skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Key", in what sense "key"? There needs to be a good reason. Just applying the label is not good progress.

(1) To go to the trouble to measure something and publicize it to employees, investors, etc., first need a good reason for measuring that something. E.g., why do we measure MPG, MPH, engine temperature, time since last oil change, ..., unemployment rate, labor participation rate, economic growth rate, inflation rate, prime rate, money supply, balance of payments, mortgage default rate, federal budget deficit/surplus? For each of these, and jointly for several of them, we have good reasons, from owning a car to macroeconomics.

(2) When we seek to measure something, we should be clear on what in principle we are trying to measure and, then, pay due attention to the accuracy of our measurements, e.g., reliability and validity.

The OP ignored (1) and (2).

My wife, Ph.D. in mathematical sociology, understood reliability and validity and much more. Similarly for my brother, Ph.D. in political science. The social sciences are such indefinite fields that they have to be careful about what they are measuring, why, what the measurements mean, and the accuracy.

As a graduate student, Ph.D. in applied math, I understood reliability and validity, and at least several, likely nearly all, my fellow graduate students and faculty did also.

The OP is by a VC who wants "warm introductions". Well, likely the people he knows don't know about reliability or validity, and the people I know do. So, we won't have colleagues in common with no possibility of a "warm introduction" in either direction. E.g., one of my dissertation advisors was later President at CMU. I'm sure he knew about reliability and validity, but it sounds like we couldn't get a "warm introduction" via him in either direction. The Chair of my Ph.D. orals committee was a Member, US National Academy of Engineering, and I'm sure he knew about reliability and validity; same problem, not much chance of an introduction!

Uh, the author of the OP is interested in "huge ideas". Hmm .... From people who don't know about reliability and validity? How about measure preserving in ergodic theory and applications to machine learning and computer security?

My startup is supposed to be of high interest to nearly everyone on the Internet -- "huge" enough? But to evaluate the work, need to dig into and evaluate the crucial, core, original applied math secret sauce based on some advanced pure math prerequisites -- the OP author is qualified to evaluate such work?

In what sense is he really interested in and able to evaluate or work with "huge ideas"?

Or, if he invests and we have our first BoD meeting and his big contribution is to insist that we allocate time, money, and effort to lining the walls with big video screens with "key performance indicators" changing in real time, uh, to "motivate" the employees? Uh, might we have a study of the effect on the employees, motivate them, distract them, or irritate them? My a priori guess -- at best another case of the Hawthorne effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
Is this myth still going around? If you read more than the headlines you will see that it is 90% of the plastics coming from rivers are from 10 big rivers, so it is not including any plastic that go directly into the ocean. Not that it would not help to clean up those rivers, but what you do also matter https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plas...
I'm working on a new kind of container that allows for lambdas with very-very low latency. (Suitable for running a game loop.) This is absolutely awesome! Programming against the auto-generated AWS golang APIs is pretty painful. It works, but it's not idiomatic and overly verbose. I'm going to give it a try and see if switching to GCP is that easy.
How is unfair tax incentives different from direct subsidies?
Russian hackers penetrate US power stations
Come to father Bezos, he will enlighten you
World's 15 Largest Video Game Publishers by Revenue
There are many good reasons to go vegan nowadays. I am beginning the transition.
Not my choice. We've had over 50kloc of Python for several years before I arrived. The packaging shenanigans still occasionally sputter.
Yeah $5 for a single point of failure in one data center of possibly questionable quality. Versus 20 a month for an app spread across availability zones for the all-in price, resilient to failure on single machines, etc.

A single downtime event on a single host will likely have costs that can never be actuarially recovered from, in this head to head. Pay the $15 extra bucks.
How is this not a declaration of war?
Did you get a chance to read the Atlantic's "The Birth of a New American Aristocracy?" That's one of the paradoxes of inequality: as inequality increases, the value of your money decreases. It also increases the anxiety of the rich as the fall from their lofty perch is more dramatic.
The fearless entrepreneur is a myth: why you don’t have to take risks
Yeah, but the the most shocking thing is the countless apologists for Microsoft, Apple, Google, Intel, etc.

These companies were/are breaking the law and hurting societies and people through their greedy behaviour, and some criticize the EU for rightly punishing them.

This kind of brainwashed behaviour is very very concerning. The corporations have succeeded in changing the environment in which people grow up and thereby manipulated them to protect the corporation like a discardable, yet useful drone.
As it turns out, that system is also pretty racist toward rich black people as well.
> If it had a locale caller id it is obviously spoofed because otherwise the call wouldn't have come in from the foreign telco.

