skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for responding/explaining in more detail.

The halting problem is a good example that I'd have to think more about. My initial feeling is that while the proof shows that you can't write an general algorithm to determine if a system halts you can still understand why that's the case from the proof itself. My claim isn't that understanding things allows you to do everything, but to find out what can be done. You're right though that knowing more won't let you violate the laws of physics or computability - it just lets you learn what the laws are.

For the physics point I think it's possible that the territory is math and that's why mathematical equations do such a good job of explaining it. I read about this idea in Max Tegmark's book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DXKJ2DA/ - in that case we could be discovering pieces of it (though our syntax and such is still just a map to it). Until we have a grand unifying theory it seems worthwhile to keep working on the map. Maybe I'm just optimistic about this.

You lose me in the next section though - it seems like we agree on the soft problem, but I don't understand your classification of the hard problem.

Why is it difficult to think of a physical process leading to subjective experience? Natural selection towards a general problem solving organ that provides feedback etc. Visual inputs, audio, the ability to make predictions and act based on those - subjective experience seems like a natural outcome of all of that?

I think you and I probably agree that 'emergent phenomena' is mostly hand-wavy nonsense (http://lesswrong.com/lw/iv/the_futility_of_emergence/).

> "but as many wise people who have meditated long and hard on this matter have suggested, the nature of consciousness exists prior to concepts, prior to the division of reality by the mind into subjective and objective and therefore prior to (and so beyond the scope of) scientific inquiry."

I don't understand what leads to this conclusion - your last sentence seems to imply dualism which I think is generally pretty weak since poking someone in the brain, a brain tumor's affect on consciousness, and LSD's affect on it provide decent evidence that it's material. I don't think this is a real problem, it feels like one of those that disappears once we understand how things actually work.
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Its not so much that you have to balance the load in a given area. You must balance the load beyond breakers as much as possible. If the load becomes too far out of balance, the much larger feeder breakers at the substations will trip to protect the grid upstream from the imbalance.
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The US has treaties with Canada and Mexico for this. Both for AM/FM radio and for things like FCC part 47 and part 101 licensed microwave links.
> The consumer wants to play music, they want it to sound good, they want zero setup or calibration involved, they want good software integration with the ecosystem they're already familiar with and they want the device to look good alongside their home decor. Oh and they want reliable, no-lag, multi-room audio so that their setup can expand throughout their home.

This is exactly why I bought one, and it's fulfilling that job admirably. (It's replacing an AirPort Express for AirPlay + small amp + bookshelf speakers + sub.) I didn't care at all for the "smart" aspect and in that sense had zero expectations, but I've used Siri more in the last week than I have since it was released (and the kids love it).
I use JSON for data that needs structure, but doesn't need to be relational. That data is then returned with the rest of the row in a SELECT. I will use JSONB for the same reason, and I also need to query that data once in awhile.

JSONB is also very useful for HTTP JSON APIs because you can have the database construct the JSON response and the API server just returns it. I found it to be faster than constructing the JSON response in the API server most of the time. Of course, it depends on the use case whether you can do that.
You're wrong, and you're conflating two unlike things.

1) If you are a consumer user taking advantage of free things, information about you has value to the provider. In this case, it has value to Google as an adtech company. But it's also true that Google historically has been very happy to provide free services to users for altruistic purposes, and continues to do so. This can lead to their early demise, but c'est la vie. How things are prioritized for development, much less scheduled for launch or deprecated at Google, are some of the most misunderstood processes/lore in tech.

2) If you are paying Google for product access, that is completely different and a) your data is not mined for advertising nor are ads displayed to you, and b) you have access to paid support.
Looking at most of the popular ad-based news sites today, I'm not sure that I can say they are either.
Tangentially related, make sure to remove any phone numbers you no longer use. I started receiving sms FB notifications for another person's account (I'm guessing they switched numbers). The link in the message logged me directly into their account. I reported it, but they said this was expected behavior.
Between this and Onavo, I think FB need to check themselves. I only keep an FB account so I can check in on people easily, but I'm borderline tempted to just clear out of there and bring as many people as I can with me.
I think the comparison is quite apt. Shakespearean English is an ancestor of today's English, much like assembly languages are the ancestors of today's languages. Shakespearean English is grammatically correct, much like this assembly code is, presumably, correct in doing what it needs to do. And, most pertinent, almost nobody speaks in Shakespearean English, and fewer and fewer people are comfortable working with it, much like assembly language.
I guess they can by brokering a deal with the bad actor in charge of your mail server.
Unlikely but email is still bound to social manipulation.
geostationary satellite already exists. This is a very different thing.

