skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it seems likely there will be mechanisms for rating/handling passengers who damage a vehicle. Where those will fall woefully short and will still result in the issue I cited are situations like:

- Someone who smelled funny, had bad gas, etc.

- Baby threw up and the mom wiped it down best she could but the entire car has a whiff of puke

- Dirt and grime being tracked in. Different people have vastly different standards for cleanliness in their vehicles

- Water/snow/sludge. Something to be said about going from an indoor garage to your vehicle to an indoor garage at a destination during bad weather. If the vehicle is picking up other people, etc., there's likely to be lots of water/dirt inside.

- Food smells and perfumes can set off allergies, sensitive noses, etc. I sure as heck don't want to be in a vehicle where someone was just transporting McDonalds, or where an old lady with way too much perfume was sitting for the past hour

- Wrappers, etc. can be left and often times dropped without any sort of onboard camera picking it up

- Germs. Dear god the germs. How many sick people will be in these things without any way for future passengers to know? If I had a child, I sure wouldn't want them in such a vehicle. I personally would also not want to be in such a vehicle. Worst case scenario, someone with a serious disease transmitted via blood or bodily fluids (read: HIV+, STDs, etc.) could leave hard to detect amounts on various surfaces. What is the company going to do? Require a blood sample and medical testing from all passengers?

So there's a whole host of things that are hard to track/place blame on people for without being a technological/legal/political nightmare. And I totally realize some of these are a bit on the extreme end of the spectrum. Point is, when owning a vehicle is no longer possible, you won't have a choice about being subjected to this.

And worth calling out specifically here is the whole surveillance aspect of it. Forget your vehicle knowing where you are. Between traffic cams, license plate readers, OnStar, Google Maps/Waze, etc. I think the war on tracking your location has been lost. What hasn't been entirely lost yet is privacy within the vehicle. I fully expect there to be invasive cameras and sensors watching everything I do in these self-driving cars in the future.

Ad-supported ride? Eye-tracking software will monitor whether you are watching the screen when the ad plays. Temperature/pulse monitors in seats could measure your response to such ads. And that's just scratching the surface of the privacy invasion.

I'm trying not to sound like I am wearing a tin-foil hat, but I think the past few years have proven that these things aren't just possible, they are likely and maybe even inevitable.
Congrats! It's a brilliant team, looking forward to great things.
Yeah, CFL bulbs are icky blue flickering garbage, and the LED bulbs I've used (Hue), while otherwise fine, don't support my dimmer correctly. Using the Hue app isn't as easy as walking over to the light switch, and they won't work anyways, unless I rip out the dimmer - I ended up putting the Hue bulbs in the bathroom, which is at least fun for a joke.

Incandescent bulbs are just a better experience for me right now. I don't think there are any such advantages for microbeads.
It's the end of the semester, I'm awfully sleep deprived, and I should be doing work instead --that's why. I apologize for misrepresenting your views.
Did you submit this article solely to make this comment? If so I'm fully behind you
They're not as bright as halogens for sure, but I'm a huge, huge fan of my Philips Hue lights. I share an apartment and brought the lights from my old one; the biggest downer is that they're not dimmer-friendly, so I've had to replace a couple with standard soft-white LEDs, but I love the color range (yeah, they're crappy at green--I don't need green lights) and the configurability to change the way the environment feels.
I'm sure Peter would have interesting things to say about these issues (though he has left the thread at this point), but I doubt that it would be a good use of his time to delve into political controversies when so many founders and employees have specific questions in this thread.

Also, a matter of community etiquette: we don't invite people here to be cross-examined, which is what your questions sound like.
Congratulations to the Django team.

In practical terms, what does this mean for those of us who use Django and Django REST Framework? Will there be a graceful transition path to the planned all-in-one model? What timescales are likely?

Also curious about which version(s) of Python are likely to see continued support.

I appreciate that some of these questions probably can't easily be answered yet, but a steer would be appreciated.

Edit: typo.
This is about 100 years too early. Seriously why do people think neural networks are the answer to AI? They are proven to be stupid outside of their training data. We have such a long way to go. This fear-mongering is pointless.
Yes, it looks much better than an ad hoc ML. As I said, tricks like Scrap Your Boilerplate are very useful, although they're still not as dense as Nanopass.

If a straightforward, depth-first visitor is relatively easy to infer, more complex strategies (e.g., the one you'd need to resolve the lexical scoping) are still a bit messy. And if your visitor is building a new AST out of an old one, things are getting much more tricky.
> Sam, Greg, Elon, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, and YC Research are donating to support OpenAI. In total, these funders have committed $1 billion

Funny how they just slipped that in at the end
$1B in committed funding. Just, wow.

