jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's exactly my point. Computer vision is a "solved" problem within certain specific domains for which a particular algorithm has been trained/tuned ("the actual image recognition tasks they were designed for"). They are nowhere near as good as humans at the general-looking-at-any-random-things task yet.

Similarly, I imagine we will get very good domain-specific "AI" in the next ten years: some sort of amped-up Siri that can, say, answer questions about hotels in a travel destination and book one for you.

I do not think we will get a chatbot that can hold a conversation on any conceivable topic at a level that you would confuse for a human.
Why would it be ironic?

Now if the OP had asked if anyone had regretted taking YC money, I could see your point.

Bad investment stories abound in the silly valley, and across the industry at large, however. Asking people to share some of theirs is legitimately, utterly on topic for a forum site aimed squarely at the needs and interests of technology entrepreneurs.
I don't know for sure with Mirage, but OSv does not provide process isolation since everything is running in kernel memory.
Short version: Yes a fractal in a 2D piece of paper must have dimension at most 2.

Long version: There are a lot of definitions of fractal dimension (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausdorff_dimension , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski%E2%80%93Bouligand_dim... , ...) but they are not equivalent.

In all the sensible dimensions, if X is included in Y then dim(X) <= dim(Y). I'm tempted to write that this holds in every possible dimension, but I think that there are no official criteria to classify something as a fractal dimension. Anyone can propose a new definition of a new fractal dimension, and if it does not have some minimal property it will be simply ignored. The problem is that the set of minimal properties is not well defined, it's more a mater of mathematical taste and usage adoption in the mathematical comunity.

More technical details:

For example, a nice property is that the dimension is countably additive. The Hausdorf dimension has this property, but the box counting dimension doesn't have this property. Should we eliminate the box counting dimension?

On the other hand it's easier to estimate the box counting dimension than the Hausdorf dimension. So, what definition is more useful?
I remember reading the writing about parts of what I now call the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco, particularly the "Microsoft Munchkins" part.
> Everyone afraid of this, you ought to be afraid of micro-drones like the Black Hornet Nano

>They fly faster than you can run (13 miles per hour), have a 1 mile range, and a 25 minute flight time.

And can be trivially defeated by some netting, blinded by bright lights/lasers, and/or knocked out of the sky by leaf blowers and umbrellas. Despite what certain propagandaesque sci-fi "warning" videos would have people believe, I'm least worried about these nano-drones. At the end of the day bullets are still cheaper, less complicated, and more effective. And as soon as you give the drones some standoff capabilities to mitigate some of the countermeasures, you start loosing many of the perceived "benefits" and are back to just using guys with guns.
you are not required to use it. And IIRC this is exactly how Vue, riot etc. started their life
UK has had similar problems recently. Its the cold winter nights with no sunshine or wind put system under strain.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-k-power-grid-creaks-0951256...
You seem confused as to the purpose of democracy. It is not to capture the wisdom of the crowd. The crowd is intensely stupid (as a vote on lockdown would certainly reveal). It is an agreement that power will change hands peacefully.
Recursion is nothing but a loop with a stack. So yes, can certainly rewrite things that way, but all you're doing is trading the stack for a stack structure on the heap.
I've also heard many people claim this with Facebook and other platforms. I would love to see a study on this because I'm unsure of the evidence so far. Humans can make mistakes. They can forget typing something into Google, Facebook, etc. I can't even remember the Google searches I did yesterday!
Indeed. A thought experiment: say the US government created a USD-prime currency that floated freely from USD. You could still use the USD in private transactions, but the US government would only transact and tax in USD-prime. What would be the fate of the original USD?

My belief that it would go to zero. I’m curious whether “fiat is backed by nothing” proponents would disagree.
The WhatsApp client is a closed source, so why is this news ? Is this some kind of promise from the company that the client will not have access to private keys ?
MSE is only enabled by default on Windows for this release. You can enable it manually for other platforms via the about:config setting.
I use Ranger but the hackability potential in this is very promising, I’ll definitely give it a spin. Thanks for posting!
All of them are related to the executive functioning subsystem in the brain, located in prefrontal cortex.
It exists and I went through the program. More details are on the same domain: https://www.fedtech.io/startup-studios
People forget that Instagram was iOS-only for quite a while before an Android version was available.

I’ve been on Clubhouse for over two months now; it’s very polished for a beta app and the community it has attracted is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced and I’ve been online since the BBS days of the 80s and everything since then.

