skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry if this sounds harsh, but this is a bad comment.

some prominent figures in AI/ML are saying we are due for another "AI winter" since it's being oversold again.

"Some say...". Name one.

We may have a Gartner style "trough of disillusionment", but a 1990's style AI Winter is unlikely. It works too well in too many valuable areas for the money to go away.

technically Google is kind of saying they can tentatively pass the Turing Test with phones

Could you show us where they claim that? That goes well beyond any statement I've heard Google make, and into the kinds of breathless claims click-bait blogs have tried to make.

car decked out with extra sensors and 360 LIDAR cannot detect a simple stop sign with mud on it

Do you have a specific example of that? I did Google, and I couldn't fine anything.

Most examples I've seen handle occulted road signs pretty well. There are of course adversarial examples which are an interesting case, but mud causing a failure like this is surprising to me.
I find the background play restriction offensive, it's my choice as a user and none of their business what tab I'm in.
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Wow, what a trove of good stuff. Thanks!
These are the stories we tell ourselves. Be they scientific or otherwise. The science is nice, it helps us get around in the world. But when stories become overwhelming, maybe it’s time for a change (of mind).

“Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Slightly OT but the evidence we have strongly suggests that exterminating the wolf is the primary reason for the expansion of the range of the coyote to most of the continental USA.

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170516-when-wolves-return-t...
Do you rather feel that Reddit has gotten worse or did you grow out of it?

I feel like me or the web has changed significantly over the past years. I'm just not sure if I'm different and have seen it all or if everything became more professional and commercial and at the same time less interesting to explore.
The joy, wonder, and awe I experience today is a large part due to the sacrifices of people who are no longer alive. If you could do something today to positively affect the well being of someone in Africa, would see the value in it? How is that so different than doing something that would affect the value of people who will exist in the future?
"Lucky" has a negative connotation. Is there a better word that implies something closer to "he made good choices and they worked out even better than expected" or at least something neutral?
But do you see the point? You’re consistently surprised by the difference between fields where you have to make an active effort to know you’re enjoying something at all vs those where the difference between real and fraud is unfakeable. In neither node nor cancer research do you have to go through significant effort to even be aware that there exists a relevant difference at all. In neither case is the fan entirely responsible for awareness of a difference at all, as they are for wine.
Pollan makes the point that he isn't advocating that people score some mushrooms or tabs of acid then charge ahead. He says what he did, and what was done back in the 50s and 60s before it became illegal, was to have an experienced therapist check his mental health, describe what was likely to happen, and give him guidance on how to deal with what he experienced. He then took the substance(s) and was guided by this professional while he had his experience. Then there was a debriefing where they went over what he experienced.

No doubt a lot of recreational users get away with just dropping acid without forethought, but some don't fare well.
My position* is transpilers are a subset of compilers. So yes, Cfront was a compiler, and a transpiler.

* Which I admittedly didn't make clear in the parent comments, but did mention elsewhere in this thread.
I believe that the situation is simpler and more powerful than what the article claims.

Basically you need two things:

1) Some slight advantage

2) The network effect, that is, for example, the probability of competing depends on the current winnings.

If you have these two things, you get 80-20 like distributions, you get the explanation for why winners keep winning. If you are interested, you can find my simulation and analysis at

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~arnold/research/80-20/

Kind of shocking how well this works. The intuition is, why has Coke won, well they had some initial advantage, and so they won a bit. Now that they have won a bit, they can finance themselves into more competition. For example, they can place themselves into more stores, into more restaurants etc. Now they get a chance to compete more. When I run with rules:

r1) Actors have normally distributed abilities,

r2) Actors are chosen randomly based on current winnings, the more you have won, the more you compete,

r3) Winner of competition wins one point from the loser,

You get interesting results, for example, in the two columns below, the left is Household income in 1970 broken into quintiles. The right column is simulation results.

4.1% 6.7%

10.8% 11.5%

17.4% 16.0%

24.5% 23.3%

43.3% 45.6%

Interesting how well the top 3 or 4 quintiles match between the simulation and the real world data.

If you run the simulation with different rules, the real world quintiles do not match the simulation quintiles nearly as well. You can tweak the simulation to see this as well.

The simulation can be tweaked to handle cases such as inheritance, so an actor with different ability inherits the wealth of a past actor. When I run this simulation, around 80-90% of top 20% actors lose all wealth in 3 generations. See for example:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/globe-wealth/....
Have you SEEN how Bash array indexing works? It’s not exactly user friendly. Same with Bash hashtables (which I don’t think are really hashtables).

