skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's nice, in my country we have two big movie theater companies who provide a similar service, but I hate it because they serve the food in the beginning of the movie, so there's a lot of noice and waiters coming and going.
He didn't ask to learn but to stirr up like in "commenting on every comment here with my contrary views"
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I read the entire article.

My take: don't bother unless you have some time and are looking to be mildly entertained (very mildly IMO).

It's fluff. The central analogy is a little amusing but doesn't even roughly fit reality.

In chasing its premise the article ignores a key dynamic of "financial innovation" schemes, which is that the schemers largely avoid the negative consequences of their schemes. Well, the money spigot stops at some point, which the schemers see as a tragedy, but they generally aren't losing too much of what they grabbed before the end. In 2008, I think most had to endure talk of losing their bonuses (not actually loss of bonuses, just talk and sometimes a temporary delay). The real consequence is that they have to get back to work building up a new scheme so they can do it all again.
No, for SSL certificates there's value in having a short expiry. For example if the private keys leak. There's no value in having a domain name (that you want to keep) expire.
Transcript: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you...
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What upsets me the most is the fact that Firefox Developer Tools still have no built-in way to inspect WebSocket frames. It's one of the few reasons I use Chrome these days.
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"crazy" is a little unfair there. Particularly with just how mainstream it has become to collect and use retro hardware.

I think what you're trying to say is "the aforementioned social network doesn't have people who share the same interests as me" rather than it being full of people who are mentally unwell.
This. R&D is great, and gets us on HN excited, but it takes a Steve Jobs to come along a few years later to produce a product which creates a market which stimulates and funds the next round. Business success is important for technology development. Voice assistants are probably close, but I feel like we’re on the verge of a big category-defining concept/tech/product in the AI field. The basic technology is there, plenty of people can identify needs, but I don’t think we’ve hit the ‘iPhone’ moment yet.
I can see Uber doing R&D in autonomous cars, I see that an extension - and the next logical steps - for transportation as we know it.

But, when I read:

"The joint work statement focuses on research to create the first usable stacked co-rotating rotors or propellers; this is a concept for having two rotor systems placed on top of each other and rotating in the same direction."

I scratch my head: where is Uber's domain expertise in this?
I think we all know that, but that doesn't necessarily mean Satya isn't putting in the effort. Apple has kept accessibility in mind for a lot long than he has been CEO of Microsoft.
This is a reasonable observation but I doubt anyone will care. Moreover it misses the point of GDPR.

The goal is not to improve people's privacy. It's too vague to achieve that. Obviously the EU doesn't care as even its own websites aren't in compliance - assuming this guy's definition of compliance is the same as theirs. How likely is it the rest of the EU's operations are? Zero likelyhood of that.

But that's OK. GDPR doesn't even have a concrete notion of what privacy or personal information actually are. The goal is not to improve privacy, that's just a fig leaf. The goal is to grant the EU large new powers over the private sector and in particular over American tech firms, who will repeatedly be fined and treated as, effectively, a new source of tax income. GDPR is so vague and open ended that there's no way they can ever be compliant, meaning the EU has a new source of cash for years to come. Very useful at a time when they are asking for budget increases despite years of austerity, and facing a budget hole due to Brexit, and member states are getting upset at their financial demands.

GDPR enforcement will be very similar to EU anti-trust policy - deeply political and immediately controversial. It is best understood not as a law but as a political move, sort of like how China uses laws against pornography to justify blocking foreign search engines, or how it uses a law against 'spreading rumours' to censor domestic social media.
The problem is that people want things to be all one way or another. The reality is that in some cases it's better to trust your intuition, and in some cases it's better to trust science. It isn't so much that science is wrong, it's just that people will try to misapply toy models often generated for a different range of initial conditions. These toy models end up producing worse answers than well trained intuition.
I wasn't saying that battleships are a good strategic choice to develop, just that you can't "easily calculate why its impossible to build a battleship beyond a certain size".

It is possible, it's just not strategically advantageous.

Just like throwing more compute at a neutral network isn't going to make general AI. The diminishing returns comes with how brittle their learning and representations are.
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This site was borne of the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17068138

(Specifically this part of the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17071224)

I spun up an instance of phpBB (trying to keep costs down) and customized a ThemeForest theme to make it not ugly. I'll post a thread today that lists all of my notes from the setup process of the site for anyone interested.

