skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This definitely seems like an idea created and propagated by people with no idea about how these systems work. The Cruise Automation/GM videos show the cars crossing lane markings when a truck is blocking traffic in their lane, so these systems are being built to realise that while traffic laws may say one thing, practice requires something different.

Certainly entertaining though.
I had some conversations with police officers in my country, and to be off the books honest- they feel like the blacks of white society- means just useful enough to keep failed social experiments, ignored social problems and even problems created by delusional politicians under the lid. Once a certain threshold is reached, the escalation from both sides in a community (unemployed youth vs the police) takes on a dynamic of its own. Even a idealistic officer could spend a generation working in such a environment - achieving near to nothing.

As David Brin said it. Put Cameras on everybody, its our best shot. Its utterly horrible, but its our best shot.
Also, having seen some speakers on conferences, i would demand a equal push towards a peace and prosperity development from the policed communities. And no excuses there either. You need next to nothing today, to learn and develop.
You need very cheap hardware (even a smartphone can do it).
You need the web.
You need the believe that you can accomplish this and see it through.

I remember, reading a GFX programmers short-bio on some webpage. He basically grew up in a ghetto, did spend most of his time indoors and developed his skills until he became a great shader programmer. If i remember correctly, he ended up working for valve.

If there was some program like the worldvision to provide a mentor-ship towards a pupil willing to walk this road (including comp-replacement-insurance and legal-insurance to escape harassment) - that would be great.
Big problem seems also to provide a social environment with escape velocity.
Two things to note on this:

1) the Obama policy (not even official administrative rule with any weight of enforcement, just a memo with a veiled threat of negative attention if flouted with any frequency) was only in place for his last 1.5 years. This letter just pulls that back to the first 6.5 years of his reign.

2) Note this quote: "The withdrawal of the Obama administration memo arrives the same week as a report from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) showing that millions of people had not made a payment on $137 billion in federal student loans for at least nine months in 2016, a 14 percent increase in defaults from a year earlier. "

In other words, after this rule was put in place, millions of loan recipients stopped making any payment altogether and 14% more entered default despite added mechanisms for avoiding default.

This article doesn't even go into the huge taxpayer bailout of students of closed and failing for-profit diploma mills[0]. It was an unprecedented windfall for those affected, the entire debt was forgiven, they took no hit on their credit, and the debt forgiveness wasn't counted as income by the IRS (like debt forgiveness normally works). Taxpayers paid for it all. It was a great buy-off of new voters.

An obvious small mitigation would have been to instead have their debt applied against a replacement degree program (e.g. you owe $20,000, you go to a new school at $10,000 tuition per year, then your first two years' tuition payments wipe out that debt, with interest charges stopped while in school).

[0] https://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/student-loan-ranger/2...

[EDIT]: Here is the original Obama FFEL memo:

https://ifap.ed.gov/dpcletters/attachments/GEN1513.pdf
This is also why a project's default ui is so important
That was a big one. Luckily free software pretty much guarantees no one is going to get away with trying such a thing (unless just about everyone in the world looses sight of the main goal), it's too easy to switch. During that fiasco, I was on Arch and/or Trisquel so it didn't phase me much, currently on Xubuntu though.
How Spotify is finally gaining leverage over record labels
Ask HN: Finding fulfillment outside of work?
Hi HN,
I joined my current company (my second job as a software engineer) about 8 months ago and have been feeling a bit aimless. I love how much I learn on the job - most of the engineers are better and more experienced than I am, and happy to help me learn, which is exactly what I'm looking for. I also make a really high salary which is obviously nice. But I don't feel any real passion for the work the company does (it's finance related). I've given a lot of the money I've earned to charity but that just doesn't make me feel as fulfilled as actually doing rewarding work.
I don't want to quit my job because I love how much I'm learning, but I want to do something to feel more fulfilled outside of work. Something like a side project, except I don't have any good ideas at the moment.
I've thought of volunteering, and have started the application for the TEALS program, but that wouldn't start until next school year.
Any ideas?
I have a hard time feeling any sympathy for students racking up tens of thousands of dollars worth of debt to go to a "good school" to get a degree in a field that doesn't pay enough to make it a worthwhile investment.

I went to an unknown state college and paid less for my four year CS degree than many of my coworkers paid for 1 year and within 3 years of graduating, I had no debt, and was making just as much as people sitting beside me who went to more "prestigious" schools.

I had former classmates that thought they were too good to go to the local state college,racked up thousands in debt to be a teacher or a social worker. Why?
Yes, doing stuff in America costs more than in every other country in the world, including wealthy ones like Spain and Korea.

That's the whole point. If you want better infrastructure, fix that.
Hmm. I've never worked with the 'frontend' of finance -- I know how your infra, payement processing, massive enterprisey stacks etc work but the day to day stuff the folks on the desks are doing I've not really observed.

