skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook (and most social media) have a fatal flaw - they have not built products that people are willing to pay for. So they grow to the point where they need resources to keep running, and have to monetize in unfriendly ways. Open source or not, to successfully scale, there must be a funding model that isn't evil. Whether that is fees, donations, or something else... it has to be there.

I do agree that now is a good time to start something. I've got my design put together to stay simple, lean, and keeps costs down while still handling the basic needs people go to social media for. I'm sure most of us could whip out their own flavors of that. And many of us could code it, too. Which is the reason that I am hesitant to start building -- too many competing projects will steal each other's thunder.
Well, not quite drama free.. their security failed resulting in 60+ million customer login details being let into the wild.
Being able to generate random data in the right shape for arbitrary ML workloads would be a pretty impressive technical achievement.
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I would think that employers would be happy if they didn't need to manage 401K plans. It would be one less thing for them to do if employees just signed up for automatic IRA deductions with payroll and provided IRA account numbers in case of employer matching.
ironically Uber currently has a business in this exact area

"Returning to the files, I soon found the puzzle piece. It was in a document Otto had submitted in support of its application to operate the state’s first Autonomous Technology Certification Facility (ATCF). This is an independent organization that will assess all autonomous vehicles that want to operate (rather than just test) in Nevada, checking that they comply with the state’s safety requirements and traffic laws. The application was a success, and construction of the facility is now underway in a suburb of Las Vegas. (Yes, you read that right — Uber will soon be assessing other companies’ compliance with safety rules.)"

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/how-my-public-records-request-...
Such is the nature of free-market economies: companies will go to great lengths, even wasting billions of dollars and thousands of man-days, for the sake of "competition".
This uses LXC Containers. I've always heard that containers are not a replacement for a good security model. What's the risk that someone could use Vectordash to attack the host computer?
> No individual worker is going to negotiate with a company on equal footing.

Equal footing how? If the "worker" and the company could be on truly equal footing, then there would be no point in having companies at all. The whole point of a company is for the company to have more resources than any one person is entitled to or capable of retaining. If you mean equal footing relative other employees, why would they have equal footing if every employee is inherently different from the next?
there is no way to "highly isolate" a VM from a host.
I totally believe "the UI sucks argument" as well. I can't tell you how many times I've accidentally liked something on Instagram because of the stupid double tap a photo = like, not zoom feature.

Instagram is a piece of software millions of people use every day. I've designed software that 5 - 100 people use a day, and I can tell you the UI is going to suck if you have a data architect design the UI for your CRUD application. I'm sure the UI sucked on Mariott's app, I'd bet my life savings on it.
Err not seeing the point Mr Buffet owns companies or controlling interests "he" doesn't employ these people.
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You're not the only one - for years Spotify ONLY let you sign in with Facebook. And you aren't allowed to unlink them either. I had to just start a new Spotify account and Los everything.
Nobody can force you to join a union. The scenario you describe only applies if Itch or Steam agree to only take game submissions from union members, which would just prompt non-union alternatives.
But there is (though I think they don't use it): TPM based host attestation.
This sort of effort has existed for a long time, e.g. SETI@home and the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (although they don't tend to pay people). They've faced many of these same problems, and presumably devised minimum overhead solutions.
In light of Mr. Jones' history and considering what he accomplished during his 18 months employment at Marriott, he may be on a more ambitious path than some of those more advantageously situated.

I wish him well, and I hope someone who wants a good employee notices his availability.
Theoretically possible via SGX.
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I think 1 reviewer works better in general, but multiple reviewers could be made to work if the reviews and the reviewers were separate and unaware of the other?
Thanks for the post!

I just deleted my FB account, and I am a little less of a product (today).
It was Cloud Foundry, Spring, RabbitMQ and at the time they were sponsoring Antirez (Redis).
This. Cancer death rates != Cancer occurrence rates
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Human drivers don't get to cite their test passes when their driving fails either. The point isn't that [overoptimisation to pass] tests should be the be only thing on which they are judged, the point is that if autonomous driving system developers want the special privilege of not being held as strictly liable as humans for erratic driving resulting from decisions they made, they really ought to expect more stringent testing regimes.
My understanding is that the bigger issue is that Tibet is bordered on the West by a geographical barrier in the Himalayas, whereas the Eastern border with China is relatively unprotected. Given the tensions between India and China, it makes sense that China would want to exert influence over the geographical region of Tibet.
My point of view isn't to demonize those who have gone into prostitution now, in the past, or in the future, but recognize that it's not a choice that pretty much any of us would make for ourselves, nor the ones we care about.

