skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am really skeptical of the financially strapped detroit city government's ability to maintain water and sewer services to many of the mostly razed blocks. People who own hosues that are the only remaining occupied, in good condition residences on entire city blocks may need to be prepared to go fully off grid in the future. The tax base just isn't there to support the scale of the city's street, sewer and water infrastructure anymore.

From an ISP perspective: very sparsely populated areas are also going to see the cable TV company (DOCSIS3.0 or DOCSIS3.1 based cablemodem internet) and POTS/Copper phone line ILEC (ADSL2+, VDSL2) ISPs abandon or neglect their infrastructure. It does not make economic sense to maintain an aerial coaxial cable plant and DOCSIS3.0 CMTS systems throughout a region of a city that has only a few houses per block. Expect to be required to DIY your own internet as well.
Here's a quote, directly out of the GDPR [0]:

> ​In order to determine whether such a controller or processor is offering goods or services to data subjects who are in the Union, it should be ascertained whether it is apparent that the controller or processor envisages offering services to data subjects in one or more Member States in the Union. Whereas the mere accessibility of the controller's, processor's or an intermediary's website in the Union, of an email address or of other contact details, or the use of a language generally used in the third country where the controller is established, is insufficient to ascertain such intention, factors such as the use of a language or a currency generally used in one or more Member States with the possibility of ordering goods and services in that other language, or the mentioning of customers or users who are in the Union, may make it apparent that the controller envisages offering goods or services to data subjects in the Union.

So it's simply not true that "you are in scope for it, regardless of whether you intentionally solicit EU customers or not." I could continue, but I suggest you actually read it if you're going to argue about it.

So spare me with all this "risk" bollocks. You're just another person willfully misunderstanding our laws, and spreading FUD to try and impose your culture and your rules on our society.

[0] http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-5419-2016-IN...
Yea macos is kinda a clusterfuck when it comes to dealing with Linux packages. Now you're fighting between system, brew and pip and none of it is fun. At least in Linux you're pretty much dealing with system python packages and user python packages.
Chomsky calls it a sophisticated form of computational behaviorism. Just like the research program of behaviorism died out, this will eventually too. There are other respectable criticisms of AI, like Hubert Dreyfus' 'What computers can't do'.

Neither Chomsky nor Dreyfus claimed that machine learning and/or AI won't solve any problems, but rather that the kind of problems these solve are not relevant in terms of aspiring to be humans.
This sort of problem is probably why the article doesn't recommend compiler warnings as a useful intervention point: they can be ignored, but then continue to annoy future developers who aren't responsible for the mistake.
A “Jupyter” of DiffEq: Python+R Bindings for DifferentialEquations.jl (Julia)
The laws of physics haven't explained consciousness or free will, so looking at physics for the answer doesn't seem to be the right way to be going about it.
It's a hit or miss, and sometimes accounts get "flagged". From France I didn't have a problem until I connected from Ukraine; since then I have to always fill the infamous "download workaround form" that may or may not succeed, in the best case you get the download link in an email a few days later. Also the download workaround form doesn't let you select the most recent versions of Vivado and ISE.
This is a pretty weird article, without some kind of further support it really smacks of a manufactured narrative.

As you say, the population - which the article insists is the key factor - shows no sign of recovering. It's simply ceased the plummet it was in during the economic crisis and preceding years. The rate of decline might be a bit slower than the 90s, but the second derivative is still 0. (If you made me offer a theory, I'd say 2008-2011 prematurely drove out people who would otherwise have left more gradually.)

I also noticed the line "Dreams of a house for a few thousand dollars seem like an old memory in some areas, where buildings can list for more than a million." The phrasing is circumspect; it carefully avoids saying that there are actually specific areas where home prices have gone from thousands to a million, and equivocates oddly between houses and buildings. Detroit was never all impoverished, and I have a sinking feeling that this sentence is comparing the current prices of Downtown Detroit to the past prices of northeast Detroit.

Certainly there are some bright spots in Detroit, the city's budget is less disastrous and the projects in bulldozing, resettlement, and urban forestry are a fascinating experiment. But all the evidence I can see says that a plan for Detroit which depends on a rising population anytime soon is basically doomed, whatever the changing look of the city.
Simone Giertz on her brain tumour [video]
I'd agree that it wasn't very well-handled and being the biggest hassle for the wrong kind of people, but I believe it always clearly talked about their binaries only.
> I'm sorry, but it's not. Full stop.

Aside from the "nuh uh; uh huh" nature of this exchange, I really don't understand what your position.

> I didn't say you don't own the photo, I said you don't have control over it. Those are two very different things.

I'm not sure what youre definition of "control" is, but based upon the arguments you've made about "control" above, I assume you mean it in some absolute sense.

