skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I wrong?

If you insist that the only thing that merits the label "AI" is what the rest of us all "AGI", then yes. AI can do some pretty amazing things, but as the old saying goes "once it works, it isn't considered AI anymore". A lot of the stuff we have today would have been like black magic not very long ago. But we still don't have "human like AI" so you get pundits and critics saying "AI isn't real, AI is just pattern matching", etc.

unaware that anything has changed in the last few years

A computer program just beat a arguably the best human Go player in the world at Go. You don't see any significance in that?

which is software that is told how to react to inputs, just like normal software.

Great, so write me a program, without using any machine learning, that can recognize the MNIST images with an error rate of 0.21%. If you finish before you die of boredom, or the heat death of the universe, I'll be stunned.
There's been remote Spectre exploits. https://lwn.net/Articles/761100/
"properly" in this context meaning "the way I am used to, warts and all", right? Because otherwise I can't see why you'd be so upset about Invoke-WebRequest doing exactly what it was designed and documented to do.

Consistency? In UNIX tools? No. What you have is familiarity. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot to be said for working with tools you're familiar with, but again that doesn't mean they are actually objectively better tools.
these ['Strong and Weak Typing'] words have nearly no meaning at all.

http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2010/08/what-to-know-before...

So what is “strong typing”? This appears to be a meaningless phrase, and people often use it in a non-sensical fashion. To some it seems to mean “The language has a type checker”. To others it means “The language is sound” (that is, the type checker and run-time system are related). To most, it seems to just mean, “A language like Pascal, C or Java, related in a way I can’t quite make precise”. If someone uses this phrase, be sure to ask them to define it for you. (For amusement, watch them squirm.)

page 263 "Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation" Shriram Krishnamurthi 2003
Parking Lot Chronicles
If you answered a phone call from someone claiming to be from the IRS, and sent money to them, then yes, you were scammed.

IRS agents will sometimes go to people's houses to carry out collection actions, but it's all done in person; they don't make outbound phone calls.

I would suggest reporting all details of what happened to you to the police.
Any arguments like this that don't also call for banning alcohol and tobacco are specious at best.

Society has "agreed" that while those substances are dangerous, it is up to the individual to determine how they are consumed.

So this then becomes an argument of "I don't like your vice and I'm going to decide whether or not you can partake".
The typical options to look at are the L-1 intracompany transferee visa and the E-2 investor visa with, I would argue, the E-2 being easier but requiring a substantial UK investment and here limited to UK citizens.
Italian regulator fines Facebook £8.9m for misleading users
> I've also come to the conclusion that there are two kinds of posts

I had come to this same conclusion for my own posting habits! I'm hoping to finish my website this weekend and will probably implement a microblog for the little thoughts and a (macro?)blog for the bigger pieces.

(I'd just use Twitter as my microblog but I like the idea of inline hyperlinks in my posts more than is perhaps healthy.)
Was on Windows from 1986-2010, Ubuntu 2010 - today, but will be switching to MacOS on a MacMini soon, and the reason: Apple's old filesystem HFS was slooow when grepping/compiling etc. but the new APFS is comparable to EXT4 in speed, makes all the difference.
I can think of some possible motivations:

(1) Some kind of load-balancing thing and/or edge DoH servers. It gives you an opportunity to connect to a DoH server near you. Latency matters for DNS, and for traditional DNS, DHCP takes care of hooking you up with a nearby server. This could give comparable functionality for DoH. (This could probably also be done at the IP routing layer. But it's nice to have options.)

(2) Decoupling. You can change DoH server IP addresses without releasing a new browser build. And anyway, if you did try to do it by releasing new browser builds, you'd have users who don't bother to update.
I have a theory about what killed the radio-shack star:

PACKAGING.

Fucking packaging kills "hobby" interests.

Radio shack became "random aisle from fry's electronics" pretty easily. Fry's is complicit in the murder of radio shack -- but the fact that they individually began packaging everything and selling things as expensive individual components in blister/cardboard crap - rather than in a much more organic manner really limited the Hacker energy.

