skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's called real world our clients running on dedicated hardware at 2 dcs have consistently less issues than those on AWS. The aws control layer and infrastructure is too complex and results in fairly significant outages.
Its special UNIX sockets. Actual TCP/IP sockets work fine. The workarounds for UNIX sockets not working typically involve switching to use TCP/IP sockets instead.
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> I'm glad I live in the Netherlands.

It would be a damn sight better to be living in Switzerland, NL will be sea again once that kicks off.

Not much to do against that kind of rise in water levels.
Amazon is playing to win here.

Tech:
The Dash Wand [1] puts Alexa on your refrigerator and every time you scan an item, Amazon is building up a database of the most popular SKUs they should add to their warehouse.

Scale:
Scale is the name of the game and Instacart is playing with a losing hand. Vans/trucks are more efficient than cars, warehouses > grocery stores, robot shelves > store runners.

Anecdote:
Instacart was popular in Boston until Fresh opened last year. There is now a large pile of Amazon bags for pickup everyday in my front lobby.

Price:
Amazon has many of the exact same items as Instacart/wholefoods but at lower prices. My grocery bill went down about 20%

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-All-New-Dash-Wand/dp/B015YEXOR...
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Viewing: Nope.
Projecting it on a conference: Depends.
> Also, "nothing you can do to stop it" is not a grant of permission.

Okay, well, I give you permission to copy the words in this sentence into your brain, but you're not allowed to process their semantic content into a coherent idea. If you do, I will sue you.
Any ethical publisher will go out of their way to ensure total separation between editorial (or content creation in the case of social publishers like Snapchat) and advertising. The advertising division typically isn't even allowed to know what kind of content is being run, and the content creators aren't allowed to know what kind of ads are being run.

The practice is often metaphorically referred to as "church and state".
I certainly believe in giving people multiple chances but I'm not interested in involving the gov't in these sorts of decisions. Guess I'm uncivilized.
automation creates jobs when there's aggregate demand for more products and services. When people reach their finite limit of consumption (Example: boredom is obsoleted by digital media tech), and wages are depressed to subsistence by laissez faire capitalism, you've got a bunch of unemployed people with nothing to do for the poor people who would like to pay them for stuff
Weaving is clearly a mechanical task that required a mind to control the hardware. Problem-solving is not a mechanical task.
Yeah, the interesting detail is, though, that what they were doing was possibly illegal.

I wonder how this affects other similar services (eg: GitLab).
and now is finally energy efficient enough for practical usage.
I'm not talking about culture, I'm talking about wage rate. Outsourcing from AU to US is not a threat to AU wages because US wages are higher. The US can not compete with the AU on the price of labor, it can only compete on quality.

Conversely when work is outsourced from a country with high wages to one with lower wages, this is a threat to the wage rate in the higher wage country.
This Is Not Legal Advice. (See elsewhere in the thread for why lawyers can't offer "legal advice" to non-clients, even "legal advice that you should have someone else double-check")
Well most recently where I live, they changed the "non-business hours" penalty rates for workers. Basically if you make most of your money by working a night or weekend job, you can have your pay cut by half of what it currently is.

A win for corporates, and even a win for small businesses who were struggling to afford it.

But ultimately taking the money from the lower end workers and passing it up the chain instead.

Who do you think made that policy change? Who do you think would have fought against it if they both knew about it and had the means to advocate against it?

Those who couldn't fight for themselves were trodden on in that particular small policy change.
Dude invented the name "Vanessa", which is not a bad legacy.
What is wrong with this ? I love NRA and I think they are doing a wonderful job of protecting our rights. If anyone want s to compete with them they should obviously pay.
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unless that AI relies on an energy source that is fenced off by capitalists
>I think the GP's viewpoint was widely shared by "The Elite" for the past 10 years and is what created the backlash that got Trump elected.

Why do you think that? If by backlash you mean people (Trump voters) wanting social support to deal with those problems, I see zero evidence of that. The extreme anti-immigration views indicate that the opposite is true and Trump voters think people are taking advantage of social programs. When Trump talks about bringing back jobs, its purely out of xenophobia and is completely divorced from actually employing people. It's not about hiring Americans and it never was; its about not employing foreigners.

