skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did that go?

"Every comment section on the Intellectual Dark Web is ample evidence for the necessity of the Intellectual Dark Web"

Except it isn't really the comment sections, it's the commentariat.

Sigh.
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Lobbying is a thing in europe also, but if politicians are too blatant about it they get voted out of office.

All americans seem to agree the problem with their government is crooked politicians. Why do people keep voting those people into office?
Net neutrality will officially die on June 11
Why do you think it's valid to replace the word "AI" with your favorite disadvantaged minority? Sounds like you have a pretty low opinion of these disadvantaged minorities.
It may be worse than 996. WeChat easily penetrates employee's life after 9. A message from your boss that requests something urgent, and you begin working again.
Hitting random paywalls was why I stopped clicking Medium links. Some of the stuff on there was interesting to read, but not enough worth paying for.
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By that logic, wouldn't a large ISP want to maximize its profit by splitting itself into smaller regional divisions with smaller, less expensive networks?
There is at least one model where, if the officer covers the outlet tube, the reading doubles extremely reliably. I saw this tested in a short documentary some years back.

If you're going to get breathalyzed, will you notice if the officer is doing something shady? Could you even know, without knowledge of the various machines?

I'm also quite miffed that a cop can give you a DUI even if your reported (by the machine) BAC is under the legal limit, 0.00 included.
I cultivate the idea that you've got a 50/50 chance of successfully reaching me via email. There's 3 people whose emails go into a special folder I monitor regularly. Everyone else goes into the regular folders that gets skimmed once or twice a week. About once a day someone pings me on im to ask me to actually read an email they sent and then I do. It saves a ton of time.
Boo, I assumed the IDW was going to be about people fighting for access to academic papers. I guess that would be ADW.
Traveling light and far. I enjoying visiting new places, trying out new food and meeting new people
They aren’t buying it for Siri
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"always" is a really long time.
This is very true. Skype had huge exploits and some blackhat folks went to Skype support and told them that the victim's account is treating them and Skype banned victims can't without any investigation.

Skype also banned victim who was infected with a malware where malware would just post links to other people to remove them randomly from groups.

Skype just bans you for no reason. I've lost one of my most valuable business accounts to scammers who used malware attack to destroy my account.
Its just a database. Using the registry is not a requirement for any app. They can store their configuration in a text file, they can store it in the cloud, they can do whatever they want, they can even create a C:\etc and store it there :)

Sure, there exist badly behaving apps that don't clean up after themselves when they're uninstalled. Windows gives apps the freedom to choose their own method of installation, but some vendors abuse those freedoms. I don't quite know what the OS is supposed to do about that. Windows already does an insane amount of work trying to keep buggy apps running, something that macOS or iOS or Android or Linux don't. The fundamental goal of any consumer OS should be making sure that the software a user purchased continues to work.

>Android and iOS solve this much better by sandboxing application settings within the app.

So, multiple users on a device = separate settings = multiple app installs? That might work OK for consumer devices, but won't really fly in the IT world.
You are doing yourself a huge disservice developing in lisp without slime. I've been using a vi-like for 25 years and vim for 20 years and still use emacs/slime for my lisp development environment.
But stereotypes can be backed by science.
Am I the only one who didn't hate Unity?

I wonder if it was an effect of people who didn't like it complained and threw hissy fits. Those that liked or didn't mind, didn't say anything.

So it _seemed_ as if everyone hated and they just had to replace it. I've observed that pattern happen with product features before. A customer chimes vocally that they hate something, another does etc. An issue is created, work starts, then a whole new wave of complain come later that "hey I did like that feature, why did you remove it".

Wonder how the decision was made, did they do a more formal survey or just went by the vocal critics on HN and other sites?

(Now having said that, I don't dislike the new interface, so not complaining about GNOME, just mainly interested in how the decision process worked).
If you really want to torture yourself, try SfB on macOS. "Kafkaesque" is an apt term for all the truly bizarre ways it abuses you.

My favorite recent thing - I'll hang up a call and randomly SfB will spawn about a dozen call quality survey windows for every call I've recently completed.
> Some of my most productive days have been ones where I didn't touch a line of code;

My most productive days ever were the ones where I drove over to another site to find out the problems they were having and then designed my tech around it. They weren't used to being consulted and helped. Their manager is now a big advocate for my changes, now I have a bigger budget and more staff. All from taking time out.
So, so, so much stuff in this release! The next few are shaping up to be similar. Very exciting times!

As always, happy to answer questions, provide context, etc.
We’d be copying what Venezuela did with their “Petro” :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_(cryptocurrency)
So, yes, they save snapshots and take you back to the time of your choosing based off that.

