skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the first problem is one where CS researchers would likely benefit from more contact with outsiders

Could you be more concrete about how you would like other fields to contribute?

> the second problem is one where social scientists could benefit from actually understanding how these systems work [...]

> The authors say they want "a consolidated, scalable, and scientific approach to the behavioral study of artificial intelligence agents in which social scientists and computer scientists can collaborate seamlessly". So, a new interdisciplinary category.

I don't really agree. You don't need to know how electricity works to study its societal effects, and the societal change from electricity-augmented manufacturing is a completely different problem to the health and safety regulation of indoor sockets.

The same is true for AI. You don't need to know what backpropagation is to work on the long-term ramifications of automated warfare, and that in turn is a largely irrelevant discussion for someone figuring out whether a company's hiring algorithms are racially biased. There is neither a clear need for top-down regulations to be grounded in the minutia of the systems, nor any obvious advantage of grouping these discussions under one umbrella.

There is a need for the disciplines already dealing with these problems to pick up more specialised knowledge as the systems get more common, but that is a far cry from what seems to be argued in the article.
Long-term investors do that, ignoring not only various Important Pronouncements, but also the market's many short-term diaper-crappings in reaction to same.
Until FB faces real penalties or suddenly every company starts doing security correctly, there isn't a shift. Just congressional testimonies and FB trying to save itself, which is basically how every other breach usually goes. It's how Equifax went and before FB, that was the breach to do something about because of their position within the banking sector.
You hope...
Feynman also advocated for not brushing your teeth. He wasn't really any kind of health expert.

And even if he reasoned UV light wouldn't hurt him, he still had to duck to avoid the exposure. So if there's anything to take away from his story it's that he didn't know what he was talking about.
The ones that have a business model your grandad would understand. His heuristic is somewhat naive, but he's made a lot of money by betting against the paradigm shifts and capitalistic innovations.

He's basically applying systems theories to companies, and knows that the more complex a system is, the more possible failure states it has.
AAA “required by law” to send junk mail to members
You think a parasite like Trump couldn't eat the entire cake and ruin the birthday party at the same time?
Underwater melting of Antarctic ice far greater than thought, study finds
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Market at all time high relative to 5-10 year average it is way above average. This is a psychological run market, models will often roll with punches. So people are in a hand on the trigger mode after suffering suffering close 10 percent losses. Any news and downs will trigger more downs, and ups will cause people to buy back due to losses and the models also play into these predicted effects.
No we don't. Humans use sound for a lot of context clues (like "oh there's a motorcycle in my blind spot") and use their sense of orientation to gauge how hard they're turning (among other things).

Hopefully self-driving cars use a lot more than just cameras, too.
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Right, yep, gotcha, thanks for clearing that up. Yeah, I’ve had teachers who used to have similar proclivities.
Off-device and on-device are alternatives to do deep learning inference on pi, both with pros and cons. For an example, with on-device inference, you will need to run a smaller architecture to get decent FPS and will also be dependent on hardware. Using cloud API removes those restrictions but there will be some latency in the web request however you can use much more accurate model and will be independent of pi hardware. Just trying to paint a complete picture. Any suggestions for blog post are welcome.
> With other asset classes, there's some real-world value backing the minimum price

90% of gold's price is investment/speculation, only 10% has real-world usage backing.

I'm not sure why you discount intangibles. A lot of Apple/Adidas value is based just on their perceived brand.

Bitcoin has the same thing, an intangible brand value which keeps on rising based on more people getting confortable with it.
Blockchains Are for Speculation, and That's a Good Thing
The most enjoyable and productive dev workstations I have used/setup have all used rolling release distro's for this exact reason.

It does have the overhead of requiring you actually understand (or know how to google) your system/packages that you use though.
> Sure, it sucks to be Pittsburgh...

Pittsburgh is a blueprint for the rest of the country in this regard. It sucked to be Pittsburgh in 1970-1990. Today, Pittsburgh is almost unrecognizable from the Steel City, at least in economic terms, and the county's unemployment rate is right around the national average.

