skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have definitely intrigued me enough that I want to read it too. May I ask how long it took you to read it? It's 36 pages not including the references, and it's only been up on Hacker News for a short time. As a non-mathematician were you able to read that quickly? It doesn't look dense with proofs but it does look like something I'd print out and read over coffee for several hours. I guess I'm surprised that some people can read (and understand/appreciate) math and physics papers so quickly.
Couchbase has a pretty nice mobile sync system, with clients for both Android and iOS.
The software and training data set an extremely high barrier to competition.

Once you've solved self-driving taxis, you've also solved a large chunk of self-driving commercial transportation. AI trucks could kill off rail, in addition to manned semis.

From there, it's a small leap to becoming the backbone of an ultra-efficient on-demand national distribution network.

All without the massive operating overhead of human labor... No sleep, no breaks, no weekends, no healthcare, no HR, no wages, just the price of electricity and the low/infrequent maintenance costs of electric vehicles.

Eventually. I think the taxis are 5 years away from 24/7 availability in NYC, maybe 3 for San Francisco, and the grand vision is probably 10 years out.

But... Yeah... This is going to be huge.
> It's an asymmetric system

I thought it was an adversarial system and the judge was the umpire.

> They are convinced the subject is guilty

Is they believed that why wouldn't they "charge guilty" the accused? Or am I misunderstanding what "been charged guilty by an overzealous prosecutor" means?
it's almost like this whole argument boils down to use case or something. ya fuggin cuckz.
I can easily see increased population density being a problem for an already crowded city, among the other arguments the residents have against building up more.
Fair. I kind of assumed that is was obvious that those who succeed in developing superior products and services attract more customers, do more business, and thus acquire more value to reinvest and grow than those who do not.
Am I missing something?
Not sure I get this part:

I realized I was part of the problem that night — a woman’s safety in her career environment shouldn’t require credible threats of violence.

I could understand saying she wasn't part of the solution, but to me "part of the problem" makes a non-zero contribution to the problem. What she did was at worst neutral, no?
Absolutely...

Academically, I've only failed two things. Typing and Spanish. Today, I'm fluent in Spanish - though a bit slower than natives.

Why? I spent a whole lot of time with my pidgin Spanish below the border. Eventually, I just learned. I did make an effort to learn a few things every day, but I ended up actually learning more than that and doing so without even realizing it.

I can't write Spanish, but I can read it. I can write it well enough so that I could probably pass for a mentally handicapped third grader. But, I can speak the language.

Other than some basic phrases, it's the only other spoken language I'm even remotely fluent. (I also sign, ASL specifically, which has been surprisingly handy.)

So, if someone really wants to learn a language, go visit the country where it is spoken and don't hang out with tourists. Learn a few phrases (ordering beer and where is the bathroom are good starters) and you'll pick up the rest.

As near as I can tell, people are very happy to help. I'm not sure if there is some psychological thing to it, but people seem really helpful when you're making a legitimate effort to learn their language.

By fluent, I mean able to understand and convey what is needed and not sound too silly. I'm sure I'm not always using proper Spanish.

"Mí nescito habla Español, no Englais por favor."

That got me started along my journey of Spanish speaking. I'd say I was okay after two weeks. Okay enough to get get around. I was not bad after a month. I was actually able to have a full conversation, without much thought, after about three months.

Also, I'm not sure...

Here's a puzzle for you people into psych stuff.

During my immersion, I would sometimes dream in Spanish. Except, in my dreams, I was fluent. As in, I would prattle on and converse in Spanish - fluently. Except, at the time, I wasn't actually fluent.

What language was I really speaking in my dream?
less noise, in terms of sound and visually (you see everybody passing by through the glass and have to force yourself not to look at them. For a while we had some posters up, but we had to remove them since wework’s company policy doesn’t like that)

This has been by number one issue with WeWork and I've always been surprised that more devs who work at WeWork aren't bothered by this.
For my wife and I, Blue Apron was cool for a few months! We'll probably sign up again at some point. (If it's still around...)

