skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not the first to make the link: https://www.somarecords.com/

Here in the UK in the 90s the Govt tried really quite hard to shut down "raves": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Justice_and_Public_Or...

Glasgow lost its legendary Arches venue very recently, arguably the single best clubbing venue in Scotland, due specifically to these kinds of concerns.

I think a certain amount of "youthful exuberance" is indeed tolerated - but go too far and Thou Shalt Often Be Shut Down.
is it going to reset my file associations again?
Look at it as a factor of size.

Google MUST be worried for Apple. Because them are figthing for big amount of users.

But when you are solo, or a small team, and your goal/real chance is have a small number of customers, what other do is close to irrelevant.

You will find a lot of competition and your idea will be already in the open for long time. But that is not important. As long you care for your small(ish) customer base you will be ok.

Is like sell hamburgers in the street. The street seller not need to worry at all with Mc-Donald. IF have a tasty product and can provide a better service, it will be ok
By "second layer" do you mean lightning? Is that project off the ground yet? It's been a while since I paid attention.
Can you tell me which day that was and whether there was a way to tell in advance? I'm going to DEVCON4 and would like to avoid that.
Google’s ‘Good Censor’ Document: The End of Free Speech as We Know It?
Long-term effects of marijuana use on the brain (2014)
It's We Really Don't Know How To Compute! by Gerald Jay Sussman
> Could you tone it down a bit?

So, a decorum "argument"... Every last thing I said was true.

I'm putting the Snap maintainers in the same bin as Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. They want to idiot-ify the user experience with "We know better than you" style of rules and degrade MY ownership.

For that, yes, I will show anger. Even if this is -1'ed and buried, I'm sure one or more of the maintainers saw it.
Sears stores have become really depressing places. There's very few workers and very few customers, and the workers have no energy or enthusiasm. There's no life in the place. So if a mall has a Sears as the one anchor store, the mall is already in trouble, because Sears isn't pulling its weight as an anchor store.
Based on all of that, you shouldn't be doing business with the USA either.
I have found over and over and over that when I read "memos" or "screeds" or whathaveyou coming from the tech industry I inevitably find that a huge portion of the media is pushing a narrative that is so uniform and so disjoint from the actual content I have a hard time imagining how it wasn't coordinated journo-pros-style.
> Well, yes: if you leave enough crime by the well-connected alone for long enough, in a country with poor election integrity and unlimited campaign finance spending, then you get a country run by gangsters.

No, if being well-connected means your crime gets left alone, you have a country run by, and for, gangsters. That's the initial condition, not
the long term result if the situation continues.

If you do it long enough, people notice that the country is being run by and for gangsters.
I'm conflicted on this. On one hand, academic donations are always great. On the other hand, Stephen Schwarzman has a record of giving large donations in exchange for naming rights. He gave $150 million to Yale to renovate the main campus center, called "Commons," into the "Schwarzman Center." He gave $25 million to his high school in exchange for naming rights bordering on autocracy, including having his portrait appear "prominently" throughout the school. These conditions were scaled back after they were made public, previously kept private as a condition of the donation. (source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/answer-sheet/wp/...) He made a scholarship program called the "Schwarzman Scholars" modeled after the Rhodes. Now, MIT.

Look, don't get me wrong. I think donations to academic institutions are fantastic and he should be lauded for his generous giving. However I think it is worthwhile as a society for us to inspect these kind of actions a bit more critically. In my view, Schwarzman, who has no prior record of public interest, giving, or service prior to the last 10 years, is embarking on an aggressive campaign to formulate a positive legacy of his name with his money before he dies. It is artificial, transparent, and revisionist. 100 years from now, people won't remember Schwarzman for being a Trump supporter/friend/advisor and a wealthy Republican. As he has made certain with these donations, Schwarzman will be remembered as a benevolent philanthropist.

He has done an extremely clever thing. Even I can't deny that he has done a wonderful thing by giving away so much money. So who can justifiably criticize the intent behind his actions? No one, really.

To me, Schwarzman's donations reveal just how much of culture and history is straight up bought and paid for. If you have enough money, no matter how you actually live your life and what you do, you can just pay the right people or institutions, and you will be forever remembered as a good person. Remember that.
>>People want to be become machine learning engineers because it's the ... thing right now, but they don't want to learn the necessary statistics/linear algebra/optimization necessary for the roles.

Most people who will do these jobs, will stitch libraries into producing an application, like every other programming job. They will need passing knowledge of things, but only make things work.

This is for the same reasons why anyone build an web app is not writing their own TCP/IP stack and their own operating system.

As a matter of fact I wouldn't be surprised, If most people who are claiming to do AI are just writing SQL queries to get Averages and means.

