skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normal, regular process of government[s] extracting extra tax dollars from large enterprises in forms of penalties/fines for whatever violations.

This will ends when Google will pay up and promise to do some [cosmetic] changes.
Uber's application can be almost perfectly sharded because the problem they are solving is mostly local. This simplifies the problem significantly.
I think statistics wins here vs collecting and computing everything. Google has search intent so as long as you keep searching for something you are still interested. Same with Amazon. FB is more demographic based. I mean I guess you Google could just retarget you in every search query or in gmail but you might be off put when you get BMW ads when you search for vitamins. I've been retargeted by Amazon on FB but it's been pretty comical. Those ads have largely stopped so my guess is that Amazon did not find a positive ROI.
relevant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20062690
That’s what was said when this plan first started last year. However, it’s been consistently progressing over the months. When it’s progressing, it’s no longer just talk. They’re clearly adamant about making this a reality.
Thank you for the great info! I bet it's the AMD graphics card helping. I know Nvidia is a mess (and requires the aforementioned tweaking). I'm glad it's working well for you and I'd love to test a setup like this as I really want off Chromium but haven't had an equal experience with Firefox (on OS X and Linux with Nvidia cards).
The thing that really freaks me out about these stories are that they sound similar to what my grandfather (who I always thought was a bit crazy) told me he saw when he was in the Air Force. He told me he saw a red tic tac shaped object flying in the sky off the coast somewhere in Asia that caused the water underneath it to bubble, and it eventually flew off faster than any aircraft he had seen previously.

It seems more likely these are some advanced man-made aircraft it's just eerily similar to my GF's story that would have happened decades ago (maybe in the 60's? I'm not really sure exactly when he was in the Air Force).
Selecting to keep people away from any potential danger above the level of 0 seems like a fairly good design. You're not paralyzed, merely cautioned, and then your offspring will inherit whatever level of that fear or worry from you based on if and how you've learned to trust what dogs are safe. If a dog attacks you at 3 years old then your environment isn't all that safe - and it makes sense then you may not have guardians who can adequately protect you or keep you in a safe environment. There are tools however to lessen and/or remove such negative conditioning, and it makes sense that that would require actual directed/focused work than just randomly being unafraid of something dangerous - and perhaps better to heal trauma closer to the trauma so neural pathways don't evolve/expand into everything for years or decades.
>> [...] In most of the flight envelope the aircraft is stable.

>> At high alpha the aircraft has pitch problems.

> I believe the airplane is aerodynamically stable even at high alpha. [...] This is not a flying wing or intentionally unstable airplane (as the F-16).

In some ways that's likely worse news than an airplane that's inherently unstable in general, no? A corner case, and one that evidently isn't actually all that uncommon. If you're building something like an F-16 you know that you absolutely have to make the fly-by-wire correct and robust, and the ground crews similarly know that if anything affects its performance the plane isn't fit to fly.
Lessons from My First Year as a Software Engineer
All That ScottGu Announced at Build 2019 Tech Keynote, with Timestamps
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6236478 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17433908
You know what'd be extra-awesome? If it had a text editor and an Emacs Lisp emulation layer …

Seriously, a web browser which is capable of running the decades of elisp out there would be basically the only tool I need on my desktop: text editor, web browser, mail reader, git client, console, shell, calculator, diary, organiser. Boot directly into that and life would be perfect.
One of my favourite takeaways from this is that Reddit users are constantly poking fun at instagram and twitter for recycling reddit posts whereas in reality I estimate 75% of the content I see on the front page originated from one of those sites, posted by a "Karma Whore".
He used a customized version of the PageRank algorithm that comes with MATLAB. The paper is pretty dense with other interesting observations. I think one of the novel contributions is experimental evidence that centrality is important to learning distinct sequences of behaviors.

Consider three behaviors: moving right on a linear track, turning around, and moving left. A reinforcement signal could be sugar water. If you place sugar water at the right end of the track the mouse learns the sequence of moving right, drinking, turning around, and moving left to leave. Now, in the hippocampus different ensembles of time and place neurons are correlated with each distinct activity. The inter-ensemble connectivity has to be learned, as the sequence of actions become correlated not just in behavior but in the brain as well. The neurons that most strongly inhabit inter-ensemble connectivity, tend to be those 'stable' and 'important' anchor neurons.

Yes, it has been studied before that some neurons are more important than others. But the critical extension here is to long-term stability and learning on an unprecedented time-scale and quantity of simultaneously recorded neurons. The actual microscope itself, is a significant technological advancement in how it stays robust to long- and short-term motion artifacts and was custom designed and built by the first-author.