MEO by o3b already exists, has been running for a few years, but is only available for larger telecoms and ISPs (example: a telecom in a pacific island nation state that doesn't have any submarine fiber). It's a great technology but the minimum size terminal is a pair of motorized, tracking 1.8m size antennas. It's an alternative to multi-ten-thousand-dollar-per-month C and Ku band transponder kHz and MHz.

Nothing like this already exists.
I don’t see any actual practical use cases described here that make mainstream adoption of blockchain tech make any sense. Or any concrete arguments about how it improves current systems. And the weaknesses of blockchain are glossed over or ignored. And “it’s never been hacked” is the frankly pretty toothless argument in favor of its security. Basically this is a weak article for Y Combinator to be publishing. If this is the best they can come up with, then blockchain has worse prospects than I thought.
> One of my favorite is controlling the TV with YouTube TV.

What actions are you taking with the voice control?

I have an AppleTV setup, and we 99% use the remote, then the voice recognition for text entry for searches.
Wouldn't a clause being added that required some form of obvious progress that your company plans to directly use the IP they are holding or lose it to the public be sufficient to prevent companies like MPEG LA from just using it to sue others? These things were meant to protect innovation, so require copyright/patent holders to be innovating or lose it so someone else can. I know "innovation" is vague but as someone else just noted on HN recently, the legal system is good at making rules even on abstract concepts.
This is not just S/370 assembler, the real ancient parts are IBM 7074. See for example https://books.google.ca/books?id=3iEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA88&lpg=PA... but I read some protocol docs that some of the data is still encoded as it was in the 7074.
There are tons of games you can play with email. If it isn't signed with PGP or S/MIME or DKIM someone on either side can make it look like something completely different than the original.

A bad actor can claim their edited copy of your email is death threats.
Have to agree. The content is stale everywhere else than in US. Disney and others are pushing their own services. Netflix's own shows are hit or miss and can't realistically rely solely on them for those growth expectations. Over time people are less likely to subscribe for long periods of time and only tune in periodically for that netflix exclusive. Those bargain bin movies aint going to cut it for most people.
Anecdotally I feel that Netflix has peaked in terms of content too.

They are producing more and more shows I am less and less interested in.

Meanwhile they still have a rolling library of titles instead of an ever expanding one.
Could be a lack of awareness, as this was several decades ago. We also had a jungle gym made from pipes set in a concrete pad.
I don't see what is wrong with treating a email as a username.

I wonder if Auth0 or Cognito resolve any of these issues.
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I've literally had to go out to unfuck a Skype UWP install onsite tonight, in what may be a freak co-incidence.

Skype decided a perfectly working webcam was permanently in use by something else. It wasn't, but a uninstall and reinstall of the app cured it.
No. Look at the following tweet. He explicitly says that he hasn’t enabled this and posted a screenshot of his settings:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Gabriel__Lewis/status/96312181416...

Update: Matthew Green just experienced the same thing, in the midst of tweeting about the security implications of abusing 2FA phone numbers this way:

https://mobile.twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/9637666614...
Why? His grammar could use a bit of work, but his write ups are often in depth and quite accurate. He’s hardly an unknown in the world of optics, and his previous analysis of Magic Leap have all proven accurate.

For example

http://www.kguttag.com/2018/01/06/magic-leap-house-of-cards/

http://www.kguttag.com/2018/01/06/magic-leap-fiber-scanning-...
Google voice is a free phone number ;) I have a couple for 2fa if i ever truly want it. The danger of 2FA is that you are trusting your phone service provider. A semi-common hack is to socially engineer a phone provider into transferring the target's phone number from their service to your service provider under a false or stolen identity. Now you can control the phone number, tie it to your own device, and recieve the 2fa sms at your own device.
It's a default that's checked when you add your phone number.

I'm not happy that it's a default, but when I added my phone number I had no trouble noticing it and disabling it.
No, from a regulatory perspective and technically this is a very different thing. Aiming at LEO and MEO satellites that move across the sky is very different than aiming a fixed-mount VSAT dish at a geostationary location. I've built large C and Ku band earth stations and worked with some of the largest teleports on the planet. This is something new and novel.

The SpaceX concept intends to use phased array/software beam steered antenna systems for the individual end user CPEs.

If you're lumping Globalstar (a mostly epic failure of LEO bent pipe low bitrate satellite constellation) in with SES (a company that operates $200m, 4000 to 6000 kilogram sized geostationary C/Ku/Ka band satellites and is highly successful worldwide), you're grossly misinformed, they are totally different architectures.
Well, they used to with iAd, but they basically axed it a while ago.
What this article implies is not entirely correct: this codebase is not S/370 assembly, oh no. It's IBM 7074! Check also the reports which said the Master File age was over 55 years -- the S/370 is too new for that.

https://books.google.ca/books?id=3iEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA88&lpg=PA...
Thank you. I appreciate the word of caution. I'll look at the place you mention too.
Well, I remember the web before it was bloated with advertising. I think it was better. Geocities is life.
Nice!