In the hey days of Big data craze, people were using Hadoop and Pig to deal with files a few kilobytes in size, and calling it 'Big Data'.
It's actually quite common to do that... Yes, the game usually does more then just "send commands and display graphics", it's doing a lot of the stuff the server is in parallel, which is called client side prediction, but the server is still authoritative, and doesn't care what the client thought actually happened, what it says goes.
I saw a couple of comments today about the price of USDT so I think it's worth while explaining how it works just in case anyone is interested in knowing more.

USDT is a pegged-currency. It's often described as a stablecoin but that's not correct because it doesn't have an inbuilt stabilisation mechanism unlike Maker's DAI for instance.

The way it works is purely based on well known legal mechanisms that have no cryptoeconomic properties on its own. The issuer holds a USD balance at a bank, then commissions a receipt that proves their balance and issues an equal number of USDT. 1 USD = 1 USDT at issuance time and the trustworthiness of both the issuer, the auditor and banks involved.

The token itself is used to facilitate trading and many investors 'park' their gains in USDT while waiting for the market to reach a certain point or just in between trades, but that means that the token's FX value is set by the open market itself so if there are more buy orders than available USDT the price goes up and if there are more sell orders than demand the price goes down. Where this gets interesting is that some exchanges list assets based on the USDT fx and not USD which opens some arbitrage opportunities like we are seeing today.

For more info:

https://github.com/jpantunes/awesome-cryptoeconomics#stablec...

https://stablecoinindex.com/
Given the cozy relationship between the Chinese government and Chinese telecoms, it's probably best to avoid any Chinese made electronics for infrastructure, if possible. Chinese military agents are even implicated in attacks on Western companies to help their own corporations.

The scale at which companies work with the government and how the government funds companies makes it very hard to trust any Chinese company.
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Ask HN: Why Hacker News readers are so against cryptocurrencies?
I noted strong tendency that majority of Hacker News readers hate cryptocurrencies.
Every single time I touched this topic as a supporter of crypto I've got very swiftly downvoted.

But today, I've got it too much. I've posted a comment which was very quickly downvoted and then flagged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18218901

In this comment, I gave a link to interview hosted by YCombinator:

https://blog.ycombinator.com/blockchain-investing-with-olaf-carlson-wee-and-aaron-harris/

In this interview Olaf Carlson-Wee, a founder of Polychain Capital, discussed MakerDAO, a decentralized stablecoin.
I mentioned MakerDAO in context of controversy aroung Tether.
Namely, I suggested that decentralized stablecoin could be alternative.

I've not just mentioned that I feel very enthusiastic about decentralized stablecoins.
I also mentioned concerns about their viability.
For example, British Pound crash during Black Wednesday of 1992.

Hacker News readers implicitly told me today - you are scammer and you advertise yet another pump-and-dump scheme.

In other comments I suggested that ICOs are not always scam. A good example is Tezos.
A perfectly valid project with good intentions despite all legal controversy around it.
It was also mentioned in interview with Olaf.

It should be still possible to protect retail investors from scammers without barring them from such early-stage investments.
One of my ideas was to have some government approved platform where projects should pass some due diligence before fundraising.

I've got swiftly downvoted every time I mentioned that.

I'm aware that we are currently in a big cryptocurrency bubble.
There are lots of questionable projects and outright scam.
I would say that 90% of cryptocurrencies and ICOs are junk.

If most of HN readers share views of Roubini who call cryptocurrencies as "Mother of All Scams", then I'm out of HN.
> AI simply isn't a field that's deep or broad enough to warrant an entire college with a handful of distinct majors, like an engineering college or medical school.

The current field of AI might not yet be as broad or deep as the fields you mentioned.

The science and engineering of intelligence, however, holds potentials to be even deeper and more impactful than those fields. Intelligence underlies most human endeavors. Civilization itself would not be possible without it. It is the greatest distinction between us and other animals.
Bitcoin and similars are the biggest waste of computing power and energy in the history of the planet. It will be nice for the environment when this is all over.
That's the truth. I had a thing come up the other day where a client wasn't including a content type header and thus the body was being interpreted as application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Rack middleware to the rescue on that one.
Bing is already operational in China. This headline is clickbait - these rules apply to all online media companies, domestic and foreign. Google's current rounds in the news cycle landed it in the headline - nothing more specific.
There isn't a UNIX way for grabbing the kernel stack trace.
My initial thought was that this was how the developers were overcoming the potential for network problems. But in that case it would have been a mere cache, so agreed on that it's bad design.
US isn’t doing anything like what China is doing with the Uyghurs.
AI isn't a method, it's a field of trying to solve problems through an almost pure computational mean. People tend to think of it as machine learning, but there's a whole range of mathematics and computer science related to solving these kinds of problems. In this sense, PDE-constrained optimal control of power grids, parameter estimation of pharmacometric models, robotics and automation, and bioinformatic advances like automated cell detection for enhanced next-generation sequencing techniques can easily fit under an AI umbrella. That makes it a huge interdisciplinary effort that can easily span a whole college, and something MIT is very well primed to succeed in.
Rogue Bit – hack the CPU, escape the computer
> Do we know it was BTC that was purchased?