There's also the experiment done on dynamics after traumatic damage to the neural circuits encoding a learned behavior (this is one of the specialty of the Lois group). But that starts deviating from the observation I wanted to make relating to the thread.

The conclusion: "Overall, our findings suggest a model where the patterns of activity of individual neurons gradually change over time while the activity of groups of synchronously active neurons ensures the persistence of representations."

Seems fairly innocuous, but I'm almost certain it will be controversial to some parties.
OK, changed from https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-afraid-very-afraid-121....
In what way do you think choices reflect on any of the points I was trying to make as changes in social support?

I can only see two that are well within the range that might be covered if all the other safety nets fixed individuals that had become injured or otherwise unable to work (this is assuming we have MUCH better tech, like Star Trek / Orville level tech, to actually repair all types of damage).

Housing: This is more a choice made by the irrational market, not so much by individual humans. Yes there is less expensive housing, but it's usually not located near jobs or has a high externality / transaction cost of somekind. Referencing the source article, Japan does have a fantastically run transit system that is also reasonably priced. That does extend the range of available locations.

Jobs themselves; do you think that job placement systems are not a better idea instead of being "hired" to "look" for a job (which should not be ANYONE's primary life skill!)? If an aptitude test shows that there is untrained area that skill could be acquired in, getting that skill might be the assigned 'job' instead. (retraining/education)
It seems there are indeed serious issues with SSPLv1 that I was unaware of. That being said, the loophole in the AGPL that they are attempting to address is also a serious issue. The rewording in v2

> “storage software and hosting software” changed to “host orchestration software”

seems to be fairly reasonable though, unless I've misunderstood things once again?

> But note that not even MongoDB, the project that the SSPL came from, is using v2 at the moment.

From the page you linked,

> If this version is approved by OSI, we plan to apply it to the next release of our MongoDB software, which is currently available under version 1.0.

so it seems they really do just want to address the current loophole in the AGPL.
Increased redundancy in airborne systems is very unintuitive. Double redundancy can be more dangerous than having a single system (at least when you're talking engines or sensors anyway).

Triple redundancy is the norm for the specific reason that it's highly likely for symmetrically placed sensors to be prone to failing in the same way not long after each other, but having a third differently placed can keep you flying.

Although there's at least one instance where an Airbus plane had two AoA sensors malfunction at the same time and outvote the last remaining sensor.

This is why critical systems are built with higher degrees of redundancy and graceful degradation of operational envelope in mind.

Training on how to deal with unaided flight is also absolutely essential. Many Airbus accidents where pilot's were caught off guard when the automation that kept them from breaking out of the operating envelope failed.

Long story short; Boeing has put themselves in the unenviable position of having delivered a product in ways that are not only illegal, but deadly, and short of pilots accepting a significant burden in the form of being as good at or better than the MCAS system at this point; a lot of man hours and capital has been expended to end up in a situation where every MAX is in a not inconsiderable risk of being scrapped.
This is the manner of thing I expect from Reddit. This is the most important paragraph, to me:

''The act of seeking karma is a sensitive issue on the site. Some users post original content, or stuff that they only make themselves. These users, Redditors will tell you, are respectable because their pursuit of karma is funded by their own work and energy. But the site’s system is volatile, and not all original content is well-received. Karma whores know this in their core. Karma whores learn to be clinical and bot-like. Karma whores make nothing themselves and often pull their content from users on other sites without crediting. This recklessness, Redditors will tell you, reveals the true emptiness dwelling inside these people.''

You see much of the same behaviour here. I've noticed this manner of website tends to avoid discussing the issues with upvotes and downvotes; they're only good in theory and are constantly abused in practice; discussions of gaming the system are also typically taboo. It's clear to any idiot that if you want Internet points on Hacker News, you simply spend time uploading the work of others and collecting the value ascribed to that which you had nothing to do with.

The only reason I made this account was to promote my work to a wider audience, only to find that no one on ''Hacker'' ''News'' was interested in the least. None of my work has received even a single comment. That's another issue with voting systems; people are led to believe a vote may as well be a comment, so they don't write one. Anyway, the utter disgust and disappointment I've experienced and also seen secondhand for some others I hold in good regard towards this place has led me to implement my own comment system, so as to be free from trying to appeal to this place.

I'd delete this account, being sick of this nonsense already, but it's my understanding the posts would remain indefinitely, so I'll keep this account to make posts such as this, giving my opinion on these things I find wrong here.
> You mean a centralised entity that is able to verify all claims input on the blockchain, cross-reference these inputs, and then enforce the execution of the contract.

