skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I understand this blog post is about something else completely (the
internet argument started by Yoav Goldberg on Medium, reportedly) but for me
the really interesting part is the historical information in it. I wish
Fernando Pereira could find the time to expound a bit on all those
parenthetical notes in his blog post, perhaps even write a short book on the
history of AI.

AI is kind of a strange beast like that: it's gone through a few very
different phases and it's difficult for one person to understand all of them
equally well. Which of course makes it even harder to avoid reinventing wheels
and repeating mistakes. A bit of history would do us all a world of good.

Btw, I'm getting the feeling most people here will probably hear of Fernando
Pereira for the fist time but he has a very long career in AI and NLP. He was
a prominent symbolicist, with some important contributions to logic
programming (he was one of the co-founders of Quintus, the company that sold
the first commercial Prolog, along with Warren, Byrd and others). Then he
turned to statistical AI and now he's a VP at Google (a.k.a. the den of the
connectionists, if I may be so bold). He's probably one of the few computer
scientists around who understands both symbolic and statistical AI in equal
measures. If anyone is qualified to talk about their relative merits, that's
him.

(and if I sound like a bit of a fangirl- that is because I basically am.
Pereira is one of my logic programming heroes and a great teacher to me,
albeit unbeknownst to him :)
Is data really necessary? Can't you just describe the behavior you think is lacking, why you think that behavior is important, and then ask them what they think?

If you can't come to consensus with your employee about what aspects of their job matter, then you have a bigger problem than poor performance.

I don't think having data or metrics is really critical here. Some people like to think in metrics and that's great if you like it, but I don't think that's universal, necessary, or sufficient for a relationship that facilitates good performance.
The Personal Analytics of My Life
The HN guidelines say "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait". This article's title is grandiose enough to count as linkbait. In such cases, mods change titles, nearly always using either a subtitle or a representative phrase from the article.

The reason we do this, btw, is that if we don't, the comment threads fill up with shallow objections to the title. We don't always get it 100% right, of course, and are pleased when readers suggest better. But the basic principle is that, on HN, a good title is accurate, neutral, and uses the article's own language.
Prisoner released after lookalike found
Did you read the comment I was replying to? Any attempt of organized travel was enormous and expensive undertaking, the lack of bureaucracy and effective border controls hardly made up for it.

But sure, you could become a sailor, or get conscripted to soldiers, or even sold into slavery to a distant land. Doubt though that was the kind of travel the GP alluded to.
Woah shameless plug, my game is "Windows93 SP2" compatible it seems - right click on desktop - Create shortcut.
Command: iframe https://data.mo.ee/index2.html?inapp=steam&node-webkit=1 --width=1280 --height=720

Title: RPG MO

(Don't leave a space before iframe in the command)
Left has established himself as a one-man pr machine. His actions are credible enough to move stock prices. This credibility emerges from the feedback loop between:

1) his network of informants with positions they want affected by Left

2) his ability to cut through and taste-make the winning story

This is clearly a PR piece for Left and his ilk and helps bolster that narrative.

That doesn't change the fact that it's a great read.
The padlock (even an EV padlock) doesn't (and cannot) claim that the website is honest. It claims the website is who it says it is and that no one can intercept the communications between you two.
At they trying to avoid an anti trust something? Either way, I like this.
Ah. Sorry for misreading you! But could you maybe be a little clearer in that department? I seem to recall having a similar conversation before, and good faith is so lossy online.
> The (proprietary) driver issue is a big pain for people who want to use Linux for desktop as a workstation e.g. development. I would say that it is the biggest obstacle for adaption of Linux desktop.