Yes. You can monitor the price and volume charts of BTC after a wild tether appears. For example: http://www.tetherreport.com
I could just buy a Moto E for $99 on Amazon and swap out my SIM card, and oh look it works with carriers other than just Verizon:

https://www.amazon.com/Moto-4th-Generation-Unlocked-T-Mobile...
Yes. E.g. did you find a whiteboard facing an open window? Did leave a confidential document sitting on their desk? Did someone forget to close the filing cabinet to sensitive documents? Has anyone ever been able to access confidential information at your company without permission?

Of course we can pick and choose analogies (hint: we'll never get it right, but that's what happens when comparisons are asked for). But if we're asking for disclosures for security holes that could lead (or have lead) to unauthorized access, I expect to see a seemingly interminable list.
I think that if it learns, it must have loss functions. We just don't know how they are implemented. If we did, we could replicate the brain priors. They are probably distributed, unlike ML loss functions which distill everything to a single number.
How is that an argument?

You can plant tree, reduce plastics production AND switch to EV. For some reason, every time the case for the electrification of transport is presented, other legitimate, complementary causes are put forward as opposable. As if reducing emissions was a zero-sum game…
I live in the Netherlands and I can confirm that. In just a couple of decades they transformed all their car friendly cities and made cars second rate citizens

Cycling infrastructure is amazing. It is almost always faster to travel by bike than by car.

They did it so long ago and the world still hasn’t caught up. I’m very sad about that.

Also somehow the amount of cars per capita is still very high in NL.
Selective voter suppression and exclusion, which the US has had in a significant way for centuries, mitigated somewhat for a time by the voting rights act before it was gutted, is a pretty enormous issue with the integrity of democratic elections.

The idea that the US doesn't have election integrity issues is simply false.
It's generally simpler to do everything server side then it is to try to keep x clients synchronized in their simulations of everything (physics, random number generation, multiple players all contributing movement and such)
...and the main reason why Trump won.

Too bad it doesn’t seem like we’ve made much progress on PC culture ridiculousness since then.
>It is expected that the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), and the MIT Quest for Intelligence will all become part of the new College; other units may join the College.

http://news.mit.edu/2018/faq-mit-stephen-schwarzman-college-...
I guess you could say that Bitcoin is pseudonominally Japanese.
Doesn't that dying-place-pulling-every-trick thing describe Groupon's arc itself?

I think of Groupon itself as one big pump-and-dump. I don't see that there was ever a long term for it, not outside of a niche business. Promotional coupons are not exactly a new idea. If Groupon had stayed small and figured out a way to bring businesses new customers that stuck around, it might have had a future.

But they used the power of the internet in exactly the wrong way. The internet can get you instant volume by getting many people to act in concert. But limited-capacity local businesses don't want a flash mob; it's a bad experience for all concerned. And the internet can collect niche audiences and really serve them. But Groupon's best niche audience is cheapskates who are super focused on going from great deal to great deal. Carefully managed this might have been a decent small business, but I don't think it could ever have been a large one.

And I think they must have known they were fucked from the start. When they IPOed, 86% of the money raised, over $800m, went into the pockets of insiders.
> Assad's regime is built on ideas from Nazism and Stalinism

I understood that this regime had taken more of its idea from Pan-Arabism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Arabism
Oh totally! I mean it as a way of sorting out why. Like, it would bother me more if I had to write it more, so maybe it’s that styles are different or some libraries require it more often? byteorder is one of those crates, it’s true, and I don’t use it super often. So this is helpful!
>Max efficiency at urban speeds.

If by "max efficiency" you mean "less terrible than just wasting that energy" then sure but it's still a lot less efficient than a highway cruise.
Would you mind be slightly more specific about the "bullshit" in the talk you linked to? In particular, that talk is emphatically not "peddling node.js to the masses", but rather explaining why we are moving away from node.js (and attempting to do so in a way that is thoughtful and reflective rather than reactionary and dismissive).
I know Mars at least has several ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mars_orbiters
> As a Canadian citizen, I urge Canada to snub Huawei too.

I'm not a fan of Huawei, but I am a fan of retaining our sovereignty. If the US wants the privilege of suggesting how we should run our country, then perhaps they should work on their end to repair the bilateral relationship. Currently, my vote is to tell them "Mind your own damned business."
Is there even any reason the world needs more than 1 cryptocurrency? I know there are dozens (hundreds?), but they all effectively do the same thing, right? Allow decentralized currency that can be used for legal and illegal transactions.
Fair enough.

When I hear "Ancient Greece" I generally think of Greece through the Hellenistic period. Though now that I've said that, Lucian would have lived through the Roman annexation of Greece.

