skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a puzzle to me. Uber faces some critical issues ahead. If they can solve them, the bikes will be a rounding error. If they can't, the bike business won't be enough to save them. Why add the complexity when they could buy or build something later?

I especially can't figure out why the Jump CEO would do it. The odds of their work surviving to the 10 year mark seems so small. It reminds me of something like Dodgeball. (For those who don't remember, it was a company basically like Foursquare, but years before. Google bought it and did little with it. Eventually the founders got tired of it, left Google, and started the same company again.)
Why Data Startups Use Agents
For those that have a bunch of home automation.. is it actually... good?

It strikes me as one of those things that is fun to set up, but probably breaks in weird ways every few months and you have to have a special kind of patience to deal with that. (not to mention a shared sense of patience from spouses etc..)

How reliable and stable is all this stuff? Can you really set this up and forget it and have it work reliably, ie, always? How often do these standards change? Am I going to have to reconfigure all my light switches after getting a new router for example? Or base my light purchasing decisions based on this?

Just curious, I'm intrigued, but having gone down this path in the past it feels more hobby than utility.
I run a nonprofit that teaches people how to code and for the past year we have hosted our own server / content at our offices. our students ssh into our server to write code and host their apps / content from there. Sometimes, Ive noticed that even though it feels like internet is down, upload still works and students can still ssh into our server remotely. In the past year we haven't had any issues at all, except for the time we accidentally tripped the power cord. Hosting your own content might be alot more reliable than you think :)
But can the interpreter interpret itself?
You specify it as part of your profile. If you pay for A-List (paid plan), you can filter potential matches by body type.

Disclosure: Paying OKCupid customer. I don't mind paying to support the service, it's provided ongoing value to us.
>NTFS was properly designed with real use cases in mind to avoid fragmentation where possible.

Once said that NTFS was very properly designed (and still works fine after some 25 years with only a very few modifications and on relatively huge volumes) it does have a few "strange" characteristics.

JFYI, a strange case when there was apparently no solution (due to some queer placement of the NTFS filesstem structures), a 6 Gb file couldn't be stored contiguous on a 8 Gb USB stick (and of course FAT32 wouldn't have allowed a bigger than 4 Gb file):

http://reboot.pro/topic/18022-error-60-file-for-disk-emulati...
Just the other day I saw some very dubious people on BART with dockless bikes. I had to wonder if there's a good secondary market in bike parts that makes those things worth stealing.
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They are a private entity that get to decide what gets published on their platform

Except when they want to hide behind the legal defence of “common carrier”. Can’t have it both ways.
I am technical and I struggle to find a use for my home server. The most common uses I always find are:

- Media server: I primarily use streaming services or physical media

- File sharing: I rarely ever share files between computers, and if I need to, I just scp them on my home network.

- Web hosting: box is too small/old to reliably do this, plus I have cloud hosting already

I do use it for private SVN and have plans to set up a VPN server, but other than that, it feels like unless I cast off every existing service I have, it wouldn't be worth it.

Although, casting off every existing service is enticing in an idealistic sort of way...
Data point of one here, but docked bike share programs are a novelty for me, maybe useful on occasional weekends, but dockless makes it viable for replacing almost all use of public transit and ride sharing, including (especially) daily commute. Orders of magnitude difference in my personal usage.
seems like a good idea but not sure how legal disputes would be resolved. Remote driver takes full responsibility?
This is ridiculous. Prosecutors now have so much more information left as breadcrumbs; GPS locations, tower pings, metadata, emails, social media posts, etc, than they ever had before the rise of smartphones.

It used to be easy for people to make anonymous phone calls from phone booths - try making an anonymous call today.

Strong on-device encryption of data at-rest has the nice effect of making mobile device theft much less attractive.

Strong encryption of data in transit, including auto-deleting messages, can prevent lots of other crime as well, and protects vulnerable people such as victims of domestic violence who may have to show their phone to their abuser at any time.
Security is very expensive, and Baltimore needs way more of it.
it's going to do a great job of getting more people to use reddit at the cost of losing some of the users who liked reddit for what it was initially (information-dense straightforward link aggregator).
Then let me recommend you Design for Hackers† by David Kadavy. If you care to take the step it'll be an enlightening journey after which many things cannot be unseen.

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Weak AI is dangerous because it has no intelligence. It is fundamentally structured as a dumb/blind optimization process. The efforts necessary to proof safety/security for such a system could very well outweigh the amount of development that was needed to bring the technology to bear.

AGI/Real Intelligence are far different animals than Weak AI and would require far less "safety" and policing. Real Intelligence is a phenomenon that exists on a scale of sorts that many never achieve in its higher forms. It is in lower forms that intelligence lends itself to destructive ends via ignorance.

