skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
everybody is talking about the gender-politics, nobody seems to be talking about the assertions in this article.

curious to get some more details about this if you're interested in sharing some of what you've read. thanks for the archive link.
As per public statements, Google has ~100 million lines of Python code. Also, Google has used Python very heavily from the start, meaning that some of that code was written in Python 1.x or early 2.x days, before the language had packages, before standard modules like 'logging' or 'unittest', even before booleans(!).

It's just a lot of code to migrate. It takes time.

Disclaimer: Work at Google, wrote some of that code.
Open Letter to Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull: Ban Lethal AI Autonomous Weapons [pdf]
regarding #2 and 3 - there is some sort of social psychological principle where it doesn't matter if the pie has been made bigger. You will end up with discontent if the inequality happens nonetheless. So while it may not be rational, you still have to avoid it unless you want French Revolution scenarios.
Not in this case; it's actually pretty simple. There was anticipation of "free" coins after the fork, as there was when Bitcoin Cash forked. Price rose as people bought coins that would later be forked. Now it's cancelled, "free" coins are gone, so people see no need to tie up that money.
One of my local malls has a library branch in it, actually. And it's adjacent to a large park. That said, this isn't typical.
Open Note to Naomi Wu
They still haven't said anything about the issues with Python 2.7?
My biggest issue / bottleneck with Hetzner has been their network. 1Gbps is nothing these days if you run something larger. A mid-sized Elasticsearch cluster will eat this 1Gbps for breakfast during shard reallocation.

Other than than it has neat-perfect value per dollar.
Australia’s AI leaders urge PM to support a ban on lethal autonomous weapons
I don't really see why having the city run its own Internet service should be considered a resort. Getting the profit motive as far away from basic utilities like Internet transit as possible seems like a win, because you don't want an undifferentiated bit pipe to have to continue to make more and more money over time.
Michael Sandel explains why economic inequality matters.

https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_sandel_why_we_shouldn_t_tr...
I think with some important ideas like AI improving, he's the most prominent publicist and so gets quoted.
It includes plugin hybrids. The article says that the 43% (42.9%) total breaks down to 21.6% plugin hybrid electric vehicle and 21.3% battery electric vehicle. It wouldn't include hybrids that cannot charge batteries from a wall plug, like the ordinary Prius.
" the level and proportion of reward he received for that role is a choice we made as a society"

I don't believe this statement to be at all accurate. We did not make that decision as a society.

Millions of individual people made the decision to buy or not buy the phone based on its price and value. Millions of workers decided to work (or not work) for Apple/Foxconn based on their wages and the work. One of those workers was Steve Jobs, and the owners of Apple decided to pay him a certain amount for his work (and of course some of his wealth was derived from his ownership of Apple).

A free market is a special economic system in that it's made up of completely voluntary agreements. There was no coercion involved to make Jobs wealthy.
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Not being rich, I believe from folklore that the rich have this in the form of custom luxury buses. The furnishings seem to be about the same level as those of an RV or yacht but there is more space and a professional driver.
China's AI ambitions revealed by list of most cited research papers
The REIT, though it may not have the tax advantages you mention it is diversified.

However, the tax angle is interesting.

How easy is it to diversify with real estate syndication? Or so called real estate crowdfunding - which I assume are more or less the same thing?
Well, that's not true: https://projekte.sueddeutsche.de/paradisepapers/politik/dear...
Yes, shareholder lawsuits are common. But it's the company that pays, not directors.

HP actually paid $100 million in such a lawsuit for the Apotheker/Autonomy flop:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-hp-classaction-pggm/hp-pay...

The 2010 Board of Directors who created and permitted the $8.8 billion loss paid nothing. They kept their compensation, and most stayed on the board.
A VPN can work very well. tinc [1] for example. Easy to deploy, sustains Gigabit speeds even on weak VMs. And works across different providers.

