skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Switch, no. The ASIC miners would never vote for something that would destroy half of their investment. A fork could totally happen. That's what Bitcoin Gold did by forking the blockchain to using the Equihash algorithm.
I disagree with your analysis and find it rude and pointless. Good day.
For some reason, despite him being extremely well-accomplished, I just can't take any advice he gives seriously, compared to Bill Gates or even Ray Dalio.
Can anyone summarize how the user interacts with this?

Do you just meditate while listening to it? Or..?
Although I haven't looked into the exact mechanism here, I think people who find this interesting may also be interested in optical tweezers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_tweezers
This is Google's dig at AWS S3 which is eventual consistency for object creation/listings.

If you want strong consistency for S3 consider something like JuiceFS: https://JuiceFS.io

It wraps your S3 in a strongly consistent and fast POSIX API (aka regular mountable filesystem) and its way less expensive than EFS.
That's different, though. That's a one-time cost. One time costs don't necessarily get passed on, but ongoing costs do, otherwise the company will simply go out of business.
If computer science is worthless, the rest of the jobs will be as well. CS is about solving problems in (almost) its purest form. If AI can do that, humans are done.
> Should the federal tax code give high-tax State residents a break?

It's not a break, it's mathematically necessary to prevent federal taxation from artificially negating what would otherwise be beneficial social action. Without local tax deductibility, local tax funded programs have artificially reduced net local benefit, which impact is greater the higher the federal income tax rate which is paid by the payers of the state taxes. The result is that, absent full deductibility, there is an artificial incentive (given progressive federal income taxes) not only for lower state taxes and spending even where a tax-funded program would be economically efficient before federal taxation was taken into account, but also for less progressive state taxes than would otherwise be adopted.
Thanks for the links, I will check them out. An embarassing correction: the 450K is (as you well know) not a SNP array. Can you tell I've been doing more than my fair share of methylation stuff recently?

The fundamental problem I have with your reply, though, is that the authors were not really concerned with any particular SNP. They wanted to make statements about the group of ASD-related SNPs. Clearly it is infeasible to do most of the things you have suggested here with >100 SNPs. Given that, what do you suggest they should have done?
I think it is a good bet that more evidence will be found of domestic-to-feral animal and plant species transitions. I would also bet that human population expansion is less uniform and monotonic, at least in regions, than generally acknowledged. That is, I think we will find populations that domesticated plants and animals, urbanized, grew to large size, and disappeared due to some crisis, and that human expansion was more lumpy, cyclic, and fitful than the typical smooth upward curve implies.
Ai hypers dont spend a min building ML models or munging data. Its so far away before AI can do all
Why philosophy in particular, though?

I am sympathetic with worries about how automation will affect the job market, and I love philosophy -- but I saw no explanation in this article for why Mark Cuban believes philosophy in particular will be more valuable.
A Fire Upon the Deep is good. It might not be what you want out of a follow up story set in this universe. It has a heavy focus on a low technology world deep in the slow zone.
> Cuban advises ditching degrees that teach specific skills or professions and opting for degrees that teach you to think in a big picture way, like philosophy.

I don't think my computer science degree taught me 'specific skills' but instead taught me how to learn. How to pick up new concepts in a short period of time. I think does not fully understand what a computer science degree is or how artificial intelligence works.
While paper voting being simple and reliable is valid point, what tech can bring (of course if costs, security, etc will be solved to trust it as much as we trust paper voting) much more granular voting options.

So instead of waiting for specific large event to put some question on a ballot, state could send push notification to cellphones asking to vote for specific proposition and quickly get response.

This would enable democratic process for much larger number of state projects instead of relying on elected officials and people hired by elected officials.
I flagged this for being unsubstantiated scarebait.

> That's because Cuban expects artificial intelligence technology to vastly change the job market, and he anticipates that eventually technology will become so smart it can program itself.

> "What is happening now with artificial intelligence is we'll start automating automation," Cuban tells AOL. "Artificial intelligence won't need you or I to do it, it will be able to figure out itself how to automate [tasks] over the next 10 to 15 years.

This is coming from a guy who doesn't know a lick of programming, let alone anything about AI. In fact, he mainly dabbles in sports and Shark Tank. Yet another "you luddites are all going to be replaced, so you better piss your pants" article, and all it's based on is this guy's gut feeling. Silicon Valley needs to chill the fuck out with overhyping AI, because it's going to backfire on them substantially when people start realizing they can't back up their promises.
I think it's far more likely that if this process takes place, CS degrees will morph more towards areas like philosophy and mathematics than software engineering.