There is a thin line between saying that very few people would make a choice, and very few people should make a choice. You are correctly asserting that you said "would" not "should", but others are correctly pushing back and saying that it is a common rhetorical technique to say one when actually meaning the other. If you meant what you said in a non-normative manner, you may need to emphasize this fact to prevent the more common reading.

Separately, I'm sure some people question whether you are correct that few would choose this lifestyle, and if so, why this would be. Personally, I think you are right that few would choose to work as prostitutes but that the reason is the societal stigma associated with sex work. I don't know how popular the choice would be if the stigma would be removed and the pay remained high. You seem to be asserting that it would remain extremely unpopular, but I'm not sure that's correct.
I don't follow the logic; the tyrants didn't kill the majority of the population. He didn't start a one-man war with them, that's not proof of support.
> How did Pivotal get involved? Were they hired by VMWare, and then they took it over?

Pivotal Labs got bought by EMC in 2012, who also owned VMWare. A year or so later EMC spun out Pivotal Labs combined with VMWare and some other companies(Green Plum) in a new company under the Pivotal name.
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Jira is very configurable, so awful Jira experiences are often due to local choices of fields, workflow, etc.
Your condescension and privilege is almost unbelievable. Not everyone can become a hotshot software developer making $200,000/year.

Please think about how many people out there struggle to keep a roof over their head and food on the table.
> You can sync the app to other social networks you might use, like Twitter and LinkedIn

LinkedIn is in my experience is as bad as FB. I really can't take anyone seriously that is recommending syncing with it. It uploaded my friends contacts which I did not want.
The need is implied by the conflicts of interest inherent in the investments portfolios of the founders of the PNAC. They "needed" it as much as a war profiteer needs war to make profits.
i wonder if they never publicized other studies they ran that didn’t show the effect, or actually showed the opposite effect.
Let me see if I can get the cronology right:

* EMC bought VMWare
* EMC bought Pivotal
* EMC moved all the enterprisey software to Pivotal (including CF & Spring)
* Dell bought EMC
* Dell/EMC spun off Pivotal

I arrived shortly after CF moved to Pivotal, so much of this is lore: VMWare had been working on CF for years; they started a 2.0 rewrite which went out of control (with a huge expensive team of primadonnas); EMC basically pulled the plug and gave the software to Pivotal, who built a new team more-or-less from scratch (the only remnants of the original team were ops people). When I was there we were still doing a lot of "forensic programming" or as they say at Pivotal, building context.

When I say "pretty much everything has been rewritten" I mean it has evolved like that; they didn't sit down to rewrite CloudFoundry (Pivotal does not do rewrites as a cultural axiom). I mean that piecemeal pretty much every bit of code has been altered in significant ways. A lot of the Ruby has been swapped out for Go for performance and maintainability reasons. It was pretty funny to watch a large body of die-hard Rubyists get excited about static types (come to the light!).

As a consultant I was really a fringe player; I'm sure there are people reading this who are/were much more involved and could tell the story better.

The thing I found most interesting is that this project should have failed. A HUGE incredibly complicated body of enterprise software with near-100% team turnover? I would have bet against it ever working. But all that pair programming and rotation and writing stories and backfilling tests etc just eventually ground the problem down. It was expensive as hell and it took years but it looks like a success story now. I don't know of any other big takeover project like this that worked. It's a huge credit to the people working on it, and yes - to the "Pivotal process" that seems to irk so many people in this thread.
Forming a union is no big deal, but if others don't have the right not to negotiate with or support that union by virtue of the type of work they're doing, it may as well be a government restriction on your right to pursue employment.
You have to explicitly grant location permissions for every app individually, plus the iPhone warns you if an app is using your location in the background, plus gives you the option to only give the app your location while it's open.
It's pretty much letting people with GPUs become a sort of 'mini-cloud provider'. There's no job queue or fancy distributing computing setup. We just let you SSH into a container on someone's computer, and pay for the time used.

I was doing a lot of fun deep learning projects on the side & would often Venmo my friend who was mining Ethereum to use his GPU to train my models. He made more and I paid less than AWS spot instances or Paperspace.

This is just a fun side project hoping to let people who want to train their deep learning models do it cheaply (on other people's computers!)
> it would be a far cry from what we expect from 'Star Trek'.

CBS is already playing successfully in the dark side of Star Trek. This would be a very attractive pitch if the success of Discovery extends further.

