skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> uses a fleet of redundant satellite-connected and atomic clocks in each region

I am really curious to know what atomic frequency standards they are using. There is something a little suspicious about the wording. I have a feeling they mean "we use GPSDOs" and there are no atomic frequency standards physically located in each regional datacenter.

I'm also a little surprised to see that the remote clock is stratum 4. It would be interesting to see how they are distributing the time between their clocks.

If someone from amazon reads this it would be neat if you posted some more details about your setup.
> If you don't mean "right" than don't use that word.

If you so desire, I won't use it, sure.

> A person wielding a hammer is fundamentally different than a pre-programmed hammer some human unleashed on it's own. I consider the latter a serious threat.

> Which a is more important? Should we treat them even remotely the same when one a ends a life and the other a causes a financial loss?

It's more complicated than that. You can drive a car remotely, and you can have a robocar with a human in it.

A car with a human in it deserves more protection, but there's no reason it has to have priority toward getting to use lanes. A car en route to pick up a human might as well have the same priority as one delivering a human.

Whether a car is being controlled by computer or human being shouldn't matter at all. Whether it's carrying a human should matter in some ways but not in others. One case where it shouldn't matter is blocking it; neither should be blocked.
>Such that supply can increase or decrease either on command

who would use it? you might as well have tether (or the government backed equivalent)

>or naturally

and what metric do you use determine the "optimal" supply? and how do you prevent that metric from being gamed?
Miners aren't a third party?

Where exactly did you think those fees went?
It isnt, because not all workers can unionize. In consequence, unionized get the better on non unionized.

The artificial increase of wages has the same effect that the artificual increase of profits
If they call themselves media, are they not media? Or are we to take the pre-internet ossified definition of media?

I get it that some bloggers vacillate between being "just a blogger" and "I'm a journalist" when it suits them. But TC is not a one person org.
> Mortgage payment over 20 years 2x

Completely and utterly false.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_united_states_of_...

Furthermore that attitude makes me physically sick. You are a debt slave providing the fruits of your labor to the banking industry, all priced at the maximum value that can be extracted for the longest period. All because inflation punishes savers.
What trouble are you having with the GPSs? Getting them hooked up to ntpd is fairly easy after you get used to some of the common hiccups.

As far as who wins for a long time now it has been astronomers. The fact that Google and Amazon are doing leap smearing is a nice sign that the tide may be turning. It is very rare that you see organizations supporting leap seconds during big standards discussions that are not astronomers.
How would you vet that someone is not going to sell your private information on the illicit market?
> Have a grafana dashboard constantly monitoring credits and have alerts in place though.

This, otherwise your infrastructure will come grinding to a halt at the worst time. It's a potential DoS vector in that way too, if you're relying on charging up credits overnight to handle traffic during the day.
State "right to work" laws are irrelevant here. Airlines are subject to the Railway Labor Act. Generally states have very little power to regulate airlines.
Mac OS High Sierra’s security flaw makes Steve roll over in his grave
Yes, that's why the system is called Mechanical Turk.
It is very, very difficult to offer phone support as a solo developer, particularly at low price points (below e.g. $5k per year) and for low tech-literacy customers. You can still do it, if you need someone to talk to, you want to do customer development, or you have a customer who strikes your fancy for non-market reasons, but you probably should not message the expectation that you're available.
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There is a lot of money flying around in the Crypto space right now and with some good forecasts/data you can go a long way even manually trading :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15812247
That's great! I was just thinking about rewriting Shazam as a machine learning project.

I'm wondering how to use my Chord Progression data to make a different audio fingerprinting algorithm.

https://peterburk.github.io/chordProgressions/index.html
Of course information has non-zero weight. Whether on a harddrive, or in your brain, it is a physical state, which has non-zero weight by definition. Why do you think information can exist that does not consist of matter?
OP certainly means an hourly wage that added up to 300k per year.
Just look at the reputation they've built up over the years.
I disagree. There are still lots of tasks out there that fit MTurk. Take something like "look at a picture and determine the person's race". Costs five cents for a Turk to do that. You can certainly train an RNN plus a Bayesian network to do this task, but a) there's no public corpus of training data for this so you'll need to generate that anyway and b) this solution still isn't thaaaat accessible to startups that have 1000 other things to worry about. How much time would the engineering team have to spend training, testing, tuning, validating, and deploying the model? If you only ever need to tag 1M images, that $50k on Turk is probably well-spent over the ML solution. If you need to tag 1B images, that's a different story, but if you're looking at that scale you probably already have the resources to do it.
no bites :'(
Agreed, the esp32 has blown me away with what it can do for a few dollars. I have a custom board with the esp-wroom-32 and the temperature sensor I'm using is more expensive than the esp32 module!
Any idea how Kubo or Cloud Foundry Container Runtime(CFCR) fare against solutions like AKS, EKS, GKS, etc
You had text that computers couldn't OCR?
Not only light rail at airports - there are whole subway lines and systems that are fully automated (e.g. Copenhagen)
My point is if you can make the microtransactions arbitrarily small you can make the counterparty risk negligible.