For us it was kind of like a "date night" thing three times a week. It was fun cooking the meals together. More fun than a restaurant really, because we still got to sit down and enjoy a nice meal.

We found the cost (about $10/person/meal) to be about halfway between buying our own groceries and dining out. If Blue Apron replaces dining out, it's actually sort of a money saver.

Groceries are expensive. We usually spend a little over $120 per week for food for two. Our dinners usually come out to like $4 or $5 per meal per person I think.[1] A decent restaurant, not fast food or Applebees... including tip and everything, I find we usually spend around at least $30 for two.

Why did we unsubscribe? Well, it is more expensive than groceries and we wanted to trim expenses even more. And my work schedule makes it hard for me to be home in time for us to cook together, which was half the fun. Also the portions were a bit small... though maybe that's just because my idea of a portion is too big.

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[1] Now, before anybody says anything, yeah, I was a poor student once too. Trust me, I know how to eat a LOT cheaper than that. I remember making $20 last a whole week. Gotta load up on the eggs and rice. Ramen too, but if you're eating a ton of it you gotta throw away at least half of the flavor packets so you don't die of a sodium overdose. Maybe throw a few multivitamins down your throat once in a while too so you don't get scurvy. I actually sort of miss those days.
The problem with UBI is that it doesn't promote social behavior. In fact it promotes anti-social behavior, since a UBI recipient need not provide any value to his community as a condition of this benefit.

Charity is not a legitimate role for government.
FTC complaints works great too.
FWIW, I don't cosign this critique.

Personally, I don't feel any need to know how many women are on the moderating staff. That question has not ever crossed my mind as an issue for me, personally, as a woman posting here.
If you come and kick me in the face, and I shoot a photo of you, I can't post it, because you'd be wronged?

Seriously?
S3 does the job wonderfully for one-off projects.
Universality of Consensus (2017)
Isn't this largely because standards are relatively high right now because the military has more people enlisting than it needs? If they needed more people they would just lower the standards a bit like they were a few years ago and they would have plenty of people. They would have to do a bit more work during training to get them in shape and they would have to overlook some minor issues that they aren't willing to now, but they wouldn't actually have trouble getting enough people.
To put it in perspective, the i7 4578U in the high end 2014 Mac mini benchmarks in Geekbench just a little bit worse than the A11 Bionic in the iPhone 8.
If the free tier isn't funded by conversions, then it's only really valuable as a marketing tool.

This is why hosts are often judicious with the free hosting tier - even with address verification and capchas, 60% of the free tier is phishing hosts using a stolen identity and credit card. About 20% are Ebay snipers running shoe-bots, or crypto-miners, begging for bare metal for the response times or hardware, respectively. Another 18% are technology generalists who might cobble together a 2004-era blog hosting service, to engorge their inner nerd - mostly harmless, might not patch something, but will never convert.

For the first 2 groups - once the credit is up (or gets flagged for spam/phishing), the account gets flipped. The scammer uses new email and maybe a new credit card, and migrates their activities. Darknet forums (and probably some subreddits) have lists of providers and how to work the free tier. I expect software to auto-balance between multiple free-tier accounts on multiple cloud providers exists; I've debated scripting the API calls in Powershell in a few weekends.
Totally agree. Condoms people ! USE EM !
Fair.

It meets the human need to relieve pain.

I did not mean to imply that it always does so in a moral way.

Clearly it does not.
TypeScript any is evil
I hope voter IDs become mandatory in the near future, but it's got to be rolled out ethically:

1. They have to be free
2. They have to be "accessible" for the rural population
3. They have to be adequately communicated in advance of elections (1+ years, not 1+ months)
4. The process needs to be simple - require proof of citizenship or an ID that requires proof of citizenship.

