skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quantum computers could mark their own homework
Because time and time ICE has shown it has a remarkable ability to define “legal status” as it sees fit. Consider the fake college ICE[0] used to arrest and deport immigrants; they were granted Student Visas and believed they were here legally. What would your advice be to them?

Your position seems to start from an assumption that these institutions are acting in good faith, and so it’s illogical to decry an institution if it doesn’t directly impact you. I pray you look at the gamut of evidence available that shows this simply isn’t the case.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/ar...
Mods didn't touch the post or even see it. Users flagged it. That's what the [flagged] annotation indicates. Well, nearly always anyway.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21651530.
Yes. Toaster is smart.

But toaster has no hands. No money to buy a candle. No access to Apollo computer.

And the author somehow thinks it’s the toaster’s fault that it fails.
Carlsen uses computers to beat humans, not computers.
>Department of No doesn't have to be a thing

This is the key. Mastering "yes, but" will not only make people like you more, but will also change your personal outlook on situations and avoid burnout like the author. Even if you don't realize it, there's a very different emotional impact between "I had to say no to that proposal" vs "I presented the options for that proposal, and they decided to not go through with it". For lack of a better term, it's no longer "your fault".

From the article:

>No, we can't do that. No, it doesn't support that. No, the vendor doesn't allow for that. No, you don't have the right license. No, no, no. Isn't the point of technology to enable businesses? So why am I saying no so often?

Because you're shit at communicating. Yes, we can do that, but you'll need to (pay for X || do Y || get Z to do this other thing). Yes, but your current vendor doesn't support that, although vendor Q does. Yes, but your current license doesn't do that, you'll need this license instead.

The joke is once you present the "effort" required to do what they want to do, 80% of the time they'll give up on it anyways. It's the same end result. But you didn't have to say no!
I think Apple doesn't really provide anything that I consider democracy enhancing. Few big tech companies do that.

I associate democracy with choice and Apple isn't really too active in that domain. As for the services their products provide, I think that is more in line with all alternatives.

That said, Apple at least seems to have protected user data from government access. Let's see if that holds.

But in practice government would have more difficulties to include backdoors in Android for example and Apple has a single point of failure.
Got me curious since I never looked at DB specs:

` It was a massively parallel, RS/6000 SP Thin P2SC-based system with 30 nodes, with each node containing a 120 MHz P2SC microprocessor, enhanced with 480 special purpose VLSI chess chips.`

I misread at first thinking it was grossly 30GHz summed but it's only 3.6GHz (I know, gross maths). So yeah the comparison is apt.. a recent SoC can outperform this old behemoth.
> Even if the electronics failed, leaving the driver stuck inside, you would think the owners would have the foresight to either have something capable of breaking windows or a method by which to break them.

Just for clarification, all Tesla vehicles, Model X included, have a manual pull to open the door even in the case that the power is dead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01lXcD_Uz74
There are no models from standard institutions that I'm aware of in which projected climate change destroys all multi-cellular life, that's exactly the kind of absurdly over the top claim the article is arguing against. Go look at long term temperature graphs over time and then look at current temperature trends as measured by satellites:

https://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/

They show a slight warming trend, but still quite under the projections and nowhere near enough to cause more than economic disruption, let alone destroy humans, let alone all multi-cellular life. The climate has had far greater extremes in the past and multi-cellular life was just fine.
Paving the way for standards to measure quantum computing performance
This is why I am on Mint. Turn off CPU vsync, turn on full-frame composition (which uses the vsync on the graphics card), and bam! silky smooth 60fps, with quick responses and no lag. I haven't tested it, but I imagine this new "fast" version of gnome will still feel slower and choppier than cinnamon when vsync is handled on the gpu. (I just wish it was the default setting.)

That and I'm not a fan of the side bar in Ubuntu. Most people agree, Mint's desktop UI and UX is just more pleasant.
A lot of big claims and business-y talk in this README, but overall pretty vague and ambiguous. Reading this didn't really give me an understanding of why I would use this over say hibernate or jooq.. the getting started 'hello world' example looks almost identical to hibernate. Claims about 'Query performance transparency', 'Data store independence', 'Structural schema changes' also seem far fetched and at odds with each other...
UI on Another Level: Benefits of Web Design Illustration
Computational analysis concludes that Molière wrote the plays attributed to him
I misremembered, not support calls but bogus crash reports from flaky cache. Bogus crash reports like this are terrible because they aren't caused by bugs. And it's impossible to prove a negative.
> This happens pretty much everywhere with every online map. Kashmir, Taiwan, Western Sahara, etc. etc. Apple doing it for one country is not particularly news.

Exactly. Couple days ago, I have entered "Palestine" into google maps. It did not highlight any territory and just showed me generic location of Middle East. On mobile it did not relocate map view at all.