Okay, but you're most likely wrong with that. If you read about how Aurora works (https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/p1041-verbitski.p...) it seems likely that they will be using log entries to rollback database state, rather than retaining "snapshots".
I run/donate to our charity.

Politics is a gray area with 501c3s and 501c4s being vastly different tax benefits.

Employing friends means they still need to pay income tax right?

We teach recipes to kids, which kinda is a hobby? I just want kids to learn low cost recipes and have freedom from their parents.

Maybe some people are malicious, but I am not.
If we go back to the original reasons why Bitcoin was created, one can easily see just how cringe worthy this is.
If a FOSS solution is abandoned, it's doubtful that most companies are going to take on the maintenance themselves. They are going to start an initiative to migrate.

But that goes back to the old saying "no one ever got fired for buying IBM." The same can be applied to Microsoft or AWS. Yes MS has put plenty of technologies in maintenance mode but you didn't have to rush to migrate. IBM still sells system that are compatible with what they sold in the 80s.
"Some of this risk is ameliorated by using open or popular standards and systems."

This seems to be the middle ground. Making well-reasoned decisions about which vendors will have a long and well-maintained life of service at the expense of it being trendy or cool.
I resorted to having that PiHole to be my DHCP server and I turned off DHCP service on the router. It's a bit more fragile, but more flexible as well...
I'm not sure who you're arguing with here?

My point was that a suboptimal solution is one where there was no careful, methodical thought to the design of AI systems. If AI designers and researchers blindly react to public outcry after 24 hours from a demo (which, in general, is something I would expect Google to do) the kind of thinking you mention above is just as unlikely to happen as if they trudged on forward without any consideration to these things at all. In both cases, this is a suboptimal outcome for society.

In one, we get a fairly random, undesigned world of AI systems that don't serve anyone well and generally are underutilized because nobody is willing to push the boundaries. In the other, we get dystopian AI hell. It's important that researchers be given the space to think you describe. The right way to allow that is to foster an informed and open-minded public about the emergence of AI and the decisions we need to make about it as a society, and not have prominent voices writing about knee-jerk reactions making authoritative demands to a specific public demo after just a day. (See Max Tegmark's book Life 3.0 for the kinds of stuff we need more of being put into the world imho.)
Forbes - http://www.forbes.ru/milliardery/357335-tektonicheskaya-plat...
> Is it crazy that to respond, they respond as a group?

I don't believe that's the issue here. I believe the concern is their response is more valid because of the group they're in, not that they're responding as a group or as a member of the group.

Just look at any minority who doesn't buy into identity politics. They're labeled as traitors, haters of their own race, or trying to play cool with the other side ("cool girl" within feminism).

This is the problem with identity politics. Because you look a certain way, you must think a certain way.
Oh thank god.
You might find Telegram incredibly useful for what you describe.
We are also in the process of redesigning our home page, (and the website generally) due to its flaws.
This feels like a more useful CS degree, IMO. I don't do anything like machine learning, but for both scaling backend services and building day-to-day business logic, I've gotten a ton of value out of knowing stats, logistics, and a certain amount of pattern recognition (ah, how terms go in and out of fashion). Take this stuff instead of the other sorts of electives I was picking from - UML Modeling, for instance - and I think you'll be set up with a good broad base for understanding both code and machine learning applications, but also broader decision-making at a business level.
I don't think the technical problem vs the self-identification are conflated. It's still easier to talk to something that acts like a human (at the conversational level, at least). I'd prefer those subtle hints ("umm") over explicit "That's not what I asked for" when communicating. I'd prefer to expect them to understand the same.

When I know I'm talking to a software agent, I can change the way /I talk/ without having to lose fidelity from the way it talks. For example, I can spit out a large, complex sentence that's usually harder over the phone: Groups of four don't need or get reservations. "Reservation availability is Tuesday 2 to 5 pm, wednesday 2 to 3pm, friday 4pm to 6pm. " Then a "Thank you, goodbye" message tells me that I'm done with them, and as I know it's an AI, I don't have to worry about having offended a customer.
Can I do this with Bitcoin?
I think we'll get viable cryptocurrencies when the people designing them understand the basic and well-known economics of how money works; AND, when basic scalability problems are solved.

It's well-known that deflationary currencies do not work. That is a severe problem that must be solved before cryptocurrency is viable. Limiting the total number of coins means that the currency is deflationary. Furthermore, our current system of loans is based on printing money and requiring payback with interest. That won't work with a limited number of coins.

It's also well-known that blockchain can't scale to handle the volume of transactions that the Visa network handles.

