skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Streamlining the criminal / judicial process would be a plus for me. Use webcam feeds to record filesharer, illegal activites passively. Capture known criminals anywhere because you have a real time facial recognition. Cross reference the evidence, and avoid long drawn out court time.
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And I'm highlighting how that type of argument contributes to the misunderstanding that job availability and high employment rates are a good thing just by themselves. What good is for people to dedicate their lives to shitty jobs (which are the only ones they can get), just so they can scrape by and live on the streets?
> Startup X (you like startups, right?) has a brilliant idea that they bring to market, only for Microsoft to buy them out and kill the idea.

Why can't X_2 bring the same idea to market again?
Why is it a “sad statement”?
This really aligns with my thoughts too. I was sad to see Google pull out, because I know that with the ideology of many of the people there, the whistle is far more likely to be blown when things go too far. Having worked for big defense contractors, that whistle is not likely to get used there.

I get nervous as hell thinking about AI and ML in the hands of governments, but it's gonna happen anyway. I'd rather it be Google than Northrop.
> measles virus serology

Potentially topical oddball thing I learned while looking up something on measles. About 1 in 10000 people[1] that contact measles go on to develop subacute sclerosing panencephalitis[2] 6 to 15 years later. While results in brain deterioration and death.

[1] Might be 10X higher.

[2] Obligatory Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subacute_sclerosing_panencepha...
I don't know why they didn't do this immediately after Patreon started showing up all over twitch maybe 3-4 years ago, even if only so they could get a cut.
Both of your examples have transmissions, they are however a single gearing ratio (“reduction gear”). EV conversions also frequently use a multi-gear transmission, as did the original Tesla Roadster IIRC.
If anything this will make court time longer - you better believe lawyers are going to challenge every aspect of the face recognition software and it's validity in courtroom identification
LinusTechTips films in 8k IIRC and they only have one petabyte
Good point, technically the businesses haven't been doing anything wrong, it's really more of a loophole than a dodge.
How do you get that number?
I've seen 500GB on Amazon, but you can get a 1TB for only a few bucks more.
The pressure at Amazon, Google, etc. will be to not provide those tools to law-enforcement or government entities, though, which means that the contracts will wind up at defense contractors who don't operate with the same ethical beliefs. It's a Catch-22.

Ethical use doesn't matter once the government has their hands on it - government doesn't have ethics, it has politics.
How do you implement subscription payment in SaaS?
I've never seen a clean way to implement subscription in a SaaS product. Most apps use glue script + stripe.

How do you do it?
My company works in the restaurant industry and the common theme for restaurants v2 is providing better hospitality, which is only feasible with high prices (think fine dining) or by freeing up production costs to be spent on hospitality, which is exactly what this does.

Imagine an employee at the burger place offering event planning services, not just catering. Or knowing that you have family coming in town next weekend for a baseball game and the gamw gets delayed and you're starving after the game, and the employee texts you "Hey, saw your game got delayed, hungry? I can have some burgers sent to the house for the whole family!"

It is automating a job, but I prefer to word it as reallocating resources to improve the experience.
Industrial canned food production is a completely different scale compared to an automated restaurant. We're talking sorting, cutting, and packing machines each the size of the average McDonalds restaurant. Dont think its realistic to fit all of that in a drive through burger location
Unfortunately, the future is often unavoidable.
That was literally his whole argument.
One of them is constrained by federal and state constitutions. The other is not.
Rails is great. Front end server side rendering is great. Monolithic is great. These things aren't problems in themselves unless they are creating problems.

You should approach this question with a problem solving mindset. Write down what your main features are and then choose the right tool for the job. Is your app mostly business logic? CRUD updates? Lots of real time push communication? a bunch of custom UI components?

Are customers complaining about the speed of the app? Does it render too slowly or have long wait times? Is it too costly to run? Is development too slow?

Technical decision making is for solving problems, so make sure you know what problem you are solving. Unless you can name a real problem that can't be solved without a new stack, there's no point to rewriting.

For adding features on a monolithic app, you just add features... not sure what kind of answer you're looking for. Rails gives you the ability to build an api on it, you can add react, vue, or any SPA framework on top of it pretty easily.
> Individual car weight has diminished enormously during the last 50 years

Actually quite the reverse. Individual car weight has increased enormously. The Mk1 Volkswagen Golf (1974) weighed 790-970kg. The current Mk7 weighs 1351-1395kg. An F Type Jag is 200kg heavier than an E Type.

