skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You seem to be saying that you're much smarter than people who have a problem with object oriented programming. That's not only condescending, it's very unlikely to be true.

Whatever. I don't really care. The fact is, they, by their own admission, have difficulty with it, and I don't.
In English we do have the word "liberty" for freedom.
There is this quote by Jürgen Schmidhuber, director at the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA , creator of LSTM Neural Nets that power many of our current machine learning applications.

" General purpose quantum computation won’t work (my prediction of 15 years ago is still standing). Related: The universe is deterministic, and the most efficient program that computes its entire history is short and fast, which means there is little room for true randomness, which is very expensive to compute. What looks random must be pseudorandom, like the decimal expansion of Pi, which is computable by a short program. Many physicists disagree, but Einstein was right: no dice. There is no physical evidence to the contrary randomness.html[http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/randomness.html].

For example, Bell’s theorem does not contradict this. And any efficient search in program space for the solution to a sufficiently complex problem will create many deterministic universes like ours as a by-product. Think about this. More here computeruniverse.html [http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/computeruniverse.html] and here.

"

I am out of depth with regards to quantum theory and quantum computation. If anyone with better knowledge with regards to quantum computation can clarify it would be great.

Is there any rationale to support Schmidhuber's argument, and has any advance in making actual quantum computers disprove his theory?
You don't wear smartwatches on your face.
At first, but it caches zones when resolving (up to the TTL) so over time the traffic decreases.
How many shareholders, by percentage of total shareholders, can actually influence any given large corporation currently?

Most shareholders preferences don't mean more than the air they use to say them
Well, we do have the word "liberty" in English, too. Maybe it's more that one meaning for a word and one word for a meaning just aren't enough for us.
Or a contractor can take it home, against policy of course, and then it gets submitted to an online anti-virus scan.

Or it gets left on a USB key in a taxi

Or it gets left on an un-scrubbed laptop that's put up for government auction.

Or any of the other which-ways that humans get around policy limitations that don't have technical barriers, or socially-engineered to get around the technical barriers.
I felt this way 20 years ago before the dot net bubble popped. But I greatly miss judged the size of the demand. I am not sure the ten year outlook is that bad.
Thanks, I'll read them !
Well, I mean it might, but it also might the case that the material is genuinely difficult and no amount of pedagogy is going to get around that. (An example might be trying to explain e.g. a non-trivial theroem from point set topology to a layperson... without including a huge amount of background material that you would actually get during a math degree.)
Great powers have a way of persuading small countries. If China wanted it, there is little SL could do - China can 'make an offer they can't refuse'. Look at the South China Sea.

For example, if SL resisted and China ignored them then the SL leader would be humiliated and might fall from power and/or China might replace them with someone more agreeable. I think SL's only protection would be if another power, India in particular, decided it was in their interest to push out China. I'm surprised India has allowed China to get a foothold there.

Compare SL to Cuba: Castro survived, AFAICT, because the USSR supported him and used Cuba as a geostrategic base.
Nope; happened in Boston and NYC. They have signs up at each one specifically saying they want a signed credit card.
In between, but more like the latter conceptually. It’ll be a collection of bulk data processing blocks that are glued together by software. Generally, you want to implement the large bulk operations in HW, with SW handling all the option parsing and control logic.
We were hit by this.

In fact, we're hit by this again, down again at 22:09:19 EST for me and still down. Their website is broken too (https://www.de-cix.net/) and their email servers are offline which makes contacting them amusing.

Not much to be done, really, fortunately the impact for us is very trivial.
I could survive just fine without glasses. That doesn't make it noble to do so.
In fairness, we're in FRA8 but DE-CIX is not directly, so we're connected to their switches in FRA5.
Of course no offense, but the author does seem to be somewhere shortly after the first peak on the Dunning-Kruger curve. Even truly embedded systems with an OS like QNX don't "melt" with 100 threads. Obviously he "doesn't know what he doesn't know" in expertise terms, and blamed a mistake on the operating systems.

That combined with the other extremely dubious reasoning - e.g. (see my other very long comment) how replacing state machines with callback functions is a good idea (tm). There is also the comment RE: "how bad Windows APIs are" and how IO-completion ports are '_actually_ pretty nice'. This is the kind of comment someone makes if their worried the "real" coders won't take them seriously if they use anything but Arch Linux.

Makes you think he is reasoning about things that he just isn't an expert in yet (embedded systems, operating system APIs, long-term framework design). Nothing wrong with that though - everyone has to build up experience somehow - but maybe a bit early to be on the front page of HN.
Yeah... that's not going to be sustainable.

I know folks like to point at the big techcos in the area being flush with cash as evidence this can continue a long time. And in a vacuum, wage growth in tech could continue to keep pace, perhaps. But that is 300k in appreciation a year.