And I'll go as far as to say this is a story that must be told. The stories we tell form the language with which we see our present and future. If all we know are dystopias, well only have ideas to express dystopias and this will be our future.

If, however, we incorporate utopian narratives, we'll be able to express utopias too. We need that.
> My kneejerk is to believe fired man

I think that frames the issue incorrectly. The question is, whether he clicked it intentionally or not, he should not be fired for saying something the government of China dislikes (much less clicking like on what someone else said). China should not be extending censorship to Omaha.
Sounds great, but the research cited seems to have conflicting results on whether it's effective?
How about blame the driver behind the wheel who was hired to drive the car and was 100% responsible for everything that happened?

Funny how the pile on is targeted at Uber and the tech, when this is a test vehicle with a human driver who was hired to be responsible to monitor, respond, and override the computer at all times.

The human failed. Blame the computer. Makes sense.
> China forced Marriott to suspend all online booking for a week at its nearly 300 Chinese hotels. A Chinese leader also demanded the company publicly apologize and “seriously deal with the people responsible,” the Journal reported.

I look forward to the coming years where China continues to grow in influence and power, and the useful things they choose to do with them. /s

The last time I felt like I was seeing a use of government power this idiotic was when Congress decided to investigate cheating in the MLB (or NFL or whatever it was).
Which can be defeated with SgxSpectre: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09085
This is an atrocity. The image in the said tweet clearly shows a decently large group of people holding 'thanks Marriot' cards. It's easy to think why the employee liked it. And really how many people know about geopolitically sensitive areas like Tibet...
It is right in a transition period between 35mph and 45mph. The Mill ave bridge is 35mph and Mill ave is slow (25mph) because it is an urban area and by ASU and Tempe Town Lake with lots of pedestrians.

After the bridge it changes to 45mph so it could be the Uber was also in a 10mph speed up phase in the hundreds of feet from the bridge right where the pedestrian was.
I am definitely maybe suffering from JavaScript-related Stockholm syndrome
LXC unprivileged containers are actually pretty secure by design. The Canonical LXC page does a pretty great job of explaining why: https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/security/
nice, I cede all your points. Glad to learn from everyone and help my ignorance in the matter. Thanks all.
> However, you've concluded that because the author described a problem with capitalism but not the equivalent problem with communism, the author must be a marxist.

How? Why? Where?

I am merely saying that since the opposing ideology makes the same statement, the claim that it's a "myth of capitalism" makes no sense.

The moon landing can actually provide a great example. Take the "moon landing hoax" conspiracies. One of the first counter-claims is, if it were really a hoax, wouldn't the Soviets shout about it from the rooftops?

In our example, claiming that the American workers work more than Medieval serfs would be an excellent point for the Soviet propaganda. But since they didn't, and since in my school, the capitalism (otherwise hated) was taught as a step forward, the reduction of working hours clearly isn't a "capitalism's enduring myth".

My main issue, like I said many times by now, is why bring -isms to the study in the first place? Publish the figures, bring more sources from all over the world, make conclusions, THEN try to explain why it emerged. But no, that's not what the article says.

Seriously, does the word "Communism" work like a magic incantation that makes people ignore everything else?

>> we are asked to imagine

> not by a cabal, but by "The implicit -- but rarely articulated -- assumption".

Just read the article.
Yea but their workload is much harder to fudge and the solution they use to confirm primes is running the task twice . Training of models can be shortcutted or even maliciously tampered with.
That video is hardly representative, you don't need street lights to see people at night. Simple car headlights are plenty to see someone in time to stop at 45 MPH.

The 'driver' was not paying attention and the software failed. An attentive human driver acting alone would have easily stopped.
> Alice is at $90k (because she's a woman?)

Any evidence of this in practice?

> After unionizing, you'd get $110 and Alice would get $110.

Or maybe you'd both get $100, or maybe one of you would never be hired. You've got your hypotheticals, I've got mine.
Why not ? If I don't care about portability because for example I'm writing a software that it's meant to be used only on Linux because it uses Linux specific libraries or system calls and I know that there gcc it's the standard I use the extension if they can simplify my code ?
If your training data is sensitive, then Vectordash may not be the best GPU provider. But if you're a broke CS student like me who wants to participate in a few Kaggle competitions (after having burned up their AWS student credits in 3 days) without shelling out a bunch for a K80, then Vectordash might be pretty helpful!
Overwhelmingly excited for Dropbox IPO, it’s truly both inspiring and has huge utility.. phuck GoogleDrive and lolwut iCloud Drive. Dropbox also proved regardless of how small you may be, if you do it right in a way humans will like it., you can always stay ahead of the competition.. I meant Google Drive was a pretty rad competition but they didn’t even get the sync icon right .. too ugly for my taste.
I agree totaly with your comment. I also miss the point with airbnb and dont use it but I know a lot of people who do.
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What about Dropbox Paper?
I made a Chernoff Fish generator with D3 & React a while back: http://tmm-archive.github.io/chernoff-fish/

