skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally disagree with this.

1. "computers" HAVE disappeared; AKA ubiquitous surveillance is already here.

2. I dont want to see a bunch of people flailing their arms. I dont want a new crop of "lip readers" who are looking at the body movements of others and intercepting their actions intentions (imaging ML/AI/CV applied to watching a crowd of people and IDing all the apps/interactions/intentions they are performing)

3. Organic Humanism will be a thing. Fuck technology - I literally want to walk into Yosemite and not have a single digital thread connecting me to the outside world.

4. Central control. "invisible computers" literally means that ALL power over human thought shall exist in the "cloud" -- where all control/tech/physicality is abstracted from any naive mind.

5. Education flounders; Try teaching some kids about the state of the internet in 20 years when they have never seen a computer in physicality. They have only interacted (unknowingly, ubiquitously, and without their will 100% of their entire little lives) -- entering a FaceGoog.gov datacenter would literally be like Neo waking up in the Matrix vat of human sludge.

So -- as someone who was pushing for and played my tiny part in the creation of the state of things due to my awe of the imagined future of cyberpunk reality. FUCK THIS IDEA COMPLETELY and kill it with fire...

I could go on...
Yes, but at some point people used to say "fuck this I'm not working 40 hours a week my whole life if I can't even buy a house and afford a few luxuries." And so that would restrict supply.

People don't do this anymore for various reasons, frankly it's been demonized in our society. Lots of companies (/most?) restrict supply to drive up costs (diamonds, agriculture, digital media, etc), they don't produce at maximum/flood the market. They restrict supply to maintain a healthy profit margin. And people call this good business, but what do we call workers who do the same?

I think their is a good argument to be made that our middle and lower classes have just been acting as bad business men and women and have been giving as much unrestricted supply as they've been asked for. It's bankrupting them, costing them their health, costing their children opportunities for good education and access to their parents bc they are working all the time. It's costing them the American Dream, if there ever was one.

I do believe it's time for people to unionize or something. Unions are a whole other argument, but we can make new ones with new rules to make them better. People have to realize their bosses view their "worth" more so as leverage than output. People can increase their output all they want (which they often have: more degrees, more work hours, etc), but without an increase in leverage they won't be paid that.

Further, this doesn't neccessarily mean anyone's boss is not paying them appropriately. It's possible the market at large needs to be adjusted to pay for these costs or more than likely a little of A and a little of B.
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Except when you client is someone with "fuck you" money. Having worked for one of those rich guys with an bulldog legal team on staff, it's hard to win or win without hemorrhaging alot. In his case, he always won or got a good settlement, big or small opponent.

It pays to have the agreements air tight but you also have to watch you back and always have your bases covered. Even then, you could still get screwed even though you were in the right.
The article describes how contractor culture is creeping up from facilities into the white collar workforce near the end. I think that's a buried lead.

You and I, maybe we made the right decisions. I'm doing pretty well for myself as a software engineer.

But when I see the misfortune of others -- people who saw the bottoms fall out of their careers -- let's just say it makes me hesitant to whistle past graveyards.
The most useful caveat, from the paper:

Since the average professional software engineer has more experience than our average subject,
the effect sizes reported may be overstated for some populations
The part that legitimized territorial acquisition--the right of conquest. Flimsy excuses are still accepted for waging war, but not for acquiring territory.

It's an interesting notion. However, I suspect the cause+effect is much murkier. Colonialism had all but ended by 1928. Rising powers like the U.S. never had much interest in territorial acquisition. In fact, my naive understanding of world history is that territorial conquest (distinct from cultural/political/economic conquest) was largely a modern European thing, perhaps a consequence of the Treaty of Westphalia which forced European powers to think of conquest in very black & white terms.
Is it though? Freedom and regulatory overreach arguments are being used right now, with a straight face, to eliminate net neutrality rules that prohibit ISPs from screwing over their customers. Is it really sarcasm if it's actually happening?
Another, less chilling effects way would be to have an Underwriters' Laboratories (UL) or CE for software. Any government, company or customer could then have that as a requirement.
I'm not sure you're envisioning the same thing I am. You would only be liable for something that you sell or otherwise make money from. You would be free to publish software, open source or not, without incurring liability as long as you don't make money from it. Whoever then uses that software for a commercial product would be incurring the full liability, and would not be able to turn around and sue up the chain.

The currently widespread practice of trusting sensitive user data to open source code without an audit (either internally or via a third-party, e.g. Red Hat) is horrifying and incredibly negligent.
Anyone aware of an explanation of how YC Research makes choices to fund and defund projects?
Deep packet inspection, network throttling based on traffic type, ...