...

> wat

My belief that you're arguing in good faith is slowly but steadily dropping. I just went over how you could have a network of such entities instead of a single centralized one. This is a policy question that's orthogonal to whether you use a blockchain for this.

> Why would you need blockchain then if you trust such an entity with so much more than just with part tracking?

Trust is not a simple yes or no thing. Blockchains make trust relationships legible and verifiable. You can go back in time and get cryptographic proofs of historical trust relationships.

I'm normally a blockchain skeptic but provenance tracking is a very good use of them.
> at the same time seem to be increasingly available to only the rich

I believe that airfares have never been cheaper than in the last decade.

In 1965, only 20% of Americans had ever flown in a plane. By 2000, 50% of Americans took at least one round-trip flight per year (with an average of 2 per year). Airfares are down by 50% in 30 years.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/how-air...
Right, it's kind of reasonable to think the government might want to test their advanced radar capabilities against their advanced surveillance / stealth craft.
Pragmatically, every party knew the massacre was about to start and tried to duke it out.
because it is wholly under the domain of politics in the Bay Area. Most if not all special interest groups are linked back to either those in office or their party. the usual method is to form groups where you friends and family get nice part time advisement jobs pulling down 100k or more; we recently had a candidate in my state who part timed a get out to vote PAC for even more.

There have been many stories posted here and elsewhere how nearly every attempt to build housing is derailed, usually under the guise of setting aside for "affordable housing", followed by union workers only, followed by environmental concern; one was defeated for adding a few hours of shade to twenty percent of a play area/park of a school!; to finally architectural concerns because why would we want to impose on history of buildings barely a hundred years old. It comes down to money for politicians and those already there not wanting "those people" living among them.

Heck in my local metro area they have squads to clear out the homeless and undesirables every time a convention or big game comes in; a town which has been blue for most all this century and most of the previous. One where you will hear the politicians stamp their feet about how unfair it is and if only they had more power and money they could fix it, yet they never have. Instead a new stadium displaced an older black church, go figure.
No FB account in any form, ever.

No Instagram account.

No Twitter account.

I have a LinkedIn account from 15 years ago that I never use. LinkedIn never "worked" for me. Because of that, I never bothered with any of the other "social media".
What do you think should be a good benchmark for such hybrid models? Here they created a toy dataset of simple geometric shapes with simple relationships. This is fine to start with, but we need to come up with some more realistic and useful scenario. Even MNIST for image classification is both realistic and useful. I wonder what would be an equivalent of MNIST or ImageNet for models which implement reasoning and common sense.
TSA-style body scanners are coming to public spaces
Probably meant the U-2.
What's that noir short story where the guy is trying to bargain with his smart pay-per-use door to open up?
Charter Schools were supposed to save public education. What happened?
Did you read the whole thing? Because it was about adding carbon fiber to the plastic to make it as strong as steel
Asleep at the Wheel
Hi dang! Problem with Bloomberg is that it's paywalled. Yahoo News is not.
> I recommend the tabstats extension

You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. I'm under 1000 now! (ok... 999) Deduplication of tabs is pretty useful for the Jira issues (I usually follow links from Slack). If only Jira pages would load faster.

Tab bankruptcy scares me. It's hard to know how much of it is an action I still need to take. Some of it is research I don't want have to find again, but I need to take the time to bookmark.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-stats/
The article is correct that you still need oracles (of course you do), but wrong in saying that blockchains are therefore useless.

A better article would be more intellectually curious! For example, it might talk about the sorts of oracles blockchains could enable and how much of a burden they need to bear with and without blockchains.
> What world do you live in

Please edit such acerbic swipes out of your comments here. They break the site guidelines and lower the signal/noise ratio.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I thought the Uber goal was also to drive the competition out of business via any means necessary and then raise price.
A well thought out API is a valuable thing and there's no shame in that being your competitive advantage.
Sorry, I'm commenting pseudonymously, so not really. But if you just change your browser default font size to say 20px you can't miss it.
engineers overseeing this work

There the thing: nobody wants to pay engineers on par with managers. Maybe one can not manage something he/she can not understand.
"Other issues" is what worries me most about this as well. We now know that MCAS is safety-critical, so it's going to be reviewed, but what else got missed/minimized during the design and review process? The fact that Boeing is still trying to minimize the danger of MCAS does not fill me with confidence in their willingness to raise and fix other problems.

They don't seem to have learned from this, which means it's likely to happen again.
Yeah, but the difference here is that exposure can also come from negative and contrarian attention. So the dominant strategy for staying at the top of a board is sometimes to be as controversial as possible. Basically, trolling.

