skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"... the actual internet is able to do that far more cheaply."

"I imagine the replacement for Facebook will be ... something under the control of its users..."

This is what I am trying (poorly) to articulate. I use a very small proof-of-concept application to accomplish something like this; no website, no third party managing a "service". I paid nothing for this application.

Zuckerberg says, "The reality here is that if you want to build a service that helps connect everyone in the world, then there are a lot of people who can't afford to pay."

Its difficult to understand what he means by "a service that helps connect everyone in the world".

Users already pay for internet access. This internet service is what allows the subscriber to connect to everyone in the world. What he is describing sounds more like a central registry of contact details.

What was the most elusive "starting material" to create a Facebook alternative: the contact and other personal details for most of its users. However this information is, as the world now knows, no longer in the sole possession of Facebook.

For example, 420 million profiles from 2007-2010 were expropriated some 10 years ago. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16724375

Today in response to media pressure, Facebook announced publicly "most" of their users have likely had their account info expropriated. "We believe most people on Facebook could have had their public profile scraped in this way."

Moreover, with the recent changes Facebook has made, every user now has the means to easily export her data in a portable format.

As a user, I might look up a contact in the "Facebook directory" (of which there might be many copies in many places) and then choose to communicate with her through a different channel, one that Facebook does not control.

This channel does not need to be managed by a third party seeking to profit from selling advertising. It does not have to appear anything like Facebook or any of it subsidiaries, although it could.

Once the contact and I are in touch there is no reason to involve Facebook or any other ad-supported web company going forward.
Why would the engineers be more burdened with the ethics of their creation over the investors, founders, managements, lawyers, execs, CEOs and government policy makers who all contributed to, promoted and made happen its fabrication by engineers?
just a reminder: you are writing this over the internet - that one was funded by the pentagon too (darpanet)

http://ccr.sigcomm.org/archive/1995/jan95/ccr-9501-clark.pdf
Here they say that the design of the internet was very much determined by the military priorities of the project (Telcos had different priorities so they came up with OSI where the link layer is supposed to be reliable, as opposed to DARPANET/IP, where the link layer/IP routing is dumb and the endpoint is smart; this allowed link layer to be pluggable and IP routers to be cheap)
> Edge normally means "servers that are very close to your users".

In the circles I'm in, that's definitely not true. Purely anecdotal of course, but Edge definitely refers to a browser made by Microsoft around here.
No! I don't know anything about Cyc, but AI Grant is very real. I run YC AI (http://ycombinator.com/ai). Nat is the VP of Developer Services at Microsoft. We're not doing this to sell info to recruiters. We're doing this because we're passionate about AI research. And because we think the best ideas often come from the fringe. We want to encourage others to take their side projects more seriously.

Feel free to message any of our existing Fellows and ask about their experience.
Probably more confidence from a native German confirmation than a chemical engineer :). You guys aren't much into pandering.
Interesting. I have a few rack mounts (mopho, ms2k) but not a modular person, I'm a little baffled by this like if i'm eventually decent at max or PureData, what's the advantage besides its cheap.

I'll have to see what they say in /r/synthesizers, muffwigglers, gearslutz etc.
Instagram accelerating deprectation of API
The fact that these features are so undiscoverable proves the point, I think. The split view management in particular is clunky as hell even when you do know how to use it, as you can't edit the view once it's been created... only tear it down. Whether it's hiding the other desktop thumbnails until you hover, or the fact that fullscreened apps always become the last space (instead of just the next one), there are loads of little things that would be trivial to fix or at least provide preferences for, hidden or not, like in the old OS X days. But new Apple seems to be infected with the same "we know better" and "everything has to work the same for everyone" authoritarian UI design that makes Android such a pain in the rear too.

