skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hate to be a jerk, but the name is all wrong. Again, I apologize, it's just the mood I'm in, but seriously, the name.
How can Scuttlebutt prevent (2) from happening? If you share data with your friends, how can you know that they haven't installed an app that will slurp up that data wholesale?

The only solution would to be to enforce reasonable app usage in the client, and then require all your friends to use that client. That seems to defeat the purpose of a decentralised protocol.
>Mr. Zaremba said big tech companies were offering him two or three times what he believed his real market value was.

By definition, if he was offered some amount then his market value is at least that amount. That's literally what the term "market" is doing. Maybe he was offered above his value, but not above "market" value, by definition.
...Until the voat/the_donald/conspiracy/incels crowd ruins it within a few weeks of it gaining any momentum.
Unfortunately, 1Password does not support 2FA for personal accounts. :(
Sounds like Postgres could use some initiative to make the experience easier/faster for beginners and new deployments (if popularity is something valuable for them). That's what many people value in MySQL apart from the familiarity.

I rarely come across tutorials for beginners where MySQL isn't treated like the only option, even if only by omission. I wouldn't be surprised if students only found out about the viability of different databases after a few years.
> Alternatively, your application or layer can use the "versionstamp" atomic operations to write its own ordered log of what it is doing, or other indexing tricks.

I'm not sure I understand.

Are you suggesting having a second key space at `ops/{VERSIONSTAMP}` or something where values contain enough information about the operation to be able to process changes in an indexer? The indexer could then clean up after itself, deleting the operations once they had been ingested? ... Effectively using a portion of the keyspace as a queue?
But, grasshopper, you have not passed the third test. Where is your question?
OneSignal is hiring a senior full-stack developer
The salary would be recurring annually so 20% higher salary is a bigger cost than a one shot commission
Displaying a series of bits on a web page doesn't cause that series of bits to be transmitted.
I bookmarked Telescope.surf when it was first announced here.

I've grown to like it a lot. In fact, just this morning I bookmarked on my iPhone too. I like the idea of a "app", but the web site works fine and I don't put many apps on my phone but I'll just keep using it as is in Safari.

It's especially nice since Apple mucked up their "News" app in their last upgrade and I've not used it near as much since.
It's not hypocrisy, it's marketing. They preach what gets mindshare, they practice what gets money. Increased internal consistency would hamper their effectiveness by making them choose one or the other.

The common narrative mixes up the direction of information flow - politicians' ultimate job isn't to gather your input, but rather to make us believe in the policies that we're going to be subjected to.
At ~10-15 m^3 per bushel (2000 - 3000 gallons) the lowest cost intermittent electricity is under 2c/kwh. So that's closer to 20-30 cents per 3.50$ bushel of corn for energy at minimum. Though presumably there would be many other costs on top of pure energy especially if you are not operating 24/7.

https://electrek.co/2017/11/16/cheapest-electricity-on-the-p...
blockchain + ipfs, sign an ipfs address with some kind of blockchain address. Though this still ends up with all the issues of verifying identity that you have with normal certificate authorities.
Jeff Bezos made 1.2M times the median Amazon employee in 2017
Full-Text Search Index Optimization -Alibaba Cloud RDS PostgreSQL Best Practices
Oh, the update times feature is pretty common, at least among those who use a shared system where "scratch" files are deleted when they are seven days old.
Why aren't privacy groups fighting to regulate Facebook?
Or people with family obligations?
Only if you expect the entirety of traffic on the internet to be delivering UUIDs. It doesn't matter when non-UUID data matches a UUID.
It's more that shorter experiments might tell you whether there are deep downsides even in the short-term. Not great information, not full information, but information; even if it's just a one-way test.
> Any party that uses force to rob the life, liberty or property of others is violating laissez faire principles

The term to describe this party is, a "government."
> It's been shown that banning hateful subreddits reduces the amount of hate speech on the site by users who used to post on those banned subreddits.

But as you say, it doesn't necessarily reduce hate or hate speech overall. In fact, it may even galvanize it further. How do you think the US got all of those conservative news networks like Fox? Because rich conservatives got tired of their opinions being ignored or silenced (from their perspective).

Great quote by Popper, but the problem is that there is great intolerance on both sides of the spectrum, left and right. The extreme left on reddit is not being silenced the way the extreme right is. Both sides are intolerant of facts and rational argument that doesn't adhere to their dogma, so why is only one being pushed out?

I read some studies awhile back that suggested that centrism appears to be no more or less persuasive to most people than extremist positions. People will latch on to specific things that resonate, and just adopt the rest thinking that said resonance means they belong in this group, which ultimately leads to polarization around a small number of extreme positions that are irreconcilable. Takeaway facts: a) that seems to explain the US's politics over the past few decades, b) bipartisan-type compromise may not be a stable condition, and c) centrism is itself a position that needs its own advocates.
> Hydrogen explodes, and peolle are rightfully wary of carrying and transporting it in large volumes.

