skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's reasonable but even in a world war, you need only put people on nuclear submarines to protect humanity from extinction. Martian colonies are not necessary.
> A self-driving vehicle would be a step beyond current autopilot, and asking any human to constantly monitor an autonomous system is going to result in pretty catastrophic failure. An autonomous system needs to be fail-safe to be used.

I think the idea we’ll attain this in the next decade or two is borderline delusional, but to each their own.

Commercial aviation is one of the safest transportation mechanisms in the world; aircraft can go runway to runway in mostly automated fashion (auto throttle/TOGA [take off go around] for takeoff, autopilot for cruise, autoland for landing). We (customers and regulators) still require human attention the entire time.
They have the resources. What they lack is the proper incentive. As long as fake reviews don't completely destroy the customer experience to the point that people forego any other advantages (mostly convenience) of shopping there, Amazon will continue to reap the short-term benefit of more apparent variety, more apparent quality, and more sales. Any effort beyond keeping the fakery just short of destroying the brand isn't worth it to them.
And I've started using BOTH reviewmeta and fakespot. Good results so far.
Does that mean there's still room in the JS ecosystem for a Rails-alike? Maybe one that could become very popular? Because I am looking for a major open source project to create and spearhead, something that could get hundreds of thousands of active users and a thriving subcommunity, but I've been holding off until I find just the right project.
Yeah that was why I left the cards open but at this point I don't care. Getting out of BoA.
UberEats is in a competitive space, but I don't think any of them have realized how to make a profitable model out of it yet, so Uber getting out would be consistent with the new direction of burning VC cash less rapidly...
The Antarctica idea is a good illustration of the most important thing about Mars: it's _over there_. If you try to settle Antarctica, you will quickly discover that there are lots of international agreements about who is allowed to do what, and you will run afoul of one government or another pretty quickly. Mars is both too far away to be easily messed with, but just as importantly too far away for governments to really care about. They are unlikely to bother sending a nuke to Mars because it's way over there. Antarctica, if it became a place of any significant population at all, would have much more geostrategic significance, I think (not as much as the Arctic, but still a lot).
Typescript also supports comment typing via JSDoc. I write complex types in a definition file and use them in JSDoc. Works great.
https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/JSDoc-support-i...
I think the problem in California is that investors can go in and buy housing at unsustainable prices, and just rent it out, since their long term goal isn't to house themselves, but to have an asset that has a fixed return value at a near minimum, especially given the taxes hardly increase year over year.
Minimum Viable Decentralization
On a similar note, a great deal of skateboarding’s oral history is being recorded and archived by The Nine Club[0], a podcast where a few professional skateboarders and people in the industry sit down for a conversational interview. They’ve been going strong for over two years now, currently with 105 total weekly episodes. Hearing Jamie Thomas talk for nearly four hours about his career is incredible, especially if you’re at all interested in the history of the culture.

They’re able to run it from donations, Patreon, and merchandise sales. I support them on Patreon, and I think it’s great what they’re doing!

[0] http://www.thenineclub.com
> FakeSpot seems to spend put a lot of emphasis on analyzing the reviewers, probably looking for accounts who appear to be participating in one of these review rings.

Presumably this (and the fact that Amazon can analyse them too) leads to a wider spread of fake reviews even on legitimate items, as having fake accounts write generic reviews on a random selection of items they don’t care about would make them harder to detect.
> So here’s the approach I ended up using, which worked much better: request each post by its ID. That’s right, instead of asking for posts in batches of 100, we’re going to need to ask for each post individually by its post ID. We’ll do the same for comments.

Seems a bit over the top imho. Maybe a better approach is to ask for a 1,000 and look for any missing — which you can grab individually.

I’d be a little annoyed at people not using batch mode and making so many request but that’s just me.
Air France 447 (a very mysterious airplane disappearance prior to MH370) was found not far from its last known position in the Atlantic Ocean:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447#2011_sea...

In fact it seems the key decision in finding that wreckage was to include areas that had already been searched in a new analysis on where the wreckage was likely to be:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/527506/how-statisticians-...
Careful if you started using lxc like I did before they added warnings not to use them with the internal flash storage. You need to have added additional storage via the mSATA slot, and designate that as your storage location before using lxc. Otherwise according to Turris you will burn through your internal memory very quickly.
> California has, along the US states, a fairly moderate pension issue measured per capita or per GDP.

A more important question is how much room to manoeuvre does California have?

