skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well decentralization is mostly a sham in its current state. You think people will care about Block.One's Voice app? Steemit more or less died. Hacker Noon got greedy. Wordpress blogs are dead.
Ms for sure improved as of late. My critique was against the idea that they always were dev friendly.
I think you missed the implication that I didn't state explicitly, but figured was pretty clear:

> which I'm sure nobody wants to spend their weekend doing [if their original goal was to simply reconstruct xz].
Yes I'm interested to know if this affects what they were doing with VPC control plane for FreeBSD and the subsequent integration with Vagrant and VMWare.
Synapse raises $33M to build APIs for financial services
I like Zig, but it doesnt even have a HTTP client yet:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2007

granted neither does C, but C has cURL, and Zig doesnt (and wont) have cURL binding:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2056
> a "universe", by definition, is something thay starts out in a highly-ordered state and evolves away from it.

I don't think that's "by definition". That's by observation of an example of one.
And where are they now, HackerNoon? Growing a team and scamming investors?
Ask HN: What are the biggest scams in AI?
I believe that (almost) whole AGI community is a scam.
Going Beyond GAN? New DeepMind VAE Model Generates High Fidelity Human Faces
Having just been in India, I can safely say that Uber in India is one of the worst uber experiences I have seen, independently of this change.

India's car policies will make this very difficult.

Right now the "made in India" car restrictions means that India doesn't share car infrastructure with the rest of the world. From what a local was telling me, car manufacturers typically transfer their tooling from old product lines in other parts of the world when assembly lines are re-tooled to build cheaper India only vehicles.

Thankfully, the big cities are so congested that the older model cars with older model safety systems, but this approach won't work with EVs, which are not yet mainstream in the rest of the world.

My guess is that a modern version of a tuk-tuk would be ideal, but battery production is going to be a very big problem for this. India has the 3rd largest automobile market and a low level of vehicle adoption, but until they fix infrastructure, I don't see it happening.
It wouldn't be a direct war in the sense everyone is thinking. The US has several strategies published regarding war with China with the most likely strategy being one of containment, not outright invasion. I'm saying that the open markets and globalization that has happened over the last several decades (And is now being reversed) is the reason we have had relative peace (No war between larger powers) since WWII
Oh no! I was just researching them and about to buy services! I suppose that's the problem. Too many "about to buy" and not enough actual buying.

But I mean, in honesty it's long overdue. Technical superiority loses out again.
Best described here: https://www.livescience.com/33646-universe-edge.html
This is like nimbyism on steroids. "No one build anything what if there is Rare Science in our backyards".

I mean yes I do kinda see your point, but priorities man. There are ridiculously large advantages to colonizing the universe and destroying a few samples is a low price.
I felt loneliness acutely this week. I live alone, spend most evenings alone, and on top, work's coding and research has been slow for 2 weeks. Collaborators are at conferences and on vacation, so I had much less work and much less face-to-face contact than usual. Given that I code on my own, distribute analyses via email, and occasionally meet if people are around, I barely talked to people some days this week.

Going home feels so meh... I can watch more Sherlock Holmes videos (Jeremy Brett!), rewatch Parks and Rec or The Office, or work on music or art, but there is no one to share with, no one to quip with, no one to engage with on my passions. I just kinda laze about without more contact and stimulus.

And I do have a better social circle now than I have since I left home at age 18...minus the daily familial, non-work interaction. I can't wait to hit the phase of life with a partner and/or family living with me.

If anyone in Providence, RI wants to hang, let me know!
If somebody is being unreasonably ambiguous about an issue I feel personally strong about I feel it's my responsibility to notify the author that you shouldn't teeter between comedy and seriousness. Maybe I would say it in milder manner were it in person, but I think you should at least put the effort to let the reader know, that you are not mocking the individual in question.
You don't know the opposite though.

The kids that fail are barely educated; they may have fourth grade level math. They end up indoctrinated totally by their parents worldview or unable to function with others. They have no real way to connect with others because there isn't even the shared topic of "public school sucks." CEO isn't an option for them; hell a life apart from their parents barely is.

I think people romanticize it way too much, and there is the HLSDA which really pushes a lot of narratives about it. The blog Homeschoolers Anonymous is inactive, but a good reference on some of the issues.
Or to avoid privacy PR backlash. Or to gain advantage with it internally while denying that benefit to those who haven't already copied it. Or to monetize access to it differently.
>and led to more positive interventions in your education

You mean actions that are arguably beneficial on paper but in practice amount to the school telling the at-risk student to <cartman>respect my authority</cartman>?

