skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's right. Different observers have different light cones. Yours is a little different from mine. But that is missing the point, which is that every observer has a light cone beyond which they cannot see -- not even by collaborating with other observers with different light cones.
I don't have "mu", only "u" and changing it to "h" only gives me the old html interface. I can do the same in the settings.

I had the option to switch back to "classic" a couple of days back, but now it's gone.
CNN is quite centrist, actually. They just happened to discover being tough on the Orange Person gave them Yuuuuge ratings.
A human body already has a lot of tools to fix almost whatever get broken in it given necessary materials, elements and motivation. I still can't recognize why aging can be considered inevitable in such a system that is very far from closed. All it takes to find a way to rejuvenate it effectively is to determine everything it needs and how to motivate it to activate the necessary repair mechanisms.
They're playing with their own money. Noone is forced to invest (or short).
I find it hard to believe that only FB has on office in that country that offers the $60k you are referring to. I work in London and there are a lot of companies that will give close to FB salary if you are a good developer. And yes there are companies that are not as corrupt as FB, Google, Amazon.

So I'm wondering (out of curiosity as I can't personally think of any) where in Europe is that happening?
Cheap, clean, going to it doesn't make you feel like a post-apocalyptic survivor picking through an abandoned warehouse.
Not an "excuse", but a valid explanation, don't you think?

When we offload decisions to algorithms, that's wha you get.
Well I genuinely hope you find something that gives you enough joy to change your perspective.
> Yes, it's an horrible world. I know, I'm saying that it is, I agree completely.

Whew! It's not just me? That's reassuring (As in, yes, there IS a monster on the wing of the plane, but that's so much less scary if you see it too. Little Twilight Zone reference there.)

> What's the alternative?

I don't actually know. However...

Bucky Fuller calculated that we would have all the technology we need to supply our needs globally for everyone, if only we applied it efficiently, by sometime in the 1970's. We have arguably already passed that point, meaning that our problems today are not physical, that they are just psychological (or moral or religious or spiritual if you prefer.)

Starting in the mid-1970's a kind of effective cybernetic psychology has been developed (under a kind of trade name Neuro-Linguistic Programming) that provides simple algorithms for correcting a great deal of malfunctioning psychology. (Be aware that the Wikipedia article for NLP is crap, it's haunted by skeptics. I can vouch for NLP. Not only is it grounded in hard science, I myself was cured of serious debilitating depression. I owe my life in a sense to NLP.)

To sum up, we have the technology to supply our needs, and the technology to overcome our psychological problems, so I think it's a matter of A) dispelling ignorance of the possibility, and B) logistics.

Tag, you're it.
Someday in the future the "Internet Morality Police" will flash their cryptographically signed badges stored on a blockchain
I would love to know where you work that is so morally upstanding and globally beneficial. More than likely you’re just a hypocrite.
Any LLVM-based compiler. GCC.
I actually make and sell these, as well as rulers that are in decimal inches. They're handy for woodworkers or others that need to use multiple scales.

Even weirder, I've made rulers that indicate pixels at the precise PPI density for MacBook pros, iPhones, etc, so that my graphic designer friend could hand sketch UI/UX elements to scale and see how they'd render.
Jeremy, you're awesome. Thanks for all your continued high-quality work.

Slightly OT question: At some point after DL1 pt 2 was released and before DL2 pt 1 was released, I recall you saying it was probably better to wait on starting the DL series since the new DL series (at the time) was going to be completely revamped with just PyTorch.

Would you say something similar about what I presume to be DL3 pt 1 coming out soon-ish? If so, when would you say that threshold is (i.e. if you start before this date, do DL2 pt 1, if you start after, wait for DL3 pt 1 to come out).

Hopefully that made sense.
That menu item will vanish soon. Several users have reported it elsewhere in this thread (it has vanished for me too).
> (especially) techniques for tabular data, start with the machine learning course.

Do you think DL techniques are going to better than traditional techniques for tabular data in the future?

This is in reference to your article: http://www.fast.ai/2018/04/29/categorical-embeddings/ and lessons 3 and 4 from the DL course.
Moving real estate to the Ethereum blockchain, smart contracts open sourced
That's what we would like to believe, but the concept of domain authority doesn't exist. (Just because a page is on a certain domain name it should rank... is false).

I'd put my bet on links (that are hidden), link ghosting, or cross-domain canonical tags.

