skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> some of them just got shot at yesterday

The Google/Youtube/Alphabet people are justifying why they are going to get into the business of shooting people, and making drones that shoot people, and you're trying to stir up sympathy for them by saying they were shot? Just as they decide to become murderers, a woman comes in and shoots a bunch of them. Not too many tears in my eyes.
It mentions that humans verify hits in the above links - but yes, it would seem unlikely for the average user.
I completely agree with the loaded-gun metaphor, but doctors are a very different kettle of fish.

Doctors are healers. The Hippocratic oath - "do no harm" - is the logical conclusion of the practice of medicine. Medicine heals, which is the opposite of causing harm. Avoiding harm is the only consistent metric of success, which explains the oath's persistence for millennia.

Can you think of a consistent, concrete set of ethics that would draw unanimous support among programmers?
I’ve attended trade shows / conferences where you get to see vendors and how they all serve that industry in their own ways. Also checkout any certifications that pertains to that industry so you may have the opportunity to learn in a structured setting.
If you're already deployed inside Kubernetes or similar, Vault is Just Another Pod that is running, with HA and everything. You might not even need to add to your resource pool that is already provisioned. As for your backend, S3 is a great choice if you can tolerate no-HA, or DynamoDB if not.

Point being: if you're using a modern stack, you can use modern tools. If you're stuck on a legacy stack, you use legacy tools, and that appears to be who AWS is building for nowadays. Legacy tools, value-based pricing instead of cost-based, charge a boatload, buzzword heaven, sell it to the enterprise, rinse repeat.

The HSM component is the only part here that appears to be worth the price. Azure's competing product is a LOT cheaper, except that their HSM-generated keys are more expensive. Which naturally means, Azure is cost-based pricing, whereas AWS is value-based pricing.
Absolutely. As consequentialist first move, let me suggest that a first order principle for the US military is "Sweat now or bleed later". Better to work your ass off to develop superior tactics, discipline, and technology now than die later.

No one hates war more than soldiers.
Booking.com is mostly Perl and doing gangbusters. Tcl is, for example, the lingua franca for F5 load balancers. I have more examples, but both are far from dead.
Qubitcoin!

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubit
I think I'd want to fly in these at least once, but I'd probably prefer a subsonic aircraft with Ka-band satellite and more comfort (via more space and weight budget) for most flights. NYC to London one-day turnaround would be a killer market for it, but 7h in coach++ vs. 16h in suites-level luxury would probably lead me to prefer the subsonic suite for transpac.
I've gotten far more spam from SendGrid than anything legitimate. They deserve every bit of their bad reputation with Microsoft's email folks.
Check out www.acloud.guru. That’s the best site for learning AWS and the other cloud services.

I’m not sure what your general sysadmin knowledge is as well, but that’s something you’ll need to work on as well at some point.

As far as certs:

AWS Solution Architect Associate Cert

AWS Solution Architect Professional Cert
you don't need xcape as others have suggested, setxkbmap -option caps:escape does it with just xkbmap.
Maybe because while reading you're not required to open your mouth and physically speak. That's just my reasoning.
Islamic rulings are based on the Qur'an and the Traditions of the Prophet (pbuh). There are about a million traditions on a variety of topics. The scholars keep them in mind while giving a ruling. So, I'm in no position to give a ruling on this. A Google search on the topic tells you that it's not, but none of the answers are satisfying for me so I think I'll have to visit a scholar and ask him/her.
Does this apply to work that is deeply theoretical as well? (e.g. studying/experimenting with tiny Turing machines in an attempt to approximate AIXI-like algorithms)
I received a few decent leads from LinkedIn articles I wrote related to English resume editing for a Chinese young professional audience although my clients are global. I run a professional services business in Shanghai editing resumes, creating LI Profiles, interview coaching and some academic applications support. The caliber of readership is higher there and it is one of fastest ways to be recognized.
We hope to do a few more, but don't know exactly when. When in doubt, just apply! At the very least the process will sharpen your thinking on the project you're considering.
So, email then? It's decentralized, federated, and only sends data to the people you address it to (gmail excepted, I guess, at least in the free tier).

It's what has always worked for me.
There is a great article on this, hope it helps.

https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/founder-stress
Have you seen Beaker [0]? It doesn't require you to setup a complex web server and configure a bunch of stuff, you just run the browser and it'll start sharing your website. It's a move back to a truly decentralized web.

[0] https://beakerbrowser.com/
As a roboticist at the beginning of my career working on drones, I decided then and there that I would never make "bombs", a metaphor I used to mean anything that could be weaponized. I realized a lot of the work I was doing was funded by DARPA, and I was very cognizant about my research being used in this way. And like Dr. Kearns suggests, it's not entirely black and white. Would my path planning algorithm be used to more efficiently deliver scientific payloads to the atmosphere, or would it be used to route missiles to maximize casualties? Hard to really say, but I've avoided overtly military applications (even things like BigDog, designed to carry equipment for troops).