I love Bash and use it way more often than I should, but Bash is not a friendly language. Mocking and stubbing functions is really hard to do, which makes tests awkward, even with BATS. And you need to watch the file descriptor to which text is sent to avoid things get globes unexpectedly. And you need to properly scope your vars to avoid unexpected collisions. And everything regarding sourcing and importing dependencies. Etc.
I highly suggest reading 'Why god won't go away' by Andrew Newberg, Eugene D'Aquili, and Vince Rause.

IIRC, the posterior superior parietal lobe essentially orients your body within your consciousness. When people have religious experiences this part of the brain has extra activity. If that activity was blocking that part of the brain from properly orienting your body, wouldn't a feeling of 'oneness' make a lot of sense? I imagine that if you combine that with strange, new temporal lobe activity and you have a divine consciousness communicating with yours.

The people who I've seen talk about about that took very high doses, usually of dmt or ayuhuasca.
It is not safe to say that. I've been tracking this glitch for months and I estimate millions of dollars in fraudulent shipping charges have been added by sellers exploiting this glitch.

I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't test ordered and seen the charges with my own eyes.

Edit: go to https://www.amazon.com/Scalpmaster-Shampoo-Brush-Purple-Coun.... Place a 1-click order. Verify for yourself.
The problem is that most of the individuals invited to a meeting are not needed, they know they're not needed, and they've got other things that they are needed for.

Agreed. Just because someone HAS to give their input in a conversation for an item to move forward, does not mean they need to be pulled away from their work for 1+ hours. Meetings really should be broken up into two roles: brainstormers, who are truly the people working their way through the item, and "expert witnesses" who can provide key details or contributions as necessary, through slack like you said.
Functional build systems are a great idea. The main problem I had implementing such a system was the file system. It's tough to capture all inputs and outputs, even with the best of intentions.

The other problem is integration. You can't expect all 3rd party projects to suddenly adopt your build system, so eventually you have to invoke `configure`, `make`, `cmake`, `pkg-config`, `xcode`, and so on. While you can satisfactorily capture most of these inputs and outputs, it's non-trivial to do it completely, at some point you have something that works and it's good enough.
I've had a chance to see stats in an ad sales pitch by a media conglomerate. Most of the stats I see are the chunks of data which are sliced to sound impressive (uplevel correlation to imply causation)
Ex:- Within the region filter X, among the millennials, the sales of SUV's increased by 10% is worded as Youth buys more SUV's if you buy our ad slots with a footnote for filters

Point being, governments create misleading stats, companies create misleading stats, makes me agree even more with the author!
PS:- Misleading !=(also, =!) incorrect
Buy 10 years of registration initially, then each year set yourself a reminder to extend this by one year. It's not automagical.

That said, with Gandi, you can just set it to auto-renew, which works pretty well.
What is the distribution of good choices? Those aren't luck or smarts or effort, but they matter.
I experienced ego death and it brought me out of my very depressed state. I felt so centered and driven afterwards and that feeling lasted for months. It might've been a gamble but I'm absolutely glad that I took it.
If this service was some run of the mill e-commerce or SaaS I wouldn't have this reaction, but being a critical monitoring service that was down for days, this reflects very poorly on them. My reaction is that I'd never use uptimechecker.io. Quite honestly I am baffled why they'd even want to write this post for others unaware of their company and the outage to discover. It does not reflect well on them, despite spinning it and rightly blaming domain.com.

Just use a respected and well known registrar such as Amazon Route 53 domains. This could have all been avoided. I know the blame "should" fall on domain.com, but ultimately startups are responsible for their service.
Boeing 747s are back in demand as workhorses of global shipping
Is the seller trying to trick people in to buying paper plates? Or is that just one of the ways people launder money using Amazon?
> more than eighty percent of urban Americans live in affordable metro areas.

I'm sorry but you didn't prove that. You proved that 80% of Americans live near houses that are under 300k. To prove that 80% of Americans aren't suffering from housing issues you would have to show that 80% of American households earn an income such that with 25% of that income they can afford a reasonable home. I don't know the answer to that.

I perfectly understand that insane housing prices are a local Bay Area issue. What I'm unsure of is what the case is for most of Americans. The reason I say this is because my high school friends set (of whom 0% are engineers and 0% are in Bay Area), a significant portion (>30%) are struggling with housing related issues. I know that's anecdotal, but I'm just asking if anyone has a real data point to indicate if the housing issue is national or not. Citing that most of America has low house prices does not answer that question.

