skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those large collab papers are hilarious. I once ordered a paper through inter library loan. I got an envelope with the paper in, but when I leafed through it I realized that it was about 12 pages with only a title and author names. Some one had not looked through to confirm that all the pages were there before sending it, and I could understand why. Didn't count the names but it must have been several hundreds. Good luck assigning author rank from their order!
Some years ago at a big tech company a CAD software development group was folded into the department I was managing. I took a walk around. We had hard wall offices with 2 or 3 desks in each. In one office one of the SW devs had set up a small camp under a table with a sleeping bag, cooler, and night light. I don't think she was homeless. In another office one of the devs had a small cactus farm with grow lights on a timer. Nobody in the group could understand why they shouldn't be allowed to keep this stuff.
The difference between debt-money and value-money is that debt-money is supposed to originally be backed by cashflows of value-money but is really paid back by an ever expanding amount of debt-money.

In other words, things are getting more and more leveraged. The amount of money to actual goods and services is exponentially increasing. So the value of money steadily decreases and we get inflation.

The danger is that this money evaporates as people default on loans.

As long as interest rates are low, people don’t default very much, but as they rise, the defaults happen.

Why do central banks need to raise interest rates at all? It just leads to a bloodbath as some loans get renegotiated.

Why not just have one predictable interest rate like Milton Friedman spoke about?

It seems to me that the central banks fix the next crisis by QA and low base interest rates. Why not just keep them low and let people default for actual reasons, instead of having a terrible time taking out a loan during high interest rate season?

If our money supply is going to be so debt based, why raise base interest rates? To “reload” so you can swoop in and save people from a money supply crunch you induced?
You won't find me arguing against Mozilla's decision to drop XUL extensions, I'm just stating a fact, that it was one of the primary differentiating factors between Firefox and its competition, for better because of the varied high quality extensions that you simply would not find anywhere else and obviously for worse.
They can also delete media from your phone. Had a graphic video of that carnival ride breaking and killing someone and it was deleted...
Misophonia is a thing. I wish food wasn’t allowed at our desks. I end up with headphones on for much of the day because we have free crunchy snacks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misophonia
I'm not super far in but I'm very happy with it so far. I recommend it very highly and am very skeptical of anyone recommending reading the dragon book without doing something more hands on like this first.

Maybe that book is more practical than I realize though.
This happened to me today! I was using my phone and then it went all weird with no haptic feedback when typing. I finally figured out that battery saver was on and disabled it...

This really bothers me... I am starting to think we need a truly open source phone. That is hardware and software. like GNU/phone or something.

We must have full control over our hardware and software!

Viva La Gnu! (no clue what this actually means, but it seemed like the thing to say at this time).
Well, if you are complaining about "overkill", why even run a server? It's a blog, it can be static. Serve from S3, Github pages or what have you.
I wouldn't be surprised if both Google and Apple could do whatever they want with our phones remotely. It's just that they usually don't, so we never see it.
While I get the point, two servers running Freeswitch combined with a bit of python and a regular rsyncing of the user data would give one pretty good uptime for monitoring.
Maybe not bidirectional communication per se, but it’d still be pretty valuable to receive a live feed of what the other civilization was up to hundreds of years ago. Especially for things like scientific advances and important works of literature – but I suspect people would also be interested in the day-to-day trivia. I mean, as an individual I’m already largely powerless to influence any of the events I read about in the newspaper, but I still read the newspaper.

Besides, if you’re an AI or an uploaded brain, you can send yourself over a communications link. That’s pretty valuable, regardless of whether you ever intend to return!
This kind of thing is a problem anywhere that there's not aggressive regulation and Seattle is pretty bad. At one point a partner was towed for parking in a handicap spot and she had handicap plates and a handicap placard. Similarly she was towed from in front of our house for not moving the car very frequently and towed for parking in a part-time lane at a forbidden time... before the forbidden time started. Once you're towed they got a motivation to up the fees by keeping your car as long as possible, so you're likely to run into very short retrieval hours (closed on the weekend) and fees over $200/day. It's a pretty effective racket as long as the city goes along with it and they're getting paid.
That's more about selection bias than about anything that's inherently different about advanced societies today. There were primitive societies that did have valuable things [1], and they were all destroyed or conquered very soon after contact with more powerful societies, and they remain vulnerable to outsiders as soon as they come into possession of something of value. When gold was discovered on the land of uncontacted Amazonian tribes, for example, this happened: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/aug/22/a...
Completely off-topic, so I apologise, but why did you have that video? That question is coming from a place of curiosity not judgement - I truly couldn't stomach having something like that on my phone, and would have no reason to share it with others or watch it again if I did.
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Waymo alone is fine, but when you take into account fatalities caused by others like uber, right now I think self driving cars are worse than humans by a pretty large amount.
Hi, I am working on something similar, it's nowhere near usable but I hope that a proof of concept version could be ready this year.
My variant is focused on visual programming with various representations.
I will definitely read your docs. I am very interested in the models you have come up with.
It also depends on where you are going. If your goal is native fluency including clean pronunciation and grammar I find most languages equally hard. (Have mastered or had runs at 7 other than English.)

