skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your concern here is less about flaws in the AI training and more about scale issues when you have a million cars with the same brain and thus the same flaw. I share your concern. Human brains have lots of flaws too, but at least every human driver has a different brain, so some fraction of mistakes cancel out.

But another way to look at this is the fact that "cloning" the same AI brain across multiple cars is equivalent to a single AI brain controlling many cars. And that does have human analogies where you have a single person who has a dramatic amount of power. Any flaws in that human's reasoning can be disastrous.

Trump having access to the nuclear launch codes comes to mind.

In practice, the way we mitigate this is by surrounding that human with advisors and other brains to try to help shore up deficiencies. We could do something similar with AI. Have a couple of differently-trained models and compare their outputs. If they disagree wildly, then try to gracefully shut down the system.
I used to think along those lines but I don't buy this argument anymore. Many impossible-looking companies just switched pretty seamlessly Instagram, Dropbox etc being among the big ones. Besides, you never hear about what is difficult about the migration as opposed to why it might be difficult because a lot of lines. I have been hearing this since a few years instead of repeating the same thing they would have ported by now should they even bothered.

Here are all the milestones https://python3statement.org/
> centuries upon centuries of arbitrary constructs

That also describes the English language, and yet here we are, still using it.

In general, something that's lasted centuries is more likely to last centuries more, than something that's only lasted one decade.
Yeah, those were all "logical extreme" examples. My issue here isn't determining an appropriate level of taxation so much as OP's "it's legal, so it's ethical" justification.

I am open to the idea that Google is still paying an appropriate amount in taxes! Just not by that particular argument.
1) so if size is an argument: does google need to have a new product every 5 yrs? I don’t think google has innovated outside its main product “search” (like a new category with a major source of revenue on the size of search). They’re doing just fine

2) that’s actually a strong argument pro Apple and not against them (that’s like saying: no one will ever use another search engine than google and because of that they’re growing bigger and bigger)
The ’75 referendum was for joining the EEC not the EU.
On the other hand, SF is one of the most beautiful cities in the US with a vibrant culture and the rest of the bay is utterly boring ugly suburbs.
"An improvement to our data collection system was applied from 1/1/16"

Coincidence??

And yes... the decline started well before that!!
Midwest prices my friend. When I made $60k I was able to put half my paycheck straight into savings and still have a few hundred bucks leftover for 'whatever' every month.
I hear this all the time but I don't understand what hoarding means in this context. Surely you're not implying that the majority of any billionaire's wealth is just cash under their mattress? I'm fairly sure that most of any given billionaire's wealth is invested, often in equities or bonds. In that sense, they are letting others borrow their money and funding economic development. Same goes for money sitting in a bank that gets loaned out.
By having a financial stake in things other than the paper.
You're being willfully naive if you think that Google wouldn't take an internal project, productize it, and then proceed to screw up said product.

This is literally the past 15 years of Google.
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It's definitely true.

1. Your time scale seems very off. The law rarely changes quickly.

2. None of these things have large scale social consensus, even where there are majorities.
The closest is legalization of pot, and it is in fact becoming legal where there is consensus.

But right now, surveys show only 62% of people US-wide support legalization of pot[1].

That's not social consensus of the kind that the law represents long term.

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/08/americans-su...

(I chose Pew since they are very independent, and for the record, i'm pro-legalization)
DE = Germany/Deutschland, not Delaware. (The original article title specified Germany. The abbreviation may be read differently by Americans).
You don't necessarily need to be a coach, you could also sign up as a freelancer [0]. There are some tests and a Skype interview, but afterwards you can apply for jobs. For my current Codementor job I work for a US employer 40 hours per week, been doing this since June.

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I think it's fair to say the majority of the US "Mainstream Media" is overwhelmingly pro-interventalist and by extension pro-military. MSNBC had a clear conflict of interest in the run-up to the Iraq war, with its parent company being a defense contractor, yet ran overwhelmingly pro-invasion stories. A more modern example was the run-up to our involvement with Syria, where you had major network personalities like Jake Tapper deliver almost nightly pearl-clutching lectures about how we must do something. The efforts to appear balanced and to "both sides" an issue end when it involves interventionist campaigns. All of a sudden those who suggest caution and restraint become problematic and need iron-clad arguments.

One one think committing American "blood and treasure" to these engagements would demand careful reasoning but often it's those pushing for restraint that are tasked with the intellectual heavy-lifting.
It does though, assuming that machina is doing virtualization for zircon. Or am I confused?

