skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ps - it sounds like u already have an idea of what to do. I'm pretty sure the tech industry lost control of shit a while ago and people are scared.

At the end of the day it's just money. If it's going to usher in the apocalypse fcking dump the stock and have your lawyer field emails. Your investors probably have no idea what they've invested in or divested from let alone know what machine learning is other than whatever they read in the news. It's not like not being invested in something due to fears of where such investments might lead is a bad decision or one that assumes a loss at all. Find something else. Right? Or is it far more complicated than that?
Apologies if I implied intimidation and lying are good traits. However, I do maintain that they are alpha traits. Lying, maybe not sure much, but intimidating, definitely. Being alpha isn't necessarily a good thing. Like all labels, and especially for a label as complicated as "alpha", there are good and bad parts to it.

Honestly I dislike using the term alpha, because it's so inflammatory. Its hard to talk about what alpha means without bringing up beta, and the moment you use those two words then it sounds like redpill-speak. However, there are certain kinds of people who are confrontational and very much extroverted, the kinds who don't back away when challenged. I see alpha as a way to describe these traits as they are, with no moral conclusions attached.

For sure Chess players can display alpha traits, but it's hard to see how Chess players are MORE alpha than Diplomacy players. An entire game of Chess can finish without a single word exchanged, and it's rare and unprofessional for violence to show up in Chess, though it does show up time to time. In diplomacy, violence, albeit only verbal, is the norm. A nonconfrontational person will never survive in diplomacy, but they can do well in Chess.
There is a good Warren Buffett documentary on HBO where he says the same thing. Or he’s just being humble. Or both.
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We did two games. One used http://www.variantbank.org/results/rules/i/imperial2.htm
> "I'm not involved in any operations aspects so I can't answer your questions," Wozniak said.

Really? C'mon man. If you're gonna put your name on something and promote it, people are going to rightly associate you with having a role in the product. He can say they lied to him, say he toured the facilities and looked at the first few classes, and they changed it later, but this basically just screams, "they offered me enough to not care about my reputation."
Not to cheapen the work that Wodni's accomplished, but I imagine a very large part of the reason why this has worked is because a talented, passionate chef has decided to work in a hospital, rather than achieve notoriety and fortune running a high-end restaurant.

The average person choosing to work in institutional kitchen is not one that is looking to make a difference… they're looking to make ends meet.

This is scalable only if they managed to encourage more talented individuals to choose institutional kitchens over commercial ones.
> ... her job is to take over the company the cranky genius built, keep it running smoothly and profitably, and let him go off and do his next great project.

I think this is precisely what Pepper Potts ends up doing in the movies. Tony Stark stops running the company. Not to condone the comparison or anything, just clarifying what happens in the movies.
I believe conventional journalism practice is basically the opposite. Names shouldn’t be in headlines unless they are immediately recognisable.
you can make the case that you're watching the people shoot up as an educational entertainment. There's a good group of people who don't know what drug abuse it like up close, watch it and learn from the experience of others. Also maybe the series doesn't create recurring seasons/episodes every year/week like sports leagues.
Moloch isn't just the tragedy of the commons. It's a generalization of it that applies to many more classes of decentralized behavior.
Google maps definitely shows 140 open. Not sure what they are going on about.
And the logs are stored encrypted offline. They move over a one-way link from main server somewhere else in case of a compromise. They're never shared except with law enforcement with a warrant per privacy policy and EULA.

Inspires more confidence if they're kept temporarily but heavily protected.
@steipete puts it pretty well: JavaScript really made it. We now tweak CPUs to make it faster.

https://twitter.com/steipete/status/1047415826083729408
> What's striking is the binary nature of immunotherapy. When the genes are expressed, they work; when not, they don't.

Antibodies and the hypervariable regions of the T cell apparatus are the van der Waals equivalent of a socket wrench: it either fits or it doesn't. That's what makes them so attractive for drug development. We can design the code, insert it into a bacterium or phage and then make as many socket wrenches as we want using little more than the principles and equipment used for brewimg beer.
I don't think it matters. Those people are already in an intellectually closed pocket universe. People overestimate the extent to which universal consensual reality exists or has ever existed.

The first line of defense is education. Fundamentally, we have to make the case for why we know what we know. This is why K-12 exists, although the availability of effective primary and secondary education remains a major issue.

The next line of defense is social interaction. Most people will have to leave their bubbles to have any sort of upward mobility and ability to steer society. There will always be cynical people who exploit constituencies of deceived people to gain power, but many others eventually defect.

We have little reason to believe that this is a long-term equilibrium, but it's the story of the past 500 years of history, ever since the printing press created decentralized mass media.
Short answer: the US has two senators for each state, some states have much more population than others, so proportionally a vote in Wyoming counts "more" than a vote in California. This has direct effects in the legislative branch (the Senate) and indirect effects in presidential elections (electoral college) and thus also indirectly in the Supreme Court (nomination + approval).
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Then what happened?
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The UI experience was completely unparalleled at the time
I specifically agree. The 'where it makes sense' has to be based on something practical, not theoretical nor in-the-not-immediate-future. Currently in one of our products we have 4 back-end services: webapp, api, relay, and broadcast. The scaling requirements and lifetimes of the relay and broadcast instances differ. The relay also has audio requirements. It all depends on your environment and the teams ability to deal with what's required.
Welcome to every era ever.
Snap was first? We forgetting Google Glasses I guess.

Google tried but clearly market maturity is not there yet. Doubt it will be 2019. We need to squeeze more into chips before a regular-size glasses will be available with AR built in.

Also personally I doubt it will be iPhone of AR. Too many companies are working on it and probably will come up to light at the similar time. It will be more like cruise control that so many car makers basically invented at the same time.
Worked for a place recently (and briefly) that claimed to be building a platform on micro services. When I got there I found that while they indeed had a bunch of independent processes hanging around they all relied on a single data source. All introducing micro services accomplished was a LOT more network overhead between processes and the main (SQL) data store. When you have a bunch of processes talking to the same data store, you still have a monolith whether you want to call it that or not, because you lack the freedom to refactor your schema without changing every service that relies on the store.
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Can you explain this "industry" then?
What industry? In-memory databases? GPU accelerated visualization? Which one are you referring to?

Comparing MapD to SQream DB is akin to comparing VoltDB to Vertica.

Disclaimer: I was interviewed in that article by the author. It didn't come from our "marketing department".
Yeah, in most places, it would mark you as earnest, at best, and naive, at worst.
>nobody stands to profit from rationally curtailing copyright

Except, of course, nearly everybody.
People get killed by quackery even today and we don't generally put people in jail.

Steve Jobs cancer for example was possibly a result of his mostly fruit diet and when he got cancer instead of a traditional treatment he doubled down on the fruit quackery and other new age bullshit. He died.
Having done a fair amount of work with xslt and using regex to strip out bad data, I agree. But 85% is terrible if you are creating a database. Any regex style query on xml or pseudo-xml requires bespoke treatment and a high amount of human hours to check the results before you can be sure an edge case didn't completely destroy your model.
My back of the napkin assumed all energy from the wind over the entire cross sectional area.

Magnus effect or not, i'm just dealing in orders of magnitude and for the average wind speeds on shipping routes, I just don't understand how this works even if 100% of the wind energy is extracted from the cross sectional area of the sail.
Because the incentives can create stories that are untrue or corrected later.
This is great, thanks! This is very similar to one of my favorite parts from Sickness Unto Death:

"Now this form of despair goes virtually unnoticed in the world. Precisely by losing oneself in this way, a person gains all that is required for a flawless performance in everyday life, yes, for making a great success out of life. One is ground as smooth as a pebble. Far from anyone thinking of such a person as being in despair, he is just what a human being ought to be. He is praised by others; honored, esteemed, and occupied with all the goals of temporal life.

Yes, what we call worldliness simply consists of such people who, if one may so express it, pawn themselves to the world. They use their abilities, amass wealth, carry out enterprises, make prudent calculations, and the like, and perhaps are mentioned in history, but they are not authentic selves. They are copies. In a spiritual sense they have no self, no self for whose sake they could venture everything, no self for God, however self-consumed they are otherwise."
It may be difficult to find someone Musk trusts as much as Shotwell, given her lengthy, loyal tenure alongside him.
I know my Work uses something called an SQP Solver (Sequential Quadratic Programming) for our nonlinear stuff I'm not sure how that compares.
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Or maybe you're just an asshole.
Please don't post ideological rants here.
Maybe he wanted to save the heart
> [...] news orgs are wrong from time to time, and that is a fact

The difference is that when news orgs on the top half of this chart [1] are wrong, even the ones that are quite partisan either left or right, it is almost always the case that they thought they were right when the published. The are wrong by accident.

When orgs along the bottom, whether they be far left like AlterNet or far right like Breitbart, are wrong it is often they case that they know they are wrong before they publish, but since their purpose is not news but rather pushing their partisan agenda, they consider that a feature, not a bug.

[1] https://www.adfontesmedia.com/
This is why I am very hesitative to accept a job in the "blockchain area", and I am still not convinced that I should.

Every single time I asked the question "how do you guys make your money?" it has been evaded ("we work in the finance area", thanks, that explains everything!) or has been paraphrased into "is my job secure?" which was then answered positively. I mean yes, my main motivation to ask is indeed about if my job is secure for at least a year -- in an area where people secure investor money by promising basically thin air, but I am also asking the question to gain an understanding of the company's business culture. And I haven't got the slightest idea of that after 7 interviews in the last 5 months.

I simply cannot wrap my head around this mass halucination. How are investors even agreeing with giving several million bucks to an enthusiastic young person with zero business planning? And zero ideas how will they repay the investment? The pitchers (future CEOs) are just like "we are totally gonna revolutionize area X with blockchain!" and then money starts rolling in.

I am sure I am over-simplifying but still, can somebody explain this process to me? I am still baffled to this day.
Having used Minizinc for a few years now, it's a great tool.

Minizinc makes it easy to spell out a problem, try different ways to formulate the same constraint, and run the same model on some external data through lots of different solvers to see which one works best. It comes with an enormous constraint catalogue adapted to each solver.

Whether you then use PuLP, OR-tools, JuMP etc. (or even Minizinc itself) for the actual implementation is up to you; but I've found that it is hard to beat when I am at the prototyping stage.
Try calling the cops about a 51% attack on your Einsteinium and see what happens lol.
You're right that he had too much money. After reading this, my sympathy is tempered.

https://www.amazon.com/Never-Caught-Washingtons-Relentless-P...

Washington had hundreds of slaves, yet he sent his family and political allies repeatedly against the single escapee, Ona Judge in Portsmouth, NH. The governor of New Hampshire surely regretted his involvement of his daughter. That was quite a story.

It bothers me about him. I think of the three-fifths compromise (which most people around me are astonished to grasp), and the lives of the founders make me cringe.
We used to play this at work with weekly turns. There was a lot of scheming throughout the week leading up to each turn day. I even learned the OS/2 display list (retained graphics api, forget the name) to make an interactive Diplomacy game reference map that lived on the LAN. Good times. Don't recall any friendships being ended.
Well, the US also has the House of Representatives where representation is proportional.

A bicameral congress most certainly does not disqualify the entire system from being considered a democracy.
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Most brilliant. These people can conjuring up a fancy spy story while having no idea how a chip is made at all. And is very amusing to see mass acceptance.
The experiences of individuals playing this remind me of when we got first an 8 man and then a 16 or 24 man game or something and it was quite an experience. The two weeks we played this at work were probably hundreds of thousands of dollars in productivity lost.
ARM did something similar with Java before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle

I would not be surprised if they come up with a way of directly executing WASM or such. (And then the possibilities for security exploits become a lot more interesting...)
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It reminds me of Genoa on newsroom. I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen the show, and highly recommend watching it if you haven't. You don't even have to be into the news or politics, I haven't watched the news or read a newspaper in over 5 years and I very much enjoyed the show.
There are definitely some services that can be self contained and if it is a legacy codebase, modernized in an isolated way.
I understand that, in fact probably uniquely to people on this thread I've been on a rotor sail boat (not sailing though, in dock).

They do work when the ratio of the sail area to the boat is appropriate. In the case of the one I went on it was a very efficient hull too - very light weight catamaran.

The ships in the article you link have huge sails on reasonably small ships. The ones suggested by Norsepower are absolutely tiny compared to the ship. They are, like i've said, about the same cross sectional area of a small pleasure sailing yacht on huge container ships.
Thinking about micro-services as a scaling solution is only ever looked at from the orchestration perspective for some reason. Most of the lessons there can be applied to scale your code as well so that you can spin parts of it off with ease. This also has the benefit of giving you a cleaner & more maintainable code-base so there is still a gain even if you never spin anything off, which could be argued was the problem in the first place.

This is perhaps the best bang for your buck until you actually know what the bottlenecks are as it otherwise becomes a brute-force approach to "scale everything individually". Unfortunately "our code is ready to scale" doesn't quite sound as cool as "we run a thousand micro-services".
How?

