skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew a lot of people whose parents worked in the industry. Their kids would "help" out a bit (the parents hoped to pass on the restaurant) by working the front of the house, or doing some bookkeeping etc. This gave them a sense of the business without learning the hard side of it. The really long hours, the fear of going broke, the hassles of employing people. The endless cleaning, stocking, menu planning, working with vendors. The million details that all have to be done for the business to run smoothly.

Then the parents decide to step away from the business. Their children take over the business, and want to put their stamp on it. Modernize it. They update the menu; redo the decor. Aim for a better clientele. Try to remove the difficult parts of the business with technology. And the business fails. Because they didn't understand the myriad small decisions that lead to its initial success.

Restaurants are incredibly hard to start and run successfully. That's why franchises are so popular, they take some of the guesswork out, at the expense of giving up control and individuality.

At the end of the day, people want tasty food, at a reasonable price, served quickly, and in a decent atmosphere. If this robot can provide that, it'll succeed. I don't see that it can satisfy the second and third criteria. If they get that down, and the cost of the robot isn't higher than a staffed and equipped kitchen they'll succeed.
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Thank you. Many want their cake and to eat it too.
It's a moral point. Maybe I'd rather be dead than kill someone.
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I really think they need to thank President Trump for that. He saved Twitter.
Fellow Western European here, and I understand that sentiment. However, it seems that countries which are closer to Russia or China don't mind the American military nearly as much. See: Baltic States, Sweden, Taiwan. Pax Americana is a thing, even if it's usually overshadowed by completely braindead interventions like the Iraq War.
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This is exactly what google guy on a ted talk warned about. There's a window where people trust the machine before it's ready to be trusted.
I know, but I'm pretty sure that's what the OP was referring to.
I imagine the non-popular videos are sent directly from central servers. By offloading the most popular spikes to P2P maybe they're able to reduce costs enough to make it worth it.
> Would you also consider Waymo, Cruise, et al, negligent?

Absolutely. We know from centuries of evidence that humans are profoundly bad at monitoring 'mostly autonomous' systems. Waymo/Uber know this as well, they just employ the driver as a convenient way to offload legal liability while they test unproven and unsafe technology on the public without consent.
Ever heard of the independence war?
To me, Ted Nelson's Zigzag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigZag_(software) - is a similiar view to Neuromancer's virtual reality. It's a shame it's not more popular. Gzz is an excellent version of it.
That sort of warning is more effective if it's not mixed in with a joke.
I consider myself very lucky that I'm not an alcoholic. I used to drink quite a lot. Every day at one point. That is enough for some people to become alcoholic.

Consider that if I was using cocaine I would be expected to have been fully aware that what I was doing was harmful. But drinking every day is considered completely normal and nobody would question your usage.
This seems to me like a far more salient distinction than how the program is stored.

Instruction pointer and explicit branching.

The Z3 is still (in a theoretical sense) Turing-complete, even without branching instructions (exponential path construction).
To shorten my previous comment

Who was banned?
Not only the US, but in a lot of places.

A large number of these people will have been outside of the "real world" for a good proportion of their adult (and often, child) lives. Without comprehensive financial education early in schools, and with careers in industries detached from a lot of financial pressure, surrounded by hanger-ons and perceptions of lifestyle.

I actually have a lot of empathy for these groups who see success but don't have the skillset to know what's best.
Any vehicle that is not the highest level of autonomy (ie has no steering wheel, or no need for one) should have systems in place to verify that a human driver is alert, in charge of the vehicle, and able to respond immediately - eye focus cameras, steering wheel sensors, confirmation prompts, etc.

Is there a valid reason this should be law?
Funny that you say that. David Hume said that you can’t meaningfully prove causation, only describe things and speak about about correlation.

Also time is a local phenemenon. You can’t simply compare A and B time if A and B are really far apart. When you get to really small scales you would be hard pressed to find which event happened before the other, so you get uncaused events like Virtual Particles in quantum mechanics.

And when you have tons of complexity then what do you mean by cause and effect instead of correlation?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/omnigenic-model-suggests-that...
any source/information on this? news to me would love to know more
It's reminiscent of "Tesla invented AC, and motors, and also transformers".
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Ahem. Not among the folks I mix with. That would be recognized instantly as a problem.

I guess the real problem is, alcoholics tend to mix with other alcoholics. Makes their life seem normal? I read that 50% of the business of liquor stores is by 10% of their customers. Definitely some modal populations going on.
> it stored the program in the same memory as the data

Doesn't make sense as a distinction for "stored-program computer", since that's just called a Von Neumann architecture.
2,400 children go to the emergency room every year from sticking things in electrical sockets. Nobody cares to stop the sale and installation of standard electrical outlets, though, because that would be an inconvenience to too many people.