That stuff never works in practice when the party the at-risk person doesn't respect/care about is the same party or has sufficient/control or incentive alignment with the party doing the intervention.
> that's pretty fucked. I wonder if there's any lending mechanism which would front the legal fees, and then recoupe it back from the judgement (if won).

If your lawyer thinks you have a strong case, they will work for you for free, in exchange for a share of the bounty.

Unfortunately, you can't always tell if you have a strong case.
Some good points here.

The removal of custom domains is unfortunate.

I wish they'd put that back in.
"like FreeBSD". I was hoping Bryan would turn to unikernels. :)
Why Facebook Provides Scale, but Instagram and Pinterest Offer Social Commerce
I'm in your boat too. This is a completely dead and useless service to me if it wants me to enable these settings.
> Energy is not a transportable, fungible quantity the way dollars are.

You mean energy and dollars aren't both transmitted up/down wires or moved around with mass that represents stored potential?

> It is entirely possible that the device one buys for $1000 would require more that $1000 of energy to make

This.... doesn't sound like a business model that will last long. Can you give a concrete example?
Url changed from https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/06/india-electric-vehicles-20..., which points to this.
It wouldn't be outright war but be one of containment. Most likely fought through proxies such as Taiwan. As in just like every other war since WWII
The moral is that Bohr just was a guy who lucked into being in the right time and place to contribute to quantum mechanics but that does not make him an otherwise exceptionally insightful into it. Actually, this also is kind of the case with Maxwell. He managed to put together the all-important theory about electromagnetic waves while having in his mind some weird mechanical image of the vacuum that makes one wonder what this guy was actually thinking. And I have to add to this that I consider Maxwell to be a much greater physicist than Bohr. It could well be that being the discoverer of something leads to some kind of intellectual myopia and that further generations are needed to look more sensibly at what was actually discovered.
Yes. Why shouldn’t they be able to self-realize at all times, and for any reason?

Assistance is a whole ‘nother ballpark. I don’t think it’s a moral imperative for anyone to do anything for a second party that the first does not fully consent to.
large part of it is
sociopolitical: major populated and productive countries are locked by their social and economical structure into the need of perpetual growth to inject capital at the base as the top scoop up any floating wealth, stopping the growth without some for. of wealth redistribution would cause massive instability and with the margin of today production the first two to introduce climate control will be eaten (economically speaking) by the third one.

on the other hand we could likely today engineer algae or fungi to fix carbon into cellulose but you're going to need massive space for their growth and some place for their disposal, unless you can make some sort of bioplastic out of it, because burning them would defeat the purpose, and I bet once you put the number in the unbelievable scale needed for the project would scare the bejesus out of the very same ambientalists types that are currently most vocal about saving the world but abhor nuclear

anyway I think the real issue NASA has about bioengineering are ethical, and Venus is in the same protection category as Venus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_protection

you can draw parallels between the development of cities as Rome, London, Chicago and Los Angeles substituting environmental protection with historical buildings protections. it's important to preserve the best and most relevant landmarks of course but too much and it becomes a real drag.
More about the record tables probably
I've been following cypherpunks related stuff since the mid 90s. But I've kept no notes or records. So I don't exactly recall the timeframe. But it was definitely years before the whitepaper. And as I said, I recall hints that developers were Australian.

Actually, perhaps I do have records. But finding them would be nontrivial. I have lots of old FDE drives. But no labels about content, for obvious reasons.
You know he hates unikernels, so this must be some sort of an internal jab.
because that was the biggest issue in the original article, they didn't have backups of their data, so the company was dead. If they had had backups, they could have recreated the infrastructure.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20115236 and marked it off-topic.
Most rideshare vehicles are financed, not bought outright in cash. If the increase in income from driving an EV exceeds the additional monthly cost of an EV then it's a no-brainer, especially once you factor in cheaper fuel costs.

And your take on the ACA is quite off; it's given healthcare to many more people than previously had.
You made a similar comment two years ago and I replied then. Anyone who wants to read the rebuttals can do so here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14024880
Changing nameservers can take up to 48 hours. Things usually settle down after the first few hours, but a few odd users will continue to be directed to the old nameservers well into the next day. This is exactly the kind of intermittent, hard-to-diagnose issue that you don't want to have to worry about in the middle of a crisis such as "Digital Ocean killed my company."

