skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is one of those movies I can watch today and enjoy as much (or more) than the first time I saw it.
If one of the cars encounters something it doesn’t understand, such as complicated road construction, the car will contact Waymo for help recognizing the situation

Hopefully well in advance of actually hitting anything, but therein lies the problem: what does it do if it's moving at speed and figures out that it doesn't know what to do? If it continues moving, it might hit something, and if it tries to stop suddenly, it might get hit and cause a multi-car chain collision. Imagine you're following a car on a highway, in a situation where no other cars are around, a situation in which a human driver would practically never stop, and suddenly it brakes to a stop very rapidly because of some perturbation in the road that confuses it, but a human would have no trouble with. Drivers are taught to look beyond the car in front and try to anticipate what it might do; and something so contrary to expectations is going to lead to problems.
Errrrr ... you can always sell your house. In the last 5 years prices have almost doubled in many Livable cities.

Suppose you bought a house for $300k, paid down $100k of it and sold for $600k. You’d be walking away with a decent amount of cash. In rental when you get kicked out, you get nothing.

Renting is paying someone else’s mortgage. If you know you’re gonna stay in one place for a long time, and the market is stable or booming, buying always makes sense.
Faster computer has increased everyone's free time, which in turn are being used to eat other persons free time. Does that means computer will never increase our free time ? ( Or increase and eat up in point less video games and ad watching ? ). The ultimate benefit I think is, because millions use computer for point less thing, but ultimately investing their time and money in to it, are kind of crowd sourcing the technology advances that are other wise was not possible. So on that look out, kudos to cat video and ads. It that is what it takes to make human kind forward so be it.
And probably also when the French national guard got a bit to radical for the radical liberals that made up the founding fathers and had starting roles in several uprisings.
I got a lot out of Jennifer Widom's "Introduction to Databases" MOOC from Stanford. Particularly the normalization concepts. (Don't take them too far, though, as they say "Normalize until it hurts, denormalize until it works"!)
Ive been studying ML for a while and the best way that seems to work for me is by working on smallscale experiments every 2 weeks. Havent found any hackathons yet, otherwise that’d be a good way as well.
Man, you defy logic.
Funny I just posted about it... the English name is “The Ice people”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ice_People_(Barjavel_nov...

And yes a great sci-fi book, even so the civilization in question is just 900,000 years old not multi millions like the original article.
If I had to guess I think it will probably stop and wait for the remote assistance.
There's something to be said for learning the "canon" but high school English only does that in a very superficial way under the best of circumstances. There are fairly classic books--at least some of which are admittedly more recent than ye olde public domain--which are pretty readable today. But IMO Henry James, Bronte sisters, Tolstoy, etc. are going to be a pretty tough slog for most modern readers, especially at high school age.
This is the hubris of every technocrat.
if we were satisfied with that answer we wouldn't be talking about wasm at all.
Was going to say exactly this. It’s astonishing how ‘2015’ looks like ancient history
> This was part of the much-heralded “success” of the surge, George W. Bush’s decision to increase troop presence in Iraq and commit to a strategy grounded in the new counterinsurgency field manual General David Petraeus put out in 2006.

Yeah, this was the time the US military did the bidding of the Supreme Islamic Councile and helped to ethnically cleanse Baghdad.

Givin support to people like the Badr Brigades who went around with powerdrills and killed all non-Shia residents.

The level of violence went down because the Sunni were defeated. They are just 20% and they have no chance against the other 60% that control the government and 100'000 marines.

The US also made deals with the Tribs in the country side. This worked as long as America was there and giving them protection and support. Once the US left it took a couple years and many of these tribes joined ISIS.

The narrative the this counterinsurgency thing 'worked' is utter nonsense. When Petraeus tried the same strategy in Afganistan where there was not a majority who was willing or able to utterly crush a small minority it failed completly.
As an artist, my first thought is I wonder what happens if you try giving this a series of drawings.
- "General Systemantics" by John Gall ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics ) It's humorous but I'm being serious.

He has such chestnuts as: "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works."
Obviously it varies but personally the major reason I tend towards working outside organisations is the "quality" of my endeavour.

Within an established organisation, even great ones, getting things done involves often involves internal machinations - "buy in" etc. The best people at large companies are experts at this.

As an entrepreneur, this skill helps make a sale, or raise funds. But its directly linked to the problem you are solving. Its "how do I make a thing that does X" VS "how do I make this thing do X".

Its purer. Its more interesting. Its easier to romanticise - and easier to pass that feeling on. Its also liberating to have complete freedom (for awhile!) and no-one to blame but yourself.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16838058 (My post before I found this one.)
> I don't think it takes a particularly high amount or sophistication to google "ico", see that most of them are scams, and stay away

I did technical due diligence for several investors last summer for ICOs and their "whitepapers" as well as talk to founders of these ICOs themselves about their idea. I successfully steered many away from these frauds, I sadly watched as others didn't.

