skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m interested in what kind of problems you are solving for your clients.

I always thought complex/fun problems take a bit longer. That has some disadvantages though: the longer you work for a client, the more knowledge you have. You may end up having the responsibility to keep supporting whatever you implemented. In my case you then end up with a few bosses (instead of one boss as an employee). I would much rather go in, do the job, and get out again.
I guess I should have bought a GeForce 9 series videocard instead of GeForce 10, as it's the last one having drivers for Windows XP. Might have worked with ReactOS.
> As someone on the opposite of the fence (renter not a landlord); I'm unmoved by your concerns.

But you and the rest of HN should be; every time I read arguments about NIMBYism, housing stock availability, etc, this train of thought is why people don't want to be a landlord, want to buy and hold their property, and don't want to allow more housing to be built to protect their property values.

If being a landlord is financially precarious, investors will simply buy and hold, and there is never going to be enough political will to force them to rent nor to force their hand through a land tax.

> So, I think you could have a little more humanity, and realize your tenants are also dealing with a nightmare and potentially strapped for cash; or you can be a self-centered asshole and have your tenants and the court system ream you for it.

Agreed. This is what insurance is for.

Disclaimer: Landlord, but with insurance to cover loss of rent if disaster strikes.
I wish there was something as standard, ubiquitous, fast&light, dependency-less, and adopted by the whole Unix ecosystem and beyond like make is now, yet better (= less archaic, more "write once works everywhere", uniform single way of depending on other projects, focused on the actual code/bins/libs and their dependencies instead of specific packaging for specific distros, ...).

Not some "hype of the day" build system of course as that by definition makes it a short lived maintenance burden rather than universal.

While make is universal, with makefiles now it's so bad, that even if you write pure C90 code with zero dependencies (which should work everywhere), users will still find reasons why you should add all kinds of platform dependent stuff or things for a particular distro to your makefile...
This is cool. Is there a way to automatically sanitize for CSV Injection vulnerabilities? (I.e. stripping out Excel macros.)
Currently that's solved because transactions aren't added live by every user but instead get batched together and added as a group so individually you just have to wait for some block to pickup your transaction from the pool of available transactions. What you're suggesting could potentially become a problem for a technology if new block propagation takes longer than new block discovery.

Today orphan blocks aren't exactly rare there're several a month where two different pools will announce new blocks within a couple seconds of each other and one gets abandoned because it was the later one or because the other block had a new block mined from it faster.
How to build a business in an ultra-competitive market
Logical reason for wanting to restrict the rights of gay people and ban all Muslims? I'm all ears, I literally cannot think of a rational reason for supporting such policies.
Explanation on 3blue1brown YT channel is best I've found so far
It's not zero-sum, but it's also not the case that your money and mine are unrelated.
I would prefer recommending a stable build process: — a Docker image can be just like having a VM image or that one PC in the corner of the lab nobody is sure is unneeded. It's far better than having nothing or just the result file but it still has the possibility of needing to reverse-engineer the internal state and given how fast the Docker world moves I would not want to bet on format compatibility 5 years out.

Docker could be that stable build process but it requires the additional assertion that there wasn't, say, a truckload of changes made using `docker exec` or a bunch of customizations to files which were copied into the image. Simply putting a note on the source repo which says that might be enough.

(I really like what C Titus Brown has written about reproducibility in computation research over the years: http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/tag/reproducibility.html)
"Love your country but never trust its government."

https://nohats.ca/wordpress/blog/2016/01/24/why-the-sun-spar...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10966571
You mean CO2 would concentrate at tree level to be more easily absorbed and converted back into oxygen, rather than in the upper atmosphere where it heats the earth? I'm not sure I see the downside.
But at what point, OP's criticism is a qualitative criticism of the approach being advocated?

For instance, if someone says that alternative medicine fails for n different reasons, would you say that the person is committing Nirvana fallacy or that there is something to say about the fundamental failures of alternative medicine?

The qualitative fault I'm trying to point out is that trying to tax 'rich people' is a failed attempt because no matter how effective you can implement your tax measures, at the end of the day people can move to other countries and your own country starts to suffer more than it benefits from the increased taxes.

It is a Nirvana fallacy if someone says "No matter how hard you try to curb murders, serial killers always keep finding new ways to commit crime", because at the end of the day, if all the serial killers move out of your country to a more serial killer friendly country, you don't actually suffer, you did your job.

On the other hand, in terms of taxes, you don't want your tax paying population to move out or be rendered incapable of producing wealth. That kind of 'equality' is not worth it.
And Google.com has for years shown a pop-up to switch to Chrome
UPC, the branch of Liberty Global in Europe is doing exactly the same these days.