Another example is alcohol. Annually it kills 88,000 in the US and 2.4 Million world wide. Yet weed, a drug that kills 0 people, and is an effective tool for managing pain and misc. disorders, has been illegal for a century or more.

The banning of the magnets is a convenience for people who don't want to be required to behave responsibly. If enough people wanted the magnets, they would never have been banned.
Unfortunately no.
The presentation was shown on the Kyiv Go Meetup - https://www.meetup.com/uagolang/events/251712321/ and it was in Russian. I didn't notice any recorders during the presentation.
Yes. I worked on an application to detect major events around a topic using the Twitter firehose. It created alerts for, eg, when the Ukraine changed prime minister, showing alerts for the event way before BBC and Sky news had the story online (if you're interested there's screenshots in my portfolio, https://mikemaccana.com, the app was called 'waves').

CEO kept saying we were funded and had 'infinite' runway whenever I (lead engineer / CTO) asked. I never believed him, and then one day he turned round and decided to shut down the company. We're still good friends, but I wouldn't go into business with him again.

I spent a couple of weeks cleaning up docs for if someone discovered the git repo in future as it was hinted he might get some contract help in once the CEO sorted out the finances. I don't think it's ever happened.
Depending on your operations, e.g. With small buffers that fit in a cache line, transfers to GPU memory could cause GPU esque performance of less than 4x, even less than 1x whereas SIMD still provides benefits.
Uber should get charged with manslaughter. I don't say that lightly. This isn't an example of programmer error, where a alpha-version self-driving system failed. That would've been unfortunate, but not grossly negligent. Here, Uber put a "driver" in control of the car that by design wasn't able to avoid collisions with pedestrians. According to the NTSB, Uber disabled Uber's own emergency braking system (not just the built-in Volvo one) “to reduce potential for erratic behavior.”[1] That rises to gross, criminal negligence.

It is no defense to say that Uber also told a human driver to be present. If Uber had directed a five year old to drive the SUV, with a back-up driver ready to take control, I think everyone would agree that qualifies as gross negligence notwithstanding the presence of the back-up driver. (To be clear, I think some risk in the name of progress is acceptable. But it's one thing to use testing on public roads to work out the kinks in the software. It's another to put vehicles on the road that you know cannot perform the basic, essential functions of driving.)

[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-uber-arizona-nts... ("However, Uber also disabled its own emergency braking function whenever the test car was under driverless computer control, 'to reduce potential for erratic behavior.'").
I can assure you that the majority of SAG actors are working service jobs, living hand to mouth. This isn't an example of the rich lording over the plebs, this is an example of a union doing right by its members.
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Yeah, while agree with the first part of jillesvangurp's comment I think an argument can be made that the "printing" of money was one of the causes of the increase in meaninglessness work.
Correct source of comment is elsewhere in that thread [1]

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56613...
first, "immoral" is a matter of taste and/or opinion; and still, porn for example is always on the verge of innovation dealing with massive amounts of customers, data security, copyrights and billing, long before anybody else. There's always another nice interesting problem to be solved by a competent engineer.
Old story ( http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/23/porn.technology/index... ) but it drove the adoption of VHS over betamax, blueray over dvdrom, etc...
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Sometimes these science fiction counterparts are called 'diagetic prototypes' or 'design fictions'. Has been a favorite topic of Mr Bruce Sterling's for a while now
https://www.wired.com/2011/02/design-fiction-diegetic-protot...
One needn’t make a decision that would stand up in all times and all places. It’s perfectly reasonable to take a stand based on the current circumstances in particular country.
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After hearing so many stories like this for so many years, any time a company acquires another, it usually seems advisable to jump ship from the acquired to other vendors before things start going south.

