skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As mentioned by Alan right at the beginning of his answer, the true visionary behind our current technological age was Licklider. He was an ARPA researcher who, it is argued [1], initially dreamt up the connected network we now know as the internet. Interestingly, when an early iteration of the 'net was put to UCLA academics, they refused to get involved!

[1] Sharon Weinberger, The Imagineers of War (2017).
"Even the "final" version does because the company has evolved since we closed our investment round."

Do your investors find that concerning at all?
> Competition lowers prices and makes stores and manufactures find new ways to make things cheaper. All to the benefit of consumers.

In the clothing industry this was mostly achieved by shipping manufacturing to Asia or Central America, and paying slave wages. It hasn't been great for the environment either.
And what effect did a better ux manager have when pc's were used by a miniscule percentage of the population?
I remember thinking a lot about PARC when visiting biohacklabs. The feeling of random ideas implemented by people of various skills organically without clear goals. Lesser costs, new designs, new implementations.
What you're essentially describing is the blind trust people think they can put in a brand name, applied to a store.

I like and use Safeway, but I would hardly fault them if they carried something I didn't thoroughly check out if it turned out to be a shitty brand.

> Now I have to very carefully vet the listing before buying, inspect the product once received etc.

Did you not research products before you bought them traditionally? That just sounds like you were happy you used to be able to 'get away with' irresponsible buying because a store 'was limited' to niche (thus generally quality) sellers, but not now now that it's open to everyone.

It's not a platform's job to do your research for you. They enable buyers, sellers, reviews and so on to do that amongst each other, as would any other storefront.
The+Importance+of+a+Vision+Board
Tanium is facing employee unrest and an executive exodus
Amazon comingles _reviews_ for _different_ similar products.
Warning: personal, not medical opinion: I've always subscribed to the theory that depression is an indicator that you need to make changes in your life.

I've been more-or-less depressed for probably 10 years. If I have nothing else that I have to do I'm very likely to spend the day in bed. I hate weekends because there's no work/office routine to distract me. I know (or think I know) what the cause is, and I could pull up stakes and make major changes and get away from it, but I've chosen not to for reasons that are complicated. If I'm right, it will resolve itself in about another four years.
How could someone make them selves worth even interviewing for a job like that? I do Ruby/python and Devops with some small hobby c and Linux stuff in my free time
Natural gas has also gotten quite cheap[1] in many places, and I wonder how much heating has transitioned from electrical to gas over the years.

[1]: Not to mention tax coupons/incentives to replace appliances with more energy efficient ones, which often include gas options.
They don't make true mac desktop replacements anymore. My gf has an old, old, 17" MacBook. There are no equivalents for a modern upgrade.
Isn't the surface frozen?
The only way you can 'drop-out' per-se is if you diagnose yourself with 'fear of controlling'. Meaning the job scares you, outside of that you cannot just quit.
Google has argued that for years.
There is, but it's pretty low because language extensions are designed with Core in mind and the desugaring tends to be relatively straightforward. In most cases, the semantics of the "sugar" is defined in terms of a simpler subset of the language, so there is very little the compiler could do differently.

More importantly, any modern compiler is very far from the producing the most optimal possible programs. Overall performance could be improved pretty much anywhere, and the tradeoffs involved make operating on the "whole" language a far lower priority than pretty much anything else.
This is an especially big problem for people buying precision tools.

I've been looking at picking up some Mitsutoyo calipers, and the overall consensus is that if you buy from Amazon, you'll likely end up with a well-executed counterfeit that has all the right markings, but for obvious reasons won't be as precise, nor will it be warrantied or serviced by Mitsutoyo.

This is a very real problem. Imagine that you wanted to buy, say, an Omega Seamaster as a special gift. For most people, myself included, three thousand dollars is a ludicrous amount to spend on a wristwatch.

Imagine how pissed off you would be to order said watch, have it delivered, give it to your significant other, and then learn a year or two down the road that what you really got was a well-executed fake that could be bought for 1/10 the price.
it Primes the market?
For advertising, sure; each ad campaign has its own dedicated staff to do some busywork.

My own use-case for this, though, involves ~500k images (think company logos appearing in profiles like LinkedIn, fit to various layouts.) I certainly couldn't do that (or even verify that) by hand.
> The decline in the industrial sector seems more likely correlated to the general decline of US manufacturing capacity.