If California increases taxes by 5% to fix the issue how many businesses and highly paid employees will leave?
Trading cpu for bandwidth, so optimize for what you want.
Think Ahead, Succeed Now
Can anyone here recommend a good introductory textbook for control theory?
Union needed here.
Rust is great, but not appropriate for my C use case. I did consider it, and would use it for other systems level stuff. This particular project is very close to the metal, and I want to use C and assembler. But yeah, if it was any more complicated, I would use rust. Rust is pretty great.
Very interesting. Coworker of mine found this site while googling for refrigerators, popped up as a typical search result. We saw the address in California too, some random residence, really makes one wonder what is going on here.
I don't understand where #2 is coming from. There's plenty of places to go in space other than GEO.
Then why not deploy such systems now? Prove they can handle all the odd jobs better than the human.
Yeah, I agree. Functional languages are often more intuitive to beginners. My pet theory is that the reason CS people tend to be somewhat 'odd' is that most people do not think imperatively, so when imperative programming is propped up as the gateway, it screens out people who would otherwise flourish in the field.
It's not an out of the box idea. It's not awesome. It's subscriptions applied to movie theaters.
This would be super cool. Could even do community-based upvoting on what a leading website should look like.

Curious as to how the legal end would work re: IP. If you have 1,000 people redesigning Reddit and publishing it for all to see, there's bound to be some serious design overlap (whether intentional or not) when said company eventually goes through a redesign.
So many tech stocks are down because of Facebooks “devastating” loss. It’s stupid, the fundamentals of these companies hasn’t changed, some are even better than ever. Buy the dip.
I installed Google WiFi for a friend.

I found aggravating that:

- I need a smart phone and install an app to set up and configure the router.

- I also like the effort of simplifying the router configuration but I found it is lacking an "advanced mode"

- why if the Internet is down, the internal network does not work at all?
Trucking absolutely dwarfs the train industry in America.
A Place for Hackers and Normal People Alike to Ask Questions
Yes. They commingle all the inventory.
If you're interested in Plato and Platonic thought, I highly recommend looking into the work of Pierre Grimes and the Noetic Society. Pierre has done dozens of lectures on Plato, see this channel[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwpMRCoVgSJ-rKyV1yhWljg
Absolutely, it's just a slightly modified vyos. (Edgeos)
You might be interested in TruffleRuby: https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby "A high performance implementation of the Ruby programming language. Built on the GraalVM by Oracle Labs."
What spat? This is the first time I've chatted to the guy and I harbor no ill will towards him.

Isn't the point of HN that you can have a discussion when you disagree with someone?
We are unable to determine with any certainty the reasons that the aircraft diverted from its filed planned route,” Kok Soo Chon, chief inspector of the MH370 investigation team, told reporters in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur. “The possibility of intervention by a third party cannot be excluded.”

Which 3rd party? And why? Did someone try to steal the plane, maybe?
Clearly literacy, as well as history, eludes you. By March of 1933, the Nazis had risen to power. The Nazis did not weaponize radio and then rise to power. They rose to power and then took over radio.

And just how did they manage to dismantle the Weimar democracy and take over all forms of mass media so easily? Because for years prior, those in control of the German government had justified every violation of fundamental law, order, and governmental restraint in order to pinion the ability of political enemies to operate freely in the name of democracy and propriety. Yet, it turns out that, as your kind apparently never learns, power changes hands and the tables are turned against you. And yet now you have no tenable defense against being silenced--your opinions are the ones deemed too pernicious to allow to exist in a "free" society (as every society claims to be!). Your protestations are now "fake news" and, all-too-suddenly, you find yourself, your allies, and countless other innocents in a railway car to places like Kolyma or Auschwitz.
Hey! In order:

- I did consider using image processing techniques as opposed to decision trees, but the point here was not to come up with the most advanced and accurate classifier possible, but rather to build something simple and explainable to folks without an ML (or even a CA) background.

- I haven't tried this extensively on non-drum-like percussion, but that'd be a great follow up post.
Some Crows Hit on Dead Companions
This sounds like a job for dum-dum-duum, Braille Skateboarding If they can make a truck out of an NES or a piece of glass, I think they've got this.

https://www.brailleskateboarding.com

Disclaimer: skate culture is also preserved in the scar tissue in my knees, elbows and hands.
Each request still returns 100 posts. It's just that you have to specify the 100 post IDs individually.

Their default listing mode works very poorly. It would certainly be more requests to use a hybrid system like you're talking about.
I don't know if I agree on [1], because the GitLab icon draws the eye horizontally, while the System 1 proposal is vertically oriented.

That it (intentionally) looks like an open book or magazine also distinguishes it. I think the dual image illusion (magazine/fox) is clever and it works close up and scaled down.
According to outside auditors like Fakespot and ReviewMeta, more than half the reviews for certain popular products are questionable. Amazon disputes those estimates.

"Our approximation is that less than 1 percent of reviews are inauthentic," says Sharon Chiarella, vice president of community shopping at Amazon. She adds that "sometimes individual products have more suspicious activity."

The disparity in what outside services observe and users experience vs. what Amazon claims, and the increasing press coverage and online discussion of the problem, will force Amazon to take increasingly drastic measures to crack down on bogus reviews.

