skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the suggestion - I'll add Plato's works to my list. I tried to get into Republic when I was a bit younger but couldn't digest it at the time, but I wasn't very familiar with philosophy (or reading dry books in general) at the time so it would be worth another go round.

I'm roughly familiar with Camus' ideas as presented in the Myth of Sisyphus, and I like the idea that one can make the fight against suffering the source of meaning - it resonates with my understanding of the role of dukkha in the four noble truths in Buddhism. I personally use a mix of Zen Buddhism and stoicism, which seems very similar to you.

The main mental models I use day-to-day are those derived from systems theory, and I believe that patterns of emergence and recursion described by systems theory are the underlying mechanism that brings about abstract properties. I believe I have a copy of "The Human Use of Human Beings" by Norbert Wiener on the way for Christmas, which is meant to be a great book on the topic of cybernetics which is essentially a sub-category of systems theory.
All of the books I planned to read in 2018, 2019 + more...
If you post a ridiculous quote, say it’s from Obama, then provide a link to a video where Obama says that quote, more people believe you. People already believe tabloid journalism. Just because you might exclusively trust NYTimes doesn’t mean easily accessible mechanisms for fabricating evidence aren’t a problem for a massive chunk of the world population.

And what about when this happens at a state-sponsored level (This is absolutely already in development, if it hasn’t happened already...). “Did you see that Fox News exclusive video leaked from the Bernie Sanders campaign? Yeah he was holding a private dinner for a bunch of Billionaires. They say they got it from some Russian oligarch he invited. So much for grass roots change, I think I’ll just stay home this Election Day.” Or the corollary: “That smoking-gun tape the Do-Nothing Dems have of me at Putin’s personal sex trafficking center, where the two of us are laughing about having Epstein take the hit? Fake news! They’re called deepfakes, and they make these just absolutely incredible fake videos. Not real at all though. Only trust what the Government-sanctioned media says!”

As per your other point, given the GANs that are used to make these are precisely a deep fake AI fooling a deep fake detection AI, aren’t we already there? Further, when the government is making the generator, a privately trained discriminator has no chance. How would you even train that? Get the government to give you a bunch of generated fake media so that you can develop a really spot-on model? I don’t think so.

Two predictions:

Deepfakes will play a roll in the 2020 election.

Deepfakes will play a roll in every election thereafter.

If this doesn’t concern you, I don’t know what would. The thing with the “post-truth world” is that once people think we’re in it, we are.
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Dipping point 2019: When the world became mostly rich and largely old
I understood that the 2/day thing was measured on an on average quite obese population. And that doing the test on exclusively healthy individuals would result in 2/day, everyday, being a disaster. (Not sure where I read this, most likely in Greger's "How Not To Die").

Its like you give the obese a little blood thinner, which is like a medicine for them. But not for the rest.
The more generalizable version of "vote with your wallet" is to stop using those services, if possible. Eventually, those companies will either stop engaging in this behaviour or die.
Replace Uranium with Thorium and you get another increase in high-energy lifespan for humans by tens of thousands.
Or they are just employing a figure of speech and everyone knows what they mean?
Richard Stallman himself said:

"With software there are only two outcomes: either the users control the program or the program controls the users. If the program is not under user control, and the developer controls everything, then the program is an instrument of unjust power, applied by the powers that be."

Deepfakes are just a continuation of "fake news" (formerly known as propaganda), and the end outcome is we either succumb to those who use it, or adapt - filtering out the bs isn't easy, but it's not an insurmountable task, either.
Dota bots are useless.Can be easily exploited and defeated.

And that's being said by someone who is on the worse send of bell curve :)
Was This the Decade We Hit Peak Free Speech?
Take a look at lsp-mode for auto-completion, syntax checking, etc. I think it already works well for Lua. Should be possible to do it for fennel too.
Links of the 2010s
I so got hustled this morning. Not by tech, but by a human. Thank you for giving a word to the experience.
That's standard British style. Look at every BBC headline, they almost always have at least one thing in quotes.
> (plus my own impression that SO isn't terrible doesn't count?)

It does, but you didn't just contribute it to the discussion. You've been outright declaring your interlocutor's impressions to be wrong and making demands of them in a way that discourages me from wanting to listen to you.

>> people might be reluctant to jump through the precise hoops you've laid out for them.

> Garbage. What 'precise hoops'? I asked that those hard done by post some personal evidence, which is easily found (if it exists).

It's not garbage. You just outlined your hoops again. I'm not jumping through them--for reasons you can sympathize with, and I'm sure there are others like me.