There hasn't really been a decline, simply a plateauing
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS

It is probably more related to general efficiency and productivity improvements that affect every sector.
I'm just saying in order to estimate how many flights they overbook, you'd have to look at the total of voluntary and involuntary bumps. People wouldn't be volunteering to take a later flight and United wouldn't be handing out vouchers if the flights weren't oversold.

I don't think it's wrong per se, in a moral sense. I just think it creates problems. The more overbooked flights you have, the less able you are to respond to delays or to re-seat passengers who got bumped, or to find new flights for people whose plane suddenly got smaller or who missed a connection or whatever, and there are ALWAYS going to be things like that happening.

The passengers who get bumped don't usually just give up altogether. They have to get on some flight. The more overbooked flights there are, the fewer chances there are for them to get on a different flight, and the more people there are looking for different flights in the first place. The problem compounds and you get the cascading spiral like I described above.

A constrained system like the airline is going to respond nonlinearly to perturbations. When you double the number of overbooked flights, the problems they cause aren't just going to get twice as bad, they'll get four times or six times as bad or more. (made up numbers, I'm just saying it's not one-to-one).

Flying is already a stressful experience thanks to the TSA and just the general stress of making sure you get there on time with all the uncertainty in what can go wrong (traffic, long security line, long wait to check a bag, whatever). If I book a flight at a certain time, it's because I want to leave and arrive at the times I chose, not a couple hours later or the next day or two days later, or never. This is why I pretty much refuse to fly United anymore. I don't like the stress of having to wonder if I'm going to be allowed on the flight I've paid for.
Seems like it's mostly about traditional manufacturing, or the lack thereof. Energy price spikes (2008) kill off energy-intensive businesses. But even when prices come back down these businesses don't start back up in the US, because a competitor in China has already expanded to fill the gap, and they do it cheaper.
It's wishful thinking. People love to think they have more influence over the destiny of corporations than they really do. And, of course, the media loves to pile on.

Sure, voting with your wallet, when done en masse and over a long period of time, can have a significant impact. But this takes much more than a few days.

What UAL did in this case was horrendous, but trying to associate it with loss of market cap is disingenuous. The market always corrects itself after the initial fluctuations. It will depend primarily on their earnings on Monday [1].

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/united-continental-ual-q1-earn...
Alibaba is going to step on their toes in a major way within the next few years after they start building out a more robust presence of their own in the US (that's purely conjecture and hope)
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Ah I didn't see that. Thanks!
The Psychology of Human Misjudgment by Charles T. Munger is the single best thing I've read on this topic: http://www.hb.org/the-psychology-of-human-misjudgment-by-cha...

I think it's unique to tech that people are biased toward thinking things are good just because they're new. I've found that in most of the rest of the world, people think new things are dangerous, frightening, insubordinate, disruptive, and irritating.
They don't have a word for it, that doesn't mean they don't feel it. Every culture has words of some concepts and not for others. An American has a hard time grasping the Asian concept of "face".
Facebook cracks down on 30,000 fake accounts in France
Heh, I originally started this comment "oh come on!" as I thought you were being needlessly obtuse.

Agriculture, written language, metal smelting, universities, space shuttles, nuclear bombs, radio, computers, etc.

It was obvious to me that we're in a whole other category from other species. But then I thought about human tribes in the rain forest that don't have any of those. Are they not as intelligent us? But they are us... Hm, well you've made me think. Thanks!
> Apples to Oranges though (or Apples, but still). The comparison should be a laptop from 2007

Nope, in 2007 a lot of people used and needed desktops that are more than satisfied by the available computing power on a laptop today. It's only an apples-oranges comparison if everyone were still using desktops, which is not the case.
Electrical heat is shite that you rip out at the first opportunity.
>It's the same argument we hear about "abandonware". "Well, they're not planning on selling it digitally and obtaining a copy is difficult and/or expensive so it's alright to download it." Well, legally it's still piracy — no two ways about it (at least until it falls into the public domain, but that'll be a good while still for many of the games listed on abandonware sites).

Law should be based of morality, not the other way around.

Just because something is illegal does not mean it is wrong: Laws, and IP laws especially, have a bunch of side effects that were not anticipated when the laws were created because they were written before digital technologies enabled free and pervasive transmission of information.