It's a wide field I guess, but at the end of the day would I be safe to assume that you're mostly playing with data in interesting ways then telling various services/apps (aforementioned chunky java apps, for e.g) to do things based on what you work out from those manipulations?

If that's the case, then I really think there is an advantage for you in mastering the 'unix ide', but only if you're doing really custom stuff all the time...

If you're working with a bunch of tools that do everything you already need them to do, then of course there's no point in working out how to do the same with different tools. If you're constantly hitting the limits of how you can play with your data, then perhaps it's worth looking into a language which is good at manipulating data and you'd be suprised how powerful this mysterious CLI can be..
A funny game of whack the registry and group policy. Best of all its free.
Feeling better every day about ignoring upgrade from 7 > 10 constant spam.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/26/snapchat-nyc-spectacles-store...
My anecdote confirms your counterpoint. I too was once ridiculed for spelling out www in a conversation with some millennials. Made me feel old.
Be careful with OS upgrades. I recently upgraded my hackintosh to macOS (Sierra) and now it can't shutdown/restart.
There might be a "value" in it but why shouldn't they pay for it?
How hard would it be to replace the ads with instructions to do a parallel Ubuntu install?
Why the frustration? We are progressing, are we not? A sign of us making no progress would be when the new guys keep disproving the old theories.
They do not reflect a reasonable grasp of how functional workplaces happen, how the legal system works, or what the university policies they he is bound to follow require.

Even something as simple as his insistence that either the crime of rape or the crime of slander has been committed is naive and wrong, and it closely reflects one of the more damning sections from the linked blog post. (The issues are, briefly, that 1) it's not a binary and both or neither could easily be true 2) even if it was a binary result set, the legal system doesn't render innocent verdicts; all it can do is decide if something has been shown beyond reasonable doubt 3) all of that is irrelevant to his role as a supervisor and his responsibility to provide a safe workplace; he has obligations to take actions both before the legal system renders a verdict and regardless of what that verdict actually is.)
Is this supposed to be used by non-US gov sites? Can any old private site use it? It's public domain in the US, so assuming the answer to that question is yes, would it make sense for a private site to use it?
Did you even read your link?

uliano’s study is worth reading. He reviewed every bankruptcy case involving
student loans in 2007. He found that of the 169,774 student loan debtors
filing bankruptcy, only 213 filed adversary proceedings, a necessary step to
discharge student loans. And of that 213, 51 received full discharges, 30
received partial discharges and 25 received an administrative remedy. In
other words, 0.1% of bankruptcy filers even tried to discharge their student
loans. And of those who tried, 50% of them received some kind of relief from
the court and 25% received a full discharge of their student loans.

So either the who-knows-how-many attorneys involved in 169,774 - 213 = 169,561 bankruptcy cases (99.87% of such cases) involving student loans are incompetent, or ... student loans are functionally impossible to discharge in bankruptcy.
Note there's ads in lots of other parts of Windows 10 too: the Start menu tiles, the preloaded programs, and the Notifications area. There are different ways to turn each of these off. They are multiplying.

Fuck everything about this. My computer is my tool and my work environment.
The lock/login screen too.
People are willing to hit people with their vehicle to escape an attack.

It's doubtful we'll let self-driving cars make that choice (and in fact, would likely be illegal under current laws which prohibit weapons from being automated).
> I don't necessarily disagree, but there's no argument (as far as you've provided) for why complex utility functions would be less problematic. Only that they are more difficult for us to understand and therefor more difficult to see how they might fail.

I thought I gave the argument, but let me restate it: an entity with a simple utility function is likely to pursue a single good, and sacrifice every other good in order to achieve that good. In the paperclip example, to pursue the good of making paperclips at the expense of the good of the continued existence of humanity. An entity with a complex utility function is likely to pursue many goods simultaneously (just like humans do), so it is unlikely to sacrifice everything else to achieve a single good.

An entity with many disparate aims needs a complex world like our own to fulfill those aims, so is going to maintain the world in its current complexity–it may well alter it in many ways, but is unlikely to do so in such a way to significantly decrease its (biological, cultural, etc) complexity, which implies it would support the continuation of human existence. An entity with a single simple aim may well find a far simpler world than we have now best suits its aim, and so is more likely to simplify things drastically, at the cost of humanity (such as turn the entire planet into a massive paperclip factory). So SIs with complex utility functions are less likely to be harmful than those with simple utility functions.

And, since AIs with more complex utility functions are more likely to evolve into SIs than those with simple utility functions, an SI with a utility function simple enough to be likely to harm humanity is unlikely to ever exist.
Well, my point was kinda exactly that things are better now.....

