skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's your work computer then all bets are off. It's your employer's privacy at stake, not yours. Moreover you shouldn't ever consider your activity on your work computer "private" since your employer can and probably does monitor your usage.
This is not a realistic fear. Nobody’s going to war over a tweet.
Kids these days
Was it confirmed realtime though? Could have been batched, which makes it harder to reconstruct what was typed.

Even that's a step too far though, but clarification can help draw the line between careless and malicious.
Meanwhile, Sinclair media, whixh is likely regulated by another agency, is allowed to purchase a significant percentage of local TV stations nationwide.
How does the US Constitution entrench dysfunction and hinder reform?
When your rent is 1K or more a month, that doesn't leave much room for anything else if you live in even a moderately expensive area.
Bitcoin's central innovation is the "Nakamoto concensus" algorithm which is essentially exactly this (at least as it applies to the protocol itself).
Having started a software business with too much optimism and too little business knowledge myself, and failed, I seriously have no idea how people start successful restaurants at all these days. No matter what mistakes he made, I feel for the guy, and the thousands of people every year trying to get a restaurant off the ground and ending up bankrupt. Aside from marketing, the initial costs of getting a SAAS business running are almost nothing; people / dev time is far and away the main cost usually. The economics and risks and up-front costs of opening even a small restaurant are staggering to me, I doubt I'd ever attempt it. But I'm glad some people do, and make it.
Not sure if that’s a real quote but in my case it could read: “anyone can start a business, just borrow 1 years salary from your step-mom bus driver”
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No shit Sherlock.
An interesting counterpoint here. I have a friend who works for Intel as an algorithms engineer for their self-driving vehicle acquisition (Mobileye). Currently, he's using 2 1080TIs w/ TensorFlow to perform deep learning. It is possible that Intel could be looking to develop a chip used specifically for this purpose (a bet on self driving cars) and not for mass-production/sale outside of that tech. Either way, all of the GPU/CPU updates in the past year is just going to create more competition, which is better for the consumer in most cases.
You have to show national ID, a proof of residence and have your tax number ready.
I read someone’s estimate — rough, I’ll grant you — that mining bitcoin (just bitcoin) consumes as much total electrical energy as an entire medium-sized nation. Divide network hashrate into how much power the most efficient ASICs use, and I don’t think it’s an unfair estimate. You can’t dismiss the argument that maybe we can do better as “naysaying,” nor that there is something about cryptocurrency that the people making the argument do not understand. How many joules go into making a bitcoin block? (Really, I’m curious.)

It doesn’t take the entire output of a coal-fired generator to handle trillions in trade volume on traditional exchanges. Minting coins doesn’t require an entire nuclear plant dedicated to it. Even for newfangled cryptocurrency, the human race can handle a hundredish billion dollar market cap without using that much energy. It’s incredibly wasteful and destructive to our planet. How do you think the Chinese are throwing cheap electricity at all that mining gear? Provinces covered in solar panels? (For that matter, how do you think the Americans are?)

Literally the entire concept of mining is brute force through the SHA2 problem space for nothing (to create the currency of value; nobody is saying bitcoin is worthless). Imagine if, instead, you dumped that energy into storage or even useful computation (again: proof of work, not the currency, is useless computation), and what you could do with it. There needs to be acknowledgment that brute force cryptographic hashing is a pretty serious design flaw. We just happen to be working around it now that bitcoin is a Big Deal.

To drive this home, Bitfury is building out 30+ MW mining facilities that require immersion cooling in 3M Novec, because state-of-the-art datacenter CRACs aren’t capable of rejecting waste heat from that kind of power density. We are talking 150+ kW cabinet-equivalents, where anything over 15-20 kW per cabinet with CRAC is currently considered noteworthy. AIUI, they have to underclock their gear when relying on datacenter air. Two-phase immersion is a cool, efficient technology that will probably reimagine the datacenter and should be developed further, but machine learning and science workloads are barely starting to crack that nut. Bitcoin ran directly to the front of the line of “incredibly power-intensive workloads that we haven’t encountered in datacenter design before.” That’s good and bad.
>What everyone else.

Me and the other person who replied to you. "The US is also exceptional in how bad its bad schools are, this drags our averages down. While it's a tragedy for the kids who are not being served, it's a distortion to say all US schools are bad when most are not."

>The US is not particularly diverse in the world.

I'm sorry I can no longer take you seriously.

>And again, how do you compare "diverse" data sets like kids literally being able to read?

An average is nearly useless if you don't know the distribution. Rankings based on averages are meaningless.

>Right, because we actually have countries where half the population is 125 and half is 75, what can I say

How could you think an example that works out with nice easy numbers is supposed to actually represent a real country?