There is also the issue of increasing levels of returns for 5-star crap. But, while Amazon can absorb the costs of returns, Bezos truly hates negative press, and the Amazon PR machine will go to great lengths to get high-profile news orgs repeating the official Amazon line.

If they can't tamp down negative coverage, the best hope for generating positive press is to announce action - a crackdown, lawsuits against fake reviewers, or other evidence that they are "doing something" about the issue. Unfortunately for Amazon, they've done this in the past (1, 2) and the problem appears to have gotten worse.

1. October 2015: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/18/amazon-su...

2. April 2016: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-sues-all...
This is generally seen as the path to full automation - you can couple autonomous "easy" highway driving with a remote driver taking over for the final mile. How long until we have aircraft doing the same thing ? ;)
Jesus I wish I could absorb your knowledge, reading that paragraph gives me anxiety. It would be so stupid and against everything I could understand of rational decision making if you couldn't get hired.
I think what is going to happen is people are going to realize robot cars are death traps. Not because their rate of accidents will be any higher, but that when they do have accidents they will seem bizarre and inhuman mistakes that even the most incompetent human driver would never make.

Driving on the open road requires real intelligence. Not the pretend intelligence that modern AI gives, but real understanding of situations and terrain. Before that happens (which is basically skynet, and a very very long time away) all you have is a bag of tricks cobbled together. Those tricks will miss things and get confused and make mistakes. Maybe not very often but definitely in strange ways that are frightening.

The unknown is scary. Drunk drivers, tired drivers, old drivers, et al. are plenty dangerous, but they still behave in ways that can be understood. AI mistakes will be / are / have been strange unsettling things that can't be reasoned about if you're a person in the area of the misbehaving vehicle.
I think its appreciably close to nothing (including both the number of books many people will be made to read while at compulsory schooling and education, and I also think its close the kind of number of books a non-reader would respond to such a survey when making up an number given that they really don't read in any practical amount).
Another example: UNIX text tools. You can open a text in a editor (e.g. vim or emacs) and modify it in imperative style, or you can use cat, cut, sed, paste, join, and many other tools, which can operate on text, in stream mode, when original text is not modified. Text stream is monad here. Or you can convert (lift) your data to JSON or XML, and use JSON or XML tools in stream mode (e.g. when every record is on it own line): JSON and XML streams will be monads in such case.

It's up to you to modify text manually, or use existing tools for text stream monad.
There will always be a desire to pay for reviews, since 70%-80% of shoppers check reviews before buying[0][1] (and growing[2]).

Amazon could help fix this problem by creating "sponsored" reviews. This way a company can pay for reviews in a non-scummy way, a reviewer (and Amazon) gets paid, and a customer can tell whether the review was paid for or not.

Or just pass laws to regulate reviews.

0. http://www.peopleclaim.com/blog/index.php/the-review-of-rati...

1. https://www.chainstoreage.com/news/study-81-research-online-...

2. https://deloitte.wsj.com/cmo/2016/11/01/media-device-habits-...
Out of curiosity, is there much discussion in that community of other xanthine stimulants like theophylline, theobromine, and 8-chlorotheophylline? I take dimenhydrinate = 1:1 diphenhydramine + 8-CTP to relieve nausea, and from the feel of it I’d like to try 8-CTP on its own (or in conjunction with L-thea) because (like theobromine) it seems to be nicely stimulating while give me less anxiety than caffeine. Seems to be fairly cheap at around USD 65¢/g from chemical supply companies, but I don’t know how much I really want to get into that “just buy it and try it” world if it (or something like it) is available OTC.
The courts don't disagree in general principle. In Peterson v. Wilmur Communications [1], the courts held that "a follower of the World Church of the Creator, an organization that preaches a system of beliefs called Creativity, the central tenet of which is white supremacy" (more or less a 'religion for Nazism') was protected from religious discrimination because the "Creativity functions as religion in his life; thus, Creativity is for him a religion regardless of whether it espouses goodness or ill."

[1] https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/...
it was english for me, but badly translated
In haskell? I'd construct an API that could be used like the following. This looks like the code we write at the place i work at:

runService=
s <- note SocketConnectionError $ socket AF_INET ...
note CouldNotListen $ listen s 5
note CouldNotBind $ bind s ...

forever $ do
client <- note CouldNotAccept $ accept s
response <- serveRequest client
...

The signatures of socket, bind, etc, would look like (for example):

socket :: ExceptT SocketError IO Int
listen :: Int -> Int -> ExceptT ListenError IO ()

Then, at top level

main = runExceptT runService >>=
either handleError pure

handleError (SocketConnectionError rsn) = <try again, maybe>
handleError ...

