skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As opposed to dogs, horses, Hannibal’s elephants? If that’s a sign humanity’s lost its way, it's been lost a long time.
ICE companies are subsidized by being able to pollute the planet. EV havent had hundreds of year to perfect technology. But even if they never become as efficent as ICE cars would you want them playing on a level playing field?
Node with npm must have the same problem. How they handle that and why python is not doing the same? If it should of course.
They most definitely are not available to the public. For example, all the Apple documentation on board layouts are literally stolen and smuggled out.

In fact, many of the large companies have exclusive agreements with OEM chip manufacturers to not provide data sheets or technical info about chips, in addition to having an exclusive supply.

If cars worked this way, you would never be able to get them repaired anywhere but the manufacturer, but since the manufacturer doesn't replace components, such as the failed alternator, they have to replace the entire "engine assembly".
> Although unfortunately not solved, we've made great strides in regards to child mortality, extreme poverty, war, violence, health, freedom, literacy...

What great strides do you think America/the developed world have left to make?
How can anything "immutable" exist in a living being? Just because everything dies doesn't mean there isn't a reality beyond what we experience with the brain. The possibility that we are living in a multidimensional universe is becoming more likely all the time with the current discoveries in quantum physics.
I'd say it comes down to whether you have a team of one or not. If you have someone competent but unpleasant and you can isolate them to get useful work done, then it could be successful. But if they have to be on a team, and they're toxic, then no amount of competence is going to balance out the damage, and you will fail.
> Looks like its currently experience the hug.

Same thing happened to me (no results) and that was my initial thought but, in my case, I had forgotten to check uMatrix. Some vital CDNs and subdomains were allowed but uMatrix was blocking api.creativecommons.engineering
You could look at it as fractional reserve banking where one single borrower accounts for 26% of the assets.

Tether is technically solvent (at least, assuming they aren't lying). However, they made a loan of $700M to Bitfinex. If Bitfinex pays back the loan on schedule and no more than 74% of Tether holders run for the exit, they're fine.

However, that's a lot of counterparty risk, particularly considering it isn't clear whether Bitfinex is solvent, and that the big debtor (Bitfinex) and all the creditors (Tether holders) have correlated behavior. If Bitfinex becomes insolvent and defaults on the loan, Tether becomes insolvent. Bitfinex is more likely to become insolvent if Tether holders start withdrawing their money, which is the same event that would trigger a run on the bank and require that Tether call in its loan to Bitfinex.

It actually looks a lot like the derivatives bomb in the financial industry from 2006-2008. You had some institutions that were insolvent because they made bad trades. You had other institutions that were technically solvent, but were standing next to insolvent ones, and would become insolvent if they had to write off the contracts they had with the insolvent ones. It's possible that all of your books would balance at the end - but do you want to be standing next to the bomb when it goes off?
I'm a bit confused.

Are you critical of the size of the monorepo, or the number of builds?
I believe the tuning is controlled electronically through software (this is what enabled VW Dieselgate). So a software update could enable the vast majority of cars to be able to use this fuel.
Wouldn't call the article great. There is a ton of identical "motivational" n-step articles on almost any topic you can imagine.
That is exactly the type of content TS should avoid.

I believe, that in order to actually start doing something of complexity, you have to head-bash the wall of obscurity until you chip enough pieces off of it to assemble something that makes enough sense to proceed with further rounds of torture that are self-improvement.

No articles with image of hipster junk in heading are going to aid you with that.
Its going to be music software like Ableton or a VST plugin, so purchasing is usually still a thing.
To clarify, I didn't avoid tech. I kept my eye on the game and learned new stuff and old stuff (Distributed computing, Java - circa '97, CORBA, DCOM - that was the thing of its time and then XML blah blah blah) but that was on my time when I felt like doing this.

But I'll never regret prioritising the fun of hooning around on my motorbikes, camping, bike meetups, beer, smoking a doobie and all the other things....and I met some seriously wonderful folks in my life during this time, loves and lovers in my life, and then those that were not and are still amazing friends, writers, poets, comedians, mechanics who are all still friends (some have passed away sadly). I learned so many good things from these folks in my 17-20's that influenced my attitude when it comes to working in "IT", and I hope better things than youngsters these days seem in earnest try to learn from hucksters such as Zuckerberg unicorns et al.

(Sorry that last sentence is a bit tortured)

[edit] didn't answer todd3834's comment properly.

In the late 80's/early 90's (I was kinda 17-20'ish) I worked as an apprentice Data General engineer. Basically we resurrected and refurbished old DG mini's for export to places in South America where an S/130 would be a fairly decent bit of kit for a local authority already running some older Nova kit. I had a lot of fun doing that. I learned wire-wrap, component level debug all sorts of things, I knew the 74 series TTL logic book almost back to front, it was fun and paid for the beer...but it wasn't hugely serious thing. It was something I could do despite being a total dunce at school. But I loved bikes and cars and a bunch of other non-IT things just a bit more back then...[big gap]....and here I am :)

[edit 2:] I also loved :)
This. I've reverse engineered not only my career but other huge parts of my life from profiles on hacker news.
>Are you suggesting that somebody can only be one of pleasant or competent?