Attack vectors on a formalized Intelligence/AGI system can be severely restricted using very sensible/affordable approaches. The over complication and pinning of this as a theoretical problem centers on a number of people's desires to profit immensely from FUD.

Overall, AGI exists in a functional form today and has been executed in an online environment. It is secured via physically restricted in-band and out-of-band channels.
It's name dropping, appealing to people who are easily impressed.
What about benefitting non-human animals? Hopefully the benefits are distributed to all creatures and not just humanity.
Not necessarily. Project Maven probably has no intention of developing AGI and therefore probably is not a concern to value alignment problem.
That's not all that well defined for now, but it will have to rely on trust and transparency. Send me an email if you'd like to learn more!
I think this is for people who don't want to share their data with Dropbox, or don't want to pay for Dropbox. There is a tradeoff (simplicity), and the idea is to reduce that tradeoff by making it simpler.

The question is not would your most non-technical friend adopt this, but would the marginally non-technical friend adopt this.

I would do it if it were easy "enough."
You shouldn't go to a bar to ask people how to reverse alcohol addiction, and you shouldn't come to HN to ask people how to reverse internet addiction.
Couldn't the microplastics just come from the plastic bottles the water is bottled in?
It was designed to have a very large unfoldable directional antenna to be able to transmit and receive signals in the 500Mhz - 5Ghz range, despite atmospheric attenuation. I would guess the goal was to be able to passively listen to wifi and LTE signals in hostile countries without hardware on the ground. The antenna was sensitive to shocks when folded, hence the modification of the payload adapter to avoid them.
The odds of their work surviving to the 10 year mark seems so small.

Are you sure that the odds are worse than surviving the 10 year mark without an acquisition? Would hardly be the first time someone sold because they simply couldn't make the growth math work, and they were all out of good options for financing.
SonarQube, SonarLint - has helped me improve as a developer a lot.
I suspect it's really good signal for setting up or optimizing routes. Those bikes show very clear underserved endpoints that might otherwise be hard to discover. Might just be a cheap and interesting peek down-market on their geographic data-layer.
Ask HN: How to become non-government patriotic hacker?
I am interested in attacking the United States' adversaries as a civilian. Where do I get started?
some of the problems that they are solving are

- inserting ads between videos(configurable)

- serving videos for different screen size(if you send same video to all device, device has to do resizing in addition to decoding)

- serving videos in different network conditions(HLS/DASH) where based on bandwidth lower/higher bitrate video is requested from the server.

- seamlessly serving videos by switching video sources even for encrypted content.

- In HLS/DASH, player is the complex(intelligent) part as it senses the bandwith and send requests to server, they are giving readymade player implementation through SDK's
there's also an interesting, ralated phenomenon (which i think was posted about here on hn) where people are biased towards a counting system that is 1, 2, 3, and then many. there are apparently cultures where this is codified into the language and larger numbers are simply grouped into "many".
I remember when Insta was "newer", people used to comment on how much nicer it made them feel compared to Facebook. I also felt that same. But I guess beyond a point, all social networks turn into bit of a rat-race, which also reminds me of college.
(2016), according to the HTTP headers:

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Spending per pupil alone doesn't tell the whole story.

In the US, it's common for school districts in high poverty areas to end up providing services that in other countries would be provided via state welfare or privately.

So free school lunches and breakfasts, physical and occupational therapy, counseling and nursing for students, transportation for handicapped, social workers etc all get wrapped up in a district budget, with the largest chunk of spending going towards the highest need students. Add up the higher rates of childhood poverty and special needs in urban areas and the per pupil spending becomes a poor measure of what is actually spent on education for the average student.

I'll note that in my state, the balakanized school district situation in many metros leaves suburban districts too small to provide these services themselves, and they'll often send their highest need students into the bigger urban district.

Here's an article describing some of this disparity among districts in the Cleveland, Ohio area.
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/01/poverty_and...
Curious why? Just availability?
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Please, enough with this. The tedium is overwhelming.
You appear to be answering a question of comparative preference, which is neither direct to my point, nor homologous to the question asked. The trust one places in a vehicle manufacturer or airline with one’s life is vastly different from the trust one places in a for-profit corporation with one’s data.

