skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, though I do think calling it put as a lie is a bit strong, in the context of the FAQ linked since I read it as third-parties meaning other private companies, not government agencies in response to a legal request. (That may be my bias since I worked there, know the culture, and still have plebty of friends there).

I can absolutely see your point, and would say that they do have actual legal pages on their privacy policy and data security measure, which mentions that they will respond to a legal subpoena, and that you can at any time request that your personal data be deleted, which theu will do.

Again, look you can think I'm full of it amd take this with a huge grain of salt, since I did worm there. All I can tell you is that the people who worked there and started that company are there to make cool robots, not to be personal data brokers or an advertising company, and any conversations we had when I was there were about how we could make things work with other services and do neat smart home stuff, while keeping peoples information safe and privacy intact, not about how we can make money off of peoples data.

(apologies for the typos, small phone screen and fat fingers!)
Does anyone have any favorite open-source Phoenix codebases?
Sounds right if they stick around long enough for you to get your content back in a few years. Don't forget to price in that risk.
> And so you will have 2^n - m "undocumented opcodes".

Not quite, there will be 2^n - m possible opcodes, but not all of them will have functionality attached. Many may end up being illegal.

So you could have a processor with m=400 and n=16, but no valid opcodes besides the 400. All 2^16 - 400, could throw an Illegal instruction exception.
The problem is that governance is complex that representatives are in many respects just incompetent voters. We elect a lot of lawyers because they're skilled in both assimilation and evaluation, but the upshot is legalism, procedural paralysis, exponential growth of the legal corpus, inaccessibility to the citizenry, and factionalism.
> Either way it's for them to assess, not you.

Until the state decides to apply eminent domain so more people can better use the space available.

> As if they have some inalienable right to live in places like Brisbane.

As if anyone had an inalienable right not to have neighbors.
This is all well and good, but installing all of this stuff is the substantial blocker for me. I live in a big old house made out of stone with walls that are impenetrable without a very serious drill.

Unless someone solves the installation question, I’m going to have to sit this one out. Even running Ethernet wire to just the next room is a massive undertaking.

Completely wireless home automation that is simple to install – that would be a game changer for me. I shouldn’t have to practically hire an architect to plan the install for some of this stuff.
I agree with this. Legalization, with regulation, is a workable system. Decriminalization engenders disrespect for the law - there are too many inconsistencies.
I'm not sure what you're stating to be "False." That stocks would be purchased without dividends? That's obviously true. Stocks need not have dividends to be valuable, only just have someone else willing to pay more than what you did.

Which brings me to the next point: this expectation you speak of is part of the irrationality. Suppose there was a company that publicly stated that it would never give out dividends, but it was making bank. People like yourself would assume at some point in the future dividends would be paid out and therefore what you stated would apply, even if no dividends were never paid out (assuming the company's trajectory and what not stayed the same).

You also seem to imply the "expectation" of the market is always correct or rational. We both know that's not true, either.
Personally as someone who uses Linux to get work done and make money (as opposed to tweaking my machine more than actually using it), systemd has been a blessing - it just works most of the time, and the rare time it doesn't (that did happen - some issues with dbus) I just consider the entire machine hosed and reboot - my software is designed to work around failed nodes so it's no big deal.
There are a lot of comments about smoking more to make up for reduced nicotine levels, but this is a little bit misguided. Keep in mind the time it takes to consume nicotine. If you have a 5-minute smoke break at work you can't hang out for 15 minutes to smoke 3 because each cigarette is less potent. I'm sure there's a better term for it, but smoking isn't a zero sum game, you don't always have the option of increasing the quantity to make up for reduced concentration, if for no other reason than time and financial constraints.
I worked in a small place where this was a huge problem: There were only one or two software engineers working on the (multiple) products at any given time through the company's history. So when one person left, that could mean anywhere between 50-100% of the company's tribal knowledge of their own software is lost. Getting up to speed meant diving into the source code (if someone knew where it was) and stumbling upon old text file documentation basically by accident. Since they did not use source control (!!) there wasn't even a commit history to browse through to get even a clue as to in what state the products were in.
Which is to say it's equivalent to function composition.
For swap, instead of using a partition for it, you can have a file, or several files of swap in your root partition. This way, the swap files will be handled as other file, and TRIM can do its job.
I believe the number one problem you will run into is what happens to every wiki in the world. Knowledge goes stale and discovery is hard. Especially when you don't know what to look for.

Making content is never the answer to passing on institutional knowledge. This problem was actually solved very effectively a long time ago by trade unions such as the masons.

Start by having an apprenticeship program. Shore up any missing skills and teach someone how to apply them at your institution. Go into the meaning of why you are teaching them.