It seems to me that now more than ever the only people who care about automation affecting jobs are the ones less likely to be affected.
That would work in an ideal world, but in the real world laws will have flaws. That is essentially exactly the same as with vulnerabilities. You find a vulnerability and responsibly disclose it, you are the good guy and maybe get a coffee mug or some money as reward. You exploit the vulnerability until someone else notices it, you are the bad guy and hopefully get punished.

As any other software developer I would certainly love if all the rules in the world were unambiguous and free of flaws, but that is nothing we can have, at least not at the moment. So we all have to deal with it and we all have to accept that the spirit is at times more important than the words.

And just to come back, nobody can seriously claim that they believed it was in the spirit of the law to pay no taxes at all. That is just not how or system works and everybody knows that, don't be surprised if you get punished for trying it anyway.
> his attitude

I don't quite follow from your description of his reaction. What sort of attitude were you attempting to describe/how'd you perceive his attitude to be?
You're right, the linked article says "cost of revenue" was $450m which I assumed was a non-technical term by a writer trying to pad the article out, but the S-1 has it all broken out including that. With everything else it was over $900m. The S-1 has it defined as things like their infrastructure costs (bandwidth and such?).
I would like to see a tax system that makes it more attractive to hire people and pay them well. I am not that versed in economics but are there any such proposals out there? The current trend with more and more income going to the upper ranks should be stopped.
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That page ought to have a list of TV series in addition to Mr. Robot: X-Files and more so its spinoff show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lone_Gunmen
Bill Gates has dedicated >90% of his lifetime income to poverty relief projects, and hasn't cured poverty yet.
So much for the strategy of tweeting at a company to resolve consumer disputes. Normally, I would say that's a good thing, but sometimes these companies just don't respond to non-public channels. Google, for instance, is notorious for making it difficult to reach an actual human in customer service.
As a former portfolio manager who also runs a "machine learning for economists company", I have seen many examples where AI and better data can help economists quantify their intuitions and more rigorously test their models. My product is even called the "AI Economist"

Let's face it, humans are great at organizing problems and hypothesing about the future, but we are terrible at quickly reasoning about complex interactions and finding patterns in highly noisy data.

One area I'm pretty excited about here is using better machine learning algorithms to organize global production, employment and trade data to improve out definitions of business cycles. We have relied on 'high-level stylized facts' to describe the complex and fascinating global economy for too long.

If you like geeking out on this stuff, my recent post goes in to it more:
https://astrocyte.io/2017/01/11/ml-redefining-business-cycle...
20% time never went away. There's especially a lot of code health 20% projects, and like the article says, this is applying that spirit to open source.
Sure but there were over 10 million millionaires in the US last year. If we took just a million a year just from those guys we'd have 30,000 a year per american. I'm not saying we should, but your math sucks.
Just because the article did not mention it, it does not follow that there is no moral dimension here.
Let's say the W3C had the power to stop EME from existing, and not just to refuse to give its implied blessing.

Would the result be no DRM on "premium" video? I doubt it. The de fact approach before EME existed was to use plugins on desktop and a native app on mobile. If there was no EME, that's what we would still have (and indeed the transition is not over).

There are certainly problems with DRM. But the W3C's primary mission is to bring the web to its fullest potential. If fighting DRM meant ceding ground from the open web platform to plugins and native apps, then that doesn't seem like a good way to benefit the web.
If I understand it correctly:

> iPhones made in China and sold in Europe (i.e. would Apple have an incentive to involve Apple USA or not)

Nothing

> iPhones made in China and sold in the U.S.

Fully taxed

> U.S. based company (LLC/C-Corp) offering SaaS subscriptions in the U.S. and abroad

Fully taxed on subscriptions sold to customers in the US, nothing on those sold to customers abroad.
Uber is Uber because of software. Take it away and you have a cab company that exploits contractors (which based on the history of cab companies is really saying something).

The last Uber I ever took was a 20 minute drive that cost me $3.75 — I had a conversation with my driver about his cut of the fare, and tipped him because I felt guilty about how absurd it had become.

Uber's recent losses are unparalleled and largely stem from driver subsidies because they aren't actually charging a sustainable fare for the service they contract.

