skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems trivial, but I have met someone whose ardent hobby was programming go-playing programs. With the creation of AlphaGo Zero, one could say all the clever code ever written by humans for the purpose of playing go is obsolete.

More relevantly, I would be surprised if the shift to AI techniques in fraud detection at places like PayPal is not already having an impact on the career paths of the engineers that were tasked with maintaining and tuning their pre-ML fraud system. At one point the top engineers of the original heuristic system could have been considered their most valuable non-management employees at the company. I'm sure they're not out on the streets or anything, but I also assume the next person to take their job will not be nearly as valued.

Also, ML will impact programmer demand in subtle ways. A lot of programming is refactoring, and there is reason to believe we can refactor code, especially in certain languages, automatically to make it more aesthetic. Realistically, that seems likely to decrease demand for programmer hours. Or an ML system that can run over someone's GitHub account or repo may be the new resume screen, and if one scores badly on it that may limit the demand for them personally.

Finally, I have to think that the overall march of software towards more complex integrated systems is already a major cause of the dearth of entry-level programming positions, and ML will accelerate that trend.
Either I ask customers to send me loads of PII, or I ask them to make their first payments in bitcoin.

I’ll always choose the latter.
I feel like there's a pretty big thing left out of this article.

Why did they bring that on the plane?
They tried something like this in the 90s.

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/01/automobiles/a-smart-road-...
I wonder why the opt-in wasn't performed by the telco itself!!!

I'm just learning about this whole thing now and I'm very upset.
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YES. Somebody gets it.
Sorry to break it to you but many games (like first person shooters) currently have no depth perception and would be greatly enhanced by it. Literally every 3D game you play today can and will be enhanced in VR because of this reason.
The Newton came long after Jobs left Apple, it was Scully’s thing. The Pippin was released at the beginning of 1996, while Apple announced the purchase of NeXT that December.
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What business would you start in 2018?
Are you under the impression that people in this thread have lionized the plaintiff as if he were Edward Snowden?

I'm having trouble following your reasoning here. Because this incident of whistleblowing didn't bring down the armaments industry, it is essentially worthless? Because the TSA can be stringent against mundane and otherwise safe carry-ons, that this means we shouldn't judge those who think it safe to bring undisclosed explosives in their carry-ons?
In my town Waterloo Lutheran University became Wilfrid Laurier University. I thoroughly enjoy backronyms.
There is a lot of social capital to acquire by making solved problems worse (e.g. "reddit redesign") so blockchain will probably see much wider adoption soon.

On the bright side, there will be a lot of social capital to acquire by "fixing blockchain" with revolutionary "centralised databases" afterwards :)
Colleges are not interested in that.

Accreditation won't allow the required changes. Of course, accreditation is controlled by the existing members of the club; colleges don't want accreditation to allow radical change.

Aside from that political difficulty, cutting the cost of a degree in half is trivial: get rid of the non-major classes. I suppose this applies even to non-STEM majors; there is little justification for making an English major take a class on differential equations.
>Who will pick strawberries?

Let's frame this a different way...

"Who will actually spend the money to develop a strawberry picking machine when there are piles of people that are willing to do it for below minimum wage and no health care?"

Having some group you use at near slave labor status can hold back technological innovation.
It's hard to tell isn't it? Since it's know, the bad guys would be stupid to plan something that involved dragging weapons or explosives through the security checks.

Some where stupid and tried and succeeded. A limited number then accidentally set their underwear on fire and a few others managed to make a hole in plane.
Are you referring to the statement that he himself called an "highdea" and started with "what if"? In any case, I can't be bothered with this anymore. If you don't have a source for what you stated, then that's fine with me.
Ethereum is top public blockchain, Bitcoin No. 13 in China's new index
Both the American government and the rest of the western world should strive toward policies rewarding birth instead of limiting it.
Would you mind paste-binning/gist/posting the script? I'd be interested in seeing exactly how easy it was. I was playing around with the site last night but couldn't get anywhere.
I think faking is the wrong word here, but it seems entirely possible that the feature was demonstrated using ideal conditions, etc. Consider that we still haven't seen the Google Photo object removal feature demoed last year.
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> I imagine with practice anything is possible regarding VR. The mind can make anything believable if you just relax and let it happen.

That's generally good advice for journeying of any kind, whether we're talking about VR, psychedelics, drumming, meditation, lucid dreaming, or reading a really good book.
IVPN (Gribaltar), Mullvad (Sweden) or PIA (U.S.) are the best bet for most users IMO. They are all fast, no logging, and have good apps.

IVPN, Mullvad are not in U.S. jurisdiction if you are concerned about that. Most people are not and just want a VPN to hide shit from ISP, etc...

Although PIA is U.S. based, they keep no logs and then they have their famous "FBI" case which they did not provide anything to them.