Ownership definitely implies control. He can use DMCA to compel a third party to stop publishing his photo, for example. How is that not "control"?

Your definition of control seems to be somehow about capability or power, rather than normative ethics or legal right. Which is a rather absurd way of talking about this issue.

In that sense of control, I don't even control my own body. Someone who is stronger than me can hurt me; can rape me; can even kill me. I have no control.

Of course, for normative reasons, we make laws against other people controlling me in certain ways even though they have the power to do so.

Data privacy is no different. The discussion is not about what degree of control a party is physically capable of exerting. The discussion is about what degree of control the government should grant to each party.

The fact that someone somewhere is capable of hoarding my data, does not imply that this outcome is just or optimal. Your position is a textbook example of the naturalistic fallacy.
It happens to me as well. I fixed it with earplugs (silicone type such as these: https://www.ebay.com/p/10-Pairs-Blue-Soft-Silicone-Earplugs-...)
How would that compare to, say, an HTML template + wkhtmltopdf?

Also I feel like the biggest gripe with generating (long) PDFs from HTML are things such as page numbering, orphans and widows, semantically correct word-wrapping, page margins, etc...

Chrome does a decent job but is nowhere close to what LaTeX can do.
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“Authenticity” of Jewellery Big Winner Thanks to Blockchain
For example, you could say, "Clearly the community feels strongly about this issue, and while I still believe Caddy should include telemetry, it will be opt-in, not the default. Sorry for censoring posts on the Caddy forum, it won't happen again."
I've reviewed grain-industry literature discussing this issue as a matter-of-fact consideration (in materials that were primarily on other topics). I've read accounts from grain farmers themselves. It's not made up.
Fastest way to get around the paywall on this article is by right clicking on the link and selecting:

Chrome: Open Link in Incognito Window

FF: Open Link in New Private Window

These are the browsers I used generally.
I always explain it comparing to watching a movie. Even when you start looking at the screen, the movie is already written and recorded. But that doesn't mean you know what will happen, and you will still feel something watching the movie. And you watch is because it's fun, it makes you think, you simply don't have anything better to do, etc.. As long as you personally feel your life has any meaning, your "actions being already decided" does not constitute any problem. What you feel in your life might be real, and in that case, rationally analyzing your life without taking those emotions into account is actually quite irrational and unfair. As another commenter says, you might be important for other people, make their lives better, and you can still feel and live all that. As long as you don't know where your decisions will lead you, them being "written" or not is irrelevant. If you have a defeatist perspective based on the results of your previous decisions, that's another thing, and it's likely your life will continue that way, but it's also possible you change over time (and the movie actually ends like that). Not due to free will, but still due to thinking, and reading, and caring about what other people —with as much free will as you, none— thinks and says.
I've found a similar process by sketching up the domain logic, or typical steps of it, in as high level of pseudo-code as I can. Play around with it to try to optimize (factor) expressiveness. One then starts to see commonalities, and thus a domain-specific language(s) emerges. This language(s) may resemble or even become an API(s).

From a different direction, form a relational model, even if not using an RDBMS, to clarify the relationships between the domain parts.

Once you do both of these, then a bigger picture starts to form, and you refine it to have the API's work properly from the data relationship perspective.
>Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
- Mitch Hedberg

I know what you mean, and I sympathise that it's a difficult problem. I suppose I tend to think of "a billion cubic metres" as more like one big cubic kilometre than a billion small things. There's some art to merging some numbers into units, but I don't know anyone who's solved it.
I disagree that people need more human connection, and preparing food, eating and cleaning in a social context are certainly not fundamental to being human.
You are exactly right. I left your observation unstated as I felt it obvious.

I was involved in a project to create an anthology of poems. I spent much time reviewing previous anthologies, published in the 1800s, of 'contemporary' poems... that is, the books contained the best poems written during the period the book was published.

And, the verdict? The overwhelming bulk of the poems were terrible.
I think the biggest concern is that the general public outside of this industry think that AI and machine learning is Hey Google not understanding them and their bank working out you’ve run out of money – which they already know. When AI _actually_ arrives, they’ll be bored, ignore it, and then, well, I guess it’ll know and take over the world. We’re all doomed.
Very cool. Could standard Latex mathmode be used here?
> I don’t think software licenses are necessarily restricted to common notions of ownership, as you suggest.

They are in the EU. The US takes a much more pro-business stance.
Ask HN: Small web site owners, how do you deal with the GDPR?
I'm running a small, static, non-commercial website (http://t3x.org) and I'm currently investigating options for dealing with the new General Data Protection Regulation, which looks like a minefield to me that opens the door for all kinds of dubious C&D letters.