[1] http://tinc-vpn.org
There was tons of discussion around the price and the fork. Why wouldn't the prospect of free money make it a sellers market? Bitcoin Cash fork brought Bitcoin holders 7-20% free coins.
So your argument is that people are poor because being poor is just too good of a deal?

I don't know any poor people who wouldn't prefer to be wealthier, but being in poverty also reduces opportunity and a lack of opportunity means your situation stays the same.

I grew up poor, and without the assistance from government programs my family received I would not have had the opportunity to pull myself out of the cycle of poverty.
The free market in action. Retail outlets are simply not equipped to handle the tastes of the modern consumer. It is an industry that saw huge growth in the 80's and 90's and has not been able to keep up with technology. As the segment of the population that still exclusively shops brick-and-mortar ages, unless these businesses can evolve and modernize they will continue to fail. Tough break, but its ultimately better for the consumer. Retail jobs are some of the worst ones to have too, so as long as the gross job counts are replaced then good riddance.

There are real problems that brick-and-mortar solve though, mainly having instant tactile demos of products, like holding an iPhone at the Apple store or trying on clothes. Future businesses will figure out how to combine the two approaches into a profitable business model. Trunk club is a good, if expensive, example.
TELUS: Scroll through Vets names, will donate $5 to the Royal Can. Legion
Choreography with Computers
This sounds fascinating - where is this, if you don't mind me asking?
At the moment ethereum is its wallet software, if you cant write safe smart contracts then ethereum has no USP.
Jeff Garzik was the only author of btc1, the primary 2x implementation. For it to survive for any length of time, someone needs to step up and take over code maintainership.
Any more the largest "owner" of most publicly traded companies are mutual funds that are in turn owned by 401k/IRA accounts. So teachers, firefighters, police, union workers, office workers, government workers.

So basically you got that already.
Hate these X millions / billions per month or year or a centuary.

Let’s do the math.

So it’s 20B/30 = 660 m / day

660 / 24 ~= 25 m / hour

25000k / 3.6k sec = 8000 events/sec

Now peaks got to be larger then these measly 8000 events.

Even say peak is 50k/second.

Dang an Nginx can serve a web page faster then that on a single modern notebook. CPU won’t even saturate to do that.

Or if you were to write them to a consumer grade spinning drive disk at 100mb/s you’d get 50k/s if each event is 2kbytes in size.

As usual I’m not impressed.
lol this is like some propaganda inception
Lol, lame reasoning. What happened to iron clad empirical evidence before suing? Oh I guess that was never the case, eh?
Good CSS lessens download times, by simplifying html. CSS adds structure to html-code, it helps me to write greasemonkey scripts or to block annoying (wasting space or blinking) parts of page with uBlock. There are technical reasons to use CSS and at least some of them is good for me as a user. There are no good reasons for me to allow page to use fonts except those I explicitly installed into my system.
New Research Aims to Solve the Problem of AI Bias in “Black Box” Algorithms
Well nobody said the alternative has to be outdoors, that's just the OP. It could be a community center with arcades and playgrounds and what not.
It's nowhere near the size of those but I have run http://www.rubyflow.com/ for 10 years and it was basically a month of me posting several things a day and mentioning it on my then-popular Ruby blog before there was a tipping point where other contributors kept it going. I rarely post at all now.

On sites that require a social aspect rather than just link sharing, I imagine you really need to have a core group of people commit to engaging with each other before others are attracted towards it. I recall early HN being like that at least.
Does the Alexa app have a recording of what triggered her?

The app used to be very good at displaying most, if not all, interactions with Alexa. I find now that sadly many interactions are now missing.

Oh, and there's also this: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/7/16265906/ultrasound-hack-s...
Voice recognition systems can be activated without saying a word by sending commands at very high frequencies (ultrasound). It is because of the ability of microphones to detect these frequencies. This could be used for jokes when an assistant like Alexa will say something while nobody has heard anything. Or by hackers, for example, to unlock a phone.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/06/hackers-send-silent-comman...
Before someone points out that nations have always done this:

It has never been this effective, targeted or difficult to uncover.
>e stuff is already there, running, listening, and able to do things.

