skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might be management problem, as someone else said; some managers are just bad. Might be learning how to negotiate will help. But might also be a mindset and skills problem: often you can do same amount of work with less time if you approach it correctly.

For example, you can figure out which features are really necessary, and work on those first. Then when you inevitably run out of time you can say "I did A B and C, but did we really need X Y Z?" "Well... I guess not."

More here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/08/25/the-01x-programmer/
that statement I made may apply to the human mind and our thoughts, but it also may not some would argue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_theory_of_mind#C...

So if someone were to disagree with the view of CTOM, then they can argue that no, consciousness must be something else.
Anecdotal, but my mother was a mechanic, my uncle a cryptographer, another uncle was some type of police on base, my cousin is a drone pilot and just sits in an office like building despite technically being involved in combat I suppose. Several former colleagues mostly did admin-type work while enlisted. The last person I know to have actually seen combat was my grandfather in Korea--but he knew what he signed up for and it was fairly deliberate at the time, he had wanted to be like his cousin that had fought on Iwo Jima years prior who was also a volunteer. All used their GI bill to get an education.

My point being, there's tons of military jobs that don't involve violence. For each job that does require violence, dozens more auxiliary positions are required to support that job.
that is exactly how markets work.

> bitcoin has no intrinsic value, just a exchange rate with other things

1. It has proof-of-work, which gives it value
2. Supply of the coin and demand for the coins determine the price.

The only thing that can vary widely is the demand, the supply cannot be fucked with (unlike fiat currency). It is impossible for whole bunch of new coins to suddenly appear out of thin air. There is no way to artificially inflate the supply.
Same. My sister was looking at a $40k/yr private school photography degree. I sat her down and we discussed how much that was going to cost her when she graduated, what kind of job she'd need to pay it back in a reasonable time, etc. In the end, she started her own wedding photography company instead.
I don't really understand your comment.
I don't know if this is just coincidence, but this blog post is fantastically similar to another [1] on Prolog, down the the same quotes, and the same example, though different code.

[1] https://bernardopires.com/2013/10/try-logic-programming-a-ge...
I think is why a system like SQLAlchemy in Python is nice--if you really need to build something up from lower-level parts, you can, while still staying in the framework.
it really depends on what you value. I get proportionally more value from a $50 Rolex knockoff than the genuine 10k one, even if the knockoff is pretty shitty. I am sure to some people it is different, but to me it isnt
What's the proper way of differentiating between chemical addiction, experiential addiction, and neither?
Thanks but I have been running server processors at my home lab for almost 8 years now. ;)
But as an exchange, you can lend out Bitcoin you have, while still displaying unchanged balances on people's accounts. So you have a fractional reserve.
You could do all those cost reduction things, but until you either decrease demand or decrease the supply of money, costs will never go down -- profits will just go up.
I dunno about the utility of these, but before you assume they send every single bit of data back to the mothership...

Remember that we've seen them fail horrifically just because a few too many were activated at once due to commercials.
Yes. The notice and comment period is intended to prevent arbitrary or capricious decisions by agencies.
You do realize that "pesticide industry shutting down" will cause widespread famine, right? This attitude strikes me as incredibly privileged. Sure, the HN community (which is definitely in global top 1% by income) may be able to cope with x10 food prices. Too bad for the rest, it seems
Now HAVE that one build an AI, rinse and repeat, yadda yadda yadda, destruction of humanity, blah blah blah...
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In the past, a keyboard was a physical thing with keypresses that were just keypresses. You could pick out what physical keyboard you wanted based on some preference, but it was up to the OS to determine input events from the keyboard. It's a whole different ballgame now.

Aside from the spacing/layout/etc. preferences from a soft keyboard, they function differently. Samsung's default keyboard is by far the worst thing to work with from a development standpoint. I've never had an issue working with any other soft keyboard, but the way Samsung handles certain input events is orthogonal to other major keyboards.
Ask HN: Why did Smalltalk fail to catch on?
Smalltalk appears to be little more than a footnote in the history of popular computing languages. But I've yet to hear anyone speak badly of it. The design seems to be technically sound. Its OOP implementation seems to have influenced Objective C and pretty much every OOP language that came after it. It appears to be well-beloved by developers.[0] It has its own virtual machine implemented, which should make it portable.

So why did Smalltalk die while Objective C, C++, and Java all gained widespread adoption and thrived?