I’ll grant you that I initially read the Ask HN to be a question about personal/private data, rather than what appears on subsequent reading to be a more general kind of data storage question. Either way, it’s still a vastly different level of trust that doesn’t approach the severity of your example (in my mind).
Swift birds can stay aloft for up to 10 months (2016)
I’d say - you turn up, there’s a big pot of whatever is available that day, and a cheap/flat fee. No choice, inexpensive building, not a social event (fine to go alone), cheap and simple bulk cooking. Almost more like a soup kitchen than a restaurant. More expensive/complex food could be optional or once a week, and yeah, if you want nicer food, go to a restaurant.
Why settle for the at least? when we can have the perfect one.

I think there are things beyond just craving, Y isn't it about eating the most healthy food?

If we care so much about "an animal being killed" then what to do to tigers and lions and other carnivores.

I think a lion eating a deer feels more natural than a man eating a lab grown thing.

Why this much push into loosing our nature? Apart from capitalism could there be any other reason?
> Overall, AGI exists in a functional form today and has been executed in an online environment. It is secured via physically restricted in-band and out-of-band channels.

I'm pretty sure this is false.
I don't see the word 'IQ' mentioned anywhere in that article. And yet, it's the single biggest determinant of lifetime success. Unfortunately, it's also highly heritable, so environmental interventions have a fairly marginal effect on it.
At least in many cases, it's grounded in reality. For example, traveler's diarrhea[1] and hepatitis A[2] are fairly common for Westerns traveling. Hep A isn't a serious issue for locals, because of exposure from childhood - it's similar to how Westerners (in the US, at least) get the chickenpox as children, then rarely have it again in adulthood. But if they get it in adulthood, it's usually far more serious/complicated than the childhood variant. You're very likely to get exposure to Hep A if traveling to many countries, and if you haven't had a vaccination for it then you'll have a pretty crappy time of things as your body gets introduced to something that historically your body has been around since birth.

Hence recommending bottled water, as a precaution to prevent exposure. However, in reality everything around you has been washed, cleaned, laundered, or cooked in local water. And your shower/bath will not be in bottled water. So your exposure is still there, just lessened. Not to mention people that drink bottled water, but poor it into a glass of ice (which was created from non-bottled, local water).

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/travelers-dia...
[2] https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/diseases/hepatitis-a

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/travelers-dia...
To be libelous it would need to be proven false. Some Applebees location has likely at least partially microwaved chicken/steak to ensure that it meets the minimum safe temperature during busy periods before.
The true nature of AGI research has always been heavy restrictions on the core aspects of the technology. This is where true safety and sensibility is achieved. Those who've stated otherwise or with much verbiage eventually arrive at this obvious state. Therefore, publications up until now under the banner of 'AGI' have largely been insignificant in terms of their capability to achieve the core technological aspects of AGI. No one in their right mind would ever publish significant details about AGI technology. This can easily be proofed by sound logic and reasoning. There was a commercial step to possibly tease others into revealing heavily valuable/powerful technological underpinnings.. It failed, no one took the bait, and no one ever likely will. This has resulted in revised and more mature statements.
"They don't reply "hostname not found", or "nope, no such host", or anything similar..."

"hostname not found" was meant to be a general term for failure due to not sending the correct servername when it is required, not a specific protocol error. I apologise for not being more precise. What happens with the non-SNI clients I use in the rare case when absence of correct servername is fatal is that the connection fails. (Most times a correct servername, let alone any servername, is not required1 and the connection succeeds. Thats the point of the original comment: in a majority of cases, its possible to get the page content without using SNI.)

1 As in the case of example.com, for example.

However, I use a local forward proxy for TLS-enabled websites. The proxy returns HTTP 503 error when the connection fails due to SNI. Thus, I do get a consistent "server response" when this happens, albeit not from the remote server.
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What do you mean by "developer" in that sentence?
Mostly when I see "developer" it means a person that develops code - a programmer, but here it doesn't make sense in your sentence.
Yeah, I got pretty excited for another nifty self-hosted FOSS that I could set up for my friends. Then I saw that tagline.
JRR Tolkien, Tim Ferriss, Seneca – which are some of your favorite authors?
More than once I felt mild nausea after drinking directly from a bottle, whereas pouring the water out of the bottle into a glass was fine.

I suspect it’s not just what’s in the water but the bottle itself that’s not good.
sounds great, thanks.
> The amount of blaming the nurse for your fever on those issues is getting really concerning.

"Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S." (https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_su...)
One occurrence l of failure in one city in one European country is not an indication of ongoing issues in all European countries.

Would love to hear about systematic issues in Sweden, Germany, Norway, France, Belgium, Switzerland etc. All have strong government role in regulation and municipal water supplies.

Your comment implying political bias for everyone who disagrees with you is cheap rhetoric. And, the US is so far right on the political spectrum that anyone “leftist” there is likely to the right of the center in the EU.
Are you internal to a tech org, or is this a third-party service? How much bandwidth do you have with the CRO customer?