PR will come up with all sorts of reasons said acquisition will benefit both company's customers but I've yet to see it.
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Just because some people who don't know any better say the US invaded Iraq for oil does not make it true. And ignoring Iraq, did the US intervene in the Balkans because of natural resources or potential markets? Or in Somalia? Please try and put in a little more effort into your thought process.
The driver was responsible for the car, and carries most of the responsibility for this accident. There may be grounds for a civil, or even criminal, action against Uber on the basis of creating a dangerous situation, but that would be a bad executive decision, not a programming error.
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Why do you think I didn't think when I wrote it? You can't expect to start crossing the road with approaching cars, hoping they would accommodate you instantly. What if a driver sneezed while you are doing it, unable to react for a second or two or there was some sudden mechanical or other failure? Friend of mine was driving 55mph when an older man suddenly decided to quickly cross the road and he couldn't avoid hitting him, so he is now scarred for life from terminating somebody else's life and seeing it all realtime. It's obvious the Uber driver didn't pay attention, that however doesn't absolve the victim from being the primary offender. Think about it before you go emotional.
The other answer if course is that piping all your internet traffic through a single 3rd party has some obvious consequences: surveillance and traffic injection being the obvious ones. If anyone thinks they use TLS extensively; run a Bro packet analyzer off a cheap switch span port for a month on your upstream router and prepare to be surprised.
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What you describe is your boss's boss exercising power within his job position. That is not the case Kuhn describes.

When someone comes to you to have handle something which should be handled by your boss's boss, do you go ahead and do it? Even if you don't want to, and it's outside of your job description?

I have read about Kuhn and Sandler. I have also listened to most of their oggcasts.

You write "The reputation alone is the reason why the donor wants to speak with him"

Do you have evidence that that is the case? Because as presented, we don't know the specific reasons, and Kuhn states that "I can't think of a single reason this donor could want to speak to me that would not be more productive if he instead spoke with Karen". I presume Kuhn doesn't think his reputation is relevant.

Nor do I see a reason to think that Bradley's reputation is relevant. If the donor wants to speak to Bradley, why gate the donation on the private meeting? Why not donate the money without that thread attached, and independently arrange a private meeting with Kuhn?

Also, Sandler also has a reputation. She has been in the free software community for 13 years, has a legal background in defending free software, is the Executive Director, and (according to Kuhn), "better than [him] at the key jobs of a successful Executive Director."

The question isn't "why would someone want to have a private conversation with Kuhn?" but "why would a donor gate a donation on having a private conversation with Kuhn?"

It is certainly not "immediately obvious" that Sandler shouldn't also be at that conversation. Can you explain why it's obvious to you?

The "disingenuous" comment I made you mentioned is because the OP wrote "unfathomable", which is an extremist viewpoint which sidesteps the topic. I can make up fathomable reasons - and indeed I did - but they are all much more improbable than the stated reason of institutional sexism.
This is it.

All we can do is dissuade and encourage.
It's a really really bad name for an object detection system
Do people still really believe that cases like this are the result of ignorance? It's been years since GDPR was made into law, seems to me the only explanations are severe negligence or malevolence.
Balkans.
>, the story boils down to

To clarify further, only one sub-story (the "corporate cops" that's in the title) can be summarized to that.

The article's title is misleading as the full text is really a mismash brain dump of 7 subtopics that doesn't seem to have a unifying theme. (Note the subtitle is "Also data science, Hovnanian, demo platforms, Jack Dorsey and bond liquidity.") The 7 boldfaced sections:

The corporate police.
Data.
Everybody won in the Hovnanian trade.
Oops.
CEO skill.
People are worried about bond market liquidity.
Things happen.

(The other 6 topics are unrelated to "corporate cops".)
You would be well advised to never ever get anything you depend on from Amazon, especially not things to protect lives or ensure safety.

Amazon has an incredible problem with counterfeits, but also with quality control: they often will sell you items that have been used and returned by customers as new and never used.

You can't even rely on the reviews because sellers routinely game the system and flood their listings with fake or bought 5 star reviews. Oftentimes, when I publish a 1 star review, the seller will reach out and ask me to change my review to 5 star in exchange for another free product of theirs. Many people bite.

I personally quit buying anything at all from Amazon for that reason, instead I find the item locally and price match if the store allows. Even if you report it, the underpaid customer service agent only seems to have one incentive: number of cases handled by hour. Don't expect much when reporting counterfeit or unsafe products, they'll say amazon cares, thank you, it will be forwarded to whoever. It might as well go to /dev/null because nothing ever happens.

It eludes me how amazon (the retailer) plans on staying in business in the long term while behaving this way.
YES!! Unfortunately people take marketing buzzwords at face value. Since the industry is not yet ready to release a true "autopilot" then they should not be using these words. People die so that Uber, Tesla and others can ab-use these words.\

Someone died that day because that "safety operator" was watching TV? Imagine how 'extra happy' the cyclist's family is right now.
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> There is nothing better than being at a place with low light pollution and seeing something like this.