I think there'd be no problem with having a few people stationed in post offices to do this. I'd imagine a fair amount of supporters would volunteer to do it if it meant improving the integrity of our elections.
I agree that we should just build social housing and give it away until housing/land is worthless, and universal free health care has obvious utility, but for everything else just giving away money is a lot more effective. Suppose you give someone food assistance, now they can buy food, but what if they don't have clothes? How are they going to participate in civil society while naked? Handing out cash handles those corner cases.
The bottom navbar has been part of the Material guidelines for a while now. Sliding sidebars are bad because of the challenges they pose for discoverability.

https://material.io/guidelines/components/bottom-navigation....
Lets describe a example of moderation by dang.

For an article a about work and unrelated to sexism, gender or racism, a commenter wrote out of the blue that all white men live privileged and easy lives. A second person replied and disagreed, arguing that some men don't have everything perfect and easy from the point of birth to death. The reply got moderated for causing a flame war, with third-party people asking dang why he targeted the dissenting view and not the original comment.
Implementing VisiCalc (2003)
Not that I've looked that hard but Disqus or Facebook comments seem like the main options unless you want to host something yourself. There doesn't seem to be many alternatives.
Messaging people across countries, not worrying about what phone they had, or about having to pay extra money.
Why is it terrifying? I may have some experience to share and you might be able to get something from that.
Yes dumb argument. That YouTube video was the first thing I thought of when I read the sentence.

Let's scrap everything that was invented in the 70's or before.
Juicero and their ilk prove that there's too much capital looking for somewhere to go. We don't need this much capital floating around, we need peoples' lives to improve so they stop killing themselves with heroin.
https://qz.com/962427/what-its-like-to-be-a-modern-engraver-...

"The relatively steady rate of employment in etching and engraving fits into the optimist’s narrative of what will happen when machines take over work. Unlike the pessimist’s narrative, which points out the instances in which companies view automation as an opportunity to cut labor costs, the sunny view assumes that there’s always more work to do. If workers aren’t bogged down with repetitive, boring tasks, they’ll be able to do more work or focus on new business segments.

“A lot of the automation has just made it faster, not necessarily taken away jobs,” says Dalton. “For us, I would say it’s increased our capability to hire more employees, because we can do more work.”

Coincidentally, the whole magic robots stealing jobs meme neatly exculpates austerity and outsourcing.
"Better" isn't always "more expensive" or even "more performance". The best computer anyone ever gave me as a kid was a TI-83+ - it did far more to stimulate my interest in computers and mathematics than an iPhone ever could have.

It's true what you say about "for kids" products, but really an iPhone is a "for kids" product. It's a computer with a dumbed-down interface, limited functionality, and a walled garden of "apps" - like those old Leapfrog laptops. If you want to give them sophisticated tools, give them sophisticated tools.
If I had an extra $100mm, I wouldn't worry about my reputation too much :)
Another upvote - Hello Fresh for exactly those reasons - I know how to cook, I like to cook, but it comes with a lot of baggage - this lets me focus on the parts I like :-)
Nothing is free - someone is paying for it. When you give people specific things instead of money, you're taking choices away from them, insisting that you know what they need better than they do.

If you give people money, they can decide what they need most and go do that. Maybe I don't need housing because I can live with relatives and use my money for education. If you insist on free housing instead, you take that option away from me.
An embeddable dumb heartbeat daemon in 260 bytes of RAM and 350 bytes of code
I second this. Mongo clusters are easy to manage, and the aggregation pipeline or MapReduce engines do wonders on a sharded cluster with tons of data. That's the selling point of mongo for me.
Like 'anigbrowl, I simply think it's worth considering the extent to which the moderating staff do or do not personally experience the hostility this place can exhibit to industry minorities.
Cuddy wasn't fired, or even denied tenure, though it's probably not a coincidence that she's no longer (or not currently) on the tenure track at HBS.
DotNetAnywhere: An Alternative .NET Runtime
Wait, he didn't fix the milk. He just pointed it out. The rancid milk is still there. Why are we thanking him? :)
That's what this Kickstarter project is trying to achieve.

https://www.sentio.com/

It looks like a MacBook Air, but is really just a screen, keyboard, touchpad, and portable battery bank for your Android phone.

