skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really value the GDPR for getting companies to see stored data as a potential risk rather than just something which can potentially be sold later.
This article is shortsighted to me. Is it the end of mobile apps? No of course not, webapps are gaining features of native apps and will run more like a native app. The real difference will be the app delivery method. Is it the web or an App Store. An App is an App, if it’s written in Dart, Js, Swift, and C++ it doesn’t matter it’s still an app experience. That experience is fundamentally better than the web page and still has all the downsides of an app also. How we deliver the app experience may change but I don’t think it will. Is there are difference for th emend user if they have 100+ shortcuts vs 100+ apps from the App Store? What we are seeing is a competive market where you have to offer real value to attract users. No much different than the current indie game market. It’s completely overwhelmed with numbers of options and users are sticking with the top level of apps/games. Maybe the delivery of apps changes but honestly I doubt that as discovery is much better in the App Store.
I don't know if there's a concrete treshold for that, or rather some combination of field and exposure in the spotlight some standard deviations above some "scale" of skill.
> Gödel's entire point was that this formulation was rigorous and could not be escaped by a mere change of (syntactic or semantic) venue.

Well that's not true, because there exist logics that are both consistent and complete, they simply don't have the expressive power of full arithmetic. This is a syntactic or semantic change, depending on how you frame it.
I don't know that book, but it's wrong on childcare being less affordable.

Atleast in Denmark and Sweden child care is heavily subsidized, to the point of being free for very low income parents (in dk). So there is no way it can make economic sense for mothers not to work. And stay at home moms (for more than 1-2 years) is rare compared to the USA.
Any experiences with stem cell treatments for nerve injuries?
I have to think that bitcoin etc are far worse offenders.

And it seems that server usage consumes around 1% of the USA energy budget. Heating, industry and transportation are most of that list. Not sure apps are going to show up.
I don’t think he mentioned it, but the easy way for Apple to grow to a $2T company is to get my household, a typical locked-in Apple household with an iPad or iPhone for every person and a computer for each adult and an AppleTV at every TV, to start paying for ever more services through those Apple devices. TV service. Ubiquitous internet service. Financial services like payments but grow into banking. manage all my regularly scheduled bills like utilities, rent or mortgages. I would love for a trusted intermediary to handle these things.

I was recently taken aback by the amount of money I was paying for high-quality subscriptions “oh my god, I’ve paid $20/month for the last 12 months to subscribe to high quality streaming to Phish concerts via their app?!?” I signed up for it thinking I would only do it for a month. I forgot. I spent $240 on Phish audio, more than I spent on my Apple Watch. Apple’s real social network could be just getting started. Imagine if those “luxury” expenses were intermixed with a dozen other large, more legitimate bills? Apple could be processing $1000s a month per household, taking a hefty fee from some of them. And then launch a loyalty program :).

If I had to guess, I’d say this comment resembles Buffet’s view of Apple’s opportunity.
it's a redirection of the natural human characteristic of competitive behaviour and climbing hierarchies. Keeping challengers down and attempting to elevate ourselves in whatever hierarchy we find ourselves in is about as human as it gets, sadly.
source of caub/nginx-dev: https://github.com/caub/docker-images/tree/master/nginx-dev
> Chances are, if you take away the manufacturer’s pre-installed apps that you can’t delete, you have, at most, 100 apps.

I don't see how this can be the first point in arguing that the end of mobile apps is near. Imagine saying, "The end of desktop apps are near, people will only put up with 100 third-party apps on their computers these days!"
I just went back and read Damore's memo, and that idea does not appear anywhere in it.

I'm curious how you tortured that out of his words.
So. Much. Bullshit.

Colleges want students that would pay the most money which is why they are heavily recruiting out of state and international students -- out of state paying out of state fees but potentially qualifying for some scholarships while international students paying a total rack rate for tuition + housing + meal plan with no scholarships.

The rest is sprinkles.
Package management is a task filled with subtle pitfalls that is much, much harder than it looks on the surface.

It's a lot like syncing files - e.g. how Dropbox looked similarly deceptively easy to build but really wasnt.

IMHO the fact that the homebrew guy didn't get hired and that golang package management was a dumpster fire for years isn't coincidental. Both were part and parcel of a systemic bias that plagues Google's culture that they're blissfully unaware of.
The problem is off topic questions, especially for more senior developers who have specialized extensively. For example, I haven’t used or seen used dynamic programming since college because my area doesn’t really use it. If I didn’t cram in interview prep for these questions, I’d be toast.
I agree, but how do you trigger the "save password" dialog of the browser built-in password manager, when using a generated random password?

