skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there are captions. That's cool, given that I'm using a VM with no audio, to avoid audio info leakage. But damn, almost three hours is quite the time commitment. Especially reading rapid-fire captions.

Edit: ... especially in the context of a HN topic. By the time I get around to watching it, the topic will be effectively dead.
I used to think the song "Red Barchetta" was far-fetched.
What I did was to use ai to solve a problem in one of those upcoming areas I thought would become important (crypto currency trading in my case), I created a forecasting/ai prediction system, with a stats dashboard https://bitbank.nz, I charge a subscription fee and am transparent about the accuracy over time to build a long term loyalty.

This strategy worked well for me, use standard machine learning techniques to solve an existing problem, make the system as easy to interact with as possible, UI, API ect. Try to gather the customers data for them because a lot of machine learning is getting a good size dataset and aggressively training a flexible model on it. a good dataset can reduce friction if your customers can simply sign up and see value straight away.

I'd say (biased) do what I did... major in compsci which keeps things flexible, do your own research and create your own company to break into the ai/machine learning space which can be hard to get practical experience in for a
new grad
Thanks for posting; hadn't seen that one before, and it looks interesting.
The theory behind tether is it's backed by US dollars so if investors send in 1234 usd they should be held in reserve and 1234 tether issued against them. If they are issuing them in lots of 100 million it suggests they were not bothering with the whole receive dollars from investors and hold them bit.
I had an iPhone X for about a week but didn’t end up liking it. It ended up being too big, more than anything.

However, I want Face ID back. I want gestures back. Both of those were fantastic. I can’t wait to see what they have this year.
I think it's being argued that describing a name variation as a "misspelling" -- as in, a mistake -- is incorrect. What does the etymology or historical popularity of "Philip" have to do with it? We don't know that he has that name because he truly loves horses or because his parents attempted to honor a king of Macedonia.

I know this is treading into the classic prescriptive vs. descriptive linguistic debate, but the reason why we can call "referer" a misspelling -- rather than a creative decision - is because the original authors seem to admit that it was unintentional. Fewer folks would be calling it a misspelling if the authors had meant to do it, e.g. to avoid a name collision with some other attribute named "referrer" or to honor a colleague named "Referer".
I could never get into e-sports, it seems like a luxury that the world doesn't need. I don't play many games anymore, I normally write a hack or bot that gets me banned then I'm over it lol.
menwholooklikekennyrogers.com

That was the sort of site that made the early Internet such a majestic time waster. I used to stay up all night in the university CS lab on a Sun SPARCstation surfing with Mosaic.

Yes, kids, there was a web browser before Netscape.
I'd like to mention Geocities. And not in a completely jokingly manner as others have.

I'm not mentioning them because of the quality of the content on there, which was mostly terrible. I'm mentioning them because they represent a different time, they represent all that was particular about the Internet of that time.

Today's Internet is faster, easier to access, with better services and if really want the weird stuff that used to live on Geocities it's still out there.

But Geocities represents more than just its content. They represent a time when the Internet was literally that. A place where you could do anything you want, and where all content producers were playing on the same playing field.

I believe Geocities is one of the best sites to represent that era.
I can't speak for how it is now.
However: the implementation for developers was so bad that they offered my company $200k to integrate it into our site and we STILL lost money on the deal.
I wonder if humanity is going to become a lot more introspective once it becomes a parent to another intelligence. Things look a lot different once you start seeing your own biases reflected in the child you're trying to raise to be better than yourself...
Are there any groups of people that would feel good to help in some way? That might be a movement that leads to some fulfilling activities.
Yes it's great from a marketer's point of view. From a consumer's point of view, I don't want you to know where I came from. I don't really care if it's useful to you. It's the difference between pleasing marketers vs pleasing users. Firefox chose wisely
BTC crashed from 19k down to 9k. A lot of people lost a lot of money. Why are you discrediting this? Because BTC was even lower before? How is that related?
If you have a currency backed by some good, you need to be able to exchange the currency for the good. How would it work?
There's no consistent price of energy, as it depends on the cost to get it to you and the local method of generation.

