skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nobody will talk with me.

Wow, I'm sorry to hear that. It sounds like you've gone through a lot.

I am also a recent transplant in Seattle. If you ever need someone to talk to, we can meet up over coffee or something. You can reach me at chohyu01@uw.edu.
Personally I wish Facebook to be destroyed, it's kind of a psychological cancer. I also guess Amazon can't be destroyed unless with a series of defeats within a very long period, it may be transformed into another Microsoft or IBM at worst but it won't be destroyed.
How a Star Wars video game faced charges that it was promoting gambling
Google made $79B from ad revenue in 2016[1]. $79B in a year / 365 days per year = 218M per day. So GP underestimated by quite a bit.

Or put another way: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+ad+revenue

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/266249/advertising-reven...

(Brought to you by Google Search: so ubiquitous it has become it's own meme.)
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Only 30% of Hitachi revenue comes from ICT and electronics.

Their consulting and services business sell mostly to Japan. Electronics division is very specialized. Semiconductor processing equipment, test and measurement and so on.
Jet.com was basically engineered to be sold, never was a serious contender.
plus one to this!
But surely that's at most a week of training, not 4 years.
I'd say that, far from being whataboutism, there's a pretty strong correlation between the sort of post-modern relative view of truth that we've allowed out of our politicians when they're in office, and the techniques they (and third parties on their behalf) have been using in elections.
AMP is both a data saver and avoids nagging'install our app' modal or redirect to play store.
I’m still using CS6 for this exact reason... There is literally no new features in CC that interest me, I just want a few tweaks and bug-fixes (little things like Camera Raw’s UI not being retina compatible, etc.)
Five years ago, a simple San Francisco house cost what a luxurious Midwestern second-tier city house cost. This was sort of reasonable; you're buying premium housing, but the premium part is the location rather than the house itself.

Growing up, I went to a handful of parties in rich friends' stunning lakefront mansions that cost barely $1.2m. The nicest houses my parents and I could even conceive of are worth less than a median San Francisco house now. So I dunno. Feels like something has really changed.
Most entrepreneurs are "one hit wonders".
That's been the most annoying part of search for a while now. Most searches result in hyper commercialised results, with SEO heavy sites winning out, and of course SEO heavy sites are going to be sites selling you stuff.

If you're searching for a real human's thoughts on a particular mountain bike for one example, it will be nothing but product pages. Add in the word Reviews and you get the productized review sites. Even searching for "Best trails in {my area}" gives me an ecommerce site's blog laden with product links and not-so-subtle sells.

Want to read a discussion about a book? Google will only show you product pages with review sections on the first page, on the next page the search results have already devolved into unrelated nonsense or spin sites.

It's hard to find the humans on the internet through all the commercial pages. I can't blame Google entirely of course, they are helped by the SEO industry's incessant bombardment in the 2010ish era that filled the web with so much pointless crap, and the ongoing efforts of e-commerce stores with deep pockets to be the only heard voice for particular subjects.
People who can should apply to work on one of the AI Safety Research projects:

https://futureoflife.org/ai-safety-research/

The list covers a number of professors in top graduate programs and several angles should be tackled simultaneously to maximize our chances.
>Are you imagining a sci-fi future where nations politely agree to decide their disagreements with bloodless robot duels? Wars are won by destroying the enemy's will to fight, not by gentlemen's agreements.