I'm a huge fan of the bulletin board/flat forum model of communication, so I'm hoping this site can blossom into a community of high quality folks having high quality conversations.

EDIT: Also, this is my first foray into setting up and using phpBB, so please let me know if I need to adjust anything. I tried to keep most settings at the default because I assumed that made more sense than me tickering, but I'm all ears if things are weird.
Wow, that's a big difference. I would like it to be as quiet as possible, but also plan on running it nearly 24/7 for 5+ years, so I'll probably go for the AIO water cooler.
Is this Sybil resistant though?
By that I meant that I haven't proved to be a genius so far. If I were to become a Nobel laureate in the future, people would see that I was a genius in retrospect.
> As for the prevalence of disorders, that's a pretty big bag, diagnostic criteria change, and diagnosis itself is iffy.

Would you mind explaining this one to me, please? Is Xuper trying to suggest that being a feminist makes it more likely that your children will have health disorders?
Thank you for clarifying!

> 2. we decided to eschew the runtime, and therefore, the green threads.

The most important bit I guess, regarding the question of whether Rust will ever have green threads/fibers/trails/whatever (answer: no, because no runtime).
What were the internal competitors for those projects?

Personally, I don't know of any other Google search projects, other than Google Search itself.
Teached by whom? My parents teached me a million things but none of what you said ever came up. Same for school. Hollywood movies certainly "teach" that, gangsta rap does, but what else?

By the way, spectator sports is the original "if you're not paying, you're not the customer" -- so people get paid a lot to be good at sports, cycling in circles, kicking a ball back and forth, that sort of thing, to shovel eyeballs in front of advertisements. Nietzsche said all there is to say about money and those who need it, and as for the admiration of peers, that too is the consolation price for those who don't have confidence, who don't know themselves. What you're describing isn't some sort of elite person, you're describing people who are the best and work the hardest at being perfectly mediocre. Which, by the way, is a detestable thing, and a wasted life.
Please update the submission title to match the title of the linked paper, i.e. "Cryptocurrencies" and not just "Crypto".
We can't :)

So I'm going for the one that requires the least magic
I sometime upvote things as a sort of "read it later" technique. I've seen other users do this, so maybe that's what happened?
I've received a "we know better" answer before, in 2014 regarding Net Neutrality from Roy Blunt.

Thank you for contacting me regarding net neutrality.

As you know, in 2010, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) established rules to regulate the Internet. The FCC claimed it could regulate the Internet under the authority of its traditional telephone regulations developed during the monopoly-era. A DC Circuit Court recently struck down certain parts of these rules and decided the FCC does not have jurisdiction over broadband providers to implement regulations in this manner.

The Internet should certainly be free and open to those who legally provide content to consumers. This principle does not necessitate additional government regulation, particularly given the innovative and highly competitive broadband marketplace. Attempts to preemptively implement industry-wide regulations may inadvertently harm consumers by stifling competition and innovation. As a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, I intend to remain fully engaged on this issue to ensure the rules governing broadband service providers maintain the flexibility needed to evolve as rapidly as the technology they provide.

Again, thank you for contacting me. I look forward to continuing our conversation on Facebook (www.facebook.com/SenatorBlunt) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/RoyBlunt) about the important issues facing Missouri and the country. I also encourage you to visit my website (blunt.senate.gov) to learn more about where I stand on the issues and sign-up for my e-newsletter.

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I am not generally in favor of bans, but if it came to that, I would first like to see a ban on complaints about the style and format of interesting material made freely available by the people who have already put considerable effort into creating it.
I love CSV over XLSX too, but calling it a universal format is dubious if you're even encountered shit-tier CSV output by "Enterprise" tools. Even Excel produces garbage CSV.

I wish more people followed RFC4180. And that's how I write all my stuff that supports CSV input or output. But, there's a lot of bad csv software out there.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180
It's probably too long with the entire word.
“Information wants to be free. But information also wants to be expensive”
tangent: videos like this are so irritating... Just give me the transcript, possibly with pictures/video interleaved if necessary (but probably fewer than you think).
I find it interesting that Uber wants to do everything except find people rides.