I assume they are suggesting what they said - don't make it the number one thing.

If it WAS a binary choice, I'd rather have a competent asshole than an incompetent nice guy.

Being nice is absolutely important, incredibly so - I think we often forget that as engineers - but you still absolutely need to be competent first.

Either skill can be learned, so if you're one and not the other, it's fixable.
Rethinking Databases with Noria and Rust
I think the comment isn't critical at all.
It can be very useful for energy storage and keeping existing combustion plant usable. But the op does not seem to bear in mind the fact that it requires more energy input than it outputs in the form of a carbon neutral fuel, or that renewable technologies have by this date clearly demonstrated affordable solutions to carbon neutral power generation.
Yes. You need to research history esp. in Latin America. I liked reading the book: “Confessions of an Economic Hitman”. Also Lookup Operation Ajax and how the CIA overthrew the democratically elected Mossaddegh in Iran. A Roosevelt organized that one.... I think Wikipedia has documented 81 attempts at US intervention in foreign elections lol.

Whether or not you believe it or not, the same statements could be said about current election. Will be obvious if you have high levels of self-awareness.

+1 for surprise pikachu lol.
Lots of replies saying it "depends on your use case", but zeit's departure from v1 to v2 clearly shows they think serverless fits most use cases.
Humans Need Not Apply [Video] (2014)
Crypto is 99% woo, but the 1% is interesting. The interesting stuff isn't world-stompingly amazing, so it gets less press. I like the idea of someday being able to take pennies worth of payments from places where transaction fees alone at traditional payment processors represent a huge % of income. Bitcoin won't be the one to do it, but some of the coins that depend on something other than proof of work might.

At least I hope it's not Bitcoin. The power use is obscene.
Asking out of curiosity and to learn from your experience. You had mentioned "I've made more progress in two months than in my previous 12-18 months of (somewhat sporadic) study".

How could you tell? Is it because you were able to comprehend more of the language (comprehension), or people who speak Japanese told you that you are better (understandability)?

The reason I ask is, I seem to pickup words and grammar but am absolutely incomprehensible when I converse with a native speaker.
Hi, and belated congratulations!

Are you by any chance planning to release your source after the ceremony? It'd be really interesting to read some peak-efficiency GMP code as that's a library I've always been interested in.

Additionally, do you happen to know how much longer it could take to factor modulus n and then compute the value for 2^(2^t) using the methods described in the paper? i.e. instead of repeated squaring compute

2^(2^t mod phi(n)) mod n
What if you spent 80000 hours on your mental health instead of this? You do have a choice
I don't see why being regulated or not has anything to do with whether you are practicing fractional reserve banking. As I understand it, the concept is just that your assets are not all liquid, but rather some of them are long term loans.

Which is not to say I think unregulated banking is the same as regulated banking.
That’s interesting. I think Google would have been better aiming for something closer to Twitter instead of trying to copy and mimic Facebook with Google+. Google’s core strength has been organizing information as a data first company versus facilating social connections.
Do you think the US government could cover every single cent if all the depositors wanted their money out now?

Not even physical cash, just a transfer to an overseas account. The money simply isn't there and the scales are enormous. US banks only can pay back 3-10% of cash deposits. The FDIC only has enough to cover a tiny proportion of bank liabilities.

It seems very disingenuous for people in this thread to say "well if everyone cashed out tethers" and then handwave away the alternative of "well if everyone cashed out USD". These scenarios playing out would have Tether actually being able to pay a reasonable percentage of creditors.
yeah, I'm just trying it out right now on my college wifi. It also says <unknown ssid> and I'm also on Android.
You might find this youtube channel interesting: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2rzsm1Qi6N1X-wuOg_p0Ng/vid...

He has run a gasoline engine on a whole slew of fuels, including some that may be surprising, such as isopropyl alcohol, various solvents, crude oil, and a 50% diesel gas mix.

Gasoline engines can also run on pure propane, but the fuel pump, tank, and some other parts do need to be replaced.

I guess the point is that gasoline engines are not in general super sensitive, while they still could be more optimized for certain fuels.
Their validation set consisted of 210 positive images. The test set consisted of 20 positive images.

These are very small evaluation sets for deep learning. My point is the work is promising but should be viewed with healthy skepticism (by default).

I would really not read anything in particular into "Broad and international participation... ...sample." That's just a claim in a paper, it's not "the truth".
It's crazy that they messed this up, Tether is basically a money printing machine, all they had to do was be solvent.