I wonder if the same folks are consulting all over the world with the same privacy invading options.
This doesn't guarantee reproducible results though.

A lack of reproducibility is a major problem for DSEs and practitioners right now. In fact, I'd argue its the single biggest problem.
What I find the most amazing about this story is the time scales we are talking about. They mention the Ju/’hoansi had lived for 70,000 years in their environment. I often wonder how long we could live with our current standard of living. Even if we tried to espouse fully "sustainable" practices how long could you maintain a modern society? I would say maybe 250 years, most likely less.
Deep thinking is beat by a company that ships accessible products. Apple shipped AR that is inferior to Tango but is now the thing to beat. Tango is better but expensive and not accessible.

My prediction, Magic Leap eventually fails and is bought for cents on the VC $ by Samsung, Apple, Huawei or similar. Even an acquisition in the $100M means everyone but a few VCs were wiped out completely.
> Using youtube or spotify in a public place: This one makes peoples brains hurt, let's not even consider it.

I thought this one was the easiest to answer but that might just be because it's a problem I've faced.

Essentially it's a public performance. Just like bars, restaurants, hotel lobbies, etc that play music from a CD or iTunes; or even businesses with hold music on their phone lines; if you want to play copyrighted music publicly then you need a licence eg PRS (UK).

I think there was one argument about whether mobile phone ringtones were legal or not because of this rule. I'm not sure if that was just a thought experiment or if it was a case that one party tried to take to court but I'm sure someone else on here will recall the story.
There aren't many sovereign nations that have been in existence since 1017 AD, so that sort of makes your question moot.

The Code of Hammurabi describes Babylonian taxes and the manners of levy. The Egyptians and Romans levied income taxes. There is of course the gafol/Danegeld/heregald of the Anglo-Saxons. You've got taxes/tolls paid by merchants on the Silk Road and certainly I've read of taxation in Ashoka's era and other sub-continental sovereignties.

You have the taxation/feudal levy system that existed even in archaic Greece where boats, rowers and soldiers were expected to be provided by patricians in times of war.

China (especially) and Japan have long histories of taxation.

The idea that recorded human history has been mostly without tax seems to be ahistoric.
I think that's called muxing, since you aren't really changing codecs, just bundling streams together.
Corporations and their industry organizations operate by a different set of rules. The important ideological concept in my opinion is not just the idea of copyright, but the idea of net neutrality itself when it comes to accessing content. The web is not a TV nor a newspaper or magazine. A web browser is not a set-top box, it's a user agent for HTTP. Net neutrality, in my opinion, is not just a fight to keep content transmission neutral but the content access neutral as well. My set-top box (aka web browser) should not limit the content I have access to, regardless of whether I'm using Chrome, Firefox, curl, wget, or youtube-dl.

This type of net neutrality was co-opted by content platforms who used it to lower their rates in a fight with the ISPs. The voice of individual internet subscribers was lost in this.

They, YouTube, RIAA, et al, do want to have their cake and eat it too. They took advantage of the internet and rushed to put their content on open networks, without fully understanding how that network operates fundamentally. Now they want to change how we communicate to suit their business models, and in the case of YouTube, do whatever they can to shut the door behind them so no one else can go through.
In Norway construction lumber is usually specced in mm, e.g. 48x98mm, which is smaller than 2*4 inches. People still call it 2x4 though...
> Then why not hold stock, realize no gains by not selling it, and take out a loan with stock as collateral.

You can already do this today. Eventually you will need to sell and pay the taxes, eg. if interest rates rise and it's no longer worth it or when you die and have to pay the loans off.

> Or, you could leave it all in a company that you own, draw no income and have the company pay for your housing, meals, travel, etc.

If your company pays for your personal expenses like housing, it's taxable as income. Lots of SV companies pay for their interns' housing and the rent was always listed on their W2's.
Why not just use spotify? If you are building a commercial service a blockchain just complicates matters and gives no benefit.

If you are building a piracy service a blockchain just complicates things and adds no value.

A pretty good rule of thumb is that if you can replace block chain with a database or anything else and lose no functionality, not to mention remove the whole thing together and simplify your solution it's not block chain but bullshit.
A lot of people would consider that flatly immoral, and as evidence that the poor aren't paying their fair share.

Remember that Flat Tax is also called Fair Tax. The concept of fairness is central.
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That clearly doesn't work since that ends up being negative for capital heavy businesses (airlines, manufacturing companies, car dealerships). Some businesses generate massive amounts of revenue, but have very low margins + not much profit.

There's a reason why things are the way they are. Redrawing the playing field is complicated and can't be done easily without (business) casualties.

