skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And no one should be surprised by this. The NN advancement of late doesn't help addressing human-style symbolic reasoning at all. All we have is a much more powerful function approximator with a drastic increased capacity (very deep networks with billions of parameters) and scalable training scheme (SGD and its variants).

Such architecture works great for differentiable data, such's images/audios, but the improvement on natural language tasks are only incremental.

I was thinking maybe DeepMind's RL+DL is the way leads to AGI, since it does offer an elegant and complete framework. But seems like even DeepMind had trouble to get it working to more realistic scenarios, so maybe our modelling of intelligence is still hopelessly romantic.
>abandoned for cost, maintenance, and operational reasons

Because they didnt have the methods, systems, etc that we have avail today... We should look at this again.

I would pose, that the "random scooter rental" algo would do well within this space...
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Adelaide, Brisbane [1], and Sydney [2][3] all have busways to some extent, although the O-bahn is the only guided busway.

Brisbane is also in the process of upgrading their busways to something like rubber-tyred trams (bi-articulated busses) with the Brisbane Metro project [4].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busways_in_Brisbane
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool%E2%80%93Parramatta_T...
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-West_T-way
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_Metro
That's a good point you made above, now that all information is at our finger tips, it's hard to value any single piece...

But we should value and take happiness in the fact that we can access any information so easily... That notion relaxes me, thank you for taking the time to write it.
Just a few thoughts. A lot of little companies like picking hyped tools because they think it will differentiate them and server them well later, but most companies never get to that stage and don't really need what is being offered. Seems much safer to take the tried and true standard solution that has worked for decades and just make your UX outstanding rather than try to put together a "dream team" of new tech...
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The skunk smell is generally a Good Thing for the unsmoked flowers. The actual smoke smells different.
The trend for almost five years has been less bitter IPAs. IPAs are still the hottest trend in craft beer, but the days of one-upmanship in bitterness stopped around the time Heady Topper gained prominence. Subsequently there was a rise in "session IPAs" - usually about 5% ABV and 45 IBUs. In the last two years, the most hyped style has been the New England IPA. All the hop aroma of yesterday's 100 IBU Double IPA but with half the bitterness.
Makes sense. I have had my RMR tested and I am dead average. I have never had success with small deficits because I am not disciplined enough to maintain -700 net cals per week or whatever.
ad-based tech companies which seem to be hyper-cyclical

I agree ad-based tech companies are going to be really hurt by this recession. So Facebook, Twitter and Google will suffer, but particularly Facebook and Twitter may not survive the next few years. Smaller tech companies based on affiliate or advertising revenue won't stand a chance.

I disagree that Uber is uniquely positioned to weather a recession. IMO they are too early - when we reach self-driving cars this type of company will be able to expand globally and prosper, but Uber is too early to do that, they're going to have to keep trying to make money with a huge host of freelance drivers and all the problems they bring (regulatory, cost, unions etc).

They just raised $2 Billion on a 120B valuation, but they're still losing huge amounts of money per year. Uber lost $1 billion in the third quarter 2018. Those are astronomical losses, that's around $4B a year. I don't think they have any chance of hitting a profit in a recession, they may survive, but they're going to squander huge amounts of money to do so.
Looking at the photos: the vehicle itself is tiny, as is the cargo space for groceries. There are two cargo areas with separate doors, so presumably each customer's delivery could have an isolated cargo space.

I could imagine this concept scaled up to van size or even truck size, integrated with something like a refrigerated amazon locker. Exciting stuff!
"probably".. that's the question.. not being useful answer
2.3m content items is tiny. So is 30m. You're at least 1-2 magnitudes away from something that will start to bother postgres. Anything before that is likely to be an index or IOPS issue.
Working out to exhaustion constantly doesn't make you more fit.

Rest days are key to improving fitness. This doesn't conflict with "there is no such thing as being too fit in terms of longevity and health."
A model isn't a crystal ball, it is a way of formally describing something using mathematics. A model could tell you that a specific set of conditions that preceded a recession have occurred again. One example of this would be an inverted yield curve.[1]

A recession is when an economy declines for at least six months.[2] I guess the best predictor of a recession is 5.5 months of negative growth.

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-03/u-s-yi...
2. https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-a-recession-3306019
If anyone is considering doing something similar today, I'd suggest to take a look at the recent FoundationDB Document layer which speaks MongoDB v3 (https://foundationdb.github.io/fdb-document-layer/).

I haven't tried it yet, and there are some limitations at the moment, but I find it extremely promising.
I don't have any links to prove my point but I suspect we need to thank Mongo for pushing the traditional SQL databases to support JSON.
The tone of the article and the posts in this thread are literally the most important piece of content.