Simply don't buy Nvidia. Apart from that there shouldn't be a lot of hardware requiring blobs on the desktop.
IS it just me or was that article written in "simple English"? It felt like he was speaking to a child.
Do we know that the mechanism is different? Do we know what causes light to slow down when passing through material and that it's unrelated to gravity? I know that refraction effects is documented through experiments - but I don't believe I've seen any real explanation of the cause of the effect? (Not that I've looked - I only have very basic knowledge of physics)
More importantly, a lot of web framework templates using 2FA with an SMS provider will still be around. Of particular note is ASP.NET's template, which is very easy to get up and running with 2FA with SMS/Email.
It is interesting because it allowed easy integration, literally just a few lines of code, to Facebook and Twitter accounts for iOS developers. It was also easy for the user as well because as long as they were logged into those services system wide they literally just had to hit a button to login. It helped a bunch of startups quickly onboard users with very little time or effect and now those days are drying up. Expect updates soon to about 75% of your iOS apps. (Yes, it really is that common.)
Your fallacy: Appeal to Authority

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_controversies

And these are just the examples that we know about and gained enough notoriety to be included in a Wikipedia article. If the NY Times treated itself with the same scrutiny as it treats Uber, we'd know more about how reliable it actually is.

Like all other media companies, the NYTimes at the end of the day is made up of humans like you and I and it's entirely possible for them to publish heresay, conjecture, biased opinions, etc. They may have a better track record than most, but they aren't infallible. Even the golden goose occasionally takes a shit.

This article is just presenting the conjecture of supposed insiders as facts. That's not news. That's rumor.
And who said Van Gogh is a genius?
Why Chinese investors are snapping up Bordeaux vineyards
It involves a major new version of a major mobile OS, and how it drops integration for major social media platforms.

In HN where we get posts for minor Node and Golang update releases, what more exactly do you needed it to have to be on the front page?

To discuss an effective way for achieving cold fusion?
Finally, an operating system for my Android phone that will let me do useful stuff, like playing Wolfenstallman 3D!!
Superb bit of writing there. Wow.

All of us could only dream that one day somebody would write such a beautiful eulogy when we pass.

I honestly had no idea where this was going until the end, and it hit me like a ton of bricks -- which is exactly what the writer wanted and exactly how it must have felt to his friends.

Sorry I didn't know you, Big Al, you sound like quite a character.
That's a good start. Also need a DNA sample from everyone and constant record of movements/conversations. Maybe full 24-7 video feed also if storage gets cheap enough. Constantly uploading biofeedback data maybe also? The government should ideally know when anyone gets excited or angry to prevent possible problems. That way we can finally stop terrorism for good!
> The entire situation was communicated to the FBI, local police, and bank institutions, but I do not think anyone cared.

Why would they care? It happens dozens of times a day, and the criminals are out of their jurisdiction.

If only the police, FBI, politicians, etc. could go after the banks and telcos to improve their security. But no... they see it as their job to destroy security, in order to make you "safe".
I run the same(ish) as you. How are you killing it? It's been stable for me so far.
Is something like VNC or some other way to remotely view a desktop or an app going to be possible in Wayland?
Some context for this tweet: infosec twitter has been going absolutely nuts over Durov's conspiracy theory over Signal's USG funding in the last couple days:

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/87356403040063897...
Ask HN: Best ways to recruit on HN?
What are the best ways to get software engineering positions through HN? Do recruiters frequently reach out to people with cool projects that reach the front page?
Remember this the next time you may tend to agree with governments' push for backdoors. If they get their way even Google Authenticator won't be safe, just as SMS isn't anymore for 2FA, all because the surveillance agencies preferred to keep the SS7 vulnerability and others like it so they can exploit it (outside of the "rule of law", as otherwise they wouldn't need it).
There is nothing fundamental about this. It stems from a lack of understanding, not human nature.

