skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You should regulate them based on how they perform. You run the experiments to see if the thing’s biased, or if it is likely to kill fewer people than a person. With self-driving cars, I think people kind of accept that now"

I don't. In my opinion, we are all getting carried away with ourselves.

Google or not, I challenge anyone who makes a statement including the phrase "...more like brains", to define that statement accurately. In response, you will likely hear all sorts of things that sound like we know what we are doing and are very clever, but.

If we can't even ask the questions properly, I doubt we will get deliberately valuable answers. Sure, we may luck out, with AI researchers stumbling across random combinations (layered AI) that do produce useful results hap-hazardly, but I would never rely on it.

Eg. I rely on software running in an aircraft, because:

a) it works, by design, not trial and error.
b) it is verified.
c) we know how it works.

unless you have (c) you cannot achieve (b), with any degree of certainty. Experimenting until confident is not good enough for me for anything important.

Brains fail at times. Computers should not make mistakes.

Even if you knew how a brain works, and even if its possible to replicate it, please don't make computers like this. Software fails enough on its own without any help, even when we supposedly understand it.

With this AI stuff, even if we knew where we are going, we don't know how to get there. And even if we did get there (wherever that is), in the long run, AI is not going to be used for the good.

As always with humanity, we will find ways to use AI to extract value out of other people. This is what drives business.

No thanks, but it is interesting for fluff. A bit too voodoo for me.
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Your comment reminded me of a thought I had not too long ago: what would stop a superpower like the United States from going around shaking down all the supposed tax havens? They wouldn't have to declare war outright, they could just impose a no-fly zone and put a navy cordon in international waters. In the cases of land-locked tax-havens in Europe, the superpower would need to negotiate with the tax havens of the bordering countries, so it's less feasible, but still possible.

Edit: This would be specifically for individuals hiding their wealth abroad and declaring a lower than actual income, and not for corporations that publish their balance sheets.
That's exactly what it means. And if corporations can earn investment / passive income untaxed, then everyone would just keep their portfolios inside a corporation and draw salary for exactly what they need and nothing more.
I've seen this thing in real life and it's astounding.

In the early versions, it was clear that the magic was happening by projecting slices onto the surface of multiple sheets of plexiglass.

In this production version, the glass is 100% transparent, and the slices of image appear to be a seamless 3D whole. Aside from the fact that it's not in open air, it's just like looking at a real hologram. As you move your head, you're seeing a different point of view, and the object looks like it is really inside that block of glass moving around.

I don't think I've seen any consumer gadget that seems so thoroughly from the future in the last 10 years.
Someone well off with those ideas forgets that he's here only because untold numbers of "poor people" had children up to his lineage -- even when they faced much worse odds than poverty...

If what somebody learnt from life is that "they have to pay for poor people's kids", then indeed some are better for all of us to not have been born in the first place. But those are not necessarily the poor people's kids.
Pick your favorite giant tech company. Guess what? Whoever it is has also used extreme tax-avoidance strategies. Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Netflix, Amazon, etc.
If people had absolutely no agency and the companies incapable of influencing the regulations maybe.

It is far more complex including game theory and recognizing prisoner's dilemma in action.
There's no reason, in theory, that it couldn't be a ranked vote (so people could vote, e.g. 1) Leave the EU with this deal, 2) Remain in the EU).

While ever there's the prospect of no deal, there's probably a bias towards Remain anyway (as many who want to leave probably don't want to leave without a deal). This avoids that.
Yes. I was just going to post this:

Personally I can emphasize with the sentiment. Even though I don’t think that 20-something programmers in Google buses are personally responsible for the disparity, but the brandless tinted Google buses are a powerful symbol for new class system.

I’ve never seen so much poverty and homelessness before. There’s many major streets where wearing open shoes would be a big no-no, because of used needles lying around in plain sight. Seeing people shooting up on Market Street is pretty normal.

This is a political decision, or set of decisions: https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/. Anytime we want to, we can build as much housing as people want to live in; we just make doing so illegal right now.
This article is shortsighted garbage.

Natural gas peaking plants make up the difference when demand modulates.

In the last 30 years, mankind has gone from 90% fossil fuels to 89% fossil fuels usage.

To make solar, wind, and other renewables, you need lots of liquid hydrocarbons and their counterparts.
There were likely less franchises and chains so every town had their own one-off local Diners instead of Dennys, had a shoe store instead of Amazon etc.