The $100 million they raised from a16z gives them the runway to do things right. I see the copies shutting down before in their attempts to displace Clubhouse.
Why would anyone working on Free Software would need to work with rms personally? It is not like it's some weird cult where you need to be initiated into it by the high priest. We have created our software and released it under GNU GPL / AGPL licences without ever meeting anyone.

As for 'bifurcation': it happened because different people have different goals when they release their software. Some are driven by some idealistic values, others do it because it fits in their business plan for whatever reasons. Thus different groups of people might have different requirements to freedoms they grant to their code.
Isn't the AWS Budget stuff recalculated only every few hours, or do the alerts somehow get quicker updates?
5 days later... this was proven wrong. ST4 4100 is now native silicon.
Is it the lack of free markets causing distortion here? Housing as investment sure is wonky and seems problematic when government intervenes.
And ironically quora answers now pollute google results and elicit similar eyerolls.
My interpretation of this is that Microsoft realizes that developers are leaving their platform pretty rapidly. As more developers switch to OS X or Linux as their main development platform, the whole Windows ecosystem will suffer, not just web browser support for Microsoft's awful browsers.

Forcing developers to use Windows while IE still has enough clout might be one of their strategies to stem the loss of developers migrating to other systems.

Or perhaps I'm reading too much into it.
It's definitely not accepted that power and cooling are the dominant cost, in most cases it's the servers:

From James Hamilton (who just happens to work for Amazon)
http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/09/18/OverallDataCente...
Registering somewhere is not free. Apart from the invested time and wasted memory brain cells for the password there is also the never ending stream of spam that is to be expected from then on.

Also I think physical addresses are sold for several dollars a piece? So signing up somewhere with my address is worth at least that amount.
This situation's looking a lot more like Iceland's (right country?) workplace dimorphism, with a majority of women graduating college and entering office, technical and desk jobs, and men working more traditional (manly) jobs such as fishing and oil-rigging.
They don't ask for payment. And the registration walls might be annoying, but you're getting news for free. It's a trade off. There's content in the NYT that you wont find on Google News, and maybe that's not compelling for you but it seems like most people are willing to register for that free access.
A couple of links that mention the Ohio laws:
http://definitions.uslegal.com/s/sexual-imposition/
http://kittywampus.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/tsa-enhanced-pat...
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=128_HB_333

Doesn't really matter what words a person thinks are appropriate, it really matters what laws might have been violated and what the incident would be called under the law.
The "Twitter guys" had a reason to make twitter use 140 characters since twitter initially was built solely for use with SMS and they had to deal with SMS's 160 character limit. 140 for the tweet and 20 for your twitter handle. As others have stated 50 is an arbitrary number.
Gotta agree here. OP is complaining that the articles are not free. After the explanation is given that they are free and require registration, that becomes the new problem. If these are issues the OP has, that's fine, but I don't think all of HN should be kept from these stories because OP doesn't want to take 30 seconds one time to register a throw-away account.
Flagged. Pointless unfunny comic.
These weren't "camps" they were prisons. Maybe some nicer than others but just try leaving one.

There were also "camps" with barbed wire and towers to watch for people trying to escape so they could be shot.

They interviewed a living survivor of a camp like that on History Detectives where he had painted scenes from the camp on the back of cut up posters.

I am sure there were ranges of camps where more elite families got better treatment.

People also lost their homes/land, their way of life. This was a very bad way to treat anyone, let alone innocent American civilians.

Revisionist history that "it wasn't so bad" is insane.
Also something that would aggregate benchmark results from different sources would be awesome. Then it could interpolate results for arbitrary hardware combinations and search for bottlenecks.
Heh, FYI http://HRWeb is the name of Microsoft's internal HR resources site.
Why would Microsoft care? Their revenue core is the shell, app frameworks, apps, not the kernel and a few system utilities. If by some miracle ReactOS manages to get major public uptake on the strength of kernel superiority, Microsoft can simply share in the fun.
I worked at AT&T / Bell Labs when those commercials were flooding every show on TV.

Bell Labs was upset because AT&T made those commercials without consulting us. A PR company thought up all the ideas. We had zero projects internally working on such products.

That's why those products came from EZPass, not AT&T; Skype, not AT&T; Apple iPad, not AT&T.

Even thought it wasn't AT&T that brought those things to market, nearly all of them do exist today. It is a beautiful thing. I feel lucky to be living in what my co-workers call 'The freakin Buck-Rogers-would-be-jealous future'.

