skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Getting rich" is a relative term.

Am I going to significantly increase my earnings by owning this business? Yes.

Am I going to be buying a penthouse on 5th Ave. and driving a Ferrari to the office? No.

I'll add this additional insight into why I have always wanted to a build a business:

A business is a machine. Built correctly, you can step away from this machine and it will continue to run, and create wealth for you. Even if that wealth is modest, it is wealth that can be provided to you at no cost of TIME. This gives you back your TIME, to either work a 9-5 or create another machine. Er, business.

(Obviously building the machine can take a lot of time. Not an insignificant point).
Inevitable isnt the same thing as right.

After all, everyone inevitably dies, so why not murder them.
So, I'm all for giving someone the benefit of the doubt if they have a change of heart upon reconsidering an issue, but this coming after the fact rings a bit hollow to me. I think the only principle at play here is that it became a PR issue. That's fine, but let's be honest about it.

Early emails between Google execs framed this project only in terms of revenue and potential PR backlash. As far as we're aware, there was no discussion about the morality of the matter (I'm not taking any moral stance here just to be clear.) Once this became an internal and external PR issue, Google held a series of all hands meetings and claimed that this was a "small project" and that the AI would not be used to kill people. While technically true, those same internal emails show that Google expected this to become a much larger project over time, eventually bringing in about $250M / year[1]. So even then they were being a bit disingenuous by focusing only on the current scope of the deal.

And here we are now with a release from the CEO talking about morality and "principles" well after the fact. I doubt many people do anyway, but I'm not buying the "these are our morals" bit.

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2018/06/01/report-g...
Is there any room in your cynicism for any other view?

For example, maybe Google leadership did hear the complaints, then realized what was happening and what could happen, and decided that something needed to be done to create and uphold values.

I don't approve of defensive cynicism, I don't believe it makes a better world. In fact, I think that defensive cynicism is the reason why the world sucks. Let me guess, you don't vote because "all politicians are liars"? How's that working out for you?
538 did it.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/
Completely misleading title. There's a big difference between an oligopoly and a monopoly.

Couple of ways to differentiate:

1. car sharing ownership by the members.

2. price

3. style/selection

4. safty

There's no complex training(like ms office) and it's not free so not sure there's a way to run away with the market.
It's true that you can't ever be perfectly fair, for every reasonable definition of fair.

However, you can easily mess up and be very unfair. So even though there is no "perfect", there is still a continuum of bad to good.
I think that might be a different mindset I have often observed between my EU ans my US friends; US friends keep talking about competition and becoming market leader etc, my EU friends just want to run long term companies. I know many people here who run sites for 15-20 years that make enough every year since inception for a comfortable (meaning building pension and saving) 3-4 people company. Even with free offshoots in the domain that were already there sometimes when they started.

You definitely can compete with huge companies that have no or automated support; you probably cannot beat them, but you can sustain a good profitable company for a long time and they might buy you in the end if they see you grow in your region while they do not.
Well what would you do instead? Assuming that OP will build the site for free, the shop owner still needs to pay for hosting (assume $5 droplet at Digital Ocean), domain name (assume ~$10 from Namecheap), and a payment processor (assuming Paypal, (2.9% + 0.30) / transaction). Considering all of this is abstracted away and handled for you for $30, doesn't sound that bad. We haven't even touched on headaches from future maintenance, bugs, features, scaling, etc.
I'd put pretty high odds on Mars having had life at some point but very low odds on multi-cellular or even eukaryotic life. Show me some microbial mats, I'll be satisfied.
> Unless you mean that the attempts to make people feel worthless are done on the basis of immutable things

Yes, I do mean that. If you are white or a male you are told to "check your privilege", and that you "are not allowed to speak about issues". (Is a white male allowed to have an opinion about abortion? Ask yourself what you think, and ask others as well, and that will help you understand.)

Go watch some campus talks and see how bad it gets. Or just read this: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/24/politics/march-for-our-lives-...

Notice the narrative that the white students don't matter unless they deprecate themself? It's framed in an inclusive way of course ("they include others"), but the subtext is quite obvious.

And that's a CNN article, the real world is much worse.

The pendulum is swinging, and instead of making everyone important, now those who were marginalized before are gaining status by marginalizing others.
A Costly, Deadly Obsession with Coal
FWIW: For the first ten years of my career, I primarily developed using Java. By about 2008 or so I was tired of looking at SomeAbstractFactoryVistorSingleton messes. I got into a project where I had green-field opportunity to try something different and Python just felt like a breath of fresh air. A few years went by and I gave node.js a try, thinking that Javascript would inevitably win out on the server side as well. Didn't take long to go back to Python - its stable, mature, performant, and syntactically simple. It does what I need it to for now.
Nope. In urban areas land is undersupplied therefore you will be paying the "monopoly price" where you bid what you can afford.

So if a building used to cost 400k, broken into 200k land cost and 200k building cost, it will still cost 400k, 300k land cost and 100k building cost.

That's how prices are set. It's not "how much this costs to build plus a fair profit".
That's why it's important keep gay people out of Congress, too?
QR payments now possible in Tanzania
> You are creating a ridiculous straw man... The media can't dig into the details and verify every detail of every press release. If a company claims contracts are frozen or canceled there is no way for the media to check whether the projects would happen at all.

Where is the strawman? What you've stated here is literally my argument, that is, it's not the media's fault that billion dollar titans of industry lie to the media for profit, especially because the media lacks the necessary access to verify the claims, so all they can do is report the claim as stated (which is what they did)... or are you suggesting they just never report on industry claims?

> He didn't claim the media is a bunch of liars.

He actually did make that claim farther down this thread, however, I never accused him of suggesting that, all I said was that he is suggesting we "don't trust this story or the media in general". I don't see how you can read anything else other than that out of my comment, so I would appreciate it if you would point out the part of my comment claiming he said that the media is bunch of liars.

> The "personal anecdotes" are a series of observations about contracts that are publicly reported combined with an understanding of how companies are incentivized to report contracts.

His comments are literally unverifiable personal stories from his own experiences, there is no way around it. He could have at least said "companies have been known to do x" and then shown evidence of x (though his own argument precludes his ability to use any media sources as evidence of x), then we could examine the particular case he presented and determine if the facts of that case align with the opinion he is presenting. As as of now we're just taking his word for it.

> If you don't believe him or find him very credible you don't need to take his word for it, he's just some random guy on the internet whose credibility can't be independently established.

... OK? Once again, you're just repeating my own reasoning back to me, he's a random person on the internet spitting out anecdotes to bolster his opinion, not someone presenting evidence that can be independently examined without trusting his stories.

> On the other hand, you can undercut his argument by providing evidence that companies always report contracts in an evenhanded way

First of all, it is impossible to demonstrate proof that "companies always x" and it is disingenuous to ask for such evidence because we don't rely on "always"-level confidence for proof of anything. Further, I am not trying to "undercut his argument" at all, I am critiquing the flawed reasoning that his personal anecdotes are a legitimate reason to disregard this particular story and the media in general.
Questions of competitive advantage and profitability should likely be taking a backseat to concerns about autonomous killing machines.
>It's hard to argue they're wrong.

Eugenics. Thalidomide. Radium paint. Lead paint. Leaded gasoline. The list goes on.

It's quite easy to argue against taking shortcuts and eschewing rigor in favor of "results" if you know some history and have some perspective.
And here is the happy version :) https://imgur.com/VbKV9DF
Meanwhile, Tesla is busy putting out press releases saying "We believe the driver was inattentive, and the car was warning him to put his hands on the wheel."

I am utterly, completely lacking in surprise that they didn't provide the relevant context, "... fifteen minutes prior."

This just looks... really bad for Tesla. It's more important to them to protect their poor software than drivers.
I get the sentiment, but I would say that scroll jacking is a lot worse than pull to refresh jacking. Also just realized I'm not sure this script would work too differently if your talking about a desktop Webapp.
Agreed regarding surveillance. In my book, working on Landsat, JWST, or LISA = awesome.

I will only direct expertise toward an imaging system like Keyhole or targeting/guidance systems if our society faces a clear and acute foreign threat.
> We want to be clear that while we are not developing AI for use in weapons...

we will be developing AI for things that have weapons attached to them. We hope our lawyerly semantics are enough to fool you rubes for as long as it takes us to pocket that sweet military money.
Here here! Let’s make it happen.

http://tlalexander.com/machine/
I believe it's a play on this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here
Any code analysis initiatives in your pipeline?
Why you should become a 'library tourist'
This is soul crushing when starting B2B companies. The valley of death between "first customer who breaks everything" and "ten customers happily using your product without customization" takes a (physically) painful amount of time. Much better to do pre-investment and get it out of the way.
The sexual minorities have far higher suicide rates, so I don't think that would explain the numbers we're seeing here. https://www.thetrevorproject.org/resources/preventing-suicid...
Agreed. One of the worst things that websites implement is overriding the history. In particular, "listicles" are doing that. When you go back, it goes back to the previous list item in the text even all the content lies in a single page app.
online portfolio

github with code samples

blog about what you're learning, then post them on HN

do some small freelance jobs (even if they're cheap or volunteer) to gather work experience and references

start a youtube channel
True - I often make the heretical argument that SL vs RL is just a question of where the labeling comes from :-) You are correct that the tooling is weaker in this space, but it is growing - my point is only that there's a difference between knowing how to use the tool and knowing how to make the tool - making the tool can liquify your brain -- using someone else's tool (assuming its a good tool) will simply give you headaches from time to time :-D
I'd hate to see github turned into LinkedIn or some other recruiting system that sells profile information in exchange for personal validation. Merit systems are also easily gamed or warped to fit the cultural narrative, for boot licking, sabotage - it is not Github's core business and they should stay out of it (IMO).
> If there's a Twitter organized revolution happening around you

If this actually happens, you won't need to be on Twitter to find out about it.
Efficiency still matters -- Renewable doesn't mean unlimited or cheap -- if it takes 10X more energy to create hydrocarbons than you get back from burning them, maybe it's better to use that energy for more efficient transportation storage systems. Then you can use some of the energy saved for direct carbon sequestration.
It's just a prepaid credit card. Looks and behaves like any normal credit card, except that it has no name or address associated with it (and will validate against any).

Yes, they have unique numbers, and the time/date/location of purchase is known for each card's number. Like I said, this is not secure enough to defend against targeted attacks by well-resourced actors, but good enough to stay out of the dragnet, at least for now.
IIRC, they were all defeated, except for the burn a hole in the disk and try to write to it copy protection mechanism.

It was more a matter of which bit copy software had the right profile to be able to copy the tracks.

Back when I was doing a lot of copying disks, I remember it was really important to get the drive speeds right for a given profile. That way the you could dead reconing style copy for a partial track once the drive sync'ed to some known pattern that was fully on the starting track. These copies obviously didn't work 100% of the time, but generally a few tries would yield a working copy.

I personally used Copy][ Plus as my primary utility and vaguely remember writing little "scripts" (more a few bytes of hex codes IIRC that described which tracks to read, and how to do quarter stepping/etc) to describe how to copy spiral track disks. Although frequently, I remember it being easier to try one of a number of other bit copy utilities first.
Facebook has a fully automated testing pipeline, supposedly with few human gatekeepers but not testers, and use Facebook employees as the only real testers. That gives me no confidence at all.
(I'm one of the creators of ptr.js)

I have to agree with you on most cases: please don't touch my scroll behavior. However, this tool was created because on user testing, we found that for our app, users were having trouble figuring out how to refresh for new information (which isn't a feed, it's just a list of invoices they have received).

Even when most of web users know that clicking the logo will take them to home, interestingly this pattern was not translated to mobile. And even when you have Chrome mobile with a native pull to refresh feature, you have a bunch more that doesn't have that. So we wanted to create a standard: regardless of what browser you choose, it will work the same.
And we chose pull to refresh because it's very familiar for our users: we simply say "it's just like facebook" and they get it.

We released this library because even if all browsers had the same gesture, the look and feel would be different, and also, because you might not need to do the default action (reloading the web page), as you might have a SPA that needs to poll the server, while keeping the current page state.
The entire premise/point of this article seems to be that there has been an increase in the suicide rate, but then offers no evidence to support that.

The closest they come to offering evidence is the statement "Since December, there has been a rash of apparent suicides among the city’s taxi drivers", with a link to a NY times article where there is also no evidence of an increase or any information whatsoever about what the normal rate has been over the past 20/30 years.

Is this what passes for journalism?
Why Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Is Ingenious
Yes, hate. It boils down to my personal preference, though, so take it with less than a grain of salt.

The MAIN things that bother me:
* Slowness
* Enforced rules on whitespace
* Incompatibility between 2.7 and 3.x
* The fact that many tools still use 2.7, making something virtualenv necessary at all
* Needing both pip and conda (i.e. to try Caffe)
* Extreme dynamic typing means code completions are often poor or of little help
* Windows support often lacking

There's actually a _lot_ more, but for the sake of not hijacking this thread, I'm going to stop my list there.

Anyways, those are just my personal preferences; I don't expect those to be reasons for other people to not like Python.
I don't personally know anything about i2p but my spidey senses suggest that until it becomes about as widely-used as Tor, it's not going to have as good an anonymisation factor as Tor.

I mean, if only 100 people use I2P, and some traffic has gone over I2P, you can quite easily narrow it down to the set of 100 people.

I'd be delighted to be proved wrong.
There was a similar "comming to jesus moment" with Google in China. They saw how they had to do the right thing after years of censoring and manipulating data for the chinese government, but only after they got massively hacked, blocked, and essentially forced out of china...

However a good thing done for the wrong reasons is still a good thing.
> Avoid creating or reinforcing unfair bias.

AI will likely reflect the bias of its training set, which likely reflects the bias of the creators. So, it is fair to say that AI will be biased?
Except Social Security isn't a bank account, nor is it really a "promise," at least not a promise of a specific return on investment.

One could argue that designing your financial expectations around that program remaining exactly as is for the forseeable future given that history wouldn't be reasonable - any number of events could lead to that $1000 hole in your budget. Who's "keeping your savings" when stocks fall or inflation rises?

But, if the feasibility of the Social Security program as a whole depends on restructuring the program, as it has in the past, then I believe it's better for society that those cuts be distributed to those who can best afford them.
The problems are made by the state with it's unnecessary regulations of the market.
Probably. Make them pay for their own discovery.
I adore the purity with which Andy is approaching his projects.
After watching the "Software Should be Perfect" video I looked around in his GitHub account [0] and found groovebasin. I realized that 3 years ago I was amazed by that same attitude in his "Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player" [1]. I find it very hard to keep up that kind of purism in the corporate world. Even as a Co-Founder with a lot of decision-making authority, I often feel the need to favor pragmatism over purism.
Andy, I wish you the best of luck to succeed in your quest to sustain a living, while keeping up the perfectionism.

BTW: I happened to have crashed the groovebasin demo back in 2015. In an email you explained that my playlist import triggered an out of memory process crash. Maybe its time to rewrite the groovebasin backend in Zig to make it more robust in high memory usage situations ;)

[0] https://github.com/andrewrk
[1] https://andrewkelley.me/post/quest-build-ultimate-music-play...
Interview with a London Cabby, by Charles Dickens (1860)
Mars discovery: Organic molecules found by NASA rover
The suicide rate is higher with men though.

I suspect men are feeling worse, but they are less likely to "treat" themself with opioid's or other drugs, just like men in general are less likely to treat medical issues.
As long as you keep the innards dry it could last hundreds of years.
> However a good thing done for the wrong reasons is still a good thing.

Agreed, and I try not to be too hard on them. I don't think it's a black and white issue personally, the only issue I have is how this implies Google always wants to do the right thing from the get go, which very much seems to not be the case here.
... and that self-driving car will make its passengers car sick and get rear ended by the human driver behind it.

those types of twitchy driving mechanics aren't normal and don't share the road well with normal humans. The physics of cars and reaction times would dictate that we program a self-driving car to drive like Grandma .... always maintain safe low speeds, very long following distances and braking hard for sketchy actions by other cars or random things near the road, but we know that actually makes the road more dangerous as humans drivers will aggressively cut-off and rear end this self-driving grandma. Secondly, that type of driving creates a bad public impression of self-driving cars hurting their chances of adoption. If you read some of the earlier impressions of Google/Waymo cars its clear they went down that path initially and had to change their approach.
this looks awesome!!
If anything this article doesn't reflect well on Rekognition
The only things we can change in life are our own choices.
I had a hilarious exchange with a 20-something person at an event recently.

Me: "Is {particular social injustice} still happening in the world? I feel like that doesn't happen regularly anymore."

Person: "People are doing it all the time on Instagram. I've seen two posts this month."

Me: "I'm not on Instagram."

Person: "It happens on Facebook too. I saw one this year."

Me: "I'm not on Facebook."

Person: "Then how do you know what's going on in the world?!"
Discord. I’m not sure if Slack can do multi-party video but it has person-to-person.
Yeah, good point. You could probably do that in a weekend I bet.
It is extremely obvious that you don't know anything about Nat or his work history.

Ximian led development of GNOME, which was one of the largest open source software projects at the time. Nat showed up to the hackfests and wrote code like everyone else. He is absolutely an open source developer, whose later career has been in management.
I don't understand why people say fossil fuels are particularly required for plastics. Plastics can be made from renewable sources just as much as fuel. I used to have a mug that my employer gave me made of plant-based plastic.
I doubt that Google spelling out their moral stance is intended to convince you right away that they're all good now. It's a public standard that they're setting for themselves. If you think their actions don't match their words, you now have concrete terms and principles to critique and compare with. It's a benchmark to which employees and the public can hold them accountable.
Yes. It's the Future and executor stuff, but doesn't provide an executor. You'd do that via Tokio or whatever else.
I don't think anyone would be using one of these pre-fab buildings for gentrifying existing urban centers. Those development projects usually aim to create aspirational purchases, or investment properties—neither of which wants the taint of "put together from parts, like a trailer-home or something."

No, I imagine these would mostly be used to construct "condo-cities": exurbs/farmland "reformatted" all at once into new urban branch-nodes by plopping five hundred mixed-use condo buildings onto it, and then connecting it to the nearest urban center using high-speed rail or other public transit.
A new purpose for Yucca Mountain?
In a few months science teachers with no real memory of a time when Opportunity wasn't driving around Mars will be teaching freshman who hadn't been born when Opportunity landed on
Mars.
Stymied by browsers, attackers embed Flash 0-day inside MS Office document