The extent to which chains/internet has elliminated these mom and pop stores is staggering... and also why there was so much "self-employment" back then

Disclaimer: I'm making an intelligent guess here; these views are not (AFAIK) backed by any study
FTA: "When I first moved to San Francisco, one of my friends told me on the phone “it takes about 1-2 months to no longer really see the homeless”."

That's.... pretty horrible, really.
Properly structured assemblies should only download incremental dependencies.

Perhaps an RFC is required for secure background updates.
That depends. I suspect that this test would only be used on those with a family history of Alzheimer's or similar.

That alters the Bayesian priors quite a bit.

In addition, you can monitor the progress of someone who "tests positive" over time and see if that is really true.

Part of the issue with Alzheimer's treatments is that we may be intervening far too late. These kinds of tests may help that.
i know you're joking but it's really the precision at large numbers that makes doubles so valuable. Typically when somebody is steering a spacecraft to a remote location, the large distance as well as the fine precision needs to be represented. I am not aware of people working with very large sums of money who also need penny-level precision (and even then, floats aren't the right solution).
Depends a lot on where you live. I used to make less than that but lived quite well. If your rent and car payment are low, $4k/month could easily leave you > $1k/month to spend on "whatever".

If you live in Silicon Valley and take home $4k/month, not so much.
To short circuit discussion, I distinctly recall and can read above that what was originally said was a good game, not an average game.
You're completely right, of course. But it's still incumbent upon you to make a convincing argument that paying <arbitrary>% tax is unethical. And I'd say you have your work cut out for you. It's much less black-and-white than cases like cheating on a spouse, misleading voters, cutting in line, etc.
> I realize this isn't a sexy industry with lots of growth, but neither is the phone market anymore.

Samsung figured this out already. Their proportion of revenue from phones is decreasing while their semiconductor business is growing leaps and bounds.
This was my first exposure to it as well, I follow the developer of Voxatron/Pico-8 on Twitter and they were posting videos of it in action a few months ago [1].

Voxatron got an update recently that is beginning to show a lot of promise, but it's still a bit incomplete to make anything more than neat visual scripts or basic drag-and-drop games. However, I would be very excited to see the platform develop further, and to try out a Looking Glass for myself (they're far too rich for my blood for the time being).

[1] https://twitter.com/lexaloffle/status/1027606480030117890
Hand-wringing about cyber war aside, the question that really needs answered is: what paradigm shift needs to happen before breaches stop being depressingly common, and why isn't that shift happening?
You’re misunderstanding the thread here. OP suggested batteries, a minor factor in the report, were the primary cause in the earnings drop. For whatever reason there are people who really badly want to believe this. swish_bob countered, inaccurately, that OP did not claim causation.

Now that we all can agree swish_bob is wrong, the problem remains that OP misrepresented the primacy of the factors stated in the report.
At this point manufacturers don't have a lot of choices. To a reasonable approximation, the options are Android with google's blessing, android without play store, beg microsoft for windows mobile 10?, KaiOS, Tizen?, don't make phones.

About the only one that will sell the final product in the US is Android with Google's blessing.
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This is a truly insane take. San Jose, the 3rd most populous city in California and 10th most populous in the entire United States is _maybe_ a city?
Condolences to Mr. Li's Family.

Mr. Li has had a good impact in this world, and his work will live on for a long time.

> Because it's a huge project with so many eyes on it, Linux's transition to the next generation of developers will probably be The textbook case on the viability of large human endeavours in general.

True. I agree with this statement.
Ask HN: How do you manage long hours vs. spending time with loved ones?
I've been experiencing a problem over the last few years and am asking for help on how to solve. I work a lot of variable hours/travel (startup) and my spouse works as a nurse so her schedule is all over the place as well.

We can't seem to find a way to manage our schedules very well. What ends up happening is we go extended amounts of time without an overlap in free time and then miss out on dates, time with friends, etc.

We both love our work so quitting isn't exactly helpful.

Some things we've tried:

Shared Google Calendar: This works well but we never actually update. Its tedious too. And we don't like sharing exactly what we're doing with our friends to coordinate schedules with. I'd prefer the calendar just said busy 9-9 not 9-11am doctors appointment, 12-3pm taking son to therapy,etc, etc. This is just a simple example

Paper/Pen - This is what we've used most often but things always come up and we always end up losing the paper. Slash leaving it in our cars, it being outdated because of a change.

