skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The next big thing may be

how about autonomous cars, weapons, and everything else in between?

>That's a slow, capital-intensive, heavy-industry infrastructure upgrade, driven by manufacturing cost reduction.

manufacturing cost reduction would come from those autonomous systems and overall tech based approach (when Musk succeeds with his Model 3 production goals it will be only light preview of autonomous manufacturing of the future), and as result the "infrastructure upgrade" will be faster and less capital-intensive.

In general, the SV starts to move beyond the pure computing tech and into the other industries. Again, Musk as an example, with Tesla and SpaceX being more of tech companies in car and space business and less of just car and space companies. Or Uber - a tech company in taxi business. One can also see a rise of a tech company in agriculture, be it farm-in-container or autonomous fleet of tractors doing its stuff on huge people-less farms (kind of next iteration of transition like that described in Grapes of Wrath)

And the "solar, wind, and storage taking over the energy industry" also will be done based on tech, if not by a tech company, as the distributed and less predictable nature of those sources would require orders of magnitude better monitoring of the whole energy grid, real-time prediction, planning and redistribution.
We are too hell-bent on that unix philosophy that everything is a text, stdin, stderr and pipes are enough. It is not. We should have ways to log objects. We should have ways to pass those objects around and serialise, deserialise and inspect them.

It's not just text. Grep is not enough for investigation.
That actually sounds like a really good idea if it's possible.

It would be a blockchain-based neural network which people can sell training data to (in exchange for the underlying cryptocurrency) and which other people can use via an API to do pattern recognition on their own user data (by paying in the same cryptocurrency).

It would be a decentralized, autonomous AI.
In 20 years HN will have a front page top post about the long term health risks of male circumcision. Sometimes it take time for common sense to become.. common.
I bet the next Big stuff is Enterprise P2P.

Some content providers are using P2P to complement their CDNs with more offnet capilarity (cannot tell details in public).

Others like Alibaba are using P2P to syncronize content among servers. Thing of it as a faster and simpler way to have server farm contents un sync.

What I'm missing yet is using P2P for configuration, and backup.
Most food suppliers for schools are the same companies supplying food for prisons. With a captive consumer base I certainly wouldn't expect all that great of fruit and vegetables. Their only concerns are profit and passing minimum safety standards.
About 11 minutes in the point hits home, but the whole talk is good.
Social proof is very important. But it's easily gamed. It's a shame that projects needs x stars and y collaborators for anyone to consider using it. We'll eventually end up with star inflation, and "get 100 stars for $10" services.
I believe the market will have to crash just don’t know when exactly.
> will improve ad relevance for the end-user.

Do you really believe that people actually care about how relevant they are? Because I'm pretty sure they don't and most of all, that's not what they want while browsing the web.
Earth is full of machines that are capable of self-reproduction (e.g. bacteria), and some of them are clever enough to build rockets, so I don't think it's such a big stretch to assume that von Neumann probes are possible.
I had my adenoids and tonsils removed as a kid in the early 1970s. Had bad allergies all the way into my thirties, but I have no way of telling if they were the reason I needed to have my adenoids removed in the first place. However, I simply grew out of my allergies in my late 30s.

These days I rarely get sick, despite living in London and travelling on public transport all the time. And when everyone else in my family has a terrible sore throat, I never have a problem, so that's definitely a plus side for me right now.

I'd be really interested in whether there's a downside heading into old age, but I've not seen any data on that.
Didn’t you to forget to include IoT?
The rescue place is really just a private house and a old woman who loves animals... she doesn't take contact info and I'm not sure she has a Facebook account or any social presence.
That was a decent report considering the source has the incentive to be pro Bitcoin.

And the best that positive report could come up with was:

* serious lack of Tether transparency is not necessarily fraud.

* some correlation with deposit balance in Puerto Rico

I will eat my hat if a respectable audit firm releases a Tether audit showing that Tether has been 1:1 backed by real USD reserves in all of 2017.
I usually copy/paste the functions I need :P
Yes, even here in a rural area with good public transport. Not just us as parents, but our 2-year old loves going by train or bus.
I started a summer season series on Twitter https://twitter.com/marenkay/status/1006286995767877634 (now to be found with #summersymfony) on common pet peeves and quirks one encounters when working on Symfony projects.

The series will go on for at least a month and take apart small stuff from real world projects.

I'd be happy to get some feedback and/or suggestions!
Chrome has had this for ages. But I am glad to see Firefox's dev tools making improvements in recent times.