Where is no "politely agree" nor "gentlemen's agreements" in international relationships, only sheer power. MAD is an example of power forcing to not fight a war at all. Falkland war was fought without bombing Buenos Aires or any other action outside of immediate war zone. Ukraine/Russia war in Donbass was limited to that area because of possible repercussions to either side for letting it spill out (and for the same reason both sides in general, with some exceptions, didn't indiscriminantly target civilians). US and other developed countries limit sending its soldiers in harms ways and hitting enemy civilians because of internal and external political repercussions. So it is always a power calculation, and as a result in this more and more interconnected and densely populated world we have 2 tendencies - restricting conflicts to specific localities and minimizing human involvement. Those 2 tendencies ultimately lead to drone wars confined to specific areas (preferably in space or in cyberspace - notice how much of adversarial activity happens more and more in cyberspace, yet nobody is going for real life action over it). Attempt to bomb each other's cities will be (and pretty much is already today) unthinkable like in case of Falkland war. Of course, when there is no containing power in sight, we immediately have what Saudis do in Yemen right now - it isn't even a war, it is just pure genocide.
Pretty much anything with AI mentioned in the first line is an eye-roller. Then the dogs part... wtf
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its also about chord spellings within a context- how a musician, especially in a string quartet, thinks about how to play the note based on how it is spelled (eg is it the third, fifth, seventh or some extension of a chord?) the spelling tips you off to its context based on the key and other factors you feel but don't have time to contemplate when sight-reading.
Who still nowadays has a printer? Even most offices don't.
Co-founding a successful startup (WP Engine) and before that some angel investment funded by consultancy earnings in the late 2000's. I also joined Uber just around the 1000 employee mark, and I remain bullish that equity will increase further in value.
If I'm going to pay for search it's better be a lot better than google. And google has a twenty year head start and a gazillion dollars and can rapidly implement any clever feature you might think of.
> no one argues that Dennett doesn't think subjective experiences exist

I don't know if anyone has stated that directly. But I've seen plenty of responses to Dennett that basically amount to saying that the only way they can make sense of his statement that qualia don't exist is that he means subjective experiences don't exist. So even if they don't think he actually believes that, they certainly seem to be unable to interpret his philosophical claims any other way.
Seems pretty reasonable.
Daniel Suarez, the author of Daemon, has another book called Kill Decision, which explores a lot of these ideas.
Some other examples:

sign conventions in thermodynamics

conventions in Fourier transforms

short billion vs long billion

calorie vs Calorie

English vs. metric units

SI vs cgs metric

esu vs Gaussian units in EM
The prices I see on this link are on the other side of $1k where a perfectly adequate for Windows (and adequate for Linux with 5 hours of fighting) laptop can be bought for less than $300.

That the high-power laptop has a $100 discount doesn't seem like the incentive I was originally mentioning. I mean, sure, if and only if you were going to buy a laptop of that power level, then buying from the "Linux ecosystem" but otherwise, it seems like a moral gesture.
I really hope they will archive statically rendered pages. It matters that you are able to see old websites in their original form.

EDIT: does anyone know whom we might contact at the BBC to encourage them to do this when they make the transition?
In all honesty this comes across as too gung-ho and short sighted. Perhaps even cruel advice, though I am certain it is not meant in that fashion at all.

What someone needs is good human connection that is not totally associated with their project. People need friends - real friends, and it is not realistic to expect that one should seek that out from customers. Not that it's unheard of to make a real friend in that situation, and yes, the closer the relationship is the better, but let's be real. Businesses have risk. They are not a healthy place to receive all of your biological need for real connection.

Also you don't know if the poster even has customers or is even in a business where intensive customer interaction is an option.
Nope. It was just an observation that I think most people are completely unaware of; or they accept it because the alternative of crappy phones from companies that do not care to keep them updated, or drop all kinds of trash all over them that cannot be removed, sucks so badly that a company can get away with what Apple does. You are voluntarily agreeing to that EULA. You don't in fact have to agree.
Good point! I admittedly was writing this off as "performance details" of music written in a modern 12-tone paradigm, but you're definitely right that plenty of music is written specifically for ensembles with continuous pitch with those nuances in mind. See also, a cappella vocal music, particularly barbershop. Even for guitar, some players tune to favor particular chords shapes sounding maximally consonant, even though the frets are designed for 12-TET.
I would have assumed that innovation increases with experiences, knowledge and resources.