Text - We text each other schedule updates and text other friends with similar work/life schedules a lot. This works the best in a 1:1 scenario but I always feel annoying texting 3 friends about making plans and having to do it 5 times because those 3 also are at work/out of town/unavailable.

I've heard some use calendly accounts. We haven't tried that but I don't generally see my less tech family/friends using that.

This isn't some existential crisis but we've really struggled to continually find time (and plan things out in advance when we have overlapping time) and others have to deal with this as well.

So any help would be appreciated. I can provide more context if needed. Thanks in advance.
For me games are competence porn. The good ones create an illusion of competence like movies create an illusion of motion. They've helped me realize that I have a deep need for that feeling, one I don't seem to get enough of from the few areas I'm actually competent in.

But then the bubble bursts. It turns out that not only am I not that competent in reality, I'm not even competent at the game that just made me feel competent. Five minutes on Twitch proves that.

So beyond a certain point it feels like a bad habit, and keeping it below that point is about as easy as eating one Dorito.
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The results of the 2016 election would tell me you are mistaken about the consensus of all those things.
I agree with what you are trying to say, but i must point out: this example may not prove what you think

"Cheating on your spouse is not ethical but it is legal, would you argue for it to become illegal?"

It was and is in fact illegal for many years precisely because people found it not ethical enough. In english common law, it was even a felony.
It is changing (and has changed in a lot of states) precisely because people are more okay with it than they were.

In practice, the legality of things is generally decided by the societal consensus around "ethical dubiousness".
The system you've described is massive, complex, subtle, and slow moving at the scale of the United States. Why do you think it's easy? Additionally, you seem to be implying that its being easy would somehow invalidate any criticism of any action taken within the bounds of legality. Can you elaborate?
But when it comes to the tax code, "ethical" is a lot murkier. The one piece we can generally agree on is you're required to pay what the law requires you to pay---no more, no less. Further ethical constraints and clarifications are forever up for debate.

To give a concrete example: is it ethically better for the government that spends as much as it does on military infrastructure to have more money, or the company that builds a search engine and a video-sharing service?
And yet AFAIK little of that money makes it back to the creators. In the movies hit products pay millions to the stars, millions to the director. In games devs might get a small bonus after lots of overtime.

If I understand correctly it used to be the same in movies until the directors and stars started demanding more. IIRA United Artists was started because of these issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Artists

Also few games have the budget of movies. There's a few exceptions like say GTA5 or RD2 but mostly title for title game budgets are at least an order of magnitude lower than movies.
I consider this a poor way to look at entertainment.

A day at Disney World costs far more per hour than a movie. Does that mean people should stay away from Disney World?

There's a huge continuum beyond the "am I entertained?" binary, and that matters much more than dollars per hour.
Corporations benefit and profit from municipal services, same as people do. Should they be able to use those services for free?

Kansas massively cut their corporate taxes in 2012, with the implicit promise that lowering taxes for "job creators" would pay for itself. The deficit for the state became so massive as their revenue dropped, that the state had to close education and other municipal services. [1] Kansas is now heralded as an example of how 'trickle down' economics of cutting taxes for 'makers' fails. [2]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2017/06/07/the-great-ka...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trickle-down-economi...
Well, I shrug imagining what millions of lines of Python looks like.

I can't think of any open Python project with that size, and I can't imagine an organization maintaining one. And I can easily agree that such project won't migrate from Python 2 to 3 in a year. It won't migrate in a decade either, or in a century.
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>This isn't the same thing.

Where is the difference that would allow us to condemn the companies for maximizing profits by use labor laws but not condemn them for maximizing profits using tax laws?

>Also nothing is that simple.

Yet the previous statement seemed to have been made quite simply, an idea that if you take advantage of any law in your favor, you cannot condemn someone who takes advantage of any other law in their favor.
Everyone likes a scapegoat, this is just anti-immigrant sentiment. Hating migration from within the country is only different from hating immigration from outisde the country in that the former has a class component and the latter has a race component.
I'd be familiar with c# but it's an easy language, and there are tons of devs with c# experience.

But I'd mainly focus on JavaScript/TypeScript. And if you're about to graduate then focus really heavily on react or angular. Microsoft shops are drowning in .net talent/experience but are starving for good front end devs with deep angular or react experience.

