skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I'm saying "AI-hard" isn't a great classification. Is there a known approach to AI that will result in some android who is can learn human languages and human abilities the same way human children do? Is there any reason to think that getting better and better and better at building self-driving cars or computer vision algorithms or any other AI application is going to magically result in some machine gaining "sapience" and somehow having the ability to do unrelated tasks? Is the contention that if someone does develop a self-driving car, that car will also be able to compose an opera or something if we let it? If we do have a self-driving car, should we try and teach it to write poetry or something? Would this car's failure to learn how to compose a sonnet falsify the contention that self-driving cars are "AI-hard"?

To me this all sounds like some type of weird meatbag chauvinism, where it's absolutely impossible to perform any complicated task that a computer hasn't managed to do a good enough job of yet without resorting to building some sort of Commander Data in our image. And, while that may be true for such human abilities as "being able to do a wide variety of genuinely hard things if they are taught, especially at a really young age" or "arguing about abstract concepts we don't fully understand ourselves", driving a car is...well, it's not that hard. Human beings in car cultures learn to do it, but if those same human beings grew up in horse nomad cultures, they would learn to ride horses and shoot arrows from horseback really well, and if they grew up in a different culture they'd get a different skill. Being versatile enough to develop any of those skills given the right childhood experiences seems much harder than any one of those specific skills.
Why not start with Fargate/App Engine, or skipping containers all together and going straight to FaaS on your cloud of choice?

Small companies seem like the primary choice to skip container orchestration layers completely.
> I think we have exactly the government most of us want.

We have a President who was the second highest vote getter, and a Senate where the majority party was elected with a minority of the votes (counting across the most recent elections for each seat.)

So, no, we don't have “the government most of us want”, independent of the TSA.

> If the majority of voting citizens wanted the TSA gone, it would be.

Look, if the majority of the voting public wants a particular Presidential candidate elected, at the time of voting, that still relies on them not having an unfavorable geographic distribution to work out.

A policy that is more distant from a single candidate election, and which must compete in any voting decision with other policy preferences for importance and which requires action by both the President and the Congress to effectuate is far from guaranteed.
I do Brazilian jiujitsu and I find it is great for making friends outside of college and work. There is something about exerting a lot of energy and aggression safely in a safe place against others that is able to forge some strong friendships. Highly recommend for everyone.
Nice to hear you're making progress. Given these are 30 years old, what's a few months here or there, right? :) Look forward to seeing v2.
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The Web Inspector in Safari or Chrome can do this - it’s not a simple feature as it takes a couple clicks to get to, but it works a treat!
Mycorrhizal networks – The Wood Wide Web and how trees talk to each other
What the parent comment is saying is that many of the people who download these things are designers who have no need for the typeface for personal use but rather for clients who are the end customer. If there is no way for designers to use your typeface free of charge then you can kiss goodbye to any revenue generated through companies who can actually afford the licensing fees and use designers to recommend a typeface.
Worse than that. They sit on hundreds of billions of dollars but still borrow money in the tens of billions thanks to fed's still very low interest rate. If that's not systemic issue I don't know what is.
I don’t think Brad Parker is involved. You can email Reti for more information.
MX-80 – Ahead of its time: A small, lightweight computer printer
They had "Plan 9 from outer space" figure in the lab. It may have inspired Plan 9 OS. Nice to see how these small details percolate.
I think you want a Galaxy Note 4. Removable battery, sim and sd card. Built to last, unlike newer Samsung phones.
I have a hard time finding people who like to work on old cars. I joined a mopar club for a while, but all they did is talk about meeting minutes and the budget. Never going over to Bob's house and getting his wreck back on the road. I run into people now and then who have a classic in their garage, but they never seem interested in having a group of people helping out. None of my friends in the tech business have the remotest motorhead tendencies. Nobody in college did, either.

I had a group of friends who did this in high school, and have a lot of great memories of it.
AI tends to "over-optimize" as we know from the paper clip theory too. It's likely to make booms and busts even more drastic.
Repair technician and mobile researcher, not really 2015 and 2017 internal components are amazingly similar.

Even the screen technology, taptic engine, Audio IC, Touch IC, and more are relatively the same — just a migration of location on the board.

The 6S screen design is even more similar to the X than I had originally thought when I started to tear into them.

Now the switch from 3G to 4? That was some brand new engineering techniques and internal chip sets.
Real incomes have fallen during/after virtually every US recession; at least in -real- terms. Nominal incomes almost never fall and just remain flat. Monetary theory is complex, but what the flow of credit remains in tact.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA646N

The only way I can see hyperinflation in the US is some cataclysm or inability to service debt through normal means. Most countries that have hyperinflation generally have massive debt loads they are printing out of with no economic output to back it up. They also are usually very centrally planned economies or war torn.
> I feel like Android originally gained market share by competing aggressively on price. When the flagships started embracing iPhone prices, I was pretty disappointed.