The concept of a single genius coming up with everything exist mostly to people who don't know any better, not to people who actually have extensive study of the field.
> It is random access because the device doesn't have to touch every grain of sand on the way to the one it intends to deal with next.

what you described is called "sequential access"

> It's very similar to a spinning-platter hard drive: latency depends on rotational velocity of the platter and radial velocity of the read/write head.

hard drives & etc. are called "direct access"

> That the latency is quite high in this device doesn't make it any less random-access.

the problem is not that the latency is high but that the latency varies.

from wikipedia: "A random-access memory device allows data items to be read or written in almost the same amount of time irrespective of the physical location of data inside the memory. In contrast, with other direct-access data storage media such as hard disks, CD-RWs, DVD-RWs and the older drum memory, the time required to read and write data items varies significantly depending on their physical locations on the recording medium, due to mechanical limitations such as media rotation speeds and arm movement." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-access_memory
It wasn't because it was impossible. Shit, those guys landed on the Moon and Venus with nothing but slide rules. It was because government is not spending its own money, so it can afford five times the cost.
Did they also remove the contacts integration?
If Tinder is the huffpo of dating apps we're like wikipedia
Ask HN: 1 minute Vlogs?
Hey folks, I had an interesting idea. I just moved to Cambridge, MA to start a masters at Harvard. I'm up to some interesting things, and I'd love to share through a youtube channel where each vlog is only a minute long! That way its digestible, easy, and fun! What do you think?
Man's Search for Meaning
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/505/
I thought I knew JavaScript
Weston supports RDP and in the future Sway will as well.
So you blindly quote something that you have no clue about, then snark when you get called out on it?

Schmuck.
Not showing up for the same keyword, no you can't, without breaking Google's TOS.
Relevant:

http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/security/319544-what-it-s-lik...
I flagged this (I flag lots of things, but rarely say so anymore) because this appears to be a real person who died recently, and the only place I can see this thread going is political --- not least because of where it's running.

It's a well written obit. I'm sorry for these people's loss.
It's not worthless, per se, it's just not a precursor to AGI in any shape or form, no matter how much the researchers pretend otherwise.
Since we're throwing out random shell related tools, I found pexpect recently: https://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api/replwrap.html

Which was super useful for controlling some utilities that wanted to be run in an interactive bash shell.
Oh-My-God particle
The facts don't support this guy. Levi Strauss has no magical tech in place, just some commodity clothes with a bit of history, marketing attached to it. Management style adda very little here.
I'm curious... What benefit would you expect a high functioning autistic person like Alex (if he was) receive out of getting diagnosed?
I one time called a service that I used a randomly generated string for the security questions.

After they asked the question I said "oh it's a giant random string of crap, hold on..." The person replied "yeah that's good enough" and started the next step before I even had a chance to find the actual string!
That is against Google TOS.
You are deeply mistaken on the purpose of certificates. They say that the holder of the corresponding private key is who they are say they are. DV checks the DNS name, EV checks the DNS name and the presence of a business registration with the relevant authority.

The purpose of certificates has never been a "not a scam" stamp, and no traditional certificate vendor was ever checking your business practices or legitimacy. Issuance of DV certs is just as automated at Verisign, etc.
I got a Macbook with the Touch Bar, mostly for the Touch ID. It's super convenient!
Yes. No I won't buy a farm, as distant intentional communities seem to inevitably stagnate in isolation.

My MacBook is a 2011 MacBook Air.

I think you might be pretty interested in how I see the path back. It won't be retreading the path we came in on. And things will be very different when we get there.
Yes, Andre Staltz's (of CycleJS) work finally got it working on Android and iOS with React-Native!

We're planning on having an example/starter app for it soon (unfortunately, Google Chrome and iOS follow the WebSocket spec just slightly differently, so it errors on iOS currently but it is an easy fix, we just need to figure out a way for them to both work simultaneously).
Never really thought I'd see a NR article on HN. Good stuff, great obit, RIP Alex.
They should really mainline their stuff (or better build onto kvm)… On the other hand it's pleasantly surprising by itself that Oracle did not kill the project.
Nonsense, we've been working on payroll registers for decades. You just remember the fun stuff.
But they don't, so why do they get points for having an open source server?
I'd guess like 75% of my apps have a weekly update 0_0
.. Also, probably unsurprisingly, vulve is french for Vulva.
Metrics are an important part of leadership, but not necessarily the whole story.

