skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't see any way that it will ever not be about half the speed of a private point-to-point transport.

Private point-to-point loses out mostly for long-distance already, short-distance currently either allows last-mile, station overhead, and related concerns to big down shared transportation or suffers from sharing infrastructure optimized for private point-to-point.

Ubiquitous automated (on-demand, not personal cars actually make the station problem easier, since you need less parking at stations, making station footprints smaller, and reducing delay from arrival at station to boarding.

They could also merge with buses: instead of fixed routes and schedules, vehicle sizes and routing are demand driven for efficiency (perhaps allowing you to pay a premium to guarantee a dedicated vehicle for your party.)
It isn't exactly the same, but mcedit tends to be very dos editor-like (and as a sidenote, i always find it weird that Linux/Unix console programs look so primitive compared to similar programs for DOS).
that which powers the first fully driverless cars, apparently.
As far as I know, there are no "AI" companies listed on the NASDAQ.

Of course, there are listed companies with significant AI investments. But I'd argue their valuations are driven by their existing/conventional/ad-driven scale, not their AI arms.

Whether or not they're overvalued remains to be seen. The era of cheap money seems (?) to be coming to an end, so it will be an interesting few years.
You're not a crank conspiracy theorist when you suggest Monsanto pays people to astroturf forums. It would be surprising if they didn't, since far less freighted companies have done the same thing.

You risk becoming a crank conspiracy theorist, however, if you start to lapse into the position that anyone defending Monsanto must either be themselves a shill or the catspaw of some shill.
> Building a house doesn't cause a flood plain to flood (hopefully!), but adding lots of guns to a country sounds like it should have an effect on the number of revolutions, be it up or down.

Intuition would imply that, but I'd say there's not enough data to really say. There's countries with less civilian firearm ownership than the US, older and younger both, with more frequent violent revolution, and less frequent violent revolution. There's too many differences in culture, demographics, economics, and probably other factors I'm not thinking of, that even if increased rates of firearm ownership had an effect on the number of revolutions, that effect is utterly swamped by other factors.

Your latter paragraph seems to imply you have a different idea of what preppers do than I do. When I hear the word "prepper", I think of a person who stockpiles non-perishable foods, stockpiles ammo, owns multiple firearms and practices with them regularly, and drills both evacuation and hunkering-down scenarios with their family. I'm not sure where alienation of the neighbors enters in here, as nothing in preparing for a disaster requires or recommends having pre-established enemies living <100 feet in any direction from where you do.
I know it's not going to be popular, but mint.com has far more features and is a much better package all together. Yes, you need to give your bank login info.
Why are Nasdaq, JFX and other traditional exchanges switching to the blockchain?
> What is “true AI” in your opinion?

Able to teach itself anything from unstructured (unprepared) data.
I think it's vanishingly small because my software is pretty niche and the chance that anyone who is a target actually uses it is tiny just by pure laws of numbers. And then even if that happens they are much more likely to identify a bigger company that they can leverage before hitting me as the best vector into that person's devices. There simply isn't much value in getting my software backdoored compared to Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, etc.

But that doesn't help my on the other side of the equation where I need to sign contracts that directly prohibit things that I would be mandated to do under these laws (and do secretly). I will need to come up with some interesting boiler plate escape clauses that allow for it without sounding completely dodgy.
Firstly you still can, add a root certificate and continue using VPN/explicit proxy.

Secondly, again none of this has anything to do with DoH. Users still set the system DoH/DoT DNS server the same as they always set the system DNS server and assumed system apps/installed apps weren't using custom sockets/transports/encoding to get around it. Users still control the browser feature enablement and can change destination server.

Finally back to the original point - "malicious use doesn't follow the rulebook". System apps have always had the right to make an HTTPS connection to an IP address. Users have always had the right to make an HTTPS connection to an IP address. JavaScript from an ad has always had the right to make an HTTPS connection to an IP address. The user never had any control of this unless they were using an explicit proxy or intercepting traffic with a cert structure. The only thing users/enterprises following the "let me look at udp 53" mantra have had is the illusion of security and control.

DoH changes none of this and is irrelevant to it, DoH is just a standard serialization of something anyone has been able to do for decades now. What DoH DOES do is prevent every random node inbetween a device and the DNS server from inspecting/modifying the traffic unless the end station is explicitly configured to allow it.
I've encountered a fair bit of research and anecdotal stories showing how gut bacteria can have all sorts of crazy effects. It really makes you wonder how many conditions could be prevented or treated by dietary changes and supplements. I already wrote this in a response, but Mikhaila Peterson really opened up my eyes to the big impact diet can have on your health. To anyone that hasn't heard of her, she switched to a carnivore diet and many of her severe lifelong symptoms appear to have gone away.