Hopefully my Kickstarter pledge pays off!!
Synchronous replication was added in 9.1 and much improved in 9.6? pglogical[0] works pretty well for me under 10 but I have no production experience with bdr[1].

[0]: https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/pglogical/
[1]: https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/bdr/
Thank you, I understand where you're coming from now. Let me clarify.

The difference is because CNN makes a subjective editorial decision about what to air. Their content is curated and prepared by paid staff. The success of CNN is entirely built on the talent and hard work of these people. There's a whole side discussion about the ethical responsibilities of CNN we can have, but let's set that aside and just distinguish them from HN.

HN's success is built on its community. The overwhelming majority of submissions are user contributions - far less than 1 in 1000 HN posts are written by the mods, and they're generally meta posts. HN owes the success of its content to the community, and such I feel that they're morally obligated to treat that community with a certain level of respect. Part of that is everything I've argued for today - well-defined rules that are enforced equally and transparent moderation.

I'm not invested in CNN. I haven't participated in the formation or success of their "community", if you could even call it that. But I, and many others, have participated in the success of Hacker News by submitting articles, Show HNs, etc - and participating in discussions on the site. HN would be nothing without the community that participates in it, and frankly I think YCombinator's core business itself would be measurably worse off without HN.

Since the HN community is responsible for HN's success, I say we can call for transparent moderation.
The problem I found with couch is handling user permissions at database level. Except for that detail, it's one of the best databases I've ever used.
Are you in the Dumbo office? I found that one to be pretty cramped - I liked Montague St a lot more. And better subway access, IMO.
Sell your Soul on the Blockchain
The FCC is expected to announce a vote to gut net neutrality rules Nov 22nd
Love the idea! Does this ship internationally? Some FAQ/ToS/etc would be good.
When Oscar Wilde Colluded with Russians
The reason why tech companies can not easily make their cities better is because of local law & policy and not by choice of the company.

I bet google would just love to induce high rise development in palo alto with a monorail loop that serviced the FB, Google & Stanford campuses and a few stops around caltrain stations.

But they can't because prop 13 makes new housing a net negative on the city budget and local NIMBYs love their prop 13 shielded price gains, creating a strong force to disallow new housing and only allow new office space.
What she's saying is that there's really no reasonable way that a threat of violence should be part of a professional interaction in the tech field. (or any, outside of boxing and perhaps hockey)

It's similar to what I teach the kids: He started it doesn't make it right, you know it's not ok to hit your brother.

What she did was what she felt like she needed to do at the time. What she's doing now is second guessing it, and trying to turn it to a generally more positive approach on all sides in the future.
A couple of dozen orders at least.
I thought the idea was that, firstly, current welfare already does this and UBI just gets rid of most of the harmful distortionary effects, and secondly, that UBI inherently must change the distribution of spending, and therefore while it will result in a long term increase in demand for the items poor people buy, that demand will eventually be followed by some increase in supply as the economy retools to take advantage of the new flow of money.

Would anyone be able to explain why this just-so story is wrong? My econ isn't great.
I guess you're referring to this thing? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-dea-agent-opioid-crisis-fuel...