I’ll continue using Lyft. Uber is going to either get lucky with something and also be the Uber Of That or they’re going to burn hard by forgetting what it is they are supposed to be doing.
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> I understand this is not a product, but clearly it means Google is seriously thinking about doing such things. This is just as scary for me.

Adversarial modeling. With organizations like the Chinese government actually implementing schemes like this, you really do want other organizations---especially ones not particularly sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party's interests---considering these topics.
Origins of the Quote “Information wants to be free.”
With everyone's phones receiving and parsing that, batteries would die very quickly.
I've already registered. I'm super hopeful that this grows into a real forum community for extended discussions. I, like many other posters in the inspiration thread, used to have a number of forums I frequented which mostly died off between the rise of Facebook and Reddit. I'm a fan of the conversation format, and I hope enough others are as well (:
Hey, if you want to take 18 month stints without healthcare to clean up mis-managed "digital transitions" at places like GE, more power to you ;-)
Video of the talk: https://ripe76.ripe.net/archives/video/131/
It's like they've forgotten that they mostly sell ads. In the end, they won't be training the human race to be more generous. They'll be training them to buy more crap.
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Yes, and this video isn't even captioned...
Well, you're right, I'm not a sysadmin. I pervasively automate, which often sidelines sysadmins, when it doesn't make them redundant. I write code and I don't touch production machines except in extremity, neither of which apply to most (though by no means all) of the people I know who want to call themselves a sysadmin.

Anyway, the core mission of anybody touching the stack is to enable the business to achieve its goals. Nothing, and I mean nothing, more. "Restricting that environment" is appropriate in some environments, and a number of my clients bring me in to help with that. Facilitating developer velocity--and, yes, developers do tend to like me, because I'm good at this while achieving goals around security and uptime--is appropriate in, probably, more. Pays better, too, even if it shouldn't.
Or https://micro.blog? Feels like Twitter 9 years ago, and you can just hop on board with your own blog at your own domain as long as it has an RSS or JSON feed.

Clients for iOS and Android are being built by indie developers - icro for iOS is great and there's also Dialog for Android now.
Perhaps the post itself is too clever by half. It was about “why Bitcoin is going to fail” and yet all anyone is discussing is its well-told animal analogy.
Exactly. I wish I could make all this shared context disappear and make it act dumber. I find myself fighting the way it works all the time :(
> 3rd party clients have them beat by a mile when it comes to ease of use.

They solved this problem when they bought Tweetie, the most popular 3rd party client at the time when they didn't have a 1st party one. They then removed and replaced it with the current one.
How to build your own Neural Network from scratch in Python
MarkMonitor. Out of my league!
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Not built into Rust, yes. But since Rust has no runtime, if you want those things, you can bring them along, as a library. The danger there is splitting an ecosystem, but in general the community has been sensitive to this, and once Tokio was determined as the way forward, the other projects stopped to throw their weight behind it too.
Let's see.
1. They get my browser transmitted information as corollary to my browsing habits which they then resell, pester me with, and analyze in order to create a dialectic which is flawed, impersonal and does not necessarily profit me.
2. Ergo: since when should I care about a random companies spend when they (indirectly) determine what I am spending in the first place?
3. If you really believe that tracking and an open society are good things make them available to all and offer them to everyone. I predict that will go badly. Self interest being what it is whether corporate or individual.
EPIA 5000 Motherboard. The chipset on the Motherboard directly includes Soundblaster, ADLib, and MPU-401 support. You can enable/disable each one in the BIOS.

And yes, you need the EPIA Soundblaster drivers for DOS, but that's not that different from normal Soundblaster cards. It was a bit of an uphill struggle getting it working, but it's quite simple once you get the right version of the drivers.
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Except that doesn't work with an Xbox.

There are definitely dozens of existing solutions for PC use, but the console world has long been protective of their gamepads and generally don't allow arbitrary custom devices to be connected unless they're built by hacking up a "certified" device.

This is, to my knowledge, the first time any major console has officially supported custom input devices. It's annoying that it requires a proprietary bridge device rather than just getting rid of their artificial limits on HID input devices that work fine on Windows 10 on their Windows 10 powered appliance, but I guess it is still progress.
>If we throw an order of magnitude more compute than that at a neural network and train it for 20 years, why wouldn't that give us a general intelligence?

It isn't just the computer power that allows us to be intelligent. It's also the bandwidth (which is always an order of magnitude or more behind the computer power) and the algorithm (which we don't have a clue how to create).

