skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... gets them a lot more exciting than showing them a nicely designed software project

Maybe because of the association that "software = free".

Or because hardware is 3d while software is always 2d. Would you get the same appreciation if you made a piece of hardware that connects to a monitor and shows a blinking dot?
The article is worth reading if only to see the (to me) totally novel pop-up "webcam" built into a function key. Very cool.

Still a crying shame I can't get an MBP with real Function Keys plus an nVidia GPU, not to mention 32GB RAM.
The standalone offline concise version includes updates, has 1/3 of the OED and is 128MB on iOS.
If it is felt pen-redacted and then scanned, wouldn't there be some detectable difference between the parts of the paper with and without underlying ink?
>In order to believe the doomsayers, you have to ignore the entire history of the industrialized world

The first consequence of major technological revolution, the post industrial era enabled the biggest wars human history had yet seen because our societies where technologically advanced but spiritually depraved. Modernity gave us amazing technology but also totalitarianism we had never seen before.

Yes, doomsayers are always numerous but just because people are crying wolf a lot doesn't mean that wolves aren't real. The image of a society in which hundreds of millions of people are devoid of purpose, live on subsistence social welfare and are at best employed to keep them occupied is a very scary one. And it might very well happen.
I'm not very familiar with the situation in China, but I will sound a dissenting note here and welcome correcting information by those more knowledgable.

While Xi is certainly acting in his own interest to remove term limits, term limits are a profoundly anti-democratic idea. A politician that is in their final term cannot be pressured by the prospect of an election which is a, if not the, primary mechanism of democracy.

Term limits were only instituted in the United States after FDR terrified the business community by extracting taxes from the wealthy order of over 90%. This was promptly followed by the red scare as the business community fought back to destroy FDR's coalition of progressives, unions, socialists, and communists after he died. One thing they did was impose term limits to reduce electoral pressure on the sitting president by 50%.

Note that, on its face, Xi's plan is the opposite of a lifetime appointment. Lifetime appointments are bad because they reduce electoral pressure by 100%.
Decoupling APIs, Servers, and Implementations in Elixir
I don't agree with this sentiment, although I agree that AI is not nearly at the level of the hype that pop culture makes it out to be. AlphaZero is still a significant contribution to 'AGI' that shouldn't be buried.

It's true that AlphaZero's knowledge is unable to be generalized for other systems, but its biggest contribution is a _stable_ RL system that can solve problems that no other systems can. This is the first piece of the puzzle of more general AI. Generalization, I would consider as the second piece of the puzzle to more general AI. Generalization may be achieved with potential research in transfer learning, model based RL, symbolic network. But without a stable RL algorithm such as DQN as foundation, generalization has nothing to stand on.
It's a good way to not get developers on board. Yes, you can easily develop for iOS/Android and as a result the respective stores are drowned in crap. Merely publishing on there will give you zero visibility. On curated platforms, there's the benefit of being a big fish in a small pond.
Perhaps their product mismanagement style alone is enough of an indictment for Google to be broken up into smaller companies.
Yes

Were you in the workforce 20 years ago?
> Until we completely ban money in politics,

I hear this phrase a lot (and it does sound desirable), but what exactly does it mean? The philosopher-kings of Plato's Republic, who were not allowed to own any property at all? Laws against bribery? (we have those already)
Yeah, it would be counterproductive to require all the construction workers to undertake a quasi-religious pilgrimage every day in order to reach the worksite. I'm talking about the plan for visitors, which doesn't require any actual heroism; it's based on Joseph Campbell's synthesis of world mythology described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey or http://www.tlu.ee/~rajaleid/montaazh/Hero%27s%20Journey%20Ar.... The best textual source I've found online explaining the specific plan for the obstacles to reaching the Clock is at https://www.edge.org/conversation/the-mountain-and-the-clock, although that was talking about the Nevada site, which hasn't been finished yet, because Jeff has a lot more money than the Foundation does. Stewart Brand gave a TED talk on the subject in 2004; the Monomyth bit starts about 5'30": https://www.ted.com/talks/stewart_brand_on_the_long_now

Cookiemon's comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16451497 links to Danny Hillis's lecture at https://soundcloud.com/longnow/progress-on-the-10000-year-cl... which also talks about the Monomyth and theme park design.
This is a friend of yours? And feel in no way obligated to mitigate such corruption?
Read this Hacker News story instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16460310

CNET's article runs soooo sloooowly on my (up to date) Google Chrome on a current MBP.
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You can design for and get steady-state discounts on cloud too. It's not only about flexibility but also maintainability and ops overhead. The increased spend on cloud is still usually less than the cost of a sysadmin/IT team and the handling of inevitable hardware and DC issues.
If someone was born just 5 kms from say Gorakhpur in India , across the border in Nepal, they suddenly meet the diversity bar.

And if they were born 9000 miles away in the US, they'd already be a citizen, so what's your point.

Listen, no system is ever going to be "fair" for every person.

And considering how often people talk shit about the US on HN, I'm surprised people don't just go to Canada or Australia instead.
Well, plenty of the richest people in China has no connection with the red families. The most prominent companies in China now, like Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, are all founded by regular people. Who would have thought Jack Ma would become the richest people in China?
Possibly, though you can see that most of the sources I first added were non-political news sources. More traditional news sources were added as a request from the first people who used it. Now I'm thinking about a "balanced news" genre or source which compiles articles from a balanced spectrum of political journalists. What do you think?
They achieved 100% match on the unredacted text with Word. Empirically speaking, they've proven their software generates the same output as FBI's.
This is pure bullshit
Your appeal to absolutes reeks of immaturity, lack of experience, and cargo-cult reasoning.

On the contrary, if it rarely to never happens compared to the effort involved, it's not "reckless" at all, but a tradeoff. The site package folders are a simple path of files/folders, not hard to reason about. Nothing gets "hosed" without your participation. No need to live in mortal fear. In other words the cure is as bad as the disease.

The truth is that venvs are a hack with a lot fewer use cases now that user packages at the low-end and containers at the mid/high-end are now ubiquitous.

Honestly newbies would be a lot better off just avoiding venvs entirely. I make an exception for pipenv when appropriate since it hides the complexity as well as possible.
Most people won't actually be able to answer that.

I spent my twenties and thirties asking men who were hitting on me why they found me attractive. Men who had scads of education, even doctors, lawyers and people with two psych degrees, were shockingly inarticulate. They knew what they liked. They often had no fucking clue why they liked it.

I eventually threw my hands up in the air and concluded that men are all certifiably insane.

In my 40s during my divorce, I asked different questions, more targeted questions, about what men liked about me. That got me some interesting data, but it was better informed because I was asking better questions under different circumstances (since I was no longer asking "Why on earth are you hitting on a married woman?").

You are expecting people to have a deep and nuanced understanding of themselves that many people lack. You are further expecting them to be able to articulately express it. This is surprisingly unlikely, even if they meet your first very high bar and are generally well read, educated and well spoken individuals. (You are also expecting them to do it in public, which they may have good reason to not want to do.) You are further expecting them to say something specifically meaningful to you that you can fit in your mental framework, never mind that they barely know you. This last is a ridiculous expectation. It is mostly a matter of luck of someone saying something about their lives that hits the sweet spot for you.

I have done just a whole lot of this type of inquiry. I do much less of it these days. It simply isn't very effective. It is a broad scatter shot approach at best. It can also have weird social collateral damage.

I mean you can do whatever you want to do. You don't need my permission and my comments are in no way intended to reign in your behavior or tell you to stop this or something. I am just telling you this approach tends to go poorly in my experience and my thinking on why that is so.

But feel free to prove me wrong. No big.
Exactly. If you have expertise to run your own servers, and you don't have a spiky workload, maybe it's worth it. If you have cloud expertise, that may be the winner.
That’s only a small part of the economy. If you at everything from SOEs to taxi companies to jewelry cartels to real estate agencies, it’s mostly all red.
The problem is that being able to campaign while abusing the power of the office makes it hard for a challenger to unseat.
Kinda related, I want an app that takes a picture of a hand drawn diagram and converts that to SVG (or whatever format I could later edit digitally). That would be a great way to bootstrap a large diagram, as it seems all diagram editors lose to pen & paper.
According to [0], the illustrations in "ØMQ - The Guide" [1] are made using asciitosvg. See, for example, the illustration following the "Divide and Conquer" heading:

http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#Divide-and-Conquer

[0] https://9vx.org/post/simplistic-diagrams-with-ascii-art/

[1] http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all
How do you define success? This is not a competitor to iOS/Android, it's for cheap low-end devices, which is still a sizable market. Try running Android on 256MB of RAM...
Term limits should be in fact extended to everyone who holds office, including MPs. What other better way to limit corruption than to rotate the politicians.
That is true, but that is true for incumbents everywhere.
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Good point! Would you prefer to have Obama in office for his 3rd term or Trump?
This is what Apple did in the beginning, too. I felt as you did about it at the time. Six months later things opened up and the rest is history.
That's an interesting definition. Traditionally, we had several ways of looking at it:

1. Safety contends with accidents like components breaking. Security contends with malice where input is crafted and failures are set up intelligently to do damage unlikely to happen on accident. There's quite a bit of overlap, though.

2. If talking leaks, safety rarely requires confidentiality of data. It's usually integrity or availability that it shares with security. So, a security violation with covert/side channels might not be a safety violation.

