skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if I didn't have to remember to fill up my gas tank, my life would be better.
Oh lol I started a keto diet startup. It's quite self advertising but it's a niche. We had lots of actual professional marketers and couldn't squeeze anything more than organic marketing for it.
It's not just about the technological method of distribution, it's about the structure of the entity, how it's regulated, etc. It's a pretty standard term and while it can have other meanings and the meaning can shift (as the strict original meaning becomes more, uh, meaningless), it seems weird to complain about that usage being somehow 'all over the place'. It means something most newspaper readers understand.
There are others like Polymath but Harbor is the most promising right now imo
>when I asked him to talk about something he knew very well and was passionate about, explained AI techniques (game AI, not ML) that I never even dove into myself

An aside, would you mind sharing what he shared with you, if you can recall?
> How much would you pay for Facebook? $20 a month? $30 a month? $100?

Not even Facebook thinks Facebook is worth that much a month from all of its users. ~2 billion times $20/month times 12m/y = $480B/year? You really think that's fair?

The problem is most web content is worth about $0.0002 a page or so. You can't pay that amount of money to anyone - microtransactions simply don't work in our economic system. Because most web content is so exceptionally worthless, the next best thing to do is make it all free and charge ad companies instead, and that's how we are where we are. That's why newspapers and magazines have died - the content they sell is worth less than the paper (and especially the ink) they print on now, so they have to fill their pages with more and more ads, furthering the content death spiral.

The market has proven time and again people will pay for quality over quantity - that's why Netflix hasn't died. The web is currently approaching Peak Content Quantity, and the ad companies (re Google) have never been richer because of it. And now that the technology exists to resist those ads, they're becoming crankier as they've gotten used to the status quo.

Hopefully sooner before later someone figures out an online content model that's paid and works. And I hope it's sooner, because the ad companies are becoming malicious now that they're packing in cryptominers and other malware to handler "ad blockers"...
IMAP without NOTIFY which no major provider implements is terrible.
Yes, but that's why healthcare investors stayed away from Theranos - that should have been a sign that the core tech wasn't workable.

But MagicLeap had huge funding rounds led by Google and Alibaba. They presumably did their due diligence and involved people who know what they're doing. That suggests to me that MagicLeap is doing _something_ that's real. I'm gonna wait and see.
I would argue that you have an ethical responsibility to fight that battle.

Here in Australia, when you become a software engineer, you join the Engineers of Australia, become a chartered Engineer with some additional civic rights and responsibilities, and swear an oath which includes upholding ethics values, much like doctors swear an oath to do no harm. I hope this kind of thing becomes universal and more prominent with the younger generations. If we want to make the world a better place (and most people who set out to do engineering do), we must put ethics and the good of society above KPIs and profits and individual company valuations.
I mentioned this the other day when a "Google Talk" discussion [1] was featured on HN. The reason I love Google Talk is the fact that conversations are saved in my inbox, and I can export the history to a local drive and encrypt the files. Pictures can go 404, but text, never. Email should be simple, but I know in 20 years, our Internet technology will end up like futuristic anime world technology. A simple, non-interactive, non-multimedia e-mail will last like a paper.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16349897
Having played around with neural networks for generating text, I strongly suspect that most of the funny/deep examples that people share are cherry-picked (I'm also guilty of this but typically also post a million characters+ of raw output in addition to any samples).

Cherry-picking or not, this is a pretty awesome project
I watched a documentary about this guy (though I can't remember the name). What a totally fascinating story! The fact that even today there are people who think that he wasn't involved in forging wines really speaks to how easily and thoroughly people can get caught up in a convincing lie proliferated by a convincing liar.
I love this guys blog, he does fantastic tear downs of display technology and I just don't see anyone else doing it in the space. He called out the 85% shade when they presented the initial preview a couple months ago.

He is genuinely not impressed by much and maybe he should be in some cases, but if you look at his body of work he's not just some yahoo brigading on magic leap hate and if there's a better technical voice on display tech out there, I haven't seen it.
> Black Mirror

That wasn't original, it was taken from Channel 4. The rest still stand though.
I need a cheap streaming service which has a huge catalog of movies and shows from other producers and distributors that doesn't keep vanishing regularly. Netflix seems to be less and less of this as time passes, and is relying way too much on original content (which is mostly great) to attract new subscribers and retain them. I don't think this party can last very long. With every content producer or distributor starting or wanting to start their own streaming service, the customer experience becomes very painful from two counts — high price and not knowing where to find a specific piece of content.

