skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am confused by how this is supposed to be useful. It seems like the researchers are defining side-effects as things that "disrupt the world" (of this life game) and training an AI to avoid this.

But this seems like at best one of a whole host unexpected effects one might consider. AI that discriminates in a way that society frowns on might not "disrupt the world" in such a visible fashion.

I don't see how one can get away with an entity doing stuff for you with that entity understanding your model of the world.
This is well known among beekeepers (my dad is one).
Had a 21" Hitachi Superscan Supreme and needed to do the same. Got it from a gamer who couldn't use it because most games at the times programmed the hardware directly, und thus anything you've set up with tools like Scitech Display Doctor/UniVBE/UniVesa got overwritten. Whereas i couldn't care less about that, happily enjoying two pages of DIN A4 in original size next to each other, crisp and clear on that highend monster :)
I'm reading about your product and can only think one thing: "But, why?...."
I am not against checked exceptions per se. Their excessive use of them in the standard library and especially the inability of lambdas in handling them are a problem imho. Take the stream close methods: There is absolutely no use in having those throwing a checked exception because there is nothing you can do. If closing is not possible you have problems with the underlying OS. That would rather warrant an error instead of an exception.
One theory is that bee venom triggers an immune response in the stinged area, accelerating any needed “repairs”.
I completely agree with all of your points, having built a Face Recognition API in the past at Lambda. If it’s a feature, high willingness to pay customers will just build in house. Low willingness to pay customers will want to use it for free or not enough money to keep the lights on. It’s difficult to build an API business with pure CV/AI/ML for that reason.

I know this is unrelated, but I want to thank you for your work on Kessel Run. It’s inspiring to meet folks in the DOD working hard on making software work for our national defense. I ran into some of your colleagues and was very impressed and excited about that program.
IDEs are not magical. They understand your code because they use compilers to parse it, therefore they can also reason about it at a higher level than a simple text editor or CLI tool which treat your code as nothing but characters.
> Anyone involved with forecasting will know what I mean.

I'm not involved with forecasting, but am generally very skeptical of people 'debunking' climate science in non-scientific forums such as these. Can you back up your claim that these people haven't done their job properly? Have you read the article and their methodology? It seems to be behind a paywall unfortunately so I can't assess your claim right now.

Since you didn't point out any specific flaw in the study, but mentioned merely general biases which any scientist is aware of, suggesting they apply to the article but not really pointing out how, I really can't take this criticism of a peer reviewed article seriously.
You need to begin the Kickstarter page with way better examples of problems you can solve.
True, they can do an incorrect validation but at least they can't to forget to validate entirely. That's a positive step.
Which is also bullshit
> It would search Thunderbird emails too with a plugin, was instantaneous, and for a little while was a huge productivity boon

For the local filesystems full-text almost instantaneous search, definitely check Recoll: http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/index.html

Recoll will index an MS-Word document stored as an attachment to an e-mail message inside a Thunderbird folder archived in a Zip file (and more...). It will also help you search for it with a friendly and powerful interface, and let you open a copy of a PDF at the right page with two clicks. There is little that will remain hidden on your disk.
Yes. Buffer overflows were mitigated at the language level. We use languages instead of 'just bytes'.
CRA's default template gives you several files in `/src`. In the default template, most of those files are intended as examples:

- `index.js` is required as the entry point for the app

- `App.js` is the main app component

- `App.test.js` shows you can write a test for a component

- `App.css` shows you can import CSS files directly into the JS to have it included in the output

You can begin editing those files, or just delete all but `index.js` and start writing your own.

Many folks who have used CRA will just immediately delete those. Beyond that, some folks have forked the `react-scripts` package just to set up a different project source template.

Adding an option to specify a template means that other folks can now publish their own CRA-compatible project source templates and have them work with CRA right away. For example, I'm a Redux maintainer, and we could create a CRA template that already has a dependency on Redux (or our new Redux Toolkit package), all set up and ready to go without the user having to manually install them.

The different package tools mentioned in the release notes serve different purposes. `npm` and `yarn` are competing JS package managers. They both install and update packages from the NPM registry, with some different features available. `npx` comes with the `npm` tool, and is a way to quickly run CLI packages like `create-react-app` without having to explicitly run a separate "install this globally" command first.
http://toastytech.com/guis/ndw.html has some screenshots.
Matrox could do it, later all-in-one Voodoos from 3DFX also, and anything with the shiny transparent blue chips where you could see the die from IBM [1], many better cards with chips from S3 had that. No blurryness at all.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/IBM_37RG...

edit: link
Exactly.

