skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Yes, seems more like a discussion starter to me. And that’s OK and perfectly acceptable. Whereas, your comment comes off as an overly critical meaningful discussion diverter. Better not to say anything at all. Now, I’d better follow my own advice.
I would suggest that it's not because their crooked per se, but because getting into office requires an extraordinary fundraising and PR effort that takes all their time. With the rise of finance and technology, the systems in our modern civilization are incredibly complex and difficult to understand, and the only thing legislators know about issues is what lobbyists tell them. There are no effective lobbyists for anything that is not making someone a lot of money, because it's really hard to compete with well-paid professionals.

So even with the best of intentions, the system conspires against legislators getting an informed yet neutral viewpoint on how policy will affect the myriad systems that make up our society. As if that weren't enough the anti-intellectual streak in America tends punishes anyone who tries to bring in more nuance and public research to difficult questions.
I hate lock-in and I’ve seen the same problems you discuss here. Nobody likes to feel powerless or over a barrel.

The other solution is to use common components (standards or oss) and then you have nobody to rattle your saber at when it breaks.

But two of those options are for the most part self-inflicted by the developers. The other one is usually inflicted by management (vendor lock-in).
I think each generation thinks the next one is the worse. I just hope these guys are not treated unfairly at their workplace.

Couple of years ago, I had raised staying late in office as a big concern at my workplace. My manager told me a story about how his daughter will not eat certain food items. He said he would killed to have those food in his plate. But now, he has to strong arm his daughter into finishing her plate. Next thing I know I am rated as a under-performer because I don't "stretch" enough hours like rest of the team.
None. None at all that anyone's noticed in our home, and I imagine the speed associated with the fewer server requests and their payload offsets any negligible performance degradation that would have been there.
The difference with pi-hole is that since it blocks it at the DNS level the network traffic doesn't even reach you, saving on bandwidth.

It will also be faster than most browser based ad blockers since the browser has to analyze every webpage whereas pi-hole blocks by simply not making a request.

Also if you want a DNS that works outside your local network it would be trivial to get a cloud server for $5 a month put pi hole on it and route DNS through that. Then you could get free https certs and have a pretty sweet private DNS just for you!

And if you're someone trying to setup their own local DNS it's likely you have a spare pi or computer laying around somewhere to use.

And finally it offers pretty great convience. Instead of having to setup blockers on every device it just needs to be set on the pi.
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> Browser based adblockers (which is available on most desktop browsers, mobile safari, and firefox for androd

Answered your own question. That list does not include chrome, smart TVs, fire TV, Roku, Kindle, game consiles, iot devices of all types. Nor all guests.

You need both. Security / defence needs to be deep and layared and mukti-vendor to be effective.
I was kind of surprised by this. I would have though that speaking decent English would be a fairly valuable skill for Chinese companies that operate outside of China.
Early 90s rap music horrified America, and you can understand why if you actually listen to the lyrics. However it also gave voice to the marginalized.

None of this is why it got played on the radio though. It got played because it sold. It will be interesting to see if Spotify reacts this way when an artist in their prime slips up.
Why don't he fix medium or twitter first? This guy talks a lot.
Thanks. I was wondering about that. Do you know, by chance, what books or notes they might use?
I am not sure to be honest, I think NoStarch has a preview chapter on the page for the book, which would show it off.
If you have taxable gains, presumably.

Are you in a high-tax state?
We can still try to hold ISPs accountable for lying (or even misrepresenting) to elected officials, which is what the EFF is attempting to do.
I'd prefer Purism laptops, but they don't have any Ryzen+Vega options.
If there isn't a solution in place for revocation, then it's not really an authentication solution, IMO. I would have thought this would be part of the proposed API. Do you think it belongs there?
Counterpoint: I think the Common Lisp page does a good job giving good examples of interesting features, leaving me curious for more. The web benchmark is intriguing [1], and i'm really happy they gave an example of a good IDE, which so many language presentations completely overlook. The tooling is what I, as a developer, will interact with daily! I don't care if you language can do fizzwabble if I can't make heads or tails of it!