Let me start by saying I don't hold Tether nor have I ever, nor do I think it's a good idea.

Tether is a fundamentally a risk free money making concept, it works just like gift certificates. The only thing Tether has to do is buy back Tether at any price lower than they sold it for and they make profit.

And being able to buy Tether at a lower price is a fundamental market property because of knowledge imbalance. They literally can not fail at making money, the only thing they had to do was not lose their liquidity.

They print free money without it even being a scam, even better they are providing a public service, and still they messed it up...
It's just so hard to imagine, at least in the current version of the world, a problem for which a distributed trust algorithm is the right solution, instead of a centralized one, probably state-owned if high levels of trust are needed. This is especially true given the advantages that a trusted authority has over blind consensus (e.g. the ability to revert fraudulent transactions).
NPM doesn't have the same problem, because they only allow a single file per release (which also means there is no way to distribute platform-specific builds).
Bureaucracy was doing that way before software came along, and I'm not sure the former was easier to subvert than the latter.
Nice try assholes.
I am an Australian national who lives overseas and recently I was going through the airport going into Australia to visit. Turns out we have something similar going on, but backed by law and without constitutional protection.

I was told to hand over the passwords for my laptop and phone, lest they seize them "until they can be opened" (see: forever). This was a mind-bending experience for me and I was further interrogated since apparently I must have "something to hide" if I don't want to hand over passwords to my devices to just any person who works in an airport. They even started asking me things like "What are you doing in Australia?", "Who are you visiting?", "Where are you going?" (I am a citizen, it's absolutely no business of "Border Force" who I visit or where I go) and when I was abrasive about those questions they even asked "Have you been in trouble with the law in Australia?"

At the end I did ask what the reason was for them searching me, their answer was simply that they don't need to have suspicion of anything specific.
In 2015, Pew polled people on this and there was a near 50/50 split on support for telephonic surveillance, and slightly more Americans believed that security was more important than civil liberties and that NSA hadn't gone far enough to protect them. If the people had a direct say in policy, there's little evidence they'd go the way you want them to.
Clearly, Bismarck would use 𝖛𝖎𝖒
What is the key advantage of PyDist over Artifactory/bintray ? That's the system most companies I know of use, and I was wondering what makes PyDist compelling.
>The Trump administration may eliminate this secrecy, making numbers like the ones in these charts more common and easier to find. As The Wall Street Journal has reported, the administration has asked for comments on a proposal to require doctors and hospitals to publish negotiated prices.

I really hope this goes through. Right now, the opacity of prices for health care is a huge problem.
Fun anecdote: The company that made the Baxter Robots you see in the video actually went bankrupt and no longer exists anymore.
>Facebook was the first social network where you can actually go and signup an account on your own.

That's doubly false :)

First, all social networks that preceded it (LiveJournal and MySpace were big amongst my peers) had open sign-ups.

Second, Facebook became popular because the sign-up was not open. You needed to have an .edu email address to sign up. This was a feature, as it kept parents and younger siblings off the networks. Having a FB account was a literal right of passage, something you can only get once you go to college. It spread because of that; those were the great days of FB.
Your comment reminded me of the (ridiculous but sadly necessary) "Sunscreen Innovation Act" passed a few years ago.[1]

U.S. financial regulators often "vet" their equivalent foreign agencies and whitelist those whose processes are sufficiently analogous and in some cases allow US entities to rely upon the work done in those whitelisted jurisdictions. I've always wondered why the FDA can't work out a similar system. If the EU has approved a drug and done all of the studies and asked all of the questions surely we don't need to do all of the same studies and ask all of the same questions just so we can approve the drug a decade later.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunscreen_Innovation_Act
Can you tell me what the difference is between tether and roenxi-coin where I take dollars and give you an "IOU" that is, formally, not going to be redeemed? I can do better than tether. You give me $1, I'll keep 80c that I still won't give back to you later. I'm pretty trustworthy on promises like that.

The only difference I can see is I wouldn't be willing to actually run that scheme because at some point I'd be jailed for running a fraud.

Anyone who deals in tether now has to admit that supply is not limited in any way and the people behind the creation of new supply are crooked. Only an idiot would deal in tether now. If the price trends downwards there is literally no reason for it to ever trend up again. It has the worst value proposition of any scheme involving millions of dollars I've ever seen.
How can data possibly be contraband? Data is data - it is neutral.
I know very well the 1st Amendment applies only to the State - my whole series of posts is about the problems that arise due to that. Free speech as a concept is not limited to the 1st Amendment.
> Reverse engineer the paths of famous people

I agree; I work as a coach and have to say that this path is fraught with peril. The delta from one psychology to the next is significant enough that this activity could easily cause someone to feel exhaustion before they even get started putting the learned path into place.