And honestly, I just don't like your attitude, which is actually not a very helpful one. I can see why you're so defensive of SO and Wikipedia.
I disagree. The feeling that immediately hits me when I read this headline is that they are pulling terminology from a 3rd party and using quotes to in fact lessen the scare-factor of the terminology. To me, this headline says, "here's how this incident is officially described, not just some stuff we're making up to be dramatic - please read the article to get the details, because the terminology is not necessarily objective." This feels responsible to me, rather than fear-mongering. I think your approach may be a little tainted by the common cynical outlook many people share regarding the entirety of the concept of news.
My favorite part:

'But Anne Kelso, the NHMRC chief executive, said the guidelines were “not telling Australians how much to drink”.'

Isn't that exactly what you are doing? (And should be doing?)
The normal court process I would suspect it could end up in the Lords / Supreme court
I know you’re referring to websites but Plex is a pretty damn good offering these days. I recommend everyone check it out.
More convincing for the face, sure, but last I checked Schwarzenegger had much, much more body mass than in that video. Does anyone know if the technology for faking body shape (and accessories too maybe) is anywhere near as good as for faces yet?
It's bad use of language no matter how you split it. I won't go as far as suggesting any kind of sinister intent or conspiracy theory, but the parent poster is right: it was either always safe, or it was never safe. There's no good reason not to report this using precise language.
It's my understanding (and experience) that Snapchat filters are even more impressive and that Snap CEO Evan Spiegel has pretty much bet the company on AR [1].

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/22/20927521/snap-growth-ear...
Like he forgot to use his ocular oil drops.
I think it's a subtle anti-science attitude that pervades throughout society. "Next thing they'll be telling us apricots give us cancer! Those stupid scientists, eh?"

When of course it's really the media itself to blame.
Best Performing hedge fund up 300% this year, relies on Excel
here embedding can mean just plugins. This very article is about a framework for robotics.

Another extremely plausible option is simply to sandbox mods for games. There are even projects for allowing userspace modules to run safely inside the kernel similarly to EBPF.

This last one in particular is something entirely new.

Without even considering the obvious application of allowing photo editing in web interfaces with reasonable performance.

Or on the other side of legality many people will try and use the new performance to have better cryptomining botnets.

Just by considering plugins (with dynamical loading and safety) and number crunching in-browser I would say that 'few hundreds' becomes a significant understatement.
This is true from what I see among friends, anecdotally.
> Maps and Search, not really.

If you go with that, OpenStreetMap/iOS Maps and Bing "still exist and are happily chugging along" too ?

In the US maybe, but worldwide Android has 87% market share !

As a reminder, "monopoly" is the ability of being able to dictate your terms to the market - when a company (or cartel) has such a power, the market isn't free anymore.
Tesla Cybertruck Won't Be Legal in Europe
Wealthy people drink more; drinking is correlated with income [1][2]. The catch is that wealthy people don't suffer like poor people do when they drink, and wealthy people are less likely to be full-blown alcoholics. It's not clear which ways the causality goes, though.

[1] https://www.healthline.com/health-news/rich-people-drinking-...

[2] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170511095038.h...
'We were lawless ' Banksy's photographer reveals their scams and scrapes
Paul Biggar – Dark Lang and Tablecloth Powered by Reason
400? Try 3200, and this one was actually dug back up. :D

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45233347
The major problem of our time is trust (for both "small t" personal trust and "capital T" trust in a crypto sense). While any feeling of absolute or universal truth is probably beyond our grasp at this point, people will (and largely have) learned which sources are considered 'trusted' within the circles of influence they travel in.

The people who care about the 'legitimacy' of a news organization are moderates who are passively engaged and are being rapidly driven to the margins. The 'objective truth' of the matter is less relevant than how it is received. Activist politics is en vogue thanks to the feelings of helplessness brought on by globalization, and if you're not an activist your views are not really an important part of the process anymore. You'll have to pick one of the two options that the activists come up with because they won't show up to vote for a centrist candidate. In either case, a moderate platform cannot win.

For the record, I feel the above situation is incredibly dystopian; but we're hardly the first country where pathos supersedes logos and ethos.
Kudos to you and best of luck :)
I’m an engineer by trade, but I’ve quit my job recently to start my own thing, and moving into web dev (my experience is in native dev), so I both share your concerns and your reading list!
Rural America accounts for a significant portion of global crops and livestock. As someone who enjoys having cheap and available food, please do not disparage the hardworking Americans who make that possible
Do you mean Snapchat filters?
Man, you're reading way too much into my headline. The headline describes the article accurately: I created a deepfake. It took me two weeks and I spent $552. The headline doesn't say anything about whether it was convincing or not.
Those volumes seem very dense for reading, digesting, and understanding in a single week. Unless you read & learn very fast, how do you plan to do this?
Bandwidth at any decent metro area colo these days is cheap af. Last I did the math I saved 15x the egress Data charges versus if I just put it directly in AWS.
I see around me and this Society of Spectacle is all around us. Specially in social media;
I see. In hindsight, it makes much more sense now, thank you!
Yes, from everything that I've researched about this (not working in this industry anymore), MCAS was to adjust the feel of the controls when at the edge of the flight envelope. The plane, during normal flight, would behave very similarly to existing 737s.

