skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842705
> But isn't the value in not having to travel to Walmart, select the item, wait in line, pay for the item, and transporting the item back to your home worth something?

No. At least not for me, and I imagine a large chunk of other users.

The value of amazon was

1. Reviews: I can see feedback on the item in a way that's simply not possible with local stores

2. Selection: I have access to far more products than I do at a local store.

3. Price: Amazon used to essentially do the price matching work for me, they would always be around the same dollar price (and sometimes far lower) than local stores.

I would much rather go to a store and purchase an item because it does away with the hassle of waiting. But I used to value the reviews and increased selection size more than the immediacy of the purchase, and the price is just a great bonus.

As a previous heavy user of Amazon, my usage has essentially tanked over the past year because I no longer trust reviews.

Are some fake reviews easy to spot? sure. Are all of them? hell no.

Couple that with rapidly increasing prices and I'm thoroughly disillusioned. Finally, a lot of the larger local chains now have to-store shipping for less frequently bought items. I can hop on HomeDepot's site and have them ship a rare item to a local store, and pick it up in a few days. Often at a better price than Amazon.

Frankly, I loved prime 4 years ago. Not a big fan today.
I thought I was weird in noticing "walking=less internet". Another thing is meditation, but it's no silver bullet. I was supposed to not be on the internet right now.
Yep. I've been hassled for having a camera far more often by private security guys than by actual cops.
My issue with Amazon lately isn't just the prices no longer being the lowest, it's that a big chunk of their products are counterfeits. I honestly have no idea how they haven't tamped down on that. If I shop at Wal-Mart, Target, Footlocker, etc, etc I know the products I buy aren't going to be fakes; no so with Amazon. I have started buying less stuff on there after a number of products have come back as fakes. I use Prime Video more than any other service now, but there's only maybe 2 shows I even care about on there.
What does it mean to have an understanding of AI that's limited?

Have you ever talked to someone who is way smarter than you? Have you tried to imagine how they think? I suspect thinking about the future of AI is a little bit like that, insofar as it's hard to model the future state intelligently.
Agreed, though that would require a lossless format (e.g. png) and would limit exchanges to sources that don't change the image (e.g.as email attachment) but not social networks that resize or otherwise reprocess the image
Intels addiction to high margin products might prove to be their undoing as they get disrupted from below.
I have no idea what I'm looking at, but it's beautifully illustrated. (And I wish it was interactive.)
There's no way we could do that. Social security pays on average much more than any realistic basic income. Are we supposed to slash the income of retirees in half?
radare2 [1] project is also working on a decompiler, which uses ESIL [2] intermediate language as a source and lifts it to the RadecoIL, whish is then simplified and transformed to C. The missing parts now are mostly Memory SSA, C AST generation (partially done) and Type Inference. The decompiler itself written in Rust and uses the radare2 as a source of ESIL and other metainformation. Using the ESIL as a source will allow to implement the support for a different architectures, not only the common ones. Currently we're running RSoC - Radare Summer of Code [3], and hope that our 2 students will make the significant progress on both Rune (Symbolic Execution on top of ESIL) and Radeco projects. And we are always happy to welcome a new potential contributors to all underlying projects, including radare2 itself. If you want to help us - please join #radare IRC channel or #radare Telegram channel [4].
The sources of Radeco are located at https://github.com/radare/radeco-lib

[1] http://rada.re

[2] https://radare.gitbooks.io/radare2book/content/disassembling...

[3] http://radare.today/posts/RSOC-2017/

[4] https://telegram.me/joinchat/ACR-FkEK2owJSzMUYjt_NQ
Also the proportion of customers who needs 4k as opposed to 1080p is negligible. Most consumers don't even have equipment capable of displaying 4k content.

Netflix in 1080p uses 4.22Mbps or sometimes 7.15Mbps, so we're now at 15¢ per user.
China is using AI to predict who will commit crime next
I'm developing flight software at work on various Linux pc's that have support drivers installed for some PCIe cards. If I want to code on these PC's it's either sit inside a freezing clean room or "ssh -X" into a PC to bring up a editor. This sucks, so I have a makefile to rake in certain specifics of my flight software build with additional compile time switches for flexibility to build natively on my own computer. This allows me to essentially ignore installed drivers/libs and work comfortably in my own environment until I require the actual PC in the cleanroom to run my build.
In the US the semi public spaces will be concentrated in urban cores. Elsewhere real parks will dominate.

Especially in terms of actual use. People might not even realize that some little set aside green space is semi public, whereas municipalities like to advertise their green spaces.
Given the current political climate, it's more likely the FTC will be dismantled first. That is unless The Washington Post pisses off the POTUS enough.
Cultural Appropriation: Whose culture is it anyway, and what about hybridity?
As someone who spent a bit of time trying to start a project based on the Edison, the most frustrating thing was the amount of bugs and the lack of documentation to be able to do anything about it myself, leaving me hopelessly waiting for them to release fixes.