The wealthy pay a decent amount for the resources of society they generally consume, which is fine.
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Azerty, it's used in France and Belgium and maybe some other places too.
Aside from video demos made to feel ad-hoc and in-the-moment but are perhaps very carefully edited, no. Unless they really wow the fuck out of the public soon, I personally think in a couple years they will suffer a Theranos-style collapse, and given the amount of money that they've raised, hopefully it pops the VC bubble.
There was no pro-life candidate on the ballot that wasn't Trump.
Not perfectly, but a good start is to keep all the software assets AND data assets you used to train the model.

There needs to be an immutable, high performance read data store that has a 30+ year plan for survival if we're really going to retool our world around expert systems.
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Going back to the topic, I hope that ReactOS/Wine will sometime become a better Windows than Windows itself. (This, at least, is what was said about OS/2). In some ways it already is, I am sure.
What you get in return, is the ability/privilege to use Google, and Facebook. I'm not saying it's worth it, but it's not nothing.
"And PHP has very Erlang-like "let it crash" semantics if you squint your eyes: one request causing havoc will not affect others at all, especially if you use a transaction to control DB side effects."

Exactly my point, thank you for clarifying. PHP crashes (in some form or another) all the time, but the application can still remain up because that PHP process only has state for the one request (kind of like a single erlang process having state for only one request).
LOL. Gotta be a tech dad to block porn.
> Shoulda bought that flood insurance for the mortgage.

Flood insurance is hard because flood plain data is notoriously inaccurate. We would need to require everyone to buy flood insurance.

"Water Damage From Hurricane Harvey Extended Far Beyond Flood Zones"

"About 40 percent of the buildings estimated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to have been flooded in Harris County, Tex., are in areas considered to be “of minimal flood hazard.”

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/01/us/houston-da...
To Verizon, yes, but who said there isn't a secondary market for that information? I'm reminded of how Facebook is a net buyer of information from Oracle: there's a thriving resale market.
Magic Leap seems to have mastered the idea of "Look investors, this next thing, it'll be the best trust me."

Meanwhile you can buy a Vive today or in a couple weeks a Windows Mixed Reality set (VR might be 'good enough' for most use cases ML would target). On top of the hololens, which is a closer product. Hololens fov leaves a lot to desire, but it actually works and anyone with the cash or willingness to go to the Kennedy Space Center can try it.

Not sure where Magic Leap is going right now, hopefully they'll release a revolutionary product, but the fact they never release a beta or devkit on the chip and projection system they've been talking up for half a decade is very worrisome.
> "Deli Meeks, a 26-year-old forklift operator in Atlanta, said he doesn't mind Verizon accessing his data."

I am perfectly fine with this. One of the biggest issues people have had in recent years is the level of invasive practices companies have been using in the name of advertising. My current assumption is that yes, while it is a breach of privacy, the issue is that is was something I produced that I didn't get to have a say in being sold/used. I've been using Google Rewards for a while now, even recently broke the $100 mark. When I was a kid, I scoured the internet for sites that would pay me to take surveys.

Some people obviously don't want their privacy invaded, and for that I definitely advocate for better privacy policies maintaining that.

However, this 'data' that I am generating, I'm not doing anything with it. And companies WANT it. I am a producer, producing a good (data) that a consumer (companies) want. Getting back to my first paragraph, I am more upset I'm not being compensated for all this arbitrary data I'm generating that companies are taking from me for free. When companies offer these types of rewards, I'm fine with it. So what, they know how to tailor goods to me. I have enough discipline to recognize an ad.

[For anyone pointing to people that cannot tell whats an ad, that's more an educating people issue and I'll argue another point like privacy policies]
Did anyone ever use `assert_nothing_raised`?
> Sufficiently smart GAI will set it's own goals just as we do

Do you think that sufficiently smart GAIs must be non-rational? The change of its goal will inevitably make its original goal less likely to realize. It is not rational.

> should quickly figure out that maximizing anything is the way to ruin - running out of resources.

Are you aware of the concept of maximization of expected utility? When AI will figure out that it can run out of resources, it will reallocate part of the resources to acquire more of them.

How can action, which modifies the goals of the AI, be the result of argmax_a E(a)?

E(a) is expected utility of action a
It's always bothered me that you have to pay for this extra service in order to get audio to stream in the background.
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Could you please expand on the matter?
Yes, this thread tripped the overheated-discussion detector. We've turned it off for now, but it's not exactly a false positive.
I'm typing on an AZERTY keyboard (used mostly in France and Belgium, and a few other countries according to Wikipedia). I'm not suggesting not to use wasd by default if people like it, just try and make it customizable for people with a non-QWERTY keyboard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZERTY
Who is "we"? I'm not a Google shareholder.
By their nature, unikernels are extremely well suited to running on top of a simple and well-defined interface. By extension, such interfaces are easy to audit and secure.