As much as I hate huge companies and consolidation of companies, this is one area where some consolidation could make it better for customers. I'm not sure if this is the right hope to have though.
In the US I've seen flu shots offered at every CVS I've been to. I doubt CVS is the only pharmacy chain that does it.
HomePod Teardown
Watching crappy shows that doesn't have ads doesn't sound appealing to me. Not that that is what Netflix, but is sounds like your argument is.
Not so much bushfires damaging electrical infrastructure as electrical infrastructure starting fires. A large portion of Victoria's worst day of bushfire was sparked by a faulty power line and the electricity distribution network (22kV and below) is responsible for a good portion of fire starts, especially those lines that utilise a single wire with an earth return (SWER). The recommendations of the Royal Commission into the Black Saturday fires in regard to the electricity network are available at http://royalcommission.vic.gov.au/Commission-Reports/Final-R... and contain a whole lot of background information. Suffice to say that the recommendation (27) of the wholesale burying of thousands of kilometres of SWER line at the cost of billions of dollars haven't gone far.
I find it hilarious that after all these years we are back at working with grids.
The ripoffs would have to compete.

...which of course means that they have to do something more than just copy IP --- in other words, make some sort of improvement. I'd argue that this sort of unrestricted sharing and competition will benefit the public more than the restricted form of competition that IP laws bring, because now everyone is free to remix and improve.

In fact, that sort of thing has been going on in China for a long time now:

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=284
Good work! It takes a lot of effort to make this kind of content.

I would love it if in the diagrams of air molecules, they weren't all lined up vertically. This gives a misleading impression. How difficult a change would it be to draw the dots in spatially random positions, but such that the _density_, not the the positions form vertical bands?

E.g. Like this: https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-e041242ac2954be7e84765...
Sour Grapes I believe.
Is Art Created by AI Really Art?
Watching David Bowie Argue with an Interviewer About the Future of the Internet
Netflix has had steady profits over the last several years. It's sub 10%, but that's particularly relevant when it's both growing and investing in new content.

HBO's has higher profit margins, but lower revenue. Further, being tied to Time Warner complicates the issue, without cable HBO would fail. So it's in a race to add subscribers fast enough to keep up with cord cutters.
This is not new. I worked for a Comcast subsidiary who owned and operated a multi-state "cable" company who owned all of their end to end transport and had a customer base of around 250k at the time. They installed all fiber and HFC networks in the ground, thus they also owned all the fiber transport gear. We had been in a bake off between Infinera (US based) and Huawei for long-haul transport until a three letter agency paid a visit and made the decision for us.

So... Either one of two things was true: the three letter agency was protecting US consumers or the three letter agency already had Infinera backdoored. My personal opinion in the matter was the former. Why? Because later that same year the data center was shut down one night and off limits for all changes and users. The next day a large, locked and tamper taped mobile rack was in the DC with 100Gb link into core routing. That led me to believe gaining access to siphoning traffic was not really the issue. But I could also be wrong because I wasn't in the know.

This was in 2010-2011, pre-Snowden.
As the cable TV bundle starts to peter out, all of these entities are just effectively studios, i.e. entities with money that fund TV shows/movies with various exclusive distribution rights for some periods.

One of the questions becomes what does the new bundle look like? (or the a la carte package.) Because there are pretty clearly a limited number of monthly subscriptions that most consumers are willing to pay for especially if they're in the >$10 range.
I imply that the market (in places) is retarded - and you respond by telling me that it's also retarded in other places too?

If so - fair enough - I agree.
I stand corrected. I shouldn't try to pull statistics from my failing memory anymore. Still big enough to intimidate a government from messing with them.
Without copyright there wouldn't really be "closed systems" any more --- sure, you might not have the original source, but it also becomes legal to decompile and publish the results --- and as the cracker/hacker/security community has shown, source isn't mandatory for doing interesting things with software.

If anything, the loss of copyright would cause a great advance in reverse-engineering technology --- and also attempts at defending from it. IMHO not such a bad thing after all.
> The single team that has navigated the insanity of the email space well as a small company is Fastmail. They are brilliant, ethical, and pragmatic.

I'm curious to know if you have also examined Posteo, Mailbox, Tutanota and ProtonMail in this respect. At least the first two of those seem to be handling things quite well while charging a fraction of what Fastmail charges (per mailbox). Posteo has many other things going for it on the social responsibility, privacy and ethical angles. I haven't seen another email provider match that.
> All it's going to do is make it easier to get on Chinese ones too. I'd take these warnings seriously. The Chinese have a long history of stealing IP and disregarding norms

Agreed. To those arguing "the Chinese having all my information is better than the Americans," three points:

1. As 3pt14159 says [1], just because the Chinese have access to your phone doesn't make it safer against American law enforcement.