Edit: Answering to myself, maybe by generating the random password client-side, with JavaScript, and making the HTML input field non-editable. I've not tested it.
Thanks for the input. I agree.

In the near term, we thought it would be helpful to let people make predictions for free without registering.

If they want to track the predictions against the actuals we could send them an email or a text when the actuals are available. Over time we would be able to provide performance metrics. This would take the work out of it for them. They could choose to register/pay when they recognize value.

You could make unlimited predictions, but if you want notifications and metrics, it would be limited to 3 stocks. A paid account would get more, not unlimited, but enough to emulate a portfolio.

Would that appeal to you and allow you to make a decision?
I think this is a hair-splitting distinction and it does not work reliably. Sorry. Things that truly "cannot" happen => you do not know how to recover => you terminate the program. That's it.
I disagree. We should look at people who got the bad deal directly (for example, are poor), not put them into some group. The latter is indirect and just more misleading. It is buying into a chauvinist narrative and strengthening it.

"I think we'd all like to live in that utopia where nobody gets a bad deal in society"

This is objectively not true. Many people don't care about other people getting bad deal.
Hm. Or paid for by those that happen to have interest on accounts, and do nothing for it.

Anyway, we decide on civil rights because we're a just society, not out of some column on a financial ledger. They should be separate issues.
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Do you want questions in this thread? Or will you go comment on some of the other comments?

There seem to be a number of things you could reply to.

Cool idea.
On the contrary, other operating systems simply call it other names, such as "Windows" or "Super". It's all the one key to the USB HID protocol.
>Hustle is public. And in the ad industry, publicity matters.

There's your reasoning right there.

I've drank a bit of kool-aid myself. It feels normal now to overlay a level of 'hustling advertising' because that's what the business culture does and you don't want to be the one guy in a client meeting who looks pained to be there.

Another way of thinking about it: would you learn to do a little dancing for a good salary + benefits?

It quickly becomes second-nature to at least be engaged in the hustling adverts and culture meetings. The real trap (which is toxic) is feeling like hustling is a competition and a second job.

This stuff can push introverts to the sidelines though, and that can make their real world suffer if they feel isolated because they don't participate as much.
A hustler hustles, but one who hustles isn't always a hustler.
this seems accurate to me, although I would phrase it as competition rather than abundance. When everyone has the same product on offer, differentiation comes from how you position that product in the market. This trainer is for aspiring marathon runners, this one is for aspiring basketball players. The reality is the difference between the two is minimal and they're both just trying to focus on selling to the subset of people with a particular self-image.
How do you see the influence of the Heideggerian critique of cognitivism, via Hubert Dreyfus, on the "Heideggerian AI" movement which preceded the shift away from classical symbolic AI towards connectionism and embodied learning?

Here's from the introduction to his paper Why Heideggerian AI failed and how fixing it would require making it more Heideggerian:

> When I was teaching at MIT in the early sixties, students from the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory would come to my Heidegger course and say in effect: “You philosophers have been reflecting in your armchairs for over 2000 years and you still don’t understand how the mind works. We in the AI Lab have taken over and are succeeding where you philosophers have failed. We are now programming computers to exhibit human intelligence: to solve problems, to understand natural language, to perceive, and to learn.” In 1968 Marvin Minsky, head of the AI lab, proclaimed: “Within a generation we will have intelligent computers like HAL in the film, 2001.”

> [...] As I studied the RAND papers and memos, I found to my surprise that, far from replacing philosophy, the pioneers in CS had learned a lot, directly and indirectly from the philosophers. They had taken over Hobbes’ claim that reasoning was calculating, Descartes’ mental representations, Leibniz’s idea of a “universal characteristic” – a set of primitives in which all knowledge could be expressed, — Kant’s claim that concepts were rules, Frege’s formalization of such rules, and Russell’s postulation of logical atoms as the building blocks of reality. In short, without realizing it, AI researchers were hard at work turning rationalist philosophy into a research program.

Dreyfus agrees with you, in a way, although where you criticize philosophers doing AI, he criticizes the philosophical prejudices of AI practitioners, who often hold beliefs derived from Cartesian views on the mind. He especially criticized the grand claims of early AI researchers, but I think the criticism is still easily applicable.

