, what leads to more features.
Co-ops.
Is it ethical nowadays to hire a driver?
What's up with the map showing that all of hudson bay belongs to Nunavut? Surely some of it belongs to the other adjacent provinces?
I did a bit, but honestly, my main point is that I can't stand Hofstadter's style, either of writing or thinking. It's not an ad hominem attack to prove some other point; it's intended as a criticism of the man himself.
There's at least one way in which it's easier talking to a voice assistant, I use AndroidAuto as my GPS (ie navigation aid whilst driving). When you talk to someone they don't "bing" to show they're listening, so you generally have to look at them.

Me: "OK Google"

AndroidAuto: {bing}

Me: "Navigate home"

AndroidAuto: "Navigating to [home], your travel time will be Xhrs, usual traffic along your
route" [or whatever it says]

It's pretty low concentration, like tuning a radio manually I'd say.

You have to choose how you phrase things for different people too. If you're talking to another adult with kids in the car you might be choosing that phrasing with quite a deal of cognitive load.
DC/OS is also open source, Apache 2.0, same as Mesos.

In fact DC/OS includes open source Mesos with no modifications, what they add is packaged bunch of different API providers running as Mesos apps: Marathon, DNS, etc., and also a somewhat dumb installer.

Auto-scaling was long possible for Marathon/Mesos, and is described at DC/OS website, though does not involve any of DC/OS additionals: https://docs.d2iq.com/mesosphere/dcos/2.0/tutorials/autoscal... .

In my org, we run open source Marathon/Mesos deployments for years without any DC/OS additionals, and also a slightly modified versions of tooling below:

https://github.com/mesosphere/marathon-autoscale
https://github.com/mesosphere/marathon-lb-autoscale

There are also available several open-source auto-scalers for Marathon/Mesos apart from these two.

This new one from Yelp seems to be promising, since it's battle tested within organization which has many kinds of different workloads, so I would give it a try for some new cluster.
Apple as does not allow side-loading, so wouldn't a jailbreak be required?
Week 34: Double Calendar Spreads, How Can We Use Them?
It is privilege not because it requires time, but because it generally requires free time, outside of how you make your living. You can't apprentice as someone who consumes art.

As for snobbishness, you have it backwards: no one is saying that snobbishness is required to have good taste, but that the privilege required to develop good taste results in good taste being, or being labeled as, snobbish.
The future of live music lives on your smartphone
> If you are a Docker user, you understand that there is a daemon process that must be run to service all of your Docker commands. I can’t claim to understand the motivation behind this but I imagine it seemed like a great idea, at the time, to do all the cool things that Docker does in one place and also provide a useful API to that process for future evolution.

I guess that would be for the Windows and macOS support as it should make things easier implement in a cross platform way when you can just proxy the cli commands to a daemon running in a Linux VM even when you are on Windows or macOS?
>To dream of running far enough away to a mythical place where you alone get to make the laws is just futile escapism. The Amish and the Mormons just moved with their laws to a new place, and if you didn't agree with their laws, you still got kicked out.

Strawman. I literally wrote "like the Amish or Mormons did" yet you describe living alone in a hidden hut somewhere, Theodore Kaczynski style.

>Why does it have to be defensible?

Even in the XIX century, Mormons were eventually subjugated by force. They only managed to last several decades under their own laws.
Today under the "Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act" it's a federal crime to operate a submersible vessel without nationality in international waters. The claimed jurisdiction is global.
So no, it's not possible to move away anywhere on Earth anymore. The moment anything substantial would be created, some state would claim it as their own.

>Why that should be as easy as a CRUD app on a virtual server with some rented storage.

What's the point of this hyperbole? The difference between an engineering problem and scifi is that the former can already be done, but is expensive or otherwise impractical, while scifi problem like mind uploading can't be done for any money today. Engineering problems, like making rockets cheaper, are solvable by throwing money at the problem as long as general physical laws permit improvements.

>the world is full, nobody is escaping anywhere

Which is exactly why developing space travel technology is so important.
What is the Mono engine? What does FNA stand for?
You're welcome! This really is a phenomenal tool!

I will get the extension today!
The trick is not to rely on Google translate for a finished translation, but to use it just as a tool toward reaching that goal.

As someone who is learning French these days, it is an absolute boon.

One of my favorite things is letting Google auto finish a sentence.... because those auto finished sentences usually tend to be phrases or constructs French speakers use a lot.

The other neat thing is that Google shows a check mark near a translation which it feels with high confidence is good — in my experiences those translations really are good and without fault.
One more small? benefit: general population will be trained to think proactively and be more organized on these small tasks.
From the show notes[1]:

> It’s also interesting that certain designs, such as the one proposed by Moravec (1977), consider a tether whose rotation is chosen such that its instantaneous velocity when touching the atmosphere is minimized, and effectively zero at the tip during the moment of maximum extension into the atmosphere.