The key here is that error handling is factored out. The 'runService' function expresses concisely all the steps taken, and the entire concern of error handling is factored out into the 'handleError' function, whose behavior I can actually change based on what I may want. In a C implementation, changing error handling strategies, would mean passing some kind of flag in (you could rebuild exceptions using setjmp/longjmp, but meh).
Mars isn’t capable of self sustaining life and we aren’t capable of transforming it.

The idea of a mars colony is far fetched. The idea that it would save humanity is a pipe dream.
Thanks for the explanation. The APIs make a lot more sense in light of it. It seems odd they didn't just use Postgres indexing though. Do you know if they benchmarked it at any point?
S02E01 of Coast has a visit to that area, if you can't visit it yourself. Great show.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_(TV_series)
> The road to an Ayn Randian paradise in which everyone fends for themselves will lead us to ruin.

It always depresses me to read comments like this. Rand's central themes were about corrupt relationships between pseudo-capitalists and government, the immorality of a desire for the unearned, and the consequences of what will happen to a society that can't be bothered to concern themselves with ethics.

Well, one of these days these chickens are going to come home to roost, and instead of people hanging their heads in shame and regret because they ignored her supremely confident warnings, instead they're going to charge her with the crime. The irony.

"The Objectivist ethics holds that human good does not require human sacrifices and cannot be achieved by the sacrifice of anyone to anyone. It holds that the rational interests of men do not clash - that there is no conflict of interests among men who do not desire the unearned, who do not make sacrifices nor accept them, who deal with one another as traders, giving value for value."

As a cherry on top, while there's still time to recover from mistakes of the past (there is a great deal of ruin in a nation, as they say), rather than eating a little humble pie, listening for a change to those who said "I told you so", and getting our affairs in order, we will actually choose to blaze straight ahead at full throttle on the exact same trajectory. And in the end, we'll end up selling off infrastructure, piecemeal, for pennies on the dollar, some to the very criminals we were warned about, and the rest to other nations who were smart enough to crack a book.
Why its ideal or not always possible?

Ideal because it's faster development time. And free since I'm not paying Amazon compute time to run my code while I write it.

Not always possible because I don't have AWS's services locally. As mentioned elsewhere, there are emulators but, by virtue of their emulation, may not always perform like the real thing. That's a debugging ball of wax that I personally hate having to untangle.
It's hard to call an idea "awesome" if it involves giving away money to strangers without any chance to recoup it.

I considered getting a MovePass membership, but it was so clear that there was no economic way they could ever sustain their business, and I'd probably get stuck holding the bag after they charged my card.

To work Moviepass would need massive discounts from the chains, and ion reality they got exactly zero discounts. The main people attracted to it's business model were hard core movie watchers would were guaranteed to use the service a lot. If their average member saw more than one movie a month they lost money on that member. If they saw three movies a month, MoviePass is losing like $20 a month per member.

And that's just on cost of services. It doesn't count marking costs, sales costs, operations, etc. Even if their members only watched a single movie a month, MoviePass would still lose gobs of money.

And the idea they could switch to offering non-prime seating or times is also dubious. Let's assume they can get consumers to pay $10 a month for the "non-prime" offering, those consumers only watch two movies a month, and that movie theaters agree to discount those "non-prime" tickets by 50%, or an average of $4.50 each. Now MoviePass would have $1 per customer per month in positive net margin (10%), but there is no way they can pay for all sales, marketing, and operations costs out of that, and build a profitable business to boot.

Think of it this way, going non-prime means their product just got way worse, so how are they going to get customers? Right now their product is a great deal and sells itself, but the cost of acquiring new users for the non-prime product is going to be a lot more than $1 each. It will probably cost 1-2 years to earn back the cost of acquisition for each customer. Will the average subscription even last over a year?

Warren Buffett has a great saying about businesses. Go find a business that's so easy an idiot can run it, because sooner or later an idiot will. In the case of MoviePass it was, go build a business so hard the best CEO in the world couldn't run it, and only idiots will run and fund it.
You could have 'Pilots' like you do for the last part of sea voyages
Stockton, California to give $500 a month in basic income to some residents
Huh? I'm not saying they exist, just that it's not impossible for me to imagine these problems being solved or being minimized to a level that is no worse than current human driver would perform.
I see! Good to know. Still, I'm inclined to believe that more people are in my tier of service than are in yours.
If you were simulating the universe it certainly doesn't help performance having to simulate an exponential quantity of interfering states rather than a single classical one. It's anything but lazy evaluation.
There is Clojureverse
The United Kingdom is a strange place for you to pick as your model of laws protecting free press.

And, as seems to be eluding you, we're talking about Spotify here. I don't believe Article 19 is intended to cover them. It'd be a - yes! - fundamentalist reading for sure that read "any media" as meaning Spotify had to carry InfoWars.

As for your "eternal vigilance", Popper already has you there. Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. And I'm sure you wouldn't want that. Well, sort-of sure.