I didn't see anything in the presentation that corroborates with what you said. Do you have any other links that show that ME is automatically provisioned/enabled?

>The difference between this and all those peripherals you brought up is that we wanted the peripherals because they were useful to us.

They were advertised for their features, not for their internal components. No person buying a GPU imagines that malware can reside inside their GPU. Similarly no person buying a USB drive imagines that the USB drive's controller can be reprogrammed to do nefarious things.

>Also, we have options with those ranging from not buying the peripheral to using one with little programmability to isolating it with IO/MMU.

The point is that you are not aware of all of the places microcrontrollers are hiding currently, which are therefore easier to conceal because nobody (well, almost) is paying attention to them. Intel created a product which they announced to the world, and have released a lot of technical information on. You are insisting that Intel has an ulterior motive without providing any evidence, when far simpler explanations exist that make sense. I'm going to withhold judgement till I see such evidence.
I mean, it bans Facebook exactly because it's easy to spread propaganda through it.

What the hell is up with this title? "Country attacks with weapons, the same thing it bans internally". Obviously?
We actually do a lot more than 20B (not sure what the number is actually pulled from), but it's also important to note that even 8000 events/sec isn't free.

- 40k per event (average, it gets into 2mb territory for some)

- streaming processing of everything on the fly

- storage/querying of data
Nanoscale 'abacus' uses pulses of light instead of wooden beads for calculations
Every country has good and bad parts. That's the point of averages. How else would you compare countries?

The study only compares averages and that's all that people are saying. It's totally possible that the best secondary school in the world is in the US but that's not the point.

And I don't see how population size is important, as you say. Schools in the US are locally funded, no?
You just made my day, thank you!
Fault-tolerant interface between quantum memories and quantum processors
Really depending on project.

For pretty Easy privacy we do a lot https://pep.foundation. For my small side projects like pyPEG or YML2 I'm doing nearly nothing https://fdik.org/yml https://fdik.org/pyPEG2
If the companies that went to PE for money were healthy, then they wouldn’t need PE.
Researchers Develop Data Bus for Quantum Computer
There's a lot more wrong with the coal belt than just unemployment. Systemic neglect for generations is likely more significant.
Theoretically, yes. In fact, Senate Bill 152, passed in 2005, already outlaws municipal broadband. From the article:

Colorado has a state law requiring municipalities to hold referendums before they can provide cable, telecom, or broadband service. Yesterday, voters in Eagle County and Boulder County authorized their local governments to build broadband networks, "bringing the total number of Colorado counties that have rejected the state law to 31—nearly half of the state's 64 counties," Motherboard wrote today.

As far as I know, there have been attempts to make it impossible for a community to opt-out, but nothing's been successful yet. In fact, most recently, it looks like the tide has been turning in favor of repealing the ban state-wide (which wouldn't be surprising considering the 31 counties that have already opted out). Here's a bit more info:

https://co-wa.org/2017/01/26/senate-bill-152-primer/
> the professor who funds your RA (or department in case of a TA) pays your in-state tuition on top of your stipend.

That sounds like income.
China didn't ban Facebook b/c they don't think it should exist, they banned it b/c its a propaganda engine that they didn't want to compete with.

In the world of international jockeying and competition it would be naive to assume they would use a tool like facebook against their economic rivals.
Shot up to $7900, then dropped to $7000, then rebounded to around $7300. If you weren't among those panic selling, you're still up over 24 hours.
Illuminating gravitational waves
> Probably the #1 problem is the ignorance of how bad the telecom monopoly is in the US, that there even are alternatives, and that this is the problem domain government needs to approach in the same way they approach electric access or roads.

amusingly, boulder county, which passed this same thing, tried for years to get out of maintaining my neighborhood's roads. (and our electric service is privately provided.)
It's interesting to imagine what a distant future would look like where everyone wears these things. For example, if every vehicle on the roads were either a self-driving car or was driven by a driver using AR, we could get rid of traditional road signs.