As someone who prefers Android and will never use an iPhone, I'm glad that high-end devices exist.

I just wish everyone wasn't racing to the largest possible screen sizes. I'd love to see a phone like the new Palm device but designed to be a standalone phone.
On-prem serverless? Stone cold classic.
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GE could fail. They are on the way down.
Repair technician here, all phones on the market are probably easier to repair these days than ever before. For example the iPhone X is easier than the 7, and the Galaxy S8/S9 are easier to repair than GS6.
This kind of wishful thinking by people who dont realize there will always a human controlling that AI.
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GS6 batteries are incredibly easy to replace. Check the link the other commenter left for iFixit, most people can do it in no time.
Feds making it harder to launder cash through Bay Area homes
That's pretty damning. Glad I never went to Snoonet. Something seemed off about the network as a whole, and it appears that my assumptions were correct...
Nope! YouTube vieos is not how science is done.
Why do you think we all should invest time to watch this? Has it been peer reviewed? What does it say?
The argument that classics are "unfit for the 21st century" because ancient Greeks and Romans were "white men" and "slave owning patriarchs" holds zero water.

First, the premise is false. Greeks and Romans were not at all "white" by modern standards. Not only was skin color not a social construct at the time, but most Mediterranean peoples had darker, bronzed tones. And yes, slavery & patriarchy have existed in every single society since the dawn of time, until very recently. Just because the affordable care act didn't exist in 1991 doesn't mean I will refuse to use Linux because it was created in a time without basic healthcare rights.

The real reason for the decline of classical studies (and more generally history) is because corporations are offering graduates with STEM degrees higher salaries.

I don't think this is a good trend either. I've personally gained more from self-studying the classics than anything from my CS degree.
I think we're probably at a mature enough point in websites-as-documents that browser compatibility won't be an issue, except in very specific more cutting edge media like 3d where they're dependent on non-standard features.

However, on the apps side, there's definitely a preference for Chrome. I've noticed a couple web apps over the past few years do this, recently and most notably Coda (https://coda.io).
I once made it through TSA with a set of screwdrivers and razor blades (painted houses for a while) in my backpack.

Noticed those in the hotel after I landed and they most definitely went in my checked bag on the trip home.
I enjoyed the women from Chicago's point. That having that old-time gym feeling is not something that's the best for most people. It's one of those silly ideas that tries to sum up a big problem and give it a small fix. I remember a friend showed me something their aunt or something posted about dirt roads. It was a similar idea to the gym thing. It's absurd.
I wouldn't draw any conclusions about the US housing market from SF Bay data lol.
The data does not reflect this. SF and the surrounding areas are mostly still rising...monthly is still going up and the yearly is up maybe 5%. Most other parts of California are weakening though in price on a monthly basis.

https://www.car.org/marketdata/data/countysalesactivity
Not necessarily, the whole reason we invaded Iraq was to maintain the petrodollar.

The Saudis would be richer if they unpegged the Riyal and exclusively sold their oil in their currency.

The world is essentially the US economy.
If taking a stand results in higher confidence in their products in other parts of the world, and higher sales, then it may be fiscally prudent to abandon the Australian market.
You can replace the battery on them with a screwdriver, hot air, and some bravery to slightly bend the original battery as you rip it out. Then you can remove the adhesive and not have to worry about doing that again, until your next "non-replaceable battery" phone.

Considering any functional smartphone should be able to net you at least $80-100, and the battery can be found for $5-6, not to mention the waste electronics/recycling aspect, it seems like a smart move if you have the time and will.

I did this with a Nexus 5, and broke a few clips on the back, but just enough to make the back easily removable but also stays on firmly during normal use. Now it's a regular replaceable battery phone.
That would be an improvement. I think, more generally, students should be able to choose to make their grade depend entirely on their test scores. (Knowing all the material on a test is much different from acing it; you have to be thoroughly checking your work multiple times to reliably achieve perfect scores. I've taken a decent number of math contents where the winners were basically determined by "who makes the fewest careless mistakes?". It is good for a person to be able to do that, but by that point it's measuring a different skill. Having a higher ceiling is much better—but teachers like to have the grade be "number correct / number of problems".)

If you didn't answer the 10 homework problems designed to make you practice the law of cosines, but you correctly applied the law of cosines on a quiz and a later test, how is it justifiable to take points away? It seems to me that a student's grade should be the best available estimate of their ability in, knowledge of, and perhaps interest in, a subject. If a teacher knowingly gives a C to a student in the above type of situation, that seems to me like lying.