One of the reasons startups target the young is surely naivety, e.g. stock options, altruistic work, and so on. While older workers are happy to take their stable, high wage senior jobs. Only branching out into innovation when its under their own terms and they have a solid plan.

What does everybody else think?
Rsync.net has direct SFTP and rsync for $0.03/GB/month: http://rsync.net/products/attic.html

And with the quality of service I expect from a service hosted on a Comcast connection, I'd say you're roughly comparable in reliability/quality to low end VPS providers like https://www.time4vps.eu/. From them you can get a 40GB VM for $2.35/mo.
> I hate when people use this as a former of argument and neglect all the difficult things the country has achieved.

My point was it is difficult for 300M people to agree on something, and I don't know what you are talking about otherwise.
Bitcoin is not such a great investment anymore
We aren't redistributing transporter's source code. Where did you see that?
Everything by DJI, even the freaking batteries, has updatable firmware. Recall need unlikely.
I'm not defending the difference between how months and days/years are treated. But here are some possible reasons.

From ctime(3):

Broken-down time is stored in the structure tm, which is defined in <time.h> as follows:

struct tm {
int tm_sec; /* Seconds (0-60) */
int tm_min; /* Minutes (0-59) */
int tm_hour; /* Hours (0-23) */
int tm_mday; /* Day of the month (1-31) */
int tm_mon; /* Month (0-11) */
int tm_year; /* Year - 1900 */
int tm_wday; /* Day of the week (0-6, Sunday = 0) */
int tm_yday; /* Day in the year (0-365, 1 Jan = 0) */
int tm_isdst; /* Daylight saving time */
};

Also, it allows you to do things like

["JAN", "FEB", ..., "DEC"][theDate.month]
Founders cashing out early with investors like Goldman Sachs left holding the bag? Not a bad proposition.
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How many cases?

100, 10K, 100K, million?
An interesting part about BBC News's tech stack, which was touched on in another comment here, is that we didn't have the budget to serve dynamic pages and so everything SPG'd (statically page generated) as we called it so it could be served statically from the production web servers.

It meant an incredibly novel use of Apple WebObjects - which was set up to render all of the versions of the story (flavours, I think we called them) via the WOA and then FTP them to production. We used this system to produce not only web versions but content for interactive TV output and I believe even Ceefax at one point.

Another curious fact now: most of the BBC News website was coded in Objective C in the early 2000's, to much chagrin as it meant us developers having to learn this 'dead' language when really we wanted to use the Java version of WebObjects instead. Many of the devs went on to have leading roles in the UK iPhone development industry when apps were enabled for iPhone given the amount of experienced we all unknowingly had received in what suddenly became a much-sought after language.
I do a lot of Twitter searches for that kind of thing when I want raw feedback about a particular topic.

I've had a 't' custom search engine address bar hotkey for Twitter for years.
When you can get a full cabinet + gigabit transit for $400/mo I don't think there's ever an excuse to put a paid service on a Comcast connection.
Thanks :)

I have another rifle and 4 swords that I want to do something similar with as well. I don't think I could do a very good job with them though. (TBH, I'm a bit disappointed with how the ak-47/ladle turned out.) So I've been looking to find a good artist to donate them to.
Can you elaborate more on the computation of the decoding matrix? Is it basically a special-purpose row reduction, taking advantage of the fact that the matrix to be inverted has a bunch of rows from the identity matrix? (I think it is, but would be curious if there's another algorithm out there!)
They definitely can be beaten but not for the reasons stated in this article. Network effects cannot be undone without a fundamental shift in their business models. Right now Facebook and Google make their money off advertising and tracking their users. Break the business model and incentivize a Network and a new Network can grow.
It's difficult for two people to agree on something.

See: your thread.
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It always makes me stop to think a little when I realise just how many great software projects are largely developed and maintained by one person.
Okay so how is an 'average' computer user supposed to install a Linux OS that they want (or another OS) on their PC without reading up on MoK keys and UEFI and delving into the key management interface?