I inherited a group at work who in the surface appeared to be both successful and well-led. They were hitting their KPIs, the management were recognized with rewards, and everything was great. Their upstream management had kept a distance, as the metrics looked great.

I'm a hands on type of guy. After the re-org I started sniffing around and discovered that not only were they not performing, they were negligent to the level of deriliction of duty.

The point is, you need to look beyond the numbers and below the surface. Otherwise, your role as a manager isn't adding any value to the organization.
Such things can become a vulnerability when Rust becomes popular enough ;)
Ask HN: What if we built new cities with a strictly limited footprint?
What if a cities were built up instead of out? What if were so small you could walk from one end to the other in 25 minutes, but it still occupied +100,000 people?

I've been thinking about this "micropolous" a lot lately, and I think it would have a lot of advantages.

1) No cars. Enough said there.
2) The micropolous would be surrounded by a large green loop, so even if the city itself were packed closely with tall buildings, everyone would have access to plenty of outdoor space.
3) If streets are only used for walking, they can be taken over on weekends tables and chairs for cafes, bars and restaurants, or for kids to play in, thus making the city really fun to live in.
4) A lot of the things governments have to do don't really scale well because of distance. Maintaining roads, sewers, water mains, mail delivery, trash pickup, police patrolling, school bussing, etc. are all made incredibly complicated and expensive because they have to serve each and every building over a wide area. Limiting the distance limits what city governments must do (ie less government and less taxes without less service).
5) Since the micropolous have such a small footprint, they can been squeezed into some pretty nice areas, like in a lush valley, or between a mountain and lake so denizens can easily ski in the winter and relax on the beach in the summer.

Who wants to move to my new city?
But if vendors does not want to upstream them as free software, then we have a problem and an issue with the non stable ABI solution. The end user does not care if the driver is free software, they just want their machines to work. I guess this is an issue for Google too, for their Linux fork Android.

Of course everyone has the liberty to write a wrapper, but that is just silly.

If Windows can have a stable ABI, why can't Linux have it too? Why would it need to "reduce the quality of running kernels"?
now I get the urge to build a physical calculator that explodes if you try to calculate 0/0 :D
Most apps that integrate with social services use the share sheet. And the ones that use Facebook and Twitter directly almost always actually use the frameworks that Facebook and Twitter provide for this. Not very many apps are strictly using the SLServiceRequest stuff.
We're not talking that kind of price differential. A factor of 5x at most, with worse specific impulse than the Russian engines from the 90s. I get it, Elon is the second coming of Steve Jobs for many, and it is admirable that he's pursuing the fields that are hard, but he's not the second coming of Sergey Korolyov or Werner Von Braun, or even the countless others who made the space age possible.
Signal is on Github. You can audit it if you want.

Telegram is closed source with a proprietary crypto implementation.

I know how I'm placing my bets.

Also Telegram is a much better target for US intelligence, it's the messenger app of choice for ISIS.
It seems possible to me that it would be advantageous for there to be randomness baked into personality, to avoid things like 'decision making deadlock'.

For instance, suppose a tribe of headstrong individuals who would never back down in an argument, and would resort to violence before losing face. It might be beneficial for random personality variation to exist to allow them to settle such a debate nonviolently. Maybe one individual randomly becomes able to laugh off conflict, or becomes more meek, or is more easy going.

