skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the responsibility for the failure of this should fall on the marketing managers and their lack of knowledge on what decent online advertising looks like.

I worked in AdLand for a while and remember the agencies impressing clients with bullshit results and pure vanity metrics.

Nothing about actual business results, just another thing marketing managers were seen to need to do.
there's a little more to this than autodialing; dialing the entire keyspace would have taken several days. presenter used some manufacturing defects to narrow the keyspace into something that could be cracked in 45 minutes.
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We deploy them at work. There are some devices that only integrate with iOS and an iPad is overkill.
> But unless you are confined to Windows, that doesn't really matter, does it?

Yeah, why should 80% of the OS market share mind to people who develop software for a living?
GraphQL queries supports other things like fragments, which don't map very well to JSON.
It might be great functionally, but it looks like there's no design or aesthetics at all - kind of like an iphone made with matte plastic and without rounded corners.
> The article is not critical of Amazon. It is highly complimentary of Amazon, and says that it is not monopolistic.

You and I definitely didn't read the same article.
Brilliant idea. Daniel Kish has a patent on a similar device that clicks at an audible frequency, you can adjust the clicking rate, power and pitch (different pitch provides different information).
The only way is really to educate them. I’ve dealt with this quite a bit with my family, and telling them what to be wary of has helped a bunch.
Often it's a false economy. Dish detergent for example... the more expensive stuff is often far thicker concentrate and lasts many times longer than the cheap stuff.
This seems like excellent news.
130 mph top speed for the base model.
Weight: 3549 lb.
220 mile range.

The design mission of this car is very conservative: freeway travel at 70-80 mph, for several hours, with 4 people and their luggage. The payload (I'll guess 900lb) is similar to what you'd need in a Toyota or Mercedes.

However, this is lousy for urban vehicles/pedestrians/congestion. For example, in San Francisco, I need a 50 mph vehicle that can carry 2 people. And at 50 mph, I can drive to Palo Alto in less than an hour.

Could Tesla give me a 1000lb/50mph vehicle? I bet SpaceX could.

At least Motor Trend did really like the Model 3's handling: http://www.motortrend.com/cars/tesla/model-3/2018/exclusive-...
This statement seems unnecessarily harsh. To me it looks like a next generation interior that can be customised with software to support autonomous driving for non-owners of the vehicle.
If Google or Facebook were gone tomorrow, I'd definitely notice. If Uber was gone tomorrow, I'd use Lyft.
Awesome! thanks for sharing.
Yeah, but it's not like traditional advertising is free of fraud either. You can't even really pretend to measure the effectiveness of campaigns there. And there's much more money in it.
For example, instead of spending millions on ads, write a story about "how you're not going to spend millions on ads" and get noticed by a lot of wealthy consumer in the prime pages of their Business Review newspapers.
Most of that is supported on Windows

* Docker is supported and it will get better. Nano server supports it otb.

* Chocolatey is a great package manager. Others also exist.

* You can use most GNU tools.

* You can use any hardware you want

* Performance is good on Windows

* Freedom, i.e. FOSS is ubiquitous on Windows too (not as much as on Linux for sure tho).

* Privacy and security is good on Windows 10. Linux desktops are honestly not that safe.

Things not supported on Windows are:

* WM/DE - this is not a thing on Windows

* There is only 1 distro of Windows, but you can basically create your own with package manager, its just there aren't currently any OTB.

There are things Windows has better:

* Powershell is way better shell then anything Linux has to offer.

* Games still work better and there are more supported.

* More commercial tools are available for Windows.

Honestly, the only difference now is the culture around it. Although I use Windows as my desktop (which is irrelevant as I live in the shell and browser 24/7, so any OS will do), i prefer Linux engineers.

Server side ofc. you can't really bit the fact that linux servers are mostly free of charge. Windows Enterprise is terribly expensive.
Was approached by them for a project. Definitely not the case as outlined by we39i [0] down in the comments. Mostly French from France there.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14875272
... in 1977.

