skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well maybe. There are some pretty big differences in how ML is traditionally applied and how it's used in the public sector where we focus much more on an individual level and have a much lower tolerance of errors. Right now the predictions we're getting of ML are so terrible they might as well be random. That's terrible, because we're not trying to determine if we can sell you X, we're trying to predict how likely you are to fall into X. Because the public sector doesn't really interact with the adult you, unless you're either damaged, have broken something or want to change part of society.

Imagine we scored you as a likely alcoholic because people with a case history like yours indicated a high risk of alcoholism. So we start taking preemptive measures and the entire system grinds into gear, partly trying to prevent you from falling to the bottle but also preparing for if you do. You really wouldn't want to interact with a public system that's put the wrong label on you, trust me. So we have to be more than a little sure we get things right.

You can probably use ML to predict general trends, but I don't have much data on it, because we use traditional analysts in the public sector. Not because they are great at it, but because they're there. We've been predicting general trends since before computer technology, and the people who work in those departments typically aren't very tech savy. It would be a tremendous cost of resources to make them use ML, or to replace them with data scientists.

I guess in the future those analytics departments may increasingly rely on ML, but to be completely honest, I have no idea if ML or traditional analytics is better at predicting the outcome. The fact that we haven't started using ML, haven't hired a single data scientist or signed a single contractor on the area probably speaks for itself though, if it was truly valuable, I suspect we'd have it by now.

By comparison, RPA didn't really have a great start in the public sector, but today it's absolutely everywhere because it turned out to be really valuable.

It's not like we don't use ML at all though. We do, for stuff like sorting through four million case files looking for specific errors. Something that takes tens of workers months of work to do, but can be done in a few hours when you rent enough hardware in the cloud. We just don't use ML for any sort of analytics or prediction.
There are only 3 possible simple designs for separable chocolate bars (trapezoidal, rounded and rectangles with a gap), so allowing to trademark any of them would be bad.
> Wealth inequality isn't and has never been a problem except in the minds of utopian ideologues, collectivists or people with a basic jealousy problem

"Let them eat cake"
Maybe they're just hoarding it for now, and eventually will give it to internet nonprofits
Game theory is not a tool to describe economy, and moreover a war.

Time and time again, wars of mutual annihilation were fought and lost by both sides. Modern economists are simply wrong on this point, plainly and simple.
and was allowed to grow into a behemoth capable of perverting democracy and engaging in essentially any behaviour it desires, from a business standpoint.
I'm amazed both that so many brands bought TLDs and that so many are rescinding them so soon, especially relatively tech-savvy ones like HTC.
[Warning very graphic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_LQqr2dMIQ

Your dog wants to do this. This is his definition of success and happiness.
Most of the noise comes from the ceiling. It’s not about being able to isolate a rock band playing at the next table, it’s really about clearing up the excessive reflections, and people will talk less loud.
Alpine Partyplugs come with a small keychain case that I carry wherever I go. So if we are going out with work and it's loud I can just plug them in discretely. Most of the time they don't even notice.
The name is cheesy but the plugs are good. I have tinnitus in one ear (from loud headphones and stupid overconfidence) and refuse to get it in the other one.
I wish people would stop using regex to validate email. Literally the only way you can check if an email address is a valid one is to send that address a validation email ("Click this link to confirm this is your email address" type thing).

Validation emails also come with the added benefit of ensuring people enter their correct address (is not just randomly mashing the keyboard). Of course that doesn't stop them from using multiple addresses nor those burner address services, but neither would regex.

The problem is validation emails take more dev time to build so some people get lazy and use form validation such as regex instead.
> prototype. n. A first, typical or preliminary model of something... from which other forms are developed or copied.

So, yes?
Game theory does not apply to real world in general and has nothing to do with serious economics studies.
Ancient Romans just didn't use weeks, so the translation is probably a modern one. The closest to a weekend is a market day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nundinae
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Where did they say it makes Tesla the "most popular manufacturer in the world"? They didn't.
If we care about legality when it comes to media preservation, more often than not works will end up lost or destroyed one day.

Today's pirates are tomorrow's historians.
No wonder influencers get paid so well ...
Not sure about the answer, but one thing that comes into my mind is about decentralization, in the sense of load balancing the DNS queries.
This is going to accelerate.

Indians/Chinese live in a world exactly like this - where all degrees MUST be STEM or you are a useless waste/burden to society.

I dont know what America is doing, but people left my country specifically because there was a better life and more vibrant educational culture in the States.

