skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My comment still stands. Likely? they could have fixed their infringing acts.

Trademark infringement is not what took down this service (or so motivated these people to take down the service). I have yet to read an "IP" compliance request that was accurate, truthful, or aligned with achieving a correct legal understanding between parties. This is not an accident. The use of that term creates an artificial whole, which is then used to imply greater authority over the sum of the parts.

My comment is on the prior comment, which is about the concept... not this specific instance, even though it is still applicable.
> Berkeley (especially on the incredibly physically-accurate simulator MuJuCo)

Huh? MuJoCo was primarily developed by Emo Todorov and his lab at University of Washington, and now his company.
That this happens is of course difficult to disprove. My only defense is that very often, I read things from acclaimed people and think "bullshit". I don't have any particular reason to like what Alan Kay says besides having read previously things from him that I liked.

Also, in this particular case, my point wasn't really about the truth value of what he claims (which I'm not fit to judge), but about the clarity of how he claims it.
Aren't there attractive places in California where tech companies could set up offices to accommodate those who want to leave the valley, while still making sure everyone is still just a few hours drive away if they should be required in a meeting at main HQ?
Yes I've seen uuids in databases in both binary and varchar(36) forms. Interacting with them with your tools/ORM won't be as nice as the native type, but it's definitely doable and you get most of the benefits.
I agree. It was not my intention to start a flamewar; but with all the talk about "biased RT", "biased Al Jazeera", etc. flying about, I wanted to point out how BBC also is equally biased, just not in the direction "we" would like them to be.

And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw
Only if you're fine broadcasting in plaintext what tor site you're going to. The DNS lookup defeats the privacy of using an onion address.
For a publication that openly supported the Iraq war and all the suffering that entailed for innocent civilians, its kinda funny that they're suddenly all concerned about people's rights.
Indeed not, but just having the extra step of "write this into a file" (and perhaps have someone look it over) catches most of those really bad mistakes.

It's really about NOT getting into the habit of "just fix it in production". That way lies madness.
I'm getting a bit of a flashback to the Japanese Fifth Gneeration Computing project (I wasn't around back then; I've read about it though).

Then, too, an East Asian country (Japan) known for excellence in one field (manufacturing) initiated a state-funded research project into a promising technology (AI). Then, too, the West reacted with alarm, fearing the Asians would leave them in the dust. Then, too, the project was about AI.

Except, back then, it didn't go too well [1]. But, perhaps this is just pattern matching failure on my part and nothing is even remotely the same today.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer
This is not entirely accurate. The competition isn't against free, 4chan servers do cost money to run.
As far as I know I submitted the first ever article about memristors to HN, which was this in 2008:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=177865
> provided that housing is sufficiently dense

LOL! What magical fairly land is this?

Convincing local governments to allow more housing to be built, so as to solve the housing crisis? That's crazy talk!

Building self driving is an easy problem compared to the impossibility of THAT.
Not if they have a big enough pool to draw candidates from. They're playing a numbers game, and would rather spend their time on better prospects. If having a degree makes a candidate more likely to get hired (arguably true), they would use that filter to improve their odds.

Now, if they can't find enough people, loosening criteria to allow for candidates without degrees would be a wise strategy.
Animated screenshots (gifs, not YouTube videos) in the repo's readme or landing docs can be the difference between "this could actually be what I'm looking for, I'll try it" and "this probably isn't what I'm looking for, I'm not going to download just to find out what it actually is".
I don't know, languages have been dying out for a lot longer than those technologies have been around. Languages die when the cultures who speak them either get assimilated or eradicated; I am not sure what technology has to do with that?
Don't use an ORM, but otherwise thanks for the clarification!
I think the question to answer is this: What does Small Town, U.S.A. have to offer the world that people are willing to pay for? My sense is that until very recently, the answer was "stuff the locals want plus a few large operations that 'plugged into' the national economy like farms and factories."

Now, as you point out, the barriers to consolidating industry into mega-hubs like Shenzhen are dissolving.

The only reasons to start or keep a business somewhere now are 3: 1. Physical resource dependence (ex. mining operations need to be where the mine is), 2. Regulatory (ex. tax policies), and 3. Talent.

Small towns used to rely on #1, which is now a losing strategy since global markets have dramatically driven down the costs of extracting and moving physical resources.

Now they're trying to do more of #2, which works for a little while but there's always another government somewhere willing to cut a better deal.

The only way small towns can compete is to focus on #3: Talent. They have to develop highly skilled workforces. That's literally all they can do.
> That's a solved problem ... compute farm with a clustered or distributed file system, a copy data management solution, or cachefs, for example.