Changing A records, on the other hand, can take as little time as you want depending on the TTL value.
Arguably Raisup should have been better prepared for this eventuality. But, I suspect that many of the people here talking about how their system is infallible made it that way because they, had time and/or money to spare working on it, have a very portable system, or have had something like this happen before.

I feel like HN comments are often sanctimonious to the point of ignorance. A solo dev, scrambling to get his project to the point where there is even the tiniest chance it will succeed, is likely to have a complex network of hardcoded filepaths, hostnames, and other magic numbers, strings, and config files that would make it very difficult to make portable without significant time and effort.

Or maybe the guy was an idiot. But possibly entertain the thought that maybe his situation wasn't exactly comparable to your eh?
I think you have the causality backwards. What I said is that in practice only the powerless and unpopular will get silenced, not that silencing will make people powerless and unpopular. That is, in practice this will likely get applied against all sorts of minority viewpoints that fall under the rules, but not applied to sufficiently powerful/popular/near-majority-viewpoint rules violators.

Also, I couldn't care less whether things are a gamble when it comes to business. I do care about public discourse and control thereof.
Probably claiming to do AI!

http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2017/06/07/ai-inside/
>If there's state in that virtual machine, it's probably either stored on the physical host or in a SAN

I think the point is to write your application in a way that there's not state in the VM. My VMs are disposable and in fact the way I do deployments is to spin up a new VM in DO and then assign it the floating IP for production. If things go haywire I can easily swap back the IP address to the known good VM.
Semantics distract from the point at hand. There's no privacy when you leave your house either, but you still expect people (including school administrators) not to follow you around recording your actions and statements.

There is a reasonable expectation to /not be stalked/ even when conducting yourself in an otherwise public setting. Calling this "privacy" is a loose application of the word, but we never really had the need to come up with another one before the information age made it economical to do this to everyone all the time.
Maybe they did :hmm:
The Typestate Pattern in Rust
I think calling the entire AGI community a scam is inaccurate; but, I do believe a lot of people are benefiting from overhyping the whole thing.
‘Primitive’ Visualizes Source Code for Collaborative Analysis in VR
I wonder if placing the doorbell facing the door, rather than street, is a workaround for this.

Most people have porches, with a column, and while running wires could be tedious, it means you'll never have valuable footage for law enforcement, except in your own cases.
For a business, especially a startup, the opportunity cost often makes multi-cloud infeasible. You'd rather spend that engineering time on delivering features or addressing tech debt. I'm of the opinion that multi-cloud doesn't make much sense if your monthly cloud spend is less than at least $500k.

Pick one of the strong public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and then be judicious about which PaaS offerings you use to avoid unnecessary vendor lock in unless it adds enough value to justify the lock in.
Scrum Dysfunction (2017) [OC]
> I think if you search your heart you'd probably come to the conclusion that the fact that the school will follow up on every little thing is exactly the problem.

The issues of school administrator overreach and school district liability for negligence are not mutually exclusive.

> Knowing what you know about liability, ask yourself, what are the real chances of the school knowing something and dismissing it as a false positive?

Knowing what I know about liability and knowing what I know about compliance monitoring systems with high rates of false positives is precisely why I said what I said.

Negligence = known or should have known of X

Efforts to hold schools accountable for shootings have historically been difficult because the plaintiffs must show (1) but for the action of the school, the injury would not have occurred and (2) the injury was a foreseeable result of the school's negligence.

This monitoring system creates actual knowledge of a potential threat where most law suits over school shootings have had to argue the school "should have known" and requires the school to take make a record of their decision for every alert (investigate or ignore).
I dunno, for my part it's interesting to understand that the person who invented Bitcoin also wrote TrueCrypt.

That's two "hits".
We Need More Hackers
I don't see any reason why it can't br made to work between multiple applications while being still faster than traditional kernel based stacks.
Disclaimer: I'm married to a doctor. That said, I agree with your point that they are over-paid, but I absolutely don't agree with the idea that you only need a moderate amount of intelligence to work as a physician. A slight majority of my friend group is physicians, both through my spouse's education and work and through a collegiate friend group that mostly went into medicine. While I have many, many complaints about the medical profession and many of the people who work at it, they are, virtually without exception, extremely intelligent people. The ones who weren't washed out at some point in the 4 years of university and subsequent 8-12 years of training. Some of the barriers to entry are excessive, but most of them are there because being a doctor is incredibly difficult.
Pogo stick rental startup swears it’s not a joke
>I don't think you've ever been responsible for a group of adolescent girls. Far better than boys, at pretty much every aspect of bullying.