I miss the Apple that did things like letting you right click a document's title bar to access its parent folders, or letting you drag that icon right off the window to manipulate it. They used to understand the principle of direct representation and manipulation. Not a single new OS X feature has made it worth upgrading in recent years.
A lot of people don't live in places with an in-home washer/dryer. They have to go elsewhere in the building for pay laundry or to the laundromat. This makes it logistically and financially nearly impossible to use cloth diapers. Not to mention the substantial up front cost for cloth diapers, which makes them inaccessible for people living paycheck to paycheck. This is an example of how having money allows you to save money.
It's unproductive to cast aside as malevolent the opinions of reasonable people who disagree with you.
Au revoir Cyberark. I won't miss you.
Same, at first I wasn't sold on the concept but my wife wanted to try. It's way cheaper and better for environment. Now I don't regret it and find the idea of using 100% disposables silly. We still use one disposable each night because they absorb better or one here and there when we're out.

The upfront cost was $150 so that might be an issue for some.
I bought a Dell XPS for less than half the price and better specs. No regrets.

Apple hardware isn't that amazing, and even if it is, who cares. "Build quality" is just an excuse to spend more money on a luxury designer laptop that is becoming more and more hostile to its end users.

I dont need a thinner laptop or a dumb touch bar or a"minimalist" os design. I need decent Docker impl and ports to plug my phone and monitor into and to not spend $3k on a computer with mediocre specs.

The OS everyone loves to harp on about isn't as revolutionary as people like to pretend. Windows has better Docker support and that is a huge win in my book. Also windows doesn't make me enter payment info when I'm trying to install tools I need to compile my code.

For a few years I worked for a consulting firm. The laptop I chose was a $500 Lenovo with a decent processor and 1080p screen. I bought 32 gigs of RAM and an SSD and upgraded it. The cost of a comparable Mac is laughable.

Installed Linux on it. Used it for years, never had any issues, even with external monitors. The thing is still running to this day, though now I have it sitting under my TV as a media PC.

#itsjustoverpriced
Not all diets produce such odoriferous feces. When I'm eating mostly plain raw produce like a vegetarian, a typical western flush toilet is pretty successful in minimizing poop odor. Meat in my diet makes odor suppression a whole lot more challenging.

For the last few months I've been using a urine-diverting style waterless toilet, where the solids land in a bucket with dirt. This means the solids are uncovered until completion, when more dirt gets poured over. The dietary feedback in this arrangement can be brutal, odor being a significant component until covered.
AI experts call for boycott over 'killer robots' project at South Korea uni
These people might be allowed to do what they do, if they were upfront about what they are doing, but in most cases they plug-in is fronting as something else and unbeknownst to most users, it's doing something else beside the stated purpose.

As they say, this is why we can't have good things, because someone will be unscrupulous and will take advantage of social norms.

I wonder if they will leave the door open for sites which "recoup" their costs/pay the bills via mining, if they are upfront about it.

From the statement, seems they might not, given "The company will however continue to permit extensions designed for blockchain-related purposes that do not involving _mining_ in the web store. " and "Google’s decision reverses its policy so far of allowing crypto-currency mining extensions in its Web Store so long as that was the extension’s sole purpose and users were adequately informed of the extension’s purpose."

So mining of any kind appears to be out. So much for an alternative to other micropayments systems.
I feel like this article was an extended ad for Huggies. Particularly with the happy ending being "Tonight, she was bringing home Huggies".
The best way out of a terrible life for many poor people.

If you didn't do great in school and don't have rich parents to pay for college, the military in the US will look great with its education perks and chance to "see the world".
I imagine for those, you could use a washboard in a shower/tub. It's not a huge volume and the "dirt" is not caked in, for the most part, so it should be a fairly easy wash.
Types of “Dark Patterns” to watch out for
If you don’t require interactive sessions, consider using AWS SSM run command [1] instead. You install the agent on the instances, with commands sent from the client through the AWS control plane (with IAM and SSM documents for access control and CloudTrail logs of all commands issued).

