skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the article:
"... And in Trump, that’s saying a lot, because he has a number of pretty bad sides."
"... and then the Trump election really nailed it home that something was changing in society, and in a way that was potentially going to get worse and worse and weirder and weirder."

There's also an article called:
"Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class"

And from his book: "Who Owns the Future" he says:

“Saving the Winners from Themselves:
Is the present trend really a benefit for those who run the top servers that have come to organize the world? In the short term, of course, yes. The greatest fortunes in history have been created recently by using network technology as a way to concentrate information and therefore wealth and power.
However, in the long term, this way of using network technology is not even good for the richest and most powerful players, because their ultimate source of wealth can only be a growing economy...”

“...I’m no Marxist. I love competing in the market, and the last thing I’d want is to live under communism. My wife grew up with it in Minsk, Belarus, and I am absolutely, thoroughly convinced of the misery. But if you select the right passages, Marx can read as being incredibly current...”

“...One reason companies like Facebook should be interested in what I am proposing is that planning a regulation regime is better than morphing involuntarily into a dull regulated utility, which is what would probably happen otherwise. Suppose Facebook never gets good enough at snatching the “advertising” business from Google. That’s still a possibility as I write this. In that event, Facebook could go into decline, which would present a global emergency...”

“...Imagine a future industry of “decision reduction” that would be (gasp!) regulated so as to remain unaligned with other services. You’d choose a decision reduction service the way you choose a broker now. The decision reduction service would use its particular style and competence to create bundles of decisions you could accept or reject en masse. You could switch to other services without penalty at any time. Such services would be prohibited from having conflicts of interest. That is a proper place for regulation...”

“...Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to say so, we can survive if we only destroy the middle classes of musicians, journalists, and photographers. What is not survivable is the additional destruction of the middle classes in transportation, manufacturing, energy, office work, education, and health care. And all that destruction will come surely enough if the dominant idea of an information economy isn’t improved...”

He just seems so out of touch! I wonder why he is held up by TED and others as THE guy to follow when you're deleting your accounts for following people :)
Yes sorry I dock to a desktop monitor via HDMI for coding at a desk, but honestly I'd say more than half the time I'm fine just using the phone on its kickstand case or mounted to the top of the keyboard with a bracket I made.

My eyes thankfully haven't degraded as fast as my hearing so far.

Being a wireless 60% keyboard it's quite small, so I can use this setup anywhere I want just on my lap. It's very convenient.
My only complaint about this presentation is the lack of forgetfulness and recovery of old strategies. In a word, it ignores context.

A world with only tit-for-tats effectively becomes a world of always-cooperate once the knowledge that defectors are a thing disappears from visceral collective memory.

And as an inevitable aftermath of that, the world of always-cooperate invites the return of always-cheat. Which invites the arrival of tit-for-tats.

However, the presentation's conclusion remains the same: viable actions in the world we inhabit are largely--but not totally--defined by the contexts that everyone brings to the table. And in most contexts, it pay out more to forgive than to retribute in the long run.
I think where US struggles is general education of population and engagement with political process.

Press is subjective and you need engaged critically thinking electorate to see when BS is being presented to them.

Basically fake news is on us, not on them.
Right. Forget about global warming.. there should be bipartisan support for clean energy because we can stop dealing with countries like this.
> Saudia Arabia forbids aircraft traveling to Israel from overflying Saudi airspace

Anti-Israel, not (as) anti-Judaism. Saudi Arabia and Israel have a rough history. I know plenty of Jews who safely do business in the KSA. That said, they tend to stay within the larger cities of Riyadh and the more-liberal Jeddah.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18168925
>Im surprised he hasn't been replaced...

Uh, he just took a chainsaw to a guy who said he didn't like the color of his robe. Would you suggest replacing a guy who does that if you were inside elite circles in The Kingdom?
I'm well aware of that... I also know that the MS Teams client uses the same connection channels (you can answer calls on either skype for business or in teams, for example)... I was suggesting that MS Teams (electron app) might be a useful alternative.
and if I want to charge while I'm using headphones?
Nope. It represents positional-only arguments. You can have positional-only arguments for C function but not Python functions. Just a weird Python wart.
Try to install Fedora Linux on it. It should work okayish on such hardware, if you switch it to Mate desktop (Gnome 2 fork): https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/ .
>troll has to directly, physically, face the consequences of his free speech

That's not free speech.
> 37% faster than the 1080 Ti with FP32, 62% faster with FP16, and 25% more expensive.