I doubt they're going to be teaching the exact same way in 30 years.
I use Eclipse with Subversion as the VCS. With Subversion you can disable to automatic History tab update on selection change (ie unlink from Editor). Can you not do the same with the Git functionality?
Those may be illegitimate, but licensure for hair cutting is absurd and damaging. Many states require it, and it is a clear-as-day example of regulatory capture and rent-seeking.
This is a very relevant comic for quantum computing. Mainstream seems to think useful QC is 10 years away. It's cute.
I studied philosophy in College but got my CS degree. I think some guy called Paul Graham did so too. I think philosophy is useful for detecting if someone is lying to you or doesn't know what they are talking about. It does stress critical thinking in different ways than say studying math (I also studied math also).

I can't really take what he is saying though at any serious level though and I don't believe what he is saying at all. I think that this story is to grab headlines.
The risk factors fail to mention their inability to offer any kind of end-to-end encryption. Or that E2E encryption is the differentiator that most of their competitors offer.

Dropbox (employees and trusted third parties) will always have access to your files.

Before you downvote.

This is not necessarily a bad thing. They can deliver more features and better performance as a result. Reliability is key, and it's certainly easier to understand what users need, and to develop, implement and debug new features, when you've got access to the files users are storing.

But eventually, end-to-end encryption will take hold. It took decades for HTTPS to become the defacto standard, but it did. Email is moving that direction (Proton Mail, Tutanota). Text messaging is moving that direction (Signal, WhatsApp?). And there's a number of Dropbox competitors that are growing fast because of better privacy and E2E encryption (SpiderOak, Tresorit, Sync.com, pCloud). NextCloud (open source self-hosted Dropbox alternative) also just launched end-to-end encryption.

These companies have been slowly solving the problems that Drew claimed were impossible when Edward Snowden dropped the bomb. Meanwhile Dropbox has been pouring dollars into marketing and a Microsoft Office / OneNote / Google Docs competitor (Paper).

Drew's response to end-to-end encryption:
https://techcrunch.com/2014/11/04/dropboxs-drew-houston-resp...

Dropbox risk factors (many unsolvable):
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467623/000119312518...

I use Dropbox and feel the product is still the leader in terms of features, but I see the competition catching up, with better privacy (end-to-end encryption) built in.
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This guy doesn't even know how to program. Some exec probably bamboozled his gullible self and now he's trying to making an ass of himself in headlines.
also afaik we're nowhere close to being able to use "ai" to do that reliably. it's a use case really distant from supervised learning
There is no electronic voting system, real or imagined, which can guarantee both the secret ballot and the public vote count. Because there is no algorithmic equivalent to the secure one-way hash for dropping physical ballots into a ballot box.

Block chains record votes cast in order. Which correlate with the order those same ballots were issued (or received, as with postal ballots). Voila, no more secret ballot.

The proposal to fudge the time stamps (chunking, roundoff or jitter) does not work for real world USA elections. Because the smallest administrative unit is the precinct (from 0 to 1000 voters) and ballot casting is bursty (vs spread evenly over time).
That sounds interesting. Do you have a YouTube video available?
At the least, we'll need some kind of overseer for what these "AI"s are doing. These people will need strong analytical abilities, and the ability to deal with various levels of abstraction. Something that computer science people surely have.

Yeah, not much good content here, but it is probably useful to know what people like him are thinking (the new American oligarchs?). If, in fact, he is saying what he actually thinks. The only thing we can be sure of, is that he and his people are scared of AI.
He may not be wrong. Check out Getting to Philosophy on wikipedia. [0]

"There have been some theories on this phenomenon, with the most prevalent being the tendency for Wikipedia pages to move up a "classification chain." According to this theory, the Wikipedia Manual of Style guidelines on how to write the lead section of an article recommend that the article should start by defining the topic of the article, so that the first link of each page will naturally take the reader into a broader subject, eventually ending in wide-reaching pages such as Mathematics, Science, Language, and of course, Philosophy, nicknamed the "mother of all sciences"."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...
PoW requires brute force. PoS requires tied up capital. Do you really think the energy usage is the same...physically? Sounds like nonsense with no backing.
Hell no. :)
Box offers a significant discount on Enterprise to Universities through Internet2.

https://www.internet2.edu/products-services/cloud-services-a...
The encryption doubles as compression. Its not wasting power..
I like the use of hip hop lingo too, like the "Slavic shit" the Romanians are "on" and the "dope" way the Gaulish moustache-boys talk.