They attempted to bolt themselves to the "charging cable industry" -- (which deserves its own place in tech hell) -- and that failed.

They were then reduced to a charicature of themselves when they were selling 'MAKE::' kits...

I lament for the sould of what Radio Shack once could have been...
Same way everyone else does. Apple has search ads, news ads, they had iAd for a while but that was shut down and it seems they're pushing a new replacement https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-looks-to-expand-advertisi...
I would recommend reading Oren Etzioni's piece in this month's Communications of the ACM, "Should AI Technology Be Regulated?: Yes, and Here's How."[1] He lays out some very specific, practical ways that regulation can work, while minimizing impacts on innovation.

[1] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/12/232893-point-should-a...
I've recently taken a design class and I have a keen interest in design in general, and I would say your suggestions are on the money.

I would also mention the importance of layout and flow line, or how will you organize your elements in the page and how will your audience traverse them visually? This is something you really ought to think about very hard.

Also, learn about gestalt principles. For example: https://www.howdesign.com/resources-education/online-design-...
Good design is not the result of "having a gift", good design is the result of hard work.

I don't have a background in design, I really struggle with color schemes, but I put in a lot of effort to design my software, and I think the resulting products look okay.

I've hired designers for a few jobs in the past. Their portfolios looked awesome, they were obviously good at their job, but when I received the work I commissioned, I was surprised how shoddy it was. They rushed it, and it sucked. Only after lots of complaining and multiple revisions did I get decent results.

It's not about being gifted. It's about putting in the work.

If you try putting a nice design on your product in an hour, you will fail. Take a week to research how other products solve design challenges, try a few approaches, show your work to people, revise it a couple of times, and you will arrive at a decent design, even if you don't think of yourself as a "gifted" designer.
The difference is that there isn't even fake judicial review. And I disagree that we have a stronger set of rights -- the difference is that the NSA explicitly ignores your constitutional rights.

All of our rights (other than the right to a jury for certain criminal trials, freedom of religion, the aquisition of property must be 'on just terms', the right to be a senator if you can vote, and the right to vote in federal elections) are in common law. This means that any new law can overturn those interpretations.

Personally I think Australia needs to push for a constitutional bill of rights. Unfortunately this is going to be a very hard battle to win, given the enormous requirements to get a constitutional amendment passed.
Have they fixed the git corruption issue yet? I switched from WSL to MacOS specifically because, if the computer blue screens while I'm working in WSL, something in the .git directory corrupts itself and I have to check out the repo again.
WayScript Drag and Drop Coding
Are any/many big companies considering relocating computer manufacturing out of China?
Thoughts on the EB5 visa route?
I use windows on my dev machine for one reason - visual studio.
> and then you suddenly have a world where only guys exist, which is probably some sort of political statement.

I wish people who felt about that strongly and wanted to make a political statement just used the gendered she creating the fictional world where only girls exist. That would have been so much simpler and avoided so much pointless arguments over the grammatical number and gender of pronouns.
There's always the call for regulation - if a competitor has a product which is ahead if you in some way wher you for whatever reason can't or won't compete. See for instance Steve Cook's recent comments about GDPR and privacy.
Talk about a ship in a bottle!

Now that the pun's out of the way, normal discourse can commence...

[edit] oh wait, all the comments are just other puns
You should read “Poorly made in China”. There are people and companies that do this, but, typically not accessible to small, one off projects.
Inside China's audacious global propaganda campaign
Citation please. I never heard of Zen2 supporting AVX512.
AI strikes back: straight to the point
Properly as in it does the intended job.

Consistently as in it stays doing the intended job in as an idempotent manor as possible.

Whether or not it’s ugly or elegant don’t matter if it doesn’t work or stay working.

You can argue semantics but this is a turd that can’t be glittered.