I’m currently deploying it in an enterprise for ~5k users, and it works surprisingly well for providing the ability to run arbitrary commands on instances without ssh access.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...
There is a huge difference between creating a network protocol and designing autonomous killer drones.
Internet psychiatric diagnosis is something we can do without here. It doesn't gratify intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and gets pretty ugly pretty quickly. Please don't post like that to HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
They believe in their country, what it represents, and are willing to sacrifice their life for it. In the US, it's the Constitution, to which they make an oath to upon joining.

Or they're broke, have their back against the wall, and can get good training and education through the military.
I am not a huge fan of NDAs but I wouldn't give your idea away to someone just for validation.
How good is your Japanese? Wantedly is commonly used for hiring, you could check on there and ask companies you are interested in. Besides that, I heard from a few people that found part time gigs through tech meetups that happen pretty often.

Since you are only staying 4 months, I think your best bet is through people you know either locally or remotely. Finding a completely new company that is hiring you short term and part time might be a bit hard to find.
Week after the fatal accident Musk continues to promote Autopilot as safe by retweeting stuff like
https://twitter.com/Teslarati/status/980476745106231297
Tesla Model S navigates one of Vienna’s ‘crappiest’ roads on Autopilot

IIHS '17 study puts Autopilot at only reducing 40% accidents which is the same as their '16 study which had the same 40%
reduction for any car with Auto Emergency Braking.
>This is a national budget problem

Lookup "the secret history of silicon valley". There was no tech world in the bay and massive funding for radar research post-WW2 bootstrapped what is now silicon valley.

It's not a national budget problem, it's just the history of why things happened in SV.
Whenever something like this comes up, my first question is always: "OK, how did we do this before diapers were invented, and what happened to that?"
If data were in XML format, XSLT could be used from javascript (or vbscript) in the browsr for the DOM generation. Was pretty slick up to a point, but since it was a blocking operation anything beyond a certain size started to noticeably lock up the browser.
Ask HN: Why aren't more people trying to cure ageing?
We know it could be possible, in theory. So why aren't more people trying to?

Disclaimer: I'm trying to (sort of), and I know there are a lot of initiatives. I'm just curious to why there isn't more, given what's at stake.
Macbook Pros are NOT easy to mod/change or swap parts. This is very clearly the intention of Apple.

Of course, but that hasn't completely stopped determined people from trying (and succeeding) --- look at the link I posted to where someone added a headphone jack back to an iPhone.

As long as the dimensions are vaguely compatible, the guts of the touchbar model might fit into the non-touchbar case. Some machining and creativity required.

The only downside is the cost (unless you somehow find salvage parts), but someone who really wanted to could do it.
Ask HN: Should your boss know about mental issues like depression or ADHD?
As the title suggests, what does HN think?
It's unproductive to sneeringly cast aside the concerns of Google Employees as starry eyed activism but here we are.

Its uncontroversial to state that the US military has committed war crimes and engaged in military campaigns across the world in spite of international law. Google is working the military to expand the capabilities to carry out these attacks and to work on these projects is to either agree ideologically that the U.S. military should have these capabilities or to turn a blind eye to its uses for a cushy salary and a chance to play with state of the art toys for your day job. Between the two, the later is far more palatable to me so I feel I'm being quite generous by labeling it as greed.
I asked a plumber about those once and he laughed and said there’s no such thing as a flushable wipe - but they’re great for business.
The NTSB report says that it was the former, they were available but the captain had not configured the software settings to receive the hourly reports.

(Obviously, and hindsight is 20-20, hourly should've been the default).
Every ideology oversimplifies the world. Economics are complex and humans can't reason about emergent behavior from societies of other humans very accurately.

However, if you think an ideology is has logical errors and requires mental gymnastics, you likely don't understand it well enough to intelligently criticize it.
Neither Ford nor the Right Brothers were military. Xerox PARC wasn't. Tesla isn't.