AFAIK with disputed territories it was always like that - it depends what you search and from where you search. Names, borders will be different and IMO it's fine as reality is that regarding locations there's sometimes no clear answer who controls it and what name it has.

IIRC there's an island on a river in Europe where it is exchanged between countries weekly (or daily, don't remember)..
There was a "fun" post on reddit with someone that made a fortune out of bitcoins a few years ago when there was that big surge, who then managed to lose it all via some poorly thought out cryptocurrency trading. He'd found himself with an enormous capital gains tax bill he couldn't pay off. It hadn't occurred to him at all that the profits on bitcoin trading would be taxable.
scary!
Why would they want to leave that out
You need to reflect on your privilege that you don't fear US Customs and ICE.
Fun project, I'm sure, but sounds nothing like the Borg I remember.
Hey man, did you hear Rage Against the Machine is making a comeback?

Just because I'm depressed about these things doesn't mean I'm depressed. Or at least not usually. Life's weird.
We Should Think Twice About Colonizing Space (2018)
The only real answer to this question is probably Belarus.
>I cannot even think of a single person in any of my networks of people who would buy this and put it in their home

And yet Alexa, Siri etc are fine to many
Take their guns. Though I gather that might still be difficult, since so many Americans profess their intention to lay down their lives to protect their gun(ownership right)s.

I'm sure you can understand why most observers are puzzled by this, since guns are ostensibly purchased as tools used to prevent one's own death.
On the other hand, four ways to self-ignite is an engineering feat in itself!
IANAquant, but he said in the intro that he used a market neutral strategy, so he _should_ make money both when the broader market is going up or down.
It would be interesting to know though!
This all strikes me as pretty compelling. Unfortunately, I struggle to identify an elegant solution. It seems to be a global phenomenon. https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2150720/asias-lonely-youth...
> if it's the best in the world, how does that help you compete against it? In order to take advantage of its determinism you'd need to be better than it, and nothing else is.

Play AlphaGo against itself. Go rarely has draws (requires Triple-Ko, a very, very rare position).

Almost every game you play with AlphaZero vs AlphaZero will result in a winner-and-loser. You will quickly be able to characterize the positions that AlphaZero loses in.
Open Source Has Software Supply Chain Problem: Dirk Hohndel
I think people have a right to exist. If they are seeking asylum and they are not a threat, I think we should help each other out. Turning your backs on them because you don't like their race/religion goes against what America was supposed to be about. If we deport everyone who isn't legal knowing they'll either be killed or separated from their families, that speaks volumes about our country's morals and compassion. Deporting people because they don't "deserve" to be here is an extremely elitist attitude.
Do you think some of this has to do with climate change, I mean right now, who really feels like bringing a child into this world is a good idea ?

I’d personally be quite hesitant at this point.
Charismatic yelling is empowering, otherwise it's just whining I suppose.
ICE has captured and held nearly 1500 American citizens for varying durations, one man for nearly 1300 days. That's life ruining.
Wait, you think Trump is trying to start an armed revolt on the basis of him getting impeached? His favorability isn't that high... He has below a 42% approval rating. 1% of that actually rising up seems pretty unlikely. Do people not watching Fox news live in this kind of fear?
I've always wondered if there is something like this for the voice of Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (Computer). I know her voice was recorder phonetically before she died (https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-voice-of-star-treks-computers-co...), but I don't think there's public access to that.

Perhaps transfer learning could be used to copy the style, using something like SV2TTS.
For example, one comparison is the millennial generation owns about half the wealth at age 35 then the boomer generation did at the same age.
Then start your own meetup for people that just want to chat :) No agenda, just chatting to each other.

I bet you'll be fighting them off... the thought that you would be oversubscribed is both great and slightly depressing at the same time.

Ask at a local bar on a Tuesday night (or any other quiet night) if they can keep a section aside for you. They will jump at the chance of a few more patrons.

Make it cheap, perhaps £1. Something that shows commitment but won't put people off. Make it a donation of £1 to your local Samaritans instead.

I'll get off my soapbox now but this idea just jumped into my head :)
Yes; further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solving_chess
The newness of the contraceptives doesn't matter as long as they're still opt-in. No-one's suggesting humans will evolve condom-melting sperm. There's no need: a much easier trait to evolve is the desire to have kids.
Reminds me how sometimes geniuses cannot translate the way their mind works to non-geniuses. It's such an implicit talent that it's not even .. "reified" in their upper brain. It all happens in cache.
nm, they already renewed the cert. so much for hackernews front page. Within an hour got out a new cert
so the future of humans is beauty :)
I am not sure that 'dividing' amount of pollution a given geographical region produces, on to number of people there -- is the only righteous and effective measure of international accountability).

In my view, measuring delta in total greenhouse gasses produced, would a better measure for international accords, and their subsequent corruption-free enforcement.