Maybe in theory, but you can get a new 1080Ti for $700 while 2080Ti is impossible to get under $1200, which makes it 70% more expensive. At that point 2x 1080Ti sounds way better than 1x 2080Ti for Deep Learning to me (up to 22TFlops and 22GB of RAM).
> there is no agency in the USA to make such a complaint to

If you have a government agency policing what the press can and cannot say, you don't have a free press.
So? You have to accept the software license agreement to use the software in the car. Esp 'self driving' software.
Classic, the sensors whose purpose is to ensure that something doesn't kill you, actually become the things that almost kill you.
Do you believe any of those options would be cheaper (monetarily or politically) than just paying a couple of engineers more salary?
The US (and now also Israel) siding with Saudi Arabia and condemning Iran has always been madness in my opinion.

See also:

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2015/02...

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2015/01...
The problem isn't that people are acting anonymously, the problem is that individuals and organizations are acting to impersonate the non-anonymous.

follower counts only impact people because of the assumption that each follower is a _real_ person, which is a direct effect of the deanonymization we see today by social networks.

propaganda has significantly more impact when it is perceived to come from "just another normal person" rather than an anonymous bot.
exactly same thing i thought when i see some timer bug (not recurring events)

i actually came to this bug couple times (nw.js user here)
i re-initialize timers once in a week. :/
I recommend anyone interested in genome exploits to watch this talk at DEFCON by John Sotos[1] about why you should be very hesitant in giving away your DNA.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY
I like being on the bleeding edge. My only Windows PC is a gaming machine, so I don't mind it updating frequently and/or needing babysitting (for example, the very latest flight added a HyperV adapter and broke my internet, despite having HyperV disabled).

That, and honestly, they're pretty rock-solid. Other than this net adapter this thing past week, I've never had anything truly disruptive. OTOH, there've been a time or two that I was glad to be an insider because of a bugfix or feature that wasn't likely to be backported to stable.

And some misplaced desire to help? I can rationalize it with OSS, I can't really tell you why I feel some sort of responsibility to do it for Windows too.
Mainly it was just that I didn't want that much debt hanging over me. I could theoretically invest in other stuff, but if there's a recession that affects all of my investments, I don't ever want to have to worry about foreclosures or selling investments at a huge loss to pay my mortgage.

It was also convenient for making offers. I don't have to jump through the hoops of involving a bank in the process. And for most sellers, a cash offer is more attractive because there's no chance of the bank stalling or killing the deal.

The house I bought, I saw it the morning it came onto the market and offered cash on the spot to seal the deal. Seller might have accepted with a mortgage anyway, but I think cash was good incentive for them to proceed with me immediately instead of waiting a couple days to gauge interest from other buyers.
"Misery" is not the word you're looking for.
But that's the problem that we've got now. Being able to have such a blanket clause encourages putting in all kinds of crap to see what sticks.
This depends on what you mean by “workers getting smarter”. If it relates to a specific legal clause, you are correct that more knowledge of that clause would just lead to a new clause that benefits the corporation. If it relates to systematic worker protections through legislation, we might see different consequences.
Was surprised by the Melbourne result given the city is one of the most multicultural places in the world which you would assume give it a median result.

Done in 2008 so the current housing price blowout wouldnt explain everyone being totally out for themselves. Maybe tall poppy syndrome or the anti-dole bludger (freeloader) mentality would account for it?
Each press organization has their reputation and readers/viewers/listeners that should act as a lever. Its up to individual citizens to be critical readers.
Mathematics is not something handed down by the gods. It's possible to encounter not just completely new problems, but also limitations to existing methods for solving a known problem.

In this particular case the challenge is aggregating statistics from a very large fleet & having automated alarms. Visualization tools don't help with any of that. More specifically, the reporting tools out there apparently have a very common & persistent flaw of reporting an average of percentiles across agents which is a statistically meaningless metric. It makes no difference how you visualize it - the data is bunk.

This article flips it so that agents simply report how many requests they got & how many exceeded the required threshold. This lets them report the percentage of users having a worse experience than the desired SLA. You can also build reliable tools on top of this metric. It's not a universal solution but it's a neat trick to maintain the performance properties of not needing to pull full logs from all agents & still have a meaningful representation of the latency of your users.
That's interesting, thanks for sharing. I guess pragmatic commerce finds a way. I thought it was more black and white.
You mean like the knowledge that he works with Saudis?
I wrote a lot of the Rust compiler. Slice base and length is almost always cached if it matters for performance.
Actually AMD gpus are the most cost effective gpus and have supported full FP16/8 since 2 years.
But people are locked in the Nvidia proprietary jail and no one seems to care...
That is really sad and against the consummer interest, but also, deep learning will never become mainstream if it can only run on 5% of the world hardware (Nvidia).
I acknowledge that Sweden has number of advantages and benevolent government with no corruption. It's certainly one of the top countries in the world in terms of development.