You're a legend Walter, but there are millions of games available to play now. The days when a title circulated around university PDP-10s are gone. The dynamics of virality are very different.
> Push people to self-hate for who they are?

Did you read the post? She says that's pointless and useless.

She also acknowledges that her blog post isn't going to change anything. Nobody is going to quit because they read this. She has no power to fire anyone. White men, on the other hand, have the power to not hire her, to fire her, and so forth.

So what's the damage? Why are you mounting an all-out attack against her because you were reminded of her thesis? Why are you hurting so much?
Interesting. I've been trying to decide which language to learn next. Between Scala, elixir, and haskell at the moment. Was leaning Scala, but all the praise here is starting to convince me to go elixir. What problems did you run into with Scala?
> Most humans do not really come up with our goals on our own either

I disagree. I believe we have free will, in addition to being influenced by our environment/genes.

This is my general point, that contemplating AI is a way for us to investigate how we ourselves operate. You have your theory and I have mine. Nobody has shown how we can be replicated.

EDIT

> We can imagine an alien who is highly capable of any tasks human can perform and beyond, including coming up with creative subgoals as necessary, but will only serve their master's ultimate goal(s). An AGI could be like that alien but built to serve human masters. The twist is that, without value alignment with humans, some subgoal could be killing starving kittens to reduce their suffering

If the AGI's goals are determined by a human, then it is technically trivial to encode human values. The hard part is convincing humans not to encode evil values.

So it isn't that AGI would go rogue, it's that humans could. That's an age-old, Adam & Eve question. It's not specific to AI technology.
Those aren't trivial problems to solve in a traditional REST framework either.
In GraphQL, having one whole query delivered upfront means the server can do some clever query-planning and app-level caching to efficiently fetch its required data. REST endpoints can't do that, since the queries will be spread across multiple network requests.
Any idea as to why is this different from the EU? My 2006 Ford Focus C-max van pull up to 1200 kg (= 2650 pound, braked, 665 kg unbraked) legally here.
As a curiosity/hack you can almost get there with pyrasite (https://github.com/lmacken/pyrasite) and

def newfn():
...

oldfn.__code__ = newfn.__code__

del newfn

There's a difficulty with __globals__ and __closures__ but I found the patch at the end of this post https://hardenedapple.github.io/stories/computers/python_fun... appears to allow full redefinition.

Disclaimer: I'm pretty confident there will be edge cases and/or bugs with these approaches.
"Have you found any marijuana ashes on the floor? Answer the policeman, Roomba!"
It's _really_ not. It is important to enjoy and be passionate about your game. But writing your ideal game is a recipe for making crap, in my humble experience, unless you happen to be intuitively skilled in game design.
> IDEs wouldn't need distinct project files

But they do, and ignoring hard constraints imposed by reality doesn't help increase adoption rates.

> There is no need for every tool to know about every other tool.

If you want your product to be supported by an IDE but you don't have any say on how that IDE is developed, the only sure way you have to get your product supported by that IDE is to get your product to output the IDE project files.
An Ode to Shopping Malls
Broadway and modern digital marketing, an awesome combination
How We’re Overcoming the Challenges of Working Remote
GitHub Diversity report
> Even the smaller TL-15 safes weigh hundreds of pounds

I've seen a TL-15 safe that came as 6 separate modular pieces (i.e., 5 walls and the door each weighing about 100-150 pounds) that you bolted together, internally, with about 50-60 heavy bolts. It was specifically intended for condos, high rise offices, etc., so you could easily transport each piece on a hand cart or dolly, then assemble in place. It was a beautiful design, but no longer manufactured as far as I can tell.
It is very easy to waste big spends in online advertising. There are large swaths of revenue absorbing points that are completely useless or nearly useless.

There are also ways to do it effectively on limited spends. Just like anything else, it requires effort.