For example, after several months of terribly slow and buggy SPI and no fix over multiple releases, I finally switched to ARM and am very glad I did. Intel did finally fix the SPI issue about 9 months after it was first reported.

With ARM, I had plenty of issues and challenges, but had the documentation and resources I needed to be able to fix things, as well as a better support community.

One of the key issues in the Intel support communities was a growing lack of trust, now confirmed by Intel dropping out. It takes a big commitment to really understand a system, and the nice thing about ARM is that the community goes beyond a single company, so a company dropping out is not as significant as in this case with Intel.
Musk and Zuckerberg clash over future of AI
Alright, that makes much more sense. Thanks!
No, I would expect a ceramic knife to be sharp and I would expect it to remain sharp throughout its life.
Well I'm the only dev at the moment so I really just need an indie dev license for myself, and it's licensed per developer, not per project etc.

I think it's worth it.

In my opinion, anybody working on .net ends up spending a lot of time writing what is essentially their own version of ServiceStack, on Web API.

It has a lot of features that you would end up writing anyway, spend months doing so, and would probably do less well. It basically gives you a massive head start.
Seems like as of 2015 he has one!

source: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/575490964527034368
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Another open source decompiler is fcd:

https://zneak.github.io/fcd/

I quite like the authors' blog about the development of the decompiler, as it gives a lot of insight into how it works and what academic literature it draws on.

You can also find a video of a talk the author (Felix Cloutier) gave at the Security Open Source workshop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1NP-DV4GVQ
I don't know if the abstractions of Safe Haskell, or something like it, will be sufficient. The link you gave seems to imply that the guarantee of trustworthiness is restricted to something less than every aspect of the code's semantics. One problem, as I see it, is that, from a computing point of view, a fraudulent contract may be indistinguishable from a valid one. You see this principle in the claim sometimes made that the DAO hack was not theft because a contract means exactly what its code does, nothing more and nothing less (that's not a view I hold, of course, or I would not be worrying that theft is possible.)
> Did they check if people performed worse when taught, say, 150 hours of Spanish before the target language?

The Australian study [1] that is cited in the Wikipedia article compared pupils that learned Esperanto, Indonesian, German or Japanese, respectively, in primary school and then went on to learn a possibly different language in secondary school.

Let me note a few problems with that study up front:

- There was apparently an additional class per week by a professional Esperanto teacher (the other Esperanto teachers were learning on the go).

- The Japanese teachers in the comparison rated themselves 0.25-0.5 on a number of 5-point scales (Esperanto: 1.6-2.4, German 4.5-5, Indonesian: 2-3). This is essentially a plus for Esperanto (easy to learn for the teachers), but taints the comparison since the Japanese teachers were basically incompetent.

- Due to attrition of study subjects, their evaluation after one year of secondary school has only 21 students of Esperanto. (306 students in total)

- They do not differentiate by (or even talk about) the languages learned in secondary school.

Now to the findings (on a 5-point scale [1,2,3,4,5], rated by the secondary-school teachers, given as percentages in each category):

- Motivation to learn the language (presumably the new one): Esperanto [0, 5, 10, 67, 19], others [ 13, 9, 22, 24, 31]. This one is difficult to analyze, since their motivation might change due to liking the new language better (or worse), or due to a general effect on motivation to learn any language (the authors claim the latter). I'll just point out that both the lowest and the highest scores are rarer among Esperanto students.

- "attainment level" (no idea what that specifically means): Esperanto [0, 4, 26, 61, 9], others [10, 9, 23, 26, 32]. Again, both the lowest and the highest scores are rarer among Esperanto students. The striking resemblance to the motivation results is interesting.

- speaking ability: Esperanto [0, 0, 48, 43, 10], others [12, 8, 46, 27, 6]. This is the only measure where Esperanto seems to be a uniform improvement.

In my opinion, this study mostly shows that this specific Esperanto course did not completely kill off the students ability to learn a foreign language, unlike apparently some other courses. The improvement in speaking ability could be caused by the focus on an immersive classroom experience, but it did apparently transfer to other languages, which is a plus.

The study definitely doesn't show anything like "those who learned Esperanto and another target language (including Japanese) became better at the target than those who learned only the target." (Since they didn't test any such thing.) In fact, my best guess at explaining the higher rate of perfect motivation/attainment scores for students of other languages is that they continued studying the same language they had already had in primary school. If this were the case, it would pretty clearly show that learning Esperanto before learning Japanese is not going to help someone learn Japanese faster overall.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20040215074307/http://www.educati...
Do you have a better source for this data than, well, a bunch of numbers you posted to HN? In particular, an explanation by a researcher or other expert who has actually studied the difference and can explain it?