Why do I need an https connection to read a newspaper?
Yihui is admirable, prolific as heck. I love seeing what he will do next.
Imagine somebody interested in war starts realistically faking radar etc. signatures, perhaps supported by tiny planted chips in army infrastructure. Could be fun.
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I try not to get too deep into these kinds of discussions, so I'll just say that first, I'm pretty happy with a fairly large system written in Clojure and ClojureScript. Second, given Clojure's expressiveness, I find it difficult to imagine a system with a million lines of code.
I think there are two types of folks. In one camp you have those that retire early because they are wealthy and buy an RV to travel. On the other hand there is a segment that is normal folks who are sick of the rat race or got laid off and have enough money to retire if they live extremely frugally and living in an RV is a way to save money and forgo the expense of a house.

I imagine this Amazon thing is attractive to the latter type of situation.
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No I don't, my calculations at this stage are as follows:

Sail area - same as my 10 ton boat. Gets me to 7kts in a good strong wind.

Boat they intend to install it on: 110000 tons!

My point is that for this to have any impact at all, a massive amount of energy has to be extracted from the wind. An amount of energy that just doesn't exist in the volume of moving air they are talking about.

I'm still baffled by this.
A helpful reminder might be that while AI is chugging along, a lot of new research has emerged in the computer-brain communication interface field. With successful transmission of visual signals from another person participating in the link and thought speech.

Guess what powers the signal processing that makes that possible?

Machine learning. That can alter your brain's functional integrity and capcity for rational thought.

The last defense. The organ than makes us laugh, cry, worry, think etc. could potentially be at risk for a stray elecromagnetically driven pulse that..

There are more potential issues than people thinking about them.

I dunno. Seems kinda like useless tech for any end user purposes, but a really clutch play for the scheming evil robot team.
Ideological flamewar is tedious and off topic here. An open internet forum will never have anything new or interesting to say about any of this; it will simply reset Groundhog Flamewar Day. Therefore, please don't do this on HN.

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I have said these EXACT words, my good friend!

Short answer:

- Corporate inertia + familiarity + fear

Very long answer (rant warning):

- The XLS was used by multiple teams, from multiple sites, from multiple projects. It drove project-level decision making at the VP level. The person who wrote it was a genius, but there was no documentation or commenting, and over the decade after he left, it bloated Akira-style: many grubby hands had perverted it beyond its original use.

[Imagine if someone had written the most beautiful C++ & Boost (or C & GLib) numerical methods code, and then some boner noob came along and inserted their own bubblesort because they didn't understand Boost ... yeah, that kind of perversion.]

But because it was so important, and fed so many OTHER spreadsheets, it remains like a brain tumor pressing up against a spot so vital it could not be removed. I did a partial conversion to JavaScript and a MongoDB, but that was roundly shat upon because the main users weren't programmers and refused.

This is how very large companies work. (Most of the time.)
I think this is where editors would come in who (presumably) don't have the same incentives.
A lot of disagreement and talking past each other in this thread.

One unacknowledged facet: Code with different purposes requires different levels of commenting. If you're (say) implementing a UI, you can often avoid commenting through good naming: `saveDocumentButtonClicked()`. But if you are implementing the C++11 spec, you should provide liberal references to that spec in the comments.

Comments become more important as the code becomes more forced and less natural.
I don't think we can consider Google's $1500 "explorer edition" Glass as a consumer product.
Most US "elite" female athletes are just Title IX beneficiaries, who otherwise would not be in sport at all:
http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/inclusion/title-ix-frequ...

So for most female athletes, like the cyclist in the article, to expect a paid career in sports after college is unrealistic, as they were subsidized by government mandate in the first place.

However, there is a market for sports-related models like Danica Patrick and the US women's Olympic soccer team where their athletic performance is really an after-thought. (Danica lost her ride recently because she couldn't win.)
I'm at MIT and there are definitely people in other groups on campus that like to shit on the Media Lab for this reason. I think this actually raises an interesting question. If you want to position yourself at the intersection of science and art, what's the correct balance of practicality, rigor, and imagination?

The stereotypical person from the "hard science" communities will never totally buy into this kind of work being science. It's not exact, it's not rigorous. On the other hand, artists and designers more often inhabit this speculative, rapidly-prototyped, thought experiment-esque mode of creation and take it as a valid form of inquiry.

Personally, I love it. It's not hard science or hard engineering in the same way that someone in EECS or biology might treat those fields, but it's a wonderful way to root artistic exploration in current scientific technique.

Is that the right balance between the two? Is there a point along the spectrum where you need to stop calling yourself a scientist and start calling yourself an artist? I think that's an open question.
why wouldn't it be? they're not paying to move a particular direction, so it's not like they're pumping and dumping or shorting.