Here, for example, from his book Being-in-the-world:

> Having to program computers keeps one honest. There is no room for the armchair rationalist's speculations. Thus AI research has called the Cartesian cognitivist's bluff. It is easy to say that to account for the equipmental nexus one need simply add more and more function predicates and rules describing what is to be done in typical situations, but actual difficulties in AI—its inability to make progress with what is called the commonsense knowledge problem, on the one hand, and its inability to define the current situation, sometimes called the frame problem, on the other—suggest that Heidegger is right. It looks like one cannot build up the phenomenon of world out of meaningless elements.
Yeah, but that's getting to the very crux of communication: trust. If you're not sharing information it's pointless to call whatever it is 'social'. Anonymity is the form of least trust and you could argue the highest form of honesty. There's a very thick veil of soap scum on the Facebook ecosystem. Only the dumbest of the very tech illiterate are themselves.
Why would 50/50 gender parity across all industries ever be a desirable goal? Coal mining is male dominated -- should we push more women into becoming coal miners?
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I was active on The Cartographer's Guild[1] forum for quite some time as well. They had a huge amount of tutorial content for those looking to get started.

[1]: https://www.cartographersguild.com/
Kudos to Iceland.

But even if the entire world recognizes it I don't think the current Israeli government would ever consider implementing the 1967 borders.
I think all of this is generally a step in the right direction but am worried about where it is leading, for two reasons:

1. My experience with the frontiers of open access science in my field have been concerning, in that it seems to feed even more off of the social media hype-TED-talk branch of academics that I see as just as much a problem. That is, with traditional closed publishing, you have lack of access to the public and lack of transparency which seems unacceptable, but with very open access platform things can turn into a petty social media popularity contest. Yes, you get your stuff out, but the dynamics can be very different and feel more like a glorified flamewar ala reddit or old-style USENET groups.

Related to this, I think the way peer review plays out in different fields is very different. So, arXiv stuff might seem normal in comp sci, math, stats, but if you ever want to see uptake of that in an applied field, it had better have a rubber stamp of peer review or no one will touch it.

2. Unfortunately, at many universities, at least in the US and the UK, the pressure and nonsense has moved (increased?) from publishing from prestigious journals into grants. That is, the power structures underlying this all are indirect costs (in the US) subsidizing universities. The problems with this are problems in the way grant monies are allocated and awarded, the kind of "slush fund" quality of the indirect costs that afford universities profits, and the vast inequities across disciplines and topic areas in terms of what requires funding and what is popular at any given time (some research, for example, just requires less money to conduct; this should be a good thing for research funding, but is a bad thing from the university perspective because there's less indirect money to siphon off of).

The reason why I bring this up here is because I think the publishing problem and grant problem are kind of linked, but in a way that makes the open access issue kind of missing the target in terms of where the big problems with academics currently are. I worry, for example, that if you move to a model where everyone just publishes whatever anywhere, it turns academics into a giant flamewar, decreases the value of good research per se even more relative to grant receipts (because it's all fuzzy anyway and everyone can post anything to arXiv), etc.

I definitely think academic publishing needs to become totally open. But my current sense is that there isn't a good infrastructure to replace it in many fields, especially the biomedical fields, and pathologies in those areas will just sort of rip what's left of its integrity apart.
Kids don't struggle and fail? I think we all know who's who on the Grit scale, by the time they reach college.
lets see how do we put a legal corporation in jail? anyone have the answer to this that our congress people lack?
I’m seriously amazed at how abusive Howard is. I went back to your other post [1] and read his replies, and can’t believe how consistent his attitude is. He seems unreasonable. It was nice to see your patient, level-headed reply.

[1] https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/06/how-i-became-leonardo-da-vi...
It’s almost as if interviewers need to be tested as well. An interviewing contest where a faux candidate rates interviewers and suggests area for improvement.

Of course, that would be rediculously expensive, so at best some canned training is used instead. Still, it might make sense for higher value teams.
I think you pretty fairly describe the current landscape of this debate, which is unusual in itself. Kudos!

> Part of the dispute is over whether such a definition of "free will" matches people's everyday pre-philosophical usage, and also whether it works for the purposes of other disciplines in which the concept of "free will" might be invoked, such as ethics or law.

Fortunately, this is an empirical question that has been explored by experimental philosophy [1]. It turns out that most lay people employ Compatibilist reasoning, so I think this question has also been answered.

[1] The latest that I've seen on the topic: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274892120_Why_Compa...
I think this is why they had to bring in an enemy from across the galaxy for DS9. All the other militaristic Alpha Quadrant civilizations had seen humans in war and did not want to get on their bad side again. The Dominion hadn't yet seen first hand what lengths humans will go to when threatened.
> would you learn to do a little dancing for a good salary + benefits?

This isn't an appropriate analogy because dancing is harmless.
This is where it turns into tragedy of the commons. If every grocery store has cantaloupes year-round, they need to figure out something else to advertise, or - if they're all selling the same stuff - they should all shut up. Instead, someone will always start the advertising arms race, and suddenly everyone has to waste time and Earth's natural resources on actions that roughly cancel each other out.
> And manage all my regularly scheduled bills like utilities, rent or mortgages. I would love for a trusted intermediary to handle these things.