So far I have thought about:

- contacting a lawyer to work out a proper data privacy statement, but I don't think I can afford this

- deactivating the server logfiles so that the site really does not store any user-related data (is this really safe?)

- shutting down the site (currently most probable)

How do you deal with the situation?
> I don't think I've heard of many EU regulatory bodies that will immediately go for the maximum punishment the moment anyone does a minor infraction

Yet. Wait until the company is another political organization that is identified as an enemy or competition. Then these laws become tools for shutting down dissenters with selectively applied fines, even to companies outside of the EU.
Consciousness isn't something you observe, its something you experience and physics so far has no explanation for it. Buddhism (from my limited reading on it) seems a lot closer to the answers than western science.
There are open-source alternatives were this works though :) For example Chromium or Lightning.
Formally yes.
If they do not have legal /business presence in EU they can not give a damn. Like with the cookies.

We live in such a distributed world that these local constraints are just wishes (and consultancy opportunities).

I am from the EU and love my privacy but I am also realistic.
I saw a demo of Watson a couple years ago at a trade show and was not super impressed. Looked like a glorified Markov chain to me.
Yes, packaging Python applications for distribution is yet another nightmare situation.

Back in the day, we used one of the various "freeze" applications (cxfreeze, bbfreeze, probably others) and some tools developed in-house to package and distribute them for various platforms.

It has been a while since I actually needed to do this, so I don't know what the current state of the art is.
Because that element of randomness introduces the room that allows decisions to go one way or the other not dependent on the initial conditions.

The question then shifts to 'is the state of the universe at any point in time knowable', and if it isn't then you probably will have vector through which thinking creatures could have free will. And even if the whole string of chance encounters up to there did not exhibit free will the ability to choose an outcome would quickly become a selection criterion in any genetic mix that ends up laying out a nervous system. After all, the ability to react intelligently to an environment is a huge benefit.

In a 'billiard balls' (as you correctly infer, deterministic) universe it doesn't matter whether minds exist or not, the outcome will be identical. Having reasoning ability in a universe like that would be akin to a cruel version of being along for the ride without any ability to influence your environment. And I don't think we need to look very far to determine that our minds have very successfully influenced our environment so there is some evidence that it makes a difference.

Ah! says the proponent of the deterministic universe: but if it were deterministic it would be just the same! Which to me is just as much a cop-out as saying 'God did it'.

Randomness is a thing, entropy is a thing and quantum mechanics operates at a level that our brains are ill equipped to deal with. It appears to me that free will is real, and our whole society is built on that premise.
> It's possible I've targeted no one by location or nationality.

It's not about targeting but about offering services to people in the EU. A silly forum that has a few EU users is beyond incidental/accidental contact and will have to adhere to the EU laws.

A silly forum may not be a business but atleast under german law it can be classified as business-like or otherwise commercial even if you don't make any money on it.
I hate to be that guy, but did you read the article? It had nothing to do with the rituals of meals and was about lab-grown animal products
I absolutely know that organic food also contains glyphosate and that I'm not eliminating my exposure. My family has chosen to reduce our exposure this way, since to whatever extent the organic certification works, this practice is prohibited.
The author's particular gripe is that the Watson advertisements showing someone sitting down and talking to "Watson." They bother me as well (and did so when I was working at IBM in the Watson group) because they portray a capability that nothing in IBM can provide. Nobody can provide it (again to the author's point) because dialog systems (those which interact with a user through conversational speech) don't exist out side specific, tightly constrained, decision trees (like voice mail or customer support prompts).

If SpaceX were to advertise like that, they would have famous people sitting in their living room, on mars, and talking about what they liked about the Martian way of life. In that case I believe that most people would understand that SpaceX wasn't already hosting people on Mars.

Unfortunately many, many people think that talking to your computer in actually already possible, they just haven't experienced it yet. Not sure how we fix that.
Sure, let's award a deranged lunatic who has stoked fear in over half the globe for his unhinged public comments on Twitter.

President Moon, state under oath ONE contribution Trump made to the peace treaty negotiation. JUST ONE. That is enough of an acknowledgment. A Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Trump would be an INSULT to all prior Peace Prize awardees.
What are the big successes? Speech recognition? Which still seems rather bad to me.

Language translation (which for the languages I’m interested in (Japanese) is still almost totally unusable?

Self driving cars? Which are not yet in production (and where the social issues are probably far harder than the technical ones, and likely have been since the 90s).

Is there some big application if ML that I’m missing that is a clear win?
The concept of night mayors is interesting, and I’d love to see the concept extended further into other sectors of government.
It's not new! IBM does what it's best at which is advertising.
> Why are some people taller than others, or more athletic, etc. People are not all the same.

