skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On one side: Net neutrality is dead, so you can see where AT&T might see a future for expanding their advertising business. But on the other side: Between GDPR and the constant calls for the US to adopt something similar, the default integration of ad blockers into more browsers, and the fact that targeted advertising just... isn't all that effective, it seems like a poor business to start investing in now.
How do you propose to measure economic health?
Just think. About what affects you.
Go for 1h walk and leave everything at home, except the keys.

I usually I commute 1h10m a day, by bus, and many times I just think about everything. Sometimes I have to shutdown my phone, or make sure I have no music, 4G, videos, ebooks, so I don't get distracted.

You can think about your life, future, past, work "puzzles", economics, politics, friends, family, something you forgot, make comparison between them, etc...
React has always opted for better performance even if that causes the API to be harder to use. This can be seen in how setState() behaves differently depending on when you call it, keys, and now getDerivedStateFromProps. I've been using React since its inception and just the other day I got stuck with a gotcha on keys I was not expecting. Not saying this is good or bad, it's just the approach React took.
> Or capital's other options for returns (real estate, emerging markets, etc) will look bad-ish for the next 10 years and continue to prop up the stock market because its the only good outlet for extra cash for a decade or three.

And if capital flows into the stock market, not to keep pace with growth or to expropriate the standard rate of profit, but simply because it has nowhere else to go, then the natural outcome of this is overproduction. Which leads to a falling rate of profit. Which eventually means falling stock prices, as earnings and market cap are always linked over the long term (even for Amazon.com, which will have to start showing a profit when it moves from #8 to #2 on the Fortune 500 list).
Stories like this often rely on some access to privileged information. If you were in a non-English/Portuguese country and had that privileged information, what reason would you have to expose it to an online paper you've never heard of?

This line of criticism is often brought up but there is no merit in it. How many Russian language news sources are you aware of?
How would buying real estate in expensive areas keep their costs low?

It might increase QoL for some employees in some ways, but that wouldn't necessarily improve the quality of the company.
The problem with that argument is that a constant acceleration of 1g is an astronomically huge acceleration (for comparison, it corresponds to the surface gravity of a stone-and-iron ball with a whopping 12000km in diameter!). The most extravagant system on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel#Non-rocket... has a maximal acceleration of 0.3g.
This, in a nutshell, is why the human condition is so tragic. This won't be "interesting", believe me. Watch what happens when the body of startups funded by global pools of capital (which are the underlying source of capital for VCs) sees the NPV of software startups vanish as lower expected investment returns smack up against higher risk-free rates. The current software economy is incredibly leveraged and intertwined. Most startups are not cashflow positive, and they're explanation for that is that they have low CapEx. However, it's all been transferred to OpEx that is the web of mutuality between them. There is a huge body of low quality startups that are going to stop paying monthly Slack, Git(hub/lab), Trello/Atlassian, Twilio, Mongo, every other monthly-billed service, and put the breaks on AWS/GCE/et al spending. The AWS spending, for example, will result in layoffs in Seattle, which will lead to people forced out of their homes and forced sales for losses (which will ruin them financially), and that will result in a cycle of real estate deflation (which, as you saw in 2006, leats to pools of buyers trapped in their home, killing construction and labor mobility). And thankfully we'll have deregulated or de-fanged federal regulators just in time for all of this! WeWork is the obvious first bankruptcy, since they almost entirely exist because of venture funding froth. I don't know who have funded them offhand, but that might result in forced selling of private shares and lower private valuations, with further deflation risks in that sector. Then it will expand to the broader economy. /rant.

edit: I worked through both the dot-com and mortgage-backed security fraud crises. They were terrible.
> Isn't this exactly what is desired?

Well - its not so much about that, but more about what Bezos et al were looking at.

The Yale law article is critical of a change in thinking that may have enabled the outcomes of amazon's behaviors : "Due to a change in legal thinking and practice in the 1970s and 1980s"

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Another difficulty being the design of a ship that stays a ship when it hits a pebble in space at that speed...
“We’re making app creation even easier for premium API developers”
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or, on the chance that they were able to undermine the establishment of the protocol to make it more amenable being broken using their methods.
I lost 15 pounds over a period of 3 months. Just want to share the following,

a. remove sugar from all diet including coffee etc.

b. double protein intake and halve carbs. One way to do is make your dinners protein only. Find Greek yogurt with low sugar content (or its easy to make at home too). This is especially important if you are above 35.

c. Read about the difference between fat and carbs. Till the time you reach target weight, eat carbs as little as possible.

d. If exercising try things like HIIT or weights that make you 'exert' yourself. Even if its just 5 minutes per day.