My guess is that Sweden might be popular choice among people who want to pursue PhD or something like that.

I fell in love with Hong Kong first time I visited it as a tourist in 2013.
Doesn't apply to military aircraft. Both countries have some sort of military co-operation related to Iranian threat. Enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Hated in the Nation - Black Mirror season 3, episode 6 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hated_in_the_Nation
Except, I don't get too much crap in my work e-mail account.

A combination of E-mail and IM (when an immediate response is required) works quite well.
>EDIT: I'm not saying that is the case, but I hope that this example illustrates why this metrics is not a good substitute for standard metrics like DAU, MAU, revenue.

You made a comment stating "This metric is meaningless". You are not being downvoted because we misunderstood - you're being downvoted because you are wrong.
Liabilities also transfer.
Should have phrased this more precise: I meant on Mars every little problem will kill you. On Earth you can rescue people, no problem.
Not in theory, in practice, these are actual benchmarks. Your central argument is that prices within the first few weeks of a new product launch are higher than MSRP. That point will likely not hold true 30 days from now. It makes perfect sense to compare the products based on their MSRPs.
Blanket attacks on the broad press by politicians and the government are not good for a functioning democracy. Calling out specific news organizations for specific failures is.
Teams is still not up to snuff with the capabilities of Skype for Business. As of today I cannot handle incoming instant messages originating from another Office 365 Skype user in Teams, and presence information has only been syncing between the two since the Ignite event last month. It feels like the implementation must be similar to what was done with the newer Mac Skype for Business client, because there are many of the same limitations and bugs.

The story has been for about 18 months that Teams is going to eat all the things, but the execution is slow coming.
> If the State did go through the bother of taking an style of clause apart, pointing into it and saying "look, you can't do this", it's because there is a moral problem with that style.

It says something about the moral assessments of the people forming the political system (plus something about non-moral political factors), but that doesn't mean that the parties signing the contract don't find the clause moral by their own lights. (And likewise, if you're a moral objectivist, the clause can continue to be moral even as the political system is making a moral mistake.)
already true for some models with some features like Nissan Leaf with the remote control app - https://www.reddit.com/r/leaf/comments/4i4f3s/how_do_i_get_r...
The Facebook engineer who wrote a memo decrying the company's culture is leaving
Energy has little to do with it. US support for Saudi Arabia is based on an irrational opposition to Iran.
Apparently they initially intended for it to have a fast parallel connection which would have meant a huge gain in speed, but they ended up with a serial bus on the C64 to be compatible with VIC-20 disk drives. This was supposed to be offset by hardware that could maintain a high serial speed, but the design ended up half broken, which they had to amend with the slow software routines before release.

It sucks, but it's nice that the computer could patch the disk drive at run-time and have it run some more sophisticated software for a speed boost. For example, the Action Replay 6 comes with a "fast loader" that performs some 18 times better than the kernal loader and stock 1541 firmware on normal CBM formatted disks. Still not as quick as Woz' Disk II...
Is it possible to have multiple scales on a single axis this is something we use a lot at my work but very few javascript charting libraries seem to support.

Example here:
https://imgur.com/a/zd5Giom
Was anything nefarious suggested?
You may find webserials interesting. They're novels (generally multiple novels in length) published a couple/few chapters a week. You may get into the binge mood if you're reading one already completed or catching up with one currently publishing but once you're at the point waiting it's really nice to be forced to stop and wait.
> Saying "a rule" sounds like powerlessly wishing a problem gets fixed.

Isn't that mostly the case when we post about some (perceived) injustice on HN?

Take for instance the patent system. Every now and then people come up with ideas for what the system should really be like, but nobody ever provides any hints for actually getting these ideas implemented, and almost always the forces that keep the current system in place are totally ignored.
If it doesn't work the !s bang command can search with Startpage (proxied Google search)
> Some things don't deserve a response.

But you responded anyway. You just didn't respond with anything useful. So what you did, essentially, was waste 10,000 people's time by having them look at your non-response "response".
>All of this also really hinges on the type of work you do I guess as well.
I think I got confused ... either getting the Krebs Cycle the wrong way around or confused about where the ATP came from... Possibly the latter, this will teach me to comment about half remembering biology from over 25 years ago... However my original poorly explained thought stands there needs to be an extra component that will be consumed like ATP or H2O...
Why archive when I can just leave it in my inbox? Inbox infinity works for me. My personal gmail has almost 20,000 emails.
But I was told that anybody that disagreed with the liberal bubble mentality of silicon valley was either a russian bot or was Brett Kavanaugh on a bender.
Where exactly in the link does it say the army discourages lead testing?