Side note: I wonder if the Strong AI argument can benefit from something akin to Pascal's Wager, in that the upside of being right is ~infinite with only a finite downside in the opposing case.
Why the hopeless reaction? Plenty of large companies have announced mergers recently and then backed off or been blocked by regulators.
Don't ants have food in their ant farm?
Exactly. This panders to their anti-immigration base. If it were a serious proposition, then he would have at least tied the salary to some percentage of the median salary for the job being applied for.

That said, it's still weird because it'll likely piss off the large donors. I understand that he's trying to take some of Trump's base using Trump's tactics, but the only reason that Trump gets away with it is because he's financing his own campaign and couldn't care less about fundraising.
Why would walnut shells be expensive?
That was a teacher from the Alabama School of Fine Arts, which began as a state-funded program to pay the fees of private, after school music, art, writing, theater, and science/math schools so all kids, especially lower income kids, could have access to private, fee-charging programs that developed talents other than just sports. Eventually, the program evolved into an actual public school, but one which requires auditioning for the specialty you are interested in. The author of "The Hunger Games" is a graduate.
How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers from Taking Over
This is totally possible. The general advice is to solve a problem. But to be a bit more specific, I will say the following:

- Create a product in a niche and focus on finding customers within that niche. For a goal of $3000/month, it is surely possible and not too crazy

- Don't just rely on yourself even though there are many 1 man success stories here on HN. I would say get at least 2-3 trusted helpers even if they are part time and slowly delegate the not so critical aspects to them while you still focus on the core. For example, if you a SAAS product, you could still do coding + customer support while you could delegate some of the other admin stuff including some customer support to someone else. This will give you leverage.
Thanks for clarifying :)

P.S. I'd love to get in touch with you regarding Freshpay.
No wastewater treatment process is going to filter out microbeads - they're between 0.01mm and 1mm in size. You'd have to change the filters every five minutes.

Properly treated wastewater is just that - treated, to make it safe (i.e. fewer pathogens). It's still not something you'd want to drink out of a tap.
This is interesting, do you know where I can get more information on this?
Thanks in advance
“Hour of Code” to Teach Coding to Millions – Even Obama
I only really expect a new tab in apps that would be interupted/broken by opening the page in the same tab or maybe inside long-form texts. Generally pages, esp. aggregators like HN or reddit, shouldn't do it.

If you prefer it for specific pages, things like that are a good use case for userscripts.
Disappointing to see Infosys associated to this initiative.

EDIT: looks like the infosys brigade is downvoting me to hell.
Can I also send you a dollar and get back four stamps for return postage?
I think those few days for students to try out new subjects is named "summer break."
Honestly, find me one person who believes that the Basilisk is a truth so horrifying that it will destroy your mind.

That is ridiculous. It isn't such a thing and no one believes it to be such a thing. That isn't why it was banned.

To make an analogy, say I believed I created some code, that if ran, would kill the person who was using the computer it ran on. Then I posted that code online.

In some-sense, that would be really dumb of me. Even if you don't believe that my code actually works, you can still be consistent when criticizing me for sharing it.

The second issue that maybe in the future, such a thing will be possible. Maybe computers and humans will be so integrated that you can kill people with malicious software.

Those are the reasons the Basilisk was banned. Do I think banning them was the appropriate action? No. It was Yudkowsky power-tripping cause hes arrogant. Is it as you or others make it out to be? No.
Totally fine for California. I'm deeply convinced that tax incentives have negative impacts on the places that offer them. They only seem to attract race to the bottom businesses.
It does make sense, and thank you very much for taking the time to explain! :)
Thanks for doing this AMA. I'm a Canadian who just got his TN visa (Systems Analyst) but in practice, my salary/responsibilities will be pretty similar to that of a Software Engineer. As far as the law is concerned, where is the line drawn between those two occupations?
No, it was $10 million in today's dollars (it's in the article), although your point still stands. Still, being able to pay for, and being able to raise about 10 kids under 10 at the same time is not the same.
Did the QA you dealt with not have any automated testing tools? That seems rather foolish to have your QA team manually test every feature every time without an automated smoke test.
emphatic... were you going for empathetic?
Not only are these environmentally harmful, but they get stuck in your ear after you shower with them and then your doctor has to refer you to an ENT costing time and money to vacuum them out. Not to mention the psychological stress when your doctor tells you you have a blue growth in your ear and they don't know what it is. Or so I've heard this sort of thing can happen...
I think it's important to recognize that neither option is perfect by itself. Manual QA can still be an important process.

That being said, if you have to pick one or the other then you go with automated tests.
I didn't think of it that way, but you're right. I think that would be more like a contractor's own tools they bring now that I re-think it.
So you think running some script on my machine is preferable to running a container? If I don't like having Rust around, with containers I can just remove it. With script - yeah, maybe, with some digging for correct parameters and assuming it cleans up after itself properly (which is far from trivial).