If I’m sending 1 cent micropayments continuously as long as the services are being delivered (e.x. 1 cent per 1 MB WiFi, 0.1 kWh electricity, or 0.5 oz gasoline, etc) then the most that can be stolen is 1 cent, so why would they bother?
Considering this coincided with announcements of multi-region multi-master DBs (Aurora, DynamoDB) it seems likely.
Thank you for finding and linking the prebuilt model. It was eluding me.
Where do you think those fees are going? How do miners not qualify as a third party?
I created a shareware Tetris clone for OS X in the mid 2000s and provided my cell number in the readme. I'd get a trickle of calls from all over the world at all times of day. That's where I learned never to have a serial number generator that included the number 0 since it looks so close to the letter 0.

It was weird to be out and about and suddenly get a tech support call, but people were usually really nice.
Um, if someone drops a bunch of child pornography from your Comcast account, very upset people in suits are going to talk to (and very likely arrest) the accountholder, which is you, first. An accountholder is responsible for what takes place using the service, just as if you were to hand your phone to someone and they call in a bomb threat, or you lend your friend your car and they go rob a bank with it. They're going to talk to you first, and your house doesn't matter. That's not "deputization." That's accountability for actions utilizing a service that is able to touch other people. That identity is not revealed until an alleged crime meets the minimum bar to subpoena the provider. Nobody is asking Comcast to go looking for you.

I'm not sure what logical point you're trying to make. They've identified the user of the Internet connection; the user is the accountholder. The strong identification of that accountholder follows them if they disappear, which is useful for both receivables and security/LEO. That's the advantage.
more things i have tried: various paid advertising companies, bitcoin ones seem to not work/provide scamy impressions, legit cones like twitter cost far too much e.g. $1.5 per click,
Press release on cryptocoinnews that no one else picked up brought in 1 signup...
Ask HN: How to improve critical thinking?
How do you avoid biases when taking any decisions or judgement.
> It isnt, because not all workers can unionize.

Yes they can.
Guns tend to empower white, financially unstable men–who oppose gun control
Why do internet of things devices have to connect to the internet? Because that's the whole definition of them. Without an internet connection, it's just a thing.
Well sure, tulip price rise too if you can convince people to buy them. It's a pretty undesirable property for a currency though, unless you never plan to sell anything to anyone who uses a different currency.

I guess what I'm getting at is that it is deflationary as a currency which is bad. As an investment vehicle or value store it seems to be unmoored from any fundamental value.
Excuse me for not jerking off in public over a trillion dollar company who's just smart enough to offer Cloud services you would offer yourself if you weren't so lazy.
I think that’s called “counting sheep”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_sheep
Hashes produce fingerprints(including perceptual hashes). Most people are talking about cryptographic hash functions when talking about 'hashing' but that is just one type.

There is a wikipedia page for 'perceptual hashing' as well as a number of libraries available which claim to do perceptual hashing, so it may just come down to what kind of crowd you roll with :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_anti-vandal...
Top IoT Trends Predicted for 2018
Deflation increases the value of currency... and debts that are denominated in that currency. Highly regressive systems that would accelerate the increasing wealth gap probably sounds appealing if you're on the privileged side of the gap.
The man who deactivated Trump’s Twitter account has revealed himself
Matlab Machine Learning by Michael Paluszek – Interview
People overestimate what an Autopilot does. Autopilots don't make decisions, they don't look at weather charts, they don't look at other traffic, they don't talk on the radio with towers. They're basic computers that are programmed by the pilots to take off/land/change flightlevel/change heading. You still need the pilots there to decide what to do and program the autopilot with tasks to perform.
People have listed other benefits such as timing guarantees, lack of general OS overhead, etc.

One of the things I like about an RTOS is the organization it gives to your code. It gives you primitives like tasks, queues, and semaphores and allows you to easily organize and synchronize independently running tasks. On something like Arduino where you just have a setup() and a loop() function, it can become a mess if you're trying to do many different things with different timing requirements.
There are many products that are settled both ways, and some financial futures that are physically settled.
Inspiring. Maybe I'll have the guts to become an indie dev someday.
Which many Chicagoans learned about when someone drove pilings into it allowing the river to drain into the tunnels. It was huge business news at the time, because basically all of downtown Chicago was shut down for a week or more since power, etc is delivered to the buildings through those flooded basements.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_flood
Double leap-seconds are allowed, though I can't find any evidence one has ever happened. In such an occurrence, POSIX time would actually go backwards afterwards.
Does this actually work? We had horrible issues with time drifting between services in AWS at scale in distributed systems.

