skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
State laws are not enforced by federal officials though, correct?
You have look at microsoft to get a comparable amount of BS.

At least microsoft had the civility to only screw over other software shops (and occassionally tinker with government lobbying and standardization bodies). Uber has sexism, anti-police conspiracies, oppression of its own workforce, blatantly illegal operating procedures, etc...

I have no reason to believe this, but I am waiting for the story were the uber CEO makes of with all the investors money.
I pick 7777
> It is people frustrated by the (difficult) learning curve of Haskell that say such things.

And there it is again. I haven't drank the Haskell kool-aid, so I must not be smart enough to use it properly.
Don't forget that humans can still set the strategy and the AI can figure out the details of implementation. If you say land on an iceberg, it might be able to compute a viable solution.
What's most important is that engineers have contact directly with users or their representatives and get a grasp of how and why their code is used in real life.

The more this gets filtered through layers of communication and management, the worse the software will be to use.

Making the programmers understand the subject area on their own also has a benefit, but it seems a far more costly way.
Let's say that you and I both create a library. You try to publish your C++ library to the standard debian repository, and I'll try to publish mine to cpam, npm, pip, etc...

If you actually manage to get your library included, then we can compare how long it takes to update your library.
A lot of these people were fine before smartphones themselves came along. A lot of people were fine before phones. A lot of people were fine before agriculture or stone tools. Does that mean much?
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Well, fish oil does have SOME evidence behind it.
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Since you can apply this to pretty much anything, this analysis is neither particularly insightful nor useful. It's a godwining in which you replace Hitler with Thoreau.
That's a pretty interesting interpretation of the Terminator story and rules. I hadn't seen that one before, thanks for the link!

But ... ugh, rationalist fiction always makes me a little sad. I share the motivation, the annoyance at how pervasive the plot driven unrealistically stupid decision is in fiction. I want to like it, but it's always so saturated with authorial naivete, inexperience and smugness.

I guess I just wish they'd revere Iain M. Banks more and Yudkowsky less.
The data economy demands a new approach to antitrust rules
I agree. It's because Haskell evangelism is often the tech equivalent of gluten-free or vegetarianism - It's great because it's something not mainstream! It'll solve problems you never knew you had!

However, on the bright side, at least we're not discussing LISP.
The round trip time between NYC to Tokyo is very short; Any computer system could beat any human, even at that scale. I'm not sure what you think you'd accomplish here; you'd just have HFT with 150ms response times instead of 1us. But you'd still have HFTs.
Easy enough if they requested it.
This would be one of the eggs they're putting in the basket of "we'll just corner self-driving cars"
Glycemic index means nothing. Cake has a low glycemic index (someting like 30, depending on fat content). Oatmeal has a higher glycemic index (55). Does that mean we should stop eating oatmeal and substitute it with cake?
I understand. At the end of the article, he tries to make the point that having everything pluggable is a problem with Android devices. In reality, it's that flexibility that enables a manufacturer like Wileyfox to even release a unique product.
Well I definitely got that recommendation too. His exact advice was that I shouldn't take it unless the office was it's own sealed off room that was NEVER used for ANY other purpose. He certainly scared me out of taking the deduction.
I agree they Should be culpable, but whether or not they Would is the decision that is actually above our paygrade.
I carry a small personal computer with a data-only cell-tower connection, that sometimes receives voice calls by talking to an SIP server over the Internet, which I pay for separately to my cell service. At this point, the "phone" is more the SIP app itself than the device it's on.
US family: we were kicked off Delta flight for refusing to give up son's seat
I don't buy it. If your friends judge you based on whether you have a nice car rather than your character and what you accomplish, it's time to get new friends.
Apple Named World's Largest Wearables Vendor in Q1 2017
Not sure if it's already possible, but it would be nice to have nested navigation (like with drop-down sections).

Even without that, though, Min is really exactly what I think of when I need a lightweight framework that gets out of my way.

Maybe some better sea monster repellent? ;-)
Realistically, I need to go to Costco anyways, and I can buy these products in bulk as they have long shelf lives. Perhaps I spend 5-10mins extra at the store every 2 months, and another 5mins pouring everything in a large container together, once a month. So perhaps 10 minutes a month to save, say, 3$ a day, or 90$ a mo, works out to $360/hr tax free value creation rate without including the value of eating healthier, better tasting food. Where I waste my time is on reddit, HN, and video games.
I agree that conscious machines (if such a thing is possible) will probably not be carefully designed by humans.