Sources:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/12/comcast-throws-1...

https://www.cnet.com/news/fcc-formally-rules-comcasts-thrott...
What's the incentive for the vendor? Trying to do the best and hoping the customer picks them? Or just maintaining the status quo because the customer has insurance and is protected?

I hear ya. The flaw is, there isn't enough competition in enough markets. Many rural areas only have one ISP.
..but why? PHP can do all of this out of the box.
What made you cool off from VR?
Is paying for your kids education inheritance? Are pre-paid company contracts for a lifetime inheritance? etc etc.

There are some definite difficulties in implementation. But even then, my argument is that it could be a really harmful tax if it could be applied at all.
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At some point, the "disconnect" between shareholders (even and as, on a massive scale -- especially and specifically these "too big to fail" institutions) and their businesses needs to be breached. Businesses with chronic, systemic wrong-doing need to be put down. Wells Fargo is a prime, current candidate.

If this were a Democratic administration, or a rational Republican one, I'd say, it's time for the FDIC (too bad Sheila Bair's no longer its head) to come in, take over, and sell off Wells Fargo.

And that we have a Savings and Loan type investigation and prosecution, flipping the smaller fish until we get to the top and lock them up. (And strip them of their ill-gotten personal assets.)

At this point, shareholders should be well informed as to where their growth and profits are coming from. If they want to invest in such behavior, they should equally reap the results, in financial terms.

In other, if currently unrealistically ideal words, "No one is above the law."

At some point, you have to act to effectively put the brakes on such behavior. Otherwise, it takes over.
Its the internet of vulnerable things! Most of which will never see an update to resolve the security vulns that crop up with time, let alone receive proper software stack maintenance for more than a brief period of time.
This is a lightweight comment which draws from one published paper, a blog, and a NYT opinion piece.

Its sense of incredulity is no further advanced than the opposition to pair programming in the 1990s, when it was one of the practices promoted by XP. It does not, as I hoped, tie together the decades of research studies on the topic.

For a much more detailed summary of the topic, much more along the lines of what I wanted to read here, see the chapter by Laurie Williams on the topic in "Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It".
"Non distortive" You can't imagine a way a tax like that would change people's behavior? People would give their money to their children before they die, or spend it all on themselves, and maybe some would work less because they were previously motivated by building up assets to give to their children.
I'm not sure what you mean by "semantic/type binds", but if you're writing a plugin, IDE's like Eclipse and IDEA do give you access to program syntax via a Java API, and for many languages there is also type-aware indexing. Typically this is exposed to the user as specific queries (such as "go to definition" or "find all usages") and updates ("rename method"). From a UI perspective, more features can be added by writing more plugins and/or improving them.

But this indexing is only on one user's workstation and tends not to scale up well. Updating dependencies or switching to a different branch means rebuilding large parts of the index.

Also, part of the problem is that there is little standardization. Many ecosystems are language, platform, build tool, and/or editor-specific. When you do something new you end up reinventing the wheel.
uh... no we are not.

Please explain yourself further, if I am missing your point.

Thanks
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It is. But I don't like the idea of using a platform designed to hook you in. Everything is about "engagement". Facebook is not above messing with your mood and life outlook to get more eyeballs. If you engage more when you're really sad that's what you'll start seeing.

See this experiment: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/everyt...

Facebook published a study on emotional manipulation. Creepy at the least
I don't see anyone upthread making that claim you are challenging. Could you point me to the comment you meant to respond to?
I can easily relate to this, started with Xenix, moved into DG-UX at university, we moved into GNU/Linux after that server eventually died, so it was mostly used of OS related classes.

At work GNU/Linux was just an internal server, all real work was being done in Solaris, HP-UX and Aix servers.

So fast forward to modern times and even Microsoft uses Linux kernel syscalls on their new POSIX personality subsystem, instead of actually supporting POSIX.
Given that the pact is self-enforced, it would simply be broken when it becomes undesirable.
Does this mean VirtualBox is dead soon as well?
> How many of them did you use daily? All 1400? 5? 10? Because checking sanity of ten of them, even if they are whooping 800+ lines of code (I'll have to see that) can't be compared to over 300K lines of monolithic systemd.

All of them, it was over several servers, running different distros, with similar services, all with similar but slightly different init scripts for the same packages, and all having to interoperate. All scripts from the distro’s packages.

All of them were running daily, and many of them were constantly causing issues.