I honestly don't think they're a real company. It's all a farce.
What are the plugins using WebGL and WebVR?
I never heard of such plugins.
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I don't know how you can come to this conclusion. Machines are even encroaching upon artistic and creative endeavors, territory once taught to be the province of humans. From drawing to composing music to acting (Grand Moff Tarkin, please stand up), they are advancing. Machines unequivocally surpass my abilities in said fields.
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I wouldn't consider it a ticking time bomb. They provide a (false) guarantee to the end user that other users won't be able to capture whatever you sent beyond the time given for them to view it. (This is false because anyone can take a picture of their phone's screen.) Users would understand the very reasonable difference between users having general access to this "expired" data vs. the police. Most people should expect that the police have special privileges in this case, and I don't think there'd be any backlash if this became broader knowledge. Their promise to their users is to provide them with the secrecy of a "secret note", not government proof secure encrypted messaging.
I actually find a lot of style and fashion stuff interesting. But there's something about the unsanitized corporate speech of Racked that is just unnerving. I know we live in an era where subtext is text, but this is more like parody as sincerity.
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I really hope this pun was intentional, because it's phenomenal
I work at Google. I pretty sure what I said before is true, bids are adjusted based on quality and relevance to the search query, not just predicted click trough rate.

Also this does not apply to snapchat, because afaik they do brand advertising based on impressions (CPM) and not clicks (CPC).
This is the part I don't understand and am going through now. You raise a ton and get good at spending or you raise minimum and constantly bridge every time growth doesn't match plan, buying time to catch up or tweak.

Why don't investors offer terms that have steps with growth KPIs (ones you can't spend your way to) that give you more money automatically if you make the metrics? As a company you don't have to constantly raise or bridge but you also can't go drop 5M on new offices. You have all the money and runaway you need as long as you hit the milestones. The investors still have all the same upside but less exposure.

I must be missing something I guess. It would solve issue we have at the startup I'm at now though.
The terms and conditions you have to sign as part of the application process to show Google ads. There is a fairly detailed list of do's and don't's which you are expected to adhere to.
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I remember reading somewhere that it's 10-12.
Maybe, but if you search for Amazon you probably don't want to see the eBay site.
For those who weren't paying attention during the time this occurred (you can hardly be faulted) -- this is perhaps the best summation of how I recall it.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/07/31/cdc-researc...
> says in its prospectus that it has no plans to make money and maybe never will

Assuming you are talking about this sentence from the "risk factors" section of their S-1:

> We have incurred operating losses in the past, expect to incur operating losses in the future, and may never achieve or maintain profitability.

That's relatively boilerplate and doesn't really mean much. The "risk factors" section is always very gloom-and-doom to avoid the appearance of over-promising returns. For example, Workday said "we have a history of cumulative losses and we do not expect to be profitable for the foreseeable future" in their risk factors. Shake Shack included "our inability to open profitable Shacks" as a risk factor in their S-1. Google listed pages and pages of "risks" that basically boiled down to "advertisers might stop using us". It's really not that unusual to say something like that.

You might be right and Snap could be headed for a big fall, but that statement alone isn't much of an indicator.
> Being an ass hole is sometimes an effective form of leadership. This event may be a datapoint FOR keeping him as a leader.

"Being an asshole doesn't make you Steve Jobs." - Steve Jobs

Anyway, I'd suggest you consider what kind of leader you'd be willing to follow and then work backwards to define your concept of what good leadership may or may not be.

Steve Jobs may have existed in a very special circumstance that allowed him certain, um, behavioral privileges. That does not necessarily make every aspect of his character worth modeling.
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You're spot on with your previous post, but just wanted to add a note to anyone reading that if you've been having intermittent chest pain or discomfort for weeks/months, it still could be a heart problem (or reflux or a host of other things) that needs to be checked out. You could have a partial blockage of a coronary blood vessels (the blood vessels that provide blood/oxygen to the heart muscle itself) that provide insufficient blood flow, either when you're active, or randomly.

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> I didn't see a response from Gustafson to the latter accusation--the slide deck I see has him shifting from an argument about the power usage involved in storing 64 bits of "unnecessary" precision to a commentary about the parallelizability of his approach (no comment about the work-efficiency!).