IMO much better advice is to "reverse engineer" your own past and treat that as a guide, asking yourself when you were happiest, most productive, etc. This can far more easily result in "scalable" information.
Just to be clear, there's no scripting involved, it's a plain image file set as the page's background.
> The difference is that your runtime state is reset and you must architect your application to keep fast startup time which is not always a good thing.

Seems like slow startup time would be just as bad, if not worse, for a workflow that involves killing the server and bringing it back up again from scratch to test changes. So I think that either way it's a good idea to architect your application, at least in "development mode", to have a fast startup time.
Not so much anachronistic as trans-chronistic, if there's such a thing. All he's doing is focusing less on what has changed, and more on what has stayed the same over time. I'm sure having grown up there, you can probably spot some of the same things. But I would also wager that it's the changes that tend to jump to the front of your mind, because they're the more noticeable and obvious part - they're intrusive, annoying, costly, and even traumatic for some.

Still I appreciated two ideas buried in this: One, that he is (maybe slyly) pointing out that this bubble is a lot like the last bubble. And two, that for every Jobs who shows up hell-bent on a meteoric rise (and who either succeeds or crashes spectacularly) there are always plenty of Wozniaks quietly and steadily moving the actual work along.

I would tend to agree that higher ed seems to be in a dangerous upheaval or crisis. For SV I don't see it... not yet anyway. But I'm watching from afar so whadda I know?

Either way, I wouldn't worry too much about the effects though... either of this piece or all the ones rightly pointing out the downsides. Seems like (maybe sadly) they tend to have no effect either way.
While I agree with you, the argument is that adding regulations over hundreds of "little things you should already be doing" is the kind of regulation that hurts small businesses / sole developers that want to focus on developing and growing new products.
Fine. Sometimes they do, but legally are not obligated to do so. So it’s a moot point. They’re protected from runs because they don’t have to cash out. Their current terms of service state:

> Tether reserves the right to delay the redemption or withdrawal of Tether Tokens if such delay is necessitated by the illiquidity or unavailability or loss of any Reserves held by Tether to back the Tether Tokens, and Tether reserves the right to redeem Tether Tokens by in-kind redemptions of securities and other assets held in the Reserves. Tether makes no representations or warranties about whether Tether Tokens that may be traded on the Site may be traded on the Site at any point in the future, if at all.
> there was as far as they could there no signs that it was abused

As would be expected from the class of hackers that would be able to exploit it.
> China's economy is still cratering.

What's it going to take for China to not crater and how far out is that horizon?
This was odd, intriguing and just down right neat. I honestly started reading and couldn't stop. It felt like every scroll would introduce me with a new way to configure an N-Wheeled car that I would have never dreamed about.
reproducibility should be something that's baked into an experiment's design.

so, if their experiment was designed such that reproduction is inherently difficult, they should have designed it in a better way, and they should've used a toolset that wouldn't run into that problem.

a non-reproducible experiment isn't necessarily completely without value, but it's a thing that everyone should look askance at till it proves its worth.

(apologies if my comments don't apply to this experiment and if it is reproducible -- i didn't have time to read through the OP, but i thought this reply was still a worthwhile response to its specific parent comment)
I don't think that will happen. And I hope I hope it doesn't happen as I don't have an iPhone.
Hello, I work on this project! For the most part, we use Common Crawl to discover which websites carry the most CC content, and then integrate the platform through either their API, if available, or put together a bespoke scraper. If you put your content on one of these integrated platforms, eventually your work will appear in our collection.

In my mind, the dream is to have the user embed an asset from our servers on their web page (like an updated version of these old CC license buttons [0]), read the referrer headers from the server logs, and then dispatch crawlers that read ccREL [1] data embedded on the page, which would allow us to instantly index content as soon as it is published. Performing broad web crawls searching the web for ccREL data is also possible but probably not what we're looking to do in the near-term.

We have a ways to go before we are able to do this, since there's no easy way for end users to create and embed ccREL at the moment, and there are of course lots of other unanswered questions about how we would moderate incorrect attribution, how these tools might be abused, etc.

[0] https://licensebuttons.net/l/by-nd/4.0/88x31.png

[1] https://www.w3.org/Submission/ccREL/
Boeing Says Optional 737 Max Alert Was 'Not Activated as Intended'
Yes one of the thing us native english speakers forget is how easy it is to speak English badly and get by - with many other languages unless you have a good grasp of the language nobody has any idea what you are trying to say.
AI, Drones Survey Great Barrier Reef in Last Ditch Effort to Avoid Catastrophe
Physarum Art
I think the implication is more Africans/Arabs/refugees in western EU
And yet they still don't have enough employees to enable them to follow the law, like for example not earning ad money on pirated content.
It haven't really changed law and politics like cyberphunks hoped.

You can't change law with technology...