Imagine speed limits that dynamically change based on time of day or traffic conditions, streets that dynamically switch between being one-way or two-way, etc.

I think the chances of that happening in my lifetime are vanishingly slim, but it's still a fun thought experiment.
This is effectively the announcement of discontinuation of software, and anything relating to that is usually signed. For example, Bitcoin Core release notes are signed when sent out via email, the binaries are reproducibly built and signed many times, and most git commits are signed by their author (and all merge commits are): https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commits/master
Computer Scientists Aid in Major Astronomical Discovery
Students explore immigration through a big data lens
Spitballing: Daylight Savings Time related, perhaps?
I'm so glad my government, the United States Government, has definitely never spread propaganda in foreign countries with the express interest of creating a more favorable political climate there for their interests.
Open-source, self-hosted alternative(s) discussed within days of the above:

Wallabag: a self-hostable application for saving web pages | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14686882 (2017Jul:166points,53comments)
Wouldn't you expect alts to do well in this situation, since it's essentially the yang to the yin of moving from alts into Bitcoin in fork anticipation?
Your comment basically breaks HN guidelines by calling into question the motivations of all commenters that disagree with you. Some of us simply believe that taxing corporations makes little sense because companies set their pricing with applicable taxes in mind. Ultimately, only people pay taxes, so only people that have not fully considered the implications believe they are "sticking it to the man," when in reality the government is abstracting the cost of these taxes on the people.

It's simply a consumption tax that people do not realize they are paying because it is built into the products citizens are buying.
We aren't talking about taxes on "money", we are talking about taxes on investment.

Investments are made to return profits, the more of the profits society takes, the less incentive investors will have to start and grow companies. So you should think about what tax rate you think we should have on investment.

Right now if you and friends start a business in the US, for every dollar in profit you'll first owe state income taxes, and federal corporate income taxes, which is anything from 35-45% depending upon your state. That's even if you re-invest every penny of profit into the business, into new jobs and higher productivity improvements. Why as a society are we reducing earned capital by more than a third every time it's reinvested?

Then, if you ever want to pay a share of those profits to your investors as dividends, now there is another 15-35% tax, based on state/income tax brackets. That's the double layer that means US companies lose at least 50% of profits and up to 70% to taxes before their owners get any.

Do you really think business owners should pay 50-70% of their profits in taxes? Then don't mind if some decide starting their business in a lower tax country makes sense.
3D-printing gets a turbo boost from U-M technology
Close. Many universities don't charge overhead (which is usually 50%+, not 20%) on large equipment purchases. Faculty successfully made the case that it doesn't cost $450k to house a $1 million instrument as compared to $1 million in salaries for researchers.

Also, costs for graduate students do not linearly map to costs for Post-Docs and PIs. This would de-couple the funding for graduate students from the actual enrollment, and would make the computation of the appropriate overhead rate even more complicated and fraught than it already is.

The other important thing to note is that the grantors don't pay the overhead until the actual underlying cost is incurred. Trying to project what it would be would be very hard.
Is eBay's Visual Search going to make Google's search obsolete?
Middlemen will go away, The Middleman will stay.
Please take a few minutes to scroll through the (staggering) list of names. If you do, Telus (Canadian telecommunications company) will donate $5 to the Royal Canadian Legion. The Legion is a meeting hall and support services institution for Canadian veterans.
> It certainly wasn't the conventional wisdom.

It was for sure. Where do you get your Bitcoin news?
muni broadband already has an established history in colarado - for example nextlight by Longmont, CO
Well the main complaint seems to be that she was dressed too 'sexy' without taking the context into factor. Her aims were marketing and she succeeded.