What I read that shocked me was that Boeing was relying on a single angle of attack sensor at a time, with software rules that should have never flown. Such as: not tossing out obviously impossible angle of attack readings, doubling down on nose-down stall corrections, and not limiting MCAS to an input that ensured pilot controllability if the electric trim had to be disabled. (this may not have been possible, actually, in certain flight regimes)

The system pushed the plane into a regime where, from everything I have read, the aerodynamic forces were strong enough that manual pilot trimming (via a physical wheel near the control column) was not possible for a normal human, especially while the pilots were experiencing negative G's from such a strong nose-down trim. The flight log information I could find showed a very difficult cockpit situation. Enabling electric trim (and MCAS) shoved the nose downward, but also allowed some level of trim correction by the pilots that they could not achieve with the trim wheel. Stick forces were also enormous on the elevator, having to pull back over 50lbs if my memory serves.

Imagine yanking back with all your might while fiddling with secondary controls that also required enormous force to move, while the plane is forcing you up and out of your seat, against the seatbelt. This is where any cockpit communication issues between the two pilots would be severely complicating.

That Boeing released this with such flaws, and the FAA accepted it, seems quite damning to Boeing and the FAA. This is something that I can imagine technical leadership and management at Boeing would know about and should have caught and stopped much earlier in the process.
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I sympathize, but this is going to be hard to show. It sounds like they were preparing to commit a violent robbery. And we all know that if the initial contact is x race, he will most likely bring along co conapirators of x as well.

So the question is how is the DEA finding the initial contact?
It's a sensitive issue for some. Especially those that should cut back or quit.
(my studio monitors cost twice what my laptop cost; the most expensive DAW out there is still one of the cheaper elements of my studio).

Wow, that's up there in pro studio territory. I hope you've invested in appropriate room treatment.

Having also used Logic, Cubase, Ableton, and Reaper, I can't say I was too impressed with Reaper. Logic Pro X, OTOH, is amazing, and Ableton is excellent in conjunction with Push 2 (the only reason I use it).

there's a bit of a learning curve (maybe an endless one).

Ah, there's the catch. Yeah. Reaper seemed clunky to me.
That's great. Any articles about the Gamecube issue? I can't find any info.
Have you checked Scribd? They might have some of those that Kindle Unlimited doesn't.
They aren't looking at all visual illusions, they are only looking at the double-drift illusion. In the paper they say the goal of the study was to use the position shift from this particular illusion to investigate where that perceived position emerges in the processing hierarchy.

They say that the double-drift illusion reveals an integration of motion signals over a second or more, which they say makes it unlikely that early visual areas are responsible for the accumulation of position errors because they have short integration time constants.

It seems more like supporting evidence that some illusions are in the conscious domain? It would interesting to see if there have been any studies on the double-drift illusion and animals.
Wheel Of Time is quite honestly the best adventure and most gratifying book series I have ever had the pleasure to read.
I think that I remember MLISP. I find Lisp languages to be very easy to read, MLISP is more difficult.

In retirement, my recreational deep learning development is now done in the Hy (hylang for web searches) Lisp language that simply converts Lisp (looks like Clojure) to Python AST. Anyway, because of my background I find Hy to be easier to read and write than Python. So, interesting to see MLISP perform the reverse, a non-sexpr version of Lisp.
Tower became unusably slow for me. I switched to GitKraken and have been very pleased.
Can't you use sparse arrays?
Nope, pretty sure Instagram has their own as well.
What's a conscious level?
WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation
Incorrect. They are a federal investigative agency with arrest powers. They are NOT charged with standard policing type roles.

The US does not have a federal police force.
Fast 3kB alternative to React with the same modern API
So FB is the crystalline entity or the rogue Borg?
Not only the readability mode of Firefox is awesome, but they've also opensourced it separately, in case you feel you can submit a PR for a persistence of some kind or create your own extension that makes use of it.

https://github.com/mozilla/readability

I use it profusely along with Puppeteer in Node and it's an awesome building block for web scraping!
This is going to be a dumb question I fear...
If, as the article says, photons can't travel through a vacuum how are we able t see the stars (let alone distant galaxies)? Is it just because space isn't enough of full vacuum, or what am I missing?
be sure to take the people's history with a grain of salt...

there's factual information in there, but a lot of it is a bit exaggerated and from a very... shall we say, not-rigorous perspective, even if you largely believe in the thrust of what's being said and the facts aren't really up for dispute.
They will start to seriously consider their own alternatives, which they should have done a long time ago ? (Especially after Snowden revelations, which showed that the US government basically could do whatever it wanted with Google.)
Considering that obesity related cirrhosis is starting to outpace the alcohol version, I'd say that doing both probably isn't a good thing, and is in fact compounding the potential liver issues.
My father had a stroke a couple years ago. Read "The Brain That Changes Itself" to get a feel for what might or might not be possible. Good stuff. Had practical insights for me as well. Definitely bump it up your priority list.
I can confirm that it's still loaded by an experimental flag. As a word of warning to anyone who wants to try it: the design isn't suited for reading at length (120 character line width, set in Courier). It's really not that great.