For context I grew up in an area where a 100K house would be considered luxurious so I am perfectly aware of how low housing prices are in America compared to Bay Area. That area also has lost tons of jobs so in order to support themselves, the younger generation has had to move to higher COL cities where there are jobs available (and where they can't afford housing). If you have any references that show that 80% of the population can easily afford local housing then I would gladly agree with your assertion that the housing issue isn't national.
They could go outside with you, instead of confining you to a room with headphones on.
From what I've understood, the founders started Preferred Infrastructure and then spun off Preferred Networks when deep learning started getting really hot. The two founders in the article moved to PFN and PFI kinda stopped doing things in general.
FYI, 3p sellers through subscribe and save have prices locked in. They can raise prices but people subscribing will not pay more.

Not the case for amazon selling directly, though.
Forrest vs trees..... Sigh
They explain this as a red flag on the SEC page. https://www.investor.gov/howeycoins

> Investors should understand that most licensed and registered investment firms do not allow their customers to use credit cards to buy investments or to fund an investment account. We urge investors to work only with a licensed or registered investment professional or firm and not attempt to use a credit card to fund investments.
> I've gone from someone who 100% believed in evolution and a material universe, to someone who deep down thinks there may be a God, and I may actually have to face some kind of hell for some kind of sins I may unknowingly commit in this life.

Well, it sounds like you went from being an atheist to an agnostic. That certainly is a more rational and less dogmatic position to take, based on what we know. As for the Hell thing, well, it's a possibility. Even Buddhism has hell realms.

Had something similar happen to me. I was a staunch atheist before psychedelics, now the notion of a purely material universe seems naive. Anyway, I wanted to share with you an excerpt from a blog post I'm working on. Might be a bit rough still.

> There's no easy path to enlightenment, but we do have some astounding tools and methods at our disposal. There is the humble magic mushroom, which, along with LSD and other psychedelics, breaks down the substrate of reality for a brief period of time. After witnessing the day-to-day patterns of conditioned behavior, and reality itself, melt away, it's a bit easier to disattach from falsehood. But it's also tempting to take the psychedelic experience for truth, when it itself is a distorted presentation of reality. I personally think that psychedelics increase communication between the rational mind and the rest of the brain, and that psychedelic visions are the rational mind's interpretations of subconscious activity. Mostly these are just wrong interpretations; the two sides of the mind don't communicate often and can't understand each other very well. We have to resist taking the experience at face value and dig deeper to find the kernels of truth.
The Rust compiler is getting faster
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Like with anything, you need to carefully curate what you consume. Like Twitter, Reddit can be an excellent place if you follow only subreddits that intrigue you.
After reading your term 'ego death', I'm reminded of a particular time that I used LSD, and am starting to wonder if that's what brought me out of my depressive state. About three months later I graduated undergrad and started a new job, which transformed my life for the better.
Nope, it's just a crappy recording:

https://www.wired.com/story/yanny-and-laurel-true-history
Obviously, but that doesn't change the validity of the argument
How Custom Assertion Matchers Will Keep Mocks Away
This looks like a good stab at avoiding all the pitfalls of Make while still providing the same or better capability.
Go read some history. Power is Power, and will wear any damned guise it wants.

Corporations, criminals, monarchies, democracies, Fascists, Communists, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Confucists, Goths, Huns, Romams, Macedonians, Persians, Greeks, Trojans, Hittites, Israelites, etc., etc., etc., have slaughtered, sacked, enslaved, oppressed, or dehumanised others, all in the name of temporary gain.

The British East India company had armies. Wyoming cattlemen funded a mercenary army in the Johnson Count War. Coal wars in Apallachia and Colorado. U.S. Steel, Standard Oil, the Pullman Company, the L.A. Times, Union Carbide in Bhopal, oil companies throughout the US, Middle-east, Indonesia, and Africa. Fruit companies in Latin America. Sugar, tobacco, and cotton plantations. Coal mines in Wales. The Kochs today.
> I once took LSD (mixed with other things aswell...)

You should disclose all the substances you took for your comment to have any validity as anecdata. Your story is very different whether the “other substances” were “marijuana and theine” or “datura and cocaine”.
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HTC is launching a blockchain-powered phone
I find it more interesting to view it as a Chaos Monkey for the symbolic system that is the mind.

The ways in which we organize and make sense of the world calcify with the repetition of certain memes.

The idea at least is that psychedelics add entropy to this habituation. Perhaps this itself causes a lot of trouble for people (like myself) who think they have this world figured out in a significant way, only to start seeing God/Satan/Hades and throw that all up in the air.

Going on that journey without an experienced guide would be the dangerous part methinks (Pollan discusses this in another podcast he was a guest on recently)
Sorry for the late reply - was out.