[0]https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-languages
Just FYI the average default rate for the 2014 Cohort was 11.5% but that varies WIDELY depending upon the school from 0.10% to 56.20%.

Official numbers can be found at: https://www2.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/defaultmanagement/cdr.html
Neat ! I wanted to add a comment section on my personal blog but I didn't want to use Disqus for privacy reason. I tried using Isso[1] but installing it on my server is really a PITA (I don't know the Python ecosystem, is it always such a mess ?). I was on the verge of developing my own commenting system in Rust, so I can have a stand-alone binary for ease of installation, but Go has the same property, which makes your system really attractive, thanks !

[1]: https://posativ.org/isso/

Edit: from the readme

> if you're going down the self-hosting route, using Docker to run Commento is recommended.

Why ? What would be the problem with distributing a binary ?
I'm just saying that, to varying extents, large portions of the economy are "taking advantage of" addicts. Certainly if you work for FANG, they all (including Amazon) have their addicts. As do things like reddit, in fact probably most sites.

You cannot let your life be controlled by "ethics" like this. It's not reasonable.
Psychology is effectively today's basket weaving. There is an excess number of students receiving those degrees with no intent to work in the field. It's widely perceived as an "easy" degree which makes it worthless unless you continue on and make it into the limited space for a graduate program.
Editorialized title:	Intel Admits “Management Engine” Used for DRM Ripe with Vulnerabilities

Actual article title: Intel Admits Security Flaws Contained in Most PC Chips It Sold for Years

DRM mentioned in the article: 0 times
Hack the virtual memory: the stack, registers and assembly code
Petitioning works as a PR stunt and you know it.

Everybody blacked out for SOPA/ PIPA?

It needs to be more public, an actual movement from within to change something that will not end well for the vast majority.

Trying to convince isn't enough either, they shouldn't have to convince Pai of anything they know why he was appointed.

Why haven't they tried convincing their own users?

Would be wonderful to have a majority of the countries engineers rally overnight and protest by not showing up to work. It would literally take 1 day, less than 48 hours to permanently change the course of history forever. Wont happen of course, mainly because everybody is to busy planning on how to benefit from the repeal.
In you wallet, not all addresses have budget. But they are still encrypted. So we can check the decryption phase with parts of the wallet that have no coins.
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Probably best to contact the moderators if your concern is sufficient.
Instead of painting, selecting pics generated by a neural net? Anyone could do that. Or, probably, there's an app for that.
Conduit will probably have quite a bit of feature-overlap with Istio, especially, as it matures.

However, I think you'll find that the projects will be quite different in the way that they prioritize features and operate.

Our goals for Conduit are to provide a minimal, production-ready, commercially-supportable service mesh in the near-term. Time will tell how each projects goals and constraints lead to different user experiences.
> for a useless degree they'll never use

I went to school for such a degree. While I don't use it in my day to day now, I still consider it priceless. There's some inherent value added to a person who pursues to study a bit of humanities, history, philosophy and art in college apart from their major. Scholarly work really helps shape the way you look at life for the better.

Part of this is that you really understand why you need to trust academic work for general human advancement. We have too many people thinking it's okay to discredit scientists and scholars because they don't understand how research works.
> Not only that, I haven't seen any improvement to consumers in the two years that we've had FCC oversight on this.

That's because net neutrality was already the status quo (though enforced via other means than Title II classification up till 2014).

The FCC oversight wasn't supposed to bring improvements -- it was supposed to prevent negative changes (I'm sure we'll see what kinds within the next six months). As for improvements in amount of service, and pricing, and infrastructure, these will require far more intervention.
I thought the point of student loan is to grant it to anyone regardless of if they can repay? If the loan is granted by looking at the student's future potential to repay, students would prefer majors/colleges with higher chance of getting a student loan.
I was told that in Japan there is a strict separation between infrastructure and ISP services, which has allowed for a lot of competition between ISPs despite the fact that they all share the same infrastructure.

In capitalism, any market with a sufficiently high barrier to entry will always end in a monopoly in the absence of regulation.
> People who came from my alma mater who majored in drama can't say the same.

Don't worry, your salary gives them a way out too. And I'm not just saying that to be snarky, I think it's very likely what will end up happening: you'll end up paying for their poor choices one way or another. If it's not directly via taxes to pay off their student loans, it'll fund their retirement.
I hope these don't get downvoted due to merely being humorous, but having taken Andrew Ng's online Stanford class in ML, the takeaway for me was indeed "this is just linear algebra at a massive scale" (fortunately, I enjoy linear algebra!)
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I use mine almost exclusively for playing music. I just bought a second one and found they can sync play (which makes for a nice whole house audio solution for cheap). They also function as in house intercom.