With as many channels as there are, and as many people who have found a way to avoid commercials, TV advertising is a shadow of what it used to be.

These days effective and valuable marketing, especially for large brands, is hard work. No one vendor is a complete solution, and you have to consistently experiment and determine what the best options are where your target customer eyeballs happen to be landing in an ever-changing landscape.

Advertising in general is ripe for disruption.
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Bezos owns Washington Post :(
Just be very sure there is no cables or pipes where you drill (electrical, central heating, water etc).
> Cargo and Go's build tool are great.

In short, you know nothing and yet feel entitled to throw around authoritative baseless assumptions regarding a well established tool that has been widely adopted by a whole industry.
I've been wondering for a while what type of radio Tesla is installing in their cars. I assume it has AM/FM capabilities but what type of streaming does it have? Is it XM/Sirius compatible? Does it have Google Play/iTunes capabilities? Is it streamed from your cell phone?
> c-x c-[fa]

You mean c-x c-[fs], right? I'm by no mean an emacs expert although I've been using it for 6 years now, and when I read your comment I thought "Wow, c-x c-a is a functionality? How comes I have never used that?", so I tried that in emacs but it's not mapped to anything.

Apart from that, I fully agree with your comment.
As an ad exec once said, "half the money we spend on advertising is wasted. The trouble is, we don't know which half."
What really irks me is getting an email like this:

Shipping account suspended

Dear XXXX,
FedEx shipping privileges for account number ending in NNNN
have been suspended. To access and update your credit card
data, log in to FedEx® Billing Online.

Log in today (Button)

This just screams "scam", especially since I haven't used the FedEx account in months. When I log into FedEx (not using the link in the email), my account shows a zero balance and no outstanding messages. So I send the email, with headers, to "abuse@fedex.com". (They never answered.)

I call FedEx Revenue Services, and they can't find anything wrong with the account. They tell me the account isn't suspended. They want the expiration date on my credit card updated before the end of the month, but it hasn't expired yet.

I look at the message source, and it looks like it's really coming from FedEx, and the link really goes to FedEx. I keep looking, and can't find anything wrong in the headers. It's a legit email. It's just stupidity at FedEx.

Sloppy work, FedEx, sending out an email like that. You're training people to click on links they should not click on.
Imo educating works best, you can only mitigate the problem with technology. I've only installed and configured a content blocker on grandma's computer as a passive measurement against scams and for general benefits.

Otherwise I just advised her not to give out personal information, including email, phone and credit card numbers. And don't click links in emails she does not recognize the sender or looks suspicious. Best not to even open them. In doubt, I'm usually available to doublecheck.

Pendrives caused a lot of problems in the past, luckily broadband solved most of the file transfer issues.
The "small battery" still has more range than any other electric car out there, except the Bolt, which has a very small lead, but does not seem to be made in large numbers. And it matches the promised range (>215 miles). So it is great value for everyone, who does not need the 300 mile range. So you do get a sporty (0-60 <6s) 5 seated electrical sedan for 35k, which is great.
> Wouldn't you even agree that there is a 1% chance that AGI is possible and that it could harm us once invented?

There's a small chance aliens could find us, too. Yet, we don't know any more about that than we do about AI.

The most imminent threat to humans is humans. In the nearer future, it seems more likely that someone will use machine learning technology in weaponry to cause harm than create AGI. Or, that humans will undergo a global "cultural revolution" like in China or Cambodia (or ISIS now), killing anyone with an education, under the guise that "machines are evil", yet with the true goal of obtaining power, as humans often do.

Ultimately, people are free to work on what they want. If some people want to work on AGI safety, that's great. Perhaps their goal is to make humanity a little more kind. That's certainly worthy.

For me, I'm more interested in seeing research focused on giving better tools to doctors for diagnoses. Radiology is a great place to apply image recognition systems. We just need some good labeled datasets.