Sorry if the opt-outs a lengthy process. I guess the redesign team want to extract as much info from you as possible. I would just go to old.reddit.com if I were you ;)
A lot of managers out there like that unfortunately.
The Romantic stereotype that creativity is enhanced by a mood disorder

That's postulated as a given. If it's not a given, then it's a red herring. The author supplies no evidence that it's a given. As far as I got, the phrase 'mood disorder' was undefined.

... But is there any scientific reason to believe in a connection?

Science doesn't believe, science constructs and improves models based on repeatable observations. That which cannot be observed cannot be modelled. People can choose to 'believe' those models ... which is 'faith'. Which science was invented to get away from.

So in the first two paragraphs, the author prepares us for the illucid neo-phrenology which follows.
Have you tried ketamine? Not just for recreation, but as a possible treatment. It definitely is not going to last 60+ hours, more like .75-1.25hr, but it may be useful for acute symptoms. But if you approach an anesthetic dose it is quite enjoyable and calming, especially if you're already accustomed to psychedelic/narcotic experiences and the like.
The right answer is to use your own repository and pull those images in-house where they can be scanned and verified, I.e. , run a container from that image, scan it using security tools, then action from there.

You can also kind-of recreate a Dockerfile from an image using docker history: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19104847/how-to-generate...

In the general case, it’s the same as a Ruby Gem or NodeJS module going away from rubygems or npmjs; once its gone, its gone
1. Whatabboutism.

2. Yes, we do.

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/foKDxbyh...
U.S. Army, Uber sign research agreement
It's really sad to see this article about animal abuse on the front page of HN.
How physics gender gap starts in the classroom
I guess you haven't heard about Google Duplex demo of two weeks ago? https://youtu.be/bd1mEm2Fy08?t=42
Sadly, this attitude among my fellow sysadmins is one of the reasons I avoid larger companies.
It’s illegal in every country with a developed system of securities law for a good reason.

All ICO’s are scams. Period.
> I'm a man of science, but the feeling/perception was so real, my entire world view was shattered.

Something maybe similar happened to me after being with my grandfather while he died peacefully at home. It doesn’t take drugs to change a personal narrative that might be stuck in certainty, life can do that too, nor is it necessarily a bad thing in my mind.
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Gosh, thanks! Certainly didn't expect the change or want to be seen as asking for it. But it's lovely that you did it so thanks!
It is not harmless. As far I am concerned, it is no problem if you track it with your own analytics like piwik. For that part I don't care (unless you are having urls like aliexpress). But giving those information to 3rd party is something else.
Sorry for the late reply - was out. And for putting words in your mouth. I understand now your more about incremental steps rather than drastic changes.

Thanks for the feedback. As I'm not on the web or redesign team I don't know how feasible that would have been.. I know there was a ton of stuff being done in strange ways with the legacy system.. but I can promise that with the new framework we will be able to make the usual A/B adjustments a lot easier and hopefully evolve more incrementally now into something better than both the current old and new designs.
Go look at house price to income ratio rankings. They broadly track house prices, which is to say, Chicago --- which does not have a housing price crisis --- appears in the same place on both rankings, and San Jose appears on the top of both lists.
Wasn't their fault. Their users deserve to know exactly what happened. I value transparency.
I agree with everything you said. I also support the YIMBY solution (building more housing to drive down prices). However, my only point (which HN seems to downvote) is that the YIMBY party in San Francisco has an image / branding issue. They are perceived as being techies out of touch with lower income and minority groups. As you have rightly pointed out this is probably a flawed view, but it is a branding issue.
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You are again conflating disagreements with "reprehensible". I disagree with lots of politicians on lots of issues. I find very few of those positions to be actually reprehensible.
God that sounds mental.
I can confirm this. It is an item for $0.01 with free shipping. Once you add it to your cart and go to checkout it adds $10 in shipping fees.

I got a generic response from support about sellers setting their own prices. I do not know if the "concern team" will actually look into this or get back to me but my question is being sent to them.

I will no longer be using 1-click ordering until I know this issue is resolved.

This seems at best a very bad bug / loophole for sellers to exploit or at worst a deceptive scam to steal from people. I hope Amazon takes this seriously and fixes it.
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While we have demonstrated that our approach works,
we have not yet implemented all features of the build
system, and hope to do so over the next few months

This is a pretty major caveat. Almost damning in its significance, honestly. There are plenty of "works, but haven't quite implemented all of the old features" projects littering the world. I love that there are learnings here, and those should be seen as the most important artifact of any project. I do wish there were paths to get those learnings back to the old systems, though. :(