I myself personally use IVPN, but I have used Mullvad as well.

https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-section/

This is the best resource for vpn reviews, ignore everything else.

Also https://www.privacytools.io/ is great overall and they do have a vpn section

https://www.reddit.com/r/VPN/ has a bunch of more info as well.
Didn't flat growth in Japan happen much earlier than this problem? My memory might not serve me well, but my own understanding is their flat growth is a hangover related to their debt bubble popping in the late 1980s - with the bad debt still getting purged out of the system nowadays.
Meanwhile Chinese citizens "subsidize" the rest of our economy...

The only difference is we can't move all our food factories abroad, so the labor travels here.
SpaceX is starting a period when it will be gathering immense profits, since as the low-price leader it won't need to pass on the savings from booster reuse to its customers, and doesn't plan to.

Granted, Jobs profits came from a closed system and illegal moats vs interoperability (not that those laws, or many others, are enforced vs corporations very often.) Whereas Musk doesn't admire those who leverage mere Network Efforts.
I think they may be able to get around two-party consent laws if they never save the audio stream to disk, and only record the output of their audio processing function.

Interesting question - would love to hear an opinion from a lawyer.

Side question: What makes recording voicemail legal? Is there just a presumption that people understand that voicemail is a recording? I don't think I've ever heard a two-party consent warning before leaving a message.
Could it be German and trains? I haven't known a country that is so into trains besides Germany. Actually, engineering in general is pretty high all the German guy's interest.
Steve Jobs WAS a flakey joker though.

My father was a senior engineer and manager at NeXT, and I often came to the office with him as they built their own manufacturing line. I learned to write my first GUI code on a NeXT Color Station in my father's lab on weekends when he'd go into work. I got to meet Jobs more than once. I realized early on he was a strange and scary guy and that I didn't want to be like him.

Surely ya'll have heard the "triangle firing" story from NeXT? A senior engineer had, as a joke, a triangle up on the wall who's points were labeled "On time, Complete, Under Budget" and at the bottom, "Pick any two." This is a slightly cynical take on a pretty famous constraint diagram. Steve Jobs looked at this and literally fired the guy on the spot for having a "bad attitude." It didn't matter that "it's a joke."

At Apple, Jobs was famously abusive with his staff, demanding that each one be able to entertain and interest him even if that was clearly not their job. It's not a joke to say folks avoided Jobs whenever they could, you could end up with double workload or pressure on your manager or whatever just because you couldn't articulate your current work in a compelling way.

Maybe he succeeded because he was these things, but to many people he was a frightening, tyrannical, capricious person.
there's only one planet 9 but probably zillions of dwarf planets. there are enough of them that it's feasible that you can stumble across one through something closer to dumb luck
A sign of a good manager/exec is their reaction to a demo. If they say "I don't believe you, this looks magical", they might actually be thinking about what it would take to bring your demo to production. If they say "wow that's great, amazing work guys!" it is time to worry.
Raising a seed round instead of a Series A
This controller is targeted at gaming on both Xbox and Windows. (Because Xbox is Windows, locked down or not, and Xbox design is Windows 10 design, and all Xbox One controllers are Windows 10 controllers.)
I think the point here is that the need for such a currency is not absolute and may be outweighed by the cost of such a large energy consumption rate.
Mildly related: The bus replacement rail service - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WHmETKW72E
Unfortunately.tech – a collection of rejection letters
> what does PoW-consensus blockchain ledger make possible that isn't possible without it?

Preventing double spends in a decentralized manner without a trusted third party. No other form of digital currency can do that.

There is a possibility that PoW can be replaced with some form of PoS (proof of stake) but it's not certain if it works well enough. Note that I consider both PoW and PoS backed ledgers cryptocurrencies.

> It's not a matter of what they've been better than status-quo broken finance systems.

They're better than everything at the examples I listed.
I would be interested in your estimates of how much you believe produce prices would actually rise if farm workers were paid non-exploitative wages. I would also remind you that many of these poor people would be the ones receiving that higher wage.
> And the people leading immigration suppression in the US know this.

Yeah, but most don't focus on it. Paul Ryan is parroting his father and is not particularly brave or interesting. He's just a guy looking for a new cause to champion, because then he can just be the first, rather than compete. It has little to do with the "issue", which is a non-issue.

> US is going to face the same low birth rate problems as other advanced economies

Weaseling in "advanced economies" (which means countries without vast natural resources to exploit or what?) is not compelling as part of a narrative, as much as it's a nonsequitor.
Yes, I know what short-selling is. And I think everyone who read the article knows that a short-seller brought up this lawsuit, since it says so right in the article:

> Aurelius Value, a short-seller, highlighted the lawsuit in a report Thursday, saying the allegations could disrupt AeroVironment’s relationship with government agencies.