If I'm understanding correctly, this would work the same way that the GNU/Linux termina VM is booted when using crostini currently.
Operating a McDonald's, although a franchise, is just as self-employed as a local diner.
> SF (especially in the areas closer to the ocean) is blasted with cold wind and fog year-round so there's really never a hot season.

You've forgotten the few weeks in the spring and fall where the Central Valley-powered air conditioning turns off and suddenly SF becomes Palo Alto. :)
> GH: No, there's not going to be an AI winter, because it drives your cellphone. In the old AI winters, AI wasn't actually part of your everyday life. Now it is.

Oh good; although, that predicament about publishing AI papers seems pretty bad.
I didn't use an X long enough. I didn't want to chance it. So, hypothetical.

However, you can use reduce white point and a higher brightness at night to avoid the flicker. Can be triggered with accessibility shortcut.
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That’s true mathematically. But, after we get finished paying for our son’s college, out of free cash flow, we will easily be able to save 20% of my income and enjoy our five bedroom, 3-1/2 bath, 3000 square foot home in the burbs for which we pay around $2100 a month...

Did I mention, that we should also be able to save most of my wife’s income or just fritter it away on vacations? I’m no special snowflake any senior developer who lives in my metro area could easily do the same thing.
Please, not again. Their server hardware was such crap, and OSX really just isn't a great server OS.
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Working in tech, if you don't max out your 401k, what are you doing ?
My father was an electrician by trade, but generally very capable. He loved the problem solving aspect of his job. Wiring and code are not so far apart as you might think.

I've often felt, given the pedestrian nature of the problems I have to solve in code, he got the better end of the bargain.
Well, Van Ness as an example - couple businesses are already shutting down because you simply can't see them behind the fences. Others are doing ridiculous sales and anything they can to get noticed. I only saw 3 months ago official city signs labeling the businesses hiding behind green-tarp-covered fence.

I almost feel like it would have been better to shut down Van Ness north of city hall entirely, and leave the sidewalks wide open and unfenced. Or only allowed bus traffic.
For everyone who isn’t a software engineer, SF was a dramatically better place to live ~40 years ago.
I didn't say cannot, I said that correctness in a monorepo exists despite the monorepo, not because of the monorepo.
The real experience is living in the south bay in a giant apartment complex with a pool, driving everywhere, working on a tech campus, shopping at Fry's and Valley Fair. I may move back.
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Honestly... it doesn't seem that pretty :). Sure its a wild, dangerous road. But there are certainly prettier places to drive.

I do still like the historical attributes of the path, as the ancient silk road etc.
Not only the NYT, other mainstream sources will not shake the boat if ad revenue is at stake. The Internet was the wild west early on, but it did provide a medium to discuss issues and foster many different points of view. It seems the walled gardens have taken over and the de-platforming is beginning to curtail some points of view whether you agree with them or not.
This is really helpful, thank you. I've been diving into heavy doses of JavaScript lately -- I'll continue with that and augment it with TypeScript and React too.
Not precisely---most of the arguments I've personally seen on the topic (here included) boil down to "it's not fair they do that," with no clarification as to what framework of fairness the plaintiff is using. Because there are multiple non-overlapping frameworks of fairness in play.

The money in question here, for example, is paid by foreign citizens in non-US countries. How much of that money is owed to the US government, and why? How much owed to the nations from which those citizens hail, and why?
Calling them "Midwestern towns" is really weird as they are more dense than many Midwestern cities. If you go to Des Moines (which is the most populous city in Iowa) you'll find the population significantly less dense than somewhere like Sunnyvale.
An Essay on Confidence
>>It makes me wonder why new developments today are always built in the flattest places -- the flatness practically forces us to include a lot of empty space, usually in the form of lawns.

Generally speaking, it's more expensive to build on land with a significant slope. I heartily agree, however, that it results in a much more interesting built environment.
The proposed border fence with Mexico is $23 million a mile. China can build a mile of high-speed rail for $30 million.

China will have 25,000 miles of HSR before the first part of the California HSR is completed.
With the brain its "use it or lose it". I was relatively good at CS:S. I was backup in a few matches for some pros. Then I took a break for 10 years. When I went back to it, I sucked all over again. With twitch-reflex games it is not at all like riding a bike.