Second, set up a simple progression where one builds a base of understanding to move to the next phase of institutional understanding. Apprentice (learning) -> Fellow (perfecting) -> Master (can teach).

Masons don't even write anything down and have managed to pass on institutional knowledge for generations. Martial arts communities are similar.
This article feels very USA-specific. As an Eastern European I can tell you that most of us around here can very easily be won over if you're a boss and you tell the truth, especially if it is unpleasant. Most EE people would get a huge amount of loyalty for you if you're that boss and will tolerate corporate bad times and lack of promotions as well.

I keep remembering George Carlin's words that Americans have trouble with the truth. Obviously I am not judging but I've heard quite a lot of ther USA citizens say the same.

Coming clean is the best thing you can do as a CEO. Plus, as my wife says "if they leave you because you're in a tight spot, why would you need them anyway?"

I realize it's not always that clear and cut but IMO the general principle is sound.
Rachel and I (fast.ai co-founders) will be keeping an eye on this thread, so if you have any questions or thoughts, let us know!
Since the comments have become a general discussion of climate change, I decided to look up polls to see what public perception are. Fears of climate change seem to more or less track temperatures.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/206030/global-warming-concern-thr...
Why would a "smart home" need to interact with the outside world? Most applications cited in the story certainly don't require it, and if they do, there's no technical reason they need to be connected directly to the internet.

If people are too hesitant to give up their homes' security and privacy to corporations, some company will eventually come up with an open-source self-hosted solution that doesn't suffer from those issues.
I think it would still have to be some kind of structured format (one json object per "line", for instance), so that it could keep all of the metadata. On the other hand, you can use journalctl --output=json to get exactly that, so...
The goal of an init system is to start daemons. It shouldn't have any opinions about which daemons you run, and it has no business doing random tampering like intercepting logins and DNS requests and renaming device nodes. Breaking "nohup foo & logout" is shockingly inappropriate; end users should never ever care how an admin may have booted the system much less have to know how to interact with it!
Well this isn't a web server or a compiler; it's a messaging app. Of course it needs to be used by non-technical users.
I can only speak as an Eastern European: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14878103 (FYI: this linked comment is right here in this thread)
Best paragraph:

"Cracking AGI is a very long-term goal. The most relevant field of research is considered by many to be reinforcement learning: the study of teaching computers how to beat Atari. Formally, reinforcement learning is the study of problems that require sequences of actions that result in a reward/loss, and not knowing how much each action contributes to the outcome. Hundreds of the world’s brightest minds, with the most elite credentials, are working on this Atari problem."
So I must have some big misunderstanding then -- in what sense can a different binary input to a boolean circuit throw an illegal exception? How does the concept make sense at that level?
I wonder how many self-driving cars live in that house...
Of all places to be cynical, a den of code-oriented and clever people with the ability to propagate major social change shouldn't be one of them.

A commendable and inspiring effort. Cicada is bafflingly ambitious; any system that proposes a 7billion person user base is hopefully geared to fight a very, very long and arduous battle.

Good luck! I will happily root for anyone brave enough to tackle the inevitable problems of the future with an open and articulate vision. Shoot, maybe I'll even throw in a PR or two.
Does he? He still hasn't paid his 2015 taxes:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boxing-mayweather-idUSKBN...
Problem being, a lot of people would get absolutely screwed by that, and end up losing their home. There needs to be a way to fix that, without going back to the original problem Prop 13 was intended to fix, which was people being unable to afford the property tax on homes that they had been living in forever.
It's true that buying shares in any new offering is risky. It's true that celeb endorsements can convince some otherwise careful people to behave riskily. It's true that selling shares in a decent index fund to buy shares in an initial offering is risky. And people should be careful. (duh.) It's a good reason to be skeptical of stuff like celeb endorsements and guarantees of resturns.

But there's another side to the SEC regulation system. It has been captured by the industry it's supposed to regulate. It serves the existing investment industry very well, and main street investors not so much (witness the Madoff mess). The tonnage of legal work required to meet the regulations raises a barrier to entry to new players. Google, in their IPO, managed to innovate in this area. But they already had a lot of political clout.

It would be helpful if there were ways to expand access.
That's fine for you, but you're a massive minority. Most of us actually interact with non-profit-making in a daily basis.
I feel like a lot of those common sense ideas could still use streamlining to put in homes. Why can't I live like Rubin? Why should these devices be only for the rich? Hook up a hydrometer and switch and sell it to me as relative humidity aware fan controller.
I still use the same account...
Amazon definitely has to stay on its game to stay #1.

When Wallmart opens up in town the local shops to under and you have no choice.

When Amazon forces other businesses to close - you still have a lot of online retailers to choose from. It isn't difficult to buy from Target or BuyNLarge etc.