This is why I brought the pollution-per-mile vs pollution-produced analogy.

With regards to > "The amount of emissions correlate strongly to that pursuit of happiness at least for now..."

I think, you are also averaging out to-per-capita that, might not be appropriate...

Say there is energy-demanding and mineral demanding manufacture process, that causes deforestation, pollutes rivers, mows down beautiful mountains to get coal, produces lots of green house gasses.

You are claiming that this benefits, at least, economically, 'every' per-capita person on that country.

But if same manufacture used more renewable energy, and produced more expensive goods. Would the 'per-capita' be worst off?

Perhaps it would not be. Right?

In other words, we really need to measure what that manufacture is doing.

And that's why I think measuring changes in pollution (due to changes in policy of a given country), and changes in preservation of natural habitats -- is a much more effective way to measure policies of governments.

Another way to look at it is this way:

Performance indicators should be relevant to the individuals or institutions that are actually accountable for the execution of what's being measured.

In this case, we are measuring government policies, not individuals. Therefore dividing per capita, should not be used as 'first-order' measure.
Thank you. That's pretty good advice. I recently got a small warehouse space to use as an art studio and I've been thinking about starting a community gardening meetup or maybe one related to neighborhood mesh networking in the space. Maybe both. I also reached out to a local homelessness charity to see about volunteer work.

I've struggled with depression my entire adult life. This current one is familiar to one of my worst periods. The hardest part is the loss of interest in anything. I need to get out and see people and maintain routine which is hard when everything feels like I'm watching a black and white live stream of my life.

One foot in front of the other and hopefully I'll get myself back.
Algorithmic music will never be as universally satisfying as human-created (or human-filtered) music until AI has consciousness/soul, for one reason - music expresses the emotion from the composer.

There's something axiomatic there, if you assume an identical piece of music that was either written by a human or by a computer, then for many listeners it's by definition more satisfying to know it came from a person, because of what it says about the person.

And for those listeners, if a human "composer" is discovered to have lied about it (saying they wrote it when it was actually a computer), then those listeners would reinterpret their views of the music and consider the "composer" a fraud.

And even a programmer of algorithmic music might have emotional intent, but if the musical output is unknown to the programmer, they did not have the emotional impulse to create that music in particular. While it can be appreciated as its own thing, it's a step removed from the music itself, and qualitatively different than human-composed music.
Life for those in the 25-35 demographic is extremely shitty when compared to the four generations that came before. Millenials entered into an economy where Boomers had accumulated the majority of all assets at bargain basement prices, and have been working non-stop to inflate those prices. Boomers have consistently enacted policies which have caused the price of their assets to skyrocket, locking out younger generations from the same opportunities Boomers had. With the market cornered and controlled, Boomers collect massively overinflated rent from Millennials that massively subsidizes their unsustainable lifestyles.

Millennials as a whole have effectively become an indentured servant class that exist primarily to subsidize rent seeking Boomers who continue to take far more share than any generation in history.

Even for the healthiest sectors of the economy, like tech, it turns out that a huge amount of the wealth being generated by the tech industry is just being captured by Boomer land lords sitting on their asses doing nothing productive. I've heard estimates that around 40% of the money put into the tech industry just passes through to land lords. A sickening amount to go to a group whose main quality is that they were just born in the right place at the right time.

Life is cut throat for Millenials. The margin for error is narrow than its been in almost 100 years, and that is extremely stressful. The unprecedented levels of drug abuse among Millenials is testament to just how high stress levels are on average for Millenials. Many choose to self medicate, and it doesn't end well for them.

Millenials have it really bad, and there's good reason for the feelings of "despair" and "hopelessness".
Part of the reason for the recent protests in Paris was because the government wanted to add fees (though comparatively small) to university tuition. This was viewed as another slap in the face of lawmakers (many of whom went to university for free) wanting to pull the ladder up behind them.
NsCDE: Not So Common Desktop Environment
A JSX-based page builder for creating beautiful websites without writing code
https://rook.io/docs/rook/v1.1/

Rook will give you:

- Ceph: Block Storage, Shared storage, Object storage

- EdgeFS: Object but apparently will function as Block and File

- Minio: Object

- NFS4: Shared

- Cockroach: Database

- Cassandra: Database

- YugabyteDB: distributed SQL database (new to me)

Only the first two are marked as stable.
What are the benefits you find in using Kubernetes for a single-node cluster on a vps?
Thanks a lot.

The other pages e.g. the blog, FAQ, posts etc. are just very simple layouts along with the nav bar and footer.

I'm using Jigsaw[1] which is a static site generator that allows you to use Laravel's blade templating engine, it's awesome.

The admin interface I made myself using a few Vue components, it is a reasonably simple layout to be honest.