Oh, the humanity.
PowerBuilder was so far ahead of its time and did so many things right. Microsoft pretty much ripped the datawindow concept early on in .NET's life with datasets, but didn't get it nearly as right as PB did (in the beginning anyway).

Pity they don't open source the thing and maybe some life could be breathed into it.
That's quite astonishing. Have you done the same sort of check with other password managers like LastPass? Really hope this isn't widespread.
This is a variant of survivership bias and says effectively nothing.

Just because things have gotten more complicated and people have used them doesn't mean that people will start to use any complicated thing.

For example:

Google+ / Google Wave isn't an alternative to email if my grandma can't use it.

GPG isn't an alternative to talking in-person communication if my grandma can't use it.

... etc

Yes, you have valid examples where things that are relatively complex did become popular, but there are many many more examples of things that were more complicated and failed.

Just because scuttlebutt is complicated is not a reason it will succeed, but is indeed a valid reason it might fail.
wrong thread.
maybe she/he
Really? I desire a protocol which is not coupled with JSON-RPC.
Executing gradient descent on the earth
What I love about it is that elisp functions can either be called like lisp functions or as unix-style commands. For example:

$ (defun sq (x) (* x x))

$ sq 5

25
Did you post this to the wrong thread?
Ah misread. Maybe? Storing hierarchical data would be pretty natural.
So now, Finland has told every citizen "If we ever seriously start UBI, or any further experiment make sure you behave like you don't have UBI, 'cause soon enough, you probably won't."
Can I chip away at that final assertion even more? If the data is easily discovered through crawling the network, and nodes on the network are less resilient than Facebook's sprawling infrastructure, you've potentially given a single attacker control over reading and denying access* to data. There will need to be protocol to mitigate attacks on the network by sharing information between nodes.

*if they can determine where the copies reside
Eh no. Our brains and how human mind works are actually very poorly understood. To claim we have a good idea how our cognitive systems work under the hood is an incorrect statement.
I have mixed feelings about this.

On one hand it's really nice to see Apple jump on the LSP train and use standard tooling for their IDE to interact with language tools.

On the other hand, instead of having a consistent strategy of using proper LSP (which by specification is JSONRPC), they are shoehorning LSP on top of their in-house XPC transport. To do that they're planning to introduce additional complexity to clangd (a transport abstraction), while actually defeating one of the main purposes of LSP, which is reducing the m-times-n complexity problem of matching compilers with tools to an m-plus-n complexity problem. No other tools (unless they support LSP-over-XPC as well) will be able to talk to XCode. XCode won't be able to talk to other tools. I hope they rethink that decision, keep clangd simple and instead adopt proper (JSONRPC) LSP in all of their other tools for Swift, etc instead. That way they'd not only open up XCode to clangd, but also all other editors to their refactoring tools for Swift, etc.
I've always enjoyed reading Objectivist writing. There's something gleefully iconoclastic about it that I appreciate.

I would find it much more appealing if I didn't find the ideas so repulsive.
> Normally a manufacturer does not get away with a product that he knows will cause 30k deaths per year just by saying that behavior, which is the most common behavior, constitutes misuse.

Is it the most common behaviour for guns though? Because something like 1 in 3 households in America has a gun, but 1 in 3 households does not house a murderer.

> Bulk caffeine is massively more restricted then AK47s

Just for the record, I never said existing gun restrictions were sufficient, just that they do exist!
You’re right, I think its that we all want to see a tight cause effect loop in our success, but reality is more like the reason I’m successful in my career is a single blog post I randomly found ten years ago which sent me off in an experimental direction that later became my niche and then, unforeseeable to anyone, least of all me, that niche became suddenly in demand. Five years from now it may disappear just as suddenly. But the reality is a little unsettling to we attribute success to something we can control.
I don't use social networks, unless you consider Reddit, HN and Youtube social networks.
yes. lol. and now trying to clean up my mess. It won't let me delete...

...oh you must have replied right as I was deleting.
> HR is a compliance function. By some strange fluke, it gets inserted in the hiring process in large companies.

Someone's got to do it and if it's not HR then it's generally a recruitment company. For the price of hiring 4 devs through a recruiter the company could afford a full time HR person (ignoring stupid accounting tricks).
From what I have heard, CloudKit is an API abstraction either of Cassandra/Solr and more recently Foundation DB.

So new CloudKit codebase nowadays is being run on top of Foundation DB
There are more replies to the first thread that you’re not seeing. Note the “Continue Thread” links in the web view:

https://ibb.co/nPtibn
Could the Iranians have a malicious node join the scuttlebutt network to crawl and identify nodes hosting content for dissidents? Aren't scuttlebutt nodes more susceptible to DDOS than Facebook or Twitter? Are there features in scuttlebutt to mitigate this?
Clang was an Apple project from the start.. I'm not sure what is telling you it is a Google project
...AND IT WON'T for a VERY LONG TIME. Those of us who know the origins of Ray Kurzweil, knew back then he was nothing special, and his ideas were derived from much smarter people around him.