[1] https://sites.google.com/view/sources-skyhooks/
This is one aspect that is not often talked about.

If Gecko was easier to build on top of, it would get more adoption in other markets and promote the variety of engines that we sorely need. Mozilla doesn't only win by getting more Firefox market share.

Also not everything is lost. Chromium has a bunch of weird and custom build tooling that also makes it a pain to build on top. Anyone who has tried to package v8 can see that it's mainly catering for Chrome's needs.
As far as I can gather, all the islands of the Hudson Bay are considered part of Nunavut (even those in James Bay), but I don't think all the water belongs to Nunavut.
I was curious about this, too. Was there a time when that was a more or less unanimous opinion? Maybe "wrote circles around" is meant to be a very specific judgement?
I skimmed the article, but it seems the purpose of it would be better served as series of issue reports in the Google Translate bug tracking system than a full article.

I think it's not really that interesting to diss the state of the machine translation art in 2019, instead of looking where it could be in 2020, 2025, 2030.
It comes off as quite arrogant of Hofstadter to imply that people believe translation has now been solved by deep learning. You don't even have to be bilingual and know the other language to detect the subtleties lost by machine translation. It would have been interesting to hear the reflections of the Danish speaking friend. I can imagine Frank finds Google Translate practical for simple words that actually are more or less 1-to-1, things you would otherwise look up in a dictionary. And probably his Danish friend can pick up any idioms and such that Google Translate distorts anyway.
The practical utility of Google Translate and similar technologies is undeniable, and probably it’s a good thing overall, but there is still something deeply lacking in the approach, which is conveyed by a single word: understanding.

It all boils down to this paragraph, and no one can say it is not true.
Oops, yes of course WeWork. Weird mistake, but in my defense I had a cold.
Profit or non-profit doesn't really have anything to do with it. The issue is market power. Chrome has 70-80% market share according to this article. That's monopoly levels of market power and it's maintained through Android, which also has 80% market share.

It's up to regulators to restore some semblance of balance to the market. If the browser market were less concentrated and there was more equal distribution, it wouldn't really matter whether you were a non-profit or not. In fact the web would be better off with competing interests jockeying over each other.
>Google Translate, plus some critical thinking and a bit of work with a dictionary, will get you a rudimentary understanding of a text in a foreign language --- and that's a great advance.

For some languages it will, they targeted the official working languages of the UN at the time. I hear for them it's pretty good. Personally, I live in Japan and rely on Google Translate every day and my experience has been generally crap. I've seen it get some simpler phrases in Japanese dead wrong and have been noticing it more often the more I learn the language. The part that infuriates me the most is how translations for simple phrases seem to change on an almost daily basis. Not long ago it had a pretty good translation for the formal (keigo) greeting used in business correspondence but as of a few months ago it utterly mangles it. Yes language changes but not this quickly, a lot of these phrases would've been used by the great grandparents of my colleagues.
Mozilla tried to parallelize their CSS engine multiple times in C++, and failed. Rust’s guarantees made it possible to do so. There was a talk about it at a Rust conference called “The Story of Stylo”; I’m on my phone or I’d link you.
> Rather than optimizing to sell cars (have them degrade and sell more)

People often talk about cars being afflicted by this style of planned obsolescence, but the facts are that cars last far longer now than they did 50 years ago. What planned obsolescence does exist is in the form of trying to shame you for running an "old" car as opposed to knowingly making the manufacturing quality of cars utter shit.
Technological Singularity and Artificial General Intelligence
That money means that Firefox and Safari won't ship ad blocking by default because as soon as they do it, their users are worthless to Google, and Google will stop paying. It also means that their tracking prevention doesn't affect usage of first party cookies on other sites, increasing Google's and Facebook's advertising dominance.
It's a bit like Second Life but for Normies, no? I can't help but think that this is not going to be very popular -- the one off ten thousand dollar digital clothing. Though perhaps there's a large opportunity for programs that can easily paper-doll you with designer clothing for much smaller fees.
Probably the same (or worse) as Linux. IIRC FreeBSD still had executable stacks by default until at least 2016?

Edit: I give FreeBSD too much credit.