I suppose you could give them batteries, but now you're back to tying it to a physical good, one which has some irritating problems like toxicity and losing the charge over time. You're probably better off choosing some arbitrary material that's in demand, which is how gold and silver got into use.
probably checking whether the DNT header is set to 1, or whether a known tracking domain is blocked (firefox has tracking protection by default in private browsing).
Flapjax had behaviors, as you describe, as a key facility in a JavaScript FRP implementation, dating back to 2008:

https://github.com/brownplt/flapjax/blob/f92e99ea25a4533c4ab...

I "discovered" FRP in 2011, when I stumbled upon Flapjax — spent a month pouring over the source code, learned a lot, my brain has never been the same since!
> There is a running joke in India that "You can only go to a govt hospital" implication being that you'd not return alive.

I have never heard this joke atleast in Mumbai or Pune.
Daniel, help me get into the good deals. I'll fight for them to stay alive!
That is close to an eternity in the cryptocurrency world right now. November is around when the hockey stick up started. The market cap roughly quadrupled in the next month or two after that. All of that is gone now.
Well it was nearly $20k in December, so I'd say having it fall below $9k less than 2 months later is pretty significant.
If a major service blocks Firefox users it could lead to a massive boycott. Users could rally around Mozilla if it stopped selling out their interests.

More people use ad-blockers than Firefox has users. The best way to attract more users is to make the best possible browser. That means incorporating ad-blocking as users have loudly demanded for a decade.
Does anyone know if you can count a business you personally own and operate as part of your assets assuming you use reasonable valuation methods ?
Uh, could the volume here mean the volume of the actual useful transactions, rather than the volume of the currency?

Mere utility is not enough, you need huge volume of such utility to make it stable.
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Kubernetes can't run the local images for your devs (Kubernetes must operate over a cluster; minikube spins up a virtual one). You're just thinking of containers.

I saw another comment that did this just a minute ago. Is k8s-hysteria getting so out of control that it's consuming Docker whole? Seems like it may be.

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HN's limitation on my post rate has kicked in. Response to gouggoug follows this note, since I'm not allowed to post it.

This rate limit was originally installed to make me stop speaking against the kool-aid Kubernetes hivemind and now it's filling its purpose quite well. See this thread for the original infraction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14453705 . After the fact, dang has justified the rate limit by saying I was engaging in a flame war. Read the offending thread and judge for yourselves.

Remember, YC doesn't want you to ask if you need Kubernetes or not. They just want you to use it. If someone on HN says otherwise too frequently, they'll rate limit that person's account, as they've done to mine.

Doesn't matter if you have 10 years of history on the site. Doesn't matter if you have 10k+ karma. Only matters that you're counteracting the narrative that Google is paying a lot of money to push.

No matter how frilly and new-age someone makes themselves out to be, people only have so much tolerance for argument when there's money, power, and prestige on the line. HN is no exception. There's an inverse correlation between the credibility of counter-arguments and the urgency of the situation; crazy stuff won't get much retaliatory fire because most people can tell it's crazy, but non-crazy stuff that counteracts their goals will be pushed down, because most people can tell it's not crazy.

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He says that he wants Kubernetes to replace a local Vagrant image. Kubernetes doesn't replace Vagrant. To replace Vagrant, he would want Docker, rkt, etc., not Kubernetes. Kubernetes solves a different problem. Yet he says that he wants to try Kubernetes to fix the problem that Kubernetes doesn't fix.

k8s and Vagrant address wholly separate concerns (where to run things rather than how to run things). The poster I replied to is conflating Kubernetes and Docker, the underlying containers that do the actual execution.

> Maybe some less advanced users using k8s don't realize that it heavily uses docker (or rkt, or whatever container runtime you could think of), but how is that an issue?