Sometimes the distinction is even more insidious. I did work on perpetual flight for drones, and Facebook had a perpetual flight project that had the goal of bringing internet access to remote locations in Africa. Sounds humanitarian, but I also didn't want to be responsible for subjecting poor Africans to what I consider Facebook's panopticon. Or maybe it would have been a net boon for the region? It's really hard to tell a priori, so the best I have managed for myself is just to try and stay in theory, where developments are further removed from direct consequence.
iOS is bringing back tactility with the latest iPhones--Taptic Engine is pretty cool
As long as you can articulate why your project would be useful, we're interested. Theoretical or not. It just needs to be useful to other humans. Or AGIs. (Kidding. Mostly.)
As others have pointed out, the 13" max specs are inferior to the 15" max specs.
> Personally, I would far rather spend 17 hours in a comfy, wide body aircraft than even 10 in a narrow missile.

If we are talking business class, I would agree. For economy class, well, there isn't much comfort beyond the entertainment center anyways.
WW1 lasted from 1914-1918. The "war on terror" began in 2001 and is still ongoing in 2018, and its capacity to bite us in the ass seems undiminished.
E-inks respond too slow for good touch feedback though so you'd want to have it be clicky or vibrate or something, which adds a moving part.
Between that and the keyboard issues, yeah, there's a reason I haven't picked up a new Mac in awhile.
Replace parts. It’s surprisingly affordable. I got my top case, battery, and display changed through a combination of defect repairs and just paying out to go the extra mile for 500 bucks. Machine feels brand new. Still plenty fast. Everything I touch is shiny again.
Sure, but by definition most employees will be in the majority on most employee issues. Few things are perfect, many things are useful. If your stance is consistently counter to that of other Google employees, then you probably have bigger problems with working at Google than the existence of a union.

Being in a union doesn’t preclude you from shopping around; if working on drone assasinations is personally important, consumer search-engines/ad-tech might not be the most fertile ground.

But for the employees who do work on search-engines/ad-tech, having a strong voice (and a credible threat) regarding whether that work subsidizes an extra-judicial assasination programs (sometimes targeting their own countrymen) seems like a fair idea to me.
Similar to FB Newsfeed recently introducing an "i"-circle for posts by news organizations (QED), that sort of helps to verify the source, we need something similar in Google search results (that would probably make it challenging to return results within half a second).
Alternately, we could just let people decide what to do with their money, instead of putting arbitrary limits in place because gem bags offend your sense of propriety.
To me that's kind of like the sound a falling tree makes when no-one is there to hear it. As I see it, rights exist in the context of a social framework that defines the limits of acceptable behaviour. They can be seen as actually curtailing freedoms, since if we're defining rights, we're also implying there are things an entity does not have a right to. In any case, a right is not very meaningful to me if there is no system in place to ensure it is respected.

This is, of course, not an argument about moral rigts and wrongs, just a pragmatic one about how rights work.
> I don't know how we get around this problem.

Charge $0.001 to deliver an email. Maybe in crypto or some kind of PoW. Legitimate senders won't care about $0.001.
Not only is it inferior, but it runs hotter. I found out the hard way it only has one fan instead of two. I sold my previous Macbook in disgust for a variety of reasons including still accidentally pressing touchbar buttons a year after use. Anyway my tests showed that it ran about 3-4 degrees C hotter at the keyboard doing the same tasks and after some research found out the missing extra fan is why.
I am curious as to how it handles those race conditions where a connection is made with the older credentials just after the time the rds master key rotates, or a connection is made with the newer credentials just before the time the rds client key rotates. Short of using two credentials accounts ...
Who would develop and market and support this, and who would pay for it?
Sooo, can I still cross reference customers from my database to see if they are influenecers on instagram or does GET /users/{user-id} and GET /users/self/followed-by ruin that?
I have had access to the research version of Cyc (http://www.cyc.com/) for over a year, and its capabilities are breathtaking. If aigrant.org had a subcommunity of people who were working on Cyc-related side-projects, I would definitely be interested in contributing to it.

What would be helpful is if aigrant.org could provide an account on a Cyc instance to community members.
Amit Patel's map generator (one of the examples) is a truly awesome piece of work http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/...
I wonder how hard (easy) it would be to swap the parts between them, given that these are (mostly) still PCs, and determined people have done some pretty amazing things to other pieces of Apple hardware:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15190199
I love this and I want it to be real but it won’t work. Here’s why...