Regarding motivation to avoid over eating, make sure your diets includes periodic snacks. There are lot of benefits of eating frequent but light meals (trail mixes with nuts, boiled eggs, green tea, fruits are good examples). Trail mixes with little bit of sugar are ok as they help stop the sugar craving if you have one.
"This time it's different" is literally the last things always said right before the next recession kicks in.

A nice, 500 page overview: https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8973.html
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This sounds like a case where the AI is used in a "marketing" way to make people interested in a product, and then there isn't really much AI involved, and the people developing the AI have a struggle to prove that it's relevant to the business.

I wonder if DeepMind at Google has a similar problem. It is certainly getting a lot of headlines, but there are plenty of other AI groups within Google that do business-relevant things like improve search or ad matching or make Google Home's voice recognition work. I would not be surprised if in the long run DeepMind becomes a group that performed a neat stunt with Go, but kind of fades in practical relevance, like Watson with Jeopardy.
In that case, "least harm" might mean "find the least accessible location and crash in whatever manner does the most damage to sensitive components", assuming "go to nearest allied country and crash-land" isn't an option.
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They link to a short description of the reward function in the blog: https://gist.github.com/dfarhi/66ec9d760ae0c49a5c492c9fae939...
Best advice for your situation:
Assign the Windows Update service to an account (which doesn't have to exist in your Windows install [like ".\FFFFFFFFF"] ) and it will never succeed with updates again. You can remove the account and let it run as System if you want to restore Windows Updates functionality.
Right. I forgot XP wasn’t the ancient one.
The big difference is that NoSQL (and XMl, and...) were always primarily developer tools and the hype/investment was always scoped more-or-less to that environment.

My parents never asked me about NoSQL, and celebrities didn't sell/promote IPOs for companies built around XML processing libraries...

The author hits on this in the end:

> There are some very real things to worry about in association with Blockchain. Cryptocurrencies are not investment strategies, and are not going to have any of the promised power-distribution and -equalization effects they peddle while their value and cost fluctuate so wildly.

Companies and VCs investing in NoSQL databases really were trying to creating business around developer tooling. But most blockchain companies aren't selling themselves as developer tooling companies. The rest of the comparison seems less important than that distinction.
Getting a nice check while doing nothing actually productive is soul crushing. Good for the short term but it's a Chinese water torture in the long run.

Two years ago at their vegas conference they had a coffee shop that used AI to recommend coffee types. I thought "boy, they don't understand this technology".
Do you buy your own hardware? How do you run your own servers?
> The second greatest feature is the food database. MyFitnessPal has fairly accurate calorie estimates for almost anything you’d ever eat. I recorded what I ate, every single meal and snack, every single day, and even now I still do it. I’ll probably do it for many years to come. It’s amazingly helpful to stay on track.

I did this for about 6 months to a year, and yes, it absolutely works. But it is soooo tedious as to be almost impossible to keep up with.

I found that using my fitness tracking watch to measure how many calories I burn while taking daily walks and going to the gym 2x a week was far easier and more rewarding than the calorie counting.

I find the calorie counting apps often have a limited database of foods, and if you're eating healthy, and not buying packaged foods as much, you have to enter tons more data, and it's much less accurate because you don't know how much of a given food you're eating unless you measure everything before cooking it (which is also tedious). It works, but not without a lot of effort, which is what turns most people off from losing weight.
The most critical part of this story is that he was consistent. When it comes to health, diet and exercise consistency is the most important factor.
Now we're waiting for Aphyr to test this works as intended :-)
That is my biggest gripe with this as well. We certainly don't want an another AI winter, especially not in health, where I'm hoping (perhaps too optimistically) that it will allow better and cheaper care.
That's surely part of the problem, but the catalyst is the marketing strategy that is used to brainwash the employees. In essence; sell the experience, not the product.

This works well for IBM generally (the products are shit) but especially well for Watson because it's extremely easy to sell AI without getting bogged down in details. You want to identify brain tumors? We'll just teach Watson to do it.