In fact, I have a single sysvinit script left on my systems, and it’s exactly that one that doesn’t work reliably.
A few professional negligence lawsuits wouldn't hurt.
This is basically the point of the estate tax: people are already producing a balance sheet of all the wealth for the purpose of distrusting it to the heirs. So tax the wealth when the estate changes hands and all the accounting is going to be done anyway.
Shocked to hear Vi call HN a "weird place" - especially after creating an account only five minutes ago.
Great interface.
A tiny and very densely populated country. That we manage to produce so much food is amazing enough in itself, but you'd think we'd need it for ourselves. Maybe we import all our own food, or maybe we really have such a gigantic surplus.
"What's your email address" is about 90-120 bits of information -- a long way from the 2000-5000 bits that are in a public key. I figure if we solve this problem then we can make encrypting email the norm.
No, Oracle at the time was big on the "fullstack" play, and thought Sun hardware could provide the last piece of the puzzle: selling absolutely everything to a business, from metal to apps and services, in one neat box. Java would have been safe with IBM too, that wasn't much of a worry - although I'm sure Ellison hoped they could leverage it against competitors invested in it, like they tried to do with Google.

The enemy #1 for Oracle at the time was SAP, which they couldn't force out because it's another cancer (the lock-in is huge); so they developed a strategy of buying loads of ecosystem apps to "surround" it. At that point, they could sell the database and apps in one package, and then slowly erode sap away. Hardware was a natural addition to that strategy.

Unfortunately they borked execution. They didn't invest properly in making solutions ready-made, so after you bought a (very expensive) box, you still had to pay tons to consultants to set it up, making it uncompetitive on the whole. The industry shift to cloud did the rest. Now they're way too busy turning into "bigger Salesforce" to care about metal.
DeepRLhacks – Notes from Schulman's Lecture at Deep RL Bootcamp at UC Berkeley
Tell that to Utah's nurses
How a Decision Journal Changed the Way I Make Decisions (Template Included)
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Source?

This analysis seems to suggest we are in a period of relative peace. [0]

[0] - https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace/
Is remote OK?
VirtualBox?
I think that dolphins might be biased.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/science/dolphins-toss-sha...
In manufacturing robots have been replacing workers that already did a very good job, somehow the engineers created these machines capable of increasing precision and quantity produced.

In assistance they are going to replace worthless call center people that know nothing of the matter at hand and/or have no power/autonomy to decide with these chatbots.

It won't be that much difficult to make something better than the awful experience of talking with a clueless human, but from this to have something actually useful for the customer there is a loooong way.

The good news are that the underpaid worker at the call center (while now starving because of no income) will not be upset anymore by the angry reactions of the calling customers to their nonsense, and customers will feel much less that sense of impotence they experienced most of the time when they attempted to report an issue, as hitting a mechanical/automated hard rubber wall is more acceptable than having to fight for hours with humans in (often vain) attempts to get a proper answer or to talk with someone understanding/in charge.
We already produce enough food for 10 billion people. We just choose not to feed them all. World hunger is very much an economic-political choice.

We give that food to cattle instead. Or we just waste it.
i have the 5268AC modem and i just did a quick nmap -PU . open ports from that are 80, 8443, and 49152
This isn't some musing of mine. It's the predominant view among people who study this kind of thing.
I'd like a quote on the NPO there. That is a public non-partisan institution.
Oversight and mentorship doesn't exist for entry level self-taught doctors or lawyers. Everyone starting out would be learning the hard lessons the hard way, and for law and medicine, that means jail, injury, and deaths.
Although I always believed that was true, I started having doubts when I saw "Topchef" candidates having trouble distinguishing cow and pig meat when blindfolded.

Stress should be avoided, don't get me wrong, but I don't think our tastebuds are this advanced.
Nah, all you have to do is redirect 802.1X traffic to their device and you can use whatever device you want.

I have my EdgeRouter performing this function currently.
Why Yale owns a Forest
One of the things I've hated about maintaining PHP web apps is how reliant on the web interface they usually are; this has thankfully started to change. Drupal (finally) has decent CLI tools. MediaWiki is among the few to have had CLI tools for many years.

But, the thing that struck me about this project and the examples is just how verbose PHP has gotten over the years. It is strikingly similar to old Java, in terms of class definitions and the like. I know PHP has also gotten faster and lot of "grown up" language features in that time, too, but some of its charm as a language with strong "whipuptitude" is lost. I'm certain it's a better language than it was a decade or two ago, and it was, frankly, awful by many measures back then. But, it sure does take a lot of typing.

So, I like that things like this exist (though I likely wouldn't use it...I really need most of my CLI tools to be standalone with no non-core dependencies). I'd like it if every web developer knew how to make good CLI apps and did so for every web app. I use Perl or POSIX shell mostly for my CLI apps, but PHP makes perfect sense for tools that work with existing web apps (the Drupal helper scripts I've written are mostly in PHP).
Well at least you don't have to regret that you failed because you didn't try hard enough. Plus, I'm sure you learned a lot along the way even if things didn't work out. I hope that you found your work fulfilling if not entertaining; if not, perhaps there's something wrong.