Actually - and I don't know whether this was intentional on the writer's part - there's a parallel there, between people being attracted to how the Gauls talked (i.e. away from the very uncool "official" language of Latin), and the widespread appeal and co-option of hip hop lingo. Hip hop subculture came from a segment of society that had every reason to distrust the "official" culture, and made every effort to differentiate itself. Maybe that's how it was in the waning days of the Roman Empire too, especially in the farther outposts like Gaul.
The point you may have missed here, is that an ISP can only stop you from getting some data through that particular ISP. They can't silence information because there are many ISPs, and even if you are somewhere where literally no consumers have an alternative ISP (this is unlikely), there's cell phones, which are different ISPs. And satellite Internet. (Oh, and businesses usually have more/different ISP options than consumers may in a given area as well.)

ISPs cannot silence people. If they could, you wouldn't hear everyone whining about net neutrality. But Google can render a site effectively nonexistent from the Internet, and most of your communications goes either to or from a Google server at some point, whether it's a website, an email, a text, or a phone call. Statistically, you likely also use a phone running Google software, use a web browser made by Google, and use Google as your primary email account, which potentially grants them access to all of the data in all of your other accounts. (That's before we add in that Google's now in the ISP game, and both your landline and mobile ISP could also be Google.)

In fact, the only way to convey a message and be confident Google can't intercept it or block it, is to drive to someone and tell them in person.

...Until Google drives your car, too.
I personally have taken myself to learn more about psychology. I've already spent most of my life learning about machines and how to control them. It's time to learn more about people.
Screw Mozilla.

Maybe they should focus more on fixing their browser and less on asking the State to do their bidding.
Very interesting reply, thank you. I meant to say “protocol layer” rather than “software layer” but misspoke. The correction is appreciated.

I think I’m going to do some more research on that 100mbps number. Perhaps they meant Bd/s?
This. ;) I think what tickles me about it is that they clearly know what they're talking about, but they're also actively setting themselves apart from the Ivory Tower and signaling that their interest is one that brings them some earnest fucking joy.
> But technically, it's just international wire transfers, for free, instantly, with an open API. Like most banks already provided.

Eurozone banking is far ahead of the US in this regard :-(. Wires still cost $20-25 per here and ACH takes days.
With current geostationary-based technology any significant VSAT is easy to spot: If you want to use higher-order modulations and coding, you need gain. Which means you need at least a 1.8 to 2.4m size antenna for a serious earth station. Possibly you're confusing a small VSAT with the Rx-only TVRO type dishes which are everywhere?
> They can't silence information because there are many ISP

Not true in most of the US.
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That's a complimentary tool, not an alternative. Most election integrity activists / experts are fine with precinct-based opscans used to tabulate paper ballots the moment the polls close.
Great article. On a side note, I took five years of French and never learned that si is specifically for contradicting a negative. Sup with that.
Still a good reason to become a AWS or GCP sales engineer.
I think USA is much more `immigrantish` than many other countries. Compare USA to Japan for example.

Of course it is expected that most immigrants adopt most of cultural aspects of the new life, but not all of it. And each immigrant brings part of his cultural heritage too. So culture will change over time.

Accordingly to this - https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/imm... - immigrants are close to 15% of total population. This chart also does not mention number of children of these immigrants.

These are people who do not have this inherited and ingrained guilt for enslavement simply because they did not live here when that was happening, nor their ancestors to tell them stories.
Not when most of it is a cheap trick to rob you of your money and life...exactly like pointless wars
His argument seems to be that advances in AI will mean that software development itself is soon automated away, in which case a CS degree will be useless. Then, he advocates studying philosophy because this future will need "big picture" thinkers.

I don't know how much substance there is to discuss here. It pretty much hinges on how you think AI will develop over the coming decades. I am skeptical that software development will be automated away anytime soon, especially since the actual writing of code is just one part of the job. I recall an Economist article several years back arguing that jobs are less automatable the more varied they are. For this reason custodians should be among the last to go, the logic being that a given custodian does so many different maintenance tasks that it would be impractical for a bot to replace them.

Software development seems similar. You're constantly pivoting between different and shifting problems. Most of the impressive AI demonstrations like image recognition or playing Go are really about getting good at a single well-defined task. We seem to be very far away from the kind of adaptibility required to automate away developers (though perhaps the CS degree will devalue as more people pursue it).

It's also unclear to me how exactly philosophy is better preparation. My own experience with academic philosophy is limited, but from what I can tell its main selling point is that it teaches you to examine things in a critical way that's very aware of the argument in question, the assumptions made, and the structure the argument sits in. My experience in math (which I pursued much more) was similar, and I imagine that most good CS programs teach similar skills?