Hell, I watch one "founder" launch his token right in front of me, yet he "had to care for a sick relative in <HOME COUNTRY>" not two weeks later. I haven't heard of it since, and they haven't updated any of the company marketing material since it's ICO.

> People shouldn't invest in things they don't understand.

I have a rule. Every time I catch myself about to say somebody "should/shouldn't" do something, I ask myself:

"Does my comment materially help prevent this situation from happening again or help the victim seek justice?"

Or,

"Does my comment only show contempt for the victim while not materially improving the situation nor helping the person victimized?"
But are they meant to be poor “quality”? Is that really part of the allure?

Mexican street tacos are not vegan but they are delicious. How is eating terrible diner food tasty as opposed to a cultural experience (which I buy)?

Someone in this thread mentioned bottomless coffee. I too enjoy that experience but as a coffee lover I won’t pretend that diner coffee is actually good.
This must be one of those "digests of digests" Bradbury warned us about. While we're on the topic of arson.
> Over the past 20 years or so, the federal government has shifted the burden of education to the states by cutting subsidies as well, making matters worse.

Prior to 1980, there was no federal Department of Education, and prior to 1953 when the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was created, the federal government's involvement with education was limited to an Office of Education hidden away in the Federal Security Agency, and prior to 1939 it was a little bureau in the Department of the Interior.

Philosophically, the U.S. initially emphasized local control of education. The federal government's involvement with public education didn't really become so heavy-handed until the mid-60s. The states were not that involved until relatively recent times, either; rather, education was pretty much controlled by local school boards. Regardless of which philosophy you personally favor (decentralized vs. federal control), it's very difficult or impossible to argue that Americans as a whole are better educated now than they were 50 or 100 years ago.
I have come to a conclusion: There are deductive style thinkers and there are inductive type thinkers. The deductive works from the abstract theory towards a proof of his reasoning. The inductive works from facts, and backwards to a theory or model.

The deductive 'type' can usually be a very good student and academic, but not so great as a practitioner. They can be very reliable within a very structured environment.

The inductive 'type' is usually better at doing things and learning from these and getting an intuition for how they work. They are not good at 'following' ideas and usual make horrible students and employees. They are pretty good at adapting in a more chaotic environment.

So the problem in tech (interviews)seems to me that the 'deductive types' get the best scores and signal themselves as being the 'brightest'. However in reality what you want in industry are 'doers' such as the 'inductive' type people ... but they are the ones failing at your ridiculous tests/puzzle questions.

Ideally a person should balance between the 2 modes (inductive and deductive) and be a master at almost everything.
Parrallel Entrepreneurship
Why though? At least gold is very nonreactive, isn't it?
There are lots of comparably astute thinkers in the modern age. We ignore them because they don't command the same gravitas as the founders and because in some sense intellectualism is no longer valued in the West.

But it's not hard to say: "if you commercialize war and create an entrenched institution around it, then there are a lot of people (weapons manufacturers, government contractors, military leadership) with considerable money and power who are highly incentivized to perpetuate the state of war, irrespective of its necessity."

One of the most successful con jobs was conceptually linking war and manliness, so that 'pacifist' became a derisive label. I always found it staggeringly obtuse for conservatives (people; not the corrupt politicians and media manipulating them) to simultaneously complain about the debt and endorse pointless wars that end up costing many trillions of their own taxpaying dollars.

And then I realized that rationalizing the right wing platform is a total package deal: maybe you came for your gun rights, red meat manliness, shallow (or deep) streak of white supremacy, and/or your Christian values, but you end up staying for the costly warmongering, poor-to-rich wealth transfer, and excessive broad spectrum deregulation.
Ah! That could work indeed. Thanks :)
The Mediocrity Principle applied to civilisations would suggest we're not the 'special' first one here. We thought we were special in lots of ways that we've since had to abandon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediocrity_principle
Ask HN: How do you keep track of your notes at work?
Hey guys,

I'm trying to find a tool/a way to add notes while I'm at work(code snippets mostly). For those of you who already do this can you recommend me one?

I tried gist.github.com, but I don't really like the UI. I'm checking boostnote.io, but I'm curious if there are better ways/tools for doing that.
MIT ml course
Solution: Button::create() returns a unique_ptr which you have to move to the window at the end.
Weapons of Math Destruction [video]
Thanks for the hint wrt --datebefore. I'll give it a go :)
> I didn't find anything in your links that mentioned the myth of Atlantis.

Do a YouTube search for Younger Dryas.
must say that regardless of its age, this tutorial is superbly written.
> "I am not really sure if development of SDVs is really that important"

For the 1.3 million people and their loved ones and to 20-50 million injured EVERY YEAR, yeah, it's really that important.