Gustafson has addressed this. His argument essentially boils down to the fact that moving 64 bits to memory costs far more than doing the actual computation. Therefore, you have to spend more transistors doing the computation for unums, but you spend much less energy overall, since you have to transport less energy.
I happen to agree with this. Have a listen to the last twimlai.com podcast about "deep genomics". From an ML point of view, they're still finding their way, but from an economic point of view two things seem clear. 1) ML + genetics are going to have a massive economic impact. 2) Not a single job will be lost as a result of advancement, as the sector doesn't yet exist. Whenever I hear someone say there won't be any jobs after AI surpasses some threshold, I always ask them how many jobs were lost as a result of railroads? Was it so awful that the Pony Express went out of business after the transcontinental railroad was finished? Or that all those scribes had to quit copying their mistakes over and over again after the printing press came around?
Amazon is a superior service.

I initially used Instacart. But then started to notice my orders would often need replacement items. So I opted for no replacements, and it was even worse... because items that were very relevant in my order were left out and I had to order again. In addition, prices were very high compared to the store.

Then, they wouldn't show up on the scheduled times. Then, if you canceled the order and talked to customer support, they would try to uncancel the order and schedule it for a completely arbitrary time where you might not even be home, a lot of decision making on your behalf with no confirmation.

After all that chaos and constant fighting with customer support I switched to Amazon. They show up on time, the use durable packaging that is refrigerated if necessary, the prices are reasonable, item availability is "what you see is what you get" with no replacements, the delivery fee is a flat yearly fee... In all the time I have using Amazon Fresh or Prime now, I have had ZERO arguments with them.

Now I only order from Amazon. In addition to that, they have the Amazon Dash, which I can use to scan the barcodes for the products I need to reorder to quickly add them to the cart, or set reminders for items I need to buy using Amazon Echo.

Note that I am not affiliated with Amazon in any way.

If I had to use Instacart again, I would probably use it to order 20 gallons of water, and then go to the store myself to buy the rest. The website is very incompetent at reflecting the effective stock and the system is not good at finding/suggesting replacements. The last time I used Instacart was to literally see what my last order was, so I could order the same things via Amazon.
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"was widely shared by "The Elite" for the past 10"

You mean for the last 200 years.

Mass automation has been going on since the dawn of the industrial revolution.

As long as there is value to be created, and the surpluses are distributed enough so that consumers 'want something and can pay for it' - there will be jobs.

Obviously, it's more painful for those put out of work than 'the elite' ... but employment levels have been decent for a very long time. [1]

The historical unemployment rate seems to defy the notion that 'machines are putting everyone out of work'. That can't be ignored; in fact, it demands kind of another way of looking at it.

[1] http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-r...
I'd say it was an appropriate level of simplification given that you arrived at the correct answer and he wasn't able to :P.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Every supermarket in Montrela offers phone orders and home delivery for a fee of less than $5 if your order is big enough ($50+). If you want to, you can even do your shopping in the store, and pay about two bucks to have them deliver to your house if it was in a few km.

I just checked, and one of the smaller chains (4 stores) has their own online ordering platform.
I can imagine a 1960s steel-industry manager making a similar statement.
> Researchers have yet to find solid evidence that automation has ever destroyed jobs.

Horse jobs (horses are a special and strange kind of human) are nil. Before there were lots of jobs they could do, now there are no essential tasks.

Turnspit dog[0] jobs (another very strange kind of human) are nil, in fact they are so nil that the dogs went extinct. There were no tasks left for them to do, their jobs were automated away.

Jobs for very very intellectually slow people are nil or nearly nil. This was not true in say, 1600. In 1600 even the most dimwitted human could be helpful: At the very least he could do essential tasks like chop wood and carry water. Today there are zero essential tasks. If one has a job, it is usually because someone is humoring him or her, or that we as a society have just decided to be nice, economics of it be damned [1].

Very few humans under 10 in the united states have jobs. This was not always true. Very few humans over 80 have jobs. There are no essential tasks that we have for these classes of people, just like the horses and very slow people. (We could consider this a victory that there aren't any jobs for 10 year olds but that's beside the point here)

There are classes of humans already boxed out of any possible job in some economies. Gradations of humans must exist nearly all the way up the chain. Saying that automation has not destroyed jobs is simply a lack of imagination on the part of these researchers.

Maybe not all humans will be obsolete in the job market, but we already have to permit that some are.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnspit_dog

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwill_Industries
That is actually quite clever.

Most of the scenarios that I think to use the word robot, I can very easily conceive that its still underdeveloped and yet to be highly proficient at that task yet. Yet when it can, we will undoubtedly refine the term for that particular robot.