Cars have been increasing in size such that a "Mini" is anything but (try parking one next to the original Issigonis Mini). They contain a vast range of electrical toys like aircon, ABS, airbags that add a lot of weight, and structural features like crumple zones, catalytic converters and so on. Some is the result of mandated emissions and crash regs, a lot is a result of feature-itis from the manufacturers.

That's quite apart from the trend of people choosing ever larger models, and SUVs over saloons and hatchbacks. That fashion just exacerbates the issue.
Feeling demotivated from lack of leads
Its been about a year of constant development to bring my startup; www.blip.delivery to a stage where I can launch.

However, it’s been half a month and I haven’t seen any leads/customers for the product. I know what I’m doing is a huge problem businesses face today, and the solution is decent too. However, I’m beginning to get really demotivated by the lack of leads.

I live in Canada, and running google ads here has led to a grand total of 0 leads. When I ran adverts in the US, I got about 30 clicks per day on an extremely low budget, and even two leads in one day. What’s the problem? Is it just the country I’m based in? I’m feeling extremely demotivated, and I don’t want to give up, but it’s just sad to see a company I’ve built alone and written more than 20k LOC for, can’t generate a single lead.

Maybe I was too naive and thought a great product would mean customers barging in. Any advice for me? I’m 22 years old, and studying at University.
When the rat's heartless wife leaves him after 10 years of supporting her... takes their toddler... Condemning them both to financial ruin - and the rat doesn't want a drink. I'll believe they've cured alcoholism.
What configuration? I use AppEngine for a personal project I'm developing, and besides the app.yml file, which is about five lines long, I don't configure a thing. In fact, I don't even have to stand up databases to use one: I just make the API call to store the data and it's handled for me. Literally zero configuration.

That's in the standard environment. Even in the Flexible Environment the configuration is equally nonexistent.

Give AppEngine a try: I honestly believe you'll consider it the true definition of Serverless.
So how many people need to have their shitty jobs taken away by automation for you to be impressed?

I hope you start caring about other people way before your job as a developer ever gets automated.
Its not automation if a human is standing there feeding the slicer and carrying it to wherever it needs to go. The hard part in automation is almost always material handling, not cutting.
> Each connection even an idle one consumes roughly 10 MB of overhead

Citation needed :P

Unless you're using a large shared_buffers setting without configuring huge pages, you should see smaller overhead. Obviously depends on what you're doing in each connection - if you consider accessing 10k tables in each session part of the connection overhead, sure, it'll be bigger.

> introduces additional coordination overhead on queries.

It's not really the established connection that matters. The number of in-progress transactions matters considerably (a snapshot is O(#active-transactions)). There's some influence of the maximum number of possible connections.
That its really hard to work a hardware company when a digital hypecoins affect the value of your product.

It's really not nvidia's fault. They're in a really difficult position here to try and absorb all this new business space without stretching too thin or using too much velocity.

But in terms of processing graphics, the hardware is great. Using gpus for mining digital money hurts people using gpus for graphics, which was sorta the point in the first place. Maybe not now, but it used to be.

I don't mean to make the argument that graphics are more important than digital money, but it's like the Bitcoin community has made zero effort to be introspective about the impact it has on people who just want to play games or whatever. Or even power usage in general.

Bitcoin is such a weird phase of tech history in that its completely counterintuitive to altruism. I always imagine the Internet wanting to try and always move towards a better, more utilitarian future and benefit the users in a collective sense, but Bitcoin doesn't seem to be about that anymore.

Not parent commenter, just my two cents.
Amazon built it to recognize staff as they walk in and customers at their physical stores so they wouldn't have to carry a wallet. It's like GPS. Many legitimate civilian uses, but also very useful to use in orchestrating government force.
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I'm using pm2 to run all our services. Nothing to complain.

I never used keymetrics tho.
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Water is doable as long as you have enough energy to decontaminate it, which is not really a given. Food, I'm not nearly so confident as you. Cows thrive partly because of what we do with them and partly because of all the natural stuff we can use to do so. Sperm whales weren't wiped out because that particular act of environmental destruction was checked before the species disappeared. You can find plenty of examples of species that were hunted to extinction, that just happens to not be one of them.

To say that unchecked destruction of the environment won't necessarily destroy us is the same as saying that we'll be able to create closed-loop life support systems that can operate indefinitely without any outside organic input, and that we'll be able to do it fast enough to save ourselves. I'm highly dubious of that.
Reminds me of a video from Sexycyborg i ran into a a while back where she visited what may well be described as a walk in vending machine.

She could pick out what she wanted to buy on a touch screen in the wall, it would come out pre-heated in a slot nearby, and there was a "bar" of sorts were one could sit and eat, that would basically dump anything left on it into the trash upon leaving.
One is constrained by laws and the courts and the cops and civil society. The other has a monopoly on violence.