>Why are you commenting?

Because of this

>Oh come on, every study puts the US in a mediocre position in education within the OECD. That's not a debate.

Because it is debatable. Using PISA rankings to say that the US is in a mediocre position in education is very controversial. In addition to using the mean of a set of test scores, they don't take into account the percentage of 15 year olds still in school, or the percentage of 15 year olds who take the test. The US goes WAY up in the ranks when those things are taken into account.
Investment banks might not loan to individual restaurants, but they absolutely do loan to chains, as well as to PE firms trying to buy those chains in leveraged buyouts.
I was self-hosting so it was a question of seeing traffic rather than quotas. I'm loathe to sample errors since it often seems like the outliers are the most interesting but at some point it's expensive to avoid.
That’s all true. I’m just saying it’s not always practical to avoid closed source code.
Taylor Swift Stakes ‘Reputation’ on CDs; Album Unlikely to Stream Initially
Thanks everyone for the kind words. I appreciate it.
>>cat food

Why would you buy cat food though? It is not that much cheaper than some really cheap pasta. In college I was always on the lookout for the pasta specials at the supermarket. Pasta and some cheap olive oil is enough to get you by when times are tough . And if times were looking a bit good you could add some Feta and Ragu [1].

[1] https://www.ragu.com/
The Alexa voice is also available on AWS’ text-to-speech service, Polly: https://aws.amazon.com/polly/
FTFY: I poured my blood, sweat and life savings into a business I knew nothing about. It ruined my life.
These are pretty standard design patterns across most GUI frameworks. For instance Java Swing apps and Android apps also are commonly built with an MVC architecture. All four of these design patterns are not iOS specific, but they are design patterns the Cocoa Touch framework was made to be programmed against.
Breakfast prep starts at 6am, maybe 4am if you are baking. In a restaurant lights out might be midnight, later for a bar. Which staff do you trust with free access to the thousands of dollars of liquor, food and property? Do you stay closed for two days a week?
>>>Ugh. National IDs are common in Europe as well as other places

Proving the Senator Point.. I am sure you believe Europe is free, it is not. Europe is very very very very very Authoritarian and restrictive.

> It's hard to call Belgium a totalitarian regime.

Belgium is Totalitarian. Seemed pretty easy to me, I just typed things on my keyboard and they appeared like magic on my screen....

National ID is the first step to https://www.aclu.org/ordering-pizza
When doing adult outreach, I sometimes get feedback like "Atoms. I hated learning about atoms. And I've never used any of it. Why worry about teaching atoms? Teach writing and collaboration instead." And I say something like the following.

Leaving aside the question of whether atoms should be taught, if we do spend time teaching such, it would be nice to succeed at teaching it, which we currently aren't.

But bigger picture, I speculate that the unpleasantness and lack of utility, are caused by how atoms are taught, rather than by the subject of atoms. Perhaps taught much better, atoms might hang together with lots of other things (interwoven finger gesture), creating fun and powerful insight into the world.

> You don't have to teach everyone everything.

There's an old idea that the way to learn history, is to start with whatever interests you. Because history is such an interconnected tapestry, that it doesn't matter which tread you start on. If you like tiddlywinks, you'll soon encounter materials, and trade networks, and game evolution, and social partitioning, and... everything.

Science and engineering are also richly interwoven webs. So why can't you do something similar? Because our science and engineering expertise is too scattered, insufficiently disseminated and integrated. And with past tech, that was too expensive to change.

With better tech, and a lot of societal effort, that might change. So "anyone could learn about anything". Rather than almost immediately hitting a story of "Ah, that touches on several areas. And I'm sorry, textbooks handle all of them badly. You might spend a few months getting up to speed on the research literature in each area, but even then... Well, you really have to move across the country for long in-person conversations with one of a few professors (crazy busy) or their students, and then do that again for each other area. But... have you considered just giving up and crushing your interest now?"
There's no failure on my part to see how the world is. Legally speaking, law is to be interpreted. In these cases of tax evasion, it's fairly obvious they're breaking the spirit of the law. Your entitlement argument is bizarre to me. They are entitled to save as much as they can, after they've paid their dues back to the society who helped support a more stable environment. In Canada for example, many health care costs are covered for every citizen - so businesses don't have to necessarily pay as high of wages to workers - they of course are partially paying for these health costs through taxes. Same with public transit and road systems their employees will use. Apple paying high salaries is an apples and oranges argument - likewise, they couldn't "afford" as high of salaries if they were paying proper taxes; of course they still could afford such high salaries because of their profits. Imagine how good Apple would look right now if they were one of the few massive companies who didn't avoid paying fair taxes? Especially since they can afford it.
But the tax number isn't secret right? So that doesn't do much?