As an individual, I won’t lose my medical records because I have three backups and offsite and whatever. You probably do too.

But how do you remain really decentralized when the system has to work for a 76-year-old who can’t even remember what Google is, much less his password. Will this work in the golden hour after a stroke, when literally every minute matters?

So we would make a medical record “bank”, which is federated sensibly, and require everyone to use it. And eventually we end up with a similar system that we have now.
Or be able to go deep underwater when things get really nasty.
Fill me in here: if you're really not selling or promoting anything, what's the use case of MailChimp? MailChimp didn't make all other mailing lists and forums stop existing. It's just the service that's optimized for marketing, for the case where if someone doesn't see your e-mail, it's your loss and not theirs.

Like, if you want to have an erudite discussion of the technical and mathematical underpinnings of zk-SNARKs, there must be a substantial number of people in that discussion who are capable of setting up a Mailman server.
Yep -- $2500 one-way from New York to London (vs. $420 for a normal flight), to save a bit over 3 hours. As Maciej Ceglowski wrote ( http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm ), current subsonic planes are good enough.
Doctors make notes by dictation, which is transcribed to patient charts by medical secretaries. So you'd need to authorize those people as well.
And yet the rights of US citizens appear to stem from a fairly elaborate system of humans interpreting the constitution of the United States.
Yes! Even in malls and airports (Tegel specifically). And the cleaner often seems to be spending 90% of their shift guarding the collection plate. There’s a lot of “customer use only” activity in the US, but people will make exceptions, while in Germany an exception will usually come with a $0.50 charge.

Though, there’s actually a pretty interesting history on how pay toilets were banned in the states, partly due to women’s lib.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_to_End_Pay_Toilets...
Wait, what? Tips are a major source of income!? The absence of tipping was one of the things I especially liked about Uber and Lyft when they first came along. I noticed the tip feature when it showed up but it is such a blatant regression toward the bad old days of the taxi industry that I have ignored it on principle. Has this bad idea really taken off to such a degree that drivers actually expect tips now?
Could you email me so that I could learn more about providing this? daniel@aigrant.org. Thanks!
When I saw it earlier today, the video accompanied a longer story about the shooter and what she did: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/nasim-aghda...
I haven't tried it on a Mac, because I normally use a PC, but there Ctrl+[ is equivalent to Esc and saves reaching upwards (some PC laptops have badly placed Esc too.) I've been using Ctrl+[ ever since I discovered it.
No. But I trust that the Signal binaries for Android match the source code that is published on Github: https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
> If the people hated Nestle because its factories were painted green, they have the right to complain and ultimately vote for leadership that would disallow Nestle to paint their factories green.

What if they didn't like Nestle hiring black people?

You have the right to complain, yes. That doesn't mean you automatically get your way. Not even if everyone votes for it.
So by that definition, it would be great to sell this technology to the "enemy" as well because then they could kill fewer people.
Google: Meeting our match: Buying 100 percent renewable energy
Vibration could be added via a speaker, not exactly a moving part. This is how Apple's current vibration scheme works, at any rate.
Good luck getting the land rights for all those tubes.
There's a book that seems similar to what you've described, called Atomic Accidents. It's a compelling narration of many notable mishaps in nuclear power, weapons,and research. Needless to say, it won't scratch the software itch.
The guy feeling up the waitress probably tips pretty well, too.
Incidentally, I'm working in healthtech right now and I have looked at this a million different ways, and the first and biggest problem is the quality of the data and trust of the data. You make a big deal about after I explicitly authorize access, but once you've granted access, that's it ... what's to stop the doc from copying some info from your chart?

More relevant, what happens if you lose access to your data? Or it becomes corrupted? Now, because you owned your data, it's only your responsibility. You know who's not going to put up with that? Anyone who can afford to hire someone else (like a doctor) to keep track of their chart for them so that stupid stuff doesn't happen.

Most people don't realize that many of the connected health record problems have already had high quality solutions provided in the form of VistA (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/VistA). It's interface would make a startup designer cry, but medical professionals find it highly effective. Especially the network effect of being able to hand charts off and coordinate care, which would be very difficult in a decentralized health record world.
Is that really true? Long ago weak AI was distinguished from strong AI.
Since Rust does not yet really work on ARM Cortex or AVR it's still a long way from taking over IoT. Only devices with an OS, like a RaspberryPi, are properly supported by Rust at this point. That's a huge limitation. GCC can target literally hundreds of bare metal devices with C and even C++. Developers have been using C and C++ successfully in IoT devices for years now.

Rust may be the bees knees but it has many hurdles to overcome before it dominates a language that has been around for 46 years.
nice article.