Sometimes I get frustrated by the "AGI is an existential risk" quotes like Musk's because I feel that's a distraction from some really beneficial applications of machine learning that will help save lives. It could cause over-hype, leading to another AI winter, pushing back life-saving advances 15 years, as happened after the 80s.

Personally I don't have a problem with the kinds of things some AGI safety researchers, like Stuart Russel, says about AGI. He isn't saying it will arrive in 2030-2040, like Musk.

Musk has an incentive to capitalize on people's fear of AGI. It attracts investment in his non-profit, which can in turn help him continue building his in-house AI program at Tesla. Primarily I disagree with his conclusions about AI tech, but I'm also weary of his motivations. I think some people view him as altruistic and I just don't see that.

> What would be the minimum level sufficient to convince you that AGI is possible?

A system that can determine its own goals. We don't have anything close to that yet, and I can't see anything short of that being a good indicator that we are close to AGI.
inside google adwords you have a invalid click rate,
right now i have cca 13% per search campaign and 70% display from the start of this month till now, im sure thats not everything because for some time i tracked those invalid clicks from my side and those where bigger then what google reported. its frustrating but i can hardly do anything.
How did they end up investing your money without your consent?
What are the top 3 most important metrics in social media marketing?
> As for "key right next to house" how else do you propose letting agents show your property to prospective buyers or tenants?

Give the letting agent a key to hold on to? Use an electronic keypad lock? Perhaps in your specific situation those are not feasible, but it’s not like there aren’t alternatives.
Corda using SGX
I would hate to work in a company where my ethnicity or my gender matters.
> If you are the Walter Bright

There can be only one!

Anyhow, glad you liked it! I still regularly get email about Empire 40 years later.
Four huge airlines on three continents are creating a virtual super-airline
راه اندازی اتاق سرور و تاثیر آن بر حیات یک سازمان
There could hardly be an article that's more in HN's wheelhouse. Upvotes are the least surprising thing ever.
Yeah, destructive in the sense of how antibiotics are destructive to germs. Please, give me more of them!

(Also, I hate the phrase "content producer". It seems to imply that content is fungible - companies thinking in such terms are precisely those who should go under.)
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goto "other territories"
Thats why you have the two scroll-wheel knobs on the steering wheel. You select a function and then you can adjust them with a physical control while driving.
Hmmm, I see no indication of an incoming message or contact request.
And here in France the weather is kinda cold for the summer.

Maybe just stop using local climate tout justify global warming?
Is your VPN lying to you?
How does it work? Does it use regen exclusively if you press the brake pedal lightly, and then the mechanical brakes are only engaged when you stomp on the pedal, or?
I agree that Elon and Mark are likely to say things that they think will win them support.

I think the best way to understand AI tech is to try it out yourself. The closer you are to understanding its internals, the more informed you'll be. Fundamentally, it's currently all statistics. It's up to you, then, to decide whether humans are just statistical machines, or if we have something more that may not be understood by science yet, such as free will.
I just found out that Stanford's "Redwood City campus" is entirely administrative. 35 acres of bureaucrats. 2700 people. "School of Medicine administration. Stanford Libraries and University Archives administration. Business Affairs. Land, Buildings and Real Estate. Human Resources. Residential & Dining Enterprises. Office of Development (i.e. fund-raising). And those are just the off-site administrators. There are more back on the main campus.

Stanford has only 2,180 faculty members.
I've used autoconf/automake in some pet projects (a combo that's typically referred to as autotools), and I have to say that the biggest drawback of using that build system is its appallingly bad documentation.

To me, the official GNU docs are unreadable, and the only useful and mildly palatable documentation available on the web comes in the form of blog posts published by people who managed to learn how to get autotools projects to work and took their time to tell the world how they managed to accomplish that feat of technical prowess.

Once that initial part of the learning curve is surpassed, autotools presents itself as a remarkably robust and resilient build system which is highly extensible, which supports virtually all use cases that any user may need to implement.