> helping Pittsburgh, and almost no one else

The help to Pittsburgh would be pretty marginal; US Steel isn't even a top 5 employer in the region, and a lot of those jobs are suits that scale logarithmically with output. US Steel employs about the same number of people as Carnegie Mellon, which isn't even a particularly large university among R1 institutions.
If other companies could legally figure out how to license and build x86 chips, nVidia would already be there stamping them out. It's a legal minefield that's simply not worth exploring, even for Apple.
He didn’t run hundreds of businesses, he licensed his brand to oodles of failed business lines in a desperate attempt to make up for huge loses in real estate. He made a lot of bad decisions, ran a failed casino, got bailed out by his dad, the banks, and Russian oligarchs in that order. He cashed out an IPO and stuffed investors and creditors and contractors.

His negotiation skills are more like con-artist skills selling snake oil. Why should anyone on HN regard him as a great entrepreneur who built a great disruptive enterprise that caused many boats to rise on a ride? Shall we compare him with Bezos, Gate, Jobs, or Musk? There’s kind of a bizarre Trump worship that happens among SeekingApha financial types who seem to value pseudo-Alpha male bullying behavior and win at all costs salesmanship even if it screws other people over.

He is not an exemplar of a great businessman or negotiator and if anything his personal skills seem subpar and based purely on a dishonest sales tactics and bullying.

Ross Perot who also ran for the Reform Party Like Trump is a business man deserving of far greater respect based purely on what he had to do.

Moreover do you really think it is hard for a billionaire or pseudo billionaire to marry a former young model?

Honestly, if you can’t tell that Trump lacks serious character traits to be an effective executive I don’t know what to tell you because it seems patently obvious, from the temper tantrums and childish outbursts on Twitter, the excessive personel churn and desire for loyalty over competence, to the inability to focus, stay on message, and apparent severe attention deficit disorder.

Maybe people were hoodwinked in 2016 and really disliked Hillary, but at this point, all the cards and warts are on the table, and if you’re still carrying water from Trump there’s not really any other conclusion to make.
What does Linux give you that macOS doesn’t?

I use both a Mac and an Arch Linux running i3/awesomewm, and to me macOS is like any Linux distro with a user-friendly desktop environment.

I guess it doesn’t have an « official » package manager, but homebrew has most packages anyway?
> He just does whatever he can do. Sure, the courts smack him down sometimes, but the power of the Executive Order means he truly can hurt Amazon (to the detriment of greater America) if he really wanted to.

It's also worth pointing out that judicial remedies to Trump's wrongdoing are retroactive; they occur only after Trump has acted. In the meantime, before the courts get to act, real damage is done to actual people. It's a case of act now, ask questions later.
Digital Age is driving programmable flexibility, agility and interconnection
Nice. Can you ELI25 it?

I only skimmed it. I don't understand it now, but I guess that in a week I could get a good enough understanding if I skip the most difficult parts. So my possible wrong ELI25:

The vacuum can transform spontaneously in another type of vacuum (like liquid water transform into ice at low temperature). Lucky this is very improbable because otherwise we would be all dead, and the transition is due to quantum tunneling.

To estimate the probability of the transition it is necessary to calculate the contribution of the virtual particles in the loops in the Feynman diagrams. A naïve calculation has too many infinite values to be useful.

In this article they calculate the contribution of multiple virtual particles, in particular when the Feynman diagrams has many loops. They have a nice pattern and somehow they cancel (most?) of the infinite values.

With this new calculation they can estimate how long we should wait until this tunneling effect between the two vacuum destroy the universe and luckily it's a long time. (Perhaps other thing can kill all of us before :).)

For this calculation it is particular important the mass of the heavy particles.

(Linkbait title: "Scientists say that God's particle may open portal to universe doom at any moment". Sorry. I couldn't resist.)