Tom

PS. Oh, and the one where they guy has a Dick Tracy-style video-phone on his watch? Well, soon after AT&T bought McCaw Cellular my friends in the cellular phone communications research area were asked to work up an explanation of why such a thing can't exist and isn't likely to exist any time soon. It turns out that after AT&T bought McCaw they (McCaw) was very unhappy to learn that the wrist-phone was a figment of a marketing person's imagination and not something actually being developed at Bell Labs. Ooops. I hope they didn't let themselves get bought by AT&T just because they thought we had that product in the wings.
I think that years ago the technology wasn't ready to do what they wanted it to do.
Given the existence of Incanter+Clojure plus the Leiningen project (similar to R's inbuilt package management) - how does R compete?
Especially considering primitive types support in Clojure - http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/...
I disagree somewhat although I am a contractor not a permanent employee seeking promotion so that might be the reason for the difference. I am straight and white but otherwise I don't fit what you describe. I arrive at 08:00 and leave at 16:30 sharp unless exceptional circumstances arise. I make it clear from the first day that I'm not there to socialise and I won't routinely work outside my contracted hours. My theory is I have the length of my first contract (usually 3 to 6 months) to prove that I'm worth sticking with in spite of not being the proverbial round peg. So far it's worked and I've always been extended multiple times at each institution. They eventually stop offering you out to get drunk if you're politely constant with your rejection - I do get a bit of a ribbing and feel pressure in this respect but it doesn't impact me.

Currently my team is made up of 2x French men, 1x Nigerian man, 1x Indian Man and me (Irish man) the team leader is an English man so there certainly could and should be better female representation but that was also the case (but to a lesser extent) when I used to work in the telecoms sector.

There is a lot of arrogance and machismo on display but it's less prevalent in the back office - certainly more than what I experienced in other sectors. It is hard to stomach though.
A couple of years ago, I would have said "That's wonderful advice because Nginx excels at serving static files and Apache is needed for the dynamic requests", but today only one of these is still true. The technique will certainly still work, though.

If I ever get a few hours to install Nginx and write config files for a few dozen PHP sites (blarg), I'm going to get rid of Apache altogether.
If this is motivated by your paranoia, why are you switching to a closed-source browser?
I had a feeling the conclusion would be "it's hardware-related", but I think there's also a possibility it might be SMM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Mode ) or some broken interrupt handler, as both of those can also unexpectedly modify registers and memory. While hardware/firmware bugs are relatively rare, it's always good to keep in mind all the other layers of hardware and software that must be correct when debugging, as any bug in those could easily lead you down a wrong path.
Well there is plenty to read about western governments hacking chinese organizations. Google edward snowden china for starters :)
You could try this:

test ** test

But you'd be stuck with the fixed width font.

The formatting page is not much help either:

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

Maybe something like

\*\*

could be done.
"Let's start by increasing the number of permanent resident visas available for the 1 million engineers, scientists, doctors, and researchers and their families who are in the U.S. legally but trapped in immigration limbo."

My problem with this is that a recent RAND study found that Americans are avoiding careers in science and engineering because these fields have become uncompetitive with the professions (law, mba, md, dds, etc) in terms of salary, job stability, and career prospects. In other words, a "shortage", to the extent that it exists, may be a rational response by americans to poor career prospects. It might not make sense to use the immigration system to increase the pool of PhD level scientists and engineers when the most objective research available is concluding that these careers have lost their luster. At the very least, we should recognize that this would probably provide even greater deterrence for people in the US who do have the right to choose their career path.

I tend to favor a points-based system in the US, something more similar to Canada or Australia. I've read about these systems, and while they certainly give credit to scientists and engineers, they appear to be very broad-based (plumbers, lawyers, and electricians get more points than programmers in Australia, last time I looked).

One thing I do agree with - the current system is horrible, the worst of all worlds. We bring in lots of "guest workers", targeting fields that probably aren't experiencing any shortage, and we create an indentured system that in my opinion pretty much violates the concept of personal freedom. It's a crappy system for immigrant and american scientists and engineers, but it does serve a few interests very well.

I pretty much say this every time: take a large but not unlimited number of immigrants, value education and skills in the abstract but avoid focusing too narrowly on any particular trade, profession, or skill set, and give immigrants full freedom to determine their own course in life (ie., no geographical or career restrictions).
Does Joel pay his staff for attending the lunches?
It's not all that uncommon.
This contradicts advice I've been given by lawyers in silicon valley who specialize in putting together large deals with startups.

Unequal ownership signals that there are known fault lines that may get ugly later. Whose ego is so large that they insist on having 55% vs 50% of a new venture they are starting with a co-founder they respect?