It used to be that every single React tutorial started with "First, we're going to install Webpack and Babel", and half the tutorial would be filled with configuring those before it even got to the React code.

As a specific example, 3 years ago a React tutorial for building a Yelp clone made it onto the front page of HN [0]. The comments bashed it for spending a ton of time on build setup (and somewhat justifiably so).

Now, React tutorials just start with "run `create-react-app my-app`", and go from there.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11778663
Start with an entry-level job in an MCB lab (standard bench work: pipetting, plating, PCR/PAGE, wet chemistry, etc.), and build upon that experience to get opportunities to do more sophisticated techniques, eventually leading to genetic engineering work.

Essentially, the path I'm recommending is a career in microbiology. It's admittedly the long road, and not a well-paying one at that, but it's one way to do it!
It's not purely graphical, but MATLAB with Simulink definitely qualifies as both mainstream and general purpose from my perspective. A feature equivalent FOSS alternative would be nice though...
>need to rule out even slight correlations like smoking and (low) income.

Especially with hair dying, since looking at my environment at least early usage (before graying) is very much correlated with low income/education.
Who, incidentally, appealed to the reality of climate change in his application to build a sea wall to combat rising sea levels at his golf resort in Ireland.

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-climate-...
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AirVisual's global air quality map provides some perspective: https://www.airvisual.com/earth?nav

Much of Southeast Asia and Africa are about to enter "burning season," so AQI will soon spike in these regions.
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May be useful, but it seems to me that the reward function still is relatively easy to specify? Much of the difficulty in AI safety is due to specify what humans really want.

Perhaps the AI can observe a human playing the game and learn a reward function?
And it’s started. Project Scarlett as primary console at Phil Spencer's home
I think the U.S. has bigger problems. China's problem is essentially the same.

It matters much less to aspire to either of these goals, when the reality faced by either group of kids is such that, they'll probably be losers 99.9% of the time, no matter what they wanted.

Doctor, Police, Firefighter, Soldier. Doesn't matter. Society will suck the life out of them any way it can.
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I'm a big fan of LaTex, having used it for my thesis, presentation (beamer) and a few peer reviewed articles/jounals.

With that disclaimer I can safely contend that Google/MSFT will not be interested in this. LaTex is for academic typesetting, with a special focus on math-y content. Even with WYSIWYG, every now and then one will need to get into the weeds of Tex syntax, which is simply not for the average computer user.

As for academia, they will not pay a Google/Microsoft for LaTex use when they might as well use Lyx/Kile or their favorite editor with some syntax highlighting support for Tex. And unlike regular note taking, academic writing isn't so spontaneous that you start editing your IEEE manuscript on the pot, while on your phone.

My guess is that the FAANG tribe have little incentive to commercialize this, and hence acquire it
The most important factor of product success is probably timing. If you have had a problem for years, you are not likely to adapt a solution. But if you've only had the problem for a short time, like from one day up to a month, then you are much more likely to adapt the solution. So you basically have to be lucky, or go to market fast (within one month).
The gun used a photodiode which waited for the inserted frame signal after a shot to see if a valid target was what you were aiming at (you can see this emulating Duck Hunt and slowing down the game framerate, there's a bright flash of light over the ducks which the lightgun, if aimed properly, will detect, sending the signal back to the console and basically telling it where in the in-progress frame it hit.) You could easily defeat this by pointing the gun at a regular incandescent light bulb - the game would always register a hit at the first valid target in order of how the screen is drawn. If you got both ducks at once, whichever one was closest to the upper left bounds was the first to down, and the remaining one would be the second to down. Its the only way I've gotten to the kill levels in Duck Hunt when I was a child.

https://youtu.be/DzIPGpKo3Ag - video of actual modification of zapper to LCD compatibility, with demo of how the Zapper actually works.
"English is becoming less relevant in developed economies"
I'll also add that Zoom (even for just audio) is lot more reliable than Slack in my experience.
People raised in US are more skeptical to this than those raised in other countries, because in the US, patentable treatments are generally preferred. Everything that is not patentable (or isn’t an expensive procedure like a surgery) is “alternative medicine”, even if it’s valid but isn’t profitable. Very few studies are conducted in the field of natural remedies simply because there is no money in it. Often third world countries are the ones who do more research than us in these areas.
Interestingly, almost all contracts in the UK are based on day rates. Nowhere in the contract is it stated how many hours per day you should work. In practice, since contracting is just a scheme to pay less taxes (compared to perm. employment), contractors are expected to sit in an office for 8 hours.
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The countless hours they've spent on it is the value the consumer has extracted from the game, not some investment to be recouped.
It's not a book title, it's a headline that forms a complete sentence and describes a topic.