And I wouldn't bother with powershell at all, unless you have wanted to move away from development and towards infrastructure.
I came from a similar place to yourself and agree with your comments.

When I came to SF, I couldn't help but stare at stark poverty. I came from a much smaller place that lacked all of these problems. But what you described is true; after a few months your brain normalizes to the dystopia, and that in itself is scary.

I've been in the bay area 12 years now, and can't imagine moving out of California, but at the same time feel that things here are out of balance and somehow 'wrong'. But I also feel like I don't know where I'd go. We talk about Vancouver, or San Diego, but realistically I don't even know what I'd do in those cities.
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Incorrect. Samsung etc. have phones that compete in the luxury smartphone segment with Apple. Luxottica has no such alternative (as of now, WP seems nice but it remains to be seen if they will focus on this market segment in the future).
It's crazy that the NYC transit system is controlled by the state government in Albany, a bunch of folks that pretty much don't use it at all.

Or given the fact the integrated metro NYC system (subway + regional rail) serves a very significant number of riders who do not actually live in NYC proper --

perhaps it's not so "crazy" after all.
The singular of maxima is maximum.
Are you saying that it's okay for junior developers to develop non-acceptable solutions? Because it's not okay in my book.

Figuring out how to design half of a system isn't anything. Anyone can do that. Non-programmers do that all the time. Engineering a solution means the whole thing, not just the easy parts of it, just like coding the solution means coding the whole things, not just the easy parts of it.
I’ve had many Android phones that experience unexpected shutdowns when their Li-Ion battery degrades.

This is a limitation of Li-Ion battery technology. It has nothing to do with OS or phone manufacturering like you keep trying to imply.

This isn’t really up for debate.

What is up for debate is how a manufacturer should handle this limitation and communicate it to customers.
From the viewpoint of an application creator what I find missing from here is that very similar goals have been pursued by the OMG and other organizations. Similarly RDF data works with F-Logic, XSB Prolog and a wide range of non-SPARQL tools. There has also been a proliferation of document and graph databases that compete w/ SPARQL databases. (Many sebweb refugees use Couchbase or ArangoDB)

I'd like to see that side-by-side with RDF because then you'd see we've made more progress than most people think.
You are absolutely right, and none should be doing it.
Assuming you aren't being sarcastic we have incredibly different definitions of small towns. My rule of thumb is when it becomes difficult to quickly count all the stoplights in a town in your head it often isn't a "small town" anymore. For example my wife grew up in a quinessential "small town" and it only has three stoplights.
When he says cities I'm pretty sure he means "urban feel/culture" all those places, apart from maybe Oakland, do not have that urban feel.
Exactly. Doxygen implicitly generates useless info about what file is included by what file, list of places from where a function gets called, what line was this and that function declaration in (and where is the definition), huge class inheritance diagrams, entangled monstrous file dependency diagrams, alphabetical file index, alphabetical symbol index, including every possible undocumented symbol and file it can find and tons and tons of other stuff that has a total value of 0.

The user should visit docs to get to know a high-level overview of a library or human-readable explanation of an algorithm. Not to see stuff that's already explained by the code itself.

So here I threw away all this noise and the theme is actively forcing the library authors to focus on important stuff in the docs, explicitly excluding useless things that could be auto-generated. "Installing Doxygen on a project" achieves nothing, one has to write the actual docs first.

The result? See for yourself: https://doc.magnum.graphics/magnum/namespaceMagnum_1_1Animat...
The perfect cop out if you're a multinational tax dodging company who has a veritable army of lobbyists ensuring the political and tax systems stay exactly the way you made them.
End passwords and the practice of email as an authoritative control.

I’m thinking single purpose password token systems. Email just needs to be replaced by an entirely new, engineered for authority and privacy* from the grounds up communication protocol.

Edit-Also, a democratically managed whitelisting system. Something that home routers could use as a source of authority on classifications of IPs. Ie literally no way to masquerade a darknet resource as a whitelisted resource.

Edit two: added privacy to email replacement.
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Or watching Manufacturing Consent.
These are 10 times what they should cost.
There is also an issue with growing cells in regular atmosphere (20% oxygen) vs body atmosphere (<8% oxygen).

However, until you show that these differences matter, nobody cares.
Yes, there are lots of good Bitcoin/blockchain resources online, while the banking system is more complicated and has fewer easily digestible resources available.