skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The momentum is slowing on the basic research side, not as many outrageous improvements to benchmarks coming out these days. At the same time, a lot of non-trivial tasks are close to being automated using ML methods, including high-paying tasks in medical, legal, security, etc. So if those revenue streams can be captured, that would account for these valuations and then some.

As for P/S ratios, a lot of tech startups (in various fields) have zero revenue, which makes the ratio infinite, so I'm not sure that says very much.
The irony there is I keep iMessage turned off since I want a platform agnostic, lowest common denominator (as in social availability) messaging system, and I can get that with SMS via a Google Voice number.
I have no idea what you mean by 'no support for modern standards'. It's a modern compiler for modern C (and the newest versions are compatible with code written for modern gcc, with a flag). The only thing about it is it has its own syntax for flags, which aren't exactly difficult, and they're well documented.

It produces better code than gcc in many cases. Which is exactly what you would expect for a compiler written specifically for IBM by IBM. Lots of fine-tuning options for the Power architectures.

You say you have a few AIX machines - which one, and which OS version, and which compiler versions? I'm on Power7 and Power8, with AIX 7.1
Don't look at AIX 4/5.
oh, nevermind... I'll stick to manual venv/pip:

ptest poetry add requests

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'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)
Or you just read HN directly.
what they call their feed is just a selection of relevant HN posts.
Facebook is proving to be a bestseller with the media. Not a day goes by without 3-4 of those stories becoming "news for hackers"
Open Project: author name disambiguation using machine learning
Google barely sells phones. They might have done with Nexus but they sell as many Pixels in a year as Apple do in 3 days. I know no-one with a Nest. They're still very much an ad company.
Not to go Godwin but a lot of massacres were also wrong on moral not legal grounds. When it comes down to that non-defense things get even uglier very quickly as it turns to "there is no law here against heading there and breaking your face". Even if they thought it was firmly in their domain.

"Their word is law." is a primitive framework but it expresses that enforcement backs laws.
How Facebook is Fueling the Watts Riots... Oh wait.
Looking for any and all criticisms! This is something I think a lot about and I think it's a really interesting way of presenting and understanding it -- digging our way into and out of plato's cave as reductionistically as possible.
Because this is ‘bad’ while Arab Spring was ‘good’.
And it could merely be that folk on the edge of French society — truck drivers, provincial plumbers, builders, deliverymen, teachers, parents — are saying `Enough is enough. Stop making our lives harder.’
Because the protests against the democratically elected leadership during the Arab spring... Oh wait.

You may hate something equally under any regime but there's a huge difference when that something is done in a democracy versus basically any other common form or government. In democracies issues can be (are?) solved at the election booth. Not so much in a dictatorship, a monarchy, or any "pseudo-democracy" (see China), etc.
Populist has a derogatory connotation and insulting peoples will seems improper
That's about as long as I've been using conda. But I avoid it whenever I can because of a variety of gripes. The two biggest are the following:

1. On Lustre file systems, 'Solving environment...' can take minutes. I don't like waiting minutes to provide permission to install packages.

2. A lot of conda packages are broken. It's managed by maintainers, and unfortunately, some people maintaining believe that if it works on their machine, it will work elsewhere. Since I'm tired of ABI and runtime linking errors, I often just install from source.
What do you think Twain means by giving it to the 88 million? When he says "If it did that, that would be one thing" what do you think is the "that" he's talking about, the acceptable result of copyright expiry, in terms of regular people reading his writing?

I don't think Twain expects that out-of-copyright books should be available for less than the cost of paper, or that everyone would have a printing press at home, or that he was anticipating photocopiers or smartphones or e-book readers.