To your second point, Latin inflections are for the most part very mechanical, even for verbs. Latin is difficult to master due to the fact that it's for the most part only read. It's far easier to gain fluency if you develop an active vocabulary through speaking and writing.

If you are looking for objectively hard things to master I would pick German noun gender or Japanese Kanji. They both require rote memorization of thousands of items. Both have relatively weak patterns to cut down the amount of cases you need to memorize.
Businesses originally existed and had a profit margin. Then Amazon came along and competed directly against that profit margin so businesses lost business. Then Amazon said you can sell on our site, but in order to compete there businesses had to compete at the new lower profit margin, but then ontop of that give a slice of that to Amazon, so now they are losing profit margin, but losing more giving amazon a slice of the pie. It will take a LOT of extra business to make that part up. Walmart is a town killer, Amazon is a business killer.
I know we have optical telescopes in space. Don't we have radio telescopes in space too, like SETI? Why not?
Who's getting fined, and by whom?
Moral blame and $5 will get you a cup of coffee from Blue Bottle, which just sold out to Nestle.
Ha! I can just see the teenagers blocking the car, covering cameras with paint, and leaving an empty Tesla in the middle of a busy intersection for the cops to deal with. Pranks for the future generations are going to be really interesting.
In a plasma (or certain nonlinear media) a wave will not diminish in size. Its why waves in shallow seas can go for hundreds of miles unchanged, why light pulses in fibre optic cables can cross the ocean bottom without diminishing to noise. These waves are called solitons. It was my EE Professor's (Lonngren) favorite research topic back in my undergraduate days
Waymo already works in light rain, and they've been testing in snow.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/08/waymo-snow-navigation/

Also, the lack of support for harder environment isn't because they're impossible, but rather because they are focusing on getting it perfect in normal environments before expanding. The person said they are "coming along fine", not that they are done.
Optical telescopes are in space to avoid the effect of the atmosphere. Radio telescopes aren't effected in the same way so I don't think there would be an advantage for them to be in orbit and it would cost a lot more.
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The atmosphere is really good at distorting optical signals. It's not as good at distorting radio waves.

Additionally, radio telescopes tend to be enormous - much bigger then optical telescopes. It's one thing to launch a bus-sized instrument into orbit. It's another to launch a stadium-sized instrument into orbit.
There's a 30 year old gas leak here. I've heard there's a group that celebrates it's birthday every year. The op was not exaggerating when he said it was comically terrible.

Im surprised no politician has pushed to get it fixed since climate change is something people care about in the area and methane is much worse for global warming than carbon dioxide
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> Cal Fire

Unfortunately the general pilot shortage and the longer fire season is starting to impact Cal Fire, leaving a few airtanks grounded without pilots. These pilots traditionally worked on a seasonal schedule: ~four months of heavy firefighting with minimal time off, with the rest of the year spent recuperating (aka "unemployment"). Trying to extend the heavy-work period (or even make it year-round) is burning people out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWf-H9vnBjY
Sure. I'm open to suggestions, but I'll offer financial liability for damages as an opening bid.
Waymo is available right now, and has been for almost a year, to normal non-employee citizens, in Phoenix, albeit behind a private invite system. And as mentioned above, it'll become an open beta by 2019. Also, most of the limitation at this point has to do with regulation, they'd be in many more places if not for that.

That is much much closer than 2035.
I was really annoyed by my coworkers turning off the lights. It was dark and it made me sleepy. Eventually we just pulled out half the light bulbs which everyone seemed happy with.
Can I get this landing page critiqued (POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE) according to the points this advice says? It seems to do well I think, esp on mobile!

https://qbix.com
Not just Massachusetts -- a similar incident happened in the SF Bay Area a while back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion
The pipeline dated back to 1956.

If you think about it: highly flammable/explosive substance transported under high pressure 24/7 in decades-old infrastructure -- it's amazing there hasn't been more accidents.
Was it uploaded to some cloud service?
Every kind of matter that we know about makes up less than 5% of the believed matter in the universe. What's the rest? "Dark matter" and "dark energy" which are effectively empty placeholders. We know almost nothing about them, and yet they're the overwhelming majority of what exists.