Thank you for suggesting some potential solutions to my data management problems. From googling them, I get the impression that you are thinking primarily of enterprise scale data management (i.e., organizations with server farms and an IT department), whereas I'm primarily thinking of organizations with < 30 employees (who mostly use desktop software) and a single file server. My particular situation is an academic lab. However, I think these solutions can can still work with a little adaptation:

Copy data management seems to be the use of block level data deduplication or virtual disks on a server in order to decrease the disk utilization per VM or per container. I'm not completely sure; I found mostly marketing documents, and there's no wikipedia entry. This, as well as clustered/distributed file systems, would apply if we turned the file server into a VM server and had each employee work on a VM via remote desktop. In principle, this could work, and would let temporary employees (e.g., summer students and visiting scholars) get started quickly with a standard OS environment. I will experiment with this when our last batch of desktop PCs hit end of life.

CacheFS looks useful if we start using NFS to connect to our file server instead of Samba. It looks like Windows 10 (Enterprise) supports NFS caching too (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc976862.aspx). I will try this.
> How you get rich matters

It really doesn't. There is a very narrow set of circumstances that would aversely affect your place in society based on how you earned it.

Just think about how often it actually comes up regarding the wealthier people you may know or have heard about. Your wealthier neighbor.

Odds are you never dug for all the civil litigation they encountered, or the relative morality behind each case or circumstance.

They are just wealthier and society will reward them for that in perpetuity with access to better housing, better schools, better healthcare, and even more capital. End of discussion.
Industries that have government heavily involved in (health care, education, housing) have seen huge runups in prices. Ones government is not involved in (such as software) have seen precipitous price declines.
Your examples need a reality check. In the prosperous US, median household income is $59,000 per year. Many people cannot afford cars, computers, phones, or TVs.

I happen to agree with the general thesis that poor people in the US are relatively well off, compared to much of the world’s population. For example, a huge percentage of India doesn’t have electricity or basic sanitation.

Still, it’s wrong to overstate the situation.
You can use the waste heat to flash-distill the urine back into drinkable water.

You're already running some heavy-duty nuclear reactors just to circulate fresh air into the building and waste products out, so the real problem, I think, is getting food calories in, and the solid waste out.

Even if you can fix the structural problem, and the waste heat problem, and the CO2 problem, you can't get food into the building fast enough to feed everyone.

A 2000 kcal/day diet for 7.6 billion people is 18 million tons of sweet potato running up the elevators all day, every day. New York is a freight transit hub, but I don't think it could currently handle 6.5 billion tons of freight annually. The entire US transports 20 million tons of freight annually. There's just no way.

You would have to reduce the food to a liquid nutrient slurry off-site, and bring it in via pipeline. And your sewer... we're talking a literal river of poop, here, at 7300 cu.ft./s .
Not the NYT itself, no
One thing I wish I understood better is where the hell does the money go?

The federal budget is to a first approximation is 2/3 medicare/medicaid/social security/defense. In California across state and local has it's 2/3 being spent on health care/education/pensions. The Golden Gate Bridge cost $1.5B in today's dollars to build. Today-ish it took $6.4B to rebuild the east span of the Bay bridge.

How have things gotten so expensive, where does that money go, it just seems like despite paying a fair amount in taxes we're just not getting very much for our money.
That is sort of the joke about all securities litigation. Shareholders will often sue companies that experience price drops due to "misleading investors" and, as you mentioned, the fine or damages end up being paid for by the investors themselves.
> On a slightly related topic, India has a vast and rich set of languages and millions of people that speak/read/write these languages.

My landlady needs to know this. She still thinks we all speak "Indian".
From the article:

> "Some readers choose to use Tor to access our journalism because they’re technically blocked from accessing our website; or because they worry about local network monitoring; or because they care about online privacy; or simply because that is the method that they prefer."
Yeah someone just posted that :| I guess I did not think this experiment through...
I'm sure your right about one needing to be able to work with a team, and having a well rounded education may well be an indicator of that, but I can't say having a degree has been something I've been able to connect to it.
What kind of work do you do - and what qualifies as interesting work? I assure you a talented software developer can earn as much if not more in NYC than SF.
Not all companies are like that. Startups in today's Bay Area are disproportionately likely to be.