Another way to look at powershell is that the idea is good but the implementation isn’t. Unix style shells the implementation is excellent but the idea is mediocre. All productivity and therefore business value is really tied to the implementation quality.
Those were some rough reads. I think I may sideline "making games" as a hobby, and get a job like a normal person.

/edit - by sideline, I mean do it as a hobby.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point
Emby Media Server moves from open source to proprietary
Does having approved patent(s) qualify someone for an "upgrade" to EB1 at all?
Hi Peter, I'm a F1 student who joined for a Masters program in a US University in 2015. A year into my Masters, my advisor offered me a PhD which I took up. So, I converted my degree from Masters to PhD in 2017. However, I still picked up my Masters degree in May 2017.

My PhD advisor quit his job this week. I'm not left with too many options. I was considering going back to the industry.

I learnt that I cannot apply for OPT based on my Masters degree, since that window to apply for OPT has expired.

Can I quit PhD and look for a job that'll sponsor my H1B? Will I have to leave the country, if so?

Thanks!
Also important in some applications, such as aerospace, is that liquid fuel depletes in weight as you use it. Batteries are enough of a closed system that you still have to carry all of the weight around even when you're out of power.
Oren Etzioni: “Should AI Technology Be Regulated?: Yes, and  How”
Kind of squirrely phrasing going on here. "If they believe some other nations are threatening their own ideology, the should build defense or sometimes offenses to counter that."

They "believe" their ideology is threatened--so it's okay to clamp down on their own citizens, representing over a billion human beings, censor and intercept all communications, edit out government atrocities and historical facts like Tienanmen square, and spy on every citizen on a profound and constant panopticon level? This isn't about western or eastern perspective. This kind of philosophy justifies the actions of any dictator or autocratic fascist. This whole obsession with a perceived national threat is the prod that pushes through all sorts of oppressive policies.

We in the west also have severe problems with this. The whole post-9/11 mentality has been all about yielding personal dignity and rights and basic privacy for the sake of assuaging some vague (and mostly imaginary) threat. We also are building a massive panopticon, we just aren't as far along as China is at the moment, and our machinations of totalitarianism are privatized instead of powered by the state. We should pay very close attention to what's going on in that culture, because we may need those lessons sooner than we think in our own future--even if they come in a slightly different form.
This is something relevant

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/03/asia/china-leeks-economy-trad...
> These terms do not mean the same thing

What do they mean?
I simply can argue morality when discussing this, actually, and just did. Again, point and sputter isn't an argument, and your argument will appear absurd in a few decades, as "point and sputter" at Napoleon was among Victorian gentlemen in the UK.

I didn't say anything about democracy, and confounding this word with the word "morality" is pretty ... questionable. That was one of the points that Solzhenitsyn made very well; go read his speech to Harvard.

The US picked Franco as an Ally, yes, because it served US interests. The US also allied with a lot of unsavory spanish speaking dictators in latin america; mostly for the same reason -they saw generalissimo types as a lesser evil to communist revolutionaries. All things considered, it was a reasonable thing to do. Communist body counts were considerably higher than all of these put together.
How can I find an opportunity which can result in making $8M? Do I have to get at least 5% of the company?
The TLDR, MSFT says "You can't trust any of us so you better regulate us now."

... or they are just mad that I refuse to give them a linkedin photo. :) Supposed to be funny, but also serious. Every time they ask for one, and then ask why not, I tell them because they are fundamentally untrustworthy. And they are untrustworthy, as is every public for profit business whose officers carry a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders.

IMO this position is well written and these two sentences succinctly articulate the situation:

"In particular, we don’t believe that the world will be best served by a commercial race to the bottom, with tech companies forced to choose between social responsibility and market success. We believe that the only way to protect against this race to the bottom is to build a floor of responsibility that supports healthy market competition."
Hey, tabtab. I have a friend at a national news organization working on a story about robocalls and looking to interview people who've been affected by them. Your story is shocking. Do you have an email address I could pass to him?
What exactly is your threat model?