State of the art visual processing that gets so touted in the press is brittle -- it has to see very similar examples or it will fail. Neural networks don't transfer to new problem domains well at all.

Neural Networks have no sense of self or agency and they never will. There are key parts missing (like the ability to experiment with the environment). I'm not saying we will never have general intelligence, just that it's quite a ways away and the algorithms will be significantly different to the neural networks we use today. That said there will probably be many recognizeable components, like backpropagation, recurrent nodes, bayesian estimations, etc.
Cool idea. HN can get a little annoying / slightly unwieldy when threads get large. A forum is a much better format IMO.
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How about "free" as in "free from FSF politics" and "free to bundle whatever you like".

Isn't it rather arbitrary in how the GPL2 has an exception for system libraries?

Why can't a binary firmware blob from a hardware maker be regarded as a "system library". Just because you have to distribute it yourself? That's better: for one, the blob is more free than a non-redistributable system library and you control the exact image that you're using. Your totally free OS driver for the device is validated with that blob.
Neat idea. I generally like HN, but it's definitely not a hangout spot. Discouraging idle chatter cuts both ways.
This is a great analogy and something I found quite comforting (I'm OP), thankyou.
This is stupid, if they wanted to give the finger to American tech firms they could have wrote the GDPR as affecting only foreign firms using EU citizen data without requiring the same level of control over the EU-based tech firms, far easier.
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You idiot, this is about you too. When the glaciers dry up in the Himalayas is that going to make first or third worlders' lives worse?
> freedom of speech inside organizations so that they can discuss ideas like this

What does that actually mean in practice? "We're going to float this idea which we all think is unethical, but without actually labelling it as unethical in the presentation?"

(The strange thing seems to be a software engineering organisation that thinks of things without immediately coming up with dozens of examples of how this could go wrong!)
No, passive voice is poor style.

And there's no guarantee it will last long before someone decides to be offended by that too.
That part is the same. The big difference is that the political ranges between countries barely overlap so the people you call liberals would be conservatives elsewhere is more of an indication of these labels being relatives rather than absolutes. America doesn't really have a 'left' by European standards.
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What constitutes a lobbyist? Must a congressman record every discussion he has with every person he meets, just in case the topic of conversation turns to public policy?
The article mentions this

which would “reflect Google’s values as an organization,”
I thought IPs are not considered personal identifiable information.
Here are the concrete ideas presented in 6 mins of narrated video:

- a system could highlight choices aligned with the user’s values (examples: recommend taking Uber pool instead of Uber X in the Uber app, suggest locally grown bananas in a shopping app)

- a system could manufacture custom objects for a user to gather missing data about that user

And the broader, higher level concept:

- data aggregated about a user can be considered to be a “genome”, and perhaps concepts applicable to genomes (sequencing, ...) are similarly applicable

This whole sub field of “speculative design” feels particularly useless (this video is part of a broader novel practice, see for instance https://www.primerconference.com/2017/). A few very vague points are raised, with no direct way to probe the questions or start answering them. This is in contrast to for example the scientific approach, where the base hypothesis usually gives us a clue as to what we might want to measure, change, etc.

So sure, at the end of your multi week process you get a slick video, except you’re not much further down the line of inquiry (and if it gets leaked you have the whole internet turn on you).

If one were assigned to think about this topic, it seems like actually exploring the base hypothesis (“personal data can be thought of as a genome”) with real experiments designed to test the limits of that statement would be a much more productive use of time.
Xoogler here (Not at X but was shown this video and know folks who work there). Here are a few things the article doesn't mention:

1. A huge amount of spec videos are produced within Alphabet, and every other big tech company for that matter. Most go nowhere. If they were all leaked, news media would go crazy trying to extrapolate insights and articles like this. They should mostly be treated as noise.

2. This idea went nowhere, really quickly. Few saw it, and nearly everyone who did said "kill it with fire." Most execs weren't aware of this idea until this leak was published. Aside from being fluffy and pretentious, everyone saw this video as both morally wrong and bad for business/PR.

3. The guy who made this did it on his own. There is no "conversation" internally there about ideas like this as the article suggests. In fact, most privacy issues within Google emerge in very mundane ways. They don't get grand vision videos announcing them explicitly.
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