This is the person who was directly called out for a specific action which broke one element of Edge functionality. His commits and comments have a very strong "well, fuck them" vibe to them.

I read the initial post that led to this blog reply. It accused google of not playing well with others. The engineer in question is in this thread saying he doesn't give a shit what people think about his tone and that he isn't diplomatic.

He is literally the criticism personified - the hubris made person.

No wonder people are talking about it.
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My anecdata is that I have been reading the news about facebook and have started using it less. I also only run it inside a firefox container.
Salaries around 150k for senior engineers aren't even that common in the states outside of the Bay Area and New York. Can you keep your current position but work remotely from the EU?
One of the most useful large systems of that type is the garbage pneumatic tube system on Roosevelt Island in New York. That was installed in the 1980s and has worked well. But big systems are rare. Disney World and the Grand Mosque area in Mecca have them, both being places with very large numbers of visitors.
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"One of the biggest reasons for this remains that Linux is cheaper than the alternatives."

This is such a fallacy considering that RHEL support is exorbitantly expensive and notoriously poor, while SmartOS costs literally the price of hardware and not much more. I'm sick and tired of the clueless press pandering and Linux bandwagon propaganda. Linux is popular because the kids who grew up on Linux ISO's is the only OS they know and they stick to that like a drunkard sticks to a fence so as not to keel over. It's completely irrational.
Ask HN: What field should I work in so as to help people?
I will be graduating from university in a year with a bachelor of science in Computer Science and minor in Math. When I started school I didn't really think about a deeper purpose to my work. I enjoy computer science and am good at i, but that's about it. It seems everywhere my peers are going to work are not places that are really helping people. Most of them are in it for the money.

So my question is: in what field should I work that is going to make a difference in people's lives? Especially disenfranchised persons.
It's looking like recession globally, doesn't look like anywhere is going to escape this.
It is not easy to switch, so until the pain is too big, one doesn't do it.
The lesson learned from ansible probably is: if they still don't use any kind of ansible, chef or whatever. They never will. (my current job for example) but they might accept something like a "base framework"
> Apple practically invented the concept of "planned obsolescence".

It was the automotive industry that invented and perfected it, not Apple.
I had the same impression as you, so I looked at the parent’s blog at www.cryptologie.net. It’s quite good, and in my mind does everything OP suggests!
same thing in san jose, they eventually did go fully autonomous this summer though. those dumb robots used to get stuck on curbs all the time.
I have to imagine that one of the perhaps unintended side effects of lots of driverless vehicles buzzing around is that they'll act as a kind of traffic calming mechanism. I assume these things will have to obey speed limits and traffic laws to the letter.
How is a vape pen more convenient than a couple of joints? The joints don't require batteries and after you smoke them there's nothing to carry around!
For a sense of the scale of this problem, the retro reflectors that we left on the moon return 1 photon out of the 10^17 we shoot at them and that's not even that reliable. This thing would be a mind bendingly further distance away and would not have any retro reflectors on it (oh man it'd be WILD if it did though!!).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment...
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Yes, yayana explained my error pretty succinctly before you did...
==It seems nearly everyone always believes that a recession, big disaster slowdown, market crash, Etc is "right around the corner." And for the last 10 years they have been wrong in the macro sense :-).==

This isn't accurate, you are implying that people have been calling for a recession since before the last recession ended in June 2009. That doesn't pass the smell test.

==Where companies will have to prove that a cruel and unemotional market will agree with their lofty valuations.==

The claim that the market is "unemotional" is laughable. If that were the case everything would be properly valued based on the exact same criteria. For example, Elon Musk saying something controversial doesn't change the underlying business fundamentals of TSLA, but it sure moves the stock price. An "unemotional" market wouldn't react to an expected Fed action like they are right now (S&P down 2.1%).
I think they're starting to get support within the astronomy community for people to donate telescope time to them. I really recommend the podcast link above, I think you'll enjoy it!
Well, if we forced our presuppositions on our experiments we would not have discovered gravitation, electricity, relativity, quantum mechanics, etc. Each of those advances is a metaphysical paradigm shift over previous views of reality. E.g. the original materialism was the billiard ball model with a random swerve, due to Epicurus. No one believes in the original materialism anymore, since it has been falsified in so many ways. Instead, we have redefined materialism to include a whole host of causal forces that were previously ignored or unknown.

Similarly we can mathematically and empirically differentiate between halting oracles and Turing machines, so why not leave both possibilities open as scientific explanations, instead of doubling down on the Turing machine model? Call halting oracles materialistic if it makes you feel better.
Says who?