What is proof of residence? A copy of your apartment lease or something like that?
In his paper, Kosinski said the computer was zeroing in on certain physical features of the face consistent with prenatal hormone theory (PHT), which suggests that gay people are so because they were exposed to differing levels of androgens in the womb. “The faces of gay men and lesbians had gender-atypical features,” the scientist wrote, “as predicted by the PHT.” Kosinski argues that prenatal hormone theory is “widely accepted” as a model for the origin of homosexuality.

Did they control for the actual contents of the photos? For the position and expression on the faces? Nope!

Yet even Kosinski admitted that the computer might be picking up something besides immutable facial features. His algorithm, for example, posits that gay men are more likely to wear glasses. “Many wondered why faces with glasses are considered by algorithm to be more likely to be gay,” Kosinski said. “It might be something else in the face that’s also correlated with having glasses.”

This sounds like a classic case of the "Neural Net Tank Urban Legend", which was discussed here recently [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15485538

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Jonathan Frankle, a Ph.D. student at MIT who served as the staff technologist at Georgetown University’s Center on Privacy and Technology, said we often don’t know how these sorts of algorithms work. Unlike ordinary code, a neural net involves nodes that are interconnected, with processes happening in parallel. A neural net isn’t just executing a set of instructions in sequence; instead the nodes are talking to each other, giving feedback to each other. There really isn’t any way to trace how it makes its decisions — one can’t look at a single line of code or subroutine. It’s effectively a black box.

I hate this. It's wrong. You absolutely can trace the execution of a neural network in its decision making. It might be hard to understand, but there's nothing stopping you from looking at node activation patterns.

There is also a whole class of techniques for extracting some kind of meaning out of these black-box-type classifiers. See LIME [1] and older technique called "partial dependence" [2].

[1]: https://github.com/marcotcr/lime

[2]: https://github.com/bgreenwell/pdp
Disnt one of the Japanese holding companies restart a closed distillery on Islay?
This article is about events that took place before the Soviet Union was established.
No it won't. Especially if the price is competitive. Say for the price of 1 1080ti, if i can buy 1.5 units of comparable performance graphics card, i'll surely buy it. There are already resources being spent on OpenCI based ML/DL platforms (https://github.com/plaidml/plaidml). The architectures keep getting bigger and training time keeps getting longer. I think you underestimate this factor. I need as much gpu computing power as i can buy within the budget.
I've done both restaurants and tech. I had to think for a really long time which one to focus on. It just so happened that the startup hype kicked in around that time.

Tech is mentally exhausting. Really short but painful hours. Food & beverage is not exactly tiring, but the hours are very long. With tech consulting, you might be working 4-6 hours a day, with restaurants, expect around 14 hours/day. One involves a lot of slow, deep work, the other involves lots of rapid, shallow work.

With tech, you can get away with 0 employees, and everyone you hire is smarter than you. With restaurants, you regularly hire idiots who sleep while at work, don't show up, can't read simple instructions, steal from the charity jar. It's highly frustrating. It also drains a huge cut from your daily sales, which might seem like a lot until you look at profits.

It's really tempting to do a restaurant, because it's sort of "stable" source of income. But tech is much better and once you get tired of it all, you can just sell everything off at a higher price.
Put another way, the definitions of middle-class that encompass such people are ones that separate them from the regular joe, limiting the "middle" class to the top 30% or so of the income distribution rather than placing them at the median.
Also the barges "Read the Instructions" and "Of Course I Still Love You"

I wish people would take notice... Too often, I see creative/meaningful/evocative product and company names criticised with this sort of I'm-not-complaining-but-other-will-thinking.
The support for the earlier Segwit change was only 30%. The advertised support for this 2x change was over 80%.
Nothing some hot OTC options can't solve (hah!) - AMD definitely got played.

I am short AMD, long NVDA. Keep an eye open on ER tomorrow.
If you want some first contact stories that are better (IMO) than The Three Body Problem, try:

- Blindsight by Peter Watts (cannot recommend this strongly enough)

- The Forge of God and sequel Anvil of Stars by Greg Bear

- Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds

- Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

I appreciated getting a non-Western take on one of the most durable SF tropes in the Three Body Problem, but I didn't much enjoy it overall, and didn't read the sequels. It didn't hang together logically for me. The aliens could have built orbital habitats in their home system faster and easier than finding a replacement planet, even if they couldn't directly fix the problems of their home planet. Also I had a hard time squaring the aliens' (believable, hard-SF) colony ship capabilities with their magical, completely-beyond-known-physics "sophons" that they sent ahead.
Altered as per, you’re right of course.
Well, the whole point of Mobileye acquisition was for Intel to have a competing chip for autonomous cars. But it is possible that they are also looking to compete on 1080Ti level. Which would be very hard.
> Having started a software business with too much optimism and too little business knowledge myself, and failed

I'd say trying in itself can be seen as a partial success, hope you didn't get too financially impacted.