Firefox and Safari have decent reading modes, though.
Ask HN: Traffic/Parking Lot Simulation?
Greetings,

Just wondering if anyone has any pointers on how to get started in things like parking lot simulation, traffic simulation and public transit simulation?

Thanks!
Apple has added so much functionality to Logic in the past few years that I would be surprised if they stopped supporting it anytime soon.
Strange wording. Saying it's "no longer safe" implies that it once was and maybe alcoholic drinks are now more dangerous or humans are now more susceptible. I suppose it means it is no longer considered safe. That's a non-trivial difference.

Personally, I've stopped using alcohol completely. At first I just tried to drink less, but that's difficult because using it lowers inhibition and makes it more likely to be overused. It's much easier to just stop entirely and remove any possibility of a bad decision. I've found that I actually enjoy mocktails, alcohol-free beers and soft drinks when I go out and don't miss alcoholic drinks one bit. I know I won't get a hangover or be in a compromised mental state at any point. It feels great.

Even though I only did this for personal reasons I do now see many more of the negative effects of alcohol as an outside observer. I hope that within my lifetime I'll see much less use of this drug much like what's happened with tobacco.
You have quite overlap between some stuff. I would recommend "Clean Code", but then skip the rest from the same author, at least for a while. While "Code Complete" is good, it's loooong and also a lot of the same stuff.

For patterns, "Head First" is a bit childish maybe, but the content is fine for someone learning to recognize patterns. "Patterns of Enterprise..." is also good, but more dry. I'd stick with one of those two. And then skip the one by GoF, unless you want to read the "original" for some reason.

"The Pragmatic Programmer" is probably the book that has shaped my work the most.
here to second "how to read a book". few books have changed the way that i interact with written information as profoundly.

it's not just about reading books, of course. it's about reading any long-form content.
"Fossil" means "remains of plants or animals", but in the context of environmental aspect of fuels the key aspect is emission of CO2. Nuclear is neither of that. On the other hand it is non-renewable like fossil fuels.

In the longer term (hundreds of years), humanity should be worried exhausting non-renewable resources, but in a shorter perspective the climate change is a bigger concern.
Ah not at the moment. But yes, will add it in the next release :)
In the limit, energy is not a renewable resource, thanks to entropy. In that sense all energy is a "fossil fuel" left over from the Big Bang. However any Kardeshev type I civilization (located on one planet) will be satisfied with nuclear fission's power output for a time frame beyond our ability to predict into the future; that is, if we here in 2019 try to arrogantly predict that "there's a power crisis coming in 500 years!", it is very unlikely that 2519 is going to hail us as forward-thinking smart people, because the odds of something critical changing between now and then approach 100% [1]. Let alone several thousand years from now.

These predictions also generally include a healthy amount of assuming growth of energy in the future, too, not just projecting today's use indefinitely (although not necessarily predicting exponential growth either).

This also ignores what I would consider fairly good odds of non-terrestrial sources we may find on that time frame. Plus I'm still holding out hope that one of our fusion approaches will eventually pay off. (Dyson spheres are nice & all but there's still something to be said for being able to generate power in concentrated manners where you want it, rather than having to collect it at scale from an uncontrolled reactor.)

[1] For the fashionably misanthropic among us who may feel that statement may contain too much optimism, "total civilization collapse" would be such a "critical change".
Looking forward to the upcoming book by Toby Ord:

Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

https://www.amazon.com/Precipice-Existential-Risk-Future-Hum...
The article talks about "phonons", which are a different thing from photons.
Look up bog butter. Yum!
A coroner is basically a type of judge. They have a court, they can summon a jury (but obviously you don't need a jury to make treasure decisions, that's for stuff like an inquest after a person dies in police custody to avoid even the appearance of a cover up by the state) they can force witnesses to turn up and give evidence to them.

So their qualifications are primarily legal like other judges (in the UK you can't get a job as judge by having the Head of State just give it to you, our judiciary actually is politically independent rather than just having a pretence)
Thank you! And oh, i missed that that's for letting me know will fix it asap :)