It took me a month of 8 hours a day one summer to get marginally ok. I'm guessing it would take me a similar amount of time now (15 years out). I don't really want to take that time, though.
> Apple has a good challenge in front of them for the next 5 years, they have enough cash in the bank to ride it out and try some moonshots, but there will be some big changes/chances in the next 5 years, and I'd be willing to bet that Cook will leave as CEO by 2024.

I don't believe apple's shareholders would let them burn a singificant amount of their cash reserves for R&D over next 5 years...unless investors truley believe said R&D has solid ROI.
It needs your address so it can send you an email if you decide not to use the application for three days, and this is turned on automatically.
Cameron wanted an emergency brake on immigration; he got an emergency brake on benefits. I don't think he tried to make the commission more democratic, or enable EU parliament to propose legislation, and I'm pretty sure he didn't try to create any unifying executive head elected from across the whole population.

National governments are jealous of their powers, and fearful that the lightweight EU parliament would just be a tool of lobbyists rather than responsive to citizens, that citizens wouldn't be engaged with their representatives. And in many ways they're right. But it's a Catch-22: the EU parliament will remain a bunch of lightweights for as long as it has little power.

The EU definitely has a bunch of problems. Top of the list is democratic back-sliding in Hungary, Poland, Romania. And Euro area fiscal union or some other mechanism of fixing economic imbalances under monetary union without needing pro-cyclical austerity and depreciation. And migration from Middle East and Africa. And USA's pivot towards unenlightened self-interest and Russia's reawakened regional power-plays. Brexit is a fair ways down the list at this point for the rest of the EU, much less democratic reform, alas.
> BTC will create prosperity we can not even dream of

Pyramid schemes always create prosperity for those at the top. Doesn't make them good for society.

So far, everyone who made money from bitcoin did so at the expense of someone else losing money. Bitcoin is not a corporation. It makes no profit. It gives no dividends. It can't even liquidate its base assets since it has none.
Do actually ever notice your regular mobile apps updating? I don't. It happens automatically in the background when I'm connected to Wifi. If anything, mobile apps are worse as I don't control the time of the download at all.
Thank you for calling out the restaurant issue in SF. Everyone seems to think it's normal and perfectly fine to wait 30+ minutes (My average is closer to 1.5 hrs at 'trendy' or 'gimmicky' places) for a table. Also the postage-stamp sized restaurants with like 4 tables. This is a uniquely SF setup for restaurants and it drives me nuts.

I generally love the taste and diversity of food in SF, but I feel like restaurant owners don't value their customers, nor their customer's time when they open a restaurant like this.

My new rule is: if the wait is 30 minutes or more, I go somewhere else. No exceptions. Honestly, I've fallen out of touch with many friends because of this rule, but my time is worth more than that. I actively try to patronize the "critically underrated" places that are good, but have no line down the block.
How about: I like driving so don't take it away.
or perhaps: Just because we can, doesn't mean we should.
It would help if the MBP were actually a professional level device instead of being a souped-up, hyper-expensive consumer laptop.

That would mean more ports, a higher minimum spec, and the ability to upgrade the internals. The touchbar could be dropped entirely, it’s really just a marketing gimmick.
Other countries would just build a new tunnel
Games definitely are my thing. It's actually why I feel confident in saying a whole lot of them are terrible.

Average play time doesn't mean much in terms of actual game quality and value for your money. I've played games just to go through them, get the story and play the sequel, the one that's actually good.
If you run Windows, you might enjoy my JKLmouse utility. I designed it for exactly the purpose you're talking about. You can use the TrackPoint for fast movement and seamlessly follow up with pixel-by-pixel movement using either IJKL (and neighboring keys for diagonals), HJKL, or the cursor keys. Also WASD or ESDF for the left hand.

This is similar to the MouseKeys built into Windows, but it's designed for laptop keyboards and does not require a 10-key pad.

Basically, whenever any mouse button is down, all the keys mentioned above become active as mouse movement keys. So just keep the button down and you can use TrackPoint/touchpad or the keyboard interchangeably.

To move the pointer without any mouse button down, you can hold down the Caps Lock key which also activates keyboard mouse control.

There's an installer, or you may prefer getting JKLmouse.ahk and launching it under AutoHotkey.

https://www.jklmouse.com/
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I think you want a score that's a function of (a) the time spent doing the thing, (b) the time spent reminiscing about and talking about the thing, and (c) the quality of the thing.

A trip to Disney for somebody might conceivably be something that they remember for the rest of their lives and that has value.
Raft has quite a few implementation, while paxos seems have none.