Nevertheless for all you know the knowledge you've gained so far will help you achieve the success you desire in the future.
Just for information, pictures are not stored server side, everything happpens via websocket and memory only
To the best of my knowledge, yes. It's possible I once overheard/read it somewhere, and have forgotten the source, but it lingered in my brain somewhere.

In addition, with 100 billion+ people existing throughout the entirety of the human race, it's unlikely I was the first to think of anything I've ever thought.
Remember, you originally said the word "we", not me. It is shibboleth for how we use force in society. I just used your word in quotation marks. In your case you take for granted that "we" should use guns to enforce private property of Capitalists. Then you criticized the word "we" which you yourself used, by making assumptions about "Liberals" and that only progressives want Welfare. Tell that to all the conservatives on Medicare and Social Security or whose water is not polluted.

I've had this happen a lot. When someone is ideological they think that only their position is axiomatically true and everyone else is making assumptions. I understand how you feel, but this exceptionalism is keeping you from engaging in good faith with other viewpoints. Anarcho capitalism is the best, our system is the best, etc. You never seriously challenge your assumptions and that's why you sincerely believe that "capitalism is as inevitable as gravity."

I gave you lots of good info above as a starting point but happy to discuss substance if you ever want to. Good day!
I think you look for purpose where there is little. What's the purpose of an animal living in the wild? Ecologists would say eat or be eaten, thrive, multiply.

From an evolutionary point of view you could say that cows, chickens, pigs (and cats, dogs, horses) are one of the most successful animals, exactly because we eat (or pet) them.
Germans are not willing to pay money for food. They expect food to be cheap, they don't care too much about the quality of it (in general, of course).
Germans sometimes joke about themselves that some of them will spend +1000€ for a barbecue without a problem, yet they'll put the cheapest 0.50€ sausages on it.
> Less than a decade later, Ms. Evans was chief technology officer of the whole company.

So was she partly responsible for Kodak missing the boat on digital cameras?
Empower the cloud to scale applications with ease
It's also news to me. Most of our energy still comes from coal and gas, I believe. I believe we were once ahead of the pack in wind energy, but the conservative politics of the past decade and a half has made us fall behind the rest of Europe in switching to sustainable energy.
That's what would effectively emerge from the liability system. Companies would buy insurance from liability, and the insurance companies would demand some kind of certification process.
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There is still macOS as NeXTSTEP derivative.
I applaud Hutchins' choice to use Full disclosure instead. Let that be a lesson to all Big Corps, there are White Hats out there who won't be bullied by your "Responsbile disclosure" propaganda. The writing is on the walls, Big Corps, take responsibility and secure your gear by design or be pilloried.
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Where's the profit in that?
"I think if world events had been different, the timing would have worked out well for a resurgence of this kind of research."

But surely you knew that before you started the venture? Wouldn't it have been better then to produce a finished marketable product which allow you to actually keep going long-term which a project like this so require. I just don't really see what the strategy for success was here.
as virtual experience quality gets better, you will see more and more applications starting with anything porn related
Ten times zero, is still zero ;)
basically, your argument is that you know better than the market. Let me assure you, this isn't so. Source: grew up in the USSR.
Alipay rolls out world’s first ‘Smile to Pay’ facial recognition system at KFC
A huge problem is Education. It's hard to tell which way the solution lies in, yet.
My company was using big machines cpq... While I personally think there are better options, the support under now "Oracle CPQ" has been considerably better, and have seen some improvements under Oracle.

We are planning to move to another CPQ in the next few months, but that's not cause oracle at all or the product got worse under Oracle.

But then we also use oracle DBMS part of our product, and we are moving away cause we hate oracle licensing/ support costs and while oracle can do alot, we are only using limited subset of functionality.
I can't seem to find any information on how or if this was disclosed to AT&T. Does anyone know how the blogger proceeded here?
Everything is finite when you have a fixed amount of information and mass in the universe. That doesn't mean the common economic definitions of wealth are useless. The act of creating capital such as a piece of art, a new algorithm, or a manufacturing tool all change the total amount of wealth in the world.
>If the base platform (last mile 'wires') were owned by the community

It's not necessary for the wires to be owned by the people. They could be owned by a private, highly regulated, capital intensive, infrastructure utility company, that is a legally separate entity from the ISPs who compete to provide your data services.

Private is not necessarily better than community ownership, but may be more politically viable.
I still think it's overrated. Let's take Trump for example - he has both money and power (arguably more than mainstream media since he won in spite of them). Do you think he's happy? He doesn't seem to be. Would even more money and power make him happier? I doubt it.
The US never had much interest in territorial acquisition? Ever heard of "manifest destiny"?