But ever since no child left behind, and the collapse of jobs which support a wide form of intellectual pursuits, America seems to be recreating the same intellectual ecosystem collapse you see here.
These items have nothing to do with engineering ability and everything to do with inept leadership at Microsoft.

Google had better leadership and easier choices. They had no prexisting customers or partners to annoy.

Companies get wacky like this on top. Think about a certain computer company shippping defective laptops for years to avoid disruption of the product schedule. :)
Ask HN: Switch career if I'm not a polyglot?
In job posting I see polyglot thrown around a lot with pride - companies will have an infrastructure comprising of 6 or more languages and they want someone senior who knows all of them - and i'm only 1/6th of that.

It took me a long time to get the nuances of my favorite language down (go). I'm OK with dabbling in others, but it takes me a decent amount of time (months/years) to pickup and be actually fluent in a language - there's almost no way i can juggle more than a few. There's only so much room in my head. I can't even get the nuances of English down.

Should I look into another career? I'm wondering if i'm not cut out for being a developer. Jobs seem to want polyglots (they'll say: "you are a polyglot") and that's not an option (or even an interest) for me.
IMHO, the only valid reason for "roll your own" is if the application needs 50x+ performance than what would be possible using existing solutions (as is the case described in this blog post). Otherwise follow the rules:

The three rules of software development:

1. Don't write code as there is a library that already does exactly what you want to do

2. Don't write code because you can combine several libraries to do what you want to do

3. Don't write code because there is some mega-framework, one subset of which does what you want to do
Firefox has had different default search engines in the past. At one point Yahoo was the default, and I believe it varied by continent.

Ubuntu once switched from Google to Yahoo in its Firefox as the default search engine, citing higher payments from Yahoo.
SCMP is an independent newspaper based in Hong Kong and was founded by foreigners. "China" (mainland regime) is probably not a fan of them.
It seems a bit ridiculous to call a multi-year investigation by the EU's anti-trust agency "calling in my friends", but ok.

The most severe thing they did was give retailers a hard choice: Either they only sell phones with Google's Android distribution (AOSP+Google Play) or they only sell phones with no-name AOSP distributions. They cannot sell both.

As missing out on the revenue from Google Play-based phones would be financially irresponsible, this choice had only one viable option: Not selling any other AOSP-based OS except Google's.

Therefore Google effectively made competing AOSP-based projects extremely hard to sell, regardless of their quality.
Do you feel the same way about Toblerone?
Oh man that is the oddest set I've watched in a while. I absolutely love it.

It makes me want to hook my Gameboy and midi controllers / keyboard's back up to my Atari STfm
Unlike some languages, German has articles, so his meaning (the language) is likely clear.
I am afraid it might be the other way around.

The west is running massively expansive monetary and fiscal policy. The only reason that is not causing extreme inflation is that we import deflation from China. Were we to stop that prices and interest rates would jump and asset prices would collapse.
In Sydney I would always avoid the main CBD street (George St). It’s so noisy with cars, it doesn’t only prevent people from talking, but also thinking... It’s a classical case of 3-lane street with busses going 60kmh, with glass buildings on both sides, so as a pedestrian you’re stuck in a resonnance enclosure.
Besides the environmental impact, local production also means more decentralized. That lower coupling is important for stability when there's a downturn, war or catastrophe.
So when I disagree with the Authoritarian left in 2020 I will be called a racist misogynist Nazi Chinese Bot instead of a racist misogynist Nazi Russian Bot? Or will I be a Russian Chinese Bot?

In reality every nation attempts to meddle and influence every other nations elections to get leaders in those nations that are favorable to them. This has happened since the dawn of civilization to believe it is a new or modern activity simply because we have Facebook now is to ignore History.

the US is one of the most prolific influencers of elections on the world stage having "peacefully" toppled more governments than any other nation in world history.

This modern commentary on Russian bots, and now Chinese Bots is primary away for the Extreme ends of the political spectrum to rationalize away why their idea are unpopular and their arguments fall flat at convincing people

Does Russia and China attempt to influence the elections... yes... as does every other nation.

Should we care? Maybe, and we should be aware of it and monitor it but personally I am more concerned with Internal meddling by our own institutions than i am about Foreign Influence
But then the DNS root servers would have to know every single domain in existence. The current system works because the higher level servers only need to know who below them in the hirarchy is responsible for the next subdomain.

How would you resolve a single string?
> Perhaps the author meant that they use a special cable to
> blend the two outputs a bit (e.g. 70/30% like some software
> MOD players do).