I've been working with PouchDB/CoucDB for a bit now too and it's really a sweet setup.
One of the biggest parts that makes cable awful are the ads, so they don't even have to avoid being mildly awful.
> Don’t get me wrong, there certainly is some and it is certainly ‘cool’, but right now blockhain feels like a solution looking for a problem.

"Blockchain" is probably fine. I suspect that it will eventually get some nice implementations where you want to be able to attest to integrity over time/space where multiple trusted parties evolve and change. A "distributed digital notary" if you will.

Cryptocurrencies as currently implemented (bitcoin and ilk) are eventually going to die for lack of a use case.

Problem 1: Most people like centralized authority of money. Most people like being able to get back their money when things get "stolen", for example. And people like reputation systems so that they don't get scammed (ie. illegal drug market).

Problem 2: Fees suck, but they're invisible to most people. Merchants hate fees, but you need users before that gets moving. We're also seeing that cryptocurrencies have non-trivial fees, as well. Funny that.

To be fair, traditional fees keep falling and some of that is probably due to cryptocurrencies. But some of that is simply trying to ward off the rise of a single digital purchase standard which would disrupt all of the incumbents. The payments space is a no-holds barred fight to the death and the incumbents would rather die than let anybody else get a foothold.

Problem 3: Cryptocurrencies aren't sufficiently anonymous. There is a use case for genuine anonymity. However, the current cryptocurrencies fail to be truly anonymous at blockchain as well as reality. Keeping your operational security sufficient to stay truly anonymous is damn difficult and having to go through an exchange doesn't help. Cryptocurrencies really need a decentralized exchange, but I'm not sure how that would even work. And, even if it did, since nobody could charge fees, nobody would have any incentive.

So, cryptocurrencies are mostly useful for people who fear central authority, are possibly concerned about fees, and only need to remain "semi"-anonymous. That pretty much describes petty criminals and mid-tier corrupt party bosses and ... not much else.
o3b already exists and is highly successful in its market niche (take a look at its promotional PDFs and wikipedia page for more info), but it is not something the ordinary end user or even an enterprise end user will ever see. It's non-geostationary and very high capacity but also designed for high-capacity 1:1 trunking links to major ISPs and telecoms, not for end user small CPEs.
There is XLA though: https://www.tensorflow.org/performance/xla/

But I guess unlike TC / Halide / TVM, that is less generic and much less customization.
What could blockchain do for journalism?
With a "proper" stereo setup, you have one place where you need to be to get the benefit. If you want to fill a space with sound then the beamforming of the HomePod is just fine. And I've been quite happy with it.

tl;dr - this is a living area speaker, not a home theatre one.

I'll reserve judgement on using HomePod as a stereo setup until that functionality is actually available.
Not the parent poster, but personally I just don't see the value (to the public) with this model.

Most A/V codec development these days is done at least somewhat out in the open, and there are collaborators between different organizations. The nature of the beast is that you can't release codecs to the public without inherently giving away how it works. Even if you lock things down with NDAs and such, people will reverse-engineer it before too long.

That alone isn't an indictment of patents here (note that drug development suffers from similar issues, at least wrt disclosure), but:

This sort of work will happen regardless of whether or not there are patents covering them (the fact that we have/had things like Vorbis, FLAC, VP8/9, Tarkin, Theora, AV1, etc. is proof of that), so in the end patenting these sorts of things doesn't actually "promote the progress of science and useful arts"; it just encourages rent-seeking behavior. Patent-encumbered codecs out there are not meaningfully better performance-wise than the patent-unencumbered ones (certainly not enough to justify the licensing fees); the patent-encumbered ones are merely better at marketing, so everyone who wants to do anything with video ends up paying a tax for no real benefit.
We're in the "you're screwed regardless" territory here - like having an ISP who intercepts TLS connections and substitutes content as you download it. There's no real way to work around that, though you might be able to detect it if there are unforgeable signatures on some of the content (e.g. DKIM signatures from third parties on incoming emails) - though the intermediate can strip those too, so all you see is "unsigned" rather than "modified".
The problem is that companies like Disney have already out-produced them. Disney has decades of quality material ready to go
Well, that's just your opinion, man. 200:1 P/E is kind of an outrageous thing...
Google's is pretty easy:

https://myaccount.google.com/

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Can you put a copyright on constellations? You might be able to put a license on the code that produces the lines, but I don't think the final results should be copyrighted.
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I'm a network engineer with a lot of two way satellite experience. You are not only wrong but you are so grossly wrong that you should be ashamed of yourself and delete your post. Please go read some basic books on cryptography (start with Schneier) before spouting absolute nonsense. Satellite is no more or less trustworthy than licensed point to point microwave, using wifi in an urban environment, or sharing TDMA timesliced bandwidth on a DOCSIS3.0/DOCSIS3.1 coax network segment. All of which are media that can potentially be intercepted and rely on properly implemented crypto.
Time to get a Huawei phone and new VPN....
And not without meaning. HPC people hold themselves to higher standards than the average Joes throwing stuff at the currently-fashionable "continuous integration server" until the lights turn green. "Codes" are often things that have been proven, written on a legal pad, typed into the machine, and finally validated on a set of test problems. Could you prove that your program has second-order numerical stability? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_stability
Errr, I already had the other Apple product(s), as do millions of people, and owning those was completely tangential to my "traditional entertainment center expenditure"?
My mother-in-law's first hand experience in handling medical treatment cases for VA for the past decade is that you're expected to handle more cases then you have the time to.

You're also expected to do so, while wading through a waist-deep morass of technological, beurocratic, and managerial stupidity.

In that agency, she can't just zone out and phone it in.
I'd say at least 40% of those at Intuit, for starters.
Wall Street Oasis is good.
It's on the order of $10,000-15,000. That's just slightly under the price of a university education for in-state students.
Part of the reason I download all my email to my PC.
This all just sounds too complicated. Why not just require that any technology developed for an industry standard, ratified by an international standards body, be given away, with patent rights disclaimed? I honestly don't see why we should allow people to make money off of foundational things like this. It creates perverse incentives.

As you point out, the lack of patent revenue here isn't going to hurt innovation; I agree that it's laughable that the lack of patent protection would stop or even slow down research here.
I get emails where the text/html part is fully fleshed out, and then the text/plain part is just the string, "Can't see the formatting? Click here!" where the last two words presumably lead to an HTTP served version of the email text.

Hey, I can see the formatting. I just choose not to. If you, on the other hand, can't even attempt say what you want to say with plain text, it's probably not something I care about anyway...
> I skipped that generation and jumped to the Geforce 2 (this time first party rather than a 3rd party card with nvidia GPU)

Wait, nVidia made their own cards? I can't ever recall seeing one that wasn't made by a partner.
> Are you really suggesting that someone spending $100k could decide the outcome of an election as big as the U.S. one?

You are very conveniently omitting recent disclosures from facebook that over 126 million Americans may have seen Russia based political posts over a two-year period leading to the election.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-socialme...

This isn't about a particular candidate winning or losing the election. The case would be equally horrifying if Hillary had won the election with the help of a foreign-state-sponsored social media campaign.

And I would implore you to check out the Ted talk I have posted above. It is not about supporting any particular candidate - it simply talks about how powerful these micro-targeted campaigns can be, and we ignore their potential and their effects on democracy at our own peril.
I agree with your main point, but Bright was just the kind of expensive awful I’d hope Netflix would avoid.
From our conversations with customers so far, I'd say its mostly men buying for their wives/girlfriends - but quite a large number buying for themselves as well.
Calling South Korea a puppet state is quite a stretch.
Australia? We're totally in lockstep with America on foreign policy and surveillance as part of 5-eyes and ANZUS. Duplicitous politicians walk a fine line between China being our biggest trading partner and "All the way with LBJ".
Certain subjects should not be patentable. Let me put it this way: the existince of a CRISPR patent will literally kill people. Medical research should be funded by the government and the results should be in the public domain.
I've heard engagement increases if you give the impression a family member is going through a personal crisis, perhaps facebook ought to look into the technique, seems excellent for the metrics.
FYI, Xiaomi is very popular in India, because they offer perceived good value for the cost.
Wanting to view pristine nature makes total sense, and is certainly a worthwhile pursuit. However, I think your idea of your 'normal life' being unnatural is a construct you make.

Being in a beautiful landscape isn't any more 'natural' than being somewhere boring and bland. Visiting different areas and seeing natural wonders is certainly enjoyable, and can improve your health and well being.

But that would be true even if you lived a primitive hunter gatherer lifestyle; most people aren't going to be living on a mountaintop, or living in a forest.

A big part of what makes visiting the pristine nature such a cathartic experience is that it is different from your day to day life. Novelty is a strong desire in humans. If you lived on an isolated mountaintop, you might feel that same good feeling visiting the city that you get visiting the mountaintop.
I think the backlash against existing software patents and how they're used is why people take such a hard line against software patents.

I don't have anything against software patents per se, and your example, I think, is a good one, but 20 years in a field moving as fast as software is ridiculous (I'd push for 5 years at most), and the ability to be issued a patent on trivial bullshit is insane.
Yes, you are describing the nightmare scenario I want to avoid.