The formula in this article would seem to be the sort of thing that would sometimes seem to have been a good idea (in retrospect) but would rarely help to align everyone's incentives.

Why would any full time founder accept part time participation from a co-founder? Very simple -- it's a funding strategy, not an indication of the part timer's level of commitment. If starting off as part time is what it takes to bootstrap through the an angel round, then there is likely a great eagerness on the part of the part timer to quit his day job and become full time.

As a founder, be aware of those who want to stroke your ego. All the nonsense in that article about CEO deserving more, etc., seems designed to stroke egos and lead to the founders doing whatever the lawyers tell them.
Shame on everyone who complains about the recent federal government domain seizures (torrent, poker sites) but poo-poos this important and highly reasonable article. Shame on everyone who despises the Great Firewall and the Middle Eastern Internet off buttons we have heard about recently, but is unwilling to take a small step towards ensuring free speech on the Internet.
You're right that there could be other reasons for BT rates to be falling, but for me, personally, it's exactly what the article says: I prefer to use Netflix over BT.
Paradoxically, a mass exploitation of it would be ``good'' in that it would force Facebook to fix the process. Due to the current low volume, the problem lingers, while people and organizations get hurt.

Low volume as compared to other Facebook traffic, anyway.
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It's not just a framework.

It's a new language. Syntax, semantics, common patterns, high level approaches to things (you could call this culture).

It's a new VM (possibly) or compiler.

It's a myriad of libraries.

It's operational tools around the main tech stack (debugger, tracing/performance tools, deployment tools, logging tools/frameworks, etc).

To truly master a mature software stack takes years. Yes, a smart and experienced dev can hack their way around with the help of an experienced team, but the real test will be when the same dev looks at their own code from the start.

Though even that's not a sure thing, because if it's one thing developers have plenty of, it's hubris. Sometimes it helps, but many times it doesn't.

> I also don't think the claim was that our candidate would perform at the level of a senior dev.

No, the claim was even funnier, that the candidate will be a competent developer because he has a PhD in physics (a field somewhat related to software engineering, if you squint really hard, but not really).
And it's official, Godwin's Law [0] has reached crypto. The purpose of Bitcoin is of course to support the Nazi cause. What other purpose could it possibly have? /s

Hint: Millions of people use Bitcoin as a:

- store of value to protect purchasing power over time

- inflation hedge to protect savings from the ravages of inflation

- a hedge to protect against corrupt governments manipulating currency

- protection from negative real interest rates

- censorship-resistant payments

- anonymous payments with instant finality (Lightning)

Money is a tool like any other. Cash, gold, NFTs, Bitcoin, and credit cards can be used for good or evil, lawful or unlawful purposes. The technology isn't inherently moral or immoral. It is just a tool.

The "it's really for nazis" argument is particularly weak. The critics must be getting desperate.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
Thanks for following up, but I'm not sure that you've put the issue to bed. Do MMT types use some other quantitative understanding of inflation? If not, it seems like main thrust of GP's criticism ("they rely on a qualitative understanding of inflation...as opposed to a... quantitative understanding") stands.
I was just about to comment this! I've been using it for about a year at this point after being unsatisfied with Pocket's lack of features, and I absolutely love it.
>I guess that 'allegedly' was inserted here in order to forestall a claim that this statement deprived the defendants in this case of due process, if or when it comes to trial.

Actually, the 'allegedly' bit was inserted because the defendants in this case are alleged to have committed some criminal act(s). They have not been proven (whether via a trial or a plea agreement) to have done so.

The defendants may well be "guilty," or they may not. That's what the legal process (as flawed as it may be) is constituted to determine.

Forming an opinion at to whether or not anyone has committed an illegal act(s) is perfectly normal and reasonable. However, unless you're a member of a jury in a trial, your opinion generally won't affect the outcome.

All that said, defendants are "alleged" to have committed criminal act(s) until the case has been adjudicated, whether that be by trial or plea agreement.

N.B.: IANAL.
I think a big problem is that the number of employees required to run many types of businesses has been steadily decreasing over time as technology improves. McDonald's for example went from 440,000 employees to 205,000 from 2012 to 2019 [1]. Multiply that out to include manufacturing companies and it's pretty easy to find the reason governments are strapped for cash. Maybe it's time to tax automation?

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/819966/mcdonald-s-number...
Cool so its totally not his fault then. If only there was someone in charge that could handle this situation.
13B in revenue or profit? That is, after paying their employees, the cost of buildings and equipment, capital costs, etc. how much was left over? What percentage of that did they pay in taxes?