As far I understand, you can never see with the naked eyes something similar to a long exposure photo. Sure you can get a better outline of the Milky way but you'll never see something that is the result of collecting photons during minutes or hours.
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Too bad, thank you regardless :)
Imperfect, but not so bad.

If the slides are available today, and are viewable in a web-browser, I don't mind too much. Presumably it's either this or nothing.

If there's already a finished blog post in conventional format, then sure, no sense linking to a slideshow.
This is the model that Lambda School is using. It's early yet, but they're having some success.
Printing money devalues it a little. It hits harder when you have millions or billions, than when you have little. So printing money seems to be on the side of redistributing wealth, not concentrating it?
You wrote: "and everybody is instantly supposed to treat her as in charge and totally disregard their previous relationship with him? Come on."

As described, that is not the case for this situation. Kuhn wrote:

> Yet, the executive, who was previously well briefed on the role changes at Conservancy, repeatedly insisted that the donation was gated on a conversation with me.

How do you turn that into "instantly supposed to treat her as in charge"?
Is this possible on a ubiquiti switch?
Funny you should say that, didn't elasticsearch have a default setting last year which caused thousands of servers to be compromised?

Amazon even has an article about securing ES

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-to-control-access-...

EDIT: https://www.zdnet.com/article/elasticsearch-ransomware-attac...

> Elasticsearch was never meant to be wide-open to internet users. Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, explained all this in 2013. This post is filled with such red-letter warnings as "Elasticsearch has no concept of a user." Essentially, anyone that can send arbitrary requests to your cluster is a "super user."
It would be cheaper to fully demolish and rebuild with a typical bland curtain wall box. So where's the economic case? There doesn't appear to be one. If it's a means of evading some regulation I'd have expected a regulatory response to such piss taking since this trend started in the 90s.

Most people who aren't architects seem to dislike modern buildings and facadism seems a way of evading rather than addressing the argument.
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I struggle with this. Generally I’d rather be involved so at least i know the decisions being made were made by someone not trying to achieve a pure evil outcome. I trust myself, but i certainly do not trust most others. Having said that, yes i wish there were no military contracts to win and that no one was working on tools for groups like this.
There is a difference between putting technology out there that is "not ready" and putting technology on the road that fundamentally doesn't do the basic things that a car must do, such as brake for pedestrians. It's an unfortunate but avoidable tragedy if a self-driving system fails due to a computer bug. Here, Uber disabled the self-driving system's emergency braking function: http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-uber-arizona-nts.... As far as I know, Waymo at least is at least theoretically capable of braking for a pedestrian in autonomous mode.
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I used to like watching those fluffy biography shows where they talked about people who hit it big and got rich and famous. Sometimes it was overnight. Sometimes it took them years.

Most of the people had already died. Some were still alive. The ones that were still alive, you could tell that they tried to "fluff it up a bit" -- not get too critical.

But in almost every instance? If you hit it rich (famous makes it even worse), you might as well become a drug addict or shoot yourself. It tends to destroy lives. There's nothing happy about it.

On reddit awhile back there was an "AskReddit" about what to do if you won a bunch of money in the lottery. The best advice was sobering: it is a minefield of self-deception and manipulation.

What's so weird to me is the huge chasm between the reality of getting rich quick and the way the general public views it. We've glamorized it way too much.
Yes, absolutely, but just reducing the amount of light pollution around you and looking up in the sky is a wildly different experience than, say, looking up somewhere close to a city.
One exception I've found in practice is Go, which being a simple language, can be picked up rather readily. Early code isn't idiomatic but still fairly readable and maintainable. Python could be another which make sense in order to use a simple framework such as Flask or possibly Django. Scala would be on the other end of the spectrum and a definite no no.
> So I immediately hit a block as I'm struggling to understand why I need the notion of a Functor to understand what in the end looks like just lazy mapping of a function over a stream.

You don't, for this one example.

You don't, for any one example.

But if you keep looking, you'll find more and more of these examples of functors embedded in the code you are already writing. You need the notion of functor when you want to abstract over all of these examples, or generalize one of your examples to handle things that it couldn't before.
If you upload to AWS S3 you put in a fallback to another service? And any other AWS services you use? That's a lot of fall backs. Is the second fallback good enough? Should we add a third? In any practical sense development would grind to a halt. Twitter/Smyte are totally in the wrong for not giving a reasonable notice. I think whoever made this decision should actually be removed from their post and the servers should powered back on again with an apology to all of their clients. If they still want to shut it down later then they should provide a reasonable time frame.
Does anyone think they companies that just got the shaft have legal recourse?

If nothing than just getting a pound of flesh from twitter.