skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is a neverending, emotional and often really messed-up rabbit hole. Closing eyes when is not convenient for the discurse, and rejecting any logical reasoning or fact against.

We can see people on tv acussing other people of being torturers and organising harassment plans against them, whereas happily showing their "baby" toy-dog in their arms.

The same dogs selectively breeded to keep cute deformed craneus, jaw bones like an acordion, popping eyes, crossed teeth, deformed humerus and femurs, no tail, chronic fatigue, all sort of health problems. Dogs feeded with "vegan dog food" for years... and castrated of course. All for human entertainment. How this is not an extreme evil form of torture for them?

Maybe they should give example and kill those pets humanely as soon as possible to end their endless life of suffering?
This guy is basically calling git DevOps and saying it's too complex. I thought he would be talking about some of the real complexity related to CI, automation frameworks etc but no, he just complains about J2EE and then says git is too hard while mislabelling it DevOps.
While you're correct in your assessment, and I hope this comes to fruition, this same paragraph could have been written about Firefox OS. That said, I'm not a detractor, I wish Firefox OS had also worked out. And I'm certainly very glad that Mozilla is still willing to approach new ideas and markets, even after getting burnt.
An async http server ? What about Woo and Wookie ? https://github.com/orthecreedence/wookie seen on https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl#network-and-inter...

also for reference some companies keep betting on CL today: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies (and I suppose that's just the emerging iceberg)
Up until recently, if you left the country, Australia had no real way to make you pay back the loan since they wouldn't track your income and would see no tax return. Last year new rules came into place to claim back income from people who had left without paying their loans, and will claim a % of your income (before tax, I believe) if your income is > $13,968 ... I ended up paying the whole loan in one sum so I didn't have to keep double reporting incomes, so I guess the system has worked.

> https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Study-and-training-suppor...
The only real positive side to this infrastructure are the Amazon Lockers that are paid for as part of the shipping service and actually at good locations most of the time. (While later movers like UPS and FedEx have stuck their lockers at SUPER ANNOYING locations).

It's really too bad the post office can't just setup something like this at the actual post-offices and be open for any carrier for a small fee. That'd solve a ton of last mile problems.
> Private banks issuing federally-backed student loans

Don't exist. They used to, before 2010, though (the propagadagraphic you link obliquely alludes to that with it's reference to the “Obama changes” that it does not explain, perhaps because they render the flowchart entirely irrelevant.)
To me, this is the beginning of one such mechanistic explanation for alcohol addiction. In particular, this is interesting when you consider the several (many?) studies that link early age (binge-)drinking with increased likelihood of alcoholism. One wonders whether the Notch "domino" is more susceptible in younger brains.
These were not UN sanctions. If you read the report it clearly says these were regulations placed by Washington.

UN had no banking restrictions on Iran if the activity was unrelated to nuclear proliferation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iran
Not detonating a bomb is the proof. They were allegedly 18 months from a bomb. It's been 5-6 years. No bomb.

...It's really worrying to me that the New Left seems to embrace nationalism and American exceptionalism just like the right. It means nobody is pushing back against creating wars. A lot of people will die for it unless people wise up.
> In terms of cost, UNSW is one of the top universities in the country.

This is certainly the major difference.
I wasn't aware that California eliminated the cash bail shstem last year but my cursory review of its replacement leaves me thinking its lacking in its ability to both accurately identify those who pose a risk to society or a general flight risk. Replacing a system that allows anyone granted the right of bail to obtain it (via bail bonds) with enforcement carried out via the threat of physical apprehension with one that tries to predict the risk before release leaves enormous room for error/gaps/all-other-flaws.

It sounds good on paper but how does it account for a citizen of "good" character per the algorithm being charged with a major felony or violent crime? If they are innocent, there is a meaningful likelihood they are denied release, thus ruining their life. If they are guilty, there is a meaningful likelihood they aren't reputable enough to ignore the chance to cut off their ankle bracelet and go underground.

Are there any systems that allow for something akin to "bail" (as in a way to be releaswd from custody while awaiting trial while also holding the individual accountable to return) that rely on things asids from cash or trust in an "algorithm"? I'm currently doing some reading on the subject so don't jump down my throat, I'm just skeptical of any other system's ability to balance availability with accountability for those with few to no assets.
> I’ve always figured out that there 24 hours a day. You sleep six hours and have 18 hours left. Now, I know there are some of you out there that say well, wait a minute Arnold, I sleep eight hours or nine hours. Well, then, just sleep faster, I would recommend.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sad and Lonely, the Yoga's AI sensors will give you a hug and encourage you to continue working countless hours starting at their screen.
You have multiple years professional experience in programming. You can probably get onto the Oxford M.Sc. in Software Engineering but the deadline is soon. If you miss it the next one is in March.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/msc-softwar...