I occasionally smoke Nicotiana Rustica, or farmers tobacco; which is plenty stronger than regular tobacco. And it's less addictive, even helps some people to quit because their bodies finally get all the nicotine they've been craving. And not surprisingly it's forbidden to sell it in most countries.

Someone fucked around with regular tobacco, that seems pretty obvious from here. It's basically designed to hook you more effectively and make you sicker by raising the nicotine levels really quick and then dropping them like a stone.

Which I assume is exactly what they're doing with the vaping liquids/salts as well. Profits, returning customers; who gives a shit about the world?
Agreed. As a person who is unhealthy (chronic illness), my anecdote is that life is essentially unenjoyable, unbearable, and pointless when not healthy.
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Seriously upgraded my python skills. Switched almost everything I was using matlab for to python/C++ and it has been working out very well for me.
How do they compare to slaughterhouses and sheep farms?
The guy following it (and also remote "pilots") are/were part of a training program for the eventual deployment of self driving delivery robots. The startup is from Tallinn, Estonia, with offices in several locations
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I'm not so much concerned about when it will happen rather the inflated attitude expressed by the VC about money.

like a child playing with fire.
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Very true, I think learning is intangible in many ways as the outputs are hard to link to the learned inputs.

Maybe I need to redefine a goal based on what I'm learning in order to target an output... Kind of like back-propagation in neural networks?
Trespass to chattels. This is an intentional tort: The stated goal is to impair the property of the neighbor.
Git is after all designed for this distributed scenario, so you'd think it would be possible, what about something like:

Setup:

git add remote gitlab ...
git add remote github ...

Then whenever you need to sync:

git fetch --all
git checkout -b gh --track github/master
git checkout --track gitlab/master
git merge/rebase gh
git push gitlab

Could probably be done shorter but those steps should do it..
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USPS mail trucks sit on city streets unattended every day while the carrier walks house to house, leaving the truck chock full of people's paychecks, Amazon boxes, money orders, credit cards, and tons of valuables. And they don't get stolen or robbed often enough for USPS to do anything about it.

There are plenty of ways for criminals to commit super easy crimes without autonomous vehicles being in the mix, but somehow society continues to function.
Isn't that the point of nightly/beta opt-in builds? Shipping to 1% of stable would be more for testing scale-handling, whether people like it, etc, but the software itself should be relatively stable at that point
His father had warned him about Cheney and Rumsfeld,that they would stab him in the back, but he chose to ignore that advice to show his independence:
Not shaming, but that is a false dichotomy. I don't want to go around condemning people; I just don't think telling them everything is okay and letting them die young is a good idea. There are many other options to take; better education on the topic, better culture around work, better pay, better childhood involvement in activity, less videogames, etc. It isn't just a poverty issue and it is getting worse in all levels of society.
Well, quantum computation is weaker than a nondeterministic Turing machine, so not the same thing I'm saying. Penrose correctly identifies the mind cannot be a deterministic Turing machine, but his invocation of quantum mechanics does not solve the problem he points out. A DTM can simulate an NTM and hence anything inbetween, so the inbetween of quantum computation does not solve anything.

The fundamental problem Penrose identifies boils down to the halting problem, which requires a halting oracle to be solved. Hence, a halting oracle is the best explanation for the human mind, and no form of computation, quantum or otherwise, suffices.

UPDATE:

Since I'm rate limited, here is my answer to the replier's comment:

A partial answer: the mind has access to the concept of infinity, and can identify new, consistent axioms. Other possibilities: future causality and ability to change the fundamental probability distribution.

But, it's also important to note that we don't have to answer the "how" question in order to identify halting oracles as a viable explanation. We often identify new phenomena and anomalies without being able to explain them, so the identification is a first step.
I can't say I'd recommend DO for an email server either. I wasn't blacklisted per se, I was blocked before I even sent any email and needed to be whitelisted.

I won't say DO is a bad choice for a mailserver, nor a good one. I just did a quick search to see if that's changed in the past few years and came across "Helm", but that's not really a "good" option either.

The real problem is there is no "good" choice for a dedicated mailserver or service provider.
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Ask HN: Please recommend resources on moving to data driven decision making?
I work for an organization that essentially wants to learn the 'data mindset' - the types of questions we can ask, the types of queries those questions will turn into, and the data driven decisions that those queries could help us make. However, we are looking for some good resources. Does anyone have any recommendations?
I think that's the point, though: legal marijuana farms are an industrial process. The fact that we can put them in the same category as a paper mill is noteworthy.