Is it ready today? No. We're in pretty violent agreement on that.

Will we get there? I don't see much reason to doubt that we will, eventually. It may require significant infrastructure changes.

It's pretty clear Waymo/Uber are pushing the envelope too hard, without adequate safeguards, but "only be acceptable if it were you and Mr. Musk...on Tesla's private proving grounds" is probably not pushing the envelope enough.

Even Waymo is "unleashing their stuff onto unsuspecting public" by driving them on public roads - lots of innocent bystanders potentially at risk there.
I could understand this if "America" was a singular entity. In reality, it's much more complicated than that. It's American filmmakers creating a movie about how a war, which American politicians chose to fight, effected American soldiers.

Attributing the collective actions of every single person from the US to a single entity called "America" and then pointing out that these actions are inconsistent is a silly reductionist argument.

Edit: I should also add that I strongly think the world would be better if the filmmakers were creating movies about the effects of war on the _other_ side, not just their country's side.
This reminded me of Dwarf Fortress. Digging greedily and deeply through the Z layers until..
The percentages of kids who didn't speak English at home were pretty high 100 years ago, too, but they definitely were better at reading English then. The problem isn't effort. The problem is recognizing that there is value in learning to read.
it’s the first sentence that really gets me.

“More often than not, she relies on charts, graphs
and quantitative analysis as a foundation for a
decision, particularly when it comes to evaluating
people …”

what a travesty that misses the entire point. seems she doesn’t hire people but rather resources.
This. (Disclosure: I'm cofounder/CTO of Volantio). Airlines are very much currently burdened with a legacy that was cemented in sometime in the 50's.

It may be worth mentioning that airlines are perhaps less-evil than is apparent from the outside. Most of their baffling behaviour is (IMHO) largely due to lack of capabilities rather than malevolence.

Ultimately, they're given a large multi-dimensional optimisation problem in a marketplace with extreme illiquidity (eg: traditionally, seats can't be resold effectively once purchased).

The complexity is, frankly, staggering - the seminal paper on the topic is probably this: http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com...

We are taking the (very small) initial steps in alleviating some of the issues by introducing increased liquidity into the market, but the ultimate goal is helping shift the industry into a more dynamic place (perhaps as described by the parent comment).
The comment I answered to was expressing a very narrow minded opinion on how everyone that buys an house instead of renting is doing the most stupid thing in the world.
I proved to everyone that is not true and that most likely he is not as smart as he reckons if this is what he believes.
Would recommend https://stunning.co/ , I like the floating tube animation and the increasing recovered amount is really appealling.
The issue is that the “Founding Fathers” are treated as if they thought collectively. They didn’t. Among themselves, they agreed, disagreed, and changed their mind on many things.
Could you move in a moon orbit?
There's an interesting book by Tom Ricks, The Generals, that's also congruent with this article: https://jakeseliger.com/2012/12/18/the-generals-tom-ricks. Ricks points out that there's a distinct differences between incentives / consequences for front-line troops and generals. Since the Korean War, we've basically insulated generals from consequences for failure; they get fat paydays, admiration, and cushy consulting gigs after retirement regardless of performance. Which is not true for front-line troops. In other words, high-level commanders have no skin in the game: https://www.amazon.com/dp/042528462X.
> Today we have lost all those scientific advancements made in those times and in time we will re-discover what was already discovered & lost.

Such as?

> Look around you & think of all the insane (to current humans) & incredible accomplishments of humans that our sciences of today still cannot explain convincingly how they were possible.

Examples? I can't tell whether you're referring to ancient constructs (great pyramids, stone henge) or modern engineering (technology, medicine)... the former is uncertainty among multiple plausible theories while the latter is quite well understood (albeit difficult to learn).

> Any advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

Contingent upon a perspective of ignorance.

Incandescent light bulbs are magic to a medieval society, yet we consider them to be relatively primitive lighting devices. Once the fundamentals are known (electricity) the "trick" becomes obvious and even trivial (resistance makes wire hot, hot wire is bright). Fundamental understanding also allows us to rule out mythical magic.
> I’m stunned someone with the intelligence to type and use a computer could hold this view.

Shocker, people have different opinions on the internet. Most intelligent people do in fact think for themselves.

> You must be heavily influenced by things you’ve read/heard others say.

I'm heavily influenced by taking the same oath as he once did and Manning did. You are given a choice to have a TS/SCI clearance, you can say "no thanks" at many many points in the process. Once given that choice it is up to you do decide whether or not you follow the rules you signed up for. He chose to be treasonous, much like Manning. I'm not arguing about whether that choice was the right one or not, that does not matter. Unlike Manning, he gave intelligence away to foreign countries in hopes they would protect him and he didn't have his day in court. He life is ruined because his plan backfired, that is on him, no one else.