Build systems such as CMake are started as better alternatives to autotools, and they do succeed in that venture by providing better documentation and presenting a smoother learning curve to accomplish basic tasks. Yet, once a project grows out of the scope of basic use cases.... Everything starts to break, while autoconfs soldier on like a champ.
Adnauseam?

https://adnauseam.io/
They are saying the have 1/2 million "reservations" for model 3. Wonder what that means..
Break fluid, battery coolant, drive unit fluid, tires when necessary, wheel alignments when necessary, wiper blades when necessary, key fob batteries.

https://www.tesla.com/support/maintenance-plans
Benchmarks are tricky and hard to find for dlang as its not that popular, but I have common sense to back that statement. Dlang garbage collector is really really slow for now [0], and C# has a very fast GC and overall is almost as fast as zero-overhead languages like Rust or C++ [1]. So, its reasonable that for anything that involves GC (we all can agree that web server does) D is not that fast as manual memory management languages yet.

[0]
https://olshansky.me//gc/runtime/dlang/2017/06/14/inside-d-g...

[1] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/binarytrees.htm...
Asteroids can also serve as giant "yachts" to move around the solar system. Find one in the right orbit, land on it, and hitch a ride. You've got all the radiation shielding needed, plus plenty of raw materials to build out the "spaceship".
I solve this issue by using my own config directory; this way I soft-link two things from my dotfiles repo:

- .emacs - which defines my config dir and loads everything in there

- my own config dir (called .emacs.conf), in which I have lots of .el files with specific configurations

Emacs packages still write by default to .emacs.d, and this way I don't have to care about any of that when moving between machines, because my configuration and Emacs's ongoing state are separate.

To be honest, though, I'll probably be migrating into a single-file literate solution soon, which will render my own config directory unnecessary.
Programs and humans can peacefully coexist. Emacs looks for your init.el in that directory so it is most definitely also meant for people to use. I put my own libraries in ~/.emacs.d/my-lisp (and I put this directory on the load path). I've had zero trouble with this setup.
What about using machine learning to estimate time to solve difficult task with ai?
I've sometimes used a snippet like this:

(defun rebuild (&optional (sha1 (sha1-of-current-commit)))
(asdf:operate 'asdf:compile-op :my-package)
(asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op :my-package)
(push sha1 *sha1s-of-loaded-commits*))

(defun rebuild-if-necessary ()
(let ((sha1 (getf (current-commit) :sha1))
(loaded (car *sha1s-of-loaded-commits*)))
(unless (equal sha1 loaded)
(format t "Rebuilding since ~S differs from ~S.~%"
sha1 loaded)
(rebuild sha1)
t)))

And then in for example a web service project, I would just call that function in the basic request dispatch handler.

When a web request comes in to the Lisp system, it will check the working directory's Git repository. If the HEAD points to a new commit, it will compile the new code (to machine code, with optimizations!) and reload the whole web app package. When the REBUILD-IF-NECESSARY function call returns, the new code is already loaded, and the web request proceeds as normal, but with the new code loaded.

And yeah, the conditions system is really radically better than exceptions. Raising a condition doesn't unwind the stack, but just calls the closest condition handler, more like a function call than an exception. The handler is offered a choice of restart opportunities, so for example a FILE-NOT-FOUND condition might offer to restart with a different file path, to just retry, or to error. Having restarts available for almost all exceptional conditions makes the system much more flexible.
That isn't really accurate. An Aeotec Smart Switch 6 for example consumes <0.8W, while a single LED lamp consumes 4-20W depending on brightness. So the lights in a single room could reasonably be consuming 20-100W, vs. a smart switch consuming <1W.

You don't have to optimise your usage much to totally offset the power cost of using smart devices
A new era for Arduino begins today
Predicting Ethereum price with machine learning
It's not that the left has embraced a certain branch of science, it's that the right has embraced entrenched business interests, specifically oil and gas, to the point where they're forced to dismiss that science, because it's incompatible with profit maximization of those entrenched businesses.