I'd agree that they're less offensive to the sense of smell than paper mills, or dog food manufacturing, or any number of other large scale commercial operations. But now that recreational marijuana is legal in so many places we have to consider (and regulate) it like the industrial process that it is.
Marketing / Evangelism / Outreach. I'm not kidding, and I don't predominantly mean that in a bad way. I think it's something that the postgres community / companies really aren't good at.
Sorry to hear that. I hope that writing it out at least motivates you enough to make a drastic change.
Meanwhile a larger and larger portion of our population declines into third world living conditions.
This. There should not be any large commercial marijuana growing houses or farms near residential areas. I don't know of any near me in Colorado.
I'm really hoping for that.
Since when does Arizona have no hills? Most states in the US are flatter than Arizona.
I think that validates sharkweek's theory, above.

We have all said things, made crude and even cruel jokes, that we'd be embarrassed about if they became public. But I think we are starting to understand that it's pretty common and with cameras everywhere and social media it's much more likely that you'll be "outed" for something you said or did or would rather keep private.

I don't know if a society that doesn't shame people for that sort of stuff will be better. Shame is a powerful way that societies regulate undesired behavior. But I do think it's happening.
Lots of newly IPO'd tech companies during the last Dotcom bubble survived through it and eventually grew to be prominent companies today. Many of their share prices were down >80% in the years afterwards, but the cash raised through IPOs were crucial to help them survive and expand. An exit via IPO now is better than trying to do a founding round in the middle of a recession when you are low on cash again.
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(from the link) "In specific". Are my grammar sensors malfunctioning? (I can see that it's logically the opposite of "in general", and you can say both "generally" and "specifically", but... :)
Damaging automated infrastructure will reduce your social credit score. You won't be able to get into the automated convenience store. Won't be able to buy a plane ticket or a high-speed rail ticket. Won't be able to get a loan. Won't be able to get into a good school. Won't be able to get a vehicle license for a congested area.

All this is operational now in parts of China. They've finally figured out how to automate karma.
You are stretching VERY far.

There is a segment of the population that is addicted to a substance that is illegal. They die because they hide to satiate their addiction.

If fast food were illegal, and fat people sat under bridges eating fast food and occupationally chocked on an illegal KFC chicken bone, I'd advocate for fatty eating centers.

Comparing saving lives to removing stigma is... beyond absurd.
> I'm sure economists/data-scientists have models for that, and if there would be any obvious sign, we would know it by now.

There certainly are people with models. The problem is there are way more occurrences of people using some model to say a crash is imminent than there are crashes.
If some people I don’t know get fucked over for that, whatever.

And when your kids lost all respect for you after finding out what a shameless sell-out you are, well...

whatever.
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> Not for nothing, but why can’t the Fed just keep the base interest rates low forever?

Low interest rates are basically propping up the finance industry. The cheap money that banks can borrow from the Fed is not going to end up at yours truly, it will only end up in investment shenanigans. In addition, low interest rates also kill savings for poor(er) people - this is something that's a real problem in the European Union right now. Banks offer their customers sometimes negative rates on their savings, and no "conventional" savings accounts hit even inflation percentages which means both poor people and "rich-ish" (=not poor, not rich enough to be able to risk money on the stock markets, but rich enough that their banks charge negative interest) effectively lose money.
Cannabis smell is not the exact same smell as skunk - you can differentiate between them with your nose alone, and from this one can have a positive preference for the former (and a negative reaction to smelling the latter..) - but they both comprise various thiol compounds, so they are both pretty similar and striking.

Sometimes people think the depth of the scent of the un-smoked weed means it contains a deeper variety of specific volatile organic compounds called terpenes. I'm not sure if the distinct aroma-causing compounds make much of a difference for the end result compared to the cannabinoids, but people use their nose as a quality estimator this way.
Yes, the modern practice is to treat customers as cattle.
The same guy for four months?
>induce demand via lower prices

Perhaps. On the other hand, the more price sensitive someone is about using Uber, the more of a luxury good it probably is for them.

If you have no real option but to use Uber (Lyft/taxi/etc.) then you'll probably have to suck it up and pay what it costs, at least up to a point. If you have alternatives like public transit and walking, those will likely still be cheaper which may be important in a downturn.
So happy to read that :) (and so glad it's served as source of inspiration for your project, keep up the good work!)
Isn't higher concentration better? Users titrate the dose to their preferred subjective effects, so the only difference concentration makes is the exposure to the carrier liquid and the flavorings, which are less well understood than nicotine.

If all alcoholic drinks contained 1% mystery liquid, would you rather drink beer or spirits?