I think Twain meant a larger number of people having access to the content, such as by serialisation in newspapers and super-cheap printed copies.
Yeah. Just like “the media” has a long-standing campaign against hurricanes and earthquakes. It’s really getting tiresome and boring by now. I suspect it’s George Soros and his investment in better-future-futures driving this relentless onslaught on perfectly normal natural catastrophes and corporate wrongdoing.
Can they quit? Or are they effectively being forced to perform labor for the government? This seems like an insanely impossible to enforce proposition.
Ask HN: What reliable SMTP service to use for low volume emails (~500 p/m)
I am currently using SendGrid, but the deliverability of messages is around 85%. It seems that if you use their free plan, the IP addresses used are shared between other free users and that opens up the possibility of abuse that affects all other free users.

Is there an alternative solution that gives close to 100% deliverability? (paid or free).
It's not. This is a phenomenon that'll probably keep going as long as we have pervasive social networks.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22451908-the-revolt-of-t...
> where freedom is taken seriously.

Ahahahahahahaha
Aren't these platforms meant to protect against this kind of scam?
By default, Android doesn't seem to keep my verbal alarms around. I like that.
I guess you must think they did that out of the goodness of their heart? Do you know the funding structure of NATO? The US subsidizes the freedom of every European country, this will not change ever.
For 3. Other servers e.g. h2o, do stapling out of the box too
Point-and-grunt as a derogatory term for GUIs has been around for decades [1]

[1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/point-and-drool-interface....
Concurrent trie-hash map library
2017 > 2016
I’m curious to know which tasks specificly are close to being automated?

Also, are there any AI applications which have already generated a large amount of revenue?
Better Android Apps Using MVVM with Clean Architecture
Ex-hardcore vimmer for more than a decade here :-) there is no comparison...

Vim is a powerful and lightweight editor, Emacs is an operating systems people who do not know call it an editor. My demos are not about coding but MUA, slides (live in Emacs & exported in reveal.js/pdf with beamer), file management etc so not thing (n)vim do...
I think RMS is an old school, a true hacker. Most things happening in tech industry today, if you go deep down, there is an RMS chiseled somewhere on something. I wish we could have him in HN, he's a very interesting person.
Inflation theories must dig deeper to avoid collision with data
Something interesting about this is that proper code management practices would mean there would have to be a chain-of-command having knowledge of the need for a specific code commit that targets a single user with a surveillance backdoor.

Could an approached employee say "I have to run this past software engineer X" before it will even be allowed to commit, so software engineer X is read-in, but he has to get auth from Middle Manager Y, and so on. The more people who are read-in, the more chance there is of a leak or someone overhearing a conversation or people questioning a stream of progressively higher-tiered employees being brought into a meeting with strange men wearing sunglasses, fedoras, with knife-sharp pleats in their slacks, and using company meeting rooms like they own the place.

This is making assumptions about the quality of company Z's code publishing process, but I'd be guessing that there would be a lot more "targets" using popular software from big vendors that have these QA processes in place.

The other interesting thing about this is that it may spur far more interest in both using and regularly auditing open source software. Proprietary software is far more at risk of losing reputation in this situation simply because of its opacity.

P.S.

https://blog.cryptoaustralia.org.au/2017/03/21/run-your-end-...
When I was a kid I really wanted to see Australia. Kangaroos! Coral! Toilets that go backwards! Crocodile Dundee! (I was a kid, alright?)

It just seems like a hotter, drier America at this point.

New Zealand still looks lovely though. Maybe they could invade you?
TF-Ranking: A Scalable TensorFlow Library for Learning-To-Rank
Good thing Facebook purchased it.
It's slower normally, even if we ever arrive at a substantial zero response time and 100% correct computer understatement it remain slower than act by hand with a powerful editor.
Damned if they do, damned if they don't. Personally, I feel that a lot of this hate towards Facebook is done by media types who are jealous that Facebook has stolen their role as a place to find news, no matter if it's fake or real.
The concern isn't becoming radical Islamists but becoming no different. The behavior is the ultimate problem. I mean the Shakers are technically a radical Christian sect who doesn't believe in sexual reproduction. Radical Martha Stewart fans deciding to kill people would be just as big of a problem.
application and library are very different, it's unrealistic to have one tool solve 99% library problems. If you disagree, please check:

1. Can it support different python version and virtual environment?

2. Can it support build packages for windows,osx,ubuntu,centos...?

3. Can it support different build tools, for example: wheel, cython...?

4. Can it manage dynamic depdency version?

5. Can it manage version, like bumpversion?
Iran was already fucked up of its own doing before the 1953 coup. For the last few centuries Iran's history had been alternating periods of civil war and regional agression on Iran's part.