"It turns out there are strong economic incentives for doctors to keep patient information to themselves — and even stronger incentives for electronic medical records not to play nicely with each other."

"While patients might want one hospital to exchange information with another hospital, those institutions have little incentive to do so. A shared medical record, after all, makes it easier to see a different doctor. A walled garden — where records only get traded within one hospital system — can encourage patients to stick with those providers."
Ya the touchbar stupid, that track pad tho.. only laptop i've ever been totally fine using without a mouse. Hard to go back to other laptops after using that.

Plus the touchbar, though stupid and useless, does at least succeed in making all the other laptops look old and crappy now.
So about the same as business class?
I briefly spoke with Wu some weeks ago about platform cooperativism. I suppose he wasn't impressed.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvxbgq/its-time-for-mark-...
Me too. Insanely frustrating.
Text can work OK between people who know each other well and are familiar with each other's patterns of speech and sense of humor. Not perfect, but generally OK.

Much worse between people who aren't so well acquainted. I'm actually in the middle of trying to mediate a disagreement based mainly on two entirely different perceptions of intent in some stuff that was written in an email.
I just remapped caps lock to esc and my woes (and left pinky pain) went away.
I don’t see why this sort of “addictive” design is considered bad when it’s used to drive people toward spending, but it’s “ok” when it’s designed to keep people around so they can be shown ads.

Mobile developers really only have a few choices available to them:

1) Have users pay upfront or pay a subscription. This was how the app stores started and it quickly turned into a race to the bottom for free apps. The market had spoken.

2) keep users around long enough to show them enough ads.

3) keep users around long enough and add enough pain in the progression systems that the users decide to spend.
it should be email. but you need to build a fabulous UX on top of it that is as simple and instant gratification as Facebook, and you need to do it essentially for free, or with a grant or something, because it will never make a dime.
The "Pro" in "MacBook Pro" has never meant "developers, exclusively developers, and nobody but developers".

As far as I'm aware, Apple doesn't and hasn't ever explicitly targeted its higher-end models at developers. They just happen to have been good developer machines, and so developers confused that for "I am explicitly the target market of this".
If you're paying to send people "Ethereum news this week", it's because you have a financial interest in promoting certain things that happen on Ethereum. There are plenty of places you can discuss Ethereum without paying for it.
I <3 this trackpad. But ya no tap to click.
From wikipedia:

At the time, Mercedes-Benz and Nissan were already building a $1.4 billion plant near Puebla, while BMW was planning a $1-billion assembly plant in San Luis Potosí. Additionally, Audi began building a $1.3 billion factory near Puebla in 2013.[6]...

Funny how only one politician, in my near history, has dared to speak of this in public...

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry_in_Mexico#...
Doesn't the recent (last 10yrs) VC splash do that? Hard to tell numbers since military spending has so many routes, but i'd love to see numbers on the two channels.
Prof. Wu makes a couple of assumptions when he gives suggestions for Facebook alternatives or successors. I dont see those suggestions as the most important point of his argument however. I believe the most important point is that there must be competition, that trying to "fix" Facebook will not suffice.

Nonetheless, these are the assumptions I see:

1. The software alternatives or successors must be commercial.

2. The software must attract a certain quantity of users to be viable.

3. The software must enable networks comprising large numbers of people, perhaps in the millions or billions.

This scale is far greater than the average size of any Facebook users group of friends.

Over the years Facebook may have morphed into a "public square" for exercising "Free Speech" but in the beginning as I recall it was not a means to broadcast to other users outside of ones social circle.

Its primary utility is arguably still in enabling communication within small groups, not enabling broadcasting to the general public.

Wu's assumptions point toward a Zuckerberg-like centrally-managed approach to what I see as historically a locally-managed activity: the human tendency to form small groups.

For many years, gamers and others have been writing software to enable small groups to communicate over peer-to-peer networking, without any funding from advertisers.

Wu writes, "So what stands in the way of a genuine Facebook alternative? It isn't the technology."

Thats exactly right. IMHO.
The difference is that Nestle is drilling and maintaining its own well, purifying the water itself, and distributing the water itself. All of those costs are factored in to what your city charges for water (and it's breathtaking just how expensive a network of pipes to every single house is).

I don't know what a fair price in Michigan for raw, untreated, drill-pump-and-distribute it yourself groundwater might be.

I'd be surprised it it were more than a cent per thousand gallons, though.
> We’re just going to need the right intelligence in the system, sending the right economic signals [i.e., charging varying rates throughout the day, more when power is expensive, less when it is cheaper].

Hell. Yes.

Most of the deregulated markets already have a futures market price scheduled in 15 minute intervals that clears 24 hours in advance. Expose end customers to that day-ahead market and we can get all kinds of flexibility.