>Ex-DEA agent: Opioid crisis fueled by drug industry and Congress
Whistleblower Joe Rannazzisi says drug distributors pumped opioids into U.S. communities -- knowing that people were dying -- and says industry lobbyists and Congress derailed the DEA's efforts to stop it
For the projects Bootstrap was designed for, the choice isn't between Bootstrap and a professionally designed custom theme; the choice is between Bootstrap and a white background with all text in Times New Roman 16 pt.
Whose Critical Path Are You On?
I wish I knew who (realistically) was against this, but supports the ability of pharma companies to ship opiates. And why?
What would the attribute columns consist of? My experience has been with named columns defined individually by humans, of which I've never seen more than a few hundred; how do you get tens of thousands? Are they a different kind of thing?
I'm really happy this was written... It's almost as if there could be a positive way forward with all we are learning about consent.
Have you heard of Hubski? It works exactly as you described.
Are you kidding? Did the "bright, socially awkward person" stereotype get put out to pasture while I wasn't looking?
I've never dreamt, so I'm not sure how dreams work, but maybe you were speaking English but your dream interpreted it as Spanish?
Oh, so, 'Capital S' Science[0] has moved on from publish-or-perish to funding-or-famine. Most researchers are in 'famine' and their spouse is financing their lifestyle of crazy hours and stress (love is strange, for sure). Some are in 'funding' and they generally get all the cash from grant agencies. Where I am, each square foot of your research is ~$420/month for rent, including your office. Then you start buying lab equipment and do research. The incentives are heavily skewed towards making cash, no matter the method.

Also, if you haven't been following the 'X-ray Carrots' fiasco, that is a BIG deal in science and Science. VERY short summery: Andrew Wansink at Cornell made up a bunch of data and results, he published them, he got caught. One of these papers was about calling carrots as 'x-ray carrots' makes kids eat more of them, hence the name of the fiasco. Here's a good way into the mess [1]. Anyway, some papers were retracted, there was an investigation, yadda yadda. Now, in 'normal' science, he would have been banished from the field for this nonsense. But in 'finding-or-famine', he got off essentially scot-free. Nothing happened, really. He's still the head of the department (AFAIK), he still brings in cash, the FDA still is using his findings. This is a huge blow to science and a huge boon to Science.

The existential crisis is now out in the open: you can cheat with impunity, publish whatever, if you get caught nothing will happen, just bring in the dollars.

Now is not a good time to go to grad school. I think they're just going to have to throw out ALL US based bio-science (at least) from about 2003 to whenever heads start rolling. It's all crap, maybe, who knows.

[0] Science and science are different, though look similar. Big Science is the grant machine and the big money side of science. Splashy, barely replicated, large clean buildings, pensions, perfectly fit for corporate needs. Think Big Tobacco, BPA plastics stuff, power poses like Cuddy's, that kinda stuff. It's like the difference between the Military Industrial Complex and actually kicking down doors in Mosul. 'Little s' science is what you are probably thinking of when you think of science generally.

[1]http://andrewgelman.com/2017/04/06/dear-cornell-university-p...
I'm with you. You'll frequently see news stories with 3-5 MB of junk to augment a < 50 kB piece.That's more information than all of published human writing before 1800. Sorry, but that's stupid, and looks bad. Yes, a good chunk of that is ads, but a lot of it is loading all of two versions of bootstrap so you can use one class and similar silliness.
Short term focused work on Celeste, by at least one of the core devs, came at a very significant opportunity cost of not having an up-to-date, usable Julia debugger.
Stitch Fix has filed for an IPO, and the numbers look good
> an already crowded city

Ha!
I have zero experience with it, but I've heard many good things about the Rosetta Stone software. As in, I know real life people who have used it and gush about it it.

I'm not able to judge their fluency, but some of them have been using it to learn a variety of different languages. The lady that lives at the neighboring farm speaks at least a dozen languages and she's learned all but two of them with the software.

She speaks passable French and Spanish (and English, of course) so I can vouch for the Spanish and the missus is fluent in French.
Thanks! And good point on the FAQs + TOS. Will add them to the to-do list.

We're beta testing the app right now with friends & family and have made our first few deliveries already. The response has been great so far from people's grandparents. They love getting the prints in the mail with the captions to tell the story of the photo on them.

We're going to be exploring international shipping soon. What country does the person you want to send photos to live in?

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If you want an example, consider writing a simple recursive sudoku solver, where at each location you fill in one empty square with the values 1-9, and reject early if you ever have a repeated value in a row, column or box.

This is easy to write in C, and I always imagined would be something functional programming would excel at, but it doesn't seem to fit with your rules.