Whilst IBM research might be able to pull it off, it'll never get to market because there is nobody capable of making good products at IBM anymore.
> "Typically, these would consist of non compliance with the ERC20 standard"

Given that ERC20 standard was ratified in the 3rd quarter of last year, ~70% through the year, and only ~70% of ICOs had this issue...
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"Thought leadership platform" == tool for tools?
I suggest reading TFA. Countering this sort of reasoning is entirely the point. People have come up with all sorts of crazy hypothesis about the mythical "Great filter" to explain the result that we are alone, and then use as evidence the fact that we are alone to support these theories (double-counting evidence!). With proper analysis there's no explanation needed, and these theories don't have observational weight.
Everything seems to always be speeding up, so I'd bet on a shorter cycle (3-7 years, to pull numbers out of my ass) before I'd bet on longer cycles (20 years).

Although faster cycles might also mean faster adaptation, soooo.
I'm guessing A_Person is making some up of what he/she said (to be entertaining) (I don't mean the DB facts - which are right, of course, and the questions at the end), but it was an amusing post anyway :)

Well done.
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Thank you. I'll add an edit to the post later (here's hoping this[1] is accurate enough). I do not know the conventions well and this debugger/editor in parts help me see what's going on.

In general, is there some "don't do anything funky" compiler flag so it sticks to a simpler internal model?

[1] https://wiki.osdev.org/Calling_Conventions
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Pretty sure earnings calls are not required by law, you may be thinking of quarterly reporting requirements like 10K/10Q.
Would be cool if you open sourced it, I would happily add my NLP expertise to it as I have the same issues.
Very true; the next global, technological civilization here would probably take tens of millions of years, if it happened at all.
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Without considering salaries you can look up the costs for their compute: https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing
128,000 CPUs and 256 GPUs I think they mention training for 2 months in the video
That spies on members of Congress on the orders of the President... https://theintercept.com/2015/12/30/spying-on-congress-and-i...
The health care landscape is strewn with the wreckage of software companies who thought the latest shiny software doodad could cause a "disruption" like it had in so many other industries.

People who know that healthcare is different try to warn them. They don't listen. Instead they charge in with people who have no experience in the field.

From the article:

After the acquisition, IBM management started the process known internally as “bluewashing,” in which an acquired company’s branding and operations are brought into alignment with IBM’s way of doing things. During this bluewashing, “everything stopped,” the first Phytel engineer says, and the workers were told not to focus on improving their existing product for current clients. “People were sitting around doing nothing for almost a year,” the second engineer says.
Amazing work! I love https://gyrosco.pe for this type of thing.
According to: https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/sp/sp_ne153.pdf

it is not smaller. 12 mice per acre average. That's a lot more animal lives being ruined per acre IMO - and that's just the mice.

If you want to convince people of your cause, you need to be willing to be honest about the pros and cons instead of going for an emotional argument.
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It depends where you are. Taxi drivers in London average only 100 miles a day, and in fact all new black cabs are already required to be electric with a range extender.

If Uber design into their system a bias for shorter, central journeys going to electric cars, and longer journeys going to petrol or diesel cars, it’s definitely doable.

The new Leaf has a range of 150 miles, which is borderline. You could do it with an i3 with range extender, or with the model 3.
For me the correct is do not "remember tabs from last time", and bookmak all before closing browser. Folder like "home20180626".

If I need them they are there, and they don't cause me anxiety, spend ram, or cause visual overhead.
> I'd argue that metadata is more important than content

Isn't metadata, practically speaking, a subset of content? (If you have the latter, you almost certainly also have the former?)

Metadata is more useful than content if you're capacity constrained, technologically or legally, in collection and/or analysis.
I think some people sometimes use guy in the more casual non-gender-specific way, myself included. Maybe it's a cultural or regional thing?

And I guess it could be said that using guy is assuming the gender of someone, but one the other hand isn't that also assuming that the someone saying guy is making an assumption, etc, etc?

Perhaps it's just a bit sad when a whole point is disregarded because of a single ambiguous word?

I'd also find it cool if Mosh's features were available in Oxy, as it's great when using unsteady wifi connections, in trains and stuff.
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There is something on the order of a decade between recessions.

A signal with a 3 years error is actually useful here. If the signal is instead "there will be something in 2-3 years", that's instead a great signal.
Exactly. Once they know exactly what someone has done and how, it's relatively easy for them to find alternative means of "suspecting" that person of doing the crime and convince the judge to give them a warrant for exactly what they've already found through the illegal surveillance operation.

I wish judges and defense attorneys would catch on to these tactics more quickly. The rate at which the prosecutors/FBI invent new tricks to fool the courts and defense attorneys so far seems to far outpace the judge and the defense attorneys' understanding of what's even happening.