> If I showed up to Strange Loop in a slingshot speedo do you think that'd be okay?

It's okay if you are okay with it, regardless of what others think. I'd imagine this example was created to illustrate how unsexy for a grown male (which I assume here) is to wear a speedo whereas it would work for female (assume hetero). I'm sure some folks at Strange Loops will find your attire attractive.

Which is pretty much the entire point of me trying to explain the underlying sexist bias that's at play here.

Calling 'slutshaming' a touchy word and a modern trend are invalidating remarks because you minimize it's importance and that it's not worthy of discussion because it's merely superficial like a trend. It's real and the only reason why you might not think so is simply because you haven't experienced it which is not valid grounds to say 'slutshaming' isn't real.

Things that are inappropriate in your head are that way because of your own emotional relationship with those "inappropriate things". In this case, seeing somebody in a sexy light and blaming them for arousing you is inappropriate initself. It might warrant as harassment of sorts. Do you walk up to your female co-workers (just the sexy ones) and tell them they can't wear what they feel is within their rights because you are uncomfortable with your own feelings which is entirely within your control?
Isn't that what www.postmarketos.org is doing?
But the main reason they called it off was that it was extremely unlikely to succeed in being a bitcoin successor.
Touch-sensitive avatar-robotic arm based on real-time haptics
> The point of this kind of log architecture is that producers never need to know if a consumer has consumed something, because the log is designed to allow as many consumers as you like to reliably work through the log from any given position.

Right I think we're saying the same thing. In the article checkpointing was introduced to enable safely managing the size of the log, i.e. it appears that in this use case _somebody_ needs to know whether the consumers are caught up in order to adhere to at-least-once semantics. It just seemed to me that if you reach the point where you're rolling your own to solve that problem there are other possible solutions.

I haven't read the linked-in piece yet but I intend to. It was also linked in the article. Thanks for linking it here.
Part of the problem is that the inequality leads to behavior that protects the inequality. Disney passing lobbying for laws that will keep their work out of public domain despite how much they benefited from public domain. Drug companies lobbying to outlaw certain products that would help people but cut into profits.

Enough inequality allows information control. Enough information control allows government control.

Overall, if things were constantly getting better, I doubt people would care. But once things start stagnating for those at the bottom, they begin to consider not playing by the current set of rules.
Hey thanks!

The other thing is, I don't just apply this to international politics, I'm a firm believer in working to change your local politics as much as possible above all else.

How your city runs is both more accessible to the layperson and has a far bigger impact on your day-to-day experience than federal stuff, for example.

That's not to say I'd eschew federal level politics--I'm a huge proponent for socialized medicine, stringent environmental regulations, and a host of other stuff.

But when I go out and campaign, I do it for local folks.
I think there's going to be a spectrum of motion sickness.

Would happen to me as a teen when we were going down well-made freeways to go to the beach, I had to just watch the scenery go by and ruminate about the lives of the residents of the various districts. Never happened to me as an adult in a plane, even reading tiny low-res screen of netbook. Can't imagine reading on a sailboat, I've got a job to do, or I'm drinking and socializing. No problem reading or walking around on the one cruise ship I've used.

Of course there are individuals out there who can't read or even sit quietly in any of those scenarios without motion sickness.
Yeah it definitely does sometimes. I use "echo" as the wake up word and it certainly has woken up on entirely unrelated words.
Ray would disagree: "Grist: Futurist Ray Kurzweil says "we have plenty of time" to replace fossil fuels with renewables" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/feb/21/ray-kurz...

I actually kind of agree with him on that - go solar cells and robots.
The Downstream Effects of Sharing Data Integrations
I will reference this thread when I need an example of minimum viable product catching flak. Putting off WARC makes financial sense.
Yeah, even if they completely corrupt our political systems we can sleep well at night knowing that we've always taken the high ground on things like this.
7 IT salary and hiring trends for 2018