And if the tests aren't enough, in total, to make a decent stab at measuring all relevant aspects of the subject matter being taught, then that seems to be a deficiency in the tests. Maybe some subjects need take-home projects because a timed test simply isn't a good format to demonstrate some skills, but grading down for the lack of regular drill-type homework seems indefensible to me. (I wouldn't make all the students switch over to being graded solely on tests, because some probably do like the current system, and because there are reasonable arguments that a high-pressure timed test is especially bad for some students and isn't a good reflection of how well they'd do real work. Similar arguments may be made about coding interviews.)

Another, possibly more important, reason to oppose required grading of drill-type homework: It basically forces everyone to follow the same study program. (Well, they can study more on top of it, but they can't follow any study program that doesn't include doing all of those problems.) Given the range of human variation, this single study program is going to be suboptimal for lots of people. That's a problem in itself, but moreover, it gives students no incentive to try out different studying approaches and learn what is best for them. Then, when they go to a more unsupervised environment, where the problems are hard and studying really is important, they may be totally unprepared. Some may rapidly seize upon decent studying methods, others may just fail miserably. (I've heard this is a classic failure mode of smart kids who go to college.)
Asking for a backdoor is never reasonable. This law is rife for abuse the way it's worded.
> In fact, Google is doing everything they can to help Microsoft do this. Consider the fact that logging into Gmail from Chrome logs you into Chrome.

Is that feature and others like Chrome syncing your bookmarks available to non-official Chrome browsers?
I disagree. The TSA has no mandate to determine intent - the organization was created to stop those with bad intent (and others) by enforcing regulations on all travelers. Maybe that isn't a good approach, and the high level goal is misaligned with the TSA's goal, but it is the current approach.

There was no epidemic of plane hijacking, either.

I have no data on the intent of people taking loaded firearms or black powder on planes (or knives in teddy bears,

Saying that 95% of people with bad intent can get through is unsupported by the statistic OP linked.

My point here is not that the TSA is great (I personally think it is pretty useless), but to suggest that single statistic is insufficient to demonstrate that the TSA is useless - you also need something indicating probably nothing bad would have happened had the TSA not confiscated all the currently banned stuff.
I am lately enamored of Ruby because it helps me write code that makes me happy. Calling methods on numbers is one of those things that does.

Anyway, ranges are another way of expressing the concepts in Ruby:

(5.0.next_float..10.0.prev_float).include?(x)

or

(5.0.next_float...10).include?(x)

if I don't mean

(5..10).include?(x)

None of which is advice. Just remarks about why I am enamored of Ruby, lately. If I wanted to write C, I'd use Go.
If we fill out the statistic by saying that the TSA has a high success rate in confiscating items from people who aren't trying to hide them, but a 4% success rate in getting them from people who are trying to hide them, that works out to an overall failure rate of 96%.

We only care about trying to take these things from people who are hiding them. Inconveniencing innocent travelers is a cost of the TSA, not a benefit.
I would bet money that you are all talk and no game. I know people who talk like this and think like this but when it comes to actually doing, they cower. Proof or bs.
My experience is that having friends to hang out with was “easy” through high school, because you’re basically “stuck” around a fairly small number of peers in your neighborhood and school. In college there was still some of that, with dorm mates and classmates in your major. After that, it’s really only coworkers that you are “automatically” going to spend a lot of time with, and it becomes much more important to have the social skills to actively find friends. As everyone says, hobbies and social groups (like religions and clubs) are probably the best way to do this.
Ask HN: Communities to learn about creating sensor/hardware products?
I want to create a back rest of a chair that is pressure sensitive (and then apply machine learning to identify medical issues).

What are good resources to learn about creating pressure sensitive chairs? I suppose I could join a hacker space? Any online communities one would recommend?

Two notes:

1. Pressure sensitive sensors can be replaced for <any sensor>.

2. Backrest of chair can be replaced for <any physical product that allows you to sow sensors in them such as pressure sensitive sensors>.
“Boring time” or dedicated idleness is excellent for socialization, which is what I think creates the best environment for creating friendships.
Actually Chrome’s API is not available for Chromium browsers so that can’t be an issue.
Show HN: Material Floating Menu Built with Styled-Jss and React
https://github.com/ifndefdeadmau5/react-floating-button-menu

I recently polished my old ui library on NPM.
If you're looking for some material-like action button menu, I recommend you guys to check out this simple yet customizable implementation, thanks!
An inferior product can win because this inferior product you talked about had already won by the time this superior product came along. Microsoft just didn't want to admit it.
Ties in nicely to Adam Curtis' observations regarding politics being a risk obsessed managerial domain now (see the economist article that was HN front page yesterday).
Buffett has been candid about not being able to find good investment opportunities lately... Berkshire is sitting on a mountain of dry powder (in short term Treasuries) and iirc has (shockingly for them) considered buybacks or dividends because they say everything is overpriced.
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Just to be clear, this is insidious.