Yes, you can install the few 'blessed' distros like Ubuntu, Fedora or OpenSuSE, but what about distro X? Thus far, an average user need only pop a CD to install Majaro or FreeBSD or FreeDOS. Now...? Install their own keys? Sign their kernels and modules?

This reminds me of all the anti-piracy measures. Sure, you can theoretically circumvent all the DRM. But is it practical for 90% of users? No.

Sure, DRM is theoretically perfectly fine, as is Secure Boot. As is even ME. The theory is always fine. How it turns out in practice, not so much. We should be asking ourselves if this marked disparity is really just inadvertent.
I agree. Maybe it is just the obscene cost of living in SF but I can't figure out for the life of me why a rational person would take a startup job there. Whenever you look at the salaries these companies pay they aren't the least bit competitive with companies in less expensive cities after accounting for the 50% higher cost of living.

I was much less aware of these more sublet factors when I was younger and just out of school. It's impossible to ignore now that I'm older though.
It prevented me from flying at lower-than-trees altitude in a public park a km or so away, perpendicularly to the approach axis, from rarely used sports airfield... Another frequent occurence is the app threatening to brick the drone if you don’t update the firmware by a given date. I get the intention, but the nanny in these expensive things is overly powerful and often wrong.
What is your point here? People can spend their money however they want. Are you trying to say that someone who has become financially successful should not spend it because someone somewhere is not at the same level?
Great to see span taking final shape!

As for the future, I wish c# had const refs working like in c++ instead of readonly and a plethora of ireadonly collections! It could optimize away many things on the CLR level too. I guess it's not doable without breaking some things, but I think it is worth it.
Can they? They won’t touch the interface whatsoever. Also a lot of times I care only about a subset of the internet. Google won’t let me specify what subset.
I've lived in stockholm, worked in a trendy office in an old building in gamla stan, and know exactly what you mean. But I would point at kungsträdgården strandvägen etc as examples of thin parkland used for walking/cycling commutes rather than just recreation, radiating like spokes from the centre. That was the kind of example I want to get across (which you don't find in, say, London).
Let's sit back and take a chill pill.

Will this capability exist? Yes, probably.

Am I concerned that this capability will be deployed against me? No, not really. Theoretically it could, but then again, so could a dude with a gun. I live in a democratic first-world country, the capabilities of my own government are likely to exceed the capabilities of those who want to kill me. And theoretically maybe my government might want to kill me... but it could already do that anyway, using a dude with a gun.
I used C# via CLR for a good ramp up on C# when I started my first job. I came from a java background and the transition was seamless.
Try the wee-slack plugin[https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack], it uses the Slack API and I have been using it on my Android phone(using Termux) and my Linux laptop, works great :)
I wonder if someone could just do a Twitch channel. Similar to those "study with me" Youtube videos, but with a human on the other side.
He has some insights, but also injects a lot of naive and grating political signaling into analysis, which makes him sometimes hard to take seriously.
Imagine a graph where one axis is how interested you are and the other axis is how quickly you pick it up. There is a diagonal line the separates those that will persist long enough to be a good coder.
Kind of interesting how searching social network content can often be more useful than searching the entire Internet.

Edit: makes me wonder if the web is evolving in the direction of more social/curated search, less global search
For everyone commenting on going to a café every day, you'll end up spending the $400 on coffee, cakes whathaveyou and you won't have the guarantee of a quiet, thoughtful space when you need it. I needed some company some time ago and found a co-working space that I treated like a café - the coffee included, I brought my own lunch, and even though I'm not particularly sociable it was still much, much healthier than working alone and over time I got on fairly well with a group of people I still consider friends, though I've long since left. Have a look if there is something around you, you never know. And even just the looking gets you out of the house for a valid reason!
Yeow!

What are the other tests? I mean, there's the CPU, memory, the disks, PCI... surely you don't have SCSI, option ROMs should be quick... I'm genuinely curious.