Really, my point was Lucian lived at the more recent end of antiquity. Humanity's knowledge of the world around them was quite a bit different then than 500 years prior.
The solution to pollution is dilution!
MIT was one of the earliest leaders in sharing course material online for free.

I wish they would take that $1 billion & invest it in modernizing online education. If you want to be a leader in AI, I argue you should open your doors to as many applicants as possible from all over the world at an affordable price. Discover a better way to improve collaboration & online learning. EdX & Coursera are nice but they seem to be halfhearted attempts. UNC's online MBA requires video conferencing for discussion & is much more engaging.

I guess $1 billion of server infrastructure & employees doesn't look as pretty though.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is still in operation, as are ARTEMIS P1 and P2.

There are several spacecraft orbiting other planets (both functional and inactive) but none orbiting any of the moons of other planets, if that is what you mean.
>If you think the US is erratic, check out how China bullies its neighbours and always seeks to control the infrastructure of the countries that supply it with raw materials it needs.

I see you've ignored nearly the entire Middle East and what the USA has done almost everywhere in the world throughout its history.
Consider embedded software.

In fact, as others have said, hardware accelerators plus the software to drive them could be the golden ticket.
No no no no no, tovarisch. When government is do, is repressive violence oppression. When we is do, is "nonviolent direct action".

Ok, dropping the affected text-accent, I've definitely been in the room when people talk about how there'll be a black bloc coming to an event for "direct action", where we all know damn well that black blocs come to, you know, break stuff and beat up cops and fascists.

That said, I wish that the cops, the state, and opposition parties would all stop pretending that their violence isn't violence, because we all know it is, and just spend the rhetorical effort on justifying what they're choosing to do anyway.
> How much more clearly can you out yourself as biased garbage?

Are you really surprised, or are you just pretending to be?

This is par for the course for every major journalism outfit - from Fox to MSNBC down to NPR and PBS. There isn't a single major outlet, irrespective of funding model or platform, that isn't blatantly biased.
>non-inflated currency

>bitcoin

Pick one.
I've been a long-time user of Sinatra as well as Rails. About 8 years ago or so I decided to move all of my sites onto Sinatra and made a simple file-backed CMS that has scaled quite well over the years.

The drawbacks of the approach have been having to write a lot of methods and classes from scratch to handle certain processing data (there is no actual database) but the end result has been something quite bulletproof and scalable to a point, and the experience implementing those features (like TLS, sessions, helpers, etc) has been quite valuable.

However, my needs are starting to grow and I think soon we will have to move off of the old framework onto something new as our business requirements grow more complex.
Golang – handling errors gracefully
> approximating or beating human thought

It must be noted, though, that "approximating human thought" is just one direction of investigation - and not the most important one at that; as interesting as it may be, it makes almost as much sense as trying to have computers resemble human brains. In other words, the true AI, when it arrives, will not think like us humans (even if at some level it might pretend that it does).

> ethical

The AI will be just as "ethical" as a computer or an assault rifle.
Is there any duty of care for the vending machine software vendor towards the owners of the vending machines? Are they not playing the role of a virtual clerk that allows shoplifters to walk out of the store unchallenged whenever they yell out "It's okay; I've already paid for this!"?

It's worth stealing a $1 coffee to expose the extreme negligence behind the virtual clerk software. The software is essentially turning the vending machine into an honor box, and presumably the owner of the machine actually wanted proof of payment before vending anything, or they wouldn't have bought the machine. They could have put up a mains-powered samovar with a coin box bolted to it and a sign reading "1 euro per coffee. Call (+39) 355 5555555 to report problems."

It's not even clear to me who is being stolen from. How does Argenta determine how much they are to pay the machine owner? How do they determine how much to pay the machine servicer? If Argenta pays for the coffee, and the owners and servicers are unharmed, potential theft of coffee becomes an incentive to repair their software. Otherwise, you'd just be screwing some vending machine operator whose only failing was to trust Argenta over a dumb(er) coin and note validator.
Quite the claim.

Obviously you haven't heard of the NSA or the US Military.
Note that this isn't about kicking Huawei out of the existing network deployments (2G where it still exists, 3G & 4G/LTE). This is about not letting Huawei compete for 5G network infrastructure bids.

I understand the national security concerns, but it should be noted that real incremental costs will be incurred if Canada agrees, especially for Canadian carriers who already have Huawei RAN[1], Packet Core[2] or GiLAN[3] (or worse, an entirely E2E bundled deal) infrastructure in place servicing their current needs.

Huawei almost always has the lowest RFP bid prices, and through a combination of factors generally ends up on most RFx vendor short-lists. Their success is undeniable, and scares many.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_access_network

[2] http://www.3gpp.org/technologies/keywords-acronyms/100-the-e...

[3] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/reference_arch...