As I said earlier, this short version may be wrong. Any corrections or missing important points are welcome.
Random, probably not true thought: large portions of their OS developers have been working on this rewrite, hence leading to the "increase" of bugs on macOS right now.
Certain actors don't view their films either, intentionally.
"A metric that becomes a target ceases to be a good metric." ;)
If anyone would like an elaboration of this metaphor, I highly recommend these slides from Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard: http://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm

One important takeaway here is that if you think the "worries over tech firms" and their data are bad now, just wait until there's a Three Mile Island or Chernobyl level incident with all their data, like millions of identifable browsing records or grindr logs being dumped on an onion site somewhere.
He basically brought down the economy

Oh c’mon.
I can concede Linux might be superior, but were you comparing apples to apples with OSX vs. Windows? Most Windows development seems to be on MS-based development stacks. A lot more of platform-independent development happens on OSX, I'd be willing to bet, and that iOS development on OSX would be commensurately productive as .NET development on a Windows machine.
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I'm probably not the only one that went in thinking this was going to be about Eve (the game). When I saw the spreadsheets and visualizations it only further confirmed this. It took me about half the page before I realized this was something else entirely I'd never heard of.
The sooner companies understand that data is a liability (hopefully with some "help" from governments - GDPR is a decent step in that direction) the sooner they will start implementing a "least data collection" principle and adopt end-to-end encryption for as many of their services as possible.
>"unauthorized" add-ons. Like ad blocking.

There are iOS ad blockers on the Apple App Store, and extensions for MacOS Safari. I'm not sure how much more authorized it can get than that unless you want Tim Cook to hold your hand through the process.
The wealthiest 20% of Americans have experienced the opposite of dilution over the past 40 years. Meanwhile the other 80% kept voting for policies that were actively working against spreading the income surplus more evenly.

When they finally woke up to what’s happening, the blame goes on Chinese and Africans — because anything else would be suspiciously close to an argument for socialism.
This is a bit more in-depth, but talking isn't enough :) There has to be an entropy difference between messages (e.g. delta of the Levenshtein Distance has to be > than some constant) and users posting (same user posting over and over doesn't count) or the channel will still lose HP.
Homebrew exists on Linux. I like running LTS distros because they just work. For newer per-project exceptions, I put everything into a container (again layered on LTS), it is esp nice for things like specific versions of LLVM which I wouldn't want to pollute my base machine with. My peronal userland gets shipped via, cargo, go, pip, npm, etc.

https://github.com/Linuxbrew/brew
Much of your response seems to orbit around the utility function, which is the devilishly tricky part from the start. Getting that part right is much more important than a specific level of intelligence.
He has to show that he can contribute something as a public servant. So far, I'm not seeing any evidence that he understands the concept.
Nobody is claiming that most of his voters are industrial midwestern working class. It is the net change from recent Republican candidates that point to those class of voters.

And it is most certainly this group that explains why he won. He won Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. You realize that hasn't happened in quite a while for a Republican right?
Requiring Amazon to pay some taxes in US is a bad thing?

We all know how the big tech companies pay basically zero tax by elaborate international tax reduction schemes.
I think at this point he's able to simply buy up a lot of companies, which is an option not available to normal people.
I’m missing the logic as well.

Linux > Windows > macOS?
I’m looking for a heuristic.

He’ll be staying in his “Circle or Competence”, great company, evaluating companies for their “margin of safety”?

He’s only looking at a handful of numbers to determine a good buy.

We really should try to learn from this market movement. Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger offer decades of knowledge and wisdom.
(a) it is first /inventor/ to file. You cannot patent stuff you (for various values of you) didn't invent.
(b) it is still subject to prior art disclosures.
Yeah, i don't understand this argument. Even all the devs i know working under linux are doing all their development under docker or VMs to match the live environment and being able to switch between different projects more easily. And even when you have only one project, who wants to run debian stable or centos as his main OS?
Ah, whelp. I forgot that high school is 9th-12th grade.

Re-reading the high school numbers cigarettes are down 15.8% -> 8.0% (2011-2016) but eCigs are up 1.5% -> 11.3% (2011-2016).

