skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit concerned that this will be too superficial and not really cover ML or the mathematical foundations well. ML and 'AI' are very multifaceted fields that require a strong foundation in mathematics. As such, the lack of information theory, signal processing, fourier analysis, abstract algebra (from a mathematical standpoint) not to mention CS courses is disheartening. This seems like a major tailored to the strong need for ML talent / skyrocketing job prospects/salaries as opposed to fundamental understanding- basically trying to attract students. For example the whole concept of Tensorflow is the combination of high dimensional tensors with the ideas of abstract algebra -- hence the name.

ML/AI imho should be broached at the Masters level for those who are interested as they have strong foundational knowledge.
I learned in school that silicon is literally the second most common element on Earth.

So this story sounds like fake news to me.
I get that this is a joke, but I also can't wait for AMP in its current form to die. Relatively lightweight pages = good… centralizing the web under Google's control = bad.
That seems to be a ubiquitous problem.

I had a bit of a consciousness-raising moment when a friend of mine ran for public office a decade or so back, and shared his experiences with me. The calculus is simple: Nobody really wants to pay out of pocket for the campaign costs, if they can even afford to in the first place, and public donations alone aren't going to cut the mustard, either. So, if you want to play, apparently the very first thing you do is go and talk to the different interest groups in town. Labor unions are an option, but so are philanthropists with significant business interests. They'll happily scratch your back, but only if you promise to scratch theirs.

So, that's not even really your first day at work in public office, it's more your first round job interview. The incorruptible need not apply.

There have been various attempts at doing something about it over time, but there's a precedent in Constitutional law that money is effectively a form of speech, so serious efforts typically founder on the First Amendment.
Top post on HN year 2030: DeepMind's AlphaAI has graduated with B.S in AI, and has gained consciousness.
We are missing thought to action devices. We have voice action devices.
There's two problems this exposes. One, it takes a very long time to dis-trust a root cert. This means some people's connections could be exposed for a very long time.

Two, the method for update shown here is to upgrade your browser. Not everyone can upgrade their browser. Corporations often lock down browser updates, and take a very long time to upgrade. Sure, it's fine for you to say "that's the corporation's fault, too bad for them!" but the users of those companies still have to suffer in the meanwhile - to say nothing of vendored smartphone OSes with slow updates...

The other problem with upgrading is legacy computers run very old browsers. I don't know if you've tried to browse the web on an old computer with a new browser, but here's a secret: it doesn't work. New browsers have so many "advancements" that they bloat and crawl on older machines. So effectively, the means of being able to use the internet requires you to buy a new machine.

If operating systems immediately shipped patched CA lists, and browsers immediately used them, that would patch the legacy browsers. But it would not prevent sites from immediately breaking. So no matter what, either we wait forever to dis-trust certs, or we break sites.

Clearly we need an option C that will allow site owners to upgrade their keys immediately and without issue, and users to update their CA lists immediately and without issue. ACME is a good start, but it too has issues that need to be solved.

In addition, the whole idea of trusting hundreds of root certs to sign for every domain is just crazy. We need a method to sign certs only by the organization who actually has responsibility for ensuring the ownership of the domain: the registrar.

CAs are a great "hack" because they allow browsers to verify certs of sites without ever putting any onus on the registrar, but they also have a wacky "trust" model. Any of hundreds of organizations can verify who controls the IP space of a domain, one time, and issue a magical assurance of this, which is trusted until the assurance expires in several years. This can be overridden at any time, and it has nothing to do with who actually controls the domain, which is the registrar and the user who registered it. All the current system really verifies is who controlled the DNS at one time, which is merely pointed to by the registrar, and can be hacked independently of the registrar, meaning there are extra attack vectors.

Yes, lots of little extra "hacks" have been added as stop-gaps, like CAA, and Certificate Transparency, the now-defunct HPKP, and the future implementation of cert issuers verifying the DNS and host integrity from multiple ASNs. But these are just to keep the status quo limping on, and ignore the unnecessary risks the current design imposes. We need innovation and better design, not hacks.
I started with a service. See:

https://digitalmicroenterprise.blogspot.com/2018/05/starting...
Or Canada... or anywhere else except in USA apparently :-<
Relatedly, and I don't know if this is actually valuable, but if you build a strong engineering or product team, I could see that itself being a valuable asset (not unicorn valuable, but perhaps recoup some or all investments valuable). Esp. selling to a company that does have products but not enough talent. Not the hand I'd want to play, but maybe its a thing people do?
US military MREs pack in a lot of nutrition, but people who eat them for several days at a time complain they cause terrible constipation due to lack of fiber.
Those Jepsen are not that useful, I can point to you Postgres issues where it would corrupt the DB, does it means you shoudn't use Postgres?
Don't make up your own title.
Why is it contradictory? I don’t have special knowledge to confirm if this was manipulative. But since manipulating the presentation of data is so common in academic papers, newspaper infographics, etc., it’s a reasonable prior belief. Generally being skeptical of data presentations is reasonable.
The trick is to never stop procrastinating. I'll get to that code after I read a few articles... 1.5 articles in and I'm getting bored again, I'll finish these after I write a little code... repeat.
Marketers use Google and Facebook only because of laziness...Microsoft or someone needs to make a tool that can manage bids etc across every ad network for free and that alone would break Google's foothold in marketing. I've seen PPC/etc teams drop Bing/Yahoo/Twitter/Snap etc entirely, not because the leads weren't there, but because it becomes increasingly hard to manage large budgets across multiple ad networks. And Google integrates so well with Analytics, which just owns the space. It's a monopoly. I don't care if people can "choose" a different search engine, marketers don't and can't without a huge switching cost.
DJVU.
Why do we count starting from zero?
Ask HN: What do you use to monitor errors?
For example, Sentry or Bugsnag: https://stackshare.io/exception-monitoring

Maybe your company developed their own solution internally? I'm curious to hear what others in the industry use and what their support process looks like.
Strong Towns preaches incremental development. Building anything "out of thin air" is basically antithetical that that.
In PoC||GTFO you have about 10 of those >D
I wonder if it's a matter of time? Right now people only hire for masters or PhD, but perhaps that's because most CS bachelor's don't give a sufficient understanding of AI/ML for those jobs. As more AI-specific programs are developed by reputable CS schools such as CMU we may see that change and employers be more willing to accept BS degrees.
now imagine the floor, which you walk barefoot. Before putting back your shoes, which will stay on for 4~18h.
Before the USPS was treated as the civil service, with unfounded liabilities being paid out of current taxation, like social security. Now they want the USPS to act like a private company and fund its own liabilities. If you change the rules you should not expect an organisation that was fine under the old rules to be fine under the new ones, especially immediately.
aaquake, with aalib. It existed, but it squinted your eyes.
Aatv on higher terminal resolutions was almost usable, but once fbtv worked no one cared about that. Ditto with mplayer with fbdev output.
Fantastic tip, thanks
Lack of quality streaming content in US is compensated by the huge DVD catalog though.
I am lucky that I find enjoyment procrastinating with interests that synergise with my work. However I often get into a feeling of being unable to relax and worrying that if I stray I am wasting time. Even if I am enjoying it.
A traditional engineering degree at the BSc level does not do research. Any exceptions you can think of are rare and have more to do with the individual than the degree.
On desktop I use an extension that redirects any AMP page (I don't come across them often, but people share links) to the canonical page. It would most likely be possible to install it in Firefox mobile too.

I also have all amp-related addresses blocked in my host file, which is probably less feasible on mobile.
Most engineering degrees in the US require an ethics course (I think it might be a ABET requirement). Unfortunately a lot the course work is pretty boring. It doesn't really give you room to challenge your narrative but rather explain what you should do and should not do according to our "oath". They also give a ton of examples of what corruption is and you have to write a couple papers explaining your point of view.
> you have just implied that ultimately no one can be held accountable for these failures. Isn't that a bit of a problem?

Yes, but not one to be solved by retroactively classing behaviour that wasn't a crime then as a crime now. The right solution is to criminalize the behaviour moving forward.
And Tippi Hedren bringing Vietnamese refugees into the nail salon business. 51% of nail technicians in the United States and 80% in California are of Vietnamese descent.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32544343
So... it's Mike Pence or the Donald himself?
Holy hell do I hate reading articles as a series of tweets.
The problem comes when people want to achieve similar success, and think that this type of behavior is the key to doing it, so they emulate being jerks because that’s what these guys did. Maybe being a jerk is one trait that helps you achieve that status, or maybe it’s a byproduct of other traits that make people successful.
My media machine has a decent video card and DAC, with a 1920x1200 monitor. For audio, I have a pair of rebuilt JBL L96s, driven by a B&K preamp and 100W/channel amp. The machine runs Debian, with PulseEffects (a high-pass filter being essential to avoid launching the L96 woofer cones).
It's interesting to show the VP and 45, but as their speeches and public messages are probably mostly written BY the senior staff the correlation is highly suspect.

Also, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
Ask HN: How are you intentional about diversity hiring?
Hi HN,

We're getting ready to start our hiring process for our first engineer in the next week or so and I want to be super intentional about our diversity efforts. Does anyone know of any good job posting boards? I'm already aware of hiretechladies.com, employdiversity.com, and jobs.chicktech.org. Thanks!
I don't think the article is talking about some random third party diddling the devices to install a backdoor. I think it is talking about the manufacturer building in a backdoor.