Maybe they'll turn out to be boring and useless. Maybe they have even more complex interactions than ordinary matter does. About all we can say today is that there's a mystery 20x more massive than all known matter.
Yeah, the multiplayer part certainly was a big part of the challenge of this game! In terms of future development, I have some ideas but I think I will hold on to them so they can be more surprising later :)
That's hilarious. As a non-firefighter who sometimes spends time in both structures and forests, I'm glad both of your types of nutjobs exist. :)
Is this for real? Was it deleted specifically on Google Photos, with a local copy still available or possibly available if it hadn't already been cleared locally? Or was it a legitimate "reach into local storage and clear it"?
Yes, I believe it's related. They operate in the northeastern US. They replaced Niagara Mohawk where I live.

Edit: But I don't believe this story is about National Grid.
That's a mistake I think, I use that gesture a lot, and can't reach the top right of my phone easily without two hands.
Yep, same company.
I’ll just leave this here: https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
Except Waymo is being used by real people in Phoenix right now, albeit on an invite only system. They've said they'll go public by next year, and expand to other cities afterwards. Most of what is blocking them is regulation. I'd predict that by 2025, they will be in at least 10 major cities, regulation willing.
Asset and debt are balance sheet quantities. They can be measured at a point in time. Revenues and expenses are flows on the P&L. They are measured over a period of time.
Nuclear. Of course big petroleum and hard-left greenies joined forces to kill it before it brought us into the future.
The Great Recession was nowhere near a collapse, it was a crash/recession, even the depression wasn’t really a collapse, the USA clearly recovered from it within a decade. A collapse is like Venezuela ATM and Zimbabwe before.

Collapse precludes a recovery in the near term, and means some sort of government or dynastic change. Collapse language is used in contrast to a much normal crash.
I'd be wary of believing some random anecdotal story with absolutely zero proof and very little detail.
The most recent version of my essay/overview mentions Ruth Porat. This is one of the reasons why the current debt-based economy is horrible.
I mean a task force with authority to act quickly with incentives aligned purely with the average citizen. Something that doesn't require me to wait - they take it upon themselves to serve justice.
The problem is that you can either have FTL or causality, but not both. Also, relativity has been extremely accurate as a description of the universe, particularly on the macro level that you and I happen to inhabit. I'd say that I'd never bet on FTL being real, but to be honest I'd be surprised if you ever found anyone to even lay you odds. And as you say, that does make SETI rather pointless even without considering that the SNR to Mars on a good day is, what, ~11 dB?

We get generation ships, and if we are extremely lucky, we may have some very patient pen-pals, but warp drives, ansibles, and their attendant paradoxes are pretty unlikely to be features of this universe. Personally I prefer a knowable universe to a tourable one.
Seems like many of those in physics were excluded from the list.
Actionable Science makes your virtual assistants way smarter than one can fathom
And crashes do happen a lot in China. Just recently there was the P2P lending crash.
Why shouldn't they be allowed to keep that stuff?

I'm not trying to be flippant. I have noticed that many managers say no to anything they didn't think of first. Its made me usually default to thinking the manager is wrong unless the employee is adversely affecting another employee. If no one in the group could understand why they shouldn't keep those things, then it sounds like they weren't adversely affecting anyone

Edit: I should add that when I say management I mean management that is more than one level above the person who's behavior they are trying to change. People do t have as strong connections once it starts being a chain of relationships and you start losing the benefit of the doubt
Fairly common in the UK and Asia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock#Times_after_24:0...
I don't know if you've ever been subject to scientific peer review or not. One of the most frustrating things is reviewers who misunderstand the paper, but are convinced they've found some sort of problem with it. Admittedly, these sorts of issues usually point to places where the paper could be more clear. However, the point still stands that it is far easier to misunderstand something, than it is to understand it and find a flaw.

I would be very, very suspicious of any scientist claiming to have found a flaw in a work they've only been given a superficial description of. It may be accurate to say they have a hunch of where a flaw might be. But without really spending time with a paper it would foolish to claim any degree of certainty. Only very low quality papers can be rejected so quickly.
I've actually been really curious, does anyone know what kind of algorithm they use to detect similarities?

From what I've read of the tech behind Shazam/SoundHound, I was under the impression that the kind of audio fingerprints produced and indexed relied on the waveform/FFT and rhythmic input being identical, and that a band doing a really accurate cover would never trigger a match because it would be totally different in a million tiny details, the details used for the actual fingerprinting.