How is it not an issue? Is it OK for developers to not know the difference between a compiler and an IDE now? A web server and a browser? A computer case and a CPU? A network card and a modem? These things are not mere details, even if they are often used together. Technical professionals who can't differentiate between these aren't just "less advanced users", they're posers.

k8s is a huge chunk of crap to throw in between you and your applications. One should, at the very least, have an accurate high-level idea of what it does before they go around telling everyone that they need it.
There is a lot of anti-ad sentiment here but as someone who runs ads on google and Facebook for clients, I find that google and Facebook have leveled the playing field in some respects for small companies. Now I can definitively show a client that they pay me X dollars per month and my ads for them generated X*5 revenue for them that month. The attribution for these platforms is quite robust, and if you know what you’re doing you can produce positive ROI even on small budgets. Previously when advertising was done on an awareness basis (billboards, newspapers) small advertisers might be shut out of the market because advertising is expensive and they can’t reliably say whether their ads are working.

I work mainly in the health/wellness space and I’m able to effectively target people who will be legitimately interested in the services the companies we represent sell. There seems to be this idea that advertising is “shoved down our throats” and while I certainly agree in some cases, people who buy from our clients are buying because the products or services improve their lives in some way and they only buy because they want to. I think that google and Facebook (whatever your feelings on their other practices) do provide an unprecedented avenue for small businesses to find customers efficiently and profitably.
Wondering what's happening to all those hedge funds that got perma long late in the year.
Thanks for confirming what I have been told. I was going to go with Invisalign, but then my dentist said my teeth would most likely need braces. He said I should go to an orthodontist, or he could offer Fast Braces. I was not under the impression that a dentist does this type of procedure. I like the guy and he didn't push his procedure on me but it looks like he is a general dentist with education in cosmetic. http://sbdsd.com/dr-javaheri/

I checked out their site https://fastbraces.com/ but it looks like it caters to dentists. It's about 50% of the price at least that's comparing a quote from an orthodontist. I just don't know enough about it.
But ultimately I think that's a component of his overarching mindset. That sort of post modern 'there is no thing as objective fact', but instead a sea of conflicting opinions and intentions that a lot of times diverges from the popular viewpoint the more details you know.
Another really obvious half-measure was that the original iPhone didn't have an app store. "HTML5 is your SDK", basically, and adding sites to your homescreen was all you could do. Steve Jobs tried to pretend this was a good thing:

> And guess what? There’s no SDK that you need! You’ve got everything you need if you know how to write apps using the most modern web standards to write amazing apps for the iPhone today. So developers, we think we’ve got a very sweet story for you. You can begin building your iPhone apps today.

They fixed that the very next release.
First things first, nothing is truly unsolvable. Proof of work and its energy consumption, for example, seems highly problematic to me but it would certainly not be impossible to swap out the entire consensus algorithm for something else. Whether Bitcoin would still be Bitcoin in that case then becomes somewhat of a philosophical question. If you think it would still be Bitcoin, then that is not an unsolvable problem assuming you believe proof of work is not going to be a long-term viable consensus strategy. If on the other hand you think proof of work is a defining feature of Bitcoin, then that would be an unsolvable problem.

With that out of the way, the major problems seem to be scalability, pseudonymity instead of anonymity, missing regulatory oversight, mining centralization, adoption and as already mentioned proof of work and its energy inefficiency. I am probably missing things, I went from really excited about Bitcoin to a more rational and pragmatic view about the time it reached dollar parity and haven't followed the development too closely ever since because in my opinion everything in existence is really far away from prime time and it will take some more new ideas on the level of Bitcoin itself to get there, i.e. some tweaks here and there alone will not be good enough.

Also note that I mentioned such general things like adoption as problems but what I really mean there is in the interaction, for example between regulatory oversight and adoption. But I don't want to flesh those arguments out in a comment, it would just be very time consuming and I don't think I would have to add much if anything new, many others have discussed all kinds of problems again and again. Some will follow those arguments, some will dismiss them and repeating them once again won't change that.
Having all of the corners be equal is a very Apple thing. The notch will recede over time.
Uhm, wouldn't this give an indication as to whether the user is in private mode?
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Yes, every time you buy or sell on Coinbase it’s transacted through their GDAX platform.
> https://www.
healthcare.gov/see-plans/85601/results/?county=04019&age=40&smoker=1&pregnant=1&zip=85601&state=AZ&income=35000

For a moment I thought this was an example to make a point…
>If anything, it's proof that fiat-backed financial tools are flawed at inception.