The only reason I stick with Chrome is the dev tools.
I'm not proposing anything because I don't have a solution to it. If pointing out an obvious and real problem deserves a downvote, I'm not sure what's the point of this place after all.
Wouldn't a randomly sized window be more unique than a fullscreen resolution (of which there are probably only a handfull of common ones)?
SigSpoof: Spoofing signatures in GnuPG, Enigmail, GPGTools and python-gnupg
If you want protection from someone booting up your computer in single/rescue mode to read/modify files you'd have to encrypt the entire disk (using LUKS, for example).
Astute readers will recall _100 years ago_ when Harvard had an issue with a glut of over-performing Jewish students, and had debates that presaged today's debates about discrimination and diversity.
The old debate may even be more illuminating than today's debate, since back then many of the racists were shamelessly clear-spoken about their race-based hatred.

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/expose/book/cloak-meritocrac...
SigSpoof 2: More ways to spoof signatures in GnuPG (CVE-2018-12019) – NeoPG
Actually I was replying to your previous claim that "owe" "is used colloquially to mean currently in arrears/default". Colloquially "owe" means "in debt". According to the dictionary "to be under obligation to pay or repay". To what extent other liabilities (leases, pension fund obligations, whatever) can be assimilated to loans is a different question.

You're right that only WeWork appears in the news in these terms, but WeWork is an unusual case. I would be interested to know if there are other companies in a similar situation.
AFAIK the original Skam also featured social media uploads along with the linear TV content. During the week (it was on once a week, and uploaded online at the same time), you were able to follow the characters from the show on Facebook (and probably other social media). While the show itself was quite popular this new way of doing it seems to be what the networks are mostly interested in. And with reason, it was a really popular show because of it.
In the past the reasoning to replace the menu system with ribbons completely and not allowing to switch back is the understandable desire to not having to maintain and test two different UIs all the time. Two different ribbons may still work, as the ribbon already has information about "importance" or "prominence" of each item, but I fear eventually there'll be only one remaining in the future.
Ben from Kaggle.

Open up the ~50 different individual datasets linked in separate tabs, and then quickly flip through all of them trying to get a sense of what each one is.

That experience will demonstrate one of the main challenges we're aiming to solve by making Kaggle Datasets your default place to publish data online (https://www.kaggle.com/datasets)
Good point about the package management, but I disagree with your argument. Non-Computer Scientists seem to have a much easier time with Python than R, anecdotally.

I think the reason is that R is not just a badly designed language, but in particular its design is inconsistent. That’s as confusing to newcomers as it is to people who care about PL design.

I used R for almost a decade. Last year I switched to Python and Jupyter, never looked back. Can’t recommend the switch highly enough. R has great stats packages, but struggling with the language is just not worth it.
Wow. This was essential reading for me. I wasn't aware that Facebook Watch even existed nor that SKAM did and reading this really highlighted how out of touch I am with what kids and teenagers are doing.

This sort of media feels like a true paradigm shift and is both extremely interesting and terrifying. Terrifying because the boundary between real and manufactured seems to be rapidly dissapearing, and interesting because it truly is a new form of created media.
So maybe those two users opted out of FDE, or had company requirements that told them to.
When it comes to making electric cars, there’s China and everyone else
> What did they lose

They lost access to a world-class education, professional network, and maybe >$1million in lifetime income premium over their alternate life path.
I've had my tonsils removed at age 6, no allergies at all. My appetite increased quite a bit they tell me, but my parents were in their twenties back then, who knows. Anyway, wanted to throw in my data point in here.
What's funny is I've been using Chrome heavily for development, but I'm moving more and more towards Firefox. Not sure why, but Chrome has been chugging really hard on loading GitHub PRs for me, whereas it's smooth as butter on FF...
If you’re in the SF Bay Area, Palo Alto airport has several clubs offering primary flight training in the Citabria 7ECA (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Champion_Citabria).
Student in the front, instructor in the back (and out of your line of sight), right hand on the stick between your knees, and left hand on the throttle. Tailwheel. 1120 lbs empty weight.

Thrilling.

An intro flight will cost about $200.
> real wages never fully came back

Real median usual weekly earnings for full-time Americans 16 and over went from 332 1982-84 CPI-adjusted U.S. dollars in Q4 2007 to 350 in Q1 2018 [1]. Americans are in the midst of record high real wages.

Hourly wages for manufacturing employees haven't recovered to their 2004 peak, but they too are well above where they were pre-crisis [2].

Broadly, the country's balance sheet is healthier in 2018 than it was in 2008. Savings are higher, banks are plumper and then economy's productive capacity has grown. The next recession will be a regular one, not a full-blown crisis.

> It's about time for Silicon Valley to tank

Wall Street may beat us to it:

"Christopher Ricciardi, a former Merrill Lynch banker, was known as the 'grandfather of CDOs' for helping popularize these complex structured products that blew up during the financial crisis.