2. Every phone isn't made by American or Chinese firms. Don't force a false dichotomy.

3. Economic espionage is a scary threat model. Consider what you know that someone else might find valuable. Few people answer "yes" in respect of political information. Many more answer "yes" in respect of commercial information. That is your blackmail value. Choosing to expand your security cross-section to foreign economic espionage plus domestic political espionage, versus simply the latter, is irrational.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16381401
But how many $80,000 cars does Toyota make per year?

That’s the more relevant question to ask.

And for comparison, Tesla is way, way ahead of Ferrari.

In fact, Tesla makes more cars in a quarter than Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Rolls Royce do in a year. Combined !
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It used to be if you get a notification you could go into settings and "disable this type of notification". But they removed that screen and you still get shit even with EVERYTHING disabled. I really hope they get what's coming to them soon
Is there software that turns an uploaded/created arbitrary 3D shape into 2D creases on a rectangular sheet needed to create it?
If your using a phone to access email that has trade secrets or IP in it, you'd care.
picocms
Or the Moller Skycar.
Pervasive Simulator Misuse with Reinforcement Learning
Bright was a truly horrendous movie. Everything about it was terrible. The writing was beyond bad, the performances were weak, even Will Smith was just a bad R-rated version of previous performances. One of the worst movies I have seen in a few years.
I had Jeff for CS423. He is an incredible professor. The assignments were very time consuming but I learned a ton.
yup i am using eustas fork for ngx_brotli works well :)
For anyone outside the US it is. Or at least in the UK, I can't get watch HBO without jumping through VPN hoops.
It is one of the worst movies I have seen in years. I do not understand how anyone likes it. Literally nothing about it was good.
Building radios! Doesn't matter if it's very simple, or very complex, you get enormous satisfaction when it works and you can actually communicate with someone.
I'd separate jurisdiction from information.
I am all over that! Thank you for sharing.
Yeah, doesn't smell good when you burn it either.
AVG PrivacyFix used to have a (probably biased and inaccurate but still) neat little tool that estimated how much you were worth to FB, Google, Twitter, etc after connecting your accounts. But I can't seem to find it anymore.
Here you go: http://www.kguttag.com/2018/01/17/magic-leap-how-rigged-was-... Then he defended it on /r/magicleap: https://www.reddit.com/r/magicleap/comments/7r267v/blog_arti...
High expected value can make investment with low probability of success a good investment. Hard to implement and develop optical VR technology could launch company that has similar dominance as Intel has had in the CPU markets.

If the underlying development path of Magic Leap is promising, investors may
keep Magic Leap going for a decade even if they don't deliver anything.

Investors include Google, Qualcomm, Alibaba, Kleiner Perkins and a16z.
High voltage transmission lines can carry power without a neutral wire because they use the earth as a neutral, but in your house you can be damn sure the neutral is carrying power. Cut off the neutral blade on your appliance if you want to check it out.

"Electric power in watts produced by an electric current I consisting of a charge of Q coulombs every t seconds passing through an electric potential (voltage) difference of V is

P = work done per unit time = VQ/t = VI

Note that V is the "electric potential difference" and it take two conductors to supply power.
Sure was. It looked like this:

https://web.archive.org/web/19961022174810/http://www.altavi...
I think some of the issues pointed out with his assessment in the comment section hold merit. His "no your wrong" response without any real evidence as to why doesn't sit well with me. That said, if he's well known for his knowledge perhaps that's enough. I personally have no idea who he is.
Internet was a "solution in search of a problem" too.

That said, you're free to believe what you want to believe.

Just one thing though, everything you said above I heard hundreds of times before, and there are good explanations for them. I just don't have time to argue here because these are things you can find out on your own if you put your mind into it. (To be honest I don't think I can convince you no matter how I try unless you open up your mind, so I won't try)

Anyway, if you don't care, that's fine too. It's not like not believing in cryptocurrency will doom your future. You'll do fine. And even if the whole thing fails, I'll do fine too. But it's always good to have an open mind about things you don't yet completely understand and try to learn. ("Thinking that you understand completely" doesn't count as actually completely understanding)
Obviously there is a technical difference between "Google sold my data" and what they actually do. My point is that the outcome is the same in both cases. It doen't matter to me which specific entity erodes my privacy. So in the larger scheme of things, Google did sell my data to advertisers.

Amazon doesn't directly sell you the AWS infrastructure. But they rent it to you. Google is doing something akin to that. If they had an opt out saying "Don't use my private data to show me ads" I'd no longer make the point they sell my data. But they don't provide any opt-out, and the effect is identical to my data being sold to advertisers.
Yeah, but you need to create container elements to make it happen, cluttering your HTML and making it more difficult to swap elements around the grid as needed.
I tried it in the very initial days. Maybe it's much better now.
Not on-die integrated though.