The late 19th century was marked by occupation by Russia and the Ottoman empire. Following defeats in wars which Iran generally had provoked.

Once Iran became a constitutional monarchy in the early 20th century political instability reigned as forces loyal to the monarchy fought for power with those with a more democratic bent. Between 1947-1951 Iran had 6 different prime ministers. The coup itself was really a continuation of this political battle with the US helping the forces loyal to the monarchy.

Iran also didn't help itself during WW2 by choosing to technically remain neutral while allowing a large German presence and German utilization of the oil fields. This led to a joint British and Russian occupation to drive the Germans out.

Even today Iran's economic woes although made worse by sanctions is mostly rooted in economic policy decisions and large scale corruption which feeds money to those backed by the revolutionary guard at the expense of the people.

But it is easier to blame the big bad West for all your woes rather than take an introspective look at your own culpability.
How the Legacy Media is fueling discontent toward competing sources of information.

How government officials are panicked over losing control of narratives.

Please trust us Plebes. we'll give you the information you need.
Not directly related to the story, but just for info - "British Telecom" is an incorrect name (it's not used in the BBC article). The company renamed from that to BT in 1991.
Amazon SES works well for me, you could probably use gmail SMTP as well (seems limited to 99 emails / day).

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...
Thanks, was looking for that link.

Tangent: I notice I find it really annoying whenever an internet article talks about a blog post or other article, yet doesn't link to the source on the spot. Take this sentence from technologyreview's article:

> The approach leads to some interesting practical applications, Clune and his team write in a blog post released today

There is no excuse to have a sentence like this and not have "a blog post" be a hyperlink. It feels rude somehow, like it's breaking internet etiquette.
In the article, Uber says "Surprisingly, despite considerable research effort, so far no algorithm has obtained a score greater than 0 on Pitfall."

I played pitfall as a kid and it seems quite straightforward for a computer to solve... jump over the puddle. I'd like if someone could talk more about this game in particular, specifically why it's so hard for AI to solve. Any interesting paper/link on the subject?
I have, that's actually why I switched. I was getting better results with DDG.

I think what I've noticed with technical searches is that Google tries too hard to "predict" what I am looking for. It always ends up showing me irrelevant (but surely highly ranked) fluff related to prior searches. The thing is, I don't need to see something related to my prior searches. I need to see what I am looking for TODAY. For me the "personalization" is often actively harmful.
> Populist has a derogatory connotation

For a very good reason.

> insulting peoples will seems improper

It does seem improper, but drawing the connection between calling out people drawn to populism and insulting them is one of the least discrete attempts at muddying the waters I've seen recently.
This is one of the reasons I prefer using old, established, principled FLOSS software as opposed to Enterprise software. I don't have to change my habits because a middle manager decided to change the product to get a promotion.
> Also, by all reports, internet connectivity sucks big time

If the poster is coming from Australia, NZ is not so bad.
No expiration for anything in my experience. It's all OSS, so it would surprise me if there are any awkward restrictions.
The top comment is about how much they love D, and wonder why others don’t. So people are answering that question.

I don’t see how that’s the Rust community hating other languages, but answering a question about preference. They’re all respectful answers.