The Rust page, on the other hand, only effectively demonstrates one feature, which i don't care about. Unicode strings? Woo. Those belong in separate i18n file. It does so in a box that doesn't even properly display the whole snippet without scrolling. It is cool that I'm able to run it, though of course a newbie like me wouldn't know what to do. Its list of features should be links to examples. As is, the bullet points could have been extracted from a powerpoint presentation and are just as mind-numbing.

[1] though I want a link to more information, for example which servers they chose for Ruby and Node. Were those best-in-class for their language? I'm very suspicious of benchmarks given with little context.
> I'd personally rather the US government pick the best solution, not the most open source one.

I'd personally rather the US government consider trustworthiness, which is only afforded in open source projects, to be an important criteria for "best solution."
So yeah, 1.26 is the most substantial release since 1.0, but there's lots more goodies coming in the pipeline. :) It just so happened that all the initiatives from last year are preparing to land at approximately the same time. For example, coming up next in 1.27 is stable SIMD: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/49664 (though only for x86/x86_64 at first; more platforms and high-level crossplatform APIs are on the way).
Wait till the author also learns about Slack...
Love Xubuntu! Just want to mention there's also an Xfce flavor of Mint for any Mint fans: https://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=249
Earlier today, I wanted to call a friend via Skype (on Android), but I couldn't -- tapping the call icon did nothing. At all. I tried several times, even restarted the app, but it still didn't work.
Why would I be annoyed at talking to a smart answering machine? Seems at the very least no worse than hearing a prerecorded message and leaving a voicemail, provided the conversation goes as naturally as it did in the demos Google showed on stage.

Assistant: "Hello, you've reached Dave's personal assistant. Dave's not available right now, can I take a message?"

Bob: "No, just tell him to call me back as soon as he can."

Assistant: "Okay. Can I ask who's calling?" (Bob was not in Dave's contacts list.)

Bob: "It's Bob Jones."

Assistant: "Alright, I'll let him know."

Bob: "Okay, bye."

Perfectly natural conversation, and provides a much nicer user experience for Dave when he checks his missed calls. (Notification: "Call from: 444-444-4444 Bob Jones says 'tell him to call me back as soon as he can'")
No, but this is no a bad thing, because these sorts of large financing projects can be funded via direct sale of notes to the public or an issuance of stock. We can still have consulting companies that advise companies on how to arrange these sales, and advertise them internationally (similar to what an investment bank does now).
CMU Alum here (though I was ECE) - this description seems to make sense, all the 200 level courses are also CS reqs.

I was also surprised to find out they brought 15-151 (Math Foundations of Computer Science) back.
And it will still look less beneficial than a standard comp Sci degree unfortunately. The only good part is that the school is pretty prestigious, so not as bad. Hopefully we don't have another AI winter.
To be fair, they're kinda similar too. Both provide health care to biological organisms. Of course human doctors will probably have better training.
My household income is going to be over 200k this year...
I agree completely, but the point of this discussion (that I replied to) was that you cannot set a hard limit. I say you can, you just include a margin of error.

You are completely correct, margin of error exists. That doesn't change the fact that if you blow beyond the margin of error, you are guilty.

There will always be a hard limit beyond the margin of error. I feel like you're arguing against that. It's confusing to me.

> 0 is not practical or possible, so it has to be some sort of number.

No one said that, myself included. This feels like a straw man.
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Resources are infinite: Archimedes' lever for entrepreneurs
Is this a myth? What does apple have better than android in 2018?
How would this be better than what we have now? If the answer is "cryptocurrency increases in value," I can assure you that's a terrible reason.