Isn't that far easier to set up scheduled payments with your bank or allow the company to use direct withdrawal?
> now your service is only as secure as their email account.

Surely that was already true?
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1. I think it’s better to focus on doing - especially if you’re interested in working with an earier stage company. You’re much more versatile and if you choose the right company with an upward trajectory then you have the chance to specialize more into data science and learn model building if you want to. Also, data science seems sexy, but I find it most rewarding when you can put your own models into prod and also I think it’s useful for people to have the context around what it involves before they specialize. I’m 28, and had a lot of peers go into data science and quickly realize that it was the hype that lead them there and that they enjoy engineering more.

2. Look for work in a different part of the country... or maybe just the right organization that’s willing to take a chance on you. We’re in Austin and we’ve hired smart, hardworking kids who’ve never touched the languages we use and get them contributing meaningfully in <2 months.

3) I used to work for a startup where our CTO would not hire a data scientist unless they could write production code (in backbone and rails which I didn’t know at the time) and after I started, I spend 4-5 months just learning to be a full stack dev- I think that was so useful for my career as a data scientist. It meant that data scientists at this company could put whatever models they were running into the product- it drastically simplified org structure—- much more autonomy and fewer project management dependencies.

Sure not a lot of data scientists wanted to also be or make them selves into full stack developed, but you’d end up with the really gritty ones who and they’d end up being more loyal and much more on the same page as the rest of the engineering team it was way better for the whole org.

We’re hiring interns + junior full time people by the way

https://angel.co/schoolinks/jobs
Philosophy has made progress -- backwards. Most developments since the end of the scholastic era have been failures.
I agree with the sentiment, but using nginx as a proxy is reasonably easy (at least after you make one that works and can reuse that configuration.)

The advantage of developing on as similar a platform to the projected production platform is that when you do deploy to a real environment, there are fewer nasty surprises.
one of the few companies who consistently keeps bumming it's users with higher prices for the same shit and no one is complaining :')... look at most tech giants out there, and you will see only Apple and Nvidia keep cranking up prices for same product range. only companies where you need to pay MORE to get the same tomorrow. buying a relationship with apple? first treat your users like they have value, thank you.! no one wants to be in a toxic abusive relationship!
Macbooks are always a sure thing. They don't have perfect support out of the box, there's always some annoyance, but their popularity and uniformity means that there's always a workaround available on the Arch Wiki. You could say the "community support" is top notch.
Basically none of these videos will have the full name of that person attached to it (if it is even known).

Nobody is going to find it by googling their name.

And many videos of people faceplanting going viral are actually going to be used to the effect of providing cred in that person's circles.

"Look I went viral! Hahaha"

That's people for you.
You would need to include irrelevant details. TLA+ is an actual declarative language, so it's not executable, but it can be model-checked.
> show password

You should not be able to do that if you're doing security properly. If you can show the password it means you're not hashing it properly and instead storing it as plaintext
> The peace movement in the UK was spawned from people returning from war who said "never again".

And yet just a couple of decades later, the country went to war again. I don't believe everyone had already forgotten the horrors of 1914-18; but we realised that sometimes it was necessary, despite the cost.
I don't consider reviewing to be volunteer work, like say, running an after school club at the local middle school to teach kids how to program. I wouldn't list reviewing under the "service" section of my CV, but rather the "professional development" section. The reason being is that as an academic, I expect and require someone to step up and review my work when it comes time to publish it. If I don't want to pay for that work, then I better be willing to do it for free when someone asks me. You see, I'm getting something in return, so I don't think reviewing a paper is a very selfless thing to do.
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It is only a paradox if one has calcified their thinking about the desires of women _in general_ in a particular way. If one starts from the presumption that men and women are exactly the same (in terms of desires and methods), than it is indeed a paradox. If one retains the traditional perspective, a much disliked but surprisingly defensible position, of the disparate desires of men and women, these results comport well with the presumption. Why you end up where you do is either confusing or predictable based on how you start, particularly in the world of unverified assertion.
still blows my mind how companies like medium think they use a superior system by making you log in to email in order to log in to medium.com

makes my 1password app useless and I just don't bother to login to medium => irrelevant articles => less time spent there.
Openness is a pretty old big thing at this point. Apple haven't been open since the Apple II and it's worked out fine for them. Arguably the 'open' camp has missed the current big thing - privacy and security.

Yes they are one thing, just with two sides to it.
> As compared to say "are you going to have kids - to a woman"

That's not only disrespectful and unprofessional but potentially also illegal. But it isn't a contest to see who can be the most disrespectful or the most disrespected, so I don't follow your point.
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