What sort of server is it, for reference? (Well, I'm really just wondering how much RAM it has.)

And now I'm wondering how long the longer test takes!
The cost of living is only prohibitively higher if you have a wife and 2 kids.

There are a ton of other scenarios where you earn and save a lot more in a city like SF.

I have roommates for example and my rent is pretty cheap. I also don’t have a car - I just use Uber or Lyft. Saves a ton of money.
But in all cases it's just allegations, nothing that's been proven in a court of law. And in that case, then Bill Clinton, who has been credibly accused of rape, should also be losing his endorsement.

Hoo boy, twitter really made problems from themselves when they made a blue checkmark mean anything other than "famous person, identity verified".
I would actually put it stronger: most startup tech is quite mundane (or could easily be made mundane).

Facebook started on a classic LAMP stack.
is "making per day" profit or revenue?
The black magic behind those complex communication pipes is what made me love computers back in the days. Ever since then I have been obsessed by networking and how It just works even though things are thousands miles apart. I'm still amazed today but somehow the magic is gone for me. Everything is transparent in the modern internet and nobody really cares anymore about the complexity.

Everything is now about frontend and javascript design. Hard problems are not cool and trendy anymore, and that is sad.
Yeah, but that's also what I said when it hit a dollar.

(On this very site, but I can't remember what my username was back then so I can't look it up and prove myself stupid.)
I believe this is because nicotine is an insecticide?

For some reason I'm imagining the birds carrying lit cigarettes and smoking out their nests LOL.

Would be interesting to check nests near tobacco plants and see if the birds utilize the plants.
Good luck man! Let me know if you need help. My email is song at garageScript.org
I, too, look forward to season 4 of Black Mirror.
That’s a preposterous claim. You obviously can’t remember not existing. Memory is not magical, it is a biological process that records information during your life and allows you to reexperience it.
I’ve participated in two or three solopreneur / side-project groups (and even started one myself). I don’t think they work.

I’ve seen friendships forged by volunteering together on the same thing. But not by people working in proximity on different things.

Coworking spaces have worked out for me but only by giving me access to job opportunities.
Well, in all honesty, youtube does a lot more than "handle payments" - it actually serves those videos, it finds advertisers and collects money, matches content with ads.

You can argue how well it does the job (especially at the last bullet point) but it should be obvious that it does do in fact more than just "collect money".
I completely agree especially regarding older workers willing to branch out on their own terms.

I've often found startups (anyone and any organization really) will often present their opportunity as very one sided to an extent. "This is what we offer, this is what is required and no, you have no wiggle room here".

I've also found as I've aged and have more financial stability I'm less likely to get suckered into an arrangement that really doesn't benefit me.

Also as I've aged I am less likely to fall into the FOMO trap. (Fear of missing out.)

Just my 2 cents.
> And, like you, they point out that secure boot can be disabled instead.

Why would I do that? All Linux distros I use works fine with Secure Boot.
Maybe documentation for everything should contain use cases, first, before anything.

Every Javascript tool has documentation the wrong way round. Quick start guides and installation instructions are useless if you don't even have a good reason to use the tool in the first place.
The purpose of and process around Verified status has changed a lot since 2009
> The first AI War is going to be a really brutal wakeup call.

I know. I thought I was decent at strategy games, but AI War shook that confidence to the bone. I don't think I've ever won a game. http://store.steampowered.com/app/40400/AI_War_Fleet_Command...

On a serious note, you're absolutely right. Sci-Fi has been lying to us for a very long time and I don't think people are ready to face what the reality will be.

> The robots don't miss and they draw and shoot before the humans even know they're there.

Maybe, though if those robots are based on neural networks maybe we'll luck out and get a situation like this: https://xkcd.com/1897/

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Can we not reward people who inject shit like "text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) 0px 0px 6px; color: transparent; user-select: none;" into their content?