Packages are of course preferable if available and up-to-date.
The report shown that results from the tests did not match the actual usage. It raised questions that those companies most likely are tampering with tests, but nothing incriminating. It was speculated that possibly that the tests were not reliable.

In case of VW, in addition to that report an actual device to fool the tests was discovered.
From the article:

"In addition to his work as a lawyer, Millar amassed a net worth of more than $10 million (in today’s Canadian dollars)..."

Each winner received $125,000, which is a little over $2 million in today's Canadian dollars.
Asking as a complete layperson, are there any other strongly typed languages that doesn't have this issue when parsing an AST and adding metadata during subsequent passes?
It Probably Works: Probabilistic algorithms are all around us
By that logic, Youtube content creators are employees of Youtube? Bloggers are employees of Google? Home owners are employees of Airbnb?
tsort
Does anyone track the quantity of work under Creative Commons? How does that compare to the volume and quality of public domain works lost to draconian Copyright extensions?
The linked site says nothing about neural networks.
Hi Peter,

My wife and I are Canadians working in California on TN visas. I'm at a small startup that doesn't sponsor H1-B but I might start my own business in the future.
Should I look switching to a larger company in order to get H1-B so I have the freedom start my company?

Thanks for doing this AMA.
There are LED bulbs on the market that have great compatibility with all dimmers. I hope that market forces eventually weed out all of the less compatible LED bulbs. At that point, LED bulbs should be truly interchangeable with incandescents for lighting (heat generation, not so much).
No. Premium processing only affects the speed of processing - the lottery odds remain unchanged.
Audi is part of the Volkswagen group. Some Audi models are implicated in the same scandal.
I seem to have missed a story here. A quick Google search turned up a letter on Quora, https://www.quora.com/Is-working-in-Infosys-as-bad-as-this-l..., is that what you are refering too?
You should look at the name of the company "DowDuPont". That means Dow is in the driver seat, they will pick.

What it really means is Delaware and Michigan will now be in a bidding war for tax adjustments to keep the headquarters.

But my money is on Michigan.
> No wastewater treatment process is going to filter out microbeads - they're between 0.01mm and 1mm in size. You'd have to change the filters every five minutes.

Rather than filter, why not settle them out?
We're not bringing in the whole of Django REST Framework, just some of the underlying mechanics that are useful for all apps (like content negotiation). DRF will remain a third-party project.

As for Python versions, there isn't any plan to drop 2.7 yet and Channels will work on it. It might be we move to Python 3 only at some point in the future, but there are no firm plans right now.
My startup is based in Delaware: you're spot on.

Low taxes, few constraints for internal organization, and clear answers from lawyers stemming from a rich jurisprudential history.
I think I found a relatively sane solution to the expression problem, which employs quite a weird type system. The trick is to use a permissive (nearly "dynamic") first typing pass, using a "weak set" unification (a special kind of a Prolog variable which unifies with any other weak set, merging the values together), and then doing another typing pass to find out of the union types inferred this way are isomorphic to the expected declarations.

This way, tagged unions can be expanded, cut down, rewritten using simple rules - all the stuff you can do in Nanopass, but strictly typed with a Hindley-Milner type inference.
Actually, the article says his net worth was more than "$10 million (in today’s Canadian dollars)". That's about 7.2 million in today's US dollars. The most any winner got was 2 million CAD (or 1.46 million USD) and the winners each had 9 kids. So that's like getting 162k to have a kid, which isn't that great of a deal.
What, I'm over thinking things because a bunch of SF techy folks preferred the world startup to company?
Hi,

Can you describe in practical terms how the requirements between an O1 and an EB1 differ? If I got my O1 recently, can I reuse the reference letters directly?

Thanks
I agree in principle for most products, no QA, no testing. Why?

* Everyone should do QA and implement their features own UI/UX, by following the pattern the application and framework sets tuned by an actual designer
* An environment where production issues and bugs are prioritized above everything else should be created and fostered
* To paraphrase Rich Hickey's analogy on the matter: writing tests is like driving around relying on the guard rails to keep you in the lines. That is (my interpretation):
* If your code is this fragile to constantly require testing you've chosen poor abstractions.
I can't think of another field of research that's simultaneously brought the potential to solve all the world's problems and the potential to end life as we know it. Very appreciative to see so many great minds working on ensuring AI heralds in more of the former, and none of the latter.
I don't see how that follows, since a stillbirth can happen without external influence.
There are lots of natural microbead alternatives, such as, wait for it... sand.
What does it feel like to be so confident in an opinion while so many brilliant scientists disagree with you?
"we've also started to see what it might be like for computers to be [creative], to [dream], and to [experience the world]."