Recently I started considering the possibility that being fat could actually a symptom in some people. Controlling your weight is really easy when you're fairly healthy, but when you're sick it can become much more challenging. I used to be fairly critical of fat people, thinking that it was laziness, but I think the numbers are just too large to chalk it up exclusively to any single thing. There's also a lot of fat people that work incredibly hard and they excel at tons of things, which brings the laziness hypothesis to question. It's entirely possible that laziness plays a role in some, but when you take a high-resolution view of the world it's rare to find single-variable answers to complex problems.

We also know that your mouth bacteria can have a huge impact on your dental health. There's people that barely have to brush their teeth to maintain perfect dental health, and others that still manage to get cavities despite following fairly rigorous routines such as brushing and flossing after every meal. I'll note it's been a few years since I last looked into this claim so take this comment with a grain of salt.

Trying out probiotics seems fairly safe and it could have hugely positive effects on your health. The sibling comments from theprotocol are just one example. To add an anecdote, I recently started taking probiotics and the first thing I noticed after a few days was that I no longer felt tired after eating. I've experienced a few other positive changes, but I haven't been taking them for long enough to feel confident that those changes can be attributed exclusively to the probiotics. My biggest issue with probiotics is that finding good information about different products is fairly difficult. I basically just picked a box at random out of all the choices available.

Does anyone have suggestions of good book on this topic? I've seen The Mind-Guy Connection and The Good Gut floated around a bit, but they have mixed reviews and the scientific rigor behind some of their claims seems to be under question.
Ah, I misunderstood the question.
It's not a comparison. It's not an appetizer for P6 or ways in which P6 comes off better than Haskell. It's not an overview or tutorial for learning P6 if you come from a Haskell background.

It's for someone who has already decided they like P6, has learned the basics, and wants to tighten up their understanding of P6 as it relates to Haskell things they know. It deliberately picks things that are basic in Haskell even if they're not so basic in P6.

That's why it says:

> Note that this should not be mistaken for a beginner tutorial or overview of Perl 6; it is intended as a technical reference for Perl 6 learners with a strong Haskell background.
NLP-progress: Tracking Progress in Natural Language Processing
Because otherwise it would have just been the universe, not doing anything at all.
> Except this new-old state is built on a framework of exponential energy waste that powers cryptocurrencies.

Few in the cryptocurrency community, except the so-called "Bitcoin maximalists", believe Proof of Work will survive as the dominant consensus algorithm.

What's more likely to be widely adopted is a Proof of Stake [1], or Proof of Space [2] system.

[1]: Snow White: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/919.pdf, Ouroboros: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/889.pdf, Algorand: https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/gilad-algorand-...

[2]: Chia: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/893.pdf, SpaceMesh: https://spacemesh.io/assets/built/whitepaper1.2.pdf
(essentially repeating a recent twitter thread here)

Imagine you work in a modern software house and you get one of these ... and here I mean you, not your boss, not your coworkers, the govt knocks on your door and demands you put a back door in the thing you are working on at work ...

So you write the code ... how do you write the unit test? how do you get it past the code review? the mandatory QA tests? ... all these things are designed into our modern software design processes essentially designed to stop bad stuff like this happening ... what happens when you get caught? you lose your job, get blacklisted in the industry, after all you can't tell them the govt made you do it (on your CV/resume trying to explain why you were fired)

Equally say you run a big open source software project and you have valued contributors from Australia, people you trust and depend on ... what do you do? refuse them commit right? explicitly audit their every checkin? ask them to move on?

Suppose you buy closed source code from Australia .... you can't trust it in any way, even if you trust the company any one of their employees may have been asked to suborn the code you've paid good money for ... any smart purchaser is simply going to put Aussie software on the "do not purchase" list .....

So how do I find out which software on Android Play is written in Oz?
The lack of comfort people refer to usually involves the other passengers, not the amenities. But everyone knows you're not supposed to talk specifically about that aspect of public transportation.
The US, even cities with “pretty good” transit by local standards, had appallingly bad transit and car-optimized cities.
They also answer the question of how we would approach the creation of sentient AI that is capable of suffering -- they switch their attention from the smartphone to a sentient being that they created that is capable of suffering.
I tend to agree, I expect that as a practical matter autonomous cars will be conservatively driven, e.g. with large buffer zones, gentle acceleration, safety-above-all-else.

I think other drivers will adapt to this and start taking advantage. Think of what happens when you leave a legal following distance in front of you now, in traffic. Now imagine an autonomous car in the same situation. It would probably end up stopped.
> get the operation, it's a same-day

Could you expand on that?
Radio-frequency ablation is not something that is done the same day.
I’ve started using Ansible to document how I want my server set up in a machine readable way. Very useful because when I want to start over I can just run my Ansible playbooks to set up everything to how I want it. I’d prefer that to an GUI approach such as an admin panel. A GUI makes it difficult to record your desired configuration and then later initialise a new server (or a reinstalled OS) to use said configuration. Even simply writing a shell script to do the configuration would be great as it means you’re both (1) documenting your configuration preferences and (2) making a tool that sets everything up as per your preferences. YMMV of course.
Well, PAC learning assumes that your training and test datasets are drawn from the same distribution and offers no guarantees if that assumption cannot be made.