That said, I think you should be a little more critical of deep learning. So-called neural networks are more meaningfully described as high-dimensional curve fits. When people "train" neural networks, they're fitting the parameters of a model (just like y = a*x + b is a model with a and b as parameters) to some data. The results are impressive, and sometimes downright spooky, but neural networks are closer in spirit to a curve fit in MS Excel than they are to a real brain. There is no deep why. These are just nested compositions of affine transformations and ramp functions.
Of course it affects my life. Now obviously the rest of the day and most of the weekend is either spend at work or home with my son (he is 3, so still needs more attention than older kids).

On the other side, I was never really into side projects in the evenings, simply because I needed that time to cool off and relax a bit. Without that time I would quickly burn out.
The best is (and if you can) is to make your "side project" your day job.

The question is still if it actually affected me as a developer in the sense that I can not do the work anymore? No, it did not. I leave work earlier but that's pretty much it. I don't feel less productive than before. Actually I even think I am more productive since the time is more limited. It is all about what you make of it I believe.
No, but they can investigate where there is the possibility of conspiracies. Basically everything Uber does involves the flow of data across state lines and the feds can investigate otherwise state crimes that cross multiple states. This is what Uber needs to really worry about:

"If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/371
Now we just need to develop the X-9 Ghost hardware in real life.
Heh, I was actually having the same issue yesterday, and so I whipped up a quick program to fix it: https://github.com/andyleap/fileportal Not encrypted or anything fancy, only works if the 2 computers can see each other via UDP broadcast, but run `fileportal -i <filetosend>` on one and just `fileportal` on the other and the file will pop out there! (and I have builds for all kinds of platforms up there, windows/linux/macos/netbsd/openbsd/freebsd, and multiple archs for each!)
> Why aren't the authorities going over the ACTUAL, honest-to-god mafia startup?

One possibility is that their competitors don't have friends in very high places. Uber is stinky but as you point out hardly the stinkiest. But Uber clearly has very powerful enemies.
"Second Variety"(short story, worth a quick read) by Philip K. Dick was adapted into a film called 'Screamers'.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32032/32032-h/32032-h.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screamers_(1995_film)
Those peasants also ate a lot of vegetables because they couldn't afford meat. Vegetables that have beta-carotene, like bok choy.
Good on you for making your own decision rather than outsourcing responsibility to a company that clearly doesn't have your best interest at heart.

Who has ever said that banks are supposed to be relied on for good advice? Hire an accountant for that, the banker works for the bank, not you.
> Is it because HAProxy's internals weren't designed to do that and that it would too big of a rewrite?

Bingo. The internals will eventually be rewritten to support things like this (and I think that's what Willy was hinting at towards the end of the article) in time. But it's a big project, and it's a complicated piece of software, and there are a lot of conflicting demands on dev time.

That said: it's a welcoming community, and if you want to help... do it!
Yeah but Uber's behavior is definitely wrong.
It's an interesting idea. It occurs to me that it may not be profitable (or interesting) for Sublime to have customers who have paid $25. My experience has been that people who pay a low price are often more demanding and harder to work with than people who pay a higher price.

While the gross income is the same, if you sell 2500 licenses at $10 each or 25 licenses at $1000 each or 1 license at $25,000, your experience as a vendor will be very different. In particular, paying 1/100th of the price doesn't mean that someone has 1/100th of the expectations, or takes up 1/100th of the time of the higher-priced customer.
Over 90% of foreign tech workers get below-median wages at AMZN, FB and GOOG
im just saying that infants are learning a whole lot without consciously making an effort to do so. they just provide data through their sensors by existing.
The post kinda touches on this, and makes it clear that config changes isn't the only situation that this would come in handy -- software updates are a big reason too.

"Service upgrades are even more important because, while some products are designed from the ground to support config updates without having to be reloaded, they cannot be upgraded at all without a stop/start sequence. Consequently, admins leave bogus versions of those software components running in production because it is never the right time to do it."
I'd rather stop throwing more good money after bad. Why continue investing in a platform that will be obsolete before deployment at scale? Better to invest in a more modern, more flexible platform.
Thanks. Yeah, it's definitely been great, but challenging in some regards.

For the first two years I mostly spent time worrying about an older brother who unfortunately won't speak with me anymore. He was really pissed that my app took off and the side work he was doing didn't pan out.

I got over him, and spent most of my time reading books, which feels healthy at first, but then starts feeling counterproductive. Why read all this crap if you're not doing anything with what you're learning?

So, about a year or so ago, I finally got around to realizing that all the stuff I was reading could be distilled into a 2 things: Focus and hard work. The people who are successful do the work. Working hard is what originally put me in this position, and along the way, I lost myself and started thinking I got here because I'm smart. The biggest mistake I've made is wasting time, and it doesn't matter how smart you are when you do that.