That's what Ravi shows in the video at 4:30.
I would guess the reason is that while L1 is not stable it is still easy to maintain with minimal thrust and the instability of the point means that things 'passing through' do not need to work hard to leave the orbit. The unstable Lagrange points are not places that will collect unpowered/unguided objects or debris but they provide easy station-keeping opportunities.
All these mega-structures suffer from the problem of extreme costs and materials to erect or to keep up (active support) and they require massive government support to even create.

The concept is good, but i dont think the future is in such mega- structures.
The future is in projecting the launch-loops rails on demand, by training a set of huge laser in front of the accelerating spaceship, creating temporary a charged plasma ahead below of the accelerating ship.
Don't let facebook force you to install their messenger app. On
https://mbasic.facebook.com
you can still read the messages in the mobile browser.
Tesla even managed to stand out in this very article when it is only briefly mentioned with multiple comments alluding to this brief mention. I'd say it's quite safely the car industry leader in buzz, if nothing else.
I actually think that my writing improved more during my CS degree than my history degree.

In CS there was an emphasis on clarity, succinctness, and thinking about how well you've communicated your ideas to your intended audience.

Having said that, maybe the large volumes of writing practice from history made me receptive to those lessons.

There were also a couple of history professors who were very good at cutting through overly flowery and insufficiently meaningful writing with comments like "where is your evidence for this?".
Restaurants are for the boring. I cannot imagine wasting an evening waiting for food. Of course these are the clientele to complain. In this case about noise...
law and coding is much closer than people think because there is a lot more logic than there is tv drama in a real court room.

I've a friend who abandoned her engineering career at 30 to become an IP lawyer (she is incredibly senior in her firm now) who says the law is just a program that you run on a judge.
Let's consider the social contracts that intellectual property protections exist to fulfill in the first place.

For trademarks, for me at least, that seems to center on preventing various harms resulting from consumer confusion, deliberate or otherwise. Indeed, merely "protecting established revenue streams" is explicitly not a reason I'd endorse.

In that context, I'm not sure the consumer is meaningfully confused or harmed by any possible (otherwise legal) use of the trapezoidal four-finger shape by a non-KitKat product. So I'd be inclined to say "no" to trademark protection for it.

Contrary opinions invited, particularly consumer harms I might be overlooking.
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That's no accident though. Divide and Conquer was a core conquest and governance strategy for the British Empire, one that has left scars across the world that are still causing conflict today.
I consider myself very technical, and know my way around Windows and Linux pretty well (I've used both for many years), but setting up a mail server is something I do very infrequently and find complicated to get right when I do so, especially when getting it working with TLS, DKIM, SPF and spam filtering.
> Advertising, once a creative industry, is now a data-driven business reliant on algorithms. The implications are deeply sinister – not only for the consumer but for democracy itself.

When everything is labeled a "threat to democracy", nobody takes that actual threats to democracy seriously.

> These days, consumers are less likely to have favourite brands, since “their favourite brand is going to be whatever Google tells them at that moment is going to match their exact needs”. The brand getting the most buzz in the car industry is Tesla. “What’s different about them? No advertising. Innovation in the car industry is not about putting Cindy Crawford in a TV ad. It’s about building a better battery.”

Really? I would use Tesla as an extreme example of effective marketing and cult of personality around Elon Musk. Elon Musk is Cindy Crawford.

> “When’s the last time you saw an ad agency executive on the cover of Business Week?"

Not sure Business Week is really a barometer of what's going on today, but that's fair. However you do regularly see the leaders of these companies, who are the face and effectively the advertising. Not sure if there is a person or team behind their image.

> Clients are spending less on the kind of entertaining, seductive, fame-generating campaigns in which ad agencies specialise, and more on the ads that flash and wink on your smartphone screen.

Really? I think sponsored content that's actually entertaining is a lot more common now.

> Clients only have to decide how many people they want to reach, and how much they want to spend; algorithms do the rest.

Wasn't this automated before and the automation was just done by the ad agencies? Why bother hiring ad agencies in the first place

> The advertiser might create multiple ads and serve different executions to different slices of its audience. Some companies, such as Cambridge Analytica, claim to be able to target personality types using this method. The more valuable your particular profile is to the advertiser, the higher price its algorithm will pay the publisher to get an ad in front of your eyes. In this way, every scintilla of attention is transformed into money.

In the past advertisers often had multiple ads that played in multiple mediums, targeting multiple audiences. And yes, more value mediums (e.g. target market with a more affluent readership) does cost more. Why wouldn't it?

This whole article is just a list of complaints and contradictory observations without a central theme or any coherent structure.

Marketing doesn't work but is extremely common. Its rampant with fraud but is incredibly convincing. It's a huge turn-off with consumers tuning out but it's dominating our lives
Mostly, the copy cats and the original are the same ( company)
The point is: They are, for all relevant criteria, nuts.