Which is why they try hard to hook you with Prime, Kindle, Fire etc. If Prime was outlawed, Amazon would be in trouble in a few years I expect.
A less seen cost is for the various operations.

Regularly pushing lots of small files on S3 can get expensive. $1/200k files ($0.005 per 1k PUT requests).
Serious question: why would a non-poorly trained army select a more maintenance-heavy weapon? Would it have other benefits?
The overlap in skills between fading jobs and those in expanding sectors
The closest clone of Devise I found for Phoenix is Coherence https://github.com/smpallen99/coherence
How I hired my First remote developer as a non-tech founder:
Wouldn't that be true for every country ?
I read somewhere that a great employee is one that makes themselves unnecessary, that is, they document everything they do, automate key processes they (used to) complete and so forth.

I wonder if "institutional memory" is just a symptom of a poor process.

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For example, say you work at CoolCorp. At CoolCorp you're a sales engineer and you notice that many engineers and sales people alike constantly ask you questions concerning conditional pricing.

You consider yourself to be an amazing employee. So, when again confronted with a edge-case pricing and technical question what do you do?

A. Answer the question and move on to additional tasks.

B. Answer the question and consider documenting this particular question somewhere along with your answer.

C. Answer the question and note the general scheme of this question in order to build an internal tool to give people the answers automatically.

I don't think there's a right answer since there are costs involved with each option, but it's interesting to think about.
The HD edition on steam used to run under wine. Now it doesn't, but you can roll back to a previous version for now.
I'm thoroughly sick of advertising masquerading as content. Not that it this anything new, but I still wish ill on those who waste my time so. And it seems to be on the rise in recent years.

This is a puff piece for their LMS and on that basis is not necessarily good advice. Where it is good advice, it is a mixture of motherhood statements, commmon sense, and the bleeding obvious.

Edit/addendum: I'm starting to flag such articles. The poster in this case has never posted any remarks and only ever contributed advertorials and promotional blogs for this one product. That is red flag#1.
It would be nice if there were something like Geekbench where it publicly listed the results from different processors.
How's that stance been working for you? Still waiting to see a single instance of Linux on the desktop of a non-programmer. 99% of people, HN users included, just want something that works. Few people have time to go much around and fix some messaging app when they could simply download a better alternative.
Popcorn lung was a great example of the industry self regulating IMO. Reputable vendors all removed the problematic ingredient. Also, wasn't that whole thing overblown? I didn't follow it to closely so take this with a heap of salt, but I remember reading that the amount was way below problematic amounts even for heavy vapers.
+1 on "The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook". It's a generally good introduction to OTP, though the book has a lot more errors than I'm used to seeing (their github code differs without explanation from the code in the book at times, and sometimes one or the other won't run successfully).
This is a serious hype piece. The problem is stated clearly: the smart home industry is expensive, fragmented, and complicated. This isn't news to anyone at all but there seems to be a lack of a viable solution.

Simply connecting every gadget to some variety of interfaces has already been done dozens of times over (e.g. Crestron, control4, smartthings)

I'm in the camp that one company should make all the devices versus an open standard. That's the only way to guarantee quality.

Candidly, I don't think everything in the modern home will look like Andy's home. Instead our homes will have a few key devices like lights, speakers, locks and HVAC that make sense to interconnect.

Once we agree that not every fridge or microwave needs an internet connection, you'll see how ridiculous his vision statement becomes.

My 700sqft apartment doesn't benefit from any of this "innovation" and doesnt suffer from the mess of gadgets that don't talk to each other.

This is a wealthy persons problem and a tinkerers desires.
AWS Alternatives
Anyone know any best AWS alternative which offer cloud hosting at cheaper rates?
The last time I built my own PC, it was a Pentium 4 that used RD-Ram, and I put it in a case I bought from PC Power and Cooling - so a long time ago.

I mention this because all these AMD threads are making me get the itch. And it might be a good idea to support some competition with Intel.

Can anyone point me to a good information resource for these new chips?
Do they jump on because of the community, as part of a PR plan, or does Genius pay them?
In my opinion, yes. Back in the mid-90's I used to get a mug or something similar from Amazon at the end of the year as a thank you for my business. But then we fast forward to last week when I placed an order that was being shipped by THEIR shipping arm, was somehow lost, and their customer service still tried to tell me they couldn't help if the shipping company lost something - even though THEY were the shipping company. Had to escalate to get a refund, and this is the 4th order just this year that hasn't made it. Granted the other three were other shipping companies - but FedEx claimed they never actually got the package, which given this experience I'm inclined to now give them the benefit of the doubt.
> That's not enough of an incentive.