That might be the case if Tether were actually backed by fiat.
I dunno. If they could buy a telco and then be the first to buy their way to 5G and make it an iPhone exclusive on their network that’s be pretty cool. Not worth the money though once the other carriers get 5G
Certainly not a coincidence that everybody who hates the notch feels compelled to tell the world about it.
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The Documentary about Google DeepMind's 'AlphaGo'
If they had a fingerprint reader on the back of the device it would be even better.
Heh, I felt PayPal has been playing catch up for years now.

Cocky maybe, certainly not stagnant.
> zero fees and its highly scalable architecture

But there are a dozen similar projects now, so why this one?
I looked into the whitepaper of Nano. It is definitely intriguing, however there is relatively little attention paid to how it is attack proof.

A network partitioning attack, combined with a double spend that is embedded and sent to the chain of a major economic actor (like an exchange), will result in the blockchain irreversibly forking in perhaps an hour without any way of reconciliation.
It’s a stretch to call what he does journalism, but I suppose it depends on where you draw the circle around “journalist”. He uses real world events and people as his raw materials, but the subjects of his films are his own perspectives even if he isn’t up front about that. I wouldn’t classify Erol Morris as a journalist either, but he is much more in that category than Curtis because he is more interested in making the unknown known than presenting his own philosophy.

While I don’t think that Adam Curtis can hold a candle to Chris Marker as an artist, or in terms of telling an interesting story or conducting an investigation, I would put his work in the same category of “film essay”.
And very pushy about having me open an account with them just because i want to buy something.

It has reached the point that i think twice about doing business if the store only offer Paypal.
I am not sure if GKE can be directly compared with Openshift/Kops/Tectonic. One is hosted service and other is packaged software with DIY setup. Surely you are paying extra money for what you are getting.
A server crash should be a rare event but if you reindex data regularly, it should not be a huge worry.
The only type of transaction that exists on BTC chain today is people buying it for investment and HODL. Even that may dwindle in the coming weeks now that it's looking more like a crash.

I never said mere utility is enough. I clearly said "You need both", in response to parent saying it's not about utility but only about volume. So in summary I agree with your comment.
Theres a set of defined rules where outcome is exclusively impacted by the participants alone, no chance.

The better player wins.

It is a sport
This one of the reasons I tend to flip completely whenever I see healthcare providers and their suppliers run google analytics tags inside their logged in areas (yes, this really happens). Besides the questionable value of having such tracking inside the logged in areas (it's healthcare, they are not going to worry about their conversion rates) such information should simply never leave the premises. Better still if they didn't do this in private mode but always. Private mode is still associated with doing something sneaky, rather than that it should be the default.

Happy to see FF do the right thing here and I'm really curious if Google will follow suit. Microsoft and Apple have an opportunity here to show they care about end user privacy than Google.
> A more comprehensive answer would be that arbitrage is not that up to speed in the Bitcoin world...

Or that folks trust their ability to get money out of Coinbase more than the other exchanges.
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I would argue that it's easier to strip an AR-15 to replace the upper receiver.
> Mac has HomeBrew and the other one.

MacPorts.

> Unfortunately the documentation on how to best install that software installer changes, which leads to odd instabilities.

https://github.com/macports/macports-base/releases/download/...

> Shortcuts are terrible because you have to constantly flex the hands in to hit Mac Key + whatever.

The key is near where your thumb should be anyways…
In the span of a few months....if you invested into BTC _needing_ to make a profit and only being able to hold for a few months you're just asking for it.
sure thing, where can I best message you?
Honestly, I don't think path information is all that useful for marketers.
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I would buy more at 1k even though I don't really believe in it. Just because of the volume of people and brainpower being devoted to it. Basically I would be hedging in case I'm wrong (which is is a frequent occurance).
Quite literally any smartphone on the market would break if it fell. Are you suggesting that every phone manufacturer should be sued?
Frankly: that's their problem. If your business model revolves around client side security then you have other problems.