skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My father, who is also a reporter, used to have one important tool, a rolodex (for those too young to know, this used to be a rolling phone card file). Every night he came home and did a thing he called a "phone attack," where he randomly called all his sources -- not for stories, but just to touch base, chat, listen to what's going on in their lives. This is basically all you need to do to be a good reporter, maintain a lot of relationships with people in different walks of life. It's hard work but very rewarding. If you don't have people with their ears to the ground, you're lost. So like my father I try to regularly stay in touch with all sorts of people, and never to call a source for a favor if I haven't recently called socially, or just to check in. People hate feeling used.
Yep on their cheapest plan, for $10 / year. Also comes with SSL.
How is this different than the existing Compassionate Use [1], program? Under this program my dad had access to try treatments for his terminal cancer. What does Right To Try offer over that?

[1] https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/ExpandedAcc...
A phenomenal collection of Data Science leaders
Ah, yes, because we brilliant hacker news readers know that the average person is too stupid to know what things they should buy or not buy.
It's been talked about a few times on HN already, but it's a very interesting protein. It suggests a genetic delivery mechanism that is already in the body - and thus doesn't invoke a lot of the immunogenic properties of using viruses for gene therapies.

If you want to play with the Arc protein check it out here:
https://serotiny.bio/notes/proteins/arc/
Sensational headline that does not paint the full story. ASKfm was a sponsor to a routine climb that had gone wrong.

The trek, independent of the company, would have happened with or without crypto company's backing.

https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/06/04/whos-to-be-blamed-for-the...
And why wouldn't they be? the fewer abstraction layers between the app and the hardware, the more efficient it will usually be, no?
I can give the Substack take on this.

1. We think it's very scalable. The value of attention has flipped - you used to get bored and need to fill your time, now your time is the last scarce resource, so it makes sense to pay to use it more wisely. We see early adopters doing this happily now, but we think it will become the norm.

We also think it will be good for democracy. The incentives of ad supported social media encourage clickbait, cheap outrage, and hyper-partisanship. Subscriptions reward thoughtfulness and deep value.

The one thing I worry about is too much exclusivity. If we landed in a place with really high subscription prices and only the privileged few getting access to good information that wouldn't be ideal, but that is avoidable.

2. Mostly they will have to change. Some will be successful.

3. The new model is readers paying writers directly. The difference at internet scale is that you can reach everybody in the world, and therefore you can be more successful with a much more specific topic/audience. Also because of software, you can start doing it as an individual writer in an afternoon.
> For AI, much of the war-fighting asset is software, which of course is free to produce after development, not expensive hardware.

In an AI war, any software you push at thr beginning of the war will be useless within days, because the enemy will push better software. The most efficient way to adapt will be to continually update your algorithms by stochastic gradient descent on GPUs. In the resulting minute-by-minute arms race, hardware will be crucial, as will having clever engineers who can continually streamline the process.
This is precisely how covenants work on real estate, and is how things like homeowners' associations perpetuate themselves: the original builder, or the first owner to join the HOA, attaches a covenant which will require all future owners to also join the HOA and follow the HOA's policies.

In prior times, such covenants were also used to try to racially segregate property, by forbidding sale to a person of a race the covenant's creator disliked (such covenants are technically still valid, but unenforceable by US courts).

And they're sometimes used for other things, too; I recall there was a house near my college's campus that the college wanted to purchase and use, but the owner had set up a restrictive covenant that would forbid any later purchaser/inheritor from selling it to the college.
"But Tesla's defense is not that the data is in a proprietary format that can't be decoded."

I never said it was. I'm not sure why you continue to try to come up with unrelated arguments to push your agenda in a discussion completely unrelated to what you're talking about.

"And what do you base this speculation that Tesla does something so strange?"

Because educated speculation can lead to positive and constructive discourse? I have a fair amount of experience in the ML and CS field and I could imagine a situation where the data is in fact difficult to analyze.

Also, logging geolocation data is a fair amount different than logging neural weights or other types of ML data. Without knowledge of the types and composition of ML algorithms those numbers simply won't help you. Which was my point to begin with.
I can understand not letting a rando off the street see the data, or taking extra measures to authenticate that you’re the actual owner at the time of the recording, but otherwise “privacy” doesn’t seem like a good enough reason.

More likely it’s “we want to be the only one who can see it.”

Semi-related: Reminds me of the time Amazon promoted a “recommend books to your friends” feature, and someone used it to make a recommendation to me with a vaguely threatening message attached. I asked them who it was and they screamed bloody murder about protecting customer privacy and I’m like “really? Privacy of your identity to a friend you’re recommending a book to? As a feature that you’re allowing to be repurposed into an anonymous messaging service?” (Eventually they relented.)
I find it strange to live in a time when tech people trust MS more than Google, it could be because we think differently about the importance of information tracking, and this is coming from someone that for the past 15 years has used only private/incognito browsers (was a lot of fun back in when Flash was popular and had to manually remove its cookies directory after every session), doesn't have a facebook account, doesn't use social media. But here's something to think about, MS is in a position where they're making a lot of money from closed source software products where a good free open source equivalent would be a direct attack on that revenue stream, which means, there can be many potential conflicts of interest with owning something like GitHub. What do you think would happen in the following scenarios:

- a researcher discovers a zero day security problem in Office/Windows/etc that affects almost all their products in the last 10 years, tells MS about it but doesn't wait for them to patch it for N months or whatever time they'd take so they push a working exploit/proof of concept on GitHub before the bug is patched. Will MS shut down the project/repository and/or sue the people behind it using IP/time information from their own logs?

- MS pushes another Windows 10 update that increases tracking, people write programs to work around/disable that and post it on GitHub. MS is arguing that without tracking they cannot determine who is pirating their Windows so they sue the authors. Can they get access to the IPs/times of when the repository was interacted with without a court order? Can they shut down the project on GitHub before waiting for the lawsuit to reach a conclusion?

- MS develops a new DirectX API that allows for many great things and some very hyped AAA games are already in the pipeline to be released to use it, but the catch is the new API requires Windows 11, a new version that costs money to upgrade to, previous Windows owners cannot use it. A Wine developer implements an emulation of the API on GitHub and releases a DLL build for Windows, suddenly all previous Windows users can play those games. What will MS do about that project?

I feel it's pretty easy to imagine lots of situations where there's a conflict of interest between being a neutral Git repository and being a software company so I can't say I'm very happy with MS purchasing it tho I agree with others that it could have been much worse too :)
How does Shopify not give enough control? Anyone can write Shopify apps to extend extra features with their API or pay someone to create an app (less than paying someone for a full ecommerce site)
No.

What's the worst they could do? It's their company. Worst case the CEO runs it into the ground and everyone loses their money.

CEO =/= President of the United States.
Please don't post this way, regardless of how bad another comment may be. Even if you're right (as in this case I believe you are), it damages the container here.

If you'd please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the site rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Solid summary!
Amazon EKS released
From GitHub to git-ssb – A guide to hacking together on the distributed web
> People don't have an obligation to society to go through school or start a family

I didn’t say they did. The reason I think people should try different drugs is largely that it’s not possible to fully understand the art, laws, institutions, culture, etc. of a society without having had the qualitative experiences that inspired them. The reason I think there is an obligation is the potential to have new ideas and experiences that benefit society. E.g. given the current drama around gay rights, if you can swallow a pill that gives you the qualitative experience of being gay for a couple hours then I believe that’s something you have the moral obligation to do.

"I am human, I consider nothing human alien to me."
I don't think anyone's going to climb Mt Everest for the sole purpose of getting those tokens. 500K tokens and an expedition costs upwards of $50K? It's not worth it to go get and wasn't worth it to even place up there, especially in the light that a Sherpa died during the expedition. First piece of technological junk on the summit I suppose.
> They made money too.

Sure, but it isn’t profit motive that I think we should be concerned about in this case. Its the entire space in which GitHub exists is now radically different. Until the buyout, they were an independent company who hosted software repos. Now they are owned by a company who has many many many different interests and ms has a tendency to use most of their various software projects to feed into their own proprietary ecosystem.

There are many ways this might be problematic, all of which are obviously just speculation. I’m just trying to say, an enormous part of the software ecosystem is currently in a really precarious spot and we might be wise to consider and work on some alternatives just to give ourselves some wiggle room should ms decide to behave in ways we’ve seen them behave so many times in the past.
It definitely won't stop the effects, but you simply won't care anymore, everything will seem like it's not that big of a deal, and you might fall asleep.
there are models with 8gb. with the expanded scope (android, linux), there will be pressure to increase RAM.

Just like Android already increased the storage availability (3 years ago people would have laughed about a chromebook with 256gb storage - what's the point? And now there's Pixelbook)
It's almost like... some people don't have enough money to live irresponsibility or luxuriously.
Wait until the military figures out that AI is close enough over the horizon that a Manhattan style project will most likely be able to achieve a self-improving AI. There will be untold funds dumped into it to head off the 'enemy' at the pass because whoever gets it first might be able to stop others from ever achieving parity (or so it will no doubt be reasoned). For all our benefits I hope this is a lot harder than some people think it is.
That option doesn't explain the ebb and flow. You are talking about the content, I am talking about prioritization. I also doubt the conspiracy, but we can't ignore the glaring coincidence of anomalous anti-X deluges that occur all at once. And we can't explain it away as simply a result of increased scrutiny. In fact, often the articles these outlets run are disguised op-ed pieces with no new information and the reader can have a hard time telling the difference.
So Long Jekyll, Hello Nextein
no, just poorly written. Just can't use ad-blockers and thus have to witness the horrors of the state of ads if we look at websites.
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GitHub: Interest from Google and others, revenue about $300M
> 'Secret' software is very hard to keep secret: once your enemy has a semi-intact drone/AI then they'll have upgraded their own fleet within months (if yours was indeed superior).

All new systems have anti-tamper mechanisms designed in from the start specifically to minimize the chances of this happening (assuming they work as intended).
> giving discounts and creating vouchers.

I wish to talk with you about a saas we are in beta for : quick and easy online voucher creation, all web based. https://universal-voucher.eu (CEO here) shoot an email to contact@u-v.io for demo and beta access
I also use Lisp, but slighly differently: I've really come to love how flexible and powerful Emacs Org is. With all static generation tools (including those i built myself) I've hit limits. Not with Org, yet.
The proper way to look at this is a dynamic analysis, not a static analysis.

For the first person to try the drug, it's a big gamble, but as each additional "right to try" participant takes the drug, everyone else gains knowledge as to its effectiveness.

Is this as good as stage 3 trials at assuring safety? No.

But you have to count all the people who could have been helped but weren't because of delays against a no right to try policy.
IE6 was quite good on release.
The CC-BY-NC-SA license it is under makes forking it less desirable. In particular the noncommercial-only use for forks. You might think "great, we don't want to sell it anyways!" but (and IANAL..) I think this affects using this product in any commercial capacity, such as running it on a company device, or using it for 'business' (calling clients from the device, etc). That's my understanding at least, and would like to be corrected if I am wrong.

When CopperheadOS (the company) dies, then their product is doomed to be a novelty thing that most folks cannot use due to their selection of license.
Can you please point me to the earlier HN thread on this?
It's on now, announcement is that EKS is generally available, they said so within the first 30 seconds. Anonymous source did not disappoint!

Just heard that Control plane is priced at $0.20/hr, yikes... that's not bad for HA masters in every AZ, but I think it's certainly going to have a hard time competing with "you don't pay for masters at all, on GKE"
And people lose their jobs, and get kicked out of their homes, etc.
This is an extremely limited view of "scientific computing" that seems to only focus on analytics, which is a tiiiny part of sci comp.

Your "stack" does nothing for solving/including ODEs, PDEs, DAEs, Fourier analysis, numerical integration, automatic differentiation, linear equation system solvers, preconditioners, nonlinear equation system solvers, the entire field of optimization, inverse problems, statistical methods, Monte Carlo simulations, molecular dynamics, PIC methods, geometric integration, lattice quantum field theory, molecular dynamics, ab initio methods, density functional theory, finite difference/volume/element methods, lattice Boltzmann methods, boundary integral methods, mesh generation methods, error estimation, uncertainty quantification...

Those are just off the top of my head, the list goes on and on.
I use an instance, not for this but similar personal use.

You can run a micro for (close to?) free and if you're doing nothing on it, that should be fine.

Unless you have huge codebases checking in I think the built in storage would be fine

I do the same thing with an ip whitelist on my security group so it's hopefully pretty bullet proof.

I added a little bit more to it, you can also fairly easy make a lambda function that runs a minimal login page, takes a password and adds your IP to the whitelist

Not a lot of work at all. I used boto3 for python.
No. We "moved to the cloud", everything became a "microservice", put together using existing libs, and I now spend my time trying to figure out why things running in obscure black boxes stop working in the middle of the night. I hate it. I wish I was coding instead of pushing buttons.
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> I don't know if I'm ready to say that I have more respect for Microsoft than Google at this point, but I definitely have more respect for Microsoft than I ever have

You expressed it beautifully.

While I'm not a fan yet, I think Microsoft is much more invested in its developer and cloud products than Google. After all, most of Google's revenue still comes from ads.
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Isn't this basically the thesis of the singularity [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available
yea, mee too.
$400 million could help a lot of sick and hungry people. I'd dig ditches by hand for 3 months to be able to give that money to Doctors Without Borders.
The preference is whether, as a creator, you license your work under a free software license or an open source license. The FSF's piece attempts to sway creators, and argues why they should use the FSF's license. Users never had a say in the license of the work they consume, so they're sort of irrelevant.

I'm not sure what dictators have to do with anything.
'correlation does not imply causation' is just the negation of 'if correlation, then causation'.

What do you think the relevant difference between the terms 'imply' and 'conclusively prove' is?
Why would anyone buy them when you can just hire away the talent and let it devolve into the moribund consulting agency they've turned it into?

If anything, the failing "Docker the company" probably helps sell their competing implementations of the various OCI specs.
I've felt that way in the past, but IMHO the trick to doing interesting work is finding ways to make the job you're already at more interesting.

I started out as a simple PHP developer working on very boring server-side rendered CRUD apps, but pushed and pushed to get more responsibilities, and ended up redesigning those apps as a single-page web app with UX workshops determining the flow of the application. Later on pushed to be involved in management's research projects, which ended up landing me a job as principal architect of a hadoop-based IoT platform.

All the while the other developers at my company were complaining how boring their job was. You can lead a horse to water...
How does Docker even make money? I don't think I've known anyone to pay for it. And with so many people moving to kubernetes for orchestration, I don't think any of their solutions would be useful/profitable.
bigcartel (free for a few products, just fees) and if they start doing any amount of decent business, they can switch to shopify.
How many of those fixed schedule projects are based on old and proven designs? I specifically emphasized new in that sentence. Perhaps I should have said to produce novel designs. Which is what many programmers are asked to do and estimate.
signal UX is great!
The idea that lay people should decide instead is a deeply incompetent one.
Huh? I corrected your initial statement that population was falling. I never mentioned crowing or cost-of-living. I was simply explaining why other states are growing faster than NY/NJ and the rest of the northeast.
What's the front end? I've been thinking of building something similar, but I'm bad at front-end tech.
I’ve spent the last three years (straight out of college) teaching high school computer science. I’m headed to graduate school in the fall, but I’ve loved teaching, and think it’s a shame that fewer CS people go into the field. (Pay isn’t as good as in tech, obviously—I think teachers at my school generally make in the $50-80k range—but from a meaningful-work perspective, things are so much better!) A few points:

* My colleagues and I sometimes gripe about parts of the job, but we all agree we’re never bored. We are shifting to a new environment (new classroom) every forty minutes; there’s a ton of meaningful human interaction; and the life of the school depends so much on the particular kids in your classes / the whole school each year. And the pedagogical questions are really interesting, too (more on that in a moment).

* I’m lucky to teach at a school that supports a four-year computer science curriculum and has given me the autonomy to to do whatever I’d like with it. There are plenty of areas I didn’t study in my undergrad CS degree (networking & concurrency, operating systems, distributed computing/cryptocurrencies, combinators and monads) that I’ve had the chance to dig into (read about, plan lessons about, develop assignments and demos about) in teaching my more advanced students.

* CS pedagogy nationally is in a strange place. There is a political push (and a good deal of funding) to get CS in every K-12 school. But very few people trained in CS go into teaching, and there is little consensus about how it should be taught or what curriculum should look like. Companies like College Board, Code.org, as well as corporations like Apple are stepping in to provide curriculum and training to teachers, but these curricula (in my opinion) leave something to be desired, partly because these companies have other interests. For example, Apple wants everyone coding Swift on iPads, and CollegeBoard wants people paying for AP exams. Things are in such a state of infancy now, though, that by getting involved in the community (going to conferences, blogging, creating high-quality materials, setting and example in your classroom), you have a chance to join the debate & help build a better consensus around how CS can/should be taught. There are a number of people doing awesome work already, and several really stellar CS programs at high schools across the country. But we need more!

* It’s really amazing having diverse colleagues whose interests span many disciplines: I have colleagues who have PhDs in physics and English and Classics, who direct plays, translate poetry, write novels... In the tech industry, the majority is young, male, white or Asian, and consumes a similar “cultural diet” of news sources, books, movies, hobbies, etc. It’s nice to be somewhere a little less homogenous.
Headline is rather misleading as neither 1) hitting a $1M in sales or 2) raising $8M in venture funding necessarily means he actually became a millionaire.
@gargravarr Thanks so much!