That is not correct. You can send legitimate calls with spoofed caller id between different countries. Many providers will let you do that. (as in, you can assign a caller id from country A to a call originating from country B to A)
Thanks to everyone who played a part of this! The Google team is also watching this thread. Happy to answer any questions people have.
> unsurprising language

---

This is a valid Go program.

import "fmt";

func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello world")
}

This is an invalid Go program.

import "fmt";

func main() {
// fmt.Println("Hello world")
}

Surprising.

---

Creating typed general-use data structures is impossible.

Surprising.
Yeah, that's the first thing I thought. Note that their questions were also not limited to technology, but veered into philosophical questions like "how do I maintain authority". If the author is an expert in that many fields, probably deserves his speaking fees.
Google launches Chrome 68 with doomsaying for unsecured websites
Yup, it's too bad that politicians in the US open purse strings when you say "national security depends on producing a leading fighter plane", vs "national security depends on an infrastructure for energy independence and ecological stability". China is basically investing in the second which yields nice secondary and tertiary economic benefits while the US builds a next-gen fighter with much weaker secondary economic benefits.
Given that we now have superhuman image recognition (in particular, even highly trained experts have a hard time classifying dog breeds with extensive time per sample while modern NNs can classify them with 99+% accuracy), I don't think this is true.

We will probably exceed human's ability to come up with reliable training data before we reach strong AI.
Ask HN: What's your biggest challenge to creating content?
Content managers and marketing directors of HackerNews, what are some of your biggest challenges surrounding content creation and content marketing?
Yes, I know what you mean. In my opinion, the connection to the System 1 / System 2 theories did not add much depth to the paper. I think the intended purpose was to bolster the argument that both learners and solvers (operating in different ways) are both useful forms of intelligence. However, this point can be made in other ways as well.

In any case, I look forward to more scholarship and experimentation at the intersection of these topics.
Please, the Western world is doing a lot of work in keeping it out of water ways and oceans. The majority of trash is from China and other Asian countries. [1]

What can we do? Simple, this is where trade requirements include treating the environment right. We already have restrictions on seafood harvesting and protecting certain species like whales and dolphins. no reason we cannot hold trade to require proper handling of waste and pollution to include penalties and fees on offending nations

[1] https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-01-13/5-countries-dump-more...
I don't understand how the effective tax rate in NY can be the same as Ontario, Canada - but here in Canada we have at least healthcare for all citizens that gets paid for out of that. It's not A+ care but it's good, and it covers everyone. And it's like 1/3 of the budget, it's a huge line item.

What the heyzeus are you Americans spending all that tax money on?

More on topic: the same issue exists between US and Canada, and it needs to be sorted. Some ports of entry on the US/Mexico border are not properly set up to process TN visas etc..
Those numbers are outdated. More recent studies show that 46% is discarded fishing gear: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/great-pacific-garb...
A judge would throw that case out, if you could afford a decent attorney who would be able to raise that point in a hearing.
I see. I agree that if you accept that premise then the rest follows, but that premise seems to be the important thing here.
We pushed data automatically into a Google Sheet (e.g. importdata() from Looker). The sheet had a column per month and I simply exported that sheet at the end of a month and shared it with our investors (together with an email update). Super easy, the Google Sheet "dashboard" was available to everybody in the company and our investors received the same information.
Once again, probable cause is a much higher bar than a Venmo transaction where you can put whatever you want in the description.
> I am concerned that some parents expect that teachers are also doing the 'parenting' side of things which may be unrealistic.

If you are an adult (or even the responsible older child), and you are supervising one or more children when their parents aren't present, you have to do the parenting side of things. It's not optional. Like, literally not optional, not merely morally not optional—if you are in that position you are standing in the place of a parent, whether you intend to be or not, and whether you do it well or not.
The github page is now public. If you want to see the actual code you can find it at https://github.com/knative
Feelings aside, 46% of the garbage in the patch is discarded fishing material: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/great-pacific-garb...
The article has two examples of how I already find Go to be inconsistent and/or surprising:

w, err := b.NewWriter(ctx, "gopher.png", nil)
...
_, err = w.Write(data)
...
if err := w.Close(); err != nil

Why is := used on the first line but = used on the second line, and then := used again on the third line? I get that you use := when introducing a new variable, and = when just assigning, the third line is not really introducing a new variable, since err is still in scope... or is it?