Reuters says "Yet it also “discourages” this type of lead-paint inspection" at the link https://phc.amedd.army.mil/topics/workplacehealth/ih/Pages/L...
Keybase (KBFS)
What would an age-friendly city look like?
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj9NJZUomjQ
Honest question: why would anyone make a list comprehension that's multiple levels deep? Isn't the purpose of comprehensions to provide quick-and-dirty inline for loops, where a full for loop is too verbose?
-A former employer nagged me into signing a rather draconian agreement - basically, anything and everything I came up with, be it within their business area or outside it, be it on my time off or whatever, while I was employed by them or for a period of 12 months after I had left them, belonged to them.

I signed it ‘Juul E. Nissen’ (the equivalent of S. Anta Claus’)

Nobody bothered to verify the signature. I wonder how that would have held up in court.
SandySearch is now on the Apple App Store too:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sandysearch/id1438425201?ls=...
Yes! I am pretty sure that I got confused ... either getting the Krebs Cycle the wrong way around or confused about where the ATP came from... Possibly the latter, this will teach me to comment about half remembering biology from over 25 years ago whilst still half asleep ..

However my original poorly explained thought stands there needs to be an extra component that will be consumed like ATP or H2O...
A lot of times the emotional impact trumps the financial impact. If thats one less thing I stress about then that makes more room in my mind to make more money if I wanted to.
I dunno, I was able to cobble together a timeseries forecast API using the plummer and forecast packages in an afternoon that a product team was then able to work against to create demos for customers. Yeah, they’d probably eventually want to rewrite the API to be “production ready.” But on the other hand, for prototyping and getting to show something real to prospective customers? Pure dynamite.

Even then, if the stats being done in the background were hard to reimplement, I suppose plummer & R could still work with the right cloud / load balancing infra. Might end up being more expensive than it needs to be in the final iteration, but in the meantime money could be flowing in and customers gettin’ happy.
All of this was happening on Usenet to a much greater degree than anything I've seen on social media. That's where the term "don't feed the trolls" came from (still the best advice!).

The goal of free speech is not to create a "pleasant town square", it's to protect individual liberty and not allow powerful entities to control what can and cannot be communicated.
A good way to measure what this person means would be removal cost: how harmed is society if this category of solution is removed from it one day?
I agree with your broader point, but stating that Nvidia comprises a mere 5% of the world's hardware is disingenous in a post where you've only talked about GPUs. In actual fact, Nvidia has the overwhelming majority of the high end GPU market, especially in HPC and ML. And as much as I dislike the proprietary lock-in, they have by far the superior software ecosystem.
I don't know whether this is really an implementable method (at least for most of us), but I want it to be true.

It reminds me of the Grazing Principle, from _Beyond Success and Failure_ (Beecher):

"The Grazing Principle is at the root of all great discoveries, and it is the path of our enlightenment. It might be called 'horse sense', since every horse is a fine exponent of the principle. If you turn him loose on a roadside, he begins to graze immediately. He sees a clump of grass and starts to eat. While he is nibbling this clump, he sees another not more than a half-step away. He reaches for it, and as he is cropping it, his eye falls on yet another clump just a short step ahead of him. And that is all he does all day! But by nightfall, he is miles away from where he started. Without any thought of 'getting ahead in life', he has moved into new grazing areas continuously. And most of all, he has enjoyed every moment of the process. No fuss or anxiety. No need for rewards or recognition outside himself."
Indeed I think I got confused ... either getting the Krebs Cycle the wrong way around or confused about where the ATP came from... Possibly the latter, this will teach me to comment whilst half asleep and half remembering biology from over 25 years ago...

However my original poorly explained thought stands there needs to be an extra component that will be consumed like ATP or H2O...
I think there's a bit of a delta between where my service is and what they'd need. There would have to be logic to do fuzzy matching from the parsed ingredient to the items in their inventory that customers can purchase. There are competitors in this space that are already far ahead of me in terms of building shopping lists from ingredients, so it would be difficult to compete with them. My idea was to start with smaller developers who prefer my service's improved accuracy and more liberal licensing terms.
It's hardly irrational. You can argue the merits of their reasoning, but not that they have reasons. Don't dismiss viewpoints you don't agree with as irrational - that shuts down any attempt at a real dialogue or understanding.
No. Neither is being Israeli. The two find lots of mutual ground in their opposition to Iranian and Muslim Brotherhood (Turkey, Qatar) strength/control.
> Synchronous chatrooms

Slack doesn't have to be synchronous.

I am part of hundreds of channels across 10 accounts. I only respond to notifications but will typically spend an hour or so at the end of the day just catching up on everything. With email I would simply never know these discussions were even happening.