Also, pride doesn't pay bills. That's definitely a consideration.
True, but a lot of those were more specific in their end goals. What exactly is China going for here? Sounds like just general AI research and advancement. That's not a bad thing, but I think it'll probably end up more like the Human Genome Project. We'll get some great fundamental science and advancement out of it, but it's probably going to lead to more open-ended questions instead of the world-changing end results that get hyped at the beginning.
In some jurisdictions. I live in Ontario, Canada, where last year we ran on: 61% nuclear, 24% hydroelectric, 9% oil / gas, 6% wind, <1% biofuel, <1% solar. That is, about 90% of our electricity was carbon-neutral.

(Source: http://www.ieso.ca/en/power-data/supply-overview/transmissio... )

By focusing the consumer side on standardizing on electricity for power distribution and storage, instead of gasoline, it centralizes the problem. It puts the onus on governments and power generators to reduce their carbon output, instead of every individual.
FB is like a big dumb blind elephant. FB users are people expecting to get on the elephant for their daily commute ... and expect to get from A to B in a timely fashion.

Fail.
And that brings to mind http://www.conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=HashLife, an example (of many) of an algorithmic improvement that gives a way higher speed up than parallellizing and throwing hardware at a problem.
> kicking out artists in a dilapidated warehouse area, and moving in boring professionals

So artists are wonderful, interesting people, and professionals are boring and unappealing? Wow.
10 years? I've been seeing them hyped as the "next big thing" since the 90s. HP keeps pumping out press releases every so often.
Could nt that happen to programming as well ?
Artificial Intelligence is taking the financial services industry by storm
I live all the way on the other side of the country. I don't have a dog in the fight. I just suggested that the Bay Area could be reorganized into a single municipality through the initiative process if the voters of California decided to do that.

Whether or not you could actually get the votes is something I'm not equipped to answer. A big part of it would depend on what people in Southern California think of the idea given that it contains over half the state's population.
It's been a dream since the term was invented in 1971. HP Lab's big announcement that they had cracked memristors and they were right around the corner was in 2008 (which is quite nearly a decade ago now).
People speculate precisely because it's a whole new computing paradigm.
There was a world of media before HN, you know. Just saying.
We trust traffic lights without much issue. What's the difference?
theology: speech about god

atheism: speech about god

atheism has a theology and is a belief system,
therefore it is a religion.

I'll reconsider my view when people routinely say 'oh reason' or 'oh science' while winning sport championships, hitting their knees in the dark, or having orgasms. in the meantime, my thesis is there is a reason something else comes out..
>so what does it mean that the West should copy China?

I don't think you're addressing OPs point at all. They pointed out that the US currently does have the lead in the field due to its larger prosperity for the most part, but that China is rapidly developing more talent.

What we should copy is thus not the technical status quo, but our attitude towards education and talent acquisition in the relevant fields.Technical advantages are not self-perpetuating. If the West grows complacent and does not develop the talent necessary to advance the research, then that lead will reverse.
The use case of a verifiable archive would be better handled if example.com simply published content checksums for every URL out of band. Van Jacobson worked on a system based on this concept at PARC about 10 years ago, and it has since evolved into the NDN protocol: https://named-data.net/project/execsummary/

Putting this into TLS is absolutely a privacy foot-cannon, simply because it is used so widely in one-to-one communication that (most parties) agree should be completely private. That said, it seems like it would be relatively easy to guard against abuse of the feature, as long as clients implementations err on the side of only adding non-repudiation to an exchange when absolutely required.
> Subways solve this problem by running every couple of minutes.

Similarly, in many transport corridors intercity rail runs several times an hour (not so much in the US) and shuttle flights run every hour or two. Which are also sufficient in those contexts, in that it becomes reasonable to show up at the station/airport without checking the timetable.
There’s one seriously pathetic lone down voter out there.
People do it in Brooklyn all the time. Sometimes not even from the leftmost lane :).
>just read a newspaper from Guyana

I just glanced as 5 online papers, and one scanned tabloid-style paper.

I still have no idea what you are talking about. What am I supposed to be detecting in the writing here?

edit: I guess I found one or two slight different ways of expressing things, like starting a sentence with "Said he:", but, really it's fairly minor.
Create only scripts can also be great in the right context.

Namely a context like travis-ci where you get a new clean environment each time.

Personally, I've develop few libraries/web UIs that relies on external software like a DNS server or an ldap directory.

And for those, I've a quick and dirty shell script that deploys bind/OpenLDAP.

It's far easier, faster and more accurate than mocking.

For example, what comes to my mind is the testing I do for all the SSL/TLS modes I support (SSL, StartTLS, certificate check disable or not, etc) in my ldap web application.