Cryptocurrency is slower than card networks. It's more expensive than practically any other way of sending money. And as far as scale goes, it would need to become orders of magnitude more efficient to handle even a small percentage of consumer transactions. After all, what's the point of a cryptocurrency if the only people who can host the full blockchain (or even acquire the full blockchain) are large banks and the government? I.e., where do you even get an internet connection that can accept, in near realtime, a full record of every monetary transaction performed with such a currency? Unlike card networks, every member of the network needs to process every transaction eventually.

I don't think cryptocurrency is at the point where the scalability concerns can be addressed to be used as legal tender for an economy as large as the US.

If this is meant to replace bonds or other government issued securities, what problem is it solving? I can't think of one.
I think the issue here is that when Microsoft purchased Skype and decided to fold it into their Office product, the customer fundamentally changed. They used the market share of the name to carry the product to a new customer base. Unfortunately the existing customer base was alienated.

This definitely isn't the first time (and won't be the last) this has happened in the industry. It's always sad when it does, but it also always opens a door for a new company to create a product that fills the void.
Stephen Hawking was looking for alien life when he died. The search got boosted
That's the life cycle of proprietary stacks - when there's a lot of demand for them they dump resources into adding more and more and cheaper features. Nobody believes the party will end. But it always does. AWS is certainly more than 50% through that life cycle of "hot new thing", "stable feature rich thing that will be around forever", "ash heap".
Super excited to see how much better my code will look with impl Trait and the "no need for &/ref in pattern matches" stuff.

Keep it up Rust team. The language is incredible! Really my only daily complaint is IDE support is still abysmally slow, in both IntelliJ and VSCode.
I think he was positing that they couldn't inflate in a future world of a GovCoin.

There is actually an interesting nugget in the Obama idea. The "trillion dollar coin" thing completely misunderstands market dynamics, but the idea of the Executive taking power back from The Federal Reserve is interesting.
I picked up a (very) cheap Acer Spin 1 as a dedicated machine for embedded development. 250 euros. Meant for Windows 10, but unusable for that with its 32GB of eMMC.

With a bit of effort installed Ubuntu 18.04 on it. Works great! Wifi, touch pad, even the touch screen and orientation all work out of the box. No messy driver configuration.

I did replace gnome with Unity (an `apt install ubuntu-unity-desktop` away), because it performs tons and tons better than gnome and with a 1.25 scale makes the 11" 1080P screen much more usable. Amazing how much computing you can get for this price...!
>1) Before email I had more letters and phone calls

Way less than the number of work emails people get -- and mostly addressed to specific departments and roles. A mainframe developer in 1970 would not get 30 letters and phone calls per day.

>2) If you disrupt your flow to answer emails and that is not mandated by your manager, that is your fault.

You'd be surprised.

>3) If you disrupt your flow to answer emails because your manager insists, then that is your managers fault.

Which, even though a fact, is no relief.
I'm not sure what your point is, can you elaborate?
No, frockington.

In true communism, the leaders are no longer necessary; the people will starve themselves, in the most efficient manner possible.~
Congrats on impl Trait release!

By the way, how is the progress of supporting XDG base directory spec for rustc and cargo?
As of recently, CMU had a Human-Computer Interaction track, which I know a lot of HSS students took.
It hasn't worked out very well for France. They're nearly dead last when it comes to broadband in Europe.

They're 27 out of 31 in Europe as of a year ago, per Akamai's connectivity report. They rank below Russia and Poland, with a 10.8 Mbps average. The US was at 18.7 Mbps, with 48% above 15 Mbps. France only had 18% above that line.

Vietnam came in at 9.5 Mbps by comparison, and Malaysia was at 8.9 Mbps. France has nearly 20 times the GDP per capita of Vietnam.
against a benchmark formula derived by the same US govt that can print more money. There has also long been discussion that the existing inflation measures are inaccurate [0].