It's kinda like how four cars that pull up to a four way stop at the same instant decide who goes: some randomness in the timing of their reactions leads to one pulling out a little before the others, and they're allowed to go, gracefully resolving the deadlock. Four naively designed AIs might get stuck in that situation (of course, simultaneity is implausible, but there are similar cases that might be more realistic).
Levi Strauss has a terrible corporate culture and can barely go 6 months without a reorg. These are not people you should be looking to for answers.
A few months ago I took 3 of my 4 kids to a birthday party at a minigolf course. I played some holes with my youngest I had taken with me, and then left the two older ones at the birthday party with the understanding that their mother would pick them up (as we had discussed earlier)

After leaving the party with my youngest, I went to the grocery store, and then on home. When I got home my wife was gone, which I expected since she was picking up the older kids from the party.

Throughout this afternoon I had not been checking my phone in an attempt to be a bit less connected on the weekends.

About half an hour later my wife comes home totally freaked out and frazzled.

Apparently after I had left, someone went into a T-Mobile store and somehow convinced the associate that my number was theirs. I had received a couple of texts from T-Mobile with a pin number where the store associate had attempted to do something, but I was not aware of them until later.

Once this person had my number, they called my bank, reset my online password, and transferred all of our money from various accounts into one of my checking accounts. The bank then put a hold on everything (thank god).

My wife happened to have been paying bills online while this was happening, and saw it all go down. Her first thought was to call me, then when I didn't answer to call the mom throwing the birthday party.

Birthday party mom told my wife I had left, so my wife assumed that myself and our 3 year old were being mugged or something. The police were involved and she spent a good amount of time freaking out trying to find me.

All in all I had a pretty good afternoon :P

For real tho, it was a freaking mess. Took weeks to get our accounts safe, and we try to avoid using phone numbers for 2fa now.
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This. I've had the exact same experience with support accepting "a long string of random crap" as an answer. Now I recommend people to use diceware to generate their security answers with actually readable words.

(https://www.rempe.us/diceware/#eff)
Eisenhower?
Fools Put Faith in Data Alone (2006)
With helpful picture of a "hacker" so you can recognize one.
If you only use this pre-paid phone for authentication, then the fraudster has to discover that phone number before they launch their attack. For additional security, you can rotate this pre-paid phone number every few months, and only use it for authentication to online services.
I must respectfully disagree.

Forming or becoming a capitalist organization using Other People's Money is a perfectly valid approach for an entrepreneur to take, and if so whether funds should be raised from VC's or other sources is the kind of uncertian decision that entrepreneurs have to rise to, yes.

But it's also possible to be a complete entrepreneur by using only your own resources whether that is primarily funds or not. You may or may not need to choose a low-resource-requirement business to operate. You may also survive or prosper in a capitalist environment and/or compete in a capitalist market without being a capitalist at all.

At least since recorded history anyway.

IMHO the top of the list for entrepreneurial skills should be the ability to develop the best income from the most satisfied clientele.
Yes, I believe that's the problem nier is hoping to correct
They're now losing market share to Lyft. A lot of it coincides with stuff he has done to bring the company bad PR.
I wish we could kill phone numbers once and for all. It's insecure, device-dependent, carrier-dependent, country-dependent, subject to snooping and censorship, and all of these are recipes for disaster as an authentication scheme, especially in the event that a device gets stolen. Phone calls and text messages should emphatically NEVER be used to verify anything.

Conversation with one of my banks the other day:

Them: Can we please verify a code sent to your phone number?

Me: Umm, sure, although that won't verify anything. Use something else to verify that it's me.

Them: Can you please verify your phone number?

Me: Umm, I don't know what phone number I used with you? Try XXX-XXX-XXXX, XXX-XXX-XXXX, XXX-XXX-XXXX, XXX-XXX-XXXX, XXX-XXX-XXXX, XXX-XXX-XXXX, and XXX-XXX-XXXX? They all belong to me depending on where I am.

Them: Can we use XXX-XXX-XXXX? Do you have this phone with you right now so we can we send a text message with a verification code?

Me: Send your insecure SMS to any of my numbers. They all go to my e-mail inbox. [I don't need to have my "phone" with me -- my "phones" are virtual.]