In terms of technical implementations, Chrome naturally surpasses everything else in a naïve myopic comparison (and always will), but holistically a secure algorithm isn't going to protect you if you've voluntarily handed the keys to the kingdom to umpteen untrusted parties. Chrome gets all the technical details right in a context where doing so seems redundant.
It's just that the West has decided that allowing cities to grow is a bad thing, and the exact opposite of that is what powers economic growth, in Shenzen and certainly in our own history as well.
Hi Peter,

I used up 6 years of my h1b on Dec 2nd 2018 and it has already been renewed again for the next 3 years until October 2021.
Let’s say I leave the US for 2 years and come back before October 2021 to a US employer willing to renew my H1B. Will I retain my current H1B or do I need to go through the lottery system again?
I also have an approved I 140 with priority date of March 2017.
I have received conflicting feedback so far and it’s not very clear
Fair enough if that’s what you want but if you just make up how you name things it’ll confuse people. You wouldn’t spell PGP like PgP either.
Why is talking and asking a person about his actions unreasonable? You are basically badmouthing that person here for the whole world to see how bad he is!
I don't usually make $40,000 decisions that depend on time travel.
start anon profit put in all moneis.

put it in 7%to10% gariantead no loss always up not annuity only goes up not down.

start at 8miil then reinvest the 8ook interest less 80k salary +320k to charities

that gets 8,400,000
then 840k -(80ksalary+380kdonate)
then 8,780,000
then 878,000
then 9,658,000
then 965,800 965,800-(80ksalary+442,900donate)
+442900
then 10,100,900

when you get to 11,000,000
increase salary to 100k.
always 1/2 back in 1/2 to donate.
when you get to 15,000,000 increase salary to225k
always donate 1/2 back before you take out salary and donation.
Cap salary at375k,

donate to shrine's,st Jude, wounded warrior make wish proportionately.

there will be some compounding yearly.
in 20 years surprise.
" GOD BLESS"
He's probably talking about AS/400, and it's hardware/software codesigned VM. For some reason people call those mainframes.

AS/400 though does use hardware heavily in it's isolation model, going so far as to have a custom PowerPC variant currently that adds tagged memory.
Really, the main change has been with the H-1B program. It's just much harder - and not because the law has changed - to get an H-1B now and not to get one without going through the gauntlet of a request for evidence. But again, still, strong H-1B petitions usually get approved.
You can reapply.
Sounds similar to a classical "curse of the AI": when AI does anything well, it stops being AI.

Before AlphaGo: "Hah! Go requires strategy and deep thinking. A computer will never match the insight of masters!"

A few days(!) after AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol at the first game: "Ha! Of course it's just a game of counting everything really fast. Of course computers are good at it, this game is totally unfair!"

Watching the media and people flipping their stances in a matter of days was quite comical.
Thanks, I will see how they do it.

I don't want registration or even cookies.
One would argue the point of marketing is to changes people's expectations.
labor laws, wages, safety, regulation, cost of living
No, as much as I dislike Trump, a nice tariff could solve a lot of problems long term. Its after all how this country was built. Put in more economic terms, you should be taxing things you want to discourage. Taxing income/work, while providing free trade with locations that have lower tax structures _WILL_ force jobs and industries offshore.

OTOH, a nice fat tariff on things you want to manufacture, and suddenly manufacturing them at home starts to make strong economic sense. Of course as evidence suggests that you also need a large enough market to assure that your not just paying 100x as much to support some inefficient factory.
How is that any different than what I suggested? They both wanted to go in very different directions.
Pollution. Regulation. Investors. Unions.

https://www.popsci.com/america-before-epa-photos
Unless you consider 'fascism' to be "stuff adrepd don't like," Franco's system of government was not fascist. The Falange, a movement eventually coopted into Francoism, was the local fascist contingent, and they weren't super popular. As I stated above, giving a mini lesson on Spanish mid 20th century history; reading a book will serve you better than point and sputter. Please go read a book and keep your point and sputter to yourself.
I am a PhD student (on F1-visa), who's more or less been offered a decent Post-doctoral fellowship in UK immediately after gradschool. What are the implications of this if I want to return to the US for either an industry or academic position? I know that I'd be giving up the OPT option if I accept the fellowship.
Show HN: Capture- 3D scanning on the new iPhones
Ask HN: How to get $8M?
How can I find a project manager job at a company with potential for big exit and potential to receive stocks worth $8M?
"It would be better just to build a Shenzen in the US"

Probably not.