Started reading books like "Flow" which gives me a lot of motivation and I've been on a solid hard-work streak for some time. Hoping I can build something else before it all comes crashing down around me.

Fun stuff...
Mountain House requires more than water though, it needs to be cooked, and ounce-for-ounce, provides no more or better nutrition than Soylent. Cooking is a hassle sometimes; if I'm just doing a quick 20-miler for the day, I want to eat but not carry a stove.

If I'm carrying a stove, then I'm carrying fuel too. That weight and space adds up. Even if I'm carrying my MSR Windburner, it's still about the size of my first aid kit. My old MSR PocketRocket was smaller by itself, but required a mess kit or a pot of some kind for the hot water. I could go with a soda can alcohol stove, but then if I spill my fuel I'm a bit boned and they aren't always the most reliable or efficient setups to begin with.

Soylent is: remove Soylent package from pack, dump approx 10 oz into Nalgene, add water (cold, filtered from a stream if possible), shake, and continue.

Cooking while backpacking is fun ... sometimes. Once in a while it's nice to take the time to put together some backcountry gourmet stuff.

But for just having the equivalent of emergency rations in my pack, Soylent really is better than the other choices.

Oh, and anecdotally: digestion is a pretty big deal when you get far enough away from civilization. I've had some Mountain House meals do some pretty unhappy things in my gut, and there's only so much cleanup that small wad of "oh-no" TP I carry around can do. Soylent tends to digest really well and not cause post-digestive messes. Unless, of course, you happen to be one of those many people who were allergic to one of their recent formulations.
People that go on a strict, regimented diet do well (lose weight, medical indicators improve, etc).

We mostly don't know how to deal with abundance, combined with reluctance to utilize tools like taxes to attempt to alter societal eating trends.
This is great. Thanks, Willy!

I've used HAProxy on and off throughout a lot of my career. I'm currently using it at my company as a way for services to talk to each other without specifically knowing who is where. I wouldn't call it "microservices" but probably similar: each server has HAProxy on it, and Ansible creates the HAProxy config/hosts file so that, say, a worker server can grab http://lb-api:6666/some/resource. lb-api is a host that routes to 127.0.0.1 and HAProxy runs on port 6666 locally, parses the "lb-api" host, and routes the request to one of the servers in the "api" group. Any time we change any servers, we just run our haproxy playbook and everything just flows.

As always, HAProxy is one of the few pieces of our infrastructure that "just works" day after day.
Restaurant-cooked food optimizes for taste, not health. Home cooking is often a lot more healthful....
This sounds like a very interesting theme for a novel (or novels).

Could even make it kinda like a subgenre of cyberpunk or like a modern version of it at least.

I mean, I can imagine some interesting plots regarding people trading bugs in an underground market, where the product is something that can be more dangerous than a gun, but it fits in a USB drive.

Maybe they can even be based on real stories, just changed a bit to protect identities and such. However I do think you would need to be fairly involved in this world to be able to write something interesting and based on something real.

Hopefully someone involved in the security world gets bitten by the writer's bug and writes something some day. I know Brian Krebs has written interesting articles but a book would be very cool.
ordering an Uber not for a ride but to impound cars

Enforcement is not 'fraudulent use'. These analogies are very strained while the thing that took place is very simple.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corru...

RICO gives federal jurisdiction over cases of interstate entities committing obstruction of justice.
That page was frustrating to navigate on a phone. Enough with the parallax scrolling fad already.
Good ol' wire fraud!
no, doesn't really make sense.

that'll be like arthur andersen shredding enron's financial accounts. can't investigate if there's nothing to investigate!
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It does when the replacements make life appreciably worse or more complicated, and it matters even more when the old ways are deprecated, made unfashionable, or just flat-out unavailable.

Look at John Deere.... we went from "software on tractors" to what is shaping up to look like a massive battle over intellectual property rights. Those new Deere tractors are superior in almost every appreciable way and yet we have another case of the OEM inserting themselves way too far into something that they do not belong in. Are farmers luddites for rejecting Deere's bullshit?
Some city? I think Uber willfully and flagrantly evades the taxi regulations of almost every single city that has them.
Well, for example, you shouldn't eat soy derivatives that haven't been processed. This is why fermented soy products have been popular - they are more easily digested by humans. Raw soybeans are actually toxic.
It would be a greater shame to send hundreds of well trained pilots in expensive aircraft only to get heavily defeated by cheaper and more flexible AI flown craft.
Limit it to people that have been residents for a certain period, say 2 years. Maybe even limit it against prior conditions for even longer.