Something like eg Google Spanner relies on atomic clocks - it's a combination of hardware and software that enable the use of wallclock time.
No, instead no one controls inflation and you return to the boom and bust of pre-fiat currency

https://media.ycharts.com/charts/2dd4f9a7b087a1eb6f763d81a97...

Which, of course, is a very difficult environment to conduct stable business in.

All this is by the by, of course. The chance bitcoin supplants USD is approaching zero.
> not a beer in 10 minutes

the transaction would likely take much longer than 10 minutes - unless you paid a transaction fee worth many times the cost of the beer :)
The point here is not what the advantage of phone support is but to provide the service personally. You can outsource anything, but if you read the article, the learnings you get from doing it yourself are invaluably useful.
Abnormally high levels of aluminium in those with autism
I looked at the announcements, and it looks like SiFive will have something called "HiFive Unleashed" coming out in Q1, sooner than I thought. It looks like a U500 board with an HDMI port (and USB ports) attached through an FPGA. So you could even get somewhat (2d) accelerated framebuffer probably with a little bit of fiddling on the FPGA, not sure what kind of resolutions you could get out of the HDMI with an FPGA-based CRTC though. :- )
Or i just use my bitcoin debit card?
Filecoin or whatever Bram Cohen's project is called, is very interesting. Bitcoin and other blockchains store all data on every node which can be wasteful, but for file storing just having 1/100th or 1/1000th of the nodes would be amazing coverage.
Why the bitterness?
For good general background on airline union issues written from a "hacker" perspective see Philip Greenspun's article. He's an engineer who switched careers and worked as a regional airline pilot.

http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines
> A well known insurance scam is changing lanes immediately in front of another car then coming to a sudden stop, forcing a rear end collision.

It's an even more brilliant way to defend barely-working robot cars. Program them to err toward the letter of the law rather than road safety, then blame other drivers when they slam on their brakes because they mistake plastic bags for pedestrians.
The like / +1 is a useful signal though. What if it were visible in the UI but didn't trigger notifications or alerts?
Researchers create “neuromorphic chip” that is modeled after the brain
As I explain in the RamFuzz overview paper [0], Dan Luu's idea is unlikely to work because fuzzing uses mutation techniques developed for file input, not individual parameter values. What does seem to work is frameworks like EvoSuite and eToc, which mutate method-invocation sequences to try and maximize coverage.

And yes, QuickCheck (or RapidCheck[1], for C++) is what you need if you enjoy manually specifying your test inputs. RamFuzz is a tool to support research into automating that and, eventually, the entire process of writing unit tests.

[0] https://github.com/dekimir/RamFuzz/blob/master/sci/ramfuzz.m...

[1] https://github.com/emil-e/rapidcheck
Yes, because when I'm hosting a server to play Minecraft with a few friends I need redundant power, network, and administration. It's not as if I could just go to Best Buy, buy another stick of RAM, shove it into my decently spec'd desktop, port forward to a self hosted server, and get 99% of my necessary performance for a tenth of the cost (over a year of operation). Plus I don't have to return the RAM to Best Buy after I'm done with it.

Because casually hosting a Minecraft server is ALMOST the same thing as hosting a SaaS which needs 5 nines of reliability.
I recognized this story from the "made in the USA" thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15794202) and thought your story a little curious so thought I'd look into it a little more (i.e. Google your name).

Assuming this is you: https://peterburk.github.io/

"Political issues have caused me to wander around the world looking for a country willing to simply give me a visa."

What are these nebulous "political issues"? Why do you think wandering around the world is likely to result in a visa?

You say in your bio: "Where am I from? To the English, England. To the Swiss, Switzerland. To the French, France." You also claim to have lived in France most of your life, which would entitle you to French citizenship should you wish it.

You should be able to live and work in the UK, Switzerland or pretty much anywhere in the EU. What exactly is preventing you from doing so?

> If I am lucky to get a visa to a Western country, then I might earn more.

Again, do you not have English, Swiss or French citizenship? Can't you work in most of Europe?

It sounds like you should be work in most western countries and derive a western income without any problems.
Intrinsic value has a seperate definition to market price. A bubble is, after all, characterised by a divergence between the two.
Not affiliated in any way but have you seen the MATRIX Creator or MATRIX Voice? Both contain microphone arrays that can interface with a Raspberry Pi.