The kern.elf64.nxstack / kern.elf32.nxstack sysctls were introduced in FreeBSD 9.0, which is 0 by default. 1 enables PT_GNU_STACK behaviour. Apparently not implemented for all platforms. So you get to choose from executable stacks by default and the same nasty behaviour Linux has.
Sort of similar reasons; while this is true, it’s also that we aren’t sure how we’d allocate that money if we got it. Discussions about a possible foundation for Rust are ongoing, and these kinds of questions are a big part of why that hasn’t happened yet.
There is no free lunch. To be useful, skyhooks need to be much much heavier than the stuff they throw around. Getting them up there, and servicing them, is something beyond anything. Think of every launch ever in the history of space. That, to biuld skyhook A.
There is no gas other than carbon dioxide on the entire planet present in large enough quantities to be useful. At equilibrium with a >90% CO2 atmosphere, it's impossible to remove all of the CO.
Why is this marked as (2017) when it's dated November 15, 2019?
That sounds like someone who has never even attempted to make that work.

Transit is least effective in suburbs, where you have to try very hard and basically live in exactly the right location to make a transit-only experience work. But in both large urban conglomerations and even in many small rural cities, it is actually quite effective to do all of your transportation needs using local transit.
> Or is there a reason that this won't work (or at least won't be worth it) for ANN structures?

If all the weights and activations fit in on-chip memory, then you can do calculations at close to 100% efficiency. If you want to simulate a 20k times larger network, you also need to transfer the 4 Billion parameters per iteration, which would take a singificantly longer time. In other words, you would be seriously bottlenecked.
Does finding advantageous mutations like this give us a sort of blueprint if one day we wanted to artifically modify genes for these traits?
It just makes me think we need to invest more into terraforming Mars :D
usually, if you need Windows server, you're going to need the GUI.

This absolutely is not true and is a bizarre assertion to start with “Let’s be fair here”.
Brave stops ads from tracking you but the browser itself records your browsing behavior and allows ads to use that anonymized data to target ads to you. Their marketing always mentions the former and never mentions the latter. The goal of Brave is to build a model for web advertising that pays the user but gives Brave the lion’s share; this essentially replaces the search engines and social networks as the nexus of web advertising with a browser.
One big thing is that you can't change the default browser, so any time you click a link you end up on safari. In my experience (I tried iPhone for 2 weeks after my previous phone died, before returning it and switching back to Android) that makes installing a different browser effectively useless.

The rendering engine restriction is less obvious to the average user. And, frankly, if you don't trust Apple with your data then what are you doing using their network stack?
This headline is so infuriatingly misleading. They didn't spend the money on the dress, they bought the image. The BBC should be above this clickbait.
Confirmed also crashes Brave on mobile.
(I remembered what it was: https://blog.cr.yp.to/20190430-vectorize.html)
This is not at all the code to embed SpiderMonkey in Firefox, those are the bindings from DOM APIs to the implementation of those APIs in Firefox. Above that, calling into this layer, is another layer that transforms JS calls into C++ calls (roughly).

The interface between SpiderMonkey and the rest of Firefox is here: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/js/src/jsapi.h.
Traffic demand is very bursty; most people work and sleep at the same time--so who is driving the demand during that time?
> "It's definitely very expensive, but it's also like an investment," Mr Ma says.

This is a case study in post-purchase rationalizing.
With a one-time tolerance for some nuclear fallout to get it in place it could be done.
Does this make up for the pay gap..?
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkJxlKD2bjk

The first time I saw Gource in action was in a video that visualized the history of the Linux kernel. Really interesting data, especially when paired with key headlines about the project.
At what point would it be worth accommodating to these tetrachromats?

Sensors, displays, software.

Unicode encompasses vast numbers of characters, wouldn’t an update to colour science and displays be in order?
Is Game Changers Funded by Impossible Foods or Beyond Meat?
Shallowness is one obvious problem (obvious to any bilingual person). The more troubling problem I’ve noticed is that occasionally it’s inexplicably outright wrong about basic things.

Anecdote time. One day in late 2017 (I remember that because of an event), a friend of mine read a Google-translated page in Chinese, and sent it to me (fluent in Chinese) because a statistics was “amazing”. I looked at it, turned out Google translated 万, meaning “ten thousand”, to “million”. Of course the number was unbelievably good. I honestly couldn’t think of how that happened.
Your generation had "Don't trust anyone over 30!”

We should revise the message to be “people of all generations make lousy decisions” and leave it at that.
Gource is a really cool visualization tool, and although it's originally intended to show software development over time, it's useful for showing other community works over time. Here is a visualization of the development of set.mm (the Metamath Proof Explorer (MPE)), a set of formalized math proofs that's been developed over time with (now) 48 people:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XC1g8FmFcUU

I find these visualizations great to help show people how open source software contributions work. Most people get the idea that collaboration can result in amazing things, but there is nothing like a visualization actually showing it in action.
If the title wouldn't include a description of what it is I would be very confused. There is nothing on the website that actually say what it is.
Thank you for this!