The reason I ask is that the role may be broader or narrower based on these factors; it may not be perceived as full-on data science.
Absolutely not.

It's not about the meat, it's about how poor judgement peope have in terms of sustainability.

Meat is meat. And meat is ok.

Whats not okay is mass production of it, or any other kind.

Instead of growing anything in a lab, think about what you consume. This goes for everything. I would much rather eat a chicken that is produced locally than one I have no idea what went through.

This goes for everything I eat. Even though I am not even close to being fanatic.

Its okay to consume but please do it respectfully and reflect upon it.

Lab grown food is simply to futuristic for me
Awesome! Having used Jump this weekend, I wouldn't say dockless is the main value prop to me as a customer - it's the power assist that makes it feel more like a scooter than a bike. Going medium distances (1-2 miles) and up and down steep hills in SF was a breeze. If you're commuting, it's "sweat free."

IMO Uber Pool/Lyft Line has gotten so slow (I'm sure Pool/Line's share of total rides vs regular X/Lyft is more than 80% in many cities now) for short to med distances that powered bikes has become more and more appealing.
I have remotes setup in my home and office and the only time I need to enter the Turn Touch app is when I add a new device. You would be surprised at how easy the app is to use. I looked at every other home automation app I could find and I made my own app with the simplest interface I could design.

It really is a set-it-and-forget-it product.
Don't you think a lab grown meat is something that is 100% antibiotics?

It is odd how one says Yes without a doubt to something that one eats, but also is aware of being unaware of its health effects.

It is very scary though...

Don't you think we should eat something that is guaranteed to bring good health to us...
> The consumer benefits seem great

How so? We have dockless bikes here (the Chinese Mobike) but it seems like you never know where to pick them up. At less with the public bikes, I know where is the closest docking station to my house.
> "Twitter is like taking YouTube comments and making them the content"

This is by far the best, most succinct description of Twitter I've ever heard. Love it. Keeping this one and requoting it forever, thank you
I tried dockless bikes in Taiwan and while being able to park anywhere is grrat initally, the chance your bike gets taken, the difficulty in locating a bike due to bariable locatioms and inaccurate GPS, really dirty bikes, are all huge problems.
> We commit to use any influence we obtain over AGI’s deployment to ensure it is used for the benefit of all, and to avoid enabling uses of AI or AGI that harm humanity or unduly concentrate power.

OpenAI is doing cool stuff, and this tenet sounds nice. But what right do they have to advocate for policy on behalf of all AI researchers and developers? They could easily shut off branches that are not conducive to commercial applications requiring their research, even by accident. They might miss moral edge cases that could ultimately benefit humanity while trying to close off potential risks. They could encourage institution of a policy that limits US effectiveness against China's AI. I could go on.

The more competition there is in AI, the lower the potential for any one rogue agent - whether it be a corporation or autonomous machine - to dominate and take the whole field in wrong or dangerous directions. Eventually there will be a whole AI subfield dedicated to combating regressive effects of other AI. Legislation at this stage might prevent key developments.

Edit: Perhaps I should more charitably read this as a push against the corporate lockdown of AI.
How a small startup firm wants to revitalize climate change research
but:

- you are tracked everywhere
- you don't control the software for real
- you have almost no control on connectivity
- it's super difficult to kill a process

etc.
OK, but he was asking how to do it in Fedora, not ChromeOS.
> 200 years later, the US hasn't still allowed them to ever send a representative...

Well, we do let them have one non-voting representative in the House (similar to D.C. and other territories.)
> So what are you actually saying and why?

Oooh, maybe I'm part of a sinister conspiracy to bring disrepute to Scandinavian history.

No, I mean simply what I say: there is no proof for this conjecture (it's certainly not worth calling a 'theory') that sunstones were used by Vikings in navigation. Yet it keeps coming back. Every time I spend some time pushing back, but I'm getting weary of it, and perhaps I should let people believe in their crystals...

As to the 'very very tiny leap of imagination', I am afraid I have to disagree. Look into something like the Bris Sextant if you want to learn more about a real, actually useful, simple device that can be used for navigation. It's fiddly as hell yet still way more practical than optical calcite.
That's what I figured, perhaps just a little confused about the structure of the sentence.
Saying "Slavery was ended 150 years ago" is a Mission Accomplished kind of statement. It ignores the actual results on the ground because you had one top level legislative win.
> No one in their right mind would ever publish significant details about AGI technology.

Are you sure? I'd publish technical research details about strong AI. I'd probably even open source one with the papers. I think I'm in my right mind; I guess that depends on definition, doesn't it?