Yours was the exact reason I used OSX for almost 6 years; it stopped being true and I switched back to linux at the end of last year.

Since then, I've had exactly one time my laptop didn't wake up from sleep in around 2 months VS daily crashes and annoying popups from my last mac.

Also lots of grateful family/friends who recieved all my old apple gear ;)
I'll say it again on HN:

I have never seen an ad on Windows 10 Pro except:

- Candy Crush
- Edge Homescreen (hardly counts)
I really don't think so. Getting really good at a game involving a discrete territory relies heavily on developing spatial intuitions that are specific to the game. Through experience and study of prior games, you get increasingly aware of the possibilities of positions many moves in advance; humans aren't built to exhaustively analyze game trees like the naive chess AIs of the 90s. If the game isn't a transparent metaphor for something else in life, then the intuitions won't apply either. Real life doesn't have things that move like knights, or shape the board like pawns.
That is a interesting approach. Thanks.
I've always wondered if the fervent pro-nuclear comments that always show up in any thread on the internet, and overwhelm everyone else, are sophisticated astroturfing from the nuclear industry. There can't be that many people ready at any moment to come to nuclear's aid with all the same thoughts pretty much. It's always the same condescending and "oh you are so stupid if you mention any cons about nuclear" tone.
you could make a "do not enter" sign with undertext saying "except non-self-driving cars".
Is anybody doing anything similar in the SF Bay Area?
Not anymore, they (Ubuntu) turned it off.
"They are more like guidelines, anyway"
The value of the more permissive license is obvious - it ends up being the final license in the end because it never needs to be replaced in order to do anything. Whereas spending billions to functionally reproduce code in order to replace one open source license with another is obviously an adverse event (the money could have been spent on hospitals or meals on wheels) that's entirely unavoidable and therefore fulfills the dictionary definition of a tragedy.
[stupid comment, deleted]
A lot.

The switch from XP to Vista and the concurrent death of CRTs were a lot about holywood.

Sound Cards, analog screens and advanced video programming (ie: changing how the screen acts directly instead of sending pixels on an standard defined manner) all allowed people to skip DRM and also all prevented new formats from getting popular.

This is still that way, note 4k video cards and screens showed up at the same time a new bluray variation is coming out, despite tech for that being ancient. (in 1995 Silicon Graphics was selling workstation that could push in the monitor 48bit colour images at resolutions around 1080p, if you had deep pockets 4k 48bit was possible...)
Perhaps because many programmers and engineers are musically inclined as well?? And perhaps Chuck Berry is as much a life influence and role model to them as Alan Turing, Steve Jobs, Margaret Hamilton etc.?

I know that at least in my case, that is true.
Hey i am thinking about becoming an electrician, any advice in how to start out? Union or no? Domestic or industrial?
That banks were "mandated" to finance people who couldn't afford housing is nothing more than a conservative talking point. The risky loans that banks took on -- no doc loans, interest only loans, negative amortization loans, sub prime high interest loans -- were "non conforming". "Non conforming loans" by definition were not government backed loans.

People who were taking advantage of those loans generally fell into a few categories. Investors who were buying real estate to flip. People who were getting houses appraised at more than they were worth and were illegally getting cash out and people with money that were buying over priced houses to live in but to sell later.
Maybe the problem is in that that we wouldn't be that suprised if they did, eh?

It's coming, eventually.
YC W17 Launch: Credy, Upcall, and Kangpe
Is it possible to run Windows Server on desktop/laptop in order to avoid all the windows 10 nonsense (cortana, telemetry, ads etc.) ?
This is why I am always polite when I have to deal with customer service, the guy at the drive-thru, anything like that.

The general public is (generally, heh) self-entitled and abusive, so a polite tone and a smile can go a long way.
Surely not? The point of pressure is that it's constant per area, so no matter how much is covered, the pressure felt is still 5 psi.
On the sad state of test frameworks
My first thought is to contact to Papua Lord, or the maker of the documentary, and ask them directly. My second guess is to make money as fast as you can, so you can dedicate your time me to something that needs your skills. I am focusing on the latter myself.
You have this backwards. New Mexico is #1 for unemployment only if you're going for a high score. Obviously, high unemployment should match low labor participation, which is what you see.

The numbers make a lot more sense than you think.

https://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm

compares well with your link,

https://www.expresspros.com/Newsroom/America-Employed/Expres...
That's not true. There are a lot of private universities and so called "non profit" universities where a lot of people are making money. Even public universities will do what it takes to stay open - including denying state residents admissions in favor of foreigners who pay full price.
So what's the equivalent of enriched uranium for AI? Some form of recurrent neural net?

And what's critical mass? Some form of feedback system (a 'strange loop')?
While I agree this simplistic example probably wouldn't work, it's conceptual. Yes, if a road designer wanted to build a road that would trap cars, they could do so. Automated or not automated.