How far out will school teachers, janitors, chefs, mechanics, city employees, and similar need to live before their not-quite-as-quickly-increasing salaries fail to keep up, and they leave the area en masse?

Cut the NIMBYism and you might see some improvement, but only as fast as the city can approve permits.

As Buffett likes to point out: be "fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful".
Here's another trove of information about color, if anyone finds it useful:

http://www.handprint.com/LS/CVS/color.html
You're absolutely right that kann is more optimized and full-featured. I thought to mention your library because it is also a very portable neural network library written in C.

kann is a stunning piece of engineering, and your code is magnificent, and that is precisely why I mentioned it.
I apologize, I did not clearly express my intent.
I think we're already seeing the signs:

- stock market is less bullish on tech: https://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?p=d1&t=NQ

- less startup funding: https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/30/theres-an-implosion-of-ear...

- mortgage costs going up: https://www.zillow.com/mortgage-rates/ca/bay-area/
I’m not so sure. Many tech related jobs are fundamentally hard things for the majority of people to do. Even those with college degrees.

The problem with a bad hire in tech is that they can be worse than useless. Mentoring a junior software engineer can be very expensive and not many companies want to do that in an environment like the Bay Area where people hop between jobs frequently. Personally I think this is very short sighted and sad as I love mentoring junior engineers.

Thinking logically and being able to clearly articulate your thought process is a rarer skill than you would think.

I do a lot of teaching/consulting in the Bay Area. I see a lot of people coming out of bootcamps trying to get entry level positions.

Some of the candidates graduating from these bootcamps are awesome and have lots of potential but those are few and far between. Also, their is a shortage of entry level positions.

The best bootcamps filter heavily and generally only take people with a vaguely related college degree (Economics, law, physics, biology) or who have shown an aptitude (portfolio).

I’m summary, I wouldn’t be surprised if the growth in tech jobs outstrips the supply of quality candidates. If anything having years of relevant experience is going to become even more valuable as time progresses. It’s the entry level candidates that are going to have a harder time landing a job and paying rent in the Bay.
As someone who worked outside CA and ended up working for a company based in San Jose I was all pumped to visit the corporate HQ for the first time, silicon valley here I come. The offices were very nice, saw lots of signs for super cool companies that I knew. It was great .... except it was all just a lot of office park... and nothing else.

I'd take the train up to SF on weekends for things to do. Otherwise I was more entertained back home around Minneapolis than most places outside SF.
Well Said !
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This so much. It's specially useful when you want to communicate something to the whole family so you don't have to keep repeating stuff.
I think you're missing the point that 1 can be indistinguishable from 2, if the AI decides the best way to achieve its goals involves taking over the world - and there are very few objective functions that are not served in some way by taking over the world. (Paperclip maximizer is the classic example, but even something like 'maximize the total happiness of humanity' or 'fulfil the values of as many people as possible' involves taking over the world, though perhaps from behind the scenes...)

Some people look at sufficiently powerful AI as they would a genie, and as said by Eliezer Yudkowsky "There are three kinds of genies: Genies to whom you can safely say "I wish for you to do what I should wish for"; genies for which no wish is safe; and genies that aren't very powerful or intelligent." AI safety is about making sure we get the first kind of genie, or at the very least recognizing that we've gotten the second - since that's not a "neutral tool of empowerment", that's a time bomb.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ARaTpNX62uaL86j6/the-hidden...
“Finally+Proven+For+Real+Money+From+Home+Brand+New+And+On+A+Shoestring+Budget”
I think you underestimate the number of people that follow this site because they like the content, but are quite content to have a median income and a nice work-life balance.
They are not dating the bone, they are dating the mud around the bone. To be more precise, they are dating the last time the mud around the bone received sunlight. (And from the patterns in the mud they are sure that nobody dig a hole at midnight to put the bone there.)
> Well, we do have the word "liberty" in English, too

But no commonly-used adjective form of that noun.
You're lucky. I only realized it halfway through grad school. I learned a lot of interesting things in grad school, but I'd skip grad school entirely if I had it to do over again. The debt from all that education was not worth it, not to mention the opportunity costs.
What were these people doing at 25/30/35/40?
The success of the do-not-call registry (and the fact it is raised in this discussion at all) shows precisely how little people care about privacy.

The do-not-call registry stops people being bothered by unsolicited calls. It does nothing at all to protect privacy.

People care about the annoying calls, go on the do-not-call registry and they stop so as far as they are concerned the problem is fixed. But the companies keep collecting the data. There is zero change in privacy,
My entire blog is on this premise: following your passion is a recipe for economic failure as economic value gets created when you help other people follow their passion. I write about this here https://invertedpassion.com
Outsourcing basically. All hail the almighty growth curve...
RAM is cheap, why should we care?
> Shouldn't we decentralize more?