Applicants are normaly expected to be predicted or have achieved a first-class or strong upper second-class undergraduate degree with honours (or equivalent international qualifications), as a minimum, in a related subject, such as computer science, informatics or engineering.
For applicants with a degree from the USA, the minimum GPA sought is 3.5 out of 4.0.
Applications are invited from anyone with sufficient experience or proven ability in software, security, or data engineering. A typical applicant will have at least two years' experience in a professional environment, and an undergraduate degree in a related subject. However, more extensive experience may compensate for a lack of formal qualifications, and a strong, immediately-relevant qualification may compensate for a lack of professional experience.
Emphasis not in original
The reason Amazon is successful is AWS. They can buy stickiness in retail by offering lower prices subsidized by being the biggest cloud provider.
While I personally never used Node-Red to build anything, I am now a fan of this technology for a simple reason: I saw non-developers happily creating & deploying working and reasonable-quality solutions with it (more than I can say about several tools to supposedly allow non-developers to build working software).

When someone in the business team mentioned they were using this tool to automate a few flows I assumed it would be an abject failure (as happened in so many similar projects I saw before - in some cases in multi-million deployments with huge teams of tools such as PEGA ).

Fast forward a couple of weeks and to my surprise an entire pipeline of needs from the operation where solved/fulfilled with almost no interaction from anyone in the development team. More than that: the end result is understandable.

Cavet emptor, maybe other teams will build horrible piles of crap with it, etc, etc but overall I am still impressed.
The actual answer is aerodynamics. Having a structure in front of the turbine blades disrupts airflow, creating turbulent flow over the blades which causes the blades to lose efficiency. It's much easier to design the engine to be able to run for a little while after ingesting soft FOD than it is to create a good debris cover that doesn't destroy efficiency.
Or, quite possibly, since humanity's progress can't be stopped, our children will hate us once they open their eyes and realize who their favorite hot dogs and burgers were made out of and how we spoon fed them with corpses since their very first moments.

Edit: I believe that there's definitely a potential version of the future where corpse eating will be looked at the same way we look at cannibalism now.
I suppose this could extend to all kinds of things -- remembering to pay a bill, remembering appointments, peoples' names, project tasks, directions to new places, social obligations, where you parked your car, etc. But of course it's more relevant to things that need to be committed to long term memory, and I'm not familiar enough with how the brain works to opine on whether recurring things (bill payments) would be impacted.
Lingvo toolkit – Tensorflow framework for sequence-to-sequence (Google Research)
Sears is where I got my Pong game as a child that started me down this path.

To be specific it was a Coleco Telstar Marksman.
Even better is if you live in a place where you don't need a car, and can happily take public transit to get to work because the local government invested in subways. Then you don't have to worry about your car breaking down and ruining your day or worse.
Wouldn't you delay a raise or try to remain below 51 until you can make over 71 to avoid getting paid less?

The system looks good on paper. It reminds me of a type of public housing offered that allows you to give 30% of gross wages. Many people stop working completely and get welfare/assistance (to qualify you need to be working or getting a regular cheque) or delay raises, etc because the less you make the less you pay. The more you make the more taxes you pay so it creates a situation where the harder you work the less you make unless you can get a huge pay increase and leave. It creates a trap.. there is a huge fear of leaving because you will never get back in.

I like the free if you qualify German model but even that has problems.
This feels, unrealistic. Coding practices, tools and technology have minimally changed since the 70's.

Faster machines, but with each new language, you still have the baggage of design/code/compile/test/debug/refactor and the library/dependency hell that plagues things like oh, say Node.js with NPM, maven with Java, make with C/C++ etc. etc.

Then there is the flood of new "UI hotness libraries" in the JavaScript space alone. Pick one. wait 6 months and see what else is now the new hotness or if your current one has changed with a new major version release (Angular?).

There should be more folks like Bret Victor working with language teams in the FANG(+MS) companies to drive some further breakthroughs in reducing cognitive load and tool/library dependency complexities.

Where are this generation's Alan Kay and Jean-Marie Hullot types, pushing the envelope on software development environments?
thermal and mechanical isolation
Today's CPUs from AMD and Intel are going after the volume cloud market with a range of CPUs with a particular configuration of functional units, cores, PCI-e lanes, memory channels, etc. They both push an eco system of motherboards, compilers, operating systems, libraries, and application tuning.