It's not "just because it's on the Amazon domain". If domain authority existed, we'd see sites on Google sites, Business.site rank--and they don't.
New Conference to Address the Human Aspects of Cybersecurity and Cryptography
I feel like this overreach is directly as a result of the absurd expectation VC backed companies have of constantly growing forever. People who are uncomfortable with this fact can choose to only work at bootstrapped companies that are doing well.
So if ppl are not to judge morality who is then?
Because living organisms are not closed systems and include mechanisms specifically "designed" to fix themselves. They consume energy from the outside to reverse entropy in them.
Interesting tidbit about Winston Churchill. He was the only person in any of the major warring powers to have held high office in both WW 1 and WW 2. In WW 1 he was in charge of the British navy (though he did resign after Gallipoli). In WW 2 he, of course, rose to Prime Minister.

What is more surprising, perhaps, is that this is a claim that nobody else can make. But when you examine it, it is in the nature of democracy that there is regular turnover of those at the top. This happened in Britain, France and the USA. And the various non-democracies involved all had changes of government between the start of WW 1 and WW 2, which again results in turnover of those at the top.

So he became very successful. Whether this was because of, or in spite of, his mother's disappointment is another question. (I would be inclined on general principle to guess "because of", but I don't know enough for an educated opinion.)
A spam-detection algorithm that doesn't whitelist pages like The Guardian? I have to say I find it hard to believe that they would be so incompetent.
Turritopsis dohrnii. Lobsters and some turtles as well, they grow in size, but remain youthful otherwise.
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My session was reset. I don't remember using view as feature in probably at least a year or two (I haven't actually use FB web/app over the last year or two). But my company does buy political ads and I have gone through the affidavit/id verification.

I wonder if FB reset all political buyer accounts too just to be safe?
I do not miss those days. "You're change averse" was the most common accusation made against anyone who disagreed with changes. Change for the sake of change is rarely a good starting point but that never mattered. The web teams would come up with new and shiny way to do things and everyone would have to jump through hoops to get their properties updated. I'll never forget when PDB was replaced with P. I couldn't make heads or tails out of it and neither could most engineers I knew but hey, at least it was different.
That’s an incredible book. A bit off chapter but it’s a shame Obsidian can’t seem to catch a break.
You didn't solve the problem, in fact you made it worse. For people who already have a problem getting to the polls you have just given them extra money to not make that effort - going to work instead.
Yes, it's called voting. Unfortunately it seems that in the US the Democrats are more in the pocket of Big Data than the Republicans so it's a choice of 'do I like minorities or privacy more'.
Starving yourself is undoubtedly morally bankrupt, especially so if you have elderly parents or young kids or random loved ones or dependants in general. Not by accident killing oneself is considered a primary sin in many mainstream religions.
It's slightly insane that we make people go to a physical location and derp around waiting for a piece of ID.

You should be able to handle this like you do getting a passport. Fill out the forms, get a proper picture taken, slap it in the mail, get your shiny new documents back in two weeks.
Exactly. Even if an experiment could show something reliably not appearing in other timelines, it could easily enough be waved away with the standard throw-your-hands-up-and-say-‘algorithms’ explanation.
>HTTPS protects against all of these:
>Which is why everyone is moving to HTTPS.

Yes, but a MiTM can block or hamper conversion to https and mutate the content. HPKP and HSTS are not widely used yet (and even if they are the first request can be bypassed given this topology). Given current "end user" level protections having a device such as this on your network basically ensures you can be hijacked if even one request made is over https or not currently pinned to HTTPS.

>If you get access to the client computer all bets are off. You can just force all their traffic through a MITM proxy, no router hacking needed.

FFS, the point is the MITM gives a huge amount of attack surface to breach the client -- which yes, after that is done you lose all bets. Everything from injecting code intip zips/exec/etc downloaded over http to using 0day browser exploits and mutating requests. The device itself is physical access to your network which makes access to the clients 1000x 9if not more) easier.

> DNS can be mutated.

There are other protocols besides HTTPS.

>Any auto update software which doesn't verify certificates has a major security vulnerability.

Given, Yes. That does not make it rare or unusual. look at the CVS. There are many developers that write (or enable) auto updaters that should not be responsible for that given their understanding of security.
> many of their programmers are the type of coders who like falling back to C when they feel they need a performance boost

Question for anyone who knows: what percentage of Apple's application-software programmers double as system-software/kernel programmers? Because I expect that'd color their preferences for a daily-driver language quite a bit.
Hey it's Friday and I always wanted to ask: what do the people at YC think about bringing back some kind of smaller-scale investment for a larger number of applicants?

There was a time in my life after I graduated in college in '99, after the dot bomb, before the housing bomb, before YC, when I could have made just about any app/website in 6 months for $10,000. I wasn't driven by money, I just needed basic living expenses for enough runway to get ahead before someone snagged me back into working another day job to make ends meet. To me, microlending to this vast pool of untapped potential was the basic premise of YC and what I found so revolutionary about it.