I have no concerns over privacy. My web browsing habits and phone leak far more personal data to google.
Ok. Let's replace "saving for college" with "saving for the child's introduction to adult life". If you bring children into the world, it's your responsibility to do whatever possible to plan for their future as early as possible. If we've decided that people can't contribute to society until they're 23, they're going to need some investment for their early adulthood, whether it's college, vocational school, doing art and working minimum wage in a big city.
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I clicked to the second page, and it simply refused to scroll. After some debugging it turns out they have some registration thing that gets adblocked, but it breaks the page in the process.
Wired does everybody a disservice by using openers like this:

> Every good paranoiac sees an always-listening device like an Amazon Echo as a potential spy sitting in plain sight.

Like, no shit, if you have a microphone and a processor connected to the Internet--no matter how securely--you're going to make a wiretap.

This is not an edge-case. Engineers defending their IoT gizmos as "totally not surveillance apparatus", and then adding sensors to them, please get that through your heads.

Stop working on this kind of tech. Stop promoting it like it is safe. Staaaaaahp.
If you ever want to expand to the UK, let me know! It sounds like you have a really well considered working routine.
well don't tell them that they'll just wrap their missiles with microwave doors.
The actual title:

>Intel Admits Security Flaws Contained in Most PC Chips It Sold for Years

DRM is not mentioned in the article. This doesn't contain new information.
Has anyone heard of any vulnerabilities on this yet?
> don't involve violence

Yeah since it's violence against brown people far away from the homeland it's justified and a totally safe job.
hear hear. congrats guys!
BTCUSD floats freely, based off the latest trade. It's not pegged.
Is it just me or are Bloomberg and WashPo really over-represented on this site?
In the case of Trump, no one knows if he would support or oppose net neutrality if he knew what it was. He thinks net neutrality means that websites will be required to be neutral in their content [1], which will be used to target conservative media.

[1] "Obama’s attack on the internet is another top down power grab. Net neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine. Will target conservative media." https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/53260835850816716...
Very interesting, that is why the real privacy is when your assistant does not need an internet connection to play your videos and to turn on the lights in your home

Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of https://snips.ai we are building a 100% on-device and private-by-design Voice AI platform, which we will open-source over time

You can build voice assistants for free and upload them on your Raspberry Pi to run them without an internet access

We believe that it makes no sense for Google or Amazon to send data to their servers each time you want to get a coffee with your smart coffee machine

We take the privacy of people seriously
Spend 6 months traveling the world and then I would get back to what I am doing now. I love to code and I don't ever want to "retire" from it.
"Conduit" is often refered to "Conduit toolbar" [1], which was known as a malware.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conduit_toolbar
Wireless doesn't really have the bandwidth for anything more dense than a suburb (and even that's probably really pushing it). Approaches like microwave are also less reliable due to LoS/weather problems.

2.4Ghz is noisy in cities/apartments, 5Ghz doesn't penetrate well.

All that on top of the fact that there's still not really a standard, easily set up protocol for that kind of mesh ISP arrangement.
Newegg or Tigerdirect.

If I’m lazy I go to Frys to buy my parts.
Hans Rosling has done some research and ted talks about this: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_...
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Yeah, they played the West. The Communists got what they wanted (technology transfer), while keeping everything firmly under their control.

> I think China is actually demonstrating the fallacy of our idea that as a country develops it has to become a liberal democracy.

I don't think that's necessarily been proven a fallacy, the idea that liberalizing China would be simple and automatic certainly has been. The Chinese Communists aren't stupid: they've been carefully studying things like post-Communist Russia and the Arab Spring in order to avoid mistakes that might cause them to lose power. If China liberalizes, it will take a unique path that the Communists probably couldn't see.
Very cool! I've been working on a similar project every so often(https://github.com/lambdanaut/lambdacoin). I'm not as far along as you are, but so far it seems like creating a cryptocurrency from scratch is not really all that big of a project, at least getting it into a prototypical state.

I was delighted to find that much of the math logic is already handled by libraries such as pycrypto.