Since patent law was created with the purpose of encouraging innovation, I'd argue that the author who teaches himself the skill of NFC spoofing is acting pro-socially, building his own human capital in an innovative way that encourages others to use technology to find new solutions to existing problems. (Arguably, the person who made the amiibo scanner is even more righteous, and the game maker who enabled this learning opportunity even more).
So is this like barebone version of Helix streaming server? (Or, something you can make a YouTube from)
using hill climbing plus ML and anomaly detection for autoscaling bigger resources, e.g. stream processors and cloud workers
As a photography enthusiast, this makes me cringe. I'll acknowledge that the samples they show came out fine, but I suspect that in the real world this won't work well as a generalized solution.

There are a lot of things that if you get wrong, you'll ruin the image. This is true from an artistic perspective, but even with a lower bar, it's very easy to crop an image to make the content distracting or disturbing.

There are rules of thumb, for example, about how to crop images with people. It's not just that you want to preserve the faces. You need to be careful about where on their bodies you crop: if you do it right at a joint, it will tend to look like the person is an amputee. So you've got to crop a leg at mid-thigh rather than at the knee, for example.

There's also an idea of "look space". If you crop so that the direction of the subject's gaze is toward the outside of the image (rather than toward the middle), the subject will tend to look crowded and the overall composition unbalanced.

And there are overall compositional rules, like rule-of-thirds, leading lines, etc. Cropping an image is likely to damage these, thus harming the aesthetics of the picture.

I won't make the claim that this stuff is impossible to automate (the very fact that I can list these rules of thumb suggests that much of it can handled without creativity as such), but doing so in a way that preserves the desirable qualities of a good image will require a LOT more sophistication than what's being brought to bear here.
Totally agree, I actually even opened an account just for that (though haven't used it yet). Not only the landing pages, the documentation is also beautiful and totally readable.

I wonder what the trade-offs of designing like this are, if any.
> Maybe the engineering positions are awesome

I've read only some teams are awesome while the rest are in an infinite loop waiting for more stock to vest.
OT: Santa Sangre is a Jodorowski film where he tried to make a horrifying as opposed to horror film and IMO succeeded.
I'm not sure VMs really changed that much. Before VMs, people just ran more services on the bare metal. You had your web server, database, email, etc. daemons all going. Hosting services separated things by accounts and filesystem permissions. VMs made a lot of things easier/more secure but the raw number of physical machines has still exploded. VMs are bottom line less efficient than bare metal due to virtualization overhead.
"Black people are more likely to commit crimes. Therefore, like being male or being young, being black is a factor that one can apply predictively to an estimate of someone's likelihood to commit crimes. This is definitely true"

Actually this is definitely false.

You can use the statistic to estimate the probability that a black person selected at random from the population will have already committed a crime.

Given an individual black person who has not committed a crime, their being black does cause them to be more likely to commit a crime in future.

Blackness is not a predictor of criminality, even though black people are more likely to have been in environments that lead to criminality.

You simply don't understand causality and prediction. Your logic is literally the logic of racism - which is to treat people as if their race was causal.
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But when would you show your phone to other people?

If I want a status symbol I'd probably buy a $50k Rolex watch.
https://twitter.com/JoshNoneYaBiz/status/852661406298198016

Reminder of fake polls pushed by fake news. Almost all of the establishment media reported polls like this leading up to the election. They traded all credibility to shill for their candidate. But Google did, too, so such sites are still considered "news" by Google's standards.
"due to some poor decisions and later some fairly dubious warnings we got permanently banned"

Do you mind elaborating???

That's super vague language - There's a whole book in there!

It takes A LOT to get permanently banned. How many warning did you get? How serious were the warnings?
Your profile notes:

> Owner/ Founder: Making-The-Grade Private Learning (Private Tutoring Services).

Your belief that there is nothing more to teaching than a lesson plan - "you could freely pick and choose from anyone in your district" - doesn't inspire confidence in the services you offer.

You also note that you're a Wordpress (sic) contractor. WordPress (note the capitalized P) is open source. Do you also believe that you could freely pick and choose from anyone (i.e. anybody without prior training or experience) to do WordPress development?
I would disagree. If you've ever requested a web page translation, done an image search, or spoken with an Alexa or google device I believe it's deep learning going on in the backend. I don't work at any of the large tech companies but I imagine they're applying deep learning as pervasively as possible where it can make a difference.

That's not to disparage with your comment, only to say that while it might feel like a negligible effect on your life, I would say that it is non-zero.