Is there any books/resources you (or other HN readers who also started their businesses :)) wish you had read before starting? Or that you did read and consider essential?
Money is money but you are competing against players who will order hundreds or thousands of units. You are not worth their time for a couple thousands of dollars

Maybe you could buy them through a reseller or integrator. I work for a startup, we've ordered multiple of their devices, their lead time is 6-8 months for the older models. I think these new models are probably only for the big players in the first year or two who have orders in the millions of dollars scale.

This is pretty common for premium HW manufacturers. I've worked for a camera company who would not take orders that were not at least on the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Both logistics and sales network is very expensive.
Credit cards are harder to obtain. This is not clearly a bad thing.
It's like an Age of Empires FFA where the losing players always team up against the leader.
It is quite straightforward to upgrade SSN system. Social Security Administration can generate deterministic Private+Public key pairs for all citizens.

Public key is your new SSN. If it gets stolen, simply generate a new public key, and give it out as a new number. All public keys are easily verified since SSA knows the private keys.
> It could put your personal dollar reserves in jeopardy.

> I do think it is unfair though to say that only the wealthy are entrepreneurs

Many people don't have personal dollar reserves to take that kind of risk in the first place. While you might argue that people who aren't wealthy have personal dollar reserves, I think that having enough money to be able to forgo income for long enough to get a business off the ground and live of savings is a pretty good definition of wealth
I enjoy coding, and that's the part I want to pursue. I have no idea about marketing.

What is networking? I know how to make friends through communities (e.g. the CouchSurfing meetup, church, volunteer groups), and I've have 3900 Facebook friends who I met face to face. But they don't have money, either as customers or investors. They're just friends.

What is market analysis? Do you mean looking at the Facebook Likes of my friends, and trying to build something that they will enjoy? I already have my ideas, but I don't think anybody is interested in them. (education tools, some deep learning research, calendar/map data management system).

Where should I post a blog? I wrote some blogs for Pingtype, but they didn't attract any traffic. What should I use? Wordpress.com? Medium?

https://pingtype.github.io/docs/blog.html
It's actually hard to understand how America has this problem because it was the USA that basically invented the concept of "know your customer" and the modern anti money laundering system in the 60s and 70s. Failing to do KYC is supposed to be a serious offence that can lead to jail time. So how is it possible that banks routinely don't know their customer sufficiently well that identity theft is a real problem?
If you have that kind of traffic, we recommend enabling sampling. All client libraries should support sampling out of the box.
I have a different perspective on entrepreneurship, having done full time work, consulting, and ran a small business employing others.

When you are an employee, you sell your time for money.

When you are a contractor, you take more risk but you have more freedom. You can charge based on how much value you provide, by virtue of the fact that you can name different prices for new clients.

When you run your own shop, you can productize you services reap the benefits of re-using everything. Not only that, but you provide employment others, who do the actual work.

But all these are not the best way to accumulate a lot of wealth. Instead, if you can partner with some capital, some expertise, and in general launch a rocketship, do it. Start a startup and give away enough equity to make sure it succeeds. Make sure to only do it if the startup a decent salary from the beginning. Keep doing this until you hit a big exit. Then you have it set.

You can keep doing this without being rich. What you need is to have access to capital. Preferably capital that's looking to fund ideas.

There is more and more of that capital every day. Such as crowdfunding. You lose very little to make a camapaign or an ICO.
National ID is the first step to https://www.aclu.org/ordering-pizza
Flow capitalizes on its soundness, but its not as useful when the error messages are so cryptic. We tried adopting Flow at a company I worked at, but dealing with gibberish errors and the huge meaningless stack traces was a productivity sink.

We migrated to Typescript. Error messages are more understandable and unlike flow include line numbers and the column. Add huge number of typings, and ts definitely wins.

There are many gripes we've had with typescript too, but at least we didn't spend hours trying to understand error messages.
Dear Citizen W2584519,

Due to your WrongThink post on Twitter this morning, and that your account follows RichardSpencerBot, we need to give you a 7 day suspension.

Not only will you not be able to post on Twitter during the suspension period, but due to our industry-leading technology partnerships with Uber and Lyft for our "FeministFrequencyFriendly" "Safe Cars, Safe Spaces" initiative, you won't be able to use these services either.

Cordially

Anita Fakersian,
Twitter CEO

(And there are many on HN that would be ok with this...)