I’m not saying one side is good and the other is not. But if we’re drawing lines, the side that can punch me is the one I’m more scared of.
This applies to virtually every technology in existence. I've never had to explain what Serverless means to another engineer, only people, like management, who tend to be non-technical :)
That sounds really awful, and I don't want McDonalds to have visibility into whether my kid's little league game had a rain delay...
Right after we get to see the source code.
I don't see the AI part, just next-level automation/integration and some invalid input.

When AI has the authority to make screw ups of this nature, it is gonna be spectacular.

OB AI: I'm sorry Ibrahim, I'm afraid I can't do that.

Plot twist, title gore written by AI.
That’s it! I’m on mobile, so I didn’t take the time to post a link. I’m excited to see how it turns out as well
That's like saying someone who writes an article about how elections work can't be objective because they voted once.
$4.99 is pretty steep. Joining just two channels will cost about the same as a Spotify, Apple Music or Netflix subscription - more in the latter case. If they introduced a $10 unlimited membership of as many channels as you want, or maybe up to 5 channels or something, that would be interesting.
...and likely easier to maintain/modify/extend too, since everything will be electromechanical and not controlled by a black-box computer.
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Oh cool so now when YouTube’s RNG filter system bans your channel you also get to lose your following and funding.
Exactly. I don't understand the rationale behind these kinds of "protests". It's not like the buyer can't go elsewhere to get the tech. To potentially far less scrupulous suppliers at that.

The whole thing seems like virtue signaling.
Tempted to add AWS Lambda support ...
This would be completely avoided if the service they used had good support. This is most important considering when choosing a service: Can non-standard issues be fixed quickly? Can I build a professional relationship with the company so I can ask them things that don't fit a typical "customer support" pipeline? Vimeo has great support and appear to be run by humans with emotions. Youtube basically doesn't have support. It is entirely machine-run like Apple, some national banks, your cable service, etc.

A litmus test for determining whether a company has sufficient "support" is to check whether the following conversation is possible:

"I really appreciate your service X!"

"Thanks, means a lot. We're glad you like it!"

If the response is "We'll pass that onto the team!" it's okay, but not great. If the response has the jist "This message is miscategorized", you're in trouble. If there's simply no channel to send that message, you're screwed.
Better biodegradable plastics and alternatives:
https://natsci.source.colostate.edu/biorenewable-biodegradab...
https://physicsworld.com/a/100-biodegradable-packaging-compa...

There is a switch to paper(cellulose)-based products
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-05/the-fight...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/06/15/mcdonalds-te...

Glass bottles are coming back
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/glass-milk-bottles...

Aluminum and glass replacing plastic in premium smartphones

Plastic stickers replaced by laser engraving
http://www.dw.com/en/finally-an-alternative-to-plastic-for-l...

Bubble wrap replaced by new package geometry
https://www.adweek.com/creativity/could-this-alternative-to-...

Beeswax food wrap
http://www.trurodaily.com/business/beezy-wrap-a-sustainable-...
This has been on the horizon for years now, and the changes will probably be mostly beneficial to the community and creators, but I can't help but feel something essential has been lost. Youtube, to me, seems like something of a weathervane for the state of the web, and this step towards a truly commercial service represents the internet as a whole's move from community to corporate.
The permanent solution is never "one and done".

The solution is keeping on top of these things.

Just like every generation has to figure out growing up for themselves.

Every generation has to rein in abuses, or suffer the consequences.

Good governance is not a set of laws. It's governing.

Admittedly, right now, things are looking a little grim, in the U.S. Then again, half to two-thirds of the eligible population doesn't vote.
Were we not making these same vapid arguments in the 1800s regarding automation and machines? The Luddites were an entire movement opposed to machines for exactly the same reasons, yet living standards are vastly higher than in those times — even the poor have air conditioners, TV and refrigerators. If we would have listened to the Luddites, we’d still be riding horses and using outhouses with a life expectancy of 45.
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> That is a very privileged point of view.
What's privileged about it? He said he wanted to do something different, and these were things that interested him.

> ...I've done a stint in fast food.
He specifically mentioned a gourmet burger place.

> However, considering you have no skill, you'd probably spend six months making horse shoes.
If you're doing blacksmithing for a living, most likely you're a farrier. Demand for custom ironwork is very low.
I see the similarities, even if they're superficial. They're both giving publishers the ability to monetize their followers by selling access to additional premium content.
Amazon is about to effectively receive a sole source DOD contract for 10 billion for "cloud services". They have been supplying AWS to intelligence agencies for years. Why outrage over this and not that?
I think AMD Epyc is a perfect match for this... 128 PCIe lanes per socket.