All three of those links are about neural networks.
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Just because it's a handy talking point doesn't mean it's not true. They did, indeed, tell you to get rid of your light bulbs, and back that up with a law.

(Of course, it's more complicated than partisans might prefer, given that the incandescent ban was supported/sponsored by at least some GOP lawmakers and that when they retook Congress the GOP's efforts to repeal the ban were pro forma at best. But it's still completely true that pushy nanny-state types, of either party, told people to get rid of their light bulbs.)
What does the actual Lambda code look like in this case?
As the comment says, better to just eat whales then. This article is really dumb, just some guys weird logic.
I can't eat nonfat dairy because it triggers my lactose intolerance. It drives me crazy to know that full-fat Greek style yogurt exists but none of my local stores stock it. The best I have found is 2%, and even then the pickings are slim.

That said, my local Safeway does stock 4% Darigold cottage cheese.
Places where it is important that the software works.

I once worked on an enterprise product that had a QA team of 25 people.
Alameda municiple power was participating in the "community night out" events (where you are supposed to have a BBQ on the sidewalk and the police and FD come by and reach out to the community) -- and they were handing out LED bulbs, with the goal to replace all bulbs with LED bulbs by some year.

I love the LED bulbs because I have my workshop, an area in my garage, my laundry room and my walk-in closet all with LED bulbs as I never turn them off.
Yes, willpower was one of the things I see as the issue, too.

The food manufacturers make it very easy to overeat, by providing cheap low-quality food that is full of sugar.

I’ve seen myself the issue that, if I buy groceries based on what I feel like, I tend to end up buying premade food.

So, I consciously avoid that. If I have no frozen pizza, no chips, no peanuts, I can’t eat them either. And I’m too lazy to go to the store right now to buy those, so I instead end up making a healthy meal.

The "but it’s healthy!" ads don’t make it easier, as they try to trick your mind, too.

Honestly, if everyone would have the willpower to only buy what is good for them, the food market and the ad business would not be able to exist anymore.

Coca Cola would be bought almost never, except maybe for parties or during holidays or on birthdays (like my parents used to do when we were kids – softdrinks only on these special occasions).

But it would also affect a lot of the "healthy" food that isn’t actually healthy, like "low fat" yoghurt (20% sugar content), or "fruit juice" (with 10% added sugar), etc.
FWIW, I'm also a Canadian who didn't complete his bachelor and managed to get a TN visa (Systems Analyst).
I love 1ML, but so far I've failed to see the importance of Tomas' co-effect system. Can you point out why you think it's important? In particular, in what ways is it better than e.g. implicits in Scala?
nuclear research.
I am just curious what kind of graft/riders/pork may be attached to a bill that is clearly a no-brainer that this is a good idea to pass.
This is fantastic, could we get longer tracks? I want to use this for generating music in our corporate phone system, right now you get a randomly chosen ambient track, and this could let us provide unique music for anyone who has the [dis?]pleasure of being stuck in our phone system. Maybe even a "press * to listen to a new song" option.
How is the group structured and operated?
Well, in ML you can easily create an AST type that allows you to add metadata as you go, by using option types. The problem is that what you really want is to have multiple representations of the AST, each only supporting relevant data.

You could potentially solve the problem using macros, to generate different versions of the AST, but it doesn't solve the problem of having multiple ASTs.

I suppose you could parameterize your type with whatever metadata should be on it, which means you only have to create one tree. But then pattern matching on it becomes a little bit messier, and your type is a bit more complicated.

So it's not that the problem doesn't have any solutions at all, it's just that none of them are totally satisfactory.

The reason you don't have this problem in untyped languages is that you aren't trying to type them :). The first solution I mentioned, using option types, is effectively how you would handle it in a dynamic language.
In all seriousness... does "just, wow" communicate something different from "wow?"
You don't need to do it that way. I followed this pattern.

1. Set up the UK company. It has to have been running for a certain time, and you have to be an employee of it for at least a year. The business has to be actually trading and real, have an office and financial results.

2. Apply for an L-1A, saying you will transfer yourself to the U.S. to start a new business. You then have a year to set up the new company and get it operational. You will need to invest at least $100,000 in the business. It took me less than a month to get the visa.

3. Renew the L1 for up to seven years. Before then, if your company grows you can change to a green card. If, like me, your company fails, you'll have to head back home :-(

4. It may be easier just to go for an E2 visa, where you invest $150,000 in a business. There's no path to a green card though.

http://www.immihelp.com/l1-visa/opening-new-office.html
Depends, medical drugs are default illegal.

Though the crap that is ok to put in the food supply is ridiculous. http://sagewater.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Renew-Downlo...
I believe GP is commenting about nonchalant, matter-of-fact mention of $1 billion.