I don't see anything in the U2F FIDO spec that can prevent that.
Meanwhile, if I could have invested that 12% in a 401k, in addition to the 15% I contribute, I could have already retired in my 40’s.

SS is such a horrible scam. Run an amortization table on what you could have done with it, and what you’ll get to in return in even the shittiest interest rate. It’s depressing.
We use rocks in production and research and have used LMDB for research purposes. Here's a benchmark:

https://www.influxdata.com/blog/benchmarking-leveldb-vs-rock...

I think rocks gives better read+ write performance together whereas lmdb is heavily skewed to read performance in our experience -- which is mirrored by the benchmark.
Pixel 2 xl, probably going to keep a hold on it for a while
Hopefully the new DARPA program would have something to say about that https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2018-08-09
Then how you can explain gradual slow down in the rate of growth in the last decades? I think it is caused by increase in regulations. Any significant innovation beyond small incremental improvements in many industries is completely paralysed because of regulation. Internet and tech industry is on the same path, in my opinion.
At one point when our son was four, almost five, he loved Slow TV, in particular the 7 hour train journey. (We are in Australia so watching it on Netflix.) We'd just put it on for him and he'd play with it on in the background. It is far less annoying than some of the other things he wants to watch (e.g. Commander Keen playthroughs on YouTube). (But, since then, he has kind of lost interest in trains, so it hasn't been on for a few months now.)
All fair criticisms, but I was recollecting on reading Boyce & DiPrima where the Laplace was relegated to IVP.

I was left with feeling that I had only learned yet another trick until I read Churchill & Brown's Complex Variables and Applications.
There is no free market, airports are owned and operated by the government. Regulations are not necessary. If the government wants copper fittings, they simply need to order them.
I smell a plot twist!
And since the AI knows how to design an AI system, it underwent an intelligence explosion and turned out of control...
> OTOH, how to fund pensions properly is a solved problem.

There is another fine way to handle it, which is to use a defined contribution plan rather than a defined benefit plan.

The problem for a lot of states is that it's already too late for any of that. It isn't that we don't know how to do it right, it's that they've been doing it wrong for 50 years and now the account has insufficient funds to cash the checks.

The states essentially borrowed billions of dollars from their pensions without any available future revenue source from which to pay that amount of money back.

So now they have two problems. The first is that if they don't want to be having this problem indefinitely they have to start contributing more than they have to the retirement funds of the current government employees, which means raising taxes or cutting spending (or, similar but different, reducing the number of government employees). And the second is that they have to either pay the shortfall for the existing pensions out of current revenues, which means raising taxes or cutting spending again, or they're filing for bankruptcy.

But nobody ever likes any of those options.
I'm getting very enjoyable sound from my Dell XPS 15 laptop and a pair of Sennheiser HD 590 headphones. I'm pretty fussy about audio quality, and I was quite surprised at how much fun it is to listen to music from YouTube and other online sources with these.
The Constitution says nothing about how to treat the “most vulnerable.” Voters get to decide how nicely or badly to treat people on the basis of their circumstances. The prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment sets certain narrow limits (can’t flay people alive), but those apply to everyone equally.

When you strip away the judicial smoke screen, what the ninth circuit really decided is that the lack of available shelter spots should be a defense to liability under vagrancy laws. That’s a great policy. But it has nothing to do with whether the punishment is cruel or unusual. Constitutionally, the people of Boise don’t even have to have any homeless shelters. Whether they do or not is a matter of their on conscience. And whether they do or not, they can still enforce vagrancy laws (which date to the 16th century).
While I don’t think Trump did it, he has pulled stunts somewhat similar to this in the past. It would be intersting if hr did.

[To the objection] Someone else could have authored it and had this official to the “op ed writing” though it’s unlikely, it’s not impossible.
Google is panicking over user behavior changes. Fewer people using the traditional search, more people using voice search, more people using a mobile web browser which they can't control. Someone is plotting the use of paid search ads in 2028 and it doesn't look pretty.

If Google doesn't aggressively pursue things which jack up their revenue, they switch from a growth company to a non-growth company sooner rather than later. Instead of a P/E of 52, maybe thats a P/E of 10 or 20. If that happens too soon, then their ability to attract and pay talent diminishes significantly. Thus, "don't be evil" is replaced with the ends justifying the means.

The only big reprieve we have here is that if Google comes up with some wacky new idea which breaks w3c standards and Apple doesn't go along with it, it probably doesn't get adapted.
The best fix for this is Single Payer - healthcare is a COST, only disasters and horrid genetic "luck" are things that can be bet against across populations.
No Kellyanne Conway as an option? That was my bet.

Pence uses the word "lodestar," Mattis loves to say "first principles." The ending (reach across aisle) reads a lot like McCain speak. ...Of course the 42D Chess move is to make it look like anyone near Trump could have written it.