Take cell site simulators, for instance - the FBI has used those in secret for more than a decade before they were uncovered at all, and then it took another decade for judges here and there to catch-up and start requiring warrants for such operations.

And this goes for a lot of FBI's "investigative techniques", too, which are often illegal, but what judge is really going to know the difference between those highly technical operations?
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Personally, I found it much easier to not focus on my diet and instead focus on my exercise. Using a fitness tracking watch meant not changing many of my eating habits. (I gave up the small soda I would have at lunch and limited alcohol to only on the weekends, and not more than 1-2 drinks per weekend night.)

Changing what you eat is very hard for many people and can be the main thing stopping them from even trying.
Who makes money by pointing out flaws at IBM? Their stock on NASDAQ is 139.31 as of Jun 25 12:58 PM ET. Is there a large enough short position to be worth buying a news article?
>it seems like a poor business to start investing in now.

Allegedly they're buying it to integrate into their TV offerings. There's a huge market there that's relatively untapped at the moment compared to Display so it makes some sense.
Sure, but for a sighted person used to interacting with things visually, this is learning some entirely new mode of control. One of the strengths of computer GUIs is that they heavily leverage humans' most favored sense (for those of us that can use it).
> That’s not how it works.

In the example on the docs page it looks like the logic is happening in the app code: https://docs.mongodb.com/master/core/transactions/#retry-tra...

Granted it's only writing to some collections but I assumed you can read from the session during a transaction.

> The transaction as a whole is sent to Mongo for execution server side; the client isn’t manually controlling transaction execution.

Are you saying that transactions are serialized as a series of pure updates and sent to the server as such? i.e you can't read a value, use it for some logic, update some other values, repeat ..., then commit? If that's the case this would be better labeled as "Multi-document atomic updates" as (to me) transaction implies interaction with the data in app code.
"Files Go" is part of "Android Go" which is about being lightweight and fast for more modest hardware -- doesn't have anything to do with the Go language.
We bought a house a couple years ago where all the closets were totally empty, not even a single basic rod. I wrote an app that allowed me to design my closets and it would spit out exactly what to buy from Elfa. This enabled us to save a lot of money over choosing a preconfigured Elfa package.
>I still strongly think far too many patents get issued

Then you are against software patents.

If millions of people carried machine shops around in their backpacks, you would be against mechanical engineering patents, because far too many patents would be issued.

At the core of patent law is "presumption of validity", which places the burden of proof on the accused, rather than the accuser. Anything that multiplies the number of patents the PTO has to examine makes that presumption less reasonable. At some point it's arguable that a party accused of patent infringement is not getting due process.

Software patents. Presumption of validity. Due process. Choose any two.
>> Our system learns to generalize behaviors in a sophisticated way.

Could you elaborate? One of the criticisms of RL and statistical machine learning in general is that models generalise extremely poorly, unless provided with unrealistic amounts of training data.
> ..contained vulnerabilities in smart contracts, the heart and soul of an ICO

> Once an ICO starts, the contract cannot be changed and is open to everyone

Many teams have upgraded their contract without an issue. The market has stopped reacting to it completely. They just release a new contract and airdrop it to all existing holders. Notify the exchanges, and it is business as usual.

This is more of a FYI. I'm not really curious about what this particular research group is doing, or why this article uses "vulnerability" without the distinction of how benign these things are.
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If the vehicle currently isn't in revenue service then it's not "operating." If it's not operating, then it's not contributing to operating cost. The time to recharge the batteries is variable overhead, not operating cost.

I get the point you're trying to make, but I don't think it's valid.
It's double whammy for the Watson stuff, because not only did IBM lose track with AI, they also had that whole cloud thing whoosh by them. So not only do you have marketing telling outrageous lies about the abilities of their AI systems, they're also exaggerating the cloud angle where Watson is a cornerstone.
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> This sounds like a case where the AI is used in a "marketing" way to make people interested in a product, and then there isn't really much AI involved, and the people developing the AI have a struggle to prove that it's relevant to the business.

It's pretty common in many industries to have products to showcase your chops while providing zero real world value and zero sales.
Well.. supposedly AT&T is the capture, right? So passing the AT&T network would increase the odds of your packets being read.. right?
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Whats EMR? (definitely not Elastic Map Reduce)
If you visit Montreal, try https://teomtl.com/en/ -- app-based taxi service, but the fleet is fully electric (Electric Kia or Tesla).