All the code is on GitHub: https://github.com/tmm-archive/chernoff-fish
Google^W Waymo's cars have "driven" millions of virtual miles.
Chernoff faces are pretty fun to play with too! A while back, I played with it[1], and they do seem useful. I wonder if more realistic faces lead to better utility as a at-a-glance data visualization tool?

[1]: https://gnarmis.github.io/chernoff-faces/ -- a simple toy
I hear you and I think the comparison was quantifying the time spent in labor more than anything else.
“It also appeared that the driver’s hands were not hovering above the steering wheel, which is what drivers are instructed to do so they can quickly retake control of the car. ”

Really? Who can sit for even 30 minutes with their arms out in front of them without getting sore?
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'cargo doc' generates documentation for dependencies (along with the main crate) by default.
> . People are free to sleep with whom they choose, but when it's done for money, it's far too easy for exploitation to occur. If we say it's always illegal, we remove the veneer of respectability that enables one person to exploit another "by agreement".

That logic makes pornography illegal.
> So why are John's friends using the living room so frequently yet without having any contact with him?

Good question. I rent out a house with 100% capacity, and I haven't set foot in the house in the past year at all. It's managed remotely by me. There are living areas where people can hang out. This is also what John does.

> you ask us to imagine that the friends haven't given any permission. Permission for what exactly?

I have edited that part out and made things more concise, thanks for catching that. John records his living room and uses the data in order to sell products to the people who happen to be there. Later, people found out and have politely asked him to delete any video and audio involving them.

Side note: I feel John's implementation isn't important here, so I've intentionally left it out. Perhaps he earns a profit by having buyers and sellers meet, serendipitously, in his living room. For example, he may learn that Alice is a laptop seller and Bob is a laptop buyer. Assume John can influence the traffic in his living room for the sake of the gedanken.
Region wide is not the same thing as all regions at once.
Remember that handful of friends who weren't on FB and so you hassled us to join for a while and then kind of lost touch? Many of us still have the same phone numbers.
If you were in China would you really find it insulting that Tibet is considered by some to be its own country? It was invaded, and I can’t really see any other way to characterise what happened.
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Thank you for saying this. I was so confused. Like why is this guy responsible for this? It was someone obviously higher up who added Tibet as its own country...
> Maybe we'd all have been better off on Google Plus.

Haha, probably not. G+ enforced a "real names" policy, then tried to merge accounts across search, YouTube, etc. It's the same Panopticon, though slightly less amoral.

If we want to solve this, we need to make it easier for non-tech people to decentralize their data. Distributed communication was solved long ago: email (private 1-1), mailing lists (private many-many), weblogs (public 1-many), Usenet (public many-many). All of this can be self-hosted, or hosted on a shared server for a few $/mo, i.e. less than 10% of your phone bill.

Since that will never happen, the least-bad way to do this is to silo your online activity among separate entities and identities.
To claim that unions "will solve nothing" is to deny the long and well-documented history of their success.

The end of collective bargaining is the end of the free market.

It's very easy to understand the negative realities of unions, but nobody starts a union for fun. It's risky business. Industries are classically given plenty of chances to adjust. Sometimes they even do. That's why it's called bargaining. Small businesses, products, brands, they all work on this same principle. Go complain to Consumer Reports!

You have explained why the game industry is able to take advantage of people, but nobody asked. It's well obvious. The question is whether you find the behavior acceptable. I cannot relate to punishing people for wanting a career in an $18.4 Billion industry. Maybe it is a privilege. Some would call it the American dream. Many colleges promote these degrees. Maybe that is where you should direct your anger, because the result of corporations exploiting labor is no mystery to history.
The real story is he has no employment rights because he's in America and he's "at will."

They can dismiss him because they don't like his lunch selection that day and he has no rights.

That's at will employment. This type of situation plays out all over the country everyday.
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Worthless if the GPU doesn't have something similar. Otherwise you can monitor the pci-e lanes for all the data the cpu is sending over to the gpu.
It's deliberate. The author lurked on 4chan as background research for the novel: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/intervie...

(See comments -- question 9, response by author 15)