It's very easy to draw conclusions from statistics. It's much harder to draw correct conclusions from them.
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I would love to see a new Jobs Gates style rivalry. Maybe Musk - Zuckerberg?
Do I get this right.

Servo is the experimental browser (engine?)?

Quantum is the project that ports parts of Servo to Firefox over time?
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'Mind-blowing' cows hold clue to beating HIV
I believe it can be slightly (actually a lot) more complicated than that -- especially in the UK.
i think it's 'thanks lack of privacy awareness and lack of regulation'
The problem is that this time automation is cognitive in nature. The AIs are reaching the point where they are better than a certain portion of the population at just about any job. Not every taxi driver is smart enough to become a programmer.
HN does provide a search option, powered by Algolia. It's at the bottom of the page.

Algolia is one of YC's investments, Algolia provides your site with search like Disqus provides comments.
A history of airport controls and how they paved the way for authoritarianism
the example is even worse: the string should match three times, not two. (it misses the a, followed by r, followed by space)
From my perspective, Mark has always seemed like a controlled thinker - including controlling his actions, behaviour, etc. in a very fixed way. In contrast, Elon's always seemed to be a holistic thinker, starting from founding principles and then understanding what his actions will lead to. Elon's openness to thought leads me to believe his thinking style would lead to understanding how AI could evolve better than Mark's more controlling behaviour.
I hear you, and most of us probably have similar stories to tell. There are really two rackets here: credit reporting agencies and medical billing. Then, they have the audacity to add debt collectors to the mix, who primarily harrass you and threaten to blow up your credit score.

Clearing errors involves a byzantine maze and way too much time in an era when everything is digital. There should be stringent regulation around accuracy and we should all have free year-round, real-time access to our credit scores.

But, my point here is not that you can't live a normal life with a few credit dings. It's that those dings represent punishment that can impact you. For instance, you may not have gotten the best interest rate available on your subsequent credit. So, we should be advocating an end to these fraudulent medical billing practices vs accepting punishment from them, then trying to live with it.
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It's sampling bias: the sort of people who would buy an Openmoko device even before it has working software are also the sort of people who would browse HN regularly.
I don't trust Zuckerberg on any issue in which Facebook has much to gain from one side. We all know how much money he'd like to make by having some AI programs follow us around 24/7.
Wait, where's the verb in the first form?
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Wow. Mark used an example of self-driving cars being good for humanity as his example of why AI will pose no danger; to make a point about his perspective in a feud with the guy that is leading self-driving car revolution pointing out that AI could potentially be dangerous. I hold great concerns for Facebook's future.
But if there is no accountability or regulations the new one-percenters can't become as powerful as the old one-percenters, that rely on the authority of "democratically elected governments".
You could almost say the same thing about those cultural languages though. If me, as a white American, wanted to learn Navajo... what's the point? I'm not Native American, I'm very unlikely to adopt their culture, and my knowing the language isn't really going to further the spread of their culture. So I'd just be learning it as an enthusiast with a quirky hobby and have no one to talk to.

The problem with trying to save dying languages is that you need to save their dying culture, too. Otherwise the language is useless, just as useless as Esperanto. If there's no point in Esperanto because it's a language without a culture, there's no point in learning a language without learning their culture. And culture is often a very tricky, very closely guarded thing.

What we have with Esperanto is a brand new culture that's been created, one that's a lot more relatable to a wider audience than Kasanga or Iñapari.
How about Elon vs Musk?
There are a few problems though.

- Since Cryptocurrency is international, the US SEC does not have jurisdiction everywhere in the world. When there is millions on the line, you could just move to another country and try a scheme, or direct a foreign lackey to do it.

- "The Federal Reserve simply does not have authority to supervise or regulate bitcoin in any way. To the best of my knowledge, there is no intersection at all in any way between Bitcoin and banks that the Federal Reserve has the ability to supervise and regulate."

- To count for an exchange you have to issue shares. Not everybody does this.

- Is cryptocurrency a token or a security?

- How to distinguish between nouveau riche BTC millionaires trying out their luck with an ICO and a criminal organization using it to launder money?

- Who is the single legal entity to target when the ICOs are distributed, and no single entity issues coins?