ARM brings (the platform, not just the reference chips) a healthy eco system and allows Huwai to make their own decisions on what the market needs and doesn't automatically give most of the profit to AMD and Intel. Keep in mind that for the first time in several decades Intel and AMD chips doubled in price, power usage, and performance in the last generation.

When buying whitebox servers most of the profit is going to AMD or Intel, not supermicro or similar.

Part of the problem with competing with the Amazon, Google, and Microsoft clouds is that they more assuredly are getting better CPU prices than you will. If you can make your own CPU

So given Linux's maturity and increasing activity with arm on the server side the barrier to entry to competing with Intel and AMD is lowering. This combined with doubling in CPU prices makes AMD and Intel much more of a target than they were 2 years ago.
My Facebook usage on mobile is near zero
Once you find a real pain points, people will beg you to buy/use your product, even if all you have is a crappy version rushed out.

To be clear, some startups require to have a super polished version to be successful. But even then, there's often a way to have customers pilot an early version or cheaply test the market.
Like it would show up in the search results for other users? Or would it be a just a url you could send to people?
Sure, but if you violate those laws and then travel to that country they're completely allowed to persecute you. That's what happened to the Huawei exec (or to be more specific, she traveled to a country with extradition treaties with the US).
I don't care enough about the infinitesimal impact of an individual using plastic silverware to want to go wash a fork, no. I don't feel the externalities of the decision come anywhere close to outweighing the convenience. Convenience being the whole point of food delivery.

I keep all the extra cutlery and napkins I get in a drawer and reuse them. Haven't had to buy paper towels in a long time.
You might want to change your vacuum bags more often!

I'm certain if you search online you will be able to find bags for your vacuum.
Which hackerspace is this? I'd really like to see it in action once.
The whole bounty hunter system sounds like something out of a bad movie..

I would be very surprised if it wasn't full of abuse stories.
> do something like ClojureScript

I'm betting on the ongoing Weblocks rewrite: http://40ants.com/weblocks/quickstart.html Here no need to transpile to JS, you just always stay in CL, in the CL environment, state is preserved on edits, etc.
Yeah, I personally find using separate AWS accounts for dev/test/stage to be a bit of a PITA overall, prefer to isolate those resources via VPCs & IAM policies in an umbrella non-prod account, but definitely see how that would simplify other aspects of setup.

The path limit isn't a huge issue, just something you have to design around up front. As you mentioned in another comment, no reason you can't store a JSON or something in the string if you need deeper nesting.

For secrets needing to be shared between teams I'd just create a different prefix in the place of team, like /shared/, and grant access appropriately. Or just use no team prefix at all and make it accessible if it's for everyone.

But it's quite nice that the service is flexible enough to be useful for a variety of use cases / infrastructure setups.
Re: flow, I wonder how much Sears and Pennys were hamstrung by the layout of their locations. Target, with their big loop and registers up front, has a "visit the whole store" flow that encourages you to keep shopping (and get a cart) even when you've gotten what you came for.

Classic Sears and Pennys both had multiple entrances, sometimes on multiple floors, and registers scattered around the retail space. Once you get what you came for you look for the closest line, check out, and you're done; there's no opportunity for a "grab a DVD on the way out" up-sell.
Biggest advantage by far: no extra paperwork.

As a student you give your tax number to the university, and then the loan repayments are handled by the tax system when you do your regular annual tax return.
What's more is that more and more people do buy these things online. Clothes and tools especially.
To be clear, I’m a big fan of the value of community college, and I think one of the greatest shamed of our current education mentality is the status quo of getting into and paying for a 4-year university. Doing 2 years at a JUCO and transferring to a full
university is a path that would save many students tens of thousands with little detriment to their education.

That said, there’s still substantial differences between Lambda and a free year in college. For starters, if you have a poor GPA with a California Promise grant, it seems you have pay back the fees. Not sure what Lambda’s equivalent of a GPA is, but they don’t skim your salary if it’s below $50K. I think the more salient point is that the Lambda school has much more direct incentive to land you a good job, and ostensibly that incentive creates a stronger learning environment. Such direct incentive does not exist at a traditional state college, whether you’re paying tuition or getting a free year.

This is all a long way of saying that, while I don’t think Lambda is going to significantly impact the student debt crisis (st least in the near future), to say that they’re just putting a SV spin on the old idea of public education is overly facile.
This isn't a good faith comparison. (as the article itself seems to indicate at one point). Transgender people or early 20th century union organisers faced the threat of physical violence or legal discrimination.

Sam Harris (or someone in a comparable spot) does not face legal discrimination or state violence. He just faces public and intellectual backlash. And that's perfectly okay.