> The whole of DE-CIX isn't down.

Largely agreed with you, though as general advice I would say that redundancy by adding more exchanges to your network serves you better than adding diverse connections to a single exchange.
True, "liberated software" doesn't have quite the right tone these days.
Functioning sleep deprive may feel like you're better at focusing on the present. But I believe that it's your inability to give a crap that helps the most and removes the second-guessing and mind wandering; a similar state of mind can be achieved by physical exhaustion, whether it's at the gym or from a run or a swim. Try that, it's far better than being sleep deprived.
This article presumes the premise that "what you love"/"your passion" is the same as "what you can love"/the set of all "passions" you have not yet discovered.
This is untrue.

Especially for young people, the amount of time that you have been alive is small compared to your lifetime. What you currently know to be interesting is correspondingly a small subset of the number of things you can find interesting over a lifetime, and an even smaller subset of the things which you could find fulfilling to work on with many lifetimes.
(For those who have lived longer, your life experience makes it even more likely you can identify fulfilling connections/facets of the universe to study.)

The challenge is to find the intersection between what you can be riveted to work on, and what society values (in whatever its flawed wisdom) or can be invited to value.
This is not trivial, but the statistics of the universe are on your side.

What sort of society would we be if e.g. Nikola Tesla/Jame Clark Maxwell/Mozart/etc. had followed this advice?

To aspire is human, powerful, fulfilling. To eat is practical. It is possible to do both.
Society needs people who persist in that pursuit.
Yeah,that is absolutely horrible advice. I live in a neighborhood where there's businesses with lines out the door, and a reliable number of new businesses springing up each year, seemingly under the advice of "it would be cool to open up a business in neighborhood X because it's super popular".

These businesses are inevitably dead within 3 - 12 months, and what's not said/perceived is that they guy with lines or the door runs an incredibly tight ship and has 15 to 20 years of international cooking and restaurant experience under his/her belt.

You open up a burrito/coffee shop next to him, and you're going to get the same number of customers as before you opened your business...
What if the bone was left there? Say by a bird? Or another human. It's a single small hand bone. It feels fair to question how else it might have arrived at where it was found.
I don't agree, I've met plenty in all walks of life. Jealousy certainly plays a part in judgement, so I think the dbag label is probably more equally distributed than you might think. We also tend to surround ourselves with people we like, so I guess that makes sense that you like the circle you and your brother are in and don't like the circle you're not in.
Adding an RSS feed is easy. Individual writers and hosts have no good reason for not including them. For groups / publishing houses that are not techinically bent generally use publishing platforms that generally support them. For the minority thats excluded from the above, hey, just a shout out and someone will be ready to help (me included). But thats not the real problem, the lack of ads on rss feeds (which is its biggest appeal to me) warrants the lack of attention rss feeds get.
I see. Sorry for misunderstanding your comment.
BTW, i think SECURITY was to be a first step towards a more secure X. But nobody enabled it because it broke some big name programs (Firefox being one, supposedly)...
How an ex-YouTube insider investigated its secret algorithm
In the period after the downturn and just before the market started to tick up in mid 2012, there were a number of Asian investors buying up large swaths of foreclosed and distressed homes in Oakland for cash.

I recall this specifically, as I was in the market for a house at the time. Fortunately, I didn't face much cash competition as I was shopping slightly upmarket. The line seemed to be $300-400k. Those folks would be seeing pretty good returns at this point as those houses are now typically worth $500-600k and might be renting for $2-3k.
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Cyberdog, a suite of internet utilities, is an example of an OpenDoc based product that did make it into the hands of end users.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberdog
I have a pretty large group of generally geek-oriented friends across most of the western US, and tracking their migration patterns has been fascinating - we're basically all 1980's-born millennials.

In the 2000's was when we met, those who had grown up there and those who were moving were in the same age group. Only about 40% were college educated or in tech/programming oriented roles. Of those, a small amount has ridden the wave to prosperity. Most moved to Seattle (if looking for a career/home/etc), or Portland (if they pass the weird-test). There's been a steady trickle out of the Bay for anyone not in tech for the past decade, and now I think only 10% of them still remain. Now they're going to Colorado rather than Seattle, and a few more to Portland. Those that are currently missing the wave in Seattle are looking at moving to Colorado.

I have no idea which area is gonna be next - Colorado is now seen as the last "cool" place thats "affordable" and liberal (sorry screaming Coloradan's, you're next).