Now, he is bringing his experience to another corner of the financial world with mounds of debt: student loans" [3].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

[2] https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/02/are-wages-increasing...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/grandfather-of-cdos-trying-to-d...
An argument of the form "many X failed, but a new X might not" is not a form of no true scotsman. It would only be no true scotsman if the claim was "X always wins, and Itanium wasn't X"

But anyway I think they're making a fair argument. If something takes an enormous technical effort to switch to, and is similar in performance, nobody is going to put in that effort.

This is emphatically not evidence that the idea "doesn't work".

I believe if you could retroactively wipe out the last decade of improvement on x86 and Arm, and redirect all of that development effort to VLIW, the resulting chips and software would perform just fine by current standards.
This looks quite nice in the sense that it's an index of Deep Learning projects, but it only seems to copy the README and link to the the github projects of those papers.

I thought by clicking "Get Model" I would get the model right away but it just redirects me to the github page of the project.

There is certainly value in getting information about all these models in one place but I feel more friction can be elimaned by providing direct ability to download the model files.
A battery would seem to increase the stakes in case of an accident.

With either a fixed power rail next to the track or overhead lines, if there's an accident the power can be removed, and all that can burn is the vehicle.
Caffe has a thing called exactly "model zoo"[1], which is also a collection of pre-trained models. The submitted site looks like a borrowed idea (+ borrowed name).

[1]: https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/wiki/Model-Zoo
A proper debugger like the one in VS and general structured logging would like to challenge that statement. I'll take those over what you have in the web space any day.
since Elon does not really have a lot of actual cash I would say it is more than a PR move depending on where he got the cash from
Reward Programs Australia
> Silicon Valley will see its core competency commoditized

It's been a long time since semiconductors were Silicon Valley's core competence.
Flight to quality will go into crypto and for many of the reasons mentioned in the write-up.
"You don’t obtain connections by being lucky, for instance, you obtain them because you want them and work hard at it."- I have to disagree. You have little control who comes into your life outside your 1st and maybe 2nd degree of separation. You have almost no control over who will be assigned your freshman dormmate, your instructors, or even your boss. You can't work hard to be put in the same dorm as mark zuckerberg. That is just plain flat out luck. However, smart people are attracted to other smart people and that is why smart people tend to "Create" their own luck. They dont posses any special ability, per say, other than a desirable trait that others like them want to exalt.
I think it's related to the interest rate. If the interest rate is 0% then it means that money is worthless (because in that case debt behaves exactly the same as actual money)... If money is worthless then assets which produce money (profit) are also worthless... So what is actually valuable in a world where money is worthless? Human attention (brand awareness)! Because brand awareness is probably the only asset that won't be affected by a rise in interest rates. So brand awareness is the key to getting a good share of tomorrow-money (which, unlike today-money, might actually have value). So that's why advertising is so valuable now.
This is mdn, it's not a showcase of firefox features but a web development documentation for everyone. Firefox had this since at least v34 (2013).
And to a non-tech this basically translate to "Super Cowboy USA Hot Dog Rocket Ship American Number One"...

As I grew older I start to feel that tech community have the responsibility to stop everything from turning into marketing buzzwords.
> Consumer culture was created really at the dawn of the 20th century. The elites realized that in order to keep 'growth' going they had to get people to continuously 'buy stuff'

This reverses cause and effect. For most of human history, real productive capacity didn't change from generation to generation. Elites fought to sit on more stuff; there was no point bringing peasants into the mix.

The industrial revolution (and the Black Plague, in Europe) changed that dynamic. Real economic growth became a thing. And workers needed to be competed for. That gave them bargaining power in the economy, which they converted into re-tooling it away from solely making toys for the elites and towards producing goods and services for the masses.

It's always comforting to imagine some disembodied "elites" calling the shots and making a plan. In reality, our systems are more chaotic.
And those are?
Another useful trick I've been using for some time is

console.log({ a, b })

where a and b are some variables. This will print the name of the variable next to its value. So it can be thought as a faster version of

console.log('a: ' + a)
Darkmax 220: A Cortex ARM STM32F04 Open Source Powered Race Quadcopter
This looks to me like a band-aid solution for the real problem: lack of transportation infrastructure.
If these people had better transportation options they wouldn't have to walk hours to get water, go to school, etc. It would also result in faster transport of vaccines.

You can ship t-shirts and plastic chairs from western countries and make yousrelf feel good because you're "helping". But what about solving the real problems like infrastructure? The west invested in infrastructure in china. Now china is investing in africa.
This seems to be a directory of neural network and RL related projects not a model zoo at all.