If you're a radical LGBT activist you're likely not welcome in a conservative church. What do lgbt activists do? They don't go there. As a labour activist I'm not welcome at the local Ayn Rand memorial. What do I do? I don't go there.

It's a fact of free association that nobody is going to be welcome everywhere 100% of the time. The problem here isn't actual discrimination. It's that Pinker et al imagine themselves to be Enlightenment era Voltaires who preach wisdom to the masses who don't know any better, and mistake private controversy or at worst a middle finger for discrimination.

In short, they're not popular and ostracised in the way labour rights were historically, they're popular and ostracised in the way a modern day televangelist is.
Could get a satellite connection
I don’t know. They maybe hope they’ll be first on the next big thing which they think is VR. But who knows if VR is going to be big, who knows if it needs a browser and what keeps chrome from eating the cake anyways after Firefox has scoped out the territory.

I think this is a very risky bet unless they make net money on this which they can funnel into more promising projects.
It's pretty easy to end up with spaghetti, even for tasks that are <500 lines when you'd write them out in actual code. It's great for some quick do-A-if-B-happens scenarios, though.
I don't think that can be true. If it was, it were like this:

Hey guys, here's an algorithm.
Oh by the way, we can not prove that this algorithm does something useful, and their can you.

gets published in nature

Talk about bang for the buck
Nope, you cant. This is like saying if I smoke weed in
a country where it is legal and then go to a country B where it is illegal. Country B can arrest me because I broke their law.

Copyright law is a domestic law. You cannot be prosecuted for break US copyright law if you broke the law in an unrelated country B and you are not US citizen. Also B doesn't recognize US's jurisdiction to enforce copyright law in that country.
The vast majority of bounty hunting cases are going to the addict/drunk’s door and reminding him he’s got a hearing to be at. The kind of glorifications you see on the teevee are virtually nonexistent.

As for the privacy aspect, well online privacy is observably a fiction and it always has been. Only naifs and fools believe otherwise in the face of overwhelming evidence. Sure there ought to be privacy online in some idealistic sense, but there isn’t in reality so act accordingly.
I agree. They "conveniently" forget to state their primary mission: make a bundle for the proprietors (founders, investors, etc). Either in profit or at exits.

While doing that they have some additional missions, which is cool, but in absence of that first point I do agree it comes off as marketing BS.
Human and Artificial Intelligence: The Same, Different or Differentiated?
Deep Learning Machines Are Holographic Memories
>Dickens was fascinated with jails, asylums, homes for the deaf, and other reformatory institutions. In 1843, the city’s two prisons held twice as many Irishmen as native-born Americans; “paddy wagons” carted them to jail. The Irish, along with blacks, were consigned to the bottom of society, scourged by tuberculosis, pneumonia, bronchitis, and scrofula.

You know this made me think that whenever people complain about immigrants, it's just the latest wave of immigrants they focus on.

At first, in north america we hated the Irish, then we got used to the Irish but those Italians though, they weren't like us.

Then we got used to the Italians but we started blaming the Polish and then who knows on and on... Each new group of arrivals just weren't like us.

Today it's Mexicans, one day we'll get used to them and start hating on some other group, who just aren't like us.
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I don't like conflating the two concerns either, and I'm not saying you condone the behavior, but once it happens, dealing with it appropriately is important. You don't want people like the poster above going around feeling like their issue was unjustly ignored, and that they have no recourse for the resolution of their issue. I mean, do what you will... this is just a common thing I see which causes friction between users and maintainers.
Ok yeah, I guess that is probably a common story. I have though and I would assume that is also common :)
Though I haven't analyzed the particulars of this article or the paper -- I can say: we already know that compression is incomplete. That is: we cannot know the actual Kolmogorov Complexity of a piece of data due to the halting problem. It shouldn't be surprising then, that programs of a certain schema, Neural Networks, suffer from similar issues. One could suppose that neural networks that are less code-parameterized, and more data-parameterized (weights), would be less prone to having divergences. Well, it's already established that the more data-like NN aren't turing complete, and aren't powerful enough to solve the kind of problems that we really want to solve (AI.) We have to turn to Hopfield Nets, Boltzman Machines, and RNNs for that. The learning/training process for these nets is pretty much encumbered by their capabilities. That is, exploring a field of numbers is one thing. Exploring a field of code? Code<->Data is the one function in the entire universe that is the most non-linear. It is the one function that cannot be described concisely by mathematics. It's like Wolfram terms, "computationally irreducable." The closer a NN reflects an actual space of turing-complete functions, the farther it is from actually being trainable. Alas...we willl figure out middlegrounds as we have already.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity