skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GDPR only requires erasure of personal data on request, where "personal data" is defined as information relating to some identified or identifiable person. Machine learning models trained on personal data aren't going to be personal data themselves.
Makes me wonder if the anatomical features humans consider "cute" actually have a root in being real predictors of timidity.
With all the funding into AI meaning we have way more human capital involved and with real tangible AI benefits being demonstrated, it is unlikely AI winter will arrive anytime soon, I say revisit again in 5 years
> So if amazon has higher margins than Walmart because of the business model then walmart is disproportionately hit by the tax.

Still not how that works.

Suppose a knickknack costs $1 at Walmart. They pay their supplier $.50, $.47 is the cost of operating the store (rent, utilities, staff, etc.) and $.03 is profit.

Amazon sells the same knickknack for the same $1 and buys it for the same $.50 but the cost of operating their store is only $.10 so they make $.40 profit.

Now the government says they must both pay $.20. Suppose both the manufacturer and the customer are completely inelastic. They won't change their prices at all. Which store is at a disadvantage? You still don't know.

It could be that Amazon needs higher returns to generate investment because online stores are higher risk. They have more competition and lower barriers to entry, their assets are heavily skewed toward goodwill and branding which are more susceptible to damage by scandal than e.g. real estate holdings, etc. It could be that if you cut their profits in half like that, they get no investors.

Meanwhile Walmart has to come up with the $.20 out of their store operating costs, but those costs are an opportunity to cut something that Amazon doesn't have. They could improve the energy efficiency of their stores. They could lay off some greeters. They could renegotiate the lease on their stores against the fact that all other retailers will have to pay the same new tax, which reduces the market value of commercial rental property.

There is no guarantee that Amazon is the one that comes out ahead.
It's not the m:f ratio that matters, it's the number/fraction of males that are lacking in stable economic prospects.
It was very easy for me to take this personally, and become indignant. "What, a CANADIAN took money to actively sow discord, who helped maximize the impact of spreading lies to ruin the harmony between people and nations, for the benefit of his very wealthy, dare I say evil, overlords???"

Complete antithesis to what I deem as "appropriate use of information technology."

But the flip side is now he is indignant, brooding, guilty. At least he knows he did the wrong thing. But it would take a lot of effort to undo that. Maybe Brexit can't be undone. Maybe Trump changing the laws to promote rampant racism, can't be undone.

Let this be a lesson to the next generation of technically inclined persons: you can fool everyone, maybe even yourself, but is Brexit or Trump worth the paltry crumbs that the overlords left you so they could rake in billions? Or more simply, "are you a tool?"

There are better ways to use your ability, and countless ways to make a living. Be mindful of what you do in earning your keep.
I noticed you left out Apple - the same company that handed over control of their cloud servers to a Chinese state run company.
His pay is salary of $1.96 million, and a $2.6 million bonus. The rest is in equity of various packaging.

Look, this is pretty much clickbait/outrage-oriented reporting. Sure it sounds ridiculous to most of us but the CEO salary is a drop in the bucket on Pfizer's P&L and it is not the reason that drug prices are high/increasing.
Social Searcher Released Mobile App for Free Social Search and Monitoring
2-way personalized search. You search Google and Google searches you.
If you are including the wiring of the UI into the application in that time I'm impressed, however you still will need to do another 3 major platforms.

And you'll need to have a designer look them over or design them in the first place for each platform, and write documentation for each platform, and test each platform, etc...

In many cases I won't argue that a native app won't be better for the user in many ways, but you can't argue that it's faster to re-create, document, and test your UI 5 different times.
That "most common job" was debunked. It's an artifact of where you draw arbitrary taxonomy lines.
Judging by the links from Workplace.SE that show up in the Hot Network Questions list, the place seems to be full of handwringers. How are the posts you mentioned actively harmful?
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i believe those numbers are meant to have an ‘m’ instead of a ‘k’? lagos alone has over 20m.

the US had a population of ~76m in 1900, and severely restricted immigration for much of the 20th c
I got my BSCS from this school, and landed a great gig within a month of graduation. As a "re-entry" student on a tight budget (30 year-old working food service), I met many others who were similarly driven to build the skillsets and relationships to launch their careers as efficiently as possible.

Anecdotally, I will say these factors likely boost the effectiveness of this particular campus:

1. Smart, capable students have the "inferiority complex" of being surrounded by CalTech, USC, UCLA. They know they need to push harder to have equal footing when stepping into the industry.

2. Several of the industries represented in Los Angeles are more interested in loyal, hard-working candidates than prestigious/elite geniuses. I have talked with many representatives from companies partnering with CSULA on student projects who have expressed this.

3. Students I met were generally more interested in launching their careers than in pursuing the quintessential "college life", e.g. parties, campus societies

4. Specifically for STEM students: the Los Angeles tech scene has deep roots with the aerospace industry, as well as a lot of companies doing real tech work without the flair of typical SV/NYC companies. I had instructors who work (or have worked) at NASA JPL, AT&T, Boeing, Western Digital, and in medical research at USC/UCLA.
How do I know where my mailbox is located??
If the consequences of letting people off the plane are dire, the airlines will work harder to ensure the situation doesn’t occur in the first place. There is no good reason for passengers to be forced to sit on a grounded plane for hours. If no gates are available, use stairs.
The log is we multiplied an 80x25x3 matrix of your planet's photograph by 30 40x40 matrices of other numbers and then fed it through a neural net which consisted of adding and multiplying a few hundred other numbers and we got this number, which when run through a tanh function, classified your planet as uninhabitable space garbage. That's why the Vogon constructor fleet arrived and cleared it to make room for an intergalactic highway.
There are various database agnostic schema migration tools that can help. There are rails, django and laravel migrations or alembic if you use python/sqlalchemy. There also pure sql based migration systems such as flyway. There is a great pluralsight course on proper way to do migrations using flyway. Most of it applies to migrations with any migration tool. You might be able to check it out with the free trial. But basically you want to do all your add columns and add tables before deploying a new version of code. Just to make sure the old version still runs. Then after deploying the new version of code. at some point you can delete the unused columns and tables. I also like to have one database object per migration file. That way the cost of each migration is smaller and if the migration fails you don't have to fix a partial migration since each migration operation is atomic.
>"disrupting the gate schedule and inconveniencing perhaps thousands of other passengers to allow one person to disembark? Sounds unreasonable to me."

I'm sorry where did you get the idea that this has anything to do with allowing "one person to disembark."

The Tarmac Delay Rule referenced in the article and referenced in the OPs comment prevents airline's from keeping passengers on the tarmac for greater than 3 hours[1].

It seems pretty reasonable to let people back into the airport after 3 hours of sitting in a cramped seat on the tarmac.

[1] https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/new-dot-consume...
It is, but proxying at the higher-level protocol lets you proxy more intelligently.

For example, how does a TCP proxy perform round-robin load balancing on a per-RPC basis? If it's a gRPC proxy then that capability becomes possible.
> I do think that developers who have previously only worked with web tech have a distorted idea about native platforms though.

There’s an irony that people who will drop whatever they’re doing to learn this week’s hot crazy brain-bending quasi-DSL JavaScript framework think that learning Swift is too hard and don’t want to have to learn something new.
Downside is greedy and ignorant investors adding debt and going bankrupt based on unforeseen market movements.
And when resources are depleted? That's the bomb.
I imagine in those cases the government can and will force any airplane in American soil or airspace to act like this, whether they are owned by an American or foreign corporation.
My hunch is that the impetus was largely because of this kind of conversation.
Well, they did get a warrant. The 3rd party doctrine would say that you don't need a warrant at all.

There's actually a court case at SCOTUS that may more closely define what is and isn't covered by the 3rd party doctrine when it comes to phones.

http://www.scotusblog.com/2017/08/symposium-will-fourth-amen...
It sure would be fun if Google, Facebook, Twitter collectively shut off EU users on the day this tax went into effect.
I thought it was not possible to sign away fundamental human rights like this.
Wow this is fascinating. I didn't realize changes in the adrenal glands could so rapidly and dramatically alter a species. What evolutionary pressure to domestic themselves would these animals have if they werent coming into contact with people regularly?
One thing I can do in almost every Windows application is press Alt, or Alt+F, and use the arrow keys to navigate the menus. This has been broken forever in Electron's menu. It's my biggest complaint, even above RAM usage now that I have enough RAM. I guess the Electron devs can take that as a compliment if they want to, but it still gives me a "damn you Electron" moment every few days.

I think it's the sum of those little inconsistencies that bug people about cross-platform apps. On the other hand, people now spend so much time in the browser that a browser-based desktop application can probably feel more natural than a native UI if done right.
Well, I mean, what counts as exploitation? If I learn a lot about what shoes people like in my job as a shoe salesman, and I use that experience when new people come in to make recommendations, I think everyone would call that just good customer service. But when Amazon sets up an ML model to do the same thing, many people argue they're exploiting your personal data for the sake of profit.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of a widespread web-based ML application that some people don't consider exploitative. But is that a property of the ML or the people?
Lease backed bonds don't scale. He can't tap to lease again and again.

Tesla is burning $4.2 billion per year now.
But Matrix, Matrix!

Everybody should be using Matrix.
Deploying .zip files is one of my favorite features of Lambda, particularly when writing Go apps.

Docker always felt wrong with Go to me.

Why do I need a local VM, a Linux build service, an image registry and servers with container orchestration to deploy Go software? I understand how all this helps with "legacy" Rails or Java apps, but why can't I just throw a Go binary somewhere to run it?

Lambda is exactly this. I upload a cross-compiled .zip to S3 and everything else is taken care of. This was a big breakthrough for me, seeing a much simpler solution for deploys than all the container stuff.

I've been building a boilerplate app that demonstrates just how little "stuff" is needed to run a Go service on Lambda:

https://github.com/nzoschke/gofaas

More thoughts about how .zip files make our lives easier is here: https://github.com/nzoschke/gofaas/blob/master/docs/dev-pack...
I think you're being downvoted for having an unpopular opinion, which seems unfair. You're on-topic and cogent.

Anyway, you might be interested in Carpenter v United States, which is testing the third-party doctrine in front of the Supreme Court and will be decided soon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States
The article is from February.
Would there be an article talking about Pfizer raising drug prices if they increased the hourly salary of every employee by $0.06? I seriously doubt it, but that amounts to the same $10.3 million [1]. The amount is insignificant when compared to the revenue of the company. The real story is how a certainly class of people managed to convince all the relevant parties that their work is a hundred times more valuable to the company than that of everyone else.

[1] 96,500 employees, 240 working days per year, 8 working hours per day
There is merit to chelation therapy as a means of eliminating mercury (and other heavy metals including lead) stored in the body, but many protocols, both alternative and conventional, don't consider the full complexities involved and can be more harmful than beneficial.

There are a number of relevant factors including length of exposures (acute or chronic poisoning) and form of metal (organic, inorganic, metallic - for mercury at least).

By far the best source I found on the topic is Andrew Cutler, a chemistry PhD from Princeton who was mercury poisoned himself and created an effective and safe protocol for removal. He has a strong background in kinetics, pharmacokinetics, and biochemistry in general, and recognized that the standard toxicological protocols for heavy metal treatment were very dangerous (e.g. infrequent high dose IV administrations of DMPS/DMSA) , especially for cases of chronic poisoning.

According to Cutler, protocols such as the one you linked are very dangerous as they don't administer the chelating agent according to its metabolic half-life in the body (the half-lives of the chelating agents in cilantro and chlorella are unknown). As a result blood levels of the chelating agent and the metals fluctuate greatly. This can mobilize previously sequestered metals, but not provide the body enough time to properly eliminate them, which results in "re-poisoning" events. And when a large amount fat-loving free metals are released by the chelating agents within a short period of time, they often enter the central nervous system, settle there and exacerbate neurological symptoms.

I have no background in chemistry, so that's my summary of what I've read. But I highly recommend his book [1] which focuses mostly on mercury, but he covers lead as well. There are a few interviews with him around the web as well [2]. Also happy to provide more info and sources as I have two of his books and they both cite a wide array of sources.

[1] http://www.noamalgam.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8AQGrh0XMw&t=34s
Well, unless they can be used to identify the person.
The point of interpretability in ML is that the "reasons" that model arrived at a decision/classification/etc are incomprehensible (and, given e.g. the existence of adversarial examples in image classification, this should be expected -- no reasonable answer exists for "why" the model thought this static was a cat).
Similarly, I’d put Nagel’s “What It’s like to be a Bat” as required reading in that group as well.
Yeah that's why I said it's personal. I feel the design of the car is extremely forward looking and was primarily driven by good taste not cost constraints. I hate to keep making the comparisons but it reminds me of Apple ripping out all but essential components -- easy to see through the lens of costs in the short term but in the long term provides freedom to take the design further in the next iteration. The 3 represents a foundational design that transitions elegantly to autonomous control (imho) and will provide the vantage point Tesla needs to design their first from-the-ground up autocar.
>Tesla is burning $4.2 billion per year now.

Where is this number is coming from? Their 2017 loss was around 2 billions, half of what you say.
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material is a word

Quantum theory has little to do with how neurons behave - they work at different levels. Current evidence would suggest it doesn't play any role other than tiny random fluctuations in computations, just like in any other micro-system.
Population remains limited by resources. How could it not be? We've been adept over the years at finding new resources or extending old ones (the expansion of ranching and farming in the Americas in the 19th century, which greatly increased the global food supply, or the invention of artificial fertilizer, for instance), but it is a bit of hubris to say that this is a solved problem for all time.
It sounds like they're suggesting that, assuming those rights exist in these situations (they claim there's ambiguity there), that there are big questions around what qualifies as an acceptable explanation.

Did I misunderstand?
Most electrical cords have it in them as well. Believe stuff from IKEA doesn't though as it meets EU standards.
A merely "massively unethical" secret targeted psyops and propaganda campaign involving a foreign power should still be a cause for concern. Especially if it turns out it worked.
As it happens, the "chain of prototype" implementation definitely ensures that method handlers "bubble up," for example the .close method bubbles up.
The problem here is that you mostly have a streaming interface In s3.
How do you know it is unlikely? Currently, it is a fact.

Let's assume there was a state were any universe was equally possible. When was that state? Does it make sense to describe states before the big bang, the beginning of time as we know it?

Even if it does make sense and our universe is very unlikely. It still can be pure luck (what I was trying to say with the parents example). The existence of our universe is no hint of its likelihood.
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It's definitely a shorthand since a typical solution for collision detection is a space partitioning recursive data structure which reduces collision tests to O(n log n)
"After successive invasions..."

You draw this clear line between invasions and population growth for India... but India doesn't look a whole lot different than others (considering it started off with a higher base than other countries also):
http://visualeconsite.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/po...

It was the 2nd largest by population even in 1000 CE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_populatio...

India, like every other country, was affected by vaccines and other developments that reduced the death rate and caused population to explode.
like a fair few other people, particularly on HN, my process is:

1. Pick an extremely good, very long master password.

2. Make my password manager generate maximum-allowed-length random line noise for every site I have an account on.

3. Never know or care what these passwords are.

4. For edge cases like workstation logins and "forgotten password hints", use diceware to generate easily typed nonsense phrases.
Check also a more visual approach to Cloud Backend including an sql cloud database and an API builder : https://cloudbackend.appdrag.com

Disclosure: I'm founder
Wait, do you think culture doesn't describe any objective reality in life? That there aren't any cultural behavioral norms?

I'm trying to figure out what your comment means.
If you have to be able to review any decision manually that people complain about, that is significantly limiting. It means you can only write software to do things humans can do.

I don't think it's alarmist to worry about the GDPR. It's an extremely far-reaching law covering types of technology that are changing very rapidly. Our default reaction should be skepticism, because the default outcome of that combination is disaster.
Sure. How about the basic e-commerce use case of "based on your interest in product X, you may also be interested in product Y"?
Check out the Serverless Application Model (SAM): https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-application-model

All of the manual configuration of API gateway vanishes because it builds up an implicit API gateway from your functions and event mapping config.

You can see a boilerplate SAM config here: https://github.com/nzoschke/gofaas/blob/master/template.yml

I'm hacking on CORS today and with SAM it's 2 lines of config to add the allowed origins and methods.
Sensanionalist article. So Tesla makes sure to manually fix flaws in the parts of cars that are manufactured before using them. Sounds like every manufacturing line ever.

Is it an efficient manufacturing process? Probably not but I don't see how the end costumer should care about this. The problems in the manufacturing line are already well known and commented by Elon Musk. This is a company that have been mass producing cars for only 5 years, it's normal that they are still catching up with the process.
Here's a great old Kevin Hale article that has been posted over the years but never got discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=62829.

I invited Kevin to repost it. If he does, we'll merge this discussion there.

Edit: comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16613903.
Yeah, my bull case is similar.

People forget just how bad the Model X launch was. It was a complete disaster. They had I think literally three of them ready for launch and then total silence for weeks. Then took months to get any sort of small run volume off the ground.

And because people have totally forgotten about that, people will probably totally forget about just how (comparatively mildly!) bad the Model 3 launch is going. It will stutter for a year, and in three years everyone will want one.

I lived through my dad owning 4 Jaguars, totally inexplicably. One of them he carried around a box of brake fluid because he had to add a little each day. If a car is that special to you, you just mentally set aside production issues. Electric cars are even more special.

Enzo Ferrari probably never said the apocryphal quote: "I don't care if the door gaps are straight. When the driver steps on the gas I want him to shit his pants." But for a big demographic its essentially true.

So Tesla will make it out of this year, and then everyone will forget that the Model 3 ever had problems in the first place, just like with the X.
Nature abhors a true exponential nearly as much as it abhors a vacuum.

All the world's a sigmoid.
Perhaps. From the article "Last week, a massive new study concluded that lead is 10 times more dangerous than thought, and that past exposure now hastens one in every five US deaths."
Similar to the increase in road deaths after 9/11 in the US because people were reluctant to fly.
America isn't an empire, and is hardly collapsing under its own weight. It's actually doing incredibly well, aside from some annoying partisan bickering.