Not to mention, what is the last argument `nil` supposed to represent? In most high quality Node.js libraries, functions/constructors will take an optional options object so you can omit it, or pass an object like { timeout: 300 } to it.
It was ML, not AI. It literally just runs enormous amounts of games to determine parameters that guide a search tree. That's nice, but was it truly a breakthrough technologically speaking? Hard to say.
The Deutsche Post (German Post) was so frustrated with the market offers they started to develop their own electric vans.. (you can buy them now!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Post#Electric_van_man...
Nope, you have to use imports. It's a little annoying but not "surprising" since the language shoves it in your face right away.
Heh, no worries, I have more specific to development on my personal blog: http://ben.akrin.com/?cat=4

You might recognize an article which hit HN back in march about turning your web traffic into a super computer :).
There are really robust ways of stopping American countries from selling to EU citizens. Financial transactions are easily tracked and blocked. So are websites. If nothing works, then the EU can stop trading and kick American payment companies out.
I agree that the data is already available, but to hurt the users without a second of hesitation? Much better and justified to go after the company, ... slowly step up the pressure and escalate it gradually until you have their attention. Tag their CxOs on LinkedIn, call them out in person (don't let them hide between a corporate facade) for their greedy negligence. Better would have been by publishing a paper about it imho ... But to hurt the user like this? The author is a flipping coward.
aye, geesh you guys are pointing bugs and providing the solutions, what a crowd!

I'll get around to it this evening :) thank you very much.
Isn’t this just centralizing the cloud provider SDKs? Instead of AWS, GCP, Azure designing their own SDKs, they have a common contract to adhere to. I’d imagine as the cloud becomes more mainstream, you’ll see similar support in Java and .Net (a System.Cloud package for example)
You say that, but IME it takes lots of configuration effort and lots more AWS services in order to really get the kind of resiliency that, say, Amazon.com enjoys. And core services in core regions in AWS do go down. It doesn't not happen.

I think AWS would do well to expand massively its free tier. Talented startups in my world are starting to look askance at AWS fees.
I've wondered for a time, why we put so much energy into banning certain plastic items, instead of improving biodegradable plastic technologies in conjunction with efficient trash sorting at waste management plants.

If we can replace most plastics with biodegradable forms, a large part of these issues go away completely within our lifetime; plastics decomposing in as little as 24 months![1]

> According to a 2010 EPA report, 12.4%, or 31 million tons, of all municipal solid waste (MSW) is plastic. 8.2% of that, or 2.55 million tons, were recovered[1]

A large part of our recycling problem is that it's entirely dependent on people doing the right thing and putting recyclable materials in the correct bin. Why not have machines that can sort recyclables from true decompostable trash? Plastics tend to float, glass tends to sink, tin and many other metals are magnetic... etc. Removing a dependence on people to remember what's recyclable and where to dispose of used items would be a huge win for the environment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodegradable_plastic
For me the big surprise is that we still have languages where we have to write things like

func setupBucket(ctx context.Context) (*blob.Bucket, error) {
sess, err := session.NewSession(&aws.Config{
Region: aws.String("us-east-2"),
})

full of ( ) { } * and & as if we were still in the 80s. So Go is a very surprising language, but this is highly subjective. No hard feelings.
They are planning to do something similar in Tempe, AZ I believe. From what I understand, it's going to disconnect when it turns onto Mill Ave (which is the big bar/restaurant/shop street) and then reconnect afterwards.

PDF Link to Map:
https://www.valleymetro.org/sites/default/files/uploads/even...
How hard is it to carry a metal straw with you? You hear news about the ban, and you put a couple plastic ones in your bag until the metal one from amazon arrives.

Why are people so helpless? Jesus christ, it takes half a second to figure out this solution for yourself.
> If after controlling for income there is a difference in sentencing between races, then that’s evidence to reject the hypothesis that there is no racial disparity.

Well, logically speaking, you can't draw that conclusion.
You can’t use this process to hire someone who already has a job. So you’re limited to college grads and the otherwise unemployed. That is a pool not everyone can be content with.
That's a pretty anti-capitalist attitude: who would buy all of the apps and other consumer durables that would enable companies to keep reaping quarter on quarter growth?

It also presumes that climate change is caused by the number of people on the planet, which is demonstrably untrue. If we're willing to contemplate anti-capitalist (and thus anti-corporate) solutions, why not just fix the problem at it's source and make it illegal to burn fossil fuels, etc.? I think the idea that people need to "stop breeding" is somehow easier is somewhat stomach-turning.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/20/90-compa...
> using IP's to try to figure out what site is what doesn't work.

Every mainstream browser sends the server's domain name in plaintext at the start of the TLS connection,[0] so (short of domain-fronting, which browsers don't do) it's generally not a mystery what site clients are talking to, even if they used DNS-over-TLS. ISPs still have that metadata.

TLS session resumption could theoretically be used for tracking users, but why would Google benefit from doing that when it already uses HTTP cookies? The actual benefit is one fewer round trip, making the web, and all of their sites, faster to load.