Is raft really that simple?
> It makes me wonder why new developments today are always built in the flattest places -- the flatness practically forces us to include a lot of empty space, usually in the form of lawns.

I think you've got the causality backwards there. A lot of people still want lawns and flat land is easier to build on. There's nothing about building in a plain that prevents building dense.
There are other ways to dehoardify prime land that don't require tearing up nature. Raising property taxes (i.e. shredding prop 13) would help.

The NIMBYs would be less motivated if rising land values were captured by taxes rather than winners of the homeowner lottery (and who likes SF NIMBYs?)

A lot of people sitting on inefficiently used land would also be driven to sell (and their bungalow could be demolished and replaced with apartments, increasing supply).

Also more tax income.
You are dammed if you do, and you are damned if you don't.

It is a political time bomb no matter who is in charge regardless if the damage was done by an Act of God (Hurricane Sandy).

The L Train's shutdown was going to occur for 15 months. That's a long time. I don't doubt that it was necessary, but i'd be livid if i lost my main commute for 15 months.

On the flip side, if its going to take 15 months with a full shutdown, it's going to take forever with a partial/slow service.

What do people think about a slow of service, then going into a full stop of service with significant communication? People would be nudged to find alternates and spill over isn't going to overwhelm alternate routes.
Yes and I'm referring to Win32, WinForms, WPF, UWP/WinUI, Cocoa and Qt are very likely more widely deployed. Though even the last place of the commonly used frameworks is still relatively widely used.
I think your mixing the cause and effect here. Development in Flatland middle America is not constrained by coast line. It’s much easier to build out than up, and land is on average cheaper than coastal cities. This means developments include large open spaces, because it’s affordable. A lawn in a Mid West city starts at 100k instead of 10mil like in San Francisco.
Seems like a massive failure to take what so many places are so envious of and not be able to make something positive with it.
I'm not really excited about Google dumping linux for something they have more control of. It will make it harder to create device drivers and utilities. And lead to an even more closed google-controled ecosystem than the current Android world.
I massively enjoyed ME3. I've already bought other EA games at launch without regretting my decision. BF4 is an example.
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And most "tax avoidance strategies" (this one included) take advantage of the lack of one world government, and therefore lack of one global legal framework for "fairness" in taxation. So countries compete for business by offering different tax incentives, and companies move to find a balance between retaining as much money as they can and as much of the other things they need (like competent employees, which come from specific countries) as they can.

The problem isn't that these strategies are unfair; the problem is that authorities can't agree on a uniform concept of "fair" because it's in their best interest to get the most business in their territory. Prisoner's Dilemma again, in the opposite direction.
Does the city have the infrastructure needed to support more housing? Water, sewer, electric grid, schools, trash service, parking, transit? You can’t just replace a few blocks of single family homes with high rises and call it a day.

Where do you put all this new infrastructure and who pays for it? Existing residents?

More housing is necessary but insufficient.
As several people have pointed out, the stock market investors care. But putting that aside, a company can be profitable with a stock price of $0 (though not likely). So at first glance it would seem that just staying profitable is enough to get by, and technically it is. But the problem is staying profitable. If a company has been growing rapidly, then the growth slows, then the growth stops, that's a big indicator that they'll start shrinking. Of course there is a non-zero probability that they will stay profitable for quite some time, but the odds are against them.
Agreed. Just iterating that 10% easily hits the limit of traditional retirement savings, and one has to use different avenues to have equivalent retirement income of a tech salary.
Time to move forward. Python 2 is so 2010.
Not really an alternative, since C++ projects often use Breathe to "transpile" Doxygen to Sphinx. I even contributed a few patches to Doxygen from which the Breathe/Sphinx project directly benefited, but after trying it out a bit and hitting a few walls, I realized I would achieve better flexibility by having my own frontend.

Especially because (if I can dare to say) I ended up with a much better search than what Sphinx (or Doxygen) has -- try it out: https://doc.magnum.graphics/magnum/?q=max#search ;)
I don't know that the editors and writers profit directly, beyond their salaries. More like the companies are run at a loss in order to control the conversation. Of course seats are filled with people that push the line the owners prefer.
Measured by revenue, PC gaming is about a quarter of the market, same as all consoles. Mobile makes up the other half. None of these are niches.
Let's call it #Facefood. It rhymes with some other shit coming from the Bay area!
So they pay a higher tax rate on higher valued property and get nothing in return until they sell their home and move to a different city? That’s not a great sales pitch.