As I recall, the article in WIRED from like 20 years ago, talked about how he missed his dad, and how in the future you would be able to take a room full of all his dad's old crap, and AI would be able to recompile his dad into dad 2.0 in the cloud!

(he didn't use these terms but that was the gist of the ridiculous and absurd WIRED article interview with him.)

Why do I bring up Ray? It's because circus acts like Ray and the Singularity University, sold a bunch of people certain goods, which were VASTLY overestimated in terms of delivery times, and in terms of the good themselves.

First of all, many folks don't want to admit this, but WE MAY NEVER BE ABLE TO CREATE A SYNTHETIC CONSCIOUSNESS! I think we will eventually, but it's definitely not a certainty. It just may not be possible for a completely synthetic 'consciousness' to exist.

This type of hype has become almost religious in nature, just like the folks who really think Moore's Law is an actual scientific law and not just an observation and prediction based on very limited data.

In conclusion, you'll get your AI just like those folks in the 50's, or was it 60's? ...well anyway, back when they had those world's fairs and predicted flying cars.

We're just not there yet. We don't even have basic foundations to build this yet. There is always a possibility of a brilliant individual, who may leapfrog humanity, but for right now, it's just vaporware.

AND YES. Even IBM's Watson and Google's GO winning "AI" are just vaporware machine learning and big data sets, it's not AI even a little bit.

Sorry folks, I love futurizing, and inventing words ;) , just like everyone else, but... if AI is in the stadium, we aren't even in the parking lot.

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And now, after my rant, I shall read this article since it looks really interesting. I'm surprised it's on Medium.
I wore a tie to school every day in high school. Then I did it again at a well know startup. In both instances someone pulled me aside to tell me "keep dressing like that and you're going to stand out."

Yes.
Yeah, I’m curious to know how this worked.
Very much so. He's the last of a dying breed who still believed in the "tough on crime" narrative.
This is way worse than that -- he's literally saying that paying laborers is an "inhuman draining of the productive."

> But the man who works as a janitor in the factory producing that invention, receives an enormous payment in proportion to the mental effort that his job requires of him.

> The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all of their brains.

That's an enormously toxic view of the bulk of humanity.

Maybe he should head out to Trump Country and say to all those blue collar types that he feels they are hopelessly inept and contribute nothing to society and would starve without men like himself.
Facebook has a similar project, called Workplace which other companies can use as a private social network: https://www.facebook.com/workplace?_rdr
Panic mode...
Thanks for the downvote. My question still remains.
I would be very interested in learning what this entails, actually.
I'm specifically referring to a coding challenge taking eight hours. A two-hour total interview process would be fairly minimal.
>we also have evidence that the brain is a connectionist system much much larger than the current ANNs. It would follow logically that intelligence could arise by simply scaling up.

the little problem here is that it took 4 billion years of computing and a computer the size of a planet to come up with the nifty machines that are our brains. So unless you have brought a lot of tea and biscuits I think we should really think twice if just throwing more training and power at overly generalised algorithms is a good and realistic path forward.

It's not so much that the idea of "throw more things at it" is impossible, it's that it's a questionable path towards human intelligence. If you just want human intelligence without any further understanding of how to make it there are cheaper ways already
Another step towards the feudalistic view of your-Company-as-your-everything. You can receive emails any time. You can Slack any time with your colleagues. You now know everything about them.

The moment Facebook creates the employee apartments, the serfdom will be complete.
Same in NYC and Boston.
A lot of machine learning is just linear algebra and applied probability (statistics). AI, however, is typically more a combination of logic and probability resting on a foundation of linear algebra. See AIMA.
Fantastic! Thanks so much for writing. I'll study all this ASAP.
Does ClojureScript use or will use new ES6 features (map, set, etc)?
So I was curious about your video series, and managed to find a link to it: https://practicalapps.fullbit.ca/

I'm considering signing up, but would like to review your privacy policy first.. do you have one?
I don't think India really knew what it was doing: http://spacenews.com/industry-worried-about-regulatory-backl...

They apparently took a bundle of stuff from Spaceflight Industries, including the space junk from Swarm, and launched it without paying much attention to what it actually was. That seems to be no worse than inattention and maybe a bit of incompetence.
Pearson Tested 'Social-Psychological' Messages in Learning Software
You're the one who introduced "collapse of the entire ecosystem," nobody that you've replied mentioned it.