It's also possible it was penned by two or three people, especially if it was a group that formed a pact to save their jobs/face as un-elected bureaucrats, as a hedge if the midterms go poorly and they still want D.C. jobs, etc.
Why should we not attempt to unmask the author? Is there an ethical argument against it?
Pence would literally have the most to gain from removing El Cheeto from office.
think that's bad, wait until Facebook gets into online dating.

oh, wait. too late. it's coming.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/01/facebook-dating-service-how-...
> It is so difficult to get a clear concise story to an investor about the path of growth of all of these things.

1) Don't get money from VCs.

OR

2) If you do want to get money from VCs, then you need to basically "extend the truth". Do not talk about the "how are you going to get there" in your deck, just talk about what the eventual vision is and what its going to look like. Make sure to put in a bunch of buzzwords (serious).

By way of background - I learned this the hard way pitching a niche endurance sports website to VCs and got clobbered by VCs for not aiming high enough.

PS - your tech is seriously cool...big outdoor endurance junkie here, I've used/seen it before.
This is how it looks to an average consumer: here is a shitty version of Apple's reader mode that doesn't really work, brought to you by Google.com.
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The moment I start worrying about procrastinating productively, I’ll start procrastinating procrastinating, and then there will be two levels to traverse back to productivity, rather than one.
People have tried to unmask Satoshi in the past. So probably not much of an issue to many.
It might have been written by an employee of the New York Times.
I've had horror stories no matter WHAT delivery service makes an attempt. Even those automated lockers are seriously annoying (mostly because there aren't enough of them).

I'm actually slightly amazed that the local mall doesn't talk to the various delivery companies and just "give" them an unused store front to setup an automated box for every company inside of it. I imagine the increase in traffic TO the mall would more than make up for the loss of otherwise unused dead space.
Why not? The scale matters. A small company may struggle, but still meet the legal minimum. It may be good for both the workers and the local community to help it grow. On the other hand Amazon has lots of money available that they could move into wages.

This bill aims to have an impact on companies that choose not to pay wages rather than those that can't.
Elastic is a company I’ve been following from the start when they just had elasticsearch opensource project. Watching this company grow to this point has been inspirational. I really want to meet / talk to the people who made this company. They made open source work.

I’m happy to use their products, filebeat, kibana, elasticsearch, and their cloud offering has been top notch. They got a lot of things right.

Now elasticsearch even supports SQL as a query language.

This is a company that you don’t hear often in the news, but they just kept their focus and shipped the goods.

As you can tell by now I’m a hardcore fan of Elastic.
Damn, it's like I don't even need to write the paper at all :) Great research work, it does capture the idea of the project.
Thankfully you don’t often put your feet near your mouth.
Pence through a fall guy. Definitely.
The pension liability for the top 100 paid public school administrators in IL is over $1B.
Transparency in Algorithmic and Human Decision-Making: A Double Standard?
The NYTimes stated just above the anonymous opinion that they know who the official is, so I think it's safe to say that it wasn't written by Trump.
I agree. I'm still waiting on my dogecoins to make me a millionaire!
This is interesting work. We at Plasticity (YC S17) have open sourced something similar called Magnitude (https://github.com/plasticityai/magnitude) a few months ago for querying vector embeddings quickly with low memory usage using SQLite and a standard universal file format (.magnitude) between word2vec, fastText, and GloVe. We also added features for out-of-vocabulary lookups, bulk queries, concatenating embeddings from multiple models, etc. It may also be of interest to folks looking at this.

We also have a paper on Magnitude we will be presenting at EMNLP 2018 and ELMo support is coming soon!
I'm not sure I completely agree - I think the internet is so laissez faire that it attracts centralized powers to fill the vacuum it creates. The future of the internet and what it looks like is probably going to depend heavily on the net neutrality legislation that is passed on the next decade.
you're not alone. I'm quite happy with Firefox, and it's my #2 browser on my Mac (I use Safari first) and my #1 browser on Windows and Linux.

The only reason that I have Chrome installed is for the occasional website that absolutely requires something in Flash, and that's usually some online training thing.
I'm surprised by this result, given the fact that the op-ed is compared to tweets and DJT turns out to be one of more highly correlated members of the group. Based on what I've seen posted on his Twitter account in the last two years and the way he's handled himself in public since taking office, it's really hard to see how this op-ed came from him personally.
I think feeding marbles to it repeatedly constitutes “looping”. Think of them as clock pulses going through a CPU. If you want to signal that the computation is finished, you just direct the marble to a bucket (interceptor) instead of to the bottom.

If you built a conveyor to automatically push marbles from the bottom back to the top, then you would have a slow but functional automatic computer.
I've used doc2txt to OCR some old book scans, works really well in my experience.

https://github.com/jlsutherland/doc2text
Pick one!
They can be screwed. Detroit for example:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.freep.com/amp/759446002