It's funny to me how similar our codebases look. Especially our classes such as `Block` and `Transaction`. We each have to_json and from_json methods as well, in order to serialize the data for propagation.
But the demand can change. Given a constant quantity supplied and an increase in demand, price goes up

If you cannot increase supply in response to a higher price driven by higher demand, prices will increase even more

See this Econ 101 chart [1]:

Y axis represents price, x axis represents quantity. The lines represent simplified supply and demand curves (Wikipedia can explain why they are shaped as they are)

Initial supply and demand is represented by supply "s" and demand "d". Their intersection gives us initial price "p1" and quantity produced "q1".

If demand increases from "d" to "d2", normally suppliers would produce more to meet the new demand. So the price would increase to "p2" and quantity increase to "q2". So even here you get a price increase

But with supply constrained assets like bitcoin, you can't increase quantity supplied to q2. So the only way the market can absorb new demand is by a further price increase. Basically more people want a good, but more can't be made, so sellers rationally realize they can charge more. In the chart, the new price would be the point where the dotted vertical line above q1 intersects with d2

[1] https://goo.gl/images/PT23GG
Very interesting, that is why the real privacy is when your assistant does not need an internet connection to play your videos and to turn on the lights in your home

Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of https://snips.ai we are building a 100% on-device and private-by-design Voice AI platform, which we will open-source over time
You can build voice assistants for free and upload them on your Raspberry Pi to run them without an internet access

We believe that it makes no sense for Google or Amazon to send data to their servers each time you want to get a coffee with your smart coffee machine

We take the privacy of people seriously
> You don’t need an artificially intelligent robot to tell you about the weather every day. Just look outside or watch the local news or even look at your phone.

I stopped reading here. This is FUD, or scaremongering, or something.

The truth is the reason the Echo family (and others) have seen such success is because they approach the virtual assistant problem from, in my opinion a novel and underutilized, place: the home appliance.

Sure I can pull out my phone (or is it charging on the nightstand?) to check the weather, but I can ask my Echo while I'm tying my shoes and by the time I'm done grab a jacket if necessary. It's so natural.

I have bought Echo dots as gifts for family and friends -- there seems to be a 50/50 split between the primary use being for music or home automation. It's far less kludgier than using a phone to turn your lights on and off. What if you have guests?

Lastly, when I travel I find myself missing the utility of being able to simply ask a question in the middle of another task, hands free. I've heard that some hotels are installing Echos, I think that's great.

Overall I think they're a great value add to my life -- I could buy a new phone for almost a thousand bucks and I barely get any noticeable improvement (and the improvements are usually along the lines of things actually working the way they are supposed to).

For $30, an Echo is a steal.
You are being downvoted but many many times have I asked a question regarding templeos and that is the actual answer
As a current student and one who will graduate with roughly $60k in student debt, after scholarships and grants - I often question the legitimacy of the driving factors in increased tuition.

Most would say the volume of administrators has ballooned due to the increasing number of services universities now provide for the students. Better and more services offered to students should benefit quality of life.

Does the economic impact of modern universities serve as a net positive for society?
When we have more and more university staff using their salary to support their families they're contributing to the economy in a positive way.
When we have students graduating with tens of thousands of dollars of debt, they're bound to repaying their loans. In order to do this, they must find a career and become "productive" members of society.

This of course ignores the ethical and societal implications of expensive tuition...
Because software video decoding of a codec that doesn't have native hardware decoding is slow (software 4K decoding taxes even many modern machines) and most importantly is incredibly resource intensive and therefore battery draining.

You've no realistic option than to support whatever formats that the hardware has native decoding support, and you'd prefer H265 over 264 (bandwidth costs money) if it's available, and there are many different HDR formats.
People who want a liquid USD tethered asset on many exchanges and aren't needlessly paranoid over absurd conspiracy theories that have yet to present a single ounce of real evidence.
Their clients are in used in different Smart TVs, and each brand/model can have different codecs chips.
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Exactly. AI could easily be programed to "desperately" want resources or survival, and kill people as a means to an end.

Deception is an evolved trait as well.
I build my own.

I use both https://pcpartpicker.com/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/ to plan the build and find deals. I tend to stick with Newegg, Amazon, B&H, and Fry's for getting my parts.
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Except a Republican Congress and Republican president made it much much harder for students to declare bankruptcy than corporations.
1) Is data exchange accomplished by packages such as `rpy` or `R.matlab`?

2) Will it support `JupyterLab`?