skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact I was, but I wasn't explicit enough, so that's my fault.

My original statement should have been: "We can't model Humanity's Collective Objective Function" - which is what would be behind what we are interested in: Stable functioning muti-agent systems. I think EY took a crack at this a long time ago and rightly abandoned the concept (see: CEV).

Even with that clarification I disagree with the premise that we can model an "objective function" for an individual strictly in-vivo. Modelling an individual agent's reasoning/function system doesn't account for the environmental context it exists inside of, gives input into and responds to. So even if it was possible to understand the mechanism for intra-personal decision criteria, and I don't think it probably is, I don't think it's generalizable without having the context of inputs.

Assuming that we could do this, I don't think you can extrapolate intentionality directly from individual to collective groups - which for an AGI is what is existentially important as it needs to be collectively general to solve the existential problem.

I also don't think this is desirable as a framework for AGI - as humans, despite our intelligent status, are quite unstable and sub-optimal in groups.
Also see http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/bc...
Well the code itself is open source, so that should simplify things quite a bit. As with Android though, maintaining a "de-googlified" build of Fuchsia is probably going to take significant community effort regardless.
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"Why can't I have a console.table() equivalent in Python"

I get a console.table() equivalent in Python by using Jupyter Notebook, which is a web-based REPL shell, and pandas, which is a library for working with tabular data. Pandas displays HTML tables when used with Jupyter.
I remember being so optimistic, exactly as you're describing ... ~20 years ago. Search engines, the nascent days of the blog community (rss!); open standards for chat (jabber/xmpp!), microformats for distributed social networks (foaf!). It was all so great, so empowering, so exciting.

It was all a lie ... all those wonderful things were like chewing Coca leaves, holding great promise and benefits. But everything that came after: centralized social media, one dominant search engine, closed chat networks, centralized media ... it was akin to turning the coca leaves into cocaine. It felt amazing to see such growth, like fire. But ultimately, the sickness and addiction set in, and we see actors exploiting people using these tools. "We" are sick now, and need to figure out a way to regain our agency.
Ah, sorry, you're correct. The company was owned by people who wanted short-term profit maximising decisions (its shareholders). The people actually making the decisions also owned shares, but nowhere near a controlling interest.

Anyhow, I agree with your point about companies that are controlled by founders (whether public or not). A (sufficiently pragmatic) visionary with a controlling interest can achieve things that no amount shareholder-focused governance can. Of course they can also drive a company into the ground faster than anyone -- but the heights are reserved for them.
I may have conflated "fighting words" with "imminent lawless action".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio
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Just wondering, but what does a "firm but gentle push" look like that brings "back" local jobs? "Bringing back local jobs" is the entirely wrong way to solve the issues facing those that are losing jobs in declining domestic industries. It's just the easiest for a (probably) blue-collar worker to engage with and the easiest for a politician to sell, even if it's pure fantasy.
Microsoft reportedly developing cashier-free technology for retailers – TechSpot
As an example of cold welding. The Galileo spacecraft wasn't able to deploy its high-gain antenna because the pins that held it in place got stuck. There was graphite lubricant to prevent that but it was shaken out while it was being transported to the launch site.

Also in the early 90's saw a price list for (3M's) two part silicone products. One product was $25,000 a gallon. Application was for space craft windows. Turns out regular silicon will out gas and fog windows under hard vacuum.

All the above has lead me to have a lot of respect for the engineers that made this stuff work. Ditto because every time I've had a materials problem it's been a trail of tears.
Ask HN: Who has started a business because they couldn't get hired for work?
Many people start businesses for more financial independence, or simply want to be their own boss. How many of those started it out of a more dire need, from being unable to get hired anywhere and so needed to make money independently for themselves? Maybe from a pivot away from skills that are no longer in demand, or simply having trouble passing interviews due to a lack of a good network or bad soft skills.

It could be anyone from HN reading this, or just anybody else, who has shared their story somewhere about starting their business under these circumstances.

EDIT: I have years of experience as a software developer, but my inability to survive in the job market in the past three years has inspired me to make this topic. Either due to bad luck/timing, or bad soft skills, I can't get an offer anymore. So I'm considering other avenues to make a living.
http://coolwanglu.github.io/vim.js/streamlinejs/vim.html
I agree with you, although the thought of millions of nationalized, disgruntled, unemployed citizens within a highly industrialized country is rather terrifying in general, not just for the Chinese government.
"The defendants are charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and nine counts of wire fraud. According to the indictment returned yesterday and unsealed today, the charges stem from allegations Holmes and Balwani engaged in a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud investors, and a separate scheme to defraud doctors and patients. Both schemes involved efforts to promote Palo Alto, Calif.-based Theranos."
>So... your okay with Chinese kids with heart defects, kidney and liver cancer.

Show me where I said that. Of course not. You seem to be ok with every country that hopes to participate in the technological economy having their own contaminated region.

Step back for a second. Think of the earth like a single-unit closed system. Would we rather have 195 regions contaminated with TCE or one/two?

Your petty nationalism would force those kids to stay in their country AND have them deal with the toxic waste of their protectionist government-subsidized industry because they'll have no other choice but to.

You're also making the argument that somehow we'd have the political will to both institute tariffs that protect the industry AND police those industries when they harm our environment. Guess what buddy, those are contradictory ideals. The USA isn't some magical place where we can defy these incentives.

Your assertion that we'd be better at managing waste here is especially fantastical considering the present EPA chairman. Scott Pruitt has undermined the protection of our environment at every opportunity. [1]

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/health/epa-toxic-chemical...
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It's an interview, not a competition. The interviewer would've been much better of asking: "Why?"
Agreed. The things that fascinate me the most are how simalar we were to the Romans, or Greeks for that matter. Roads, society, government, and water utilities. Even just stitting in a bar/restaurant that was a similar place back on Roman times.
They should sort that product out before venturing into the self driving car world
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Wasn't there also some counter-terrorism case involving Google translation of something posted on Facebook?
We are talking
Vim is actually pretty usable on a phone, my problem with it is that phones just feel like toys and so I have a hard time with putting myself in the right mood to do anything useful
That was their plan but it didn't work out, they talked about it here https://about.gitlab.com/2017/10/04/devops-strategy/ (it's quite an interesting article in general)

> And to be honest, it was what we were hoping that Koding would have provided for us, and we have an integration with them, but it hasn’t worked out, really, the way that we had hoped. And so, we’re looking at alternatives, and we think we can probably do this ourselves.
Oh good. Glad the investigation finally got some charges.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing. I don't know if I can cut out 100% of the negative influence, but at least it is a good guide to start. I already deleted reddit on my phone. Let's see what's next
I’d almost suggest a form of passive threat analysis, on the basis that someone occupying a compromised hash is regarded as a weak link (don’t ban the hash, but notice it, and keep an eye on things surrounding it), but even that idea is bound to provoke abuse.

E.G. Right now, Google keeps looking at my browser string, and starts whining and making unwarranted demands when it sees something unexpected.

Oh noes! UR browser string seems goofy!

Time for mandatory 2 factor auth, buddy!

Fuck you, Google. Fuck you, right in your stupid fucking face.

I decide my security stance. I decide what’s dangerous. I decide which risks are acceptable.
Idk why you’re bringing up that California stuff. I was only talking about Houston.
>> have these irrational moral qualms, I would have ended the marriage by now

A twisted version of Stockholm Syndrome, trust me. That nagging feeling that says, "I don't want to rock the boat and be the bad guy", will not move you forward in life.

Doing the long-term mental gymnastics of "Things will get better if X happens or Y turns up", is just wasting more time.

Edit: Please don't read this as negative. But having been there, and having spent way too long pondering the situation... It breaks my heart to hear of those currently living through it.
Wasn't there some thing about people making massive plates of "kimchi" with those free condiments?
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and Balwani charged by feds with wire fraud
> Underdogs with nuclear weapons?

For most of their existence their much larger Arab neighbors (who had the backing of a superpower) had the explicit and oft-stated goal of destroying Israel. Those weren't idle threats: several wars were fought under that banner, one of which was almost successful.

While they currently have a somewhat more secure position, due to peace treaties. They remain unpopular, and a governmental change or revolution could easily put them under intense threat again.
And viewing "this" through the extremely more narrow 19th century lens of competition between nation states completely ignores the entirety of 20th century economic and geopolitical thinking.
"How I won The Lottery" (joke tech talk) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw
> Forget Russia, should we maybe be looking into what China may have done to get this guy elected?

You don't think they could be related?
I'm a c9.io user so my account is still free, but the impression I get from the Amazon acquisition is that you have to run it on an EC2 instance now. That requires some form of setup, doesn't it? And AWS is jargon all the way down, so the entry level is a lot higher than it was before.
If, impossibly, the exact same person had grown up in some other time or place who knows, but in the life she lived she was born female and lived her life as a woman, but with a defiant femininity; rooted in herself, her body, not in the capitalist beauty myth (N.B. the communist beauty myth wasn't much better and she rejected that as well).
People are paying thousands of dollars for virtual real estate
Exactly, there are a few MSDN/Channel 9 articles describing the pains of pulling the Windows repo into Git. If anything, Microsoft is going to make Github, and Git, much better. They have the largest code bases in the world, they aren't going to change anything that will disrupt internal processes, but will build tools to help others with massive codebases live better in Github.
if WSJ is behind a paywall:

https://outline.com/dUwMC4
Does anybody know if Theranos got started with at least an idea how to accomplish what they wanted to do? From what I have heard in interviews they started with the thought "Doing xxx would be super useful" but didn't have an approach for accomplishing this but instead took in money and tried to figure it out. It's like me saying "An antimatter drive would revolutionize space exploration" and starting to collect money but without even the faintest idea how to produce one.

Does anyone know? Did Holmes have any insight that caused her and the investors to believe she could do the blood tests?
It's about time, what these two did is disgusting and shameful.
Is the cover for "The Innovators" a rip-off of this cover on purpose, or by coincidence?

https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Geniuses-Revolution-Isaacs...
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Why isn't the DOJ and Senor Trump appealing? Oh right, congressional elections later this year, that would risk losing out on corporate campaign contributions.
This. I have the idea that folks on the ground will play games with money, and imagine themselves wealthy while developing asteroid resources. But it'll all be for the benefit of space-based industry, which will server space-based populations. Ultimately Earth will realize they have a big pile of imaginary points and no more metal.
From descriptions, that's the way all teams at Facebook work.
Oh, I absolutely intended to buy more than $25 of stuff each visit!

I just didn't imagine they'd let me say "Um, yeah, put $1 on my Costco Cash card, and the other $399 on my Visa".
>Harvard has no obligation to do this.

It's not clear what obligations a non-profit, private institution like Harvard might have, but that doesn't mean they have unlimited freedom to act how they want.

Businesses (and to be clear, Harvard is chartered as a business) are expected to conduct their business in a non-discriminatory way. This is why restaurants aren't allowed to say "No Irish" or "No Blacks" anymore.

Now, Harvard's actions aren't rising to the level of a Jim Crow diner, but they're certainly racially motivated to some degree and the issue is whether or not the degree of racial discrimination is permissible.
I don't want to speak for everyone, but that's a big part of it's value proposition: its brevity and ubiquity are very enabling. I don't think we'd be talking about awk right now if it wasn't useful inline in the shell.

Plenty of people that would rather drop to Perl or Python once awk gets too cumbersome for the command line.
Hey there. As said, the readme points out the major differences with zxcvbn.

I think the main difference you'd see, is the quality of matches and the scores generated are superior to zxcvbn. I had put a lot of work into fixing some of the algorithms, and adding more than the original to cover all the corner cases zxcvbn didn't support well.

For example, I support finding separators within a password with nbvcxz, so passphrase detection is much much better. I also added support for levenshtein distance calculations for dictionary matches. So common misspelling, or slight alterations to a word will be caught, even if they are not included in the dictionary.

Also, internationalization support is nice for those who need it.
Absolutely. But is unexpected for me at least. But thinking of it, maybe you can log everything and if something bad happens you can blame the origin IP who ever that is. You can also ratelimit the outbound conections to avoid abuses etc. Is not like an open wifi where the client doesnt leave any trace at all. But in the shell account days IIRC you had to register with your name/email etc to use the service, that provided internet access. Maybe that didn't imply any safety either.
Ask HN: Do you trust voice recognition?
My broker trying to get me to use authentication by voice recognition over the phone instead of security questions, but I'm skeptical. Would you trust it when there's money involved?
If I recall correctly, many of these warnings come from the default settings provided by the starter Xcode template. As we mostly integrate React Native into existing projects here at Facebook, this is something that we're mostly blind to.

As it happens, someone sent a PR the other day that fixed a bunch of these warnings just in time for the new release candidate we just cut this week. Please give 0.56.0-rc a try. If there's any warnings that still need to be addressed, send a PR or open and issue and ping me. This is something we want to actively clean up :)
It's not true for companies either.
After the company launched professionals in the medical testing said it was impossible. I believe it was even posted to HN. They stated it was impossible to get the results they would get from the amount of blood given.
Microsoft is to blame for Skype downfall
So much for the conspiracy theory people were floating here about her being protected by her influential family and powerful connections.
Thanks! Didnt try it, just couldnt find it in the examples.
They had a good idea of what they wanted to do (blood tests using very thin needles) but never successfully figured out how to accomplish that with the level of accuracy required.

Most Medical professionals believe that what they wanted to do was simply impossible from a biological perspective due to the natural variations of blood content. It would have been like trying to determine traffic on a freeway by taking a brief glance through a tiny slit in a piece of paper.(This is why they draw so much blood for testing, to try and get a fairly representative sample.)
What's the other edge to reducing racial discrimination?
Many Microsoft apps were developed in various forms of "pcode" since before Javascript or Java even exists, it's a well established part of the Microsoft way. The fact that the latest iteration involves javascript is interesting but is just an evolution, not a shift away from C++ or anything of the sort.
That can be OK if the company was started knowing that they had invented something new.
Nice, you should add TheiaIDE to your list
The meaning is that capitalist structure and incentives will necessarily lead to exploitation of culture. There is no moral dimension to this statement: it is merely a causal relationship based on how commerce works, how human psychology and purchasing behavior works, and what art and culture are widely accepted to mean. Commerce does not accommodate our ideas about cultural enjoyment very well due to the way it fundamentally functions. Them's just the breaks, and it's no more punitive to point it out than saying water is wet.

That meaning you're touching on by asking, which is what commerce means in relationship with the arts, is graduate-level theory that you could doctorate in, and remains one of the most debated topics in modern times with the unique twist of cultural leaders outside academia usually being the voices that teach us well. Try concretely defining cultural exploitation, for example, in a way that sets aside personal perspective on the concept. I'd contend it's insoluble.
But that’s one product beating another. It happens all the time. I’m talking about a departure from a product for ethical / philosophical reasons.
How is this remotely elegant? You're including a script to render simple formatted text, something that can be accomplished by statically compiling from markdown to HTML before serving.

If you can serve static HTML, why not just do that?
Poetry helps Afghan girl find her path in England
Google has changed GSuite's SPF records
Yeah, that's a good point; I saw that later in another comment that illumination on the ground was almost nothing.

I guess burning rocket fuel for electricity/heat is probably the most practical mitigation. I expect it would be tremendously inefficient, but better than freezing due to a once-a-decade dust storm.

Lots of batteries or nuclear could also work if it's available.
> It's like me saying "An antimatter drive would revolutionize space exploration" and starting to collect money but without even the faintest idea how to produce one

In America, it's perfectly legal to say "I'm going to make an antimatter drive; give me a million dollars." It's illegal to say "I have a working antimatter drive prototype; give me a million dollars." Holmes and Balwani did the latter.
Xtensa.

For most compilers: xtensa-esp32-elf will work, so long as the ESP-IDF toolchain is available.
We can now use AI to see through walls
As long as you have great internet connection (both in bandwidth) and a recent computer it should feel almost as fast as a native app.
For the anti-protectionists: Can you direct me to extensive empirical evidence that protectionist policies are harmful in the medium to long term?

I often hear that Asian countries have followed protectionist policies for decades, and they seem to be doing well. Norway is also highly protectionist at least with regard to agriculture and as far as I know they have achieved their desired results. When does it work and when does it not work?
If you look at my comment history I think I have a history of reasonably constructive additions to the community. I indulged in a bit of snark at what was, ultimately, a breathtakingly tone-deaf remark on your part. Speaking of, I might suggest laying off the MRA-ish diatribes.

That's all I have to say on this matter. I will not be posting further.
I'd suggest you rather talk with people you interview about underlying concepts and how would they approach and/or solve a real life use case/task/problem. Talk about their experience using this or that tool, IDE, alg, etc. Rather let them talk about their experience and then start going deeper with additional and specific questions about their experience in order to find out how well they understood the task they've been working on and how they researched and used certain toolset, why they've decided to go with certain approach, what were their thoughts about what they did once the task got completed, what would they change/improve etc. You may go as deep as needed with questions in order to see what areas does their knowledge spread across and to actually test how well they understand and know about certain topics that are of your interest.

I don't mind coding tests and whiteboard sessions myself but am finding coding tests not to be that informative on someone's knowledge since the implementation doesn't count as much as someone's understanding of what needs to be done and how well someone is able to grasp all the shortcomings of going with one approach vs going with some other.

At the end, it's always easy to google out the perfect solution to the problem (and/or quickly test several solutions in order to find the most convenient one for the given task) but if you don't understand underlying concepts and are not able to grasp what exactly you need to do no googling will help you with that.
With misguided expectations so low, you give up any motivation to hold companies to a higher standard.

In fact, companies usually prioritize earning above almost anything else, but there are exceptions. CostCo is one of them. They spent a long time paying their employees much, much higher than stockholders wanted them to. CVS is another, giving up tobacco sales at great cost to focus on health care.

It's possible to be cynical about these or any other things, but it is clearly untrue that every corporation cares only about its own bottom line.
Look, why don't you actually try describing some scenario and what you think ought to be the legal result of that scenario.

There are almost no internet comment threads that can plausibly be described as inciting imminent lawless action.