I don’t see it here, sorry :/
IHMC Teaches Atlas to Walk Like a Human (with Straight Legs)
Concurrency:

http://www.netbsd.org/~rmind/thmap_lookup_80_64bit_keys_inte...

http://www.netbsd.org/~rmind/thmap_insert_80_64bit_keys_inte...
Nope. For one thing I don't think my sense of that is much better than anyone else's (I'm not based in a major office and don't spend a lot of time reading the internal groups). For another, I'd like to keep my job. Sorry.
The Future of Capitalism, by Paul Collier
I don't like Facebook more than anyone else, but at this point aren't we just blaming them for enabling communication?

By all means, criticize Facebook for privacy issues, but not for stuff like this, unless you actually want censorship on the largest scale ever in history.
Yeah, as much as I dislike Facebook, at this point I'm kind of concerned about how much bad press is coming out about one company.

Most other tech companies (especially the ones still in the "hustling" phase) are just as bad as FB if not worse. It's starting to feel like a coordinated smear campaign, even if all of it is accurate.
Python Pandas Groupby Tutorial
This report also included this statement in the summary:

"Due to areas of concern exposed through the proper functioning of the mitigation strategy and associated oversight mechanisms, the Oversight Board can provide only limited assurance that all
risks to UK national security from Huawei’s involvement in the UK’s critical networks have been sufficiently mitigated."

The publication triggered headlines in multiple news outlets at the time, e.g.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44891913
How do you feel about the US riots held for equal protection and rights from the cops? Morally inferior and less deserving of access to social media than the Muslim Brotherhood led riots overthrowing the Egyptian government and installing a (short lived) theocracy?
The actual simulation is at http://visual6502.org/sim/varm/armgl.html
According to the FAQ question "Can Kickstarter refund the money if a project is unable to fulfill?" the answer is no.

[1] https://help.kickstarter.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005048173-...
And y'all thought we canucks we're nice.
Why Do You Need to Buy Our Uber Clone App Solution for Your on Demand Business?
What you described sounds like a geon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geon_(physics)
Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Three: 1982
> This is exactly what I suspected Google to be like but I always assumed I was just stereotyping. A bunch of competing teams and internal politics frustrating the ability to have coherence and "synergy".

Interesting, because it seems (from the outside) like that was what Microsoft was like internally for years. Blogs like mini-ms seemed to confirm some of that, but of course that was "just one side" of the story.
What is that reason? Why should people not advocate for their own interest?
It's not just plain communication. Facebook controls what you see and their algorithms encourage rage because it gets users engaged.
There are several answers with a variety of cynicism.

At the lowest level of cynicism, both parties love to have a boogeyman, and often the level of attention and criticism these targets get goes way too far.

Next level of cynicism: he’s a Jewish liberal, and a large majority of antisemities vote right, not left. By now non-racist republicans are very good at ignoring or rationalizing the bigots around them, so really loud dog whistles have no negative consequences.

Final level of cynicism: republicans and right wing parties across Europe are no longer interested in democracy, and are now trending rapidly towards open fascism. Soros’ love of free speech and fair elections are a problem to them, not a shared value between otherwise political opponents.
"It seems" is just fine. I was expressing my opinion of how it should be handled, not making a statement of fact on applicable laws.
What's with all this defense of facebook in the comments on hacker news lately?
100% agree. Facebook is making some traditional media outlets very scare of becoming irrelevant moving forward.
That's something we'll have to wait and see on, see how the legal world interprets it. However, if it is interpreted that you quitting is not complying, it's fines and perhaps jail time.
Understand the 15 min and <1min coldstart. The question was more towards test suites with 100’s of tests for really large products and you cannot break them. The scenarios won’t make sense. The feedback from these tests will not be done in 15 mins.
They just need a leader with ethical qualities. They have always been lacking there, and birds of a feather...
There are allowances (from what I understand) in this bill. From "Section 6 - Unauthorised disclosure of information":

- A person who is: ...

...may, in the person’s capacity as such a provider or employee, disclose:

(e) the total number of technical assistance notices given to the provider during a period of at least 6 months; or

(f) the total number of technical capability notices given to the provider during a period of at least 6 months; or

(g) the total number of technical assistance requests given to the provider during a period of at least 6 months.