See the XKCD "Highway Engineer Pranks" for examples!
I custom built my PC before knowing of what a hackintosh was so I didn't purchase my hardware specifically for it. According to the compatibility wiki my config was compatible.

I remember during college of wanting to do some Ios development but afford a MAC. I spent atleast 20 hours of tweaking kewts settings and trying different distros. I finally got it to boot but it crashed whenever I tried to run the emulator.

I haven't touched hackintosh stuff for several years but the grief and time wasted makes it not worth it. It's a shame apple is limiting their development tools to MacOS. They could learn a thing or two from Microsoft.
I'm a Hackintosh user for almost 10 years (from 10.6!), though I do have a MacBook Pro with my when I'm out.

As other people stated, yes, it is very time consuming to get it straight. Treat it as a hobby, you'll understand things about the Mac (or computers in general) other people don't, such as DSDT patches, how drivers are loaded, and Mac power management, etc.

If you use Clover, and get all the patches right, you can almost get an update-proof setup (Except when you go from say 10.11 to 10.12). But even at the worst case, usually people on the Internet will figure out fast enough for you to apply the new patches. Minor updates are really really easy and fine. I always click Update without batting an eye.

It's a tinkerer's hobby. If you like doing researches and being fine with spending time figuring out stuff on the Internet, I will say go for it and try it out! The process is fun and the result is very rewarding.
yet it happens.

https://kcjohnson.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/findlay-compla...
This seems like one of those things that until you actually experience, you have no right to form an opinion.

I suspect that if all those people against it actually took care of an adult disabled person, they would rapidly change their position.
Switch to Linux.
Its easier than you think.

or Switch to Mac if you can.
I think it boggles our mind because of cognitive dissonance. The answer is a George Carlin They Don't Care About You rant, but we don't want to think of Apple as being that crotchety, but are merely distracted.
Ok, here's a "Peter Thiel" secret: The display of confidence today is simply a tool that can be used to motivate, rally, and comfort your followers, for good or bad, in a more visceral and emotional way than intellectual argument alone. I believe that most very successful people who display confidence know this, and can correctly interpret other people's displays of confidence as a deliberate use of this tool.

This is not an evil thing per se, because this is simply how human motivation works -- if a leader is intellectually sound but always externalizing caveats and risks, verbally or non-verbally, he will be less effective than a leader who is equally intellectually sound but uses all the motivational tools at his disposal.
There are plows today that do their routes via GPS, so it's not too much of a strech for the plows and cars to do the same.
And many people are but decide they want the "freedom" of being out of their parents house and the local cheap college is g good enough for them.
I love this guys projects. I have a friend that collects vector graphics arcade machines and he got me into them a few years ago. I played them plenty as a kid but never really thought about how they worked before. After learning about them, one of my first thought was how it was like a laser show but never followed up to see if anyone had done anything like that. When this video showed up in my feed last week, I was ecstatic. I'm really hoping to find the time to dig into doing something like it. I'd love to see a comeback of arcade machines that are very hardware specific instead of using generic displays and controls.
I recall going on a 3-day course to a marine officer training camp somewhere in VA. There was a obstacle course which was hard, i.e. you had to swim in cold muddy waters (October time), climb fences, dig trenches etc. 80% of teams finished within the deadline of 4 hours. And then there was a exercise room which the Marine instructors said was designed by CIA. You're locked into a room with some instruments and are given an assignment to be completed under a deadline. The outcome was binary: yes/no. Success rate was like 10%. The odds were so that they can identify the best decile.
It's not fair to say that it's theoretical macro that has the major impact on policymakers. Look at the most influential (in a political sense) economists/social scientists these days, and they're advising policymakers about things on a much more granular scale (eg: the particular effects of sub-components of the ACA on consumer behavior, the barriers to equality of opportunity in impoverished areas, etc.). I think the outsider view of economics is stuck in the "schools of thought" era, which has all but vanished from serious economics.
And the libertarian mention is called for when the other comments are using common dog-whistles for libertarian distrust of central banking (via a sort of "fruit of the poisonous tree" argument).
In fact, he warned of this very thing. No one listens.
I'd argue that even the 'free' upgrade is not free. For example a windows 8 install which used the free windows 10 upgrade will require purchasing a full license to make any significant hardware changes.

I'm liking lots of things microsoft is doing as of late, but I still don't like a lot of their business practices and they are ruining their operating systems infesting it with ads.
> when the new guys keep disproving the old theories

Most old theory seems to be incommensurable with deep learnings results, so it's hard to evaluate whether this might be true.
This is the best option I've seen: https://www.vufine.com
Check your contract to see what your employer owns and doesn't own.
They did the same thing to Ara: interesting tech anchored by a down-market consumer agenda.