It's far more plausible that they're pushing to secure the web with HTTPS and Certificate Transparency because an insecure web ecosystem is just plain bad for business, and makes us all more insecure. It doesn't require spite or a zero-sum game of tearing down the competition to explain pushing HTTPS and Certificate Transparency, which lack real nefarious downsides for users.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
Although I agree, it's not the neglectful parents who are reading books like this...
They work for hedge funds. They are used to aggregating information from a number of sources to, literally, hedge their bets. You can be sure that he was one of many experts they consulted.
We need to get back to paper/cardboard packaging. Trees can be and are farmed. You can use as much paper as you want and never run out of trees.
I kinda have a hard time understanding what it is ... is it kinda a 'glue' layer between Kubernetes and istio ?
Can somebody give us a 2 sentences explanation? please and thank you
Actual title: New Skype and Full Screen

It's a MS Q&A forum. The top two answers are hilariously illustrative:

> Q: I cannot find the option while in a video call to go full screen mode. I can maximize the window, but cannot go to full screen to remove the title bar and taskbar. Is there a way to go to full screen

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> Serds_P (Microsoft Agent/Moderator) replied

Hi mapesmapes,

The full screen feature is not built on the new Skype for desktop. I can take this as a suggestion for future updates.

Let me know if you have further questions.

Did this solve your problem?

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> RockTrolls replied

Who is the brainless ninnie who eliminated the fullscreen option in the Skype migration? If I wanted a 3-inch by 5-inch video chat, I'd use my smartphone for the call. I use Skype to actually have a decent view of who I'm talking with. Bring the fullscreen option back. Don't be an Apple programmer!

Did this solve your problem?

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> As it turns out, that system is also pretty racist toward rich black people as well.

Which is exactly why OJ is in prison for murder.
No mention of what was done when the policy was sold. Most insurance companies do a check to minimize their liability. I would think that the insurance company would do a PCI and whatever other audits are used to verify security of the financial institution before writing a policy. An audit (and corresponding mitigation) would save the bank money on their insurance cost.
Everyone I know who will admit to being libertarian, got into it through his rejection of The Drug War. Could you point us to a self-described libertarian who likes drug prohibition?

This kind of bullshit, is the reason I'm an anarchist.
Seems crazy to spend so much on a machine, just have to do something that apparently can void your warranty if something goes amiss, to take advantage of the extra power you paid for.
You're correct. I was in no way surprised by this language feature, and neither were any of my coworkers.

Go is a thoroughly "unsurprising" language.
For being a state with a lot of cold and snow, Montana's roads seem pretty good.
Google is adding new automated machine learning tools
I know a great way to monetize an operating system: charging money for licenses.

But this has some problems... buyers will make more demands instead of just taking things as they are because, "hey, it's free"! They might also decide it's too expensive and look for other providers, say like Jolla, Ubuntu or FirefoxOS.

Charging money is pretty awesome for creating a vibrant mobile OS market, but it sucks for creating a mobile OS monopoly as a vehicle for ads.
My terrifying deep dive into one of Russia's largest hacking forums
My (now) brother-in-law sold acid when we were in high school, and there was a point of time in our senior year where he took acid almost daily for 2 or 3 months. If you'd asked me to describe him in one word when we were 20, i'd have said 'burnout'.

Believe it or not, he's fine today. He quit doing drugs in his early 20s after he got arrested, got a business degree, and hasn't touched them in 15 or 20 years. You'd never guess that he's done acid a hundred times or more by talking to him.
Very helpful.

Only I prefer twin-ring notebooks since they lie flat better.

https://www.jetpens.com/Twin-Ring-Binding/ct/2618
I also think it’s a new form of keeping up with the Jones. Which is why it happens in the privileged set. Stay at home parent? Nanny? Housekeeper? Dad present at all activities? Coaching the team? All things are social signals and increased parental activity is how parents compete with each other.
Engelbart: Developing the Underlying Concepts for Contemporary Computing (1997)
It looks like it, but think of the power. If you write your app for S3 and Amazon raises their prices 100x you can be running on GCP in no time. Of course, you just create interfaces for your data model and implement them with your favorite service, but nobody has time for that.
I am glad to see attempts at making a high-level platform. However, I feel like it will be too opinionated for many to pick Istio and solve build and FaaS all at once.
Will there be some push-down of some of the functionality into Kubernetes? Will any of this turn into specification with alternative implementations?
You have source code. You want a simple way to turn it into running functions and apps, with eventing support, with clever routing and rollout capabilities, without lifting a finger.

It's an abstraction layer being developed above both of Kubernetes and Istio.
I'm sorry, but if you are going to dismiss a co-workers opinion like that, it seems like you don't value their work at all. Do you trust them enough to write decent code, but not enough to value their concerns? That doesn't seem fair to them.
Infinity in nature sounds like an untestable argument. If space was infinite, by definition we'd never be able to measure it's boundary to verify the claim. The closest we could come is "we still haven't discovered a boundary to the volume of space".

Basically the claims "beyond the farthest point you can measure there is more space" and "beyond the farthest point you can measure there is nothing" are equally plausable and untestable.
So you're basically saying that Weak AI is good enough, and who cares if the machine really understands what it is doing? As if the ever-increasing accuracy numbers somehow move us closer to Strong AI?