Note:

This subsection authorises the disclosure of aggregate statistical information. That information cannot be broken down:

(a) by agency; or

(b) in any other way.
" [0]

[0] pp50-51, http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bil...
> In democracies issues can be (are?) solved at the election booth. Not so much in a dictatorship, a monarchy, or any "pseudo-democracy" (see China), etc.

These people were in these very same election booths last year so clearly issues aren't being solved that way.

<rant>
Also, we need to step down our high moral horse and stop patronizing other nations by bringing up our holy "democracies". There has been an increasing and almost delusional portrayal of countries like Russia, China, Iran etc. That's not to say they don't have flaws but let's just take a good long look at the mirror before we hop on the <insert non western nation> bashing hype train.
</rant>

Edit: formatting
The whole book: http://www.usingcsp.com/
Lyft Files for IPO
yeah, google and amazon and dare I say it apple have access to a similar amount of data about their users. Apple is the one I trust with privacy the most, but how are you going to prove that they aren't selling my profile...?
Two wrongs don’t make a right? It’s possible for both the media and Facebook to have faults.
10 Best Practices for Android, iOS, Mobile app development in 2018 – 2019
This is ridiculous. They uploaded my private messages because "Android didn't offer any way to pick and choose what permission to grant". Why didn't their app simply asked this in a pop up? Are we seriously gonna pretend this was a valid reason for people's text messages to be stolen by Facebook?
Soros' foundation, Open Society, has supported censorship here in the US and Europe. Whether you agree or disagree with their objectives and methods, intellectual freedom certainly isn't one of their goals.

I do think the hyperbole over Zuckerburg and Soros by the media ( left and right ) is way overdone. The conservative media loves to portray Soros as pure evil while the liberal media paints him as a saint. And everyone ( left and right ) seems to hate Zuckerburg which I feel is ridiculous. Neither are all powerful demons nor saints who control the world. They are human beings just like you and me. Sure they have a lot of money, but lots of people in the US have money. They are influential, but not all powerful.

Maybe if we stopped painting people and sides as pure evil and pure good, we'd be better off and we could discuss the gray because most of life is in the gray.
Faster and simpler with the command line: deep-comparing JSON files with jq
> Zuckerberg controls its board and his number two, Sheryl Sandberg, can’t decently be fired, protected by the “Lean In” flak vest.

That's a poor, cheap shot at women's rights. How sad that an article that wraps up with this can sit at #1 on HN.
Australia has effectively banned Huawei since 2012 (NBN participation ban). Therefore, there is plenty of discourse and information from Australia about technology sovereignty.

The article at [1] directly addresses the claim:

> Huawei denies having any ties to the Chinese government beyond those of being a law-abiding taxpayer.

Articles at [2] also provide more in-depth analysis.

[1] https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/huawei-and-the-ambiguity-o...

[2] https://www.aspi.org.au/report/huawei-and-australias-5g-netw...
From Alex Irpan's response:

I was sour on the results themselves, because they smelled too much like PR, like a result that was shaped by PR, warped in a way that preferred flashy numbers too much and applicability too little

Harsh! OpenReview's double blind system seems to work quite well in this regard as a peer review mechanism.

Quick Opinions on Go-Explore

https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/11/27/go-explore.html
Like totally
Sure. Flying cars just around the corner, for a century now. Not holding my breath.
The problem for me is that there is a large spectrum of devices, some of them are shit. Especially if you don't do your research.

Ive had Apple-like longevity out of all my family's Samsung "S" and Sony Xperia devices.

If you met my daughter (destroyer of USB cables) you would know that the fact her Xperia has survived 2 years is some small miracle on its own.

Just avoid LG, HTE and off brand crap - they eventually have issues.
Australia passes sweeping anti-encryption legislation
Replacing an algorithm that bombards people with propaganda with unfiltered propaganda doesn't seem like an improvement. Someone who, for example, mistakes a map of policing for a map of crime won't do well in either scenario.