Just two off top of my head to illustrate the difference.
Your comment doesn’t seem so different to when people were saying that ai can’t even think to beat a human go player, not even close.
Remember all those feature phones with a plethora of custom operating systems? Almost none of the users cared (or knew) what the OS was. This is an OS for that kind of device. Nokia is shipping it right now.
Uh huh?

https://foldimate.com/
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/10/16865506/laundroid-laundr...

(and yes these are buggy and expensive now, but 5 years?)
It's not PC to call a spade a spade these days.
> The biggest misconception engineers have when thinking about moving into management is they think it’s a promotion.

> Management is not a promotion. It is a career change.

http://fractio.nl/2014/09/19/not-a-promotion-a-career-change...
And how does this notion of corruption compare to systems such as lobbying?

> son of your uncle's friend

And for the point of discussion how is this any different from the privileged power structures?
I actually agree with your breakdown. But, as a "data engineer" with a math background who's spent 5 years building analytics tools, I already identify as your type-2. We're working in a field that already has a rich history of established statistics that needs to be interpreted and broken down, so I think we're looking for someone who's a type-1.

I do, however, think anyone with some lick of statistics background should know the formula for a standard deviation. Considering how fundamental the idea of variance is in statistics.
Are code challenges a lazy or legitimate method for hiring developers?
There's work to address that. Look into proof-carrying code and "fully-abstract compilation." There's also been proofs done for hardware and assembly against specs in ACL2 and Abstract, State Machines.
If you have to ask, you probably shouldn't. It's for people who buy a phone for its low price, who don't care what the OS is.
It’s very early days, and it’s hard work, but it’s rewarding, and real, and people here talk to each other and help each other, even if you’re the mad gringo who can barely mumble his way through a conversation in Spanish.

I also wouldn’t call myself a farmer - rather a smallholder experimenting with permaculture. Cost of living here is low if you buy food from local markets, etc., so I’ve a few years to make it work before I end up totally broke.
Maybe have the government provide funding for parties and thus making them independent on other sources of money?
Compulsory voting would be a good first step.

Voluntary voting makes political parties desperate for money because they need to spend big to get out the vote. If you make political parties desperate for money you make them vulnerable to interest groups with deep pockets and that compromises their politics.
How poverty changes your mindset
> I know many people will say that they can get a dictionary for free, why use the OED. The problem is that those who know better are not standing up to assert why it is superior, necessary, and incredibly valuable to the world.

There are a couple of problems with this.

First, the OED is primarily a work of historical scholarship. Anyone in the market for a dictionary so that they can look up the meanings of words would be better off getting something else, like Merriam-Webster or really anything. The OED is not a good choice for this purpose.

Second, a story: I spent a semester studying Chinese in a foreign student program at a Chinese school. Like everybody else, I used Pleco for my dictionary needs.

My friends in the class quickly noticed that I was getting much better dictionary value from my installation of Pleco than they were getting from theirs. When one of them asked how I was doing it, I responded "I bought for-pay dictionaries" and they immediately lost interest.

There was no need for me to assert that the dictionaries I was using were superior and valuable -- my friends had already come to that conclusion themselves by watching me. They just weren't willing to pay $20 for that additional value.
It's not a hard weed-out for us. But, if you talk through variance for 10 minutes, you get pretty close to the formula for standard deviation.

Also, for our role, we're specifically hiring someone with extensive stats background since a large part of the role is learning domain-specific statistics of the industry we're targeting and figuring out how we can adopt those models with our data.
Llamatron “read me” file
I agree with you in the general sense, but the employers (whoever they are) are simply wrong by any reasonable standard of language to equate critical thinking with original thinking.

For example, the skill of top lawyers is inseparably wed to critical thinking. They need to parse arguments and pore over monotonous tomes of legislation, regulatory paperwork, contracts, and case law to find areas of weakness or inconsistency to exploit/tighten up. They do this through slow, methodical analysis, consultation with other experts, and then have to distill and apply the essence of these points into language defendable against industry peers who are working for the other side. This work requires deeply critical thinking, but has nothing to do with "new, original thought".
Yeah, I didn't mean to elevate the action in that way - I struggled in finding the words to convey the amount of work put into the task but at the same time explaining the stupidity surrounding it. Looking back I think technically impressive while highly antisocial and pathological would have made better descriptions.
...or there are just many different ways to solve for the massive variety of problems, and developers with a huge variety of backgrounds, and Google is trying to help them all?
p.s. I am a Googler
>The main problem I have with ltrace is that even though there’s a -p option (“Attach to the process with the process ID pid and begin tracing”), I don’t think I’ve ever been able to get that option to work. When I run sudo ltrace -p SOME_PID, nothing happens, even though I’m pretty sure the process I’m tracing is calling library functions.