And verify it's a real problem. How many poor, sick people in red states have the economic mobility to move to a blue states?
Isn't that up to the cities?
I think it depends on the industry and needs of the company.

As an example, In video games this is used as a way to get a feature shipped. Plop a bunch of artists with a coder or two and a couple of QA guys and roll a feature together. It cuts communications time, keeps everyone focused, and as long as your feature is encapsulated nicely it should merge back cleanly into main in a few days.

If you are just applying a blender to the org chart it isn't going to be a great choice. However, something like putting a developer within ear shot of Technical Support isn't always a bad idea.
HAProxy is much more flexible than nginx when it comes to proxying and load-balancing non-http protocols.

And, frankly - HAProxy is pretty darn flexible around HTTP too. It's not really an apples-to-apples comparison.
The makers of wordpress don't say "great for fake news", but the makers of this software say "great for watching your partner".

They advertise reading your wife's SMS messages as a feature!

That and Wordpress would only be so-so for making a fake news page, I mean it could work but you would be a competitive disadvantage.
It really isn't, when you take into consideration what will happen to people because of it's removal.
>> The point of artificial intelligence is not ( at least in my and several other
prominent AI scientist's such as Andrew Ng's opinion) to create a conscious
intelligence, but to create intelligence that can do many of the useful tasks
that we can do.

Your syntax is suggesting that you consider yourself to be a prominent AI
scientist like Andrew Ng, but I'll assume that's just a mistake!

As to what is really the aim of AI as a field, there are two issues here. On
the one hand, the original AI project as conceived back in the early '50s by
the likes of Turing indeed aimed at getting computers to mimic human
intelligence. Everything that has happened since then in the field has
followed from that original and grandiose quest.

It's true that in more recent years the applications of AI have tended to be
aimed at much humbler goals, like performing specific, isolated tasks at a
level approaching (and sometimes surpassing) the human- select tasks like
image classification or machine translation etc.

However, this is by necessity and not by choice. Think of it this way: if we
would benefit from a system that can perform select tasks as well as humans,
then we would benefit a lot more by a system able to perform _all_ conceivable
tasks that well (or better). In that sense, the motivation of the original AI
project remains alive and well.

Consciousness of course seems to be an integral part of human intelligence-
and it's reasonable to expect that it would be a prerequisite for strong AI
also. In that sense, yeah, I'm afraid the discussion about consciousness is
part of AI and will remain that for a long time to come.
That doesn't make any sense to me. If they require physical access to my unlocked phone, then isn't the phone just as secure as the yubikey? If so, why bother with the yubikey?

If the phone has other attack vectors, such as compromising the OS, and is indeed less secure than the yubikey, then doesn't having it as a backup just lower the bar for security to the phone? As far as I can tell, there's nothing stopping from someone just ignoring the yubikey if authenticator is also an option.
Part of the requirement for the contract made by a sale of goods to be valid is a meeting of the minds: that both parties share the same concept of what is being transferred by each party to the other.

I would argue that, if you really want to talk about people "having a choice", you need a similar concept: that you are "free to choose" if-and-only-if your choices are indeed what you understand them to be. Which means some form of regulation or curation needs to happen to enforce that.

Of course, this doesn't have to be at all the same thing as the sort of "curation for quality" that the iOS App Store gets up to. Instead, more like FDA labelling requirements on drugs: list your active ingredients or get out.

Consider a hypothetical policy: "whatever misapprehensions a consumer has, due to your marketing, are your fault; a complaint about misapprehensions about your software that cites your own marketing, and which we ascertain as being valid, will result in a ban of all your apps from the store."

Can you make the "I Am Rich" app? Sure; it does what it says on the tin—proves you're rich with a $10k IAP. Can you make a Flashlight app that asks for your contact info? Nope; customers weren't expecting the app to ask. Banned. Even if you never send that info anywhere.
If they were using the CC information for nefarious identification I would think that would fall under "is access restricted".
Wrong. There is no "should be vs. would be" dance here.

It's spelled out in black and white in your employee agreement.
In theory there is no reason why build tools can't be integrated with package managers so you don't experience that kind of silliness.

For development purposes, you may want to have the system build everything from source (and/or fetching pre-compiled modules from a build system repository), and output a self-contained tree of local files that you can run.

For release purposes, you can in theory output a package manager package (RPM, .deb, etc.) that contains only your own code's binaries and dependency declarations that the package manager can go satisfy.

There seems to be some degree of integration with build2 (see https://build2.org/faq.xhtml#why-syspkg ) though I don't know how much exactly or whether they go as far as what I'm describing.
Agreed. I sit next to a manager who is on the phone all day and all I can think is how much I wish he had his own office so I could get actual work done.