It's a pity - I'm still looking for a WikisumWeb pretrained model!
When you see that your kid isn't as smart as you were it would seem to be important to instill in them the need to really strive since success is probably not going to come easy for them but they can still do well. Wondering how smart parents do that, so I can tell my friend.
I'll just leave this here... https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...
Isn't that what Madden has been doing for the last 15 super bowls? I mean wouldn't 10,000 rounds of FIFA do the qualify?
I can agree that 1.0 is an important milestone. At least as many people seem to treat it as "not ready" until it hits this milestone. I've been using Nim for the past couple of years, and keeping up to date with the version haven't been an issue for me. But I know that the core devs are all working hard towards fixing all the major things that prevent a 1.0 release, and it will probably come soon.
As the article that the guy linked to points out, this unfairness is due an aggressive configuration of the CUBIC congestion control algorithm in QUIC.

TCP also uses CUBIC. So, you would have just as well already been able to be a dick by configuring your CUBIC in TCP to be more aggressive.

Lots of research has gone into an optimal configuration of CUBIC for TCP, under the presumption that everyone will use this implementation, and therefore with the goal of optimal results for everyone.

QUIC now falls out of line because early adopters get better results, as they can unfairly compete against the fair TCP implementation. In the long term however, if QUIC is adopted by everyone, this will lead to a worse result for everyone, because this optimal configuration that's been researched under TCP has been thrown out for no good reason.

At least I'm not aware of a good reason. Maybe QUIC is actually somewhat less impacted by packets being dropped or something like that and does work better with everyone just trying to squeeze everything through aggressively, but even if that is the case, I cannot imagine it being the case to the degree that this CUBIC configuration has been made more aggressive.
Any relation between tonsils and your ex's gender/personality ("She was an emotional wreck") is nonsense. Don't post sexist stuff like that here.
What I actually learned about my family after trying 5 DNA ancestry tests
I'm sure they are very good on some things, and I'll believe you when you say that they are the 3rd best in the world in relative terms.

But let's look at absolute terms. In the example above, "History is full of such prejudices paraded as iron laws that men are superior to women; that the white races are superior to the colored", it takes a part of the sentence and treats it as a fact, disregarding the context that just happens to claim the opposite. In my example in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17301383 it treates a question as an assertion of a fact.

I'm not an expert on NLP, but I have played with it just enough to confidently claim that this is not very impressive performance.

If you claim that detecting "pseudo-science questions" is within reach, surely you must agree that "not mistaking questions for assertions of fact" and "not ripping parts of sentences out of context" must be within reach as well?
Mods, please change link from the snarky low-information re-blog, to point to the original source the blog is copying:

https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2018/defending-divers...
It was a response to the first sentence.

I happen to think that in many ways, the western world has actually moved in the right direction under christianity. You present the existence of theft and murder as a boolean yes/no situation.

I think such argument are misleading. For these statistics, it only makes sense to present the RATES of theft and murder for each system.

As an athetist myself, I'm very aware of the urge to try to construct an utopia from first principles by revolutionary means. But I happen to think that this is very, very dangerous. It can easily take murder rates to less than 10 per 100k to killing a significant percentage of the population, as seen many times during last century.

It is not that I think that religion is very different from other cultural sources of value. I happen to consider relgion to actually BE part of culture. But just because the epistemology of religion is likely wrong, from a scientific point of view, I think the cultures that we live in, including much of a christian baggage has proved that it can sustain a fairly good society.

As an analogy, linux is not perfect, but if random people start modifying code in the kernel more at less at random and without deep understanding, the stability is likely to suffer.

Society is like the social operating system, and if it breaks down, everything breaks down.

EDIT: If you didn't notice, the argument above is pretty much the argument for atheistic liberal-conservativism.
I wonder if there's a market for a "Netflix ISP" - essentially setting up an antenna for local WAN and a microwave antenna, and then asking Netflix for one of their caching appliances.
this practice (along with getting appendix removed when not necessary) seems like some distant relative of bloodletting.
Yes, but the stream will remain if copied to another NTFS volume. That may cause issues.
I think it comes down to whether you think affirmative action to achieve diversity is good/fair or not. A policy that attempts to avoid a mono cultural student body (rich white men) is going to discriminate against someone. Do you exclude women from some jobs because there are more qualified men or does the organization/team/society perform better overall by their inclusion?

“Harvard’s class of 2021 is 22.2 percent Asian-American, 11.6 percent Hispanic, 14.6 percent African-American and 2.5 percent Native American or Pacific Islander. That strikes me as a university that is trying to achieve diversity. And it is no bad thing.”
https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/14/does-harvard-discrimi...
You have to pay to have them removed in the UK now, it's no longer free on the NHS, unless you suffer from 3x serious infections in a one year period.

I suffer from frequent sore throughs, infections and even tonsillitis. My Auntie, who is a doctor, strongly advised me not having them removed. Which at the time is not what I wanted to hear but it seems, unsurprisingly, was great advice.
EU programs are forcibly funded by a tax payer, paying obscene amount of tax. I have 0 respect to companies participating in such programs.