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/the-consu...
I think what GP is also saying is the money maker divisions subsidize the 'loser' regional divisions. It would be interesting to see that data...
That's only part of the reason. True, the lobbyists keep the politicians voting for the status quo, but the "we hate socialism, we have the greatest healthcare system in the world" propaganda has enough of the population fooled to keep the politicians in power.
Exactly, there is quite a bit of news stories every year about "here is how many drinks a person of this height and weight can have before being .08" or whatever.

Just don't drink and drive, that's the only sure fire way to not get accused. Especially for a limit you can't test yourself without spending ~$100USD to get a personal tester which they don't guarantee the accuracy of.

We're trying to enforce laws on an uneven playing ground (a limit the average citizen can't test against until it's too late).
There's no such thing as "human rights" in general by that standard. You can't point to a physical object or some quantum of energy and say, that's a human right that you can measure. Human rights are something we decide on as a society, and if society decides that there is a human right to a set amount of working hours, then it becomes a human right.

The argument that there never has been such a thing is basically arguing that we should stop all progress. That nothing that doesn't already exist should ever be created
Can you explain what is good about their phones?

Things that drive me crazy-

>No widgets

>constant reminders to sign-in

>constant reminders to update

>no double tap/settings seem harder to find

>Finger print scanner sucks so bad.

>Little annoyances like the animations to change screen take 0.5 seconds too long.

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be enjoying on my iphone.
Looking at the course list (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/bs-in-artificial-intelligence/curricu...), I'd struggle to believe that students are going to come out of this strong enough to be effective in AI. I never went to CMU, so I don't know how rigorous the "Modern Regression" course is for actually getting people sufficiently well-grounded in statistics to be able to overcome p-hacking and similar fallacies in analysis. I also would much like to see some sort of capstone project showing that the student can actually pull the AI together to make something complete, rather than having a merely theoretically background.
I used to work in payments in the public sector.

The Fed generates ~$90 BN of revenue for the US government every year.

And it does it by printing physical cash. I think the first step to traction would be convincing Congress that they can get by without $90 BN every year. (Edit: if they haven't already been convinced).
Last year I got myself a copy of "The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom" by Jonthan Haidt. It has an interesting take on what really makes people happy.

To quote wikipedia -

In it, Haidt poses several "Great Ideas" on happiness espoused by thinkers of the past – Plato, Buddha, Jesus and others – and examines them in the light of contemporary psychological research, extracting from them any lessons that still apply to our modern lives. Central to the book are the concepts of virtue, happiness, fulfillment, and meaning.

I have been following some of the suggestions in there - more vacations and holidays, meditation, helping people etc which has surely helped me become happier.
As the code in the paper is written for amd64 I would assume that it is affecting it.

In the other hand it is somewhat surprising, because loading anything into SS is mostly pointless operation.
>for the vast majority of programmers, Lisp syntax is not easy

I suggest that learning Lisp's syntax is easier than learning C-like syntax. There is learning involved, however, and that undoubtedly keeps people from lisp. But s-expressions are the secret sauce; there is no modern lisp without them.

>installation and package management

This is basically a solved problem at this point. Clojure has both Lein and Boot to handle dependencies and building. CL has quicklisp (as easy as `(ql:quickload :my-system)` for installation) and asdf for "building" and system definition.

When it comes down to solving problems, I feel that interactive development (with SLIME), Quicklisp, and ASDF make me extremely productive, and the easy things are easy.
Securing Video Content with Signed URLs
> poisoning the ecosystem

Please don't take HN threads into programming language flamewar; we've all seen what this leads to elsewhere. It's both possible and much preferable to simply make your points flame-free.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Swedes in say Stockholm have had quick internet access for ages but high population is a relative term. I am sure cities such as New York and Los Angelos are high population compared to Stockholm or cities in The Netherlands. Also, I wouldn't say we got so much choice here in NL. There's basically one cable company: Ziggo (aka Liberty Global, owned by an American) and basically one DSL company: KPN. You can't even always get both (meaning usually Ziggo has a monopoly), and KPN actively hampers fiber because VDSL2 is "viable". Mobile-wise there's traditionally 3 players, rest are MVNO. Now with 4G, the third player (T-Mobile) is actually the best and there's a fourth player as well (Tele2). And 4G has a relatively low latency (especially on T-Mo's network which I personally don't have though). The two big players are once again KPN and Vodafone (joint venture with Ziggo called VodafoneZiggo). Vodafone just bought Unitymedia in Germany and Eastern Europe from Liberty Global, btw.

The problem is that a lot of the cable infrastructure (traditionally owned by the municipalities or small corporations) has been sold very cheap to companies which have all ended up being bought by Liberty Global. The government has done it completely wrong. They should've kept owning the networks, but leasing access to companies. After all, the government owns infrastructure such as roads and rails as well.
Holder of "Artificial Intelligence & Cybernetics" from Reading here ;)
Discord

Edit: The only thing it doesn't do in your list is call a phone number at the moment. Though, I heard about a bot that can make calls for you not sure if it works.
Moving forward still. It’s non-trivial.
lol. Undergraduate Degree in what-so-ever-buzzwords.
Crushing your enemies. Seeing them driven before you. And hearing the lamentations of their women
You're right, I totally missed that link. Thank you!

It shows off Chapter 3, and yes, it really looks great.
But this isnt AI. This is automation.

I have done automation in python and I never thought it was AI.
> the government couldn’t be allowed to arbitrarily inflate the currency when it wanted to

Then why would the government bother to implement this? If anything it's disincentivized to set things up in this fashion.
This need for service providers to be content police is troubling. On its own, this isn’t too egregious. After all, the music is still there, Spotify is only adjusting their algorithms. However, it’s indicative of a greater trend of service providers becoming moral gatekeepers. We see people across the political spectrum (but mostly closer to the ends) trying to prevent speech and content creation in an overtly authoritarian manner.

Even if we ignore that, there’s also the issue of the potential to bury someone’s artistic work over their personal behavior. Some people choose not to separate an artist from their work in that way, and that’s fine on a personal level. But if that affects the ability for others to acquire that work, then I have a problem with it.

Some of this may be close to a slippery slope argument. However, I contend that we’re already on that slope and moving somewhat quickly.
Something like this[0]?

[0]: https://bendews.com/posts/implement-dns-over-https/
> Spreading misinformation like this is what's poisoning the ecosystem.

Please don't respond to flamebait by upping the ante. We've all seen what programming language flamewars lead to. Your comment would be much better without the last sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How busy are you at work on average?
Not really. You are underestimating the massive energy efficiency advantages of modern diesel engines, across many contexts. It's the same reason why water pumps and freight locomotives and all kinds of other equipment that could theoretically be electrified isn't.
Red Hat Summit reveals new cloud and microservice partnerships
Planning chemical syntheses with deep neural networks and symbolic AI [pdf]
New GWAS explains a substantial fraction of hair color variation/heritability [pdf]
Why contenteditable is terrible or: how Medium works
Broad Institute sequences its 100,000th whole human genome
I think the real problem would be induced demand from cheaper prices of meat making up the difference.
And what about “We want less traffic. Build more roads.” Macroeconomics rarely have such simple solutions.

I didn’t pin it on YIMBYs solely. I said they would do better to take seriously what minority and low income housing advocates are saying. You’ve articulated exactly the problem; YIMBYs have an over simplistic understanding of economics yet exhibit extreme confidence and authority. This leads them to be dismissive of and even paternalistic towards those who actually experience the direct effects of displacement and gentrification.
If they do this, I am definitely going to play those three quick tones before every conversation I have.
I ask this since people's experiences really seem to vary. I copied the options for entry level, mid level, and senior employees because I thought it might be an interesting split in the data.
I read the article, but still confused as to what/where the IDW is.