Most of the USD is already electronic. Could we get something cryptocurrency-like with minor improvements? Probably. Will the "crypto" community like it? Probably not, because the "crypto" community knows nothing about how real economics work.
In my experience in discussing these issues with people who were pro-FOSTA, this argument has helped them realize that it is violating the first amendment, and an example of government controlling the internet. So I have to respectfully disagree with your conclusion.
> Again, as an audience member in an obviously zero-sum debate, I'm extremely skeptical of the double-crux.

For some context, double-cruxing came out of the rationalist community (specifically CFAR), which commonly refers to persuasive rhetoric as the dark arts. They do not develop tools for use in the dark arts.
To all those who answered - are you really sure whatever you mentioned, actually makes you happy? And not it is what you think makes you happy?

Not trying to be a wise ass here - just curious how people know what makes them happy. Asking because I have a hard time answering OP's question
The amount of sweeping reform the US Gov would need to overcome in order to take action on this is pretty massive. Seems like it would not happen unless they felt their currency was threatened by digital currencies. Then they might move faster.

If they did do this tomorrow, it would instantly become the top market cap cryptocurrency in the world.

The hardest part about cryptocurrency is that the coin is only as good as the community around it including the holders. Fair distribution is the one feature that has been thus far unachievable and it would really require usage of a mandated government ID database. That would be the US Gov coin advantage beyond branding and enforcement weapons.
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It should be know that in many jurisdictions (at least within the US) the officer's belief that you're impaired is usually enough for arrest - regardless of the outcome of any field sobriety tests or machine results.

On one hand I understand this approach due to the dizzying array of factors that cause impaired driving - from alcohol to prescription drugs to designer drugs that may not have definitive tests available. Seeing as sleep deprived drivers often perform as poorly as impaired drivers on various tests that should be included as well.

On the other, this is still a situation where an officer's opinion with no supporting evidence (or conflicting evidence) can lead to arrest.

Sure, you may "win" in front of a judge eventually but this is after you get handcuffed, spend the night in jail, have an arrest on your record, etc. Not to mention having your mugshot posted online by various unscrupulous sites running an extortion racket (demanding payment to remove). You'll soon discover that to many people simply being arrested = guilty.

In my case my "win" came 14 months later when the judge watched the dashcam footage, saw that my driving, speech, behavior, etc clearly wasn't impaired and threw the case out. Total time in court was less than 20 minutes.

Interestingly we watched the dash cam footage after the officer testified. At one point my attorney asked why the officer thought I was impaired. He responded with "I'm Irish Catholic and I know what drunk people look like". The entire courtroom (myself included) laughed.
This is both cool and awful
Everyone who likes iPhones owns one, so that removes status.

Personal anecdote, I dislike Apple computers, but I like their phones. So I am at least one person who doesn't buy them for brand.

This notion is outdated.
PiHole really needs to have a local DNS-over-HTTPS bridge. In some countries upstream providers do DNS poisoning for censorship purposes.
Slippery slope? Haha.
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I was told from a college kid(dont trust), that its a 100% back on your taxes.

Anyone verify?
"The "government" can't "arbitrarily inflate the currency"."

The US government can literally do this. They can print as much money as they feel like. It would be 'dumb' for sure, but the US treasury is indeed allowed to do this.

There was even talks of solving the national debt crisis by having Obama create a trillion dollar coin a couple years ago.
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I do, for sure. Feeling like you're helping your employees (and they're sending signals that they feel helped) definitely relates to the delight you get from watching your children grow.
In a Conex shipping container on the side of a mountain outside of Portland, OR. Was at a customer installation site and had to do some custom work on-site to implement a feature for them.
A lot of attempts at charity have backfired, often due to cultural differences between the benefactor and those on the receiving end, or a lack of oversight or poorly-thought-out plans. See: PlayPump [1], UNICEF's Cluster-bomb-colored food drops [2], etc

[1] http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/07/01/the-playpump-what-we...
[2] https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2003/04/02/UNICEF-Rations-b...
Back before the 40 hour work week a lot of those tasks were outsourced to wives.
>Ideally the initial coins would be evenly distributed to US citizens and taxpayers— [...] The government can likely create a lot of de novo wealth for its citizens in the process.

This USDC proposal seems to reiterate the same themes as a previous blog post "American Equity".[1]

>, but I think the network needs to be mostly in charge (e.g., the government couldn’t be allowed to arbitrarily inflate the currency when it wanted to).

I doubt the USA government or any other modern government with fiat money would agree to this. Inflating currency is a hidden way to spend money it doesn't have. E.g. since Social Security payments are denominated in US Dollars, the govt can _nominally_ keep its payment promises by printing more USD.

Sure, the buying power of each USD for each SS recipient is severely reduced in that scenario but most citizens don't understand nominal dollars vs real buying power and therefore, it's a win-win for the govt.

A cryptocurrency that doesn't allow government flexibility to spend money that it doesn't have will have monumental political hurdles.

[1] http://blog.samaltman.com/american-equity
I thought you had to root your Android to block ads?

In my household we have four people with smartphones and another four laptops. That's a lot of ads to block.

Blocking ads on my laptop made a more noticeable improvement to web browsing than increasing my network bandwidth.
Optimistically I'd like to think you can but there's always more to be made if you're not.
Why do people keep repeating this tired and offensive myth? I bought my iphone for the hardware and software capabilities that I judged to be the best for my use cases. And I am not the only one that actually had a non-trite reason, I am sure.
> The current practices seem to be for governments to mostly ignore cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency enthusiasts to mostly ignore government

To me this is the biggest falsehood about cryptocurrency. There is virtually no anonymity in cryptocurrency. You can't do anything with cryptocurrency without verifying your ID. It is now ubiquitous to provide your driver license and social security on every reputable exchange.

I honestly find it more restrictive to use cryptocurrency than the few dollars I have in my pocket. I can take it outside and buy some candy in the alley without anyone having a record of it. Can't do that with cryptocurrency.

The only way to get around this is to mine your own coins. However, mining is impossible for individuals because of the mining farms.
"The US government could decide to treat USDC as a second legal currency, which would be hugely powerful."

I'd love for Sam to dig deeply into The Federal Reserve System and write about this topic with that knowledge.

[EDIT]: The more I think about this the more surprised I find myself. Sam assumes that the United States just can spin up a competitive currency to the Federal Reserve Note. This completely misunderstands the nature of the matrix and its power structure. For any seekers out there, following this rabbit hole is a fun romp on the way to spiritual awakening.
I have struggled in the past to learn modern C++. I think the language is pretty cool, but couldn't find good guide in learning about them.

Having used Rust for a year or so, now I look back at these features and they seem quite natural. I have to say the documentations and tutorials from Rust community is great. It might be a detour, but now I feel much more comfortable reading modern C++ blogs and watch this video!
Indeed. I will add to that, when I do allocate email time I answer carefully, don't fob people off and make sure everyone does get an answer. That is better customer service than a person who gives snap replies just to be fast
>There are now breathalyzers that are near enough as accurate as blood tests

But in the general case this is quite simply not possible. It might be very accurate in the controlled case of a subject who hasn't consumed anything in the past hour but these breathalyzers are not being used in a nice controlled environment. The concentration of alcohol in a breath can vary wildly compared to the concentration in the blood. If someone used e.g. mouthwash a few minutes before being tested it will indicate a high BAC even if it's actually zero.

Unless the police are going to start forcing people to brush their teeth, clean their tongue, and use some form of non alcoholic mouthwash before testing you can't come close to the sort of accuracy that an actual blood test would give. In real world conditions there are too many situations where the concentration of alcohol in your breath is substantially different than the concentration of alcohol in your blood.
You fundamentally can't do this.

Sure – you can set up a couple of VPSs running MySQL, then set up a durable, replicated configuration. Then you need some system to spin up new instances when an instance fails. Then you need some kind of UI to allow that to happen. And you need to implement some kind of point-in-time recovery system, as well as backups, user authentication, monitoring… and so on.

The point is, AWS allows you to buy those services instead of spending time building them yourself. There's nothing wrong with building your own database cluster if it makes sense for your use case – but there's nothing wrong with buying one in if it makes sense, either!
Well, if it were criminal money, then I guess it matters how it was obtained.. e.g. if they killed 5,104 babies to get it. Could have been a boring white-collar crime though, since I'm sure someone would have noticed 5,104 dead babies and raised an issue with it.
We all get frustrated, I get it. I've found a good rule of thumb for those types of situations is thinking about how the post would look if you said "I work at $COMPANY and directly represent them". Even if you don't include that copy in your posts (which larger companies enforce, see the typical "I work at X" disclaimers all over HN), it helps frame how your post may be interpreted.
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Why Stanford University produces so many celebrated tech entrepreneurs?
Why do social skills have any preferred treatment over any other skills? I'd say smart is best measured by IQ.
Using DNS blocking with Pixelserv on DD-WRT, 300 MHz single-core IIRC, there is no noticable performance hit.
It takes a few minutes to handshake each users connection with the NSA to be recorded. Call quality was better when it was peer to peer and not routed through a Central Intelligence Agency.
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