From a meta perspective, I guess trolling-for-the-sake-of-trolling can be part of the 'echo chamber.' However, at a surface level it remains antipodal to the idea of 'following a narrative.'
When I open source code, I use MIT. I have introduced open source strategies at places I work, and guided teams through the process.

Ok now that I've established my OSS cred: I'd be really interested in a license that is effectively MIT, _except_ for the 20 largest software companies, for whom there is no license and any use is restricted (you'd need to clearly define what makes a company a software company, and what it means to be the largest, but that's what lawyers are for). They could pay for a commerical license if the customer demand was high enough.

This seems like it would address the main issue as I see it, that is, I want almost everyone to be able to use my software to build cool shit and make money... But if you're FAANG or some shit, come on. The rules are different.
Does that really make such a difference? If the baseband and wifi require closed binary blobs which are cryptographically signed to a specific kernel version, what is the point of having an unlocked bootloader or installing alternative ROMs?
OK, we'll change it back. Thanks!
It's both actually. But that gives an apparent contradiction - how can both observers see that the other party has slower clocks? Who is 'right'?

The answer is that the 'moving' traveler needs to flip the ship around at some point and thrust back towards the starting point. Whoever turns back around will find that it's their clocks that passed more slowly.
> just because they don't graduate doesn't mean they haven't gathered debt

...and end up even worse off - they have the debt, but not the degree that could get them the higher paying job.
Yes, that crosses the threshold of rational to me. It doesn't seem necessarily optimal, mind you—there are some interesting cases like "John worked his butt off, too, but he's been doing coal mining for thirty years and those jobs are gone, and you graduated last year with a CS degree and got a nice signing bonus from Facebook"—but at least we can argue that society for whatever reason values being a junior dev at Facebook more than coal mining and if that's wrong we should address that at the root.

The biggest practical problem is that it's very difficult to distinguish "I worked my butt off" from "My father worked his butt off" and "His father had generational wealth." Money is money, and the inheritance tax is far below 100%. So simply putting land access on the free market, if the market is denominated by money, does not effectively implement this proposal: it reduces in practice to the non-rational value judgments mentioned earlier, largely because very few people can earn enough salary to compete with once-modest savings that have been invested for generations. (And money persists across the years, so if society ever mis-valued something in the past, correcting that valuation now does not affect money that's already in people's hands. I guess that's the case for reparations in a nutshell, hm.)

One potential approach is to require that access to land involve the ongoing payment of money that dwarfs the one-time purchase cost (if there even is one), which approximates giving land access to those who are presently doing valuable things for society and not those who just happen to have money. If you're currently working your butt off, even if you're young, you can keep affording it; if you are relying on savings or generational wealth, it's going to run out.

It occurs to me that this is approaching the Georgists' land value tax, though from a different direction.
Attention: Customers, Advanced technology.

Obsession: Sudden cloud-everything religion. "Cloud or death". I concerned that it may hurt proven track record, flexibility and sales of on-prem and standalone editions of solution.
Also - cloud platform providers are known to take sides and step onto toes of their own customers if they like their business models. So this "cloud everything" religion is carrying certain extra risks.
Transit as retail and real-estate play: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2012/05/secret-tokyos...

The end to end control over development of these networks+districts was still more centralized, though not by a government, compared to the rather uncoordinated mess that has been US public transit development.
Thank you for your contribution, you have certainly helped to elevate the conversation.
Former NPM CTO Announces Entropic federated package registry, alternative to NPM
The article mentioned that the video is kept locally and not stored anywhere in the cloud, so if you want to hack it you're going to need physical access to the building. And if you have that then NYT has a whole lot of other problems it should be dealing with before worrying about the cameras.

(besides, I very much doubt many people leak to the NYT by walking into the office and announcing their presence. They do it online or send things in by mail in the stories I've read)
https://twitter.com/gsiskind/status/1134459671706832896?s=12
Search intent (behavioral) and demographic both suck compared to contextual. Contextual advertising is the "premium" ad space sold directly by publishers. An car maker says "I want to be in Car + Driver" and they put their ad there and it's the most expensive type of buy but it outperforms everything else by a wide margin.

The reason "targeted" ads exist is not because they work better, but because they create more inventory that would otherwise not have been sold.
Tenure-Based Ownership – A distributed equity model for worker ownership
Is computer science really that subject to change, though? Especially given what most CS graduates end up doing in industry? The tech stack may change, the syntax of the language may change, but the underlying math/theory mostly doesn't.