Would you consider breaking one of your $150,000 investments into 10 or 15 smaller investments? Why or why not? Thanks!
I'm confused. Are you talking about family members forcing others to vote a certain way? Wouldnt that family member be just as coercive at a polling station? I guess in theory one could lie to the family member if they vote in person but is this a sizable and real concern about at home voting?

Genuinely curious because I've never heard of anyone expressing this concern before.
Most YC companies raise much more money than YC's investment in the days following YC's demo day. The YC investment is just the start.
It's possible Facebook uses location data for this, but I've got an alternate theories.

This happens to me often too, with much briefer encounters: mainly dates and meetups. Since I've shared similar amounts of time at the same restaurant with hundreds or thousands people with whom I had no interaction, many of who's arrival and departure times would happen by chance to line up with mine, they must be using something else. I also share a duplex-house and an office building with people who've never been inexplicably recommended on Facebook.

From these observations, I've come to think that location data has to play a very small role in Facebook's recommendation system.

Here's my best (but untested) theory to explain this: Your house-mate searched for you on Facebook, which triggered Facebook to think you might be friends.
Are you using a computer from the last 4 years and sitting one mile away from where the app was created? Conditions aren't the same everywhere, and you can look to see how much memory it's using, which is a lot, and it's unconcerned with reliability and redundancy in communication with the server.
The word is used in relation with "biology", not "ageing"

(Physics (makes ageing) (inevitably (not biology)))
I've always liked this line, even after becoming quite wealthy:

And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. --Matthew 19:24
Which copied blatantly from Harvest Moon. But regardless, if it was so easy to blatantly copy from previous iterations, the new Harvest Moon wouldn't be significantly worse than Stardew Valley.
http://archive.is/cntYK
The load could be zero, it could be infinite, or anywhere in between. Infinite universes sending infinite work is inf/inf. It's not possible to know if that's going to tend towards something like 0 or something like positive infinity without having some way to measure. But it's an error to just assume it's zero.
Anyone who knows how routing on the internet works can explain to you why the internet requires trusted backbones to route, and even then packets are dropped and bad routes happen.

How then can a decentralized PAYMENT network preform better then routing on the trusted internet (which exists at layers below the lightening network)...

in an adversarial decentralized global payment network, information does not propagate instantaneously.
As transaction rates increase, race conditions will increasingly clog the network. There is no way to fix this as information takes time to travel across the network and because this is a payment network, all nodes are constantly shifting funds around. Optimizing away from race conditions inevitably requires a large enough pool of liquid capital that its only solution is for all nodes to connect to a single central hub, or a small number of centralized hubs large enough to support all users and all clients. This is not designed for a peer to peer system and there is no other solution. This can be verified though rudimentary modeling simulations of random nodes, and more so when node sizes are limited to what a normal person would have in a small amount of cash at any given time, or even a sum deposited into a checking account.

The way Lightening Network is designed, is predictably to benefit capital holders with enough excess capital to act as the backbone hubs. Normal users will be unable to bypass the Bitcoin banking/payment processor LN hubs and unable to reliably route though peer to peer paths on the LN.

This presumably is intended to enrich the Bitcoin oligarchs as a passive way to extract rent and wealth on the network simply for controlling existing capital.

This design choice indicates either a comic level of negligence, or intent to shift away from p2p to centralized information control.
The issue is that Facebook has access to so much information that their security has to essentially be unbreakable if they don’t want a massive leak of sensitive user information.
> Your point? Should we stop working in IT and go back to the fields?

Not the OP... But no... Just stop working for morally bankrupt companies.

There are enough consulting jobs, to say nothing of current and future startups around (including your own if you create one), to not need to work for them.

> What needs to happen is that people keep applying pressure so facebook is forced to adapt its business model even if it hits their bottom line - which is already happening apparently.

Then again, would-be employers saying loud and clear that they won't hire people who worked for morally bankrupt companies is a potential answer too.

If software engineers pushed hard to consider that working for them was a dead-end job rather than something very desirable, then maybe they might end up attracting less talent and go bust eventually.

On your deathbed you'll only take a single thing with you. Not your house or family; not your wealth; only whether what you did with your life was worth it.

A very very few, like Alfred Nobel, are lucky enough to see what their contemporaries thought about their lives before they passed away and got to adjust. You probably won't.
Downvoted for diversionary red scare tactics.
Whether or not IP is "real" is a red herring from hypocrisy being a valid defense for bad behavior. You can split hairs on the definition of IP, but the general consensus in economics is that you need to ensure coverage of the fixed creation costs of intellectual property to ensure robust investment in your society.

And no, tu quoque definitively intends to discredit the opponent's argument by asserting the opponent's failure to act consistently in accordance with its conclusion.