Innovation doesn't need defense support, innovation will come anyway. We just choose to allocate much of our resources to the military so that's where it gets spent. Later we can claim it as a win for defense. A happy surprise benefit of trying to kill each other.

All you need is people, time and money. Profit.

Many years ago I choose not to work on a local defense project. I found out that the project had ties to Chinese defense. I'm fine with my choice because I find their leadership somewhat oppressive.

Another time I saw Iranians on the campus. Another awesome opportunity for interesting work that some might not want to get involved in.

I know someone who did work for Mugabe. Hey, cool project. It's easy when you justify it.
The touch bar 13" has 4 Thunderbolt ports and Intel Iris 650 graphics, compared to the non-touch bar with 2 ports and Intel Iris 640.
Thanks for the commentary togelius [1, 2] and deepnet [above].

Anyone interested in adding a soupçon of scholarship to Seth's project?

Words do mean different things to different people, in different contexts..

There is a recent body of literature that explores the modern "maker" [3] movement. However, "maker" as a term may not have been a good fit for the OP's argument [1], which contrasted (academic) researchers with so-called "tinkerers".

An alternative term for "tinkerer" might be "bricoleur", a loanword from French. (Roughly, it still means one who tinkers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricolage but has other meanings depending on the academic lens.)

Given that we are discussing AIs that play, in the context of education, we can also go back to Seymour Papert's work on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructionism_(learning_theo... .

Originally known for work on _Perceptrons_ with Marvin Minsky, AI researcher Papert later adapted theories from education towards the vision of "learning-by-making" and the (young) bricoleur [4]. This can approach can be seen in the evolution from 1960s graphical [turtle] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_%28programming_language%2... to Lego https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindstorms_(book) to
modern day efforts to encourage coding-for-kids [5,6,7].

One of Papert's later collaborators, Sherry Turkel, discusses bricolage as it applies to programming -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricolage#Internet .

When it comes to early education, Turkel argues for epistemological pluralism [8] and cites anthropologist Levi-Strauss in comparing analytic science with a "science of the concrete".

We can appreciate both Seth Bling's concreteness [9] and Togelius's original papers for academics. Almost a decade ago, Togelius introduced Super Mario Brothers as a benchmark for reinforcement learning [10] and, with Karakovskiy, for AI more generally [11].

deepnet what's your interest in neural nets?

[1] http://togelius.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-differences-between...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16744694

[3] For example, https://scholar.google.com/scholar?&q=maker+movement

[4] http://www.papert.org/articles/SituatingConstructionism.html

[5] https://scratch.mit.edu/

[6] https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/

[7] https://github.com/google/blockly-games/wiki

[8] http://www.papert.org/articles/EpistemologicalPluralism.html

[9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6UVOQ0F44

[10] http://julian.togelius.com/Togelius2009Super.pdf

[11] http://julian.togelius.com/mariocompetition2009/
Concorde was very advanced for its time, but it still had things like vacuum tube technology in the avionics bays etc. that would have been supremely expensive to upgrade/replace/repair. Also construction material etc. were good, but have advanced incredibly in the past few decades. Engine technology too.

But there are still physical limitations around size of a supersonic capable airframe and the like, which limits the design of new aircraft and will still keep the price per seat quite high.

However, by far, the biggest limitation that I can foresee is that the aircraft will have to fly non standard routes in order to avoid creating sonic booms over densely populated areas.
It's possible to create distributed but capitalistic systems with blockchain. Without blockchain most distributed / P2P systems fail because they rely on volunteers to run the system.
Synology make a pretty nice self contained NAS - has a GUI on top of Linux and mine has been pretty reliable.

They also support golang
https://www.synology.com/en-uk/releaseNote/Docker?model=DS36...

Version: 1.11.2-0325
(2017-04-13)
What's new
Upgraded Golang to version 1.8.
Supports IPv6 configuration.
Enhanced the stability of Docker daemon.
> OK, how did we do this before diapers were invented, and what happened to that?"