It is cheaper and less risky for them to be completely insane pants-on-head bonkers once in a while than to find out what has happened and tell you. They don't care as they are big, you are small, and unless you annoy them enough to actually notice you, nothing is going to happen.
ummm no...

First of it is not a given if you "screw up with a gun someone dies" that is not the only result

Further it is laughable to believe that with facial recognition a "human double-checks" we have seen time and time again that new technology entering the realm of criminal justice can be used to wrongfully convict people at an alarming rate. See Hair and Bite mark controversy or the number of Labs that have been compromised in recent years

The fact is that a "humans" that are suppose to be "double checking" do not in reality, if the computer spits out "Well the computer says it is person X" that is what the Jury will hear, and the Jury will not question the technology and the person will end up in prison until such time as someone like the Innocent project comes along to invalidate either the technology on the whole or the application of the technology
The thing is, when you are young and idealistic, you will say to yourself things like "I don't care about the money!", which is probably what these people told themselves.

These people are disillusioned and so will the future you be, but your present you has to make the decision. It's incredibly valuable that they're being honest to you and to themselves.
Success in developing working AI is not so much of a big step in progress for AI in general.

It would be more interesting if we could understand what happens in those black boxes, and synthesize it. All we see is showcase projects and services, but never something you can run on a client computer.

It really looks like machine learning is just brute forcing problems until you have a partial solution key to a problem, without understanding how it works internally. Granted, it's progress, but why isn't it possible to use the data of a trained ML network for further analysis? I see many models of learning, but not a lot of analysis or simplification of the resulting data.

I would have thought AI would help science understand what intelligence is, but obviously it's always money first, science later. You often see a lot of tools and models, but not a lot of good insights.
I would guess that the person who gets the job isn't an expert in those 6 languages. Maybe 1 or 2 of them and the rest they have a basic knowledge of. It could be doable to get to 3 though. One being JS and the other two being for the same 'VM' e.g. Kotlin and Java (so you are learning the same libraries). Or C#/F# as another example.
The only “wrong” thing there seems to be that these guys got caught.

JPay and the people behind it deserve to burn.
Who said it has to be in 20 years? It took a couple of centuries for the French.
Yes, and there are some traditional domains too with A records, at least this one:

> host -t aaaa dk.
dk has IPv6 address 2a01:630:0:40::58

I don't know if they run SMTP (my ISP blocks it) but at least it answers http://dk/ :)
This and blockchain will tank, and, then come back at a later stage, hopefully, matured

I think it's a mistake to conflate the two, they are unrelated and orthogonal to each other. AI has a whole raft of problems waiting to be solved as soon as it develops enough but blockchain is very much a solution in search of a problem that only it can solve. Every proposed application of it eventually requires a "trusted third party" and then the whole house of cards comes tumbling down. In a former role I sat in on many fintech pitches where painfully earnest people from outside the industry proposed solutions to problems that they only imagined existed... I mean at the level of claiming that only blockchain can do something that actually the Medicis were doing in the 15th century...
On a sidenote, swf specification was simply great. It was only after I read it that I fully grokked the Flash development (not that I did much of it, because I wasn't a fan of Flash webpages, and couldn't find a way to make money off Flash games).
How else would they spam their Shkreli interview done when he was hip
Beyond Apple Music and iCloud storage, what other “up sells” are there on iOS? I can’t think of any, let alone any that I would call “blatant”.
Probably that the design takes inspiration from Stripe’s one.
What's your sample size? One?

Objectively speaking, if you spend five to six figures on a degree with a 10% chance of landing a job through it, that's not an attractive proposition.

"Futile" may be the wrong word, a better word would be "foolish".
>I don't know of examples if anything got in Swift just by force of community without core team approval.

It's not about that though. Of course the core team should approve. It's when the core team only approves its own things, which often are designed decidedly not the way that the community wants, that's the problem.
Case in point: all national boundaries in Africa, the Middle East and 40% of Asia were created by Europe, mostly the British.
The social impact of technology built by members of the community is 100% on topic. Sometimes that’s messy.
The examples on the site totally hijack my back button on iOS.
On the other hand, it's now easier than ever to avoid all marketing in media. In the analog world you couldn't install an adblocker to your newspaper, or purchase a tv subscription without ads, or choose a radio station without ads in between. Now it's all available, and at least my world is almost completely advertisement-free -- except for those paid reviews you mentioned.
Why is this bad? Your comment seems to assume that, and I really wonder why. I'm assuming there is some concerns with firing, but I'm not sure what the big deal is?