Yes the account site where you login (everything at app.anonaddy.com) is completely separate from the landing page (anonaddy.com).

The first is a Laravel app, the second is a static site. They both have different repositories on GitHub. Feel free to browse through all the source code to get a better understanding of how it works. Just let me know if you have any more questions about it.

If you are looking for some help or inspiration with UI design I highly recommend the Refactoring UI book[2] by Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger.

[1] https://jigsaw.tighten.co/
[2] https://refactoringui.com/
They have done that with army and army like structures, not just with terrorist tactic. ISIS in USA is limited to terrorist tactic and did not achieved all that much.

The argument I reacted to was about terrorist tactic being used to create deterrent against tyranny. Like, it talked about killing children on their way to school.

Because answer to terrorism would be more freedom or something.
Sounds like good darwinistic filter to me. In this case it will filter out people who are so afraid of the future that they want to rather have mankind extinct.
You work in IT. There is categorically no way for you to only be stuck with an email address.
> And we haven't even had significant sea level rise yet.

Miami and Venice, as two easy examples, are already suffering annually recurring issues from higher sea levels than they were previously accustomed to.
> once they do, there is no reason for the human race to continue to exist

What is the reason for the human race to exist today? Please think carefully about your answer.
Obviously I was being rhetorical. I was speaking in strong certainties to elicit a response. Obviously in your case ICE is a concern. For 99% of the people who are paralyzed by thinking about it - they would be better served focusing on getting back to their life. (And voting for people who MIGHT do something about it)
> Meanwhile, power consumption per core starts dropping off significantly at 21 cores for both

Which you would expect with so many cores. Power consumption per core is probably going to be even lower for the 3990X, especially considering it has the same TDP.
In terms of power usage, the best solution would probably be a passive Ethernet hub.
The material is not obsoleted. We wouldn't say that literacy was useless because phones can read off everything to us. Why would we say the same about K-12 mathematics?
Maybe he's using some cloud provider smtp/api to send mail in which case it's not much of a headache, just a few lines of code.
How to Cook a Turkey in the Microwave?
Turn Javascript off.
DOJ mostly gives up on stopping mobile carriers from ruining eSIM
I don't think it has anything to do with race or religion. There's not a country in the world with open borders. Most first world countries are actually harder to get into than the US.

It's odd to me that people started worrying about ICE en mass when Trump became president. It's an organization that has existed since 2003. In addition nearly every country in the world has similar or more stringent policies. Yet no one talks about that and they act as if ICE is unique in some capacity. It's hard to see that as anything other than politically motivated or misguided by media propaganda.
My local newspaper has started to write articles about the fancy homes in the area. It's harder to avoid these kinds of things.

Some of this comes down to ethics. Am I making something that will hurt people? When I took engineering classes in college I was required to take an ethics class where we talked about thinking these things through. I know not everyone has been taught this.

I wonder how we can add this to our culture as creators. To think about the repercussions of our actions.
How about a pencil and ink? Then scan it in, and clean it up.
question : at what point in modern history would you have been comfortable doing so, if you aren't now?

The world is getting progressively safer, by the numbers.
If you disable javascript for bloomberg, it simplifies the pages. Unfortunately they also blur the images.
Just tried this using YouTube as the test site...w/ uBlock, makes more requests, larger page size, etc...hmm
I'm genuinely puzzled as to what crime these students had supposedly committed. ICE had not told these students that the university was fake. They marketed it as a legitimate and accredited university, and even got other governmental agencies to vouch for this fake university:

> Attorneys for the students arrested said they were unfairly trapped by the U.S. government since the Department of Homeland Security had said on its website that the university was legitimate. An accreditation agency that was working with the U.S. on its sting operation also listed the university as legitimate.

It sounds like most of the students were specifically looking to enroll in an accredited university, so that they can be in compliance with the law. And they would have succeeded in that as well, if not for ICE deceiving them into thinking that the university was accredited, when it actually wasn't. How is this not entrapment?

"entrapment is a practice whereby a law enforcement agent or agent of the state induces a person to commit a criminal offense that the person would have otherwise been unlikely or unwilling to commit"
From a report linked in the article.

>China surpassed the U.S. for healthy life expectancy for the first time in 2016.

Ouch.
English articles:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Yellow_River_flood

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_famine_of_1942%E2%80%9...

I was going to link your [0] and my [0] as translations on Wikipedia, but then I noticed my [0] already has a different Chinese article assigned as its translation.
That's like a tiny bandaid; in the next iteration they'll copy the A/AAAA records instead of CNAMEing them; that would make CNAME uncloaking useless _and_ save one DNS roundtrip reducing browser latency.
But you're not discovering anything valuable because there may not be a person on the other end of a trade. You're just learning about the chaotic boundaries of the trading algorithm.
Other than mating (and then killing their mates), how do spiders interact?