Why is this better than running as a normal user process? Look at the complexity inherent in securely sandboxing applications using existing interfaces -- the Linux system call interface amounts to hundreds of system calls, with different mutations for different architectures and many calls multiplexing even more operations (eg. ioctl()) the numbers grow even higher.

Unikernels give us a shot at redefining the process interface, while still being able to run on existing infrastructure (host OS or hypervisor). This means we can work toward a system where the application (unikernel) has least privilege by default.

With Solo5 [1] we're working towards defining such an interface. We have a way to go yet [2], and are still very much in the "early adopter who knows what a unikernel is" stage, but the possibilities are exciting, not only from the application security point of view.

[1] https://github.com/solo5/solo5
[2] I'd be the first to say that the current Solo5 interfaces are suboptimal, but we're working on it: https://github.com/Solo5/solo5/pull/201
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15044698
Exactly. People completely disconnect their own incentives as a shareholder ("hope price goes up") with those as a user(privacy/ethics in this case).

When you only want the price of FB/GOOG to rise as a shareholder and are happy when it does (regardless of what it took to achieve it), don't be surprised when the board that represents the shareholders does whatever it takes to make it happen.

As a shareholder, you can be completely ignorant (or knowing but indifferent) of what it takes to deliver returns to your investment yet support those measures by buying shares. As a board member, the only incentive then is to raise share price because you know shareholders don't know/care about what it takes.

When the system delivers rewards to both shareholders and people running the company for extracting more profit, and requires little scrutiny of the means in which that is done, the logical optimization target function is just that - profit. The system converges to optimizing the target function.

If you are not a shareholder but merely a user, this does not apply to you. But then, your only input into the system it whether you choose to remain a user. As long as enough people remain such that the business can continue to function an generate profits, there is again no incentive for a business to change its behavior.
50% sounds way higher than I'd expect. Windmills don't exactly block the wind. Most of it just blows through it unhindered.
IT seems the employer needs to tell you if they spy/monitor your emails and this should extend if they spy on your screen or activity. If the worker is informed all should be fine then,it seems a very logical solution.
Edit I used the wrong email address in the past by mistake, it can happen if you have a few email addresses setup in Thunderbird and similar, after I done the mistake I made sure to double check the email address I used(I worked remote from my own PC).
The design has been "borrowed" by any number of firms. I have an O'Neill (surf gear) shirt with a version of it. And there was a Disney one with Mickey's outline in the waves.

It seems to have entered the under-mind, as being "that design with the lines" and few people know the origin any more.
That is one, but not the only, way around it.

Another is to tax things that are very hard to structure around. Taxing land, taxing stock sales (the SEC section 31 fee), taxing retail purchases, etc.
> Depending on the application, the utility of the ecosystem often outweighs the constraints of the language.

This is the one part where I generally tend to disagree. Basic language constraints are immutable, whereas ecosystem pain points can be fixed if people care enough. Everything you cited is true, the Go people seem to have done a great job at making the ecosystem convenient to use, but language issues are the one thing users can't fix on their own. The C++ ecosystem is fragmented, everyone has their own preferences and we'd all like to see it improved, but individual developers (as well as organizations, just look at Google's internal ecosystem) find a way to make it work well. If there's a dealbreaker in language design, on the other hand, there's just nothing you can do.
Forget light sensors, think facial recognition on the camera that is in your smart TV for... I don't know, videoconferencing, I guess? ;).
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We should probably link to the main article: http://www.hindustantimes.com/class-of-2018/the-myths-and-re...
Ironically their recent patent was just a goggle (as supposed to the Mixed reality/retina lens hype) https://www.engadget.com/amp/2017/08/30/magic-leap-rumored-a...
You're effectively arguing that you know (and possibly deserve) any reaction you get out of having a certain opinion. Justifying that with "well, it happens to others" is not great. You political opinions should never be justification for harm.

As the person whose post that was deleted mentioned, this is effectively the same type of argument as saying: "well, you know what will happen if you wear a sexy short skirt alone late at night".

In either case you don't deserve violence.
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Are you sure the webdevs discussing every language and the webdevs spawning MySQL are the same people?

I mean, speaking purely about languages, there are lots of webdevs who just love PHP and will never consider an alternative to it, even if you make a persuasive argument that PHP is unsuited to the use case they're writing for. It's the same sort of "like it was 2004" mentality in a slightly different context. I actually wouldn't be surprised if that's what it is, because those are the M and P in the LAMP stack that everyone seems to have started learning at around that time.

I don't mean to pick on PHP here; it's just the one I see the most that has this property.