This applies to whataboutism, and exactly what we're talking about in this thread of deflecting back to the U.S.'s inconsistent behavior in the past.
The real victims of campus activism are the students
This article is written as if Aubrey de Grey didn't exist!

In addition to the featured scrapyard cars one could peruse these vintage models:

https://www.classiccarpassion.com/media/101072/55.jpg

They still go because comprehensive maintenance and damage repair has been carried out -- repeatedly. The same approach is viable for the human body, argues de Grey.
That one is technically a two-man band, but definitely still fits the pattern of someone dedicating their life to making a complex game.
We don't have to imagine. It just happened.
Why is that uncomfortable? I don't think anybody takes issue with the idea that some engineers are great at being engineers but not great at being managers, and so it's important to have a career track for senior engineers to continue doing the engineering work that they're great at instead of forcing them into a role that's not fulfilling.

That idea shouldn't be more uncomfortable just because the engineer is a founder. It should be reasonable for a founding engineer to let somebody else come in and do the boring management work that a CEO has to perform while the engineer continues doing the work that got them to where they are.
Fire 80% of the frontend engineers and save a buck?
How many IDEs do you use? I use 3 or 4 on a regular basis, and I don't find switching between them to be that big of a deal.
What a disingenuous comment. You could say this about almost every other work.
I've been building web analytics services for roughly 15 years.

Each one started as scratching an itch. I built my first web stats service back in the time before Google Analytics, when anything more complicated than a basic Apache log analyzer cost money I didn't have. The information tracked (referring URLs, pages viewed, time on site, bounce rate, language of each visitor, etc) is information that's been transmitted and logged since the very first web servers. That's now a freemium service with a couple tens of thousands of users, called W3Counter.

7 or 8 years ago a relative of mine opened a B&M store with a companion online store, and I built several products to help him run that, including a new web stats service that included ad and conversion tracking to show which ads (Google AdWords, Bing Ads, Facebook, etc) were generating which sales. That's now a premium service with a couple thousand users and marketing agencies, called Improvely.

None of this involves tracking people around the web or combining information from multiple websites using third party cookies. Just providing website owners with information about what happens on their own website. But both of my products are commonly included in those "ad-tech landscape" infographics with the thousands of companies on them every year.

Am I supposed to feel bad about that and need to rationalize it? Because I've never felt that way. Keeping track of which pages of your site are most popular, which ads are generating sales, which other sites are linking to yours and sending you traffic, seem as simultaneously essential and innocuous to me as the information B&M stores have when they track how many people walk in the door, what products are selling fastest, which circulars are bringing them sales by tracking coupons, which customers are their repeat customers and what they buy, etc. Their "tracking cookie" is simply your credit card or the grocery store loyalty card you scan every time you check out.
That's not how lightning works. On-chain bitcoin transactions are used to open and close channels (and even then it doesn't have to be a 1-to-1 relationship), but once you have a channel open you can send funds within the channel without having to create on-chain bitcoin transactions. That's the entire point of lightning.
They weren’t really grilled at the hearings at all. I heard maybe two “difficult” questions from Senators, and both ended up getting the response “we’ll follow up later”.
> So is working at Google, Amazon and probably 90% of the big corps of the world in many sectors

While Google and Amazon both have their ethical problems and serious anti-trust issues, Facebook is in a league of its own. The complete, cavalier disregard for the consequences of its own actions as long as they get theirs is utterly unconscionable.

Unlike Google or Amazon, they add nothing of real value to society to balance the abuses they bring with them. All their labors are geared towards extracting the utility of other creators (their acquisitions like Instagram or WhatsApp) or to suck the time and attention out of people through addictive mechanisms. If Facebook disappeared tomorrow a hundred federated online platforms to function as generic address books and life-updaters would crop up over night, and just about every one of them would be better.

You would have to look at lines of business like Big Tobacco to find another field of similar moral perfidy.
There are companies deploying commercial solutions similar to what my friends are doing. There are a couple companies in the EU that will send an AED drone to emergency callers for heart attacks. The drone's wings collapse and it converts into an AED. It can fly to locations minutes before first responders get there. They are also being used to deliver medicine to remote camp-sites in the mountains and some jungles.
I suspect it costs them ~10,000$ to hand out XX,000$. If nothing else they want some due diligence to avoid harming their brand. On top of that 10,000¥ in 2019 does not go as far.
This is when experts think we'll develop AI as smart as humans
It also fragments the discussion. If they did it all at once, people would rebel.
You’re repeating what I wrote - Big tech is likely to produce new tech, but new tech comes from other places too.

This discussion is mostly irrelevant to the fact that this particular company is completely reckless and unethical. The technology they accidentally produce while building a dystopia to make people click on ads[1] does not justify anything.

1: https://youtu.be/iFTWM7HV2UI