Obviously, training and test data in cross-validation partitions have a common distribution- but that is the distribution associated to the sampling process, not that of whatever natural process (we assume) generates the data in the real world. So, my point is, once you move from the lab to the real world, any generalisation error (resp. accuracy) you calculated by cross-validation in the lab becomes a mere estimate- because you don't know the real-world distribution and you are not guaranteed anything by PAC learning, anymore.

Look- your dataset is not the real world, your sampling method is not the natural process that generates the events you observe and the distribution of data in the real world is not the distribution of data in your data set. If it was- you wouldn't need machine learning, would you? You'd already have a model of the real world process you're interested in.

I'm afraid the best you can ever hope to do with generalisation to real-world data is estimate it, and nothing more.
im midway thru this book atm. its got an encouraging and enlightening feel, but suffers a bit from being situated in elite academia.

for example, this requirement of being "nice" was ubiquitous in gradschoolland and synonomous with "unchallenging, flattering, " and especially, "beyond critique."

hopefully this talk lets the book's concepts trickle down to Earth a bit.
Important to note that the TSA has largely been ineffective: "In a 2016 survey by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General (IG), the TSA missed 95 percent of the weapons and assorted contraband carried into commercial aircraft cabins by undercover investigators"

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/366998-the-tsa...
Were "dot-com" companies listed on the NASDAQ back then, or only companies with significant dot-com investments?
You're not the only one - check out https://getwacup.com/ for a more modern version. The new offering from https://winamp.com/ is - I think - going to be mobile-focussed? A new codebase entirely?

Webamp can also do Milkdrop visualizations, which is pretty crazy - eg https://webamp.org/?butterchurnPresetUrl=https%3A%2F%2Funpkg...
I had a link I've since lost to one which was a shader-skin, which mirrored milkdrop back into the rest of the UI. It was pretty trippy, and wholly unexpected!

Both projects have good Discord servers, as well. :) See https://discord.gg/XuJPJEm and https://discord.gg/248Z7QA, respectively.
Land of the free, home of the brave /s

Of course, next thing you know, besides the downvotes and the flag, the comments claiming Chine is worse, and Russia is worse, and Murrica #1 bullshit.
> Do the world a favor: take Uber and don't write AI.

Ironically though, Uber is then taking that money and putting it into their own AI so they can get rid of one of their bigger expenses; human drivers.
Either way, it would be a nice feature for an image service to help protect children who might fall into this crack. I think it's one of those things where legally you probably want to run a service like this as a carrier so that you don't get yourself in trouble by making mistakes. But as company that tries to be a good citizen in a society, I think you want to make it as difficult as possible for children to post NSFW images of themselves. I don't necessarily think of Verizon as a good corporate citizen most of the time, but I think it's completely reasonable for people in society to ask them to do so.
I thought it was weird that they were claiming to be the first open cloud agnostic serverless provider.
When I retired I went through a process of reverse engineering my life...basically creating a dialog between the factors that I thought contributed to life satisfaction and how I rated different jobs, hobbies, projects, etc that I had been involved in. The objective was to see if my story correlated. (Hint, it didn't.) Once I had a list of more-or-less verified factors, now verified, I then listed all things I imagined that I might do next and evaluated them on those criteria. I picked the three that ranked the best and started exploring. 5 years in, this seems to have worked well.
Which is why driverless cars are great for bringing people from and to public transport. They are a great ingredient for improving public transport, but they don't replace it (at least as soon as road capacity becomes an issue).
New smartphones are more expensive than I paid for my last one, missing features I care about (headphone jack, removable storage), and replaced them with features I don't (waterproofing, notches). So while I will likely have to buy one in the next couple of years when the battery on my current phone gives up, it'll be an experience more like replacing a broken kitchen appliance than getting a new toy as it has been in the past.
This argument seems to compare 1 interstate hwy to 1 rail. In fairness to the autonomous vehicles, there's many road routes to most places. Road infrastructure costs a tiny fraction of rail infrastructure.

Roads also allow for multiple lanes. This allows for somewhat degraded service when something goes wrong; a train stopped on the tracks blocks everything. With multiple lanes, roads can be maintained while still in service. Every subway struggles with maintenance windows.

I'm not saying one is always superior to the other - trains have their niche, but it's a niche that will never be as broad that of autonomous cars.
How do I get from my house to the train? Do I have to make transfers? How long will they take? What if I have to carry groceries, or take young children with me, or my elderly grandma?