Travis also has available services in their build envs (stuff like redis, mongodb, mysql, cassandra...).
The San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward MSA[0] contains San Mateo and Alameda Counties, so Redwood City and Fremont are included.

Santa Clara County is not included, however.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose-San_Francisco-Oakland...
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The continuity matters. Our vet remembers our cats from one visit to the next. They're not just a note on a card (though of course they have those too). So it is like your own doctor, in that once you have a relationship that works for you, there is a high bar to change it.
It could and it should.
Count min sketch guarentees that elements that occur more than a certain number of times (determined by your parameters) will be returned,sampling makes no such promise to a 100% degree of certainty.
I'm in the compiler business. Compilers handle an increasing amount of routine programming tasks, but programmers respond to that by making more complex programs, so the creative input needed by programmers is about the same.
China is "great" in some aspects and not great in others. The one party system allows the government to make decisive decisions and act with the backing of tax dollars. Look at the high speed rail system. It pretty much went from non existent to one of the world's best rail systems in a matter of years. It's the same with this AI initiative.

Why are rich parents sending their kids to the US? There's a shortage of jobs for college graduates in China and many parents are hoping that a degree from a western college will give them a better chance at finding a job either in the US or China.

As for buying property. The biggest reason is probably diversification and the fact that the Chinese see property as a good investment. Housing prices in China have sky rocketed and many Chinese families have more than one house that they just leave around with no one living in them. Just like how stock investors invest in foreign stocks, Chinese landowners are diversifying their property.

Foreign investors don't want to buy property in China probably because of the pollution problem and the fact that they think that the housing market there is a huge bubble.
This is a good choice, thanks for sharing.
"having to wait around doing nothing until your transport arrives. It's a constraint on your schedule and adds a certain amount of stress to your day"

Otoh, it replaces the latency and stress of rush hour.
Got literally any sources?
That's how I feel. I used FPGAs in the late 90s and wanted to try making a parallel chip with say 1024 cores and a few K of RAM per core and then program it with something like Erlang. Then the dot bomb happened, then the housing bomb, the Great Recession, and so on and so forth. The big players got more entrenched so everything was evolutionary instead of revolutionary and I'd say computer engineering (my major, never used) got set back 10-15 years.

But that said, I'm excited that 90s technology is finally being adopted by the AI world. I'm also hopeful that all these languages like Elixir, Go and MATLAB/Octave will let us do concurrent programming in ways that are less painful than say OpenCL/CUDA.
Right, "mistake" may have been a bit too harsh, but I regularly work with systems written in multiple languages and the amount of necessary hackery (aka "duct tape") is absolutely crazy. The abysmal quality of all the mainstream build systems is just one of my pet peeves. (Incidentally, mainstream also includes "make". It's horrific, though it did get some basic things right.)

I am pretty convinced that "we" (as an industry) already actually know 95% of what the 'problem space' of a build system is, but everybody just wants to greenfield and try to do their own. Why? Because it's more fun! There's no actual real rationale for reinventing everything every few years. I guess it comes about from a lack of attention to history and a lack of attention to the state of the art, e.g. Shake in Haskell-land.

Sorry to be so negative. I'm sure that Cargo at least works really well according to the 80-20 rule :).
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Speculation and greed is the foundation of all new technology.

Entrepreneur: 'Hey, look if we boil water it moves this piston'
Investors: 'We speculate that this may be important in the future, here's money'
Entrepreneurs: 'I made a steam engine'
Investors: 'We speculate that this may be important in the future, here's money'
Entrepreneurs: 'I made a railway system'
Investors: 'We speculate that this may be important in the future, here's money'

...
My email is in my profile if you want my details. Our system is 6.8kwh. I didn’t go with solarcity because they were the cheapest.
Excited to see how the platform grows !
I hesitate to call it the correct setup because I think only a small number of people use it, but the only solution I've found for Virtualbox that 1. does 2-way sync between host & guest 2. Propagates fs events (so you can run an auto-reloading service like webpack-dev-server on the guest that picks up changes on your host) and 3. is not significantly slower at disk reads & writes, is using Unison which is basically a 2-way rsync.

There's this Vagrant extension [0] that works pretty well on mac at least (which I actually forked and pushed to rubygems a few years ago when I discovered it because it had been abandoned and no longer worked)

Unfortunately the Vagrant team seems to have no interest in having all 3 of the properties I mentioned just work out of the box, I'm not sure why. Maybe it's just a lack of resources at Hashicorp, I'm not sure how much dev time they put into Vagrant these days since it's otherwise very mature and they have such a large number of open source projects.

[0] https://github.com/dcosson/vagrant-unison2