My completely uninformed and lay persons opinion is that we might not yet know what we can really do with deep learning yet. For example there were many years between the discovery of electricity and the invention of the microprocessor. The latter certainly required the discovery of the former, but did not logically lead to it. I use this example because Andrew Ng called AI the new electricity.
Device pulls water from dry air, powered only by the sun
The article doesn't make it clear if this is commercial production of power, or if it include private owned solar etc. I could see centralized commercial energy production dropping due to home solar alone, but TFA isn't clear.

Either way, I'd bet that the electrification of our cars and trucks over the next few decades will absorb most of the excess capacity and drive the need for more production.
Translation of posting without using 'E':

It's Similar to That Bird Social App, But Without a Fifth Symbol

Mastodon has an app with particular quirks and many humans find it joyful.

Mastodon boffins did it again.

A particular boffin going by initials M.R. works as a digital craftsman at a corporation with initials I.A. (that has http archival capability), did craft a social app oulipo.social with an odd quirk: said app disallows applying of fifth anglo-saxon linguistic symbol or "any variant of it".

Said individual found motivation via book "A Void" by author G.P. This lipogrammatic book did apply all anglo-saxon linguistic symbols but that particular symbol. It follows a Francophonic philosophy of Oulipo, a constraint form of writing that is a combination of both math and book study.

Banning of this symbol is Oulipo's most famous limitation: "It limits writing without making it too hard," M.R. said. "You can still sound natural and say what you want to say, though you may think on it a bit in a way that you wouldn't without constraints." Such limitation can push you to think hard and apply imagination about words, M.R. said.

M.R. had no anticipation that oulipo.social would attain popularity — as it got its start as a trial of skills application of Ruby on Rails and to attain a sharp mind in OS capability — but said app did gain many additional accounts (singular digit with two nought digits) within about six days of starting.

"It's a joy to watch folks do things I wouldn't think of—#drilipo, and applying oulipo constraints to famous writing and songs—and just chat about day to day stuff," M.R. said. "It's also gratifying that folks will look at oulipo.social and go on to think up constraints or gimmicks for additional variant Mastodons."

M.R. did post back to my communication within an hour, with almost 300 words and without said taboo symbol. I suck at thinking by using my imagination to avoid said symbol and quit not long post-starting as my mind is frail.
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Best viewed, of course, with this playing in the background:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_UpLtGEWoY
It's definitely a strange set of graphs:

Mixed (log/linear) scales on the axes

Only two columns of points on each graph matter (the last two) because the left hand side is all zeros (an artifact of the y axis not being log scale)

The y-axis is sometimes in thousands-of-mega-nanoseconds (with two significant digits) or sometimes in giga-nanoseconds (with one).

Giga-nanoseconds are seconds!

The colors for each line sometimes changes between graphs.
This is a common misconception - manufacturing output, beyond drops during major recessions, has steadily increased[1]. Recently, increases have slowed but outside recessions, "the general decline of US manufacturing capacity" is just not happening.

What is dropping are inputs for the same output - employment being the most obvious / painful, but power, raw materials, etc. are all being used more sparingly as manufacturers improve processes and adopt new technologies.

1. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS
The chips I build are in the field for decades. Compare that to the JavaScript flavor of the hour. Seems more like ADD.

Common Lisp is about the only software I would consider declaring long attention span.

The fixed nature of a chip requires far more attention than something you can push an update to.

"Ship it and fix it later" was pioneered by the software industry. That is the essence of short attention span, unconcern about details.

Maybe we mean different things by that.
If ML was used on my signature I would never be able to use a bank, pretty sure I've never written it remotely similar.

All I consider a Signature to be is like a confirmation, pretty much the same as a checkbox or clicking an OK button, just in a more inconvenient form
As someone looking to expand their knowledge of big systems and building at scale this kind of resource is invaluable!
I think they have lead to consolidation. In many orgs it wasn't unusual to buy servers as new applications were required, and then those were replaced individually once they died. Traditional core services might very well have been on shared services, but if department X wanted application Y suddenly, it got it's own server. With virtualization, a lot of these setups got consolidated.
1) Smart people who have great ideas

2) A business model that has no need of those ideas

3) Management who have absolutely no idea how to capitalise on those ideas outside of a core business?

...

That's Google. Google are Xerox.
What's a CL?