Maybe I should have been more specific in my question: I wanted to know if the parent commenter was asserting that the allegation itself is false/spurious.
Which of these cities is even near to the physical limit?

I think you're getting downvoted because none of them are at any sort of physical limit.

Density is amazingly good for humans: it promotes huge amounts of intellection and economic growth.

Density is what so much of the country is yearning for, and being denied by prior generations and entrenched wealthy residents.

There's only one place density should go: cities. And they have a ton of room for growth in the US to even match other dense cities in world, such as Paris.
From my perspective it seems unfortunate that google has mishandled these questions to the extent that we’re seeing stories saying the demo was fake. Perhaps the goal is to generate a narrative that the technology is so astonishing that everyone said it was fake.
Seems to me that he was calling him a Joker because Jobs wanted a service from them ("catalog sheets") without paying for it or without paying the going rate ("Wanted it for nothing").

Also, I'm not sure if I agree with the transcription in one part. Doesn't seem to be "Our catalog sheets", but rather "10 (something?) catalog sheets". The (something) is probably an abbreviation or shorthand. Maybe 10 inch? Or 10 thousand? I really don't understand the context well enough to be sure, but it seems like the writer thinks he's being unrealistic and asking for more than he needs for a price that's not realistic. Which would make the "joker" assessment pretty understandable.
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You honestly don't even have to keep your costs way down. If you just live with roommates and don't actively try and spend a ton of money you'll be able to save enough in seven to ten years to probably buy a house somewhere else (or at least cover 60% of it).

The trick is that reestablishing an entire friend network and getting comfortable in an area takes time. The first year or two in a place is usually more difficult and I suspect this gets even harder as you get older and people are paired off.

If you live in the bay area in your 20s with roommates and then pick up and move to Austin or Boulder at 30 it's probably hard to make friends (though I'd guess dating is probably a lot easier).
"If there's nothing inherently bad about energy consumption" is assuming a lot. In theory we could produce all the energy we need with wind, tides, solar, hydro, fusion, zero-point energy, or whatever. Then there would be no issue. But we don't live in that world. We live in a world where most energy in some places is produced with enormous externalities. In other places, the externalities are fewer, but wasting this energy generating bitcoins doesn't eliminate the other uses of the energy, so the aluminum smelters or whatever that might have used the clean energy buy their energy from a different source that pollutes. And if most of the bitcoin mining is happening in China, most of it is being powered with the dirtiest energy source: coal.
The goalposts are jumping all over the field here.

First, the claim was that "It's also not legal for a random citizen to execute or arrest people."

Then, when challenged, the claim became that the amount of lawful force when effecting arrest varies between police and other citizens on a state-by-state basis.

Now you've given a SCOTUS decision (binding across the US obviously, not state-by-state) about qualified immunity (not statutory authority) in the legal context of protecting bystanders (ie, not naked arrest power).

If this is the best argument, then I think that I'm correct in my assertion that police do not have any additional authority to use force in different states to effect an arrest than anyone else.
I have the dream where all my teeth fall out in my mouth, one by one, until they are filling my mouth and I'm so desperate to keep them inside my mouth that I start to choke on them...
Great question! The "Compiling Python" section of my thesis is pretty much an explanation of how I had to translate elements of Python into Rust because of the borrow checker. There were a couple tricks (like using closures for functions) to getting around compile-time borrow checking. Some situations required the use of Rc & RefCell to provide multiple references to mutable data, this defers borrow checking to run time. So yes, the borrow checker got in the way. But I didn't have to write a garbage collector because the automatic memory management was handled via Rust's ownership rules (the caveat here is with cyclical references which would need to be tracked, this work was omitted for time).

It does complicate the generated code, I don't know if Rust is the greatest intermediate representation. But I do think it was a better choice than C. Debugging the generated code was so great because of the detail that the Rust compiler displays for warnings/errors.

I'd be interested in seeing how a Python interpreter written in Rust would compare to CPython, this would probably make use of more Rust optimizations (than trying to generate code).
> I wouldn't discount the entirety of the TSA just because of the failures of the bag-check program.

Bag check programs are focal to these discussions because they cause the most inconvenience to passengers.
> - Signed, someone who wishes they didn't dismiss Bitcoin the first time they heard about it.

Ugh, that is so presumptuous. I've been in Bitcoin since the "Bitcoin 0.3" announcement on Slashdot. I was an engineer at Coinbase. I'm on 2 Bitcoin-related patents. I was reading about Ethereum when people were still learning about Bitcoin. I've tried really hard to see what can be done with cryptocurrencies and I've arrived at different conclusions than you have. I think you may need to ask yourself harder questions.
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Sometimes I hate the US. ;)

We pay somewhere on the order of $40/month for a smartphone plan. And if we add a watch, that's another $10-$20/month.