On a dual socket Epyc system with 36 of these, each with a 4x PCIe connection 'only' takes up 144 lanes, leaving plenty of lanes free for even 8x Dual-QSFP+ 40GbE NICs.

Of course, I'm not sure how you'd physically pack all of that into even a 2U form factor.

Usefulness... data warehouses. If the price was right, we'd probably move to that to speed up various ingestion & reporting functionality. At 288TB (assuming RAID10) capacity, it'd be a perfect fit.
Hi, I'm the director of sales at an insurance brokerage. Without leads, I'm out of a job.

The business world is still really archaic and a bit crony. If you don't have a personal network to pitch to, I would suggest the following:

1) Make a youtube demo of your product

2) Make youtube videos abouy tangential topics. For example, we sell insurance to businesses, so we do a lot of videos titled something like, "Why is health care so expensive???"

3) Once you've got people contacting you because of all the awesome videos you've made (or at least thats the hope), then sell them or at least sign them up for a demo. Ask them to refer their friends to you. Like point blank. Otherwise your business will probably die. I always say, "a referral is the best compliment you can give!"
> I agree with you that there is a crime called "corporate espionage", but thus far the accused has not been criminally charged. And if he is, I dont see why he should face any worse penalty than when white-collar executives break the law and escape all serious consequences.

I think the obvious solution, the one which would truly be just, is to impose the proper punishment on everyone equally. We should not give someone a pass just because someone else successfully worked the system. Improve the system so that the wealthy are held equally accountable and cannot escape justice.
I'm a lurker who never posts (until now), but the bullet on SpaceX triggered me.

I'm a software engineer at SpaceX, and the idea that the average engineer here works 7 days a week is patently false. The average engineer here works 50-55 hours a week -- which I would argue is no different than any other top startup.

We work hard because we are fervently passionate about our mission and wanting to make a positive impact on the world. SpaceX recruits top talent, and every engineer that I know could easily get another job if they had any desire. Me and almost every other engineer at SpaceX that I've spoken to love working for SpaceX and Elon, so please don't pity SpaceX engineers or use it as a talking point in your vendetta against him.
U.S. Supreme Court acknowledges that Bitcoin could be the future
Except when they have to compete for high value professors [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15600275
Yeah. I haven't given my GV number out in awhile but I still have several ppl who only use that # for me.
I thought that was one fucked version that quickly got removed from the downloads page?
Epyc is 128 lanes period. The dual-socket configuration steals half the lanes for the interconnect.

It's also PCIe 3 for now.
Just at the doctor, I have a heart monitor for when I stream games for friends to see when I become the most stressed. When I pay attention I normally rest at around 70-85.

I absolutely appreciate the insight and comment. I had feared that the time I saw 120 twice in a row at a doctors visit, so I started measuring it at home.
Sublime has always been king of the hill for opening giant files (like CSVs if you need to troubleshoot data imports) but unix tools and software like head and vim can take you pretty far if budget is a concern.
That's ridiculous.

Plus it's easier to keep a machine clean (which they no doubt will) than a fleet of fast food workers.

Besides, it's not real potential, it's how I feel about it. Bring the machine on I say!
Wonder how much report they got this time and that taking them so long to response.
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Big in what sense? I used one metric, market cap, and AAPL, AMZN, MSFT, GOOG, FB wipe the floor with the 100 year old company. Even in profits At&t is not close to overpowering big tech. So I asked, why then is ATT winning the lobbying battles?
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No. If it costs less to produce, you'd just increase production until one passed the other. The demand surge might delay the inevitable for a year or two, but fabs would catch up and then the HDD would retire.

dshr misses the mark a lot of the time.
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There are myriad positive applications of facial recognition. My iPhone uses it to categorize people by faces and can make me a video just of my daughter. An app I have can actually make a time lapse where all the photos have been registered to the center of her face so I can get a video of her growing up.
Because Big Corp has many advantages, such as being the owner of Startup X's intellectual property.
Probably, a discounted tier for Youtube Premium subscribers. Honestly, I don't think this channel sub feature will get much traction, depends on what a channel can offer. Channels have the onus of being creative with this feature.
Machines don’t put mustard on when you tell it no mustard. Machines don’t give you attitude either. Machines don’t spit on your food or do any number of disgusting things that fast food workers have been known to do.
You guys understand that Amazon and Google do not necessarily get access to these DOD projects, right? As in: if these protests keep recurring, these companies will simply not be invited to participate –– the classic defense contractors will. The large tech companies don't have as much agency as some of us seem to be assuming.