Personally, I just can't believe its gone on this long - the pressure release valve that I thought would be released from the bay every year for the last decade hasn't fully let go. Career or being able to afford a house seem to be mutually exclusive ideas if you're not in programming. This is creating a rather nomadic culture within my friend groups... welp, this area is too expensive, might as well move onto the next. Very few are putting down roots.

I wonder what this all will look like when we look back 20 years hence - was it really a bubble, or the creation of a permanent Elysium style class divide between those that had the capital (or took the risks) early, and those who didn't start out as well (or were conservative in leveraging themselves)? Every day it feels like I'm leading more towards the latter.
This is also highly locale dependent. Have fun getting ticketed for operating in the wrong area without checking local laws.

"You're in a truck, just move" sounds like a good idea until you realize you're back to square one marketing wise and nobody knows you're there.
Notice how there isn't a single submission about the Elm email client. I think I'm dead-on with my signaling hypothesis.

It died 12 years ago.
What is the AMT amount you are looking at?

Even for 100,000 options, you have to pay tax on $115,000 i.e $40,250

(28% federal tax, 7% CA state tax)
arent the main issues with tracking ev's/teslas battery heat and brakes?
"The algorithm I worked on at Google recommended Alex Jones' videos more than 15,000,000,000 times, to some of the most vulnerable people in the nation."

https://twitter.com/gchaslot/status/967585220001058816?s=19

Guillaume Chaslot, the engineer cited in the article.
> "Even after the Snowden revelations, not much really happened to the government or the NSA."

True. But that says far more about the Mainstream Media than anything else. Most people dismissed the issue because it was never really made an issue.

We can debate / discuss why that was some other time. But, as we now see, the MSM drives public option.
Ask HN: Webapp Sideproject – what boilerplate makes sense?
Starting to build something for myself on the side with my regular job and while we have some great stacks out there, is there a fast way to get started on a webapp framework?

Ask: Help me find the easiest to get started, lean and interesting web app framework to use for my side project.

Background:
- I am well versed at HTML, CSS, JS. Have used Backbone.js extensively earlier.
- Have read all the usual blog posts on X vs Y and I really want something where I can develop fast without worrying too much about scale or maintainability as this is really just for myself.
This kind of comment is flammatory and against HN etiquette (and should be removed).
Where's the rest of the skeleton?
> Not sure what are you mentioning, self-driving cars only exist when you can buy them personally?

No, but somebody should be able to buy. Waymo is just vapor right now. It's an experiment, not a product.
For anything using libpq a .pgpase file can help separate creds in source/conf from now machine level ACLS.
Yep - they have similar functionality for task roles (aka docker containers on ECS) and Lambdas as well.
It's also a question of density; if he's simply saying a lot in very little, or assuming you'll do the menial work like a paper will (offers a theorem, properties and consequences, but proving the theorem is left as an exercise for the reader), then itll have the same property of having to re-read it, or rather, read it very carefully, but still be very valuable.

The difference is in the goal. If its just pedagogical, then you'd want to explain it in three different ways, hoping one will stick; but if its also intended as a reference to review, and discuss, after understanding the general principles (and believing in the theorems), then conciseness is preferable. Three different explanations just makes it more difficult to figure out what you're looking for
People who are aware (of the danger) generally do care. But most aren't aware, or were charmed into a slumber by the lack of response by the previous administration. That is, it can't be a big deal, BHO didn't say it was, so it can't be.

Remind any Democrat about Snowden and they're likely to give you a blank stare. It's as if it never happened.
Debian stable is stretch, released in june 2017. It's on 0.7.5 currently.
I should have been more comprehensive in my previous reply. Normal usage is ill defined, but reads and writes of existing files have no chance of triggering the issue. Any snapshots that contain the orphaned files will need to be destroyed in order to fully purge the damage from affected pools, but it is fine to make them in the interim. Orphaned files should not be overwritten by further usage because they are still using space allocated from the space maps.

You are right about the touch script. Albert Lee designed it after studying syscall traces from a CentOS cp binary. Other things can definitely trigger it. I read on reddit that rclone triggered it. Extracting tar archives has been suggested to also be able to trigger it. I do not expect many systems running 0.7.7 to have actually triggered the bug though. We had a hard time trying to reproduce this on systems without an old enough version of coreutils’ cp.

In any case, instructions on what to do to detect and repair the damage will be made available after we finish our analysis and make the tool to fix this. That tool will likely be a subcommand in 0.7.9, which I expect Brian to push out fairly quickly once we have finalized the complete solution. Reverting the patch is a stopgap measure both to stop the population of affected systems from growing and stop the orphaned file counts on affected systems from growing.
Sounds like you get an HSM behind the scenes (rather than KMS for some reason) so that explains the cost.
Age also makes one less susceptible to the snake in the expensive suit.
Prodigal? Proverbial?
Silicon Valley Falls to Earth