But clearly that's not the case here. No two pianists play perfectly alike, so what kind of algorithm is robust enough to match the underlying composition as opposed to the execution of it?
Did you even read the post? It was a bug... They do A/B testing and experiments all the time. What's up with hackernews and going full technopanic at the smallest most benign things. It's not like someone at Google hacked into your phone and turned battery saver off.
Ya, and obviously the stock market. But none of these have been big enough to cause a full blown financial crisis. China hasn’t had one of those since the 90s.
Do you know why people say that superluminal communication is impossible?
I feel like this position is too risk averse. Fear of a few hundred AI driver deaths will result in hundreds of thousands more human driver deaths.
I'd start with books by Tim Hartford and Richard Thaler and go from there.
I think the Professor is vastly overestimating how much his students benefited from this exercise. What they need are data analysis and modeling skills. R + Rstudio would be the perfect tooling for them. Laudable goal nontheless.
I read the Hilda Rosner's 1951 English translation. Maybe I'll give one of the newer translations a try.
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However, your house was still standing.
> if you assume the same level of organizational competence at running your own infrastructure

I'm not sure that the competence required is organizational (e.g. people managing) so much as operational (e.g. best practices) and even technical, at least at sub-FAANMG scale.

> it isn't easy and it isn't cheap. It certainly can't be taken for granted.

I agree that it can't be taken for granted, but I disagree with it not being easy and cheap. Rather, combining the two, I don't believe it's necessarily hard nor necessarily expensive.

It just requires finding someone who both still has the competence, is willing to use it, and is willing to train others. Running your own infrastructure isn't actually difficult or complicated, but it's certainly not "sexy" and can be a bit tedious at times. That means it's possible to hire inexpensive, less (overall) experienced staff and have them handle that portion. Unfortunately, the "unsexy" part means finding someone to do the training, as well as the actual work when necessary, can be challenging, even though we're out there.

Even then, that's only necessary at substantial scale. In <1000 server environments, I've never had the hardware-specific [1] part of the work take up more than a quarter of one senior FTE (usually me).

What can get astronomically expensive is outsourcing the wrong things, though that ends up being a form of not actually running your own infrastructure (yourself).

Anecdote: I recently had a phone interview with a startup that moved from "hardware" to the cloud and the main reason cited was the inability to ramp capacity up fast enough (nor predictably fast enough), which seemed odd to me. One example of unpredictability of lead times involved a new server underperforming due to mis-applied thermal compound between the CPU and cooler, which I have never experienced [2]. I didn't ask the rhetorical question, "how could you have picked such a horrible VAR?!" Carefully re-reading the blog post about their transition gave me my "aha" moment: even though it's a company in the SFBA, their datacenter was out of state (maybe not even in a tech hub city, but it didn't specify). They were outsourcing the actual installation, running, and maintenance of their hardware to someone else, far away.

[1] for lack of a better term.. i.e. anything that an IaaS cloud provider would eliminate, including purchasing and vendor negotiations, colo space, network hardware and providers, hardware monitoring, and data destruction

[2] well, OK, that's a lie, since I've experienced it when I've personally done CPU moves/swaps/upgrades in exceptional circumstances, when I was out of practice, but I knew to test my work and caught the problem immediately. I've never had it happen with professionally-assembled systems, presumably because CPU coolers tend to arrive with the thermal compound pre-applied.
...false...

Maybe we can trust Google not to hide stuff from us, but how come the following bullshit is all over Youtube?

"teleSUR is funded in whole or in part by the Latin American government" [0]

First of all, that warning doesn't even make sense. "The Latin American government"? Who's the president in that government? Maybe they have a king? Is that government less reliable than the USA government? Do they fight as many wars? Does the USA government fund any part of any media sources?

More importantly, now that this sort of pathetic annotation has started, wouldn't we expect it to increase? If Alphabet require a complete accounting of all income sources for all video posters, they'll be able to annotate more comprehensively, and then charge on a sliding scale to hide those annotations. Can actual censorship be far behind?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmSRWXCosxc
I am genuinely terrified that there are apparently a number of people who share this attitude.

Here's hoping none of you are anywhere near the leavers of power because this is far more dangerous than garden variety doomsday delusions like Jesus returning, or ignoring climate change.
Makes one want to check out of society and get a homestead going growing your own food in rural Utah.
If they have the resources to maintain their own directory server (389DS, Netscape or iPlanet, whatever it's called this year) surely they can manage to ship some client libraries of their own as well.
per task? find another job. life's too short for that kind of b.s.
This is breathtaking. This is the first good usage of scroll manipulation I've ever seen, and it has blown my socks off.
The Fed does pay interest on excess reserves these days so the portion of debt that comes from issuing zero interest obligations (namely dollars) is not as large as it seems. As it currently stands, excess reserves are around $1.8T: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EXCSRESNS
I'm not sure where you suggest they live, they're homeless...
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