"Study philosophy" here seems like a catchy (and perhaps poor) proxy for "make sure you can reason about stuff outside a narrow programming bubble". But that's always been good advice.
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There are a lot of towns in the US that basically exist just to support a university. However, there are also tons of universities in large cities too. Google "universities in _" for almost any big city and you will get a list that goes on for multiple screens. Many of them are tiny, but usually at least a few will be large universities.

E.g. New York City has 110 universities and colleges with roughly 600k students[1]. Boston has 35 with 150k students[2]. DC has 20 with about 85k students[3]. Pittsburgh has over 150k students[4], etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_New_York_City

[2] http://www.bostonplans.org/getattachment/3488e768-1dd4-4446-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universit....

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universit...
1) The problem with using an ISM band for earth to space is precisely because it's exceptionally noisy. You want the best possible SNR for two way satellite, either direction. With a small satellite that orbits relatively close (LEO to low MEO, compared to geostationary), which will likely have a system architecture composed of numerous focused spot beams... If you were to design a series of spot beam on the satellite body with ISM band antennas aimed at major cities all you would achieve is gathering noise.

2) Not going to help much unless the upstream is so little that's basically useless. The same antenna is used for both Rx and Tx so you still need significant gain to overcome the path loss and have sufficient link budget for the space-to-earth traffic.
> philosophy is useful for detecting if someone is lying to you

What do you mean? What did philosophy teach you about lie detection?
Every job I've had in recent years has required I use an overcomplicated toolchain involving React or Angular. For personal projects I avoid them like the plague but unfortunately I don't have that luxury when working on a team at a company. Please, point me to any full stack web developer job listing that doesn't mention React or Angular!
Furthermore, clicking the above link actually displays a message saying the video is not available for viewing in the US...
As you state, this comment equals to:
"I like Drew, so let me make a donation of 30$ to Dropbox"

That's why I like economics so much. A lot of irrational behavior come simply from the fact that humans are usually terrible to understand the underlying economic transactions taking place.

One of my favorite irrational behaviour is the one in which people value object they got more than the equivalent price in which they could buy//sell that object.

For example: You have an old bottle of wine in your cellar, and it is now valued at 500$. A lot of people would simply put, never buy a 500$ bottle.

But if that bottle was your possession, most of the people would keep it and eventually probably drink it, being completely irrational in regards with the 500$ valuation.
To get accurate prices on ebay, check the filtering options in search results for your query and tick "Sold Listings."

It will then show only recently sold listings along with what they sold for. Completed listings that didn't sell because they were listed with unreasonable prices will not show up.
Private property is another thing that "Makes America Great."
Given the volume of our users, we do not track the retention rates of our individual users.
As a result, we may be unable to address any retention issues with specific users in a timely manner,
which could harm our business.

Isn't this measurement critical to understanding if the business decisions are in line with customer expectations and use-cases? I find it odd that such a key metric is not tracked, and having more users should mean that it's an even more reliable metric to gauge features and releases.
>> Bitcoin was supposed to be an improvement upon existing payment methods, so far, it’s not quite there yet.

Your proposed "better" transaction method is worse in many ways that are important to people on the Internet, namely tracking, non-psuedonoymous, not the physical representation of the money, and many other related issues.

It isn't all about speed and cost for people who transact in cryptocurrency.
That's called an opinion poll. Or marketing research.

Voter fatigue is already a severe problem. More direct democracy has plenty of down sides.

The alternative is to organize, lobby, participate. Bring the heat. So much that whoever's in the way sees the light.

Campaigns and elections are just the opening acts of democracy.
You don't have to assay Bitcoin.
All of the bad password traits are rewarded in this scenario. You want a password as short as possible, with as many repeating characters as possible, etc.
I think you are drastically underestimating the amount of necessary work required to keep our civilization running. It's not just a matter of producing necessities--food, clothing, and shelter. The tools needed for people to "realize their potential" take work too. For example, the medium through which we are having this conversation, which is the most potent tool ever invented to help people realize their potential, took a lot of work to build and takes a lot of work to maintain.
> You argue that is hard to know both the cost and the benefit of regulations. I argue that if you cant gauge it, then you can never conclude if its good or bad.

Here's where the trick is. I'm not saying "you can't gauge it"; you even acknowledged in the previous sentence that that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying it's complex, because in order to gauge it, you must have some of it, otherwise there is no way to produce reliable metrics.

Yes, that requires incurring some cost. But the risk of much higher costs comes down dramatically once the initial cost is paid, because the information it provides makes us able to avoid greater costs down the road.

What you're saying is that if we can't build a tower all in one go, we can't build it at all. I'm saying we can do it in reasonable stages, but we have to lay a strong foundation first.
What is the source for this claim of profits? I couldn't see any in the article?
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How much money did you put in escrow last time?