Before, engineers etc might be guilt-tripped into helping catch "bad people". But this makes it official, with penalties for refusal.

Maybe it demonstrates that engineers etc don't cooperate as freely as they once did. That would be good news, no?
> Sometime in early 2019 check out Skylum Luminar. They’re coming out with a Lightroom analogue that’s not subscription based.

Thanks, I hadn't seen that before. Two things put me off though:

1.) Lightroom really has motivated me to find an open source replacement. I don't think I want to get locked into another proprietary solution.

2.) The landing page for Luminar 3 that I found was so full of marketing hyperbole that I choked. There was a ton of fluff IDGAF about (e.g. export to 500px, "foliage enhancer" filter, Apple photos extensions, soft glow, artificial intelligence filter) and some that just felt like easily misinterpreted stuff (e.g. details enhancer filter, workspaces, polarizing filter).

If there's a trial I may check it out, but I'd want to know more about the tech details. Adobe got a few things right that I doubt other proprietary solutions will. Making LR so extensible with Lua is huge (is the core written in Lua?), storing its catalog in a relatively easy to parse SQLite db as well makes it easy enough to interoperate. As much as I kvetch about migrating from LR to DT, I think writing a module to import the LR metadata seems like an ideal first attempt at hacking on DT project.
That is ynab5, the cloud native version, where your data lives on their servers. That is not an option for me.
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In some organizations, I'm sure.

Where I work, it might possibly come up in a code review, or be discussed when pair programming. I think most people would agree when pointed out that this rule makes sense.

Even when I've worked under fairly strict coding rules, no one has tried to tell me how to do this particular thing yet, so I was thinking I would start practicing this on Monday, since it seems reasonable.

Though in reality it will probably only come up 1-2 times per year, and most of my coding is in Python these days, so what am I even talking about...
In Japan there are government programs set up to get single people together. Some cities reserve entire bars or areas for singles only. There are government run speed dating services as well: https://www.businessinsider.com/japanese-government-dating-s...
There's no such thing as "more than you can invest". Investment in public stocks scales very well -- $100B is no problem.

Directly owning real estate, on the other hand, doesn't scale that well. You need to hire property managers, and deal with municipal tax and assessments for each property. If you own several properties, you have to deal with hurricanes and earthquakes and fires and local zoning officials more often than you'd like.
i wanted a graph, he wrote 2 articles which were too long to enjoy with no graphs :(
> 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)

I often wonder about this in regards to those "signed" orders in the USA, and it seems now Australia is similar.

And I wonder if we need more people going public in a very big way. i.e. Jim Smith has to put out a press release that says "I work for company X and the Government of Y country asked me to do xyz, and I refused."

Go very, very public with it, putting out press releases, etc. etc.

Obviously there are laws against that, and Jim Smith is risking a lot, but I can't imagine how things will get better until people on the front lines do stuff like this.
Never knew he started a blog until recently when someone posted his blog post on how React tell a class from a function.

Good stuff if you want to know how React work internally.
A little off topic: I do not have any old consoles, yet I would love to program for them, especially 3DS, PS3, Saturn or Dreamcast. Is using an emulator the right option?

PS: I also live in a place where it is very hard to find and buy them.
I'm still using an iPhone 6 and honestly the iPhone Xs is a downgrade in a few respects. The lack of a headphone jack is a bummer in my bluetooth lacking vehicle. The lack of support for 32 bit apps means I'd have to leave a bunch of my favourites behind. The price point is still discouraging. All in all it leads to a pretty low motivation to upgrade.
I have the tendencies to feel and act similar to what you describe, but I think these tendencies can often be harmful and I often try to resist some of them. Feel free to contact me if you ever want to talk about this and other randomness with a kindred spirit. My email is in my HN profile and my Twitter is the same as my HN username.
That's a valid view, but I don't think it's possible for us to settle this definitively. I will think more on why I seem to find that free will is real.

Just to clarify my view: I think there is a threshold of experience beyond which one becomes "formed" (as in, the word formative). Beyond that point, I think free will, and consequently, personhood is real and we're not just automatons. This is not a new argument; I just wanted to clarify my view.
It says "The model of Tor was created by Bell Labs researcher Tom Duff as a nod to the movie’s influence on the naming of the “Plan 9 from Bell Labs” operating system. Plan 9 was the last version of UNIX developed at Bell Labs."
Real estate is an excellent way to launder or park money.