It's a bad introduction to hand you a plot thread that's never properly woven in to the work that follows.
No shit, learning English from a romanic language is hard. German to English is easy mode.
Peter Norton was an early rock star in the PC world. I bought and used all his products. Then he sold out and all but disappeared.

He settled in Los Angeles and started assembling a major art collection. He bought so much art that he started giving it away to make room for more art.

http://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/7900-peter-norton...
I think it is the opposite - everybody is speaking english a bit, so less people bother to test or obtain any formal proof. And google translate makes it easier to get away with poor English when communicating.

Also we are in an age in which native english speakers are a minority, so what is good english will inevitably change.
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I thought the main market for FPGAs was that period between "we have a problem that needs custom hardware" and "we have custom hardware being produced at the scale we need". I guess that's a relatively niche market?
You should check out TexPad![0] It’s lovely and essentially real-time, with autocomplete, etc. I use it as my editor of choice for all of my papers (not that any of them have particularly challenging layouts).

Really cannot recommend it enough. :)

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[0] https://www.texpad.com/
I'm currently bootstrapping an api/sass that takes any url and converts it to an image. It runs on top of chromium and uses the CDP protocol to do cool things like automate basic auth, custom http headers, injected js, mock mobile templates and device emulation, custom interactions with the webpage, it can also return json or upload the results to dropbox, s3, or google cloud storage. I'm looking to chat with people interested in this kind of technology as I polish off the final touches on the API and get the product live!

What kind of features would be useful to you if you were to go the API route for something like this?
There Is No “Linux” Platform
> It begs the question: validate for what?

Functions must only accept input which they can properly act on.

A function serving web pages needs a different notion of String than a database function. There are Strings which are safe for a SQL use but unsafe to serve on a web page, and vice-versa.

Validation is restricting your input to only those things your function can act on.
Startpage was recently bought by an ad company.

https://reclaimthenet.org/startpage-buyout-ad-tech-company/
English is on course to eat up smaller languages. Mass communication has brought the world closer together, and with that, diversity is lost. It’s too early to say whether it’s for better or for worse, but here we are.
Googlers furious that Larry, Sergey stepped back instead of fixing the culture
Windows have had locks for specific things for many years. They also created a new model with sandboxed runtimes för Windows Store Apps but those are not very popular.

Yarn, a ja package manager, tried to forbid any code execution during installs. That may be a good idea. At least show a warning or require an extra flag before executing anything.
It’s Donald Trump’s ass.
This is a good observation. Interestingly, I'm quite a visual writer in that the final form of the piece influences my writing. However, I still prefer the latex workflow of entering the text in a raw form coupled with regular compilation into the final layout. Perhaps as a developer of just feels more like coding to isolate and iterate.
Another nightmare that could even come close, I can not imagine.
According to the article, they just have to be pre-installed, which is easy to enforce. It can be enforced the same way Google makes OEMs install all their software despite people being able to root and remove it. It doesn't need to be checked on every phone, and if you have to create some that fulfill the requirement, you lose most incentive to have a separate section without it.

Also rooting is a non-solution for many people, even if they know how to do it. Many banking apps refuse to work on rooted phones, and the apps are often required to use the banking services. My experience on this is restricted to Germany though.
Not just github, also gitlab and bitbucket. A very trivial attack, with a very trivial fix.
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Since DRM is designed to restrict access to content, I'd say that it's doing what it's supposed to do!

I'm joking, obviously. I really think that DRM is damaging to the industry. That's why I always buy non-DRM versions (for games, this mostly means I'm buying from GOG.com)
You might be surprised by the amount of youth and counter-culture that believe this nonsense. The same people who believe capitalism can't exist without exploitation.
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I strongly agree! I really like the idea of a "finished" product that doesn't keep adding new features and growing the team just because they took too much funding and need to find more ways to grow. This is kind of product I'm trying to build with my startup [1]. (I did take some funding from Earnest Capital, but this was just to help with my personal living expenses and pay for a few larger projects.)