The gains in eCig usage still appear to cancel out the reduction in cigarette usage ("(20.2%) reported current use of some type of tobacco product"). But definitely a less dramatic effect than I originally claimed.
I just made it over the weekend as a fun project!
You admit you're using a hackintosh, and then blame Apple when stuff doesn't work?

That's one heck of a mental disconnect.
Bitmap text can look clear as crystal on a very low pixel density display.

You need a higher PPI to make anti-aliasing work on screen (finally looking nearly as nice as print).
https://www.investopedia.com/updates/donald-trump-companies/

Quote: “The president's personal financial-disclosure report was extensive before he handed the torch to his sons, and listed Trump as a trustee, president, chairman, or member for more than 530 entities. Almost half of these companies listed have Trump's name as part of the company name.”
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I think that'd be a disservice to both developers and non-developers alike. It'd clutter the app store and force developers to use the app store and whatever approval process they decide.

I think it would be cumbersome to say the least...

* Would you have to install through the app store gui?

* How would it manage dependency chains and conflicts (system ruby vs local ruby)?

* How about explicit paths or build parameters?

* How would it handle different shells?

I know other operating systems do this but I've never liked it... I guess I just don't mind installing and managing command line/developer tools from a terminal window ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And, with all that said, I have a quite a bit of negative sentiment towards Apple lately for their hardware and platform choices. So I would still say, it's not a developer-centric platform (the Mac)...
Wow, I love that. Still, there must be some small coin-sized battery on the motherboard that's saving state, which will have to be replaced at some point?
Almost all operations I command are executed instantly by my computer, so I see no need to use more RAM.

I think a good SSD and GPU are much more important than having a lot of RAM if you want to improve general user experience.
Could you please source this claim? A quick google search is revealing a lot of contrary evidence.
I don't and have never opened a Facebook account... but I've very little doubt that Facebook knows me as a 'shadow profile' reported by the friends and family that have tagged me without my permission in many photos.

THAT should be something that an individual can sue Facebook over.
Sounds like it is time to create throw away accounts and post attacks on straw men.
> Yes, because the H1Bs are the reason people in rural West Virginia are suffering.

There is a huge amount of semi-skilled IT work that has been shifted to India. Enough to employ millions in the US.

And this kind of work is a good stepping stone to higher skilled IT work.

A large proportion of this work would never have shifted without H1B/L1. If you work at one of the big body shops you will see how they constantly rotate Indian developers between India and the US.

The outsourcing of the late 90s and early 00s never would have happened without this.
> But back to my point about globalization leading to massive outsourcing of jobs to China

Wrong on this count.

http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/20...

As you can see, the US is increasing manufacturing steadily (with exception of the 2008 recession).

The problem is that we've got fewer jobs that produce MORE than we did before. The issue is that the USA is getting incredibly more efficient at manufacturing.

Consider the relatively labor-intensive job of farming. With innovations like "Plant Tape", what used to be a 10-person job is now the job of ~3 people and one tractor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzHo80bO-sU

And said ~3 people+tractor will work more efficiently and get more work done than 10-people in the "old way". Fewer and fewer people are needed to work anymore. That's the problem.

> We can't all be "coders".. So what's the solution?

Blame someone else for our problems. Apparently: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZnj-jyXkAAP4Od.jpg:large
He inherited $40 million from his dad in 1974 and his returns since then have roughly matched the S&P 500. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-09-03/should-do...
There is also element of drug prohibition that brings violence. I think I have never heard this on any debate about the problem. It seems like there is a media embargo to talk about this correlation.
> Ross Perot who also ran for the Reform Party Like Trump

The Reform Party was created in an attempt (unsuccessful, but that's another story) to institutionalize the relative success of H. Ross Perot’s 1992 independent run, and qualified for federal matching funds in 2000 based on the (lesser) showing of Perot in the 1996 election under the party banner.

Trump, David Duke, and others sought to take advantage of those matching funds by running for the Reform Party nomination in 2000, but Trump’s run wasn't much like Perot’s.