We would lose a lot if denied access to orbit. For example, satellite communications, intel satellites would be gone, as well as weather satellites. Imagine the impact that would have on weather models and forecasting, and by extension farm productivity. Google Maps and the like would rapidly become out of date, and satellite phones would no longer work.

It'd be a disaster and while I'm sure we'd find ways to mitigate many aspects of it, there would still be a serious impact on our entire civilization.
Replying to myself: I didn't mean to imply that the article or its contents are manipulative; I merely meant that it's a good example of how different numbers can be, and how that is often used to manipulate perception.
Transporation costs make it a real dog. If you put hydrogen generation close to the consumption, then it is a winner.
You have to actually be good at it, but I'm not famous, and I make over seven figures annually as an AI researcher at one of the big companies.

True talent is extremely rare as well as lucrative. That said, I'm glad I turned down openAI's offer of only $200K. Yikes. Ilya is better than I am, but not 10x better.
Seems like a internal company social networking site? I sure hope they don't peer pressure other employees to "share" and become "social". IMO, it's a company for profit, do your job, get paid and get the f out, everything else is a trick to get you to work more and have less of your real life.
His comment is also behind a paywall.
It's interesting, we've talked to a LOT of companies about this as customer research for our SaaS product (https://carrot.io) and 150 is actually where this problem become unbearable. We see this problem first come up consistently at 30 people, become a major problem at ~100 people that starts to get lots of attention inside the company, and becoming a real hindrance and burning issue if not addressed at ~150+.

It's not at all surprising to us that both Stripe and Square have spent a lot of time and money on this problem to support their quick growth past 1,000 people.
> A gun if fundamentally designed to kill. That's the only reason it exists.

Yes, and people need to kill other people sometimes to defend their lives and the lives of their loved ones. You may not like this reason, but that's the truth.
Can anyone else verify these observations? Talk about honeypots... sheesh.
He also made the median American X dollars by creating competition, thus lowering prices, not to mention adding unrivalled dynamism to the slow-moving, lazy-ass retail industry. Not many workers have contributed this significantly to society, or CEOs for that matter, so he's clearly not the median even when compared to other entrepreneurs.

Also comparing changes in his net worth to the median worker's income is not apples-to-apples. One is marked to market while the other measures a capital flow. But hey, it's easier to hate successful people than it is to write a genuine article these days, so I get it.
I'm not really clear on what position she was applying for, but given that the article is engineering focused, the fact that the whole page is just a massive mosaic of image tiles would be an instant deal-breaker for me.

I mean, I get the whole 'not everyone designs', but anyone wanting to work at that level should at least know 'text-as-images = bad'.
>> A large majority of the code running on our planet today is OOP.

>Good example code base?

The majority of code running Amazon the retail site and AWS. Large swathes of Microsoft and Google online services. Most code running bank back office and many trading systems. Likely 90%+ of the line of business applications run by the Fortune 500. Most desktop GUI programs. Should I keep going?
Technology Use Among Different Amish Groups
What's the difference? I've been calling my AGPL and MIT licensed projects as free and open source.
Most analysis I can find (admittedly, I've only tried a few variations of the search on Google) says TunnelBear is a relatively decent paid VPN. Are you implying TunnelBear, the company, shouldn't be trusted? If not, why not?
Post-2013 breakthroughs off top of my head are:

* Wavenet, now productionized at Google as text to speech

* Alpha[Go]Zero

* Neural Machine Translation, on production at Google
> Which likely means he was converted as a teenager and hasn't been able to question these beliefs as that gets more difficult and depressing as one ages.

That explains why I'm having a hard time gauging whether or not this article is satire.
> What if people get tricked into approving malicious accounts?

Do you really need to idiot proof everything? I'd say just let natural selection happen at this point.
Screenshots. You need screenshots. I won't even consider your product without them; I'm not going to give you personal information for a demo when I have no idea what I am even looking at. There was a thread on the Zulip[1] thread yesterday about the exact same issue.

[1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16863675)
Python and Ruby will never compile to WASM since they would need to have the entire interpreter compiled with it and it would be extremely slow and bloated experience. Not to mention those languages do not have very good support for async operations and the lack of closures make it a terrible idea for the web.
> Is it the most common behaviour for guns though? Because something like 1 in 3 households in America has a gun, but 1 in 3 households does not house a murderer.

But do they do anything other than sit on a shelf? Generally after having provided a flash of false psychological comfort at the moment of purchase, that's where they go and stay. At most they might be used to shoot beer cans in an empty field once a year. So while mothballs and clocks might be doing something by sitting, it's hard to see that of high capacity weapons. Particular since they themselves are much more often stolen from those shelves than used to prevent theft.
I think we're in violent agreement here. AFAICT, the feature sets of OOP and non-OOP languages have converged so much that inheritance is really the last differentiator. Maybe you could throw dynamic dispatch in there, but there's no reason in principle an OOP language couldn't add dynamic dispatch.