Intel seems to have made or licensed a high speed, short distance, data bus that sits between the Intel CPU and the AMD GPU that are mounted side by side on a small board.

Would be hilarious btw if this showed up on desktops as a dual socket motherboard, with one socket for the CPU and another for the GPU. Likely with one massive cooler covering them both.
> You have always had to lie, cheat, and steal your way into the field.

This terrifies me in terms of my rewriting my resume for my next job cycle. Is any minuscule semblance of honesty on a resume completely dead as a zombie shot through the brain?

I'm serious here. If I have never used XYZ tech, should I list that as a matter of course now should the position require it, and then fudge the results with a few searches and try-out "tests"?

In "current year": "I know what color it is" truly makes me an expert if I can snake-oil my way into it?
If you can separate areas of functionality, you can upgrade it piece-by-piece. So while it starts off as 98% inscrutable assembly-in-Java, you transform it over time until it's only 2%. Ideally, backed with strong tests and fuzzing.
When I first opened up the Netflix mobile app and it asked me if I wanted it to show me notifications I thought "hey, that's nice, most apps just start spamming me without asking". I clicked "No thanks" and went on my way.

It turns out, though, that it asks that _every_ single time I open the app. It's really annoying and I'm about to allow them only to block them at the OS level.
The 2018 Toyota Camry might be proof most people don’t care about cars
I'd just recommend hiring someone for this, whether you pay them in cash or equity. The same logic that to hiring testers.

Marketing is very time intensive work. Your time is probably better spent improving features. You should be understanding marketing principles, but the grunt work should be done by someone else.

Marketers are, in general, cheaper than programmers. That doesn't mean they are worth less, just that the supply is higher and less training is needed.

Even if it's more expensive, programming is also very mentally consuming work. You don't want to be spending 4 hours programming and 4 hours marketing. It's better to spend 8 hours on one or the other.

However, don't get freelancers unless you plan on engaging them long term. Like UX designers, a good marketer needs to understand the product and user inside and out.
How to find hidden cameras (2002) [pdf]
Funny thing is that my first 3D accelerator was a PowerVR, and unlike the 3Dfx solution it used the PCI bus to shuffle the finished frame to the video card for output.
Mitsubishi made a handful of UConnect head units (specifically the RHB and RBZ models) in the early 2010s as well.
This is amazing, I would love to something similar to this in Augmented Reality, here is a snapchat AR experience where you visualize several waveforms:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SnapLenses/comments/7xl1n3/animated...
There are definitely algorithms for UV unwrapping of polygonal models onto texture maps, under various constraints. I'm sure you could persuade one of those to generate you a net from a 3D model.

Here's an instructible on it: http://www.instructables.com/id/Design-Papercrafts-with-CAD-...

Edit: Software for doing what you want here: http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/
I looked at the page count on the PDF and thought; 25 pages of patent references for MPEG2, that's insane. Then I looked at the list of patents for HEVC(H.265)...
I so appreciate everyones thoughts and comments.
What has been most infuriating about the change to how Air B%B search engine works is that I cannot get a response from higher level (decision makers) Air B&B as to the why or what of this change. My emails to the Help line have been ignored. They just seem impenetrable. What they don't seem to understand is that an unhappy host makes for an unhappy guest, meaning I will be making alternate plans for my travels.
"Know tax law" in the context of a software developer I would interpret as understanding the core concepts and terminology involved in tax law, not knowing all the intricacies involved in every single piece of tax law. They need to be able to understand the specific pieces of tax law that they are working on with the help of an actual expert without too much friction; they don't have to be actual experts on tax law.
My best guess is that the active user numbers are not representative. Once you have an Facebook account checking once a day if something interesting happened or sending a few messages makes you an active user, I guess, but in my book that does not mean you are really using Facebook.

I still visit Facebook almost every day, mostly to chat with friends, even though my feed has mostly become an uninteresting desert years ago and I rarely - less than once a month - post, comment or like something. So if I am not an exception, then looking at the number of users posting or commenting on any given day might vastly differ from the number of active users but I admittedly don't know how exactly Facebook defines those.

And if you look at the search traffic for MySpace, Google+, or the German StudiVZ and MeinVZ [1] it certainly tracked the rise and fall pretty exactly. Finally the YouTube search traffic is essentially flat for me since 2012 besides a step at the beginning of 2016 due to changed data collection methods.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/SGci58n.png
Statistically he should be alive another 14 years or so https://www.johnhancockinsurance.com/life/life-expectancy-to...
Technical architecture is independent of regulatory frameworks. The ITU simply sees this system as a non-geostationary system. The only alternative is geostationary. The parent was connecting on novel regulations which would need to be enacted, but new regulations are not necessary as existing ones cover this new system just as they do old ones.