Imagine if you went to a flea market, but instead of comic books, hot dogs and used sofas ... you found all sorts of cheap, exotic component parts. Anything. Everything. For 10's of cents each.

I'm close with a team making a product, and there are a few 'custom-ish' things they need, like a tiny microcontroller with camera that does some very basic processing as a sub-module. In America - that's a big deal. Hire a team, get some researchers to consult, do some iterations yada yada.

In China some guy in a ratty, dirty, poor little corner shop has it! For like 40 cents in units of ONE!

There's a massive 'secondary industry' of people making 'not rocket science but not trivial' gadgetry very fast, and on the cheap that is not going to be duplicated anywhere.

Add in the tons and tons of cheap labour, with few labour laws.

Add in the 10 hours 7 day crazy work weeks.

No - Shenzen will not be duplicated.

That said - it may be possible to expand the Valley in a more 'automated' 'high end' way.

For example: 3D printers that are more amenable to 'short production runs' instead of just prototypes. Low cost / fast turnaround injection moulding. Quick turn around on smaller components.

This might make it better for American firms doing quality high tech to churn out faster prototypes, first production runs, and later automated large runs.

Doing this would take some champion leaders, maybe Cisco, or Google or a few others setting up shop, proving the way for others to follow.
I use a mix of mac and windows machines, and all of my dev work is on windows. I mostly agree with the points you mention but they also don't matter that much to me day-to-day.

Windows upgrades have lately had a poor quality track record. I've had a bunch of cheap windows laptops break, all consumer-class machines running windows 10 home. My work thinkpad has been absolutely reliable though, partly because it's a thinkpad (better driver situation), and partly because it's windows pro. I only get feature updates after they've rolled out to everyone else, so by that time all the bugs are sorted out. Everyone knows not to upgrade a mac to a new major release when it's .0, you wait until .1 or .2. Windows home doesn't give you that option, windows pro does.

WSL performance is indeed not great, but getting better with every release. I side-step it by doing the heavy stuff natively. I only use WSL for typical shell scripting, and as soon as I need to run something more I'll figure out a way to solve it natively. There's almost always a way (couldn't figure out hadoop development, had to run a linux VM to do that). Did java, scala, node, php, python all without seeing a bash shell. I see WSL as an escape hatch, not as a daily driver.

I don't use chocolatey. I don't expect windows to do package management well, so I don't even try. I only set up a windows machine at most once a year, and it's not that much work. I do use ninite to get the basics on it faster.

As for the telemetry ... I don't see the harm. There hasn't been a single person reporting real harm (that I'm aware of, someone will now prove me wrong) and they've been doing this telemetry for years. I just wish they used their telemetry instead of shipping bugs that their insider program reported and they subsequently ignored.
Hi Peter thanks you for doing this. On an H1B here. I have a job offer where the company's lawyers have confirmed that it would be safe to start once they send the H1B transfer and receive the FedEx receipt that it got to the USCIS. What are your thoughts?
> WSL's backing filesystem (NTFS) completely runs like ass. It's dire. 10x the latency on everything at least compared to Linux running natively on the same hardware. This is because all small writes end up in MFT contention and the entire of Unixy type things are based on lots of small writes.

Does this matter? It seems good enough to me to use as a development environment to the extent that GNU/Linux and GNU/Windows are equal/or for development purposes.
Keep your life's endless routines organized while turning them into habits
You've quoted a press releas by Intel on how Intel is awesome and there is no problem and everything is peachy.

Not the most trustworthy source of info, I may say.