One relatively simple solution is to pass laws that mandate building homes along stores and hotels. Want to build a large hotel and some stores? Need to also build 4,400 affordable houses. And, since we are fixing the world, add to that mandatory investment in clean energy for seawater desalination, because water and energy for those homes will have to come from somewhere.

And I didn't even suggest higher density habitations.
How I Chained 4 Vulnerabilities on GitHub Enterprise, from SSRF to RCE
Are you trying to tell me that people at mozilla are not aware that google can tell who you are with an impressive degree of precision based on your usage of google search engine ?

Mozilla is not telling google obviously because they don't know who you are. But it's a technicality as they enable and empoyer google to do it by themselves, in exchange for millions of dollars.
For a few years over 95% of mozilla revenue in millions of dollars came from google for exposing their user privacy while most users were not aware of this and mozilla boasting being a white knight for privacy.

Then when they finally decided to do something about it, the chose to help yahoo artificially inflate their usage stats to improve the value in the upcoming sale, but only in the US where they had lost the most marketshare, in Europe where firefox was still relevant and where there are alternatives that actually respect user privacy mozilla chose to keep google as the default search engine.
Or just 'the game', which exists only inside your own head.
I don't disagree with your main point, and I think the apprenticeship model could work wonders in many tech environments. Harder to implement when you have a very migrant worker population, even at normal rates of turnover.

There is however some merit to writing down details to critical or seldom-used processes in a communally-accessed place such as a wiki. Keeping it up to date and having someone review it regularly has to be part of the process.
It seems to be a MS antivirus bug: http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/60434/hacking/microsoft-...
"Reston is a Car-Dependent city" -- https://www.walkscore.com/VA/Reston
Ask HN: Credit checks for seed round?
Are credit checks typically performed during a seed round (issuing of SAFE notes and convertible notes)?

Note that I'm asking about what currently happens, rather than what perhaps should happen.
But why put the onus on a small village when the city of SF itself is unwilling to allow normal city development & construction. If anyone are assholes, it's the city of SF itself --who, by the way, typically rally behind "we don't want to Manhattanize SF." If SF is unwilling to do their part, why would we expect a small village compensate ofr the city's unwillingness to support development?
Great Employees drive themselves to extinction. They documented everything so well that their jobs were offshored somewhere with a lower standard of living. That's why they're so hard to find. The ones that survived learned their lesson and won't make that mistake again.
> "All that matters is the belief that in the long run people tend to make 'right' choices slightly more often than wrong ones."

Do they though? I see people making the "wrong" choices very often when the "right" choice is inconvenient for them. I would include myself in that description too.
Downvoted without rebuttal. :(

If I am wrong, then please tell me. I even asked for more information on something I was unsure of.
It's (occasionally) slow because it's java but really feature complete and stable.
A 100 watt solar panel, a typical size for camping, would take 600 hours of bright sunlight to charge a 60KWh battery. About 10 weeks. In 10 hours you could get 1KWh, and might be able to move a bit.
> Cracking AGI is a very long-term goal.

Is this fair to say? I feel like advancements in the field happened far quicker than anyone expected, and every few years we are reevaluating timelines. Especially given the research happening in tandem that will almost certainly speed up AGI, like graphene, quantum computing, advanced GPU design...

If you asked someone 10 years ago about the possibilities of ML/Deep learning they'd say it was far off too. I'm not going to say Kurzweil is correct but if I know anything, it's that historically these things have happened faster than expected. Look at 1997 -> 2017. 20 years, but what isn't changed?

Appreciate any discussion as I am not an expert :)
I have an 8 foot utility trailer that I tow with my Honda Fit. I overloaded it once on accident with 2500lbs of roofing materials. The capacity is 2000lbs. I frequently load it up with long and heavy stuff, and I don't risk ruining my interior. It does 95% of what most people do with a truck, but I can still drive to work on Monday or take it on a long road trip and get 35mpg. Started with a $300 Harbor Freight trailer and added sides and floor to it. I guess my point is that you can pretty much haul whatever you need to with damn near any car on the market.
In a decade every electrical appliance will have a chip linking it to a central controller much as cars work now. Sensors allow the automotive computer to minutely control every detail of the car's functions. In the same way, house functions will become more efficient and automated.

I am not at all a fan of this future, but it is coming on fast. Those of us opposed will be like people now stubbornly driving older, less complex autos.
The Brain Problem
This is a great point. Like you imply, I don't think the incentives are there. After a certain level of "greatness" your compensation will almost never be commensurate with your value.
> For example, I read a persons blog post who said amazon had a rule that you can't sell your product on amazon and sell it for less on your own site. That's just rotten.

How is it stifling competition to say "If you want access to our marketplace, you can't charge a premium"?
How would you compare the work that you are doing to the work that is being done in China?