Genetics and environment.
Is it really? I don't see that at all. Rather I see AI as finally being entrenched in normal, everyday products and services. AI is here to stay and the hype hasn't even started yet, at least not compared to what's coming.

Billions of people own devices that they can talk to, that can talk back, that can translate between more languages than humans can, that know facts about you that you didn't even know yourself, etc.

Basic AI has come to be an expectation of many consumer products now. And real AI is coming faster than ever.

Fake audio and fake video, generated from computers/AI is here. Self-driving cars may be just a domain-specific expertise, but it is still AI by any traditional definition.

AI is not reaching any kind of trough of disillusionment that I can tell. We're still obviously just getting started with what can be done.

</AI hype post.>
more on Larry : https://larry.burningman.org/
> Even the web example you gave isn't as simple as it first appears. Just because you fill in a form with certain details doesn't meant that's what the page is actually sending to the server. Most of the time this isn't an issue, as you "trust" the page you're on not to fuck around.

This is what blockchains bring, you don't have to trust the web page any more. With a dApp you know exactly where that form is going and what's going to happen, with the web you only know a POST request is outgoing somewhere and hopefully it'll be handled correctly. It's not something that's easy to understand yet, but one day it might be.

> How are you going to verify the contract that the deployed contract is deploying?

Go and look at it, compile + compare the source etc.
If you want to work on a new programming language, think hard about an application area where all current languages can't be used to express a developer's intention easily and clearly.

Designing a language in the abstract usually doesn't work, it is better to start with use cases that demonstrate how the new approach helps expressing nicely what was cumbersome in previous languages.
I briefly worked with a Watson team on a cool idea to map a person's 'knowledge space' (or probable knowledge space given their background) against Watson's knowledge space and guide them to relevant learning materials and journal articles and the like.

The idea was to save people time so they aren't rehashing stuff they know down pat or jumping ahead into material they cannot understand but, instead, find that next step into what they almost know. The idea from there would be to let them specify where they want to go and guide them, step by step, exposure by exposure, to that summit.

In a few days, it turned into Just Another News Article Recommendation Engine based on interest and similar profiles with other clients. Yawn.
Science is pretty conclusive that lack of sleep (less than 7hr/night) increases risk for many serious conditions. The part we don’t really know is why it’s the case.
Agreed, we're using Caddy right now. Time to switch!
That's a great, bad idea.
I live in Baltimore - I've always thought Detroit was our sister city. Both totally F'd. I still like B'More though. Dunno why.
Theres a good (if slightly out of date) comparison between the features for ODE solving, putting DifferentialEquations.jl against the suites commonly used in other langauges: http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/comparison-differential-e... (linked in the blog as well)

Worth checking out.

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Edit: Nevermind, its not out of date
"Free software" has an established meaning within our field. Notice how I was complaining about the title, where naturally the context is very broad.
If you read some of his emails in the case it is very clear that it was done in an organized, for profit fashion.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/04/27/the-fac...
Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Toledo, and so on got absolutely destroyed after all the mills were shut down.

The bar for reviving is incredibly low. Those that could leave, left. The very people that could quicken the recovery of the fallen Midwestern towns are the same people who left.

Detroit has UM, Cleveland has Case Western, Pittsburgh has Carnegie Mellon which are all top-flight schools. In a strange way, they all have great local resources, but these are all, culturally, working class blue collar cities, and there is really nothing wrong with that. These cities ought to do better to embrace that identity.

I'm from Cleveland. The city was fighting hard against the impending collapse by building out the Rock Hall, rebuilding the Browns stadium and discouraging the Dog Pound, along with and other things to make it more like a major city, ripping out the soul along the way. When LTV steel went under, the dominoes fell one after another, which destroyed the day and night life of the flats.1

Everyone in America doesn't want to stare at a computer, drink $5 latte's, and eat farm to table food. There is nothing wrong with a town that has $3 beers in a plastic cup and a crowd of people screaming until at the TV until they are horse. There is nothing shameful about marrying a man or woman while holding each other's calloused hands at the alter.
While there might be all kinds of troubles _implementing_ that API, I don't think it wouldn't be that hard to use. You would need to have a valid "not ready" state for the results, because Rust requires that they are in some state at the moment they are constructed. From the lifetime perspective, the data structure where the results live should outlive the schedule calls – but that isn't a problem if you construct the array first. There will be a lifetime requirement but that's it.

The mutability thing isn't a problem. You can allocate a vector of results and jobs, and then have a mutable iterator over them, zip them together and then iterate over that. There's no problem passing mutable references to each of the elements.
So if a worker wanted a day off, all they had to do was think bad thoughts?