So yes, I'm heavily influenced, but by experiences I know about, unlike most. He committed treason, that fact is inarguable, and I believe he should've stayed home and argued his case in court. Manning did, she is now a free woman.

I know I'm not going to change your mind, that isn't my intention, but I'm also going to defend my own intelligence. Lifetip: not everyone who disagrees with you is a moron. Have a nice day.
> It now simply understands your intention, where before it would not. So previously you would write some code, be surprised that it does not compile, gain a thorough understanding of the limits of the borrow checker

Much more important than it understanding your intention is you understanding its limits. If it understands your intention 10% more of the time, but it's harder for you to understand what's going on when it doesn't, then that is not something everyone is going to find simpler.

Another word that gets applied to systems that try to guess at your intentions rather than operate according to an easily predictable model is 'magic'.
Presumably it still supports Python 2.7, so this isn't actually the end of Python 2 support.
Show HN: FIFA World Cup 2018 prediction game live on Ethereum Ropsten
Thanks - it's helpful to hear your perspective on this.

What I don't understand though, is how this is supposed to help. If you want a fact to disappear, shouldn't you work that out with the publisher? Until you do that, it isn't really forgotten... just kind of badly remembered. I mean, people can still access that story as long as it's on the internet.
Hello fellow HNers

The game is pretty easy, it is a FIFA World Cup results Prediction Game where users will compete for real ETH prize pool but also able to trade the ERC 721 token (which holds the predictions) and sell it before the World Cup ends to "sell its position".

- some gameplay screenshots :

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/UljQ9ut.png

[2]: https://i.imgur.com/JswvBSH.png

[3]: https://i.imgur.com/D6YMhvO.png

[4]: https://i.imgur.com/SulUeEV.png

[5]: https://i.imgur.com/WIqQnc9.png

It is live on Ropsten Testnet and would love your feedback.

It took me and my partners 3.5 months to build it, it is 100% functional and we are really excited!

We would love to read your feedback. Links

=> https://cryptocup.io (will require Metamask to play)
=> http://faucet.ropsten.be/ (to ask for free Ropsten Eth instantly and fund your wallet to play)
Good post. I'm disappointed by how many researchers don't read papers older than 10 years or so. Too many people seem to think that more recent research supercedes previous research in every way, which is not true.

This often leads to researchers reinventing the wheel. Good ideas can fall out of favor essentially randomly for indeterminate amounts of time, so there should be no expectation that what is cited today is necessarily the best.

To use another example I've seen a few times, an approach that might have seemed like a dead end in the 50s could now be tractable due to other developments, like modern computers.
If I'm not mistaken, Greenland has crust from over 3 billion years ago. 1.7 million years ago is nothing, I don't know where you got that number from but it is wrong.
The subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/babyelephantgifs/ has tons of cute footage from her place.
It's also extremely soft (for a metal). Fossils survive in part because they are reactive and become harder in certain specific conditions.
As an aside, some have proposed a mechanism derived from this method as a way to fix congressional redistricting.
Alexis is one of the smartest programmers I have ever worked with. Really cool to see your project front page!
Maybe it's because scandal and money are the low hanging fruit that the current process successfully picks. Skepticism is warranted, laughter is not.
> if some other advanced industrial civilization had existed 60 million years ago, how would we know?

Wastes, particularly those that get everywhere such as plastics.

I am told that one long-term marker of human presence on earth at this time is that strata being laid down at present contain small pieces of plastics.

See "The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221330541...

Also:

"Human impact has created a 'plastic planet'" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160127083854.h...

http://www.newsweek.com/theres-even-more-plastic-ocean-floor...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/17/tiny-pla...

edit Even though it will change over time into something other than plastic,

1) it will affect the composition of rocks being formed now

2) through sheer ubiquity, some of it is likely to enter into the fossil record.
It is a new target for the standard Go compiler/runtime, so yes.
Because we have due process for American citizens we don't like, but not for Syrian civilians who are a bit too close to people we don't like because they hurt Syrian civilians.
"I just think we need to stop trying to merge self driving cars into a road system designed for human operators. Moreover, we should not be "beta testing" our self driving cars on roads with human operators."

Sounds like requiring exclusive access - I apologize if that was a misinterpretation.

If you have human and automated drivers in the same roads, the computers have to be able to cope with the vagaries of human drivers.

How can you then get away from '"beta testing" our self driving cars on roads with human operators' if that is their deployment environment?
This is forward progress. Waymo has worked towards this point for years, reporting every disconnect and minor fender-bender. Now they're going to test, cautiously, in Mountain View.

As we've seen with Uber and Tesla, the "safety driver" doesn't add much safety. The "safety driver" is mostly there to drive manually in situations where the automation stops the vehicle and asks for help.