No option to use just a wearable.
This is a weird point to decide to get stuck on. The whole "coyote/racoon" thing is just meant to be an allegory. The correctness of author's definition of "racoon" is irrelevant; rather, how these definitions correlate to and can help illustrate the author's main point is what matters here.

It would be like reading The Lion and the Mouse and tossing the whole thing out because you think that a mouse really wouldn't be able to chew through all those ropes.
The PS3 worked with standard USB HID gamepads out of the box. Too bad Sony dropped this support in the PS4. Oddly though Sony has allowed developers to ship their own custom USB HID drivers in PS4 games, which some fighting games have done to allow people to use their old PS3 fight sticks.
Hehe, there is no society on earth right now that never incorporated substantial numbers of outsiders. The relatively placid world that we live in today is in no way the historical norm. Hostile conditions are the norm. Ask the Palestinians, the Iraqi, the Iranians, the Panamanians, the Native Americans and Native Canadians and lots of people living elsewhere in Europe and the world (or anybody else for that matter, but for first or second generation immigrants it is obvious) to see how far back their roots go. In most cases you won't have to go much further than three or four generations (assuming you can trace them back at all) before you land abroad and in many cases in wildly different cultures due to wars, colonialism, trade, famine or natural disasters. Japan is due to its state as an island an exception, not the rule and even Japan is subject to the maxim that you use it or you lose it.
I previously didn't have any choice but to use the ISP's router but I recently got fiber and now I'm no longer limited to the router they provide. I might splurge and buy a good one. I used to run my own PC-based router a long time ago but when it became impossible to use with my ISP I dropped it.
Don't worry though, they really support NN even though they want the NN rules gone...
I could understand this response to my first post, since 'InclinedPlane had largely the same reaction. I had thought the post to which you've responded would have clarified the matter? Do you not believe me when I type "I'm not saying that any of the researchers have done anything wrong"?
My parents: "Our kids still are indentured servants"
> Nor is there any ambient noise in Google’s recordings, as one would expect in a hair salon or a restaurant.

Second recording at https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natur... has very clear background noise.
> Also compare that to the multiples of power used today by gold mining, or infrastructure that Bitcoin aims to replace.

Based on DoE estimates of energy cost per ton of gold mined [1] and the current annual production of roughly 3000 tons/year, it looks like gold mining consumes an average of roughly 7 GW (assuming there have been no efficiency improvements since 1975).

That's roughly equal to the power consumption of all Bitcoin mining. But of course Bitcoin can't replace gold, because the majority of gold mined is used for non-monetary applications.

[1]: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2013/11/f4/gold-silv...
We don't need a higher birth rate. We don't need more people.
We have automation to increase productivity.
> Also, by law wireless companies need to be able to ascertain at any time the approximate location of a customer’s phone in order to comply with emergency 911 regulations.

Would it be unfeasible to only track once a 911 call is placed?
> What makes recording voicemail legal?

Presumptively no one forces you into making a recording at the beep. And the recording doesn't start until after the beep.
Having fewer children neatly solves the problem of unemployment
How many grandma's live in retirement homes?

Back then: Have kid when 18-24, Grandma is 36-42.

Now: Have kid when 35, Grandma is 70.
This doesn't make sense to me. Theaters are still collecting full price from movie pass. All they have to do is wait out moviepass to go broke and offer their own club deals with concessions deals on their own terms.
well this buy from one month ago is looking good
How is it better for them to work for you and get a PhD rather than working in industry? I ask this as a computer science PhD student on the theory/algorithms side, where opportunities to learn how to do research fresh out of undergrad are pretty much exclusive to PhD programs. This doesn't seem to be the case for your area, but I imagine there is some edge?
... instead, they will resume replacing two store cashiers with one store cashier to increase profits.
PayPal confirms that it is buying payments startup iZettle for $2.2B
Are these the same millennials that bought snapchat stock at IPO ?
> YIMBY policies like building more market-rate housing

It's important to note that, at least for California, the only YIMBY victory has been this SB-35 Planning and zoning: affordable housing: streamlined approval process [1]

So I think it's really important to stress that "marketrate only" is not a YIMBY ideal. That's something else.

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...
The vast majority of explosives can be quickly differentiated from non-explosives by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

The main practical impediment to detecting concealed explosive material is that some of the explosive substance needs to pass through the GC-MS to be detected. So an explosive with extremely low vapor pressure (e.g. pure PETN) will not be readily detected this way. Plastic explosives made from PETN are more readily detectable, because the plasticizers are more volatile than PETN itself. GC-MS also won't work if the explosive is hermetically sealed so that none of it can reach the detector.

There are also methods based on e.g. terahertz spectroscopy, but AFAIK GC-MS is the most specific and common method of identifying explosive materials.