- What to do with those that profit from future illegal activity, as a 3rd party? Right now there is a lot of obvious market manipulation going on. Whales banding together to influence and set prices. Pumping up interest with bots and 5-cent army trolls. Selling stolen coins for 50% of market value. Sharing upcoming announcements with a small group of investors, devs, and supporters, allowing them to speculate on insider knowledge. How do they prove I must have known about the stolen coins, when the news hasn't even broken yet and I already put out a buy order of 50% of the price in case of a flash crash?
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This is a slippery slope.
Elon Musk's recent comments on the topic makes me say that his understanding of AI is similarly 'limited'...
I don't think he's going to run himself, I think he's going to find someone to run on a platform of his design.
Yep it's a different situation, hence emphasising 'in situations like mine' in the post you're replying to.
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Seems this pivots on a disagreement of AI as a risk

Musk seems very anxious of existential threats-- it isn't surprising he may overestimate the danger of AI

It also comes off as very monkey-centric. Is it so bad if human intelligence isn't what proliferates the future? Perhaps AI is a kind of memetic evolution for our culture, evolving into a form of life which can achieve sustenance with much less waste
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/889743782387761152
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Zuckerberg sells / appeals to a mass-audience who needs reassurance that AI will not take over the world and murder their grandkids.

Musk sells / appeals to techies, and those seeking to embrace cutting edge technology and are not scared by "AI is dangerous" talk.

Different audience, different messaging.
Had no idea this existed.

Still, there are times when you have a weird error you need to screenshot, and you know that if you move the mouse or hit anything other than the print screen button, it will go away.

Paint made this scenario very easy to deal with.
Gotta make sacrifices, though.

If you don't own a collection of music, then you're just working to support the stream of music in your life. If you truly value specific music which can't be had in other free means, then it's worth your time and effort to own what gets you through your day.

Music has really taken a turn since the age of the television though (I get it). It's just too unimportant to so many people, though. I'm sure these same people bought their TV outright, and aren't renting that either.

I could rant on this forever. Nice infographic here (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/03/how-much-...).
Yea, the basic idea is you cut out most foods that people have issues with for a few weeks then slowly reintroduce them. Usually that means living off of chicken and rice, but if you plan it out you can get some more variety in there (veges, rice based noodles, soups).

I agree about stuff being tough to find, googling elimination diet are a whole lot of pop-health sites. They all have the right gist of how to do it though, just ignore the fluff. A little below this anchor [1] (closest anchor I could find) there is a how to do an elimination diet. That has a list of foods to avoid. Most people who have digestion issues have a problem with one or two FODMAPs [2], which are gluten, fructans, lactose, and legumes.

I highly recommend adding sugar and caffeine to the list of stuff you get rid of. You'll go through a little withdrawal but it can be a trigger. My digestion problems were caused by foods that were high in fructose. This meant high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners that had a similar structure, and fruits with a high fructose to glucose ratio (looking at you, apples). This happened because I'm a celiac and eating gluten for years messed up my small intestine.

Due to sinus headaches I've cut out a lot of foods, doing so has also fixed all my digestion issues. The things causing my digestion issues were fructose and gluten. My brother is lactose intolerant but I can eat dairy all day long. Additionally, I've cut out caffeine, sugar, sodium nitrites, and MSG because they were triggers for sinus headaches.

I wish you success in finding the source of your problem. Getting your diet right is such a change in quality of life.

1. https://draxe.com/elimination-diet/#mydiv-26267

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FODMAP
You don't have to use a lossless format for steganography, for example:

'Statistically Undetectable JPEG Steganography: Dead
Ends, Challenges, and Opportunities'

http://dde.binghamton.edu/tomas/pdfs/Pev07-ACM.pdf
The cynic in me thinks they did this to try to get people to check out the store. I don't think I've ever even opened the store.
Is there any particular reason to think that Musk's understanding of AI isn't also "limited"? I don't recall him being known as an AI researcher.

I mean, there's no doubt he's smart, even brilliant... but being brilliant in one field doesn't necessarily mean you are an expert in others.
To stream live video: what kind of machine, and how many of them, do I need?
The keyword you're looking for is "Steganography". See, for example, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20863721/image-steganogr....
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Could you be more specific about which features are missing?
Great! I hope they can put some of these resources towards implementing non-latin-alphabet based languages. I've been waiting for Mandarin for 5 years!
I feel there should be some long-form article about this floating around, and if there isn't one, there should be!
> It's not illegal to receive signals on an unlicensed band with stock equipment

But my neighbors would still be pretty miffed, and would likely have legal recourse, if I passively captured their EM emissions in the 390-700nm band through their bedroom windows at night on a regular basis.
Cool. I guess what I'm missing is why is there a need for the Tumbler service?

If I understand correctly, you can spin up many bitcoin wallets.

Wouldn't it be possible to create a bunch of Bitcoin wallets that would trade money amongst themselves?

(Or did I just re-invent the tumbler?)