My Mom always mentions it as well. She used a stack of cloth diapers, then hand washed them, dried them and even ironed them. It was a pretty labor and time intensive process. She says we are lucky to be able to get a box of diapers from Amazon, use them, throw them in a diaper pail and close the lid and not have to worry about it.
Ca/Nikon’s main targets are people who shoot fast, a lot and publish very quickly (e.g. sport photographers) and people who will spend an awful lot of time post processing (wedding, art, commercial shootings)

I’m not sure there’s enough benefits for spending processing time, effort and resources on cryptography on any of these fronts.

Now smartphone apps taking “secure” pictures have been there for a while, for use cases like crash site photo for insurance claims for instance. They do fill the niche I think.
How far in the future? Matter to what?
Before I put a bidet attachment on my toilet, my flushable-wipe usage was about a median of 3 and a mean of probably 4. Sometimes I just had to keep wiping to make sure _everything_ was gone from underneath, and I make sure my wipes are extra-wet with witch hazel.

Now, my flushable-wipe usage has a median and mode of 1, with a mean of maybe 1.2. The long right-hand tail is considerably shorter and not as tall.

All this is probably better for the environment since it probably uses less stuff to get the extra water to my house than it does to get the extra processed butt wipes to my house. Also, I get a cleaner clean with fewer wipes going down the pipes, which reduces the likelihood that the pipes will clog. The Cottonelles I use don't clog my pipes generally, but I've used (and stopped using!) other brands that have.

As for the splash? Well, I've got TP right there if my cheeks and perineum get too wet. It's not a problem.
that's archive.org and that being retroactive is also why everyone moved to archive.is
Sorry I voiced that musing. Guess I was just being true to my username.
Or slow the person down.
It does, but in general when a rupture opens up at the surface, the side walls fail quickly and fill it in with loose material. It is only when a surface rupture is "fresh" that it looks as dramatic as this.
America Defends itself and others with Predators. Power loves rubbing your face in these kinds of absurdities.
They aren't more burdened, but they are the last line of defence.
Even 50 cent diapers are less expensive than the time it costs you to change them. So I don't think they qualify as "so expensive".
I am really "worried" about two features coming out of Apple the past few years: The touch bar mentioned here and the "3D touch" feature of the iPhone 7+.

These are "obviously" bad interaction designs yet they come out of a company having almost infinite resources when it comes to design. What is going on here?

Is it the marketing department taking over? Is it "we have created this chip and now we have to use it somewhere otherwise the money is lost"? Is it particular individuals whoes silly ideas are promoted beyond their merits like the anecdote that the paper clip got in Windows because the project was run by Bill Gates' wife?
The need to emphasize breadth-first learning in order to do anything in a modern web stack means that they not only never learn anything in depth, they don't learn that a modicum of depth is necessary.
How to insert a neural implant like you floss your teeth (2018)
I use it swapped on my 2015 macbook pro with no touch bar. I'll never go back.
It's not just theoretical, there is a very large split in the country because of politics. You will find many conservatives in Silicon Valley, and many liberals in the Deep South. Values are different across the board.

You didn't answer my question as to how unions would benefit Silicon Valley workers. What more could unions add that haven't already been added without the help of unions?
New Brain Maps with Unmatched Detail May Change Neuroscience
Have you heard of Mastodon?

https://joinmastodon.org/
Also what about Hillary Clinton's emails while we're at it. That is the real scandal. The other issue should be ignored because the world isn't perfect.
When I think about UBI I worry about responsible spending and wonder if just subsidizing common items food, clothing (diapers) and household goods wouldn't be a smarter solution overall.

In relation to the case in the article, I wonder if we couldn't subsidize certain items and allow parents to receive a one month supply at low to no cost? Why should we give disadvantaged people $180 a month just to let several middlemen take a cut via the corner drugstore?