[1] https://docspring.com

[2] https://earnestcapital.com
I do care about the right to privacy, and the freedom of speech. But I also care about police being able to investigate these new ways of communication that criminals have at their disposal. If it were classic letters, phone calls, or a restaurant discussion these would have easily been intercepted by the police. The same needs to happen with online communication when there is a crime taking place. And online communication can only be "intercepted" by storing it somewhere and making it available when need be.
Excel does just fine.
As it stated in an article, probably it is not a very representative example of the general population. People taking an online English tests probably already feel to need one.
Apparently this only happens if the salt gets below 80°C. A temperature that the salt would reach around a year after every external heating is turned of. At this time the radioactivity will also be much lower. Furthermore uranium 235 has a very long halve life and radiates very little.
I agree, it did happen, but the issue is then making sure rogue prosecutors are brought to justice, not making it easier for criminals to hide behind high tech and have their endeavours protected by "freedom of speech".
Should be "backs" because long-s isn't used if it's the end of the word.
Adding a significantly high price barrier is enough to arrest growth of most B2C Saas companies. I’m not sure you’d even have a digital nomad life style if you’re running a B2B SaaS, especially if your product is expensive.
create-react-app installs almost one million packages. So I understand why one don't want to do that manually. But that is crazy!
From my experience, English has been mostly useless in these countries as far back as I can remember. Even in touristy Paris, there are plenty of places where nobody speaks a word of English and this gets even 'worse' when you venture outside of cities. I'm from the country with the highest English proficiency (Netherlands), so I'm used to everyone speaking English. The benefit of this though, is that I can do basic stuff, like ordering coffee, in about 6 languages.

I wonder, though, whether the conclusion from the data is correct. It could be that more people are getting access to the internet, so even people who didn't have a reason to learn English half a decade ago are now looking for courses online.
Jeffry Reichert was sentenced to 1 year in prison for soldering a modchip onto a Wii.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=138975038570173...
What's worse is, that they also acquired multiple competing businesses on the market with similar products in a very short time frame, Web Content Management Software in our case. That was about a decade ago. This wreaked havoc on the morale of the teams within.

On one hand, they had to handle a new management and culture of a global company, which is completely different compared to the smaller scale they worked in before.

On the other hand, each team knew, that they had to prove to management, that their product was superior compared to the others. Any attempt to integrate those products with each other or learn from them was futile, because you could not simply remove competitive behavior among those teams.

The best decision in my life was leaving this nightmare. I never heard of the products again.
I get the sarcasm. But what is the solution really? Letting actual criminals hide behind online chat networks? Or making sure that there is always a valid reason for their communication to be read, so we don't have such abuse made against honest people?
Going in the reverse direction - "a community speaks one language that then splits to two mutually unintelligible languages" seems so destructive that standardising on one language seems like an obvious and massive win for humanity at large.

But by raw number of languages standardising on English is probably not ideal. Probably some hybrid of Chinese grammar, Korean alphabet and Latin pronunciations would have been my pick for example.
That’s... definitely sexist
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I found all the existing sites for looking up air quality to be slow, so I made a faster alternative. I just finished the MVP and I'm interested to hear if people find it useful: https://aqi.today
Most Java developers don't know what to do when something can throw InterruptedException. I'd argue that bugs caused by broken code that catches this exception are much worse than what can happen when not using toString() correctly.
If you want a fission weapon, its easier to start with raw granite than convert Uranium from Thorium into a weapon.
I appreciate you saying that!

We're really working hard at changing many different aspects of the DoD all at once, from culture to acquisitions and are starting to see some great fruits but there's still a lot of work to be done.
> Letting actual criminals hide behind online chat networks?

Yes. we should. See below for why.

> Or making sure that there is always a valid reason for their communication to be read, so we don't have such abuse made against honest people?

If there's a backdoor, it will get exploited to hurt "honest people".
Clean and simple. I will use this.
I'm sure that's a factor, but it's also a bit cultural. Countries with the highest proficiency tend to use subtitles in stead of dubbing for foreign language movies. Because of this, you get much more familiar with other languages. I learned most of my English from watching movies and the internet. I was pretty much fluent in English before I even started getting English classes in High School, so I never had to actively learn it.
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What “Ascension deal” are you talking about? Also, do you have a source for what you’re saying?
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Ask HN: If you had to recommend one newsletter, which one would it be?
I am guilty of subscribing to a ton of newsletters and unsubscribing them frequently. Hence, I'm looking for the best recommendations.

It could be from any domain, however new (< 10 issues) or old (> 100 issues), but you're allowed to recommend only one. It should ideally be the one, which after reading a few issues, you were tempted to go check out the archive as well. :)