If I have a car, I load everyone and everything up, and we go. We get to our destination and unload, ta-da! Is this not an order of magnitude more useful than taking a train?

Sometimes I think HN is filled with young people with uncomplicated lives :).
I’m pretty sure you’re aware catching imaginary friends, terrorists or otherwise is not the purpose of the TSA.
Ok but not causing an accident (yet) isn't my bar for good driving. And besides, road injuries are still one of the top ten causes of death
Never in my life have I experienced a puddle of urine in my personal vehicle. This happens about 5% of the time with my city’s public transport.

Similarly, never have I been given religious literature or panhandled. This happens about 90% of the time.
I think I agree with this take. Do we really think Waymo cars would be so cautious with merging if a Waymo crash were received with the same level of fanfare and financial repercussions as an ordinary commuter crash? I.e. a $1,000 financial hit and literally nobody cares.

Most of the "mistakes" in the video looked to me more like a hyper-cautious grandmother than an A.I. that fundamentally doesn't know how to drive.
Isochrone is the word you're looking for, for the distance time feature. Openrouteservice can do that, based on osm data (of course; what other source could they use really).
Anyone know what book he's referring to that made him rethink exercise & physical fitness?

Edit: Maybe this? https://www.amazon.com/Born-Run-Hidden-Superathletes-Greates...
Came here just to say this! If anyone knows any app that could replace fireworks, please shed a light!
in LA, drivers on a side street who are waiting to make a right hand turn to get in your lane don't actually wait. they just start turning and enter your lane.

you better slow down and give them an opening or you'll hit them. which you will definitely feel like doing sometimes.

that's one reason i really look forward to the day when cautious, defensive, courteous self-driven cars replace all human drivers here.
Evolution is also OK. Not sure how it compared to claws-mail feature wise but they both have a long history.
My car has WiFi, and it is not even automated yet. And food & drink are perfectly feasible as well, remember we're talking about automated cars now. All kinds of options suddenly make sense when you don't have to worry about the chore of driving.
Thanks, that's great to know and pretty much what I was hoping to hear. Obviously, if I was to move there and stay for a while I'd make a serious effort to learn the language and I hope that I'd be able to get by in social situations in a couple of years- it's the work environment I was mostly worried about.

It does look like Danish people at least speak English like a second native language. I didn't know the Swedish also do so.

For the record, I'm an EU citizen living in the UK and my question is in the context of trying to figure out where to go if Brexit forces me to leave.
Outgrowing Advertising: Multimodal Business Models as a Product Strategy
https://www.gasbuddy.com/GasPriceMap
King of pandora is saying that the operation can be done as a day surgery under a local, and the patient can go home the same day.
In P6:

grammar one-grammar {
rule { <some-pattern> <another-grammar> .... }
}

Can't get simpler. Can't be more readable.
I now call him Backdoor Bill.
Top machine learning projects in 2018: Reddit edition
Many years ago, when I was first getting into digital photography, I was faced with the Aperture-vs-Lightroom decision. Both seemed promising, with Aperture even having some advantages. What ultimately made me choose Lightroom, however, was the multi-platform support (I've always liked MacOSX laptops, but prefer to use Windows and/or Linux on the desktop).

Several months later, something happened that basically reaffirmed my decision. Nikon released a new camera, which I bought at launch. Lightroom added support for its RAW format in a minor patch almost immediately. Meanwhile, Aperture couldn't be bothered to add support until 6 months later and a major version update.

Flash-forward, I really wish Adobe didn't become so obsessed with their subscription models. While cloud storage/backup definitely has its advantages, I'd much rather simply own my software and use my own servers. (But since the "run it yourself" options are always grossly inferior, I just put up with their new approach and make sure I have a local copy.)
Ok so you weren't saying you were learning things about your company in the NYT, you're saying you are reading things you knew about your company in the NYT?

Do I have that correct?
Or you could just ensure that you don't have access to production systems in your job. Which you shouldn't have as a developer anyway. And that any code you write is reviewed before it is put into production. Which it should be anyway.

And if they do try it, any of your non-Australian colleagues who review your code can immediately raise the alarm.

The law is ridiculous not only because of all the points they're making, but also because it just doesn't work in a modern, distributed, company. They need to compel the entire dev team to do as they wish to avoid it being stopped at some point, and if just one of those devs are not Australian (or even not living in Australia) then the secrecy part is blown and the company can take preventative action to stop this happening.

Australia has just ensured that every single Australian tech company needs a non-Australian to review its code. An absolute decrease in Australian security. The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes agan.
What is going on in the world? Why are governments bringing in authoritarian measures all the time? I don't get it. It can't always have been this way.