>I don’t fully understand why ltrace can’t attach to processes, but that’s not what this post is about.

I use ltrace to attach to specific PIDs all the time, across a variety of linux distributions and versions. Unsure what is going wrong here when Julia attempts to do it.
This is very annoying, I honestly thought China would continue to present a very real challenge to American hegemony and keep it in check
This is an idea that sounds sensible on its surface, but it relies on the theory that it's the politicians that are the problem. It ignores how politics really works, which is that politicians mainly take the positions of the key coalitions to which they owe their power.

This is not a simple concept. Here's an example of how this system breaks down. For instance, in the United States, the Black population has a big problem because the Republicans actively attack their community which means they stick to the Democrats reliably. However, because they can't switch their votes, the Democrats ignore them. Notice that this explains the predicament of the Black community without reference to individual political personalities.

On the other side of the coin, the NRA manages to control the fealty of Republican politicians because it has major influence over voters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/24/us/politics/nra-gun-contr...

The politicians line up even in the face of screaming children whose friends have been murdered. That's a tough job. That must mean there are substantial incentives for them to do so.

In summary, if you rotate the politicians in the manner you suggested, you actually give the corrupting elements more power rather than less.

EDIT: I would be negligent to say that the Democrats merely ignore the black community. e.g. Hilary Clinton's "superpredator" comments in the 1990's that backed the crime bill that vastly inflated the prison population.
It's like claming that open-space offices are superior because you see them everywhere.
My mistake! I misread your second to last sentence.
This is what I was hinting of when I mentioned subcultures: https://www.gwern.net/The-Melancholy-of-Subculture-Society

The summary is that everyone needs to be a winner, and we can be as long as we all play a different game.
Checkout https://github.com/BleepLabs/Nebulophone

It's not to hard to build and not a bad place to start.
The code could be better, some variables are poorly named and has some minor bugs (off-by-one on the wave table lookup?). I did start to clean it up but never got to submitting a pull request before moving onto other projects.
"The Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. F.E.C. completely changed the landscape of American elections. It further established the legal basis for the idea that “corporations are people” and opened the door for billionaires and special interests to spend unlimited, untraceable money in America’s elections."

http://endcitizensunited.org

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
It is an interesting thought. How would the tax be implemented?

The automated dishwasher in my kitchen relieves human dishwashing services to the tune of an hour or two per week. Minimum wage where I live is $14/hr. That is, on the low end, a little over $700 per year. Would I be on the hook for the $700 each year, minus the current operating costs of the dishwasher, in order to have it operational in my home?

And should the taxed value be a straight up calculation like that? Humans are quirky and unreliable, and I may not be comfortable with having a stranger in my house to clean up after me. As such, I may be willing to pay quite a bit more to have the reliable and comfortable automation over hiring a human. Would the tax need to account for that disparity to allow humans to still have a competitive edge?
Apple didn't start out with a curated store, they started out with "open" HTML5 apps that couldn't do shit.

Today, Apple barely can do quality control on the iOS store, Google essentially doesn't bother, why should a small shop deal with the issue right off the bat?
The Sony Xperia Compact line of phones may be a good fit for you.

https://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/products/phones/xperia-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQjX90edFxs
Your Brain? I know it deteriorates if not used frequently and especially if you can rely on look up tables, but really, there is no replacement. Only supplements. Collections of cards in shoe cartons are used by libraries.

What else do you need? A hypergraph of word-vertexes and relation-edges animated in webgl, layered by categories and streamed from an elastic back end? That's your brain.
Seems like if you truly care about hiding the redacted information, the only choice is to manually retype the document with the redacted text replaces with something that has no information content, like the literal text “REDACTED.”

Why don’t they do this?
> And how is this any different from reading a 'transcript' of the last interaction a patient had with a Doctor

watching body language, pauses, etc vs just reading can give different information. and multiple people reviewing that over a spell will yield different/new/conflicting insights. but it's different than reading a transcript.
>But the cool part is that you can also track when someone views your ad, and then a bit later types in your web address to make the purchase without ever clicking the link.

>In other words you can track both people who click through an ad directly, or who see your ad and then visit your site a bit later

How does this work?
> Though they aren’t strictly ciphers, Hulme does have a lot time for “concealing text”. He finds that letters written with the juice of oranges and onions “or almost any sharp things” can be made to appear by the warmth of a fire.

Strictly/archaically, they too are ciphers - a message that appears to be nothing ...

"""
Cipher: [...]
2. dated
a zero; a figure 0.
synonyms:	zero, nought, nil, 0; archaic naught
"a row of ciphers"
"""

The modern cipher is obviously there, linking the communicants, and the old sense of hidden communication has been pushed off to steganography.