I’d love to see one of these meshed together with this new Mozilla voice project for an open source Echo or Google Home. The only missing piece it seems at this point is NLP and all of the glue that converts commands to API calls.
Asthma and the Civil Rights Movement
This can happen outside AppleFaceGoogSoft; as well I worked at a smaller public company getting 70K-100K a year outside of base salary with 4 year vest and annual bonus, and I know people with 25% more RSU than I had.
I won’t say I’m from the AI community, but I’ve been wanting to take a stab at the basics and I have a science background. If you’re interested I’d be happy to chat and see if I could contribute.
The previous submission's title does mention C++ ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15789033
I think there isn't as much to "you" as you think there is. What you think of as your identity in any given context is largely determined by previous interactions in that context. The person you are when you're with your parents, vs with your childhood friends, vs college friends, vs old work colleagues - these are all different versions of you, and they're all authentic, despite being different - and yes, they also trigger the performative.

It's most obvious when you listen to someone phone home, where people from home have a different accent from where they live. Their accent will start switching back. They'll start reacting to social and conversational cues in remembered ways, rather than current ways. A facet of identity is keyed to its culture. (I think this is why FB is so disturbing; I stopped using it in 2010 or so. It just creates context cross-talk.)

I agree with you on the distorting effects of the camera, causing people to exaggerate to communicate a specific story. I don't see it so much as misrepresentation, though. People have sent misleading postcards of holidays to friends and relatives for decades, before photographing everything was feasible, never mind video snippets. It's more about constructing a social object that acts as a kind of structural element for a narrative one wants to write in the shared cultural space of the viewers. And Snap certainly encourages it, probably to excess.

On my first significant holiday abroad, I didn't take any photos, because I wanted to stay in the moment, and not be concerned about creating narratives. The experience stays within me as a series of scenes without order, almost like a remembered dream. I could say that it's part of me, my identity. But since I can't share it with anyone, it's impoverished. Shared experiences are bonding in a way that unshared experiences aren't. The shared narrative creates a shared mini-culture, where members belong. Being through a tough spot with someone can be the seed of a deep friendship, and the shared narrative is a big part of why. Whether the narrative is authentic or not isn't actually the point.
Trump gets something right: Apprenticeships and social mobility
I'd like to see the Whitehouse start their own Masterdon server, specifically for any Senator or Congressperson who wants to create an account.
Pretty far from the same thing buddy, do some research
Spot where inflation started to be managed by the central bank:

https://media.ycharts.com/charts/2dd4f9a7b087a1eb6f763d81a97...
Facebook is using AI to spot users with suicidal thoughts and send them help
This is a really great way to understand your customer. Think of it as analyzing product-market fit rather than support.
I remember back in the early days of shareware and freeware apps and games where the developer would ask for a postcard if you enjoyed the app!

If I ever develop something really small and useful one day I’d love to get post cards from around the world!
I did it for 10 years, but more recently have moved away from phone support as much as possible (or delegated to others to do).

The main reason - I am a solo developer. And the brain mode for 'developer' is VERY different from the brain mode for 'support agent'.

It was basically impossible for me to get into 'flow' state during a normal working day. Even one phone call during the day took me away from my creative, programming mindset and into an empathetic, listening mindset. And the transition between the two were very different. It's like asking a racing driver to knit a scarf each time he came into the pits, before he could go out on the track to drive at high speed again.

It also made it hard to plan blocks of work. Most times it was OK, but there were days where I would plan to do about 5 or 6 bug fixes, but I would get a slew of phone calls that meant I got 0 programming done that day, and would have to move other plans.

I actually enjoyed support, but in the end I had to decide which of the two parts of the job was moving the business ahead more than the other, and pure development work won out.
please specify at least one risk.
Off topic but I just have to say it.

There isn't a damn thing wrong with being cynical. Cynicism (at whatever level) is a very valid philosophy and no one should have to apologize for having it.

http://richardbayan.typepad.com/the_cynics_sanctuary/cynicis...
Try running a couple of test VMs, an IDE with code completion on top of a decent sized code base and you’ll be swapping like crazy even with 16GBs.
Thanks @triangleman, the multi-human languages feature has just been added in the latest release. There'll probably be edge cases which I couldn't encounter during testing. The tool is essentially like a macros library to minimize writing code and make automation of UI interactions easier. Appreciate feedback from the community!
That is great if you can bill for or otherwise count your commute hours. In film and games, that is sadly not the case for any studio I've ever seen. Work hours are usually defined as being physically in the building working on the production. In some studios, lunch is even deducted. If your commute is an hour each way on top of an 80 hour work week, it just means you're away from home 90+ hours per week. I've done this, and it really sucks, there is zero time for family life, social life, exercise or hobbies during the crunch. Even before we get to niceties like everyone counting commutes as working hours in dense cities, it would be great if we could get rid of crunch times altogether.