There’s also a quantum variant:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_flux_parametron
>issue reports

You miss the point. The point is that the "deep" learning approach is fundamentally flawed and will not lead to proper translation no matter how many racks of GPUs you throw at it, since it lacks the "understanding of ideas" required to do it.
And none of that matters, so even though I think your wrong I didn't dispute it.
Seeing Yourself in the Past: The Role of Situational (Dis)Continuity and (Cont)
Somehow when I take a break to do something mindless, showering being especially high on the list, I often am able to step back from the problem and get some perspective. Yesterday I realized I was making the solution to complex by separating concerns and could combine them and greatly simplify the task. Five minutes in the shower yielded more forward progress than three long days of coding. It doesn't always help, but it does often enough that the daily shower is a productive time. More often it's just a mental code review and I catch and fix a bug, that works best if I go strait from coding to the shower with all the pieces of code fresh in my mind.
I only had to wait for the next comment.
I have always found describing color shades interesting/mind-fuck. Does the "red" that you see "red" to me? I am red-green color blind and a lot of "red" looks "brown" to me.
Did somebody say "shallow"?: https://photos.app.goo.gl/wDy8TQR69iwuGUZb6
This was well-written, and I enjoyed a huge hunk of it, especially since I also love bad movies. I felt as if the author was getting somewhere.

And then. And then we got to meandering about mid-text. Like watching a blind pig in the backyard looking for an acorn, I was rooting for the author and felt we would get somewhere useful at some time.

I did not feel that we arrived there. Or rather, perhaps, we were so befuddled by the time we revisited the author and his dad that all was left was some general feeling of pathos that loving bad movies invokes. This is a clear thesis that did not require us visiting the myriad places we visited along the way.

Bad movies show us we all suck. Everybody makes mistakes. When a life, or a movie, is done with passion, sometimes that suckage transcends mere badness and leaves us all a bit wiser and happier.

I'm glad I read it, but holy hell it needed a better editor.
Maybe is silly for you.

"If you are not (put some impossible random requisite here) then you are wrong"

Well... As other billions of people, I don't need to be "in charge of all the resources in the planet" or "to be Santa Claus or Jesus" to talk about the problems of humankind (or to be aware that neglecting earth conservation, to put five machines more or less in Mars none less, is a terribly stupid idea). If you equal asking more resources for nature conservation with proposing herding cats, then your logic has some serious loopholes.
Brave Software Finds 82% of People Wish the Web Were More Privacy-Oriented
100x is sensationalist phrasing. ~7 more bits of color resolution better way to think about it.
I heard it's preference for non-physical work (lawyers, doctors, bankers, artists, writers...). Also, an old Polish novel "Lalka" by Bolesław Prus says Jews have an admiration for intellect and charades is one of their favorite family past-times.
Additionally, this one of the first times I've seen a description of the skyhook that brings up what I've always been wondering about: Conservation of momentum. Admittedly, since a skyhook would already be in orbit, it can use much more efficient ion/plasma engines, but it will still need to re-boost periodically. Especially since for a long time earth is going to be a net-mass exporter.
Technically I think you are free to build have other browser engines on iOS. However, JIT or other dynamically compiled code is not allowed because that's a security risk. You can't have a browser in 2019 with interpreted javascript.
New WhatsApp Bug Could Have Let Hackers Secretly Install Spyware on Your Devices
That sounds incredibly expensive to send such mass, same for the cable looking at the current payload weight a ship can send (22,700 kg) [1]

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

> The typical payload capacity was about 50,045 pounds (22,700 kg) but could be increased depending on the choice of launch configuration
Opportunity Zones – For Billionaires
MySpace lost all its music from 2003 to 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19417640

Probably a few hundred TB or so. Maybe nearly a petabyte?
> Software projects are displayed by Gource as an animated tree with the root directory of the project at its centre. Directories appear as branches with files as leaves. Developers can be seen working on the tree at the times they contributed to the project.

I thought that was descriptive enough.
So… 128x?
Mono: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)

No idea about FNA though.
Build an industrial moon base with a mass driver.

Build a few thousand kinetic impactors in space.

Decommision your nuclear weapons which cost 5*10^10$/year.

Profit.
>Google Translate, plus some critical thinking and a bit of work with a dictionary, will get you a rudimentary understanding of a text in a foreign language

Which is precisely what he says.

> Hofstadter expresses an expectation that no-one holds for an automatic translation tool,

As demonstrated by the quote at the start, about Russian being just English coded in strange symbols, and also by the unreal hype around "neural networks", plenty of people do on fact hold unrealistic expectations of automatic translation. How many times have you heard someone say translator jobs are going to be automated away in 5 or 10 years? I've heard and read it plenty of times.
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I don't know about Chinese, but in Japanese, 万 is frequently used idiomatically in the same way we might in English use "a million"—just to mean "a whole hell of a lot."