If your definition of bullying is mostly physical (which is a crappy definition but I digress) boys are way worse.
And how about that highlight feature that often points out the corniest sentence in the whole article as the "top highlight".
Knowing that you're theoretically well-off in comparison to people living in other places

It's not theoretical. It's factual.
OLA do own their own cars. OLA owned cars do get preference. This is one of the main complaints of drivers who own their own cars.
For a transition of an electron between energy levels that emits a photon, should the time it takes for the transition be the same as the duration of the probability envelope of the photon?

If so, that's easily observable by looking at the width of the spectral line. If the transition is fast, that implies a short duration and therefore the spectral lines should be smeared out.
Google Stadia detailed: price, release date and the first games you’ll stream
Why do people think I'm asking for war with China? Obviously nobody wants it but also you shouldn't bury your head in the sand and ignore the consequences of the US and China separating their economies. Trade and business between the US and China is what has been preventing any new war. We were at war with China in Korea and that was fairly recently. It would be a proxy war and would probably happen in Taiwan, Korea, etc. with both the US and China arming and supporting different sides
"The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed." - W. Gibson
A CRNN model for text recognition in Keras
"All Companies Are in the Tech Business Now"

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-05-08/all-co...

"Every Company Is Now a Tech Company"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/every-company-is-now-a-tech-com...

It's amazing how the story changes just within a few months or years. Tech is the future of everything one day. The next, its glory days are behind it.
> how bad / invasive is getting a biopsy?

About the same as getting a prostate biopsy, except you can lie on your back instead of on your side while they shove several large hollow needles into your flesh to cut out pieces of a very sensitive gland.
Well it is correlated with being a recent CS grad, just like, for example, knowing that d(sin(x))/dx = cos(x) is correlated with being a recent math or engineering grad.

But that's certainly not what it actually measures, which is basic knowledge about data structures. It just so happens that being a recent CS grad is statistically correlated with knowledge about data structures.

But it's certainly not a necessary condition. I am not any sort of CS grad, recent or otherwise, and I still know how to implement a linked list, because I learn things on my own, and refresh my memory about things I forget over time.
Related question: how fast does time go in a “pure entropy” situation?

Or, maybe more useful, what happens to time as you asymptotically approach pure entropy? Does it speed up?

If so, it would make a Boltzmann brain inevitable. Or... not an inevitable brain, but an inevitable random low entropy state, right?
> It's kinda crazy. We say this - but I suspect we are a minority.

I'm not sure I agree there. For example, I've heard stories where parents don't really want their children to use Instagram... however, they also don't want their kids to be excluded. If all other kids are on Instagram, the parents don't want their child to be excluded. It's kind of a trap if all parents feel this way.

I've heard stories of those parents getting together and collectively agreeing that they will all simultaneously ban their children from using Instagram so that no one feels excluded.

So in your example of "we"... it could be that "we" all feel this way, but we need to raise our voices together instead of as individuals.
> Copyright: all the source code is rewritten so there is no copyright there.

...there is no copyright infringement. You own copyright on the things you create (or your employer does when hired by them to do such work.) You infringe others' copyright by using their work in a way that they didn't approve (or goes against how the law says you can use their work.)

By creating your own implementation of $THING, you now hold copyright in your implementation. This does not alleviate the patent and trademark concerns.
Not the person you're replying to but...

> With all due and sincere respect, have you ever tried to build an audience or community from zero without partners, a leverage point, or an ad budget?

Yes.

> Even getting a quality audience of thousands is non-trivial or costs money or needs a clever strategy.

That hasn't been my experience. I started with a blog. Then I wrote a book which I published online a chapter at a time. Now I'm on a second book.

I'm at the point now where I'm lucky enough to have many more people read what I write than I ever expected. My first book has sold many many more copies in print, EPUB, and Kindle than I ever dreamed.

I don't think I had a clever strategy. I just put a ton of effort into writing things that people find valuable. I think the real problem many people suffer from is that they aren't trying to do that. They have mostly selfish goals around growing their brand or their business, and actually satisfying readers is merely a means to that end.

I certainly personally benefit much more than I ever expected from mt writing, but if I ever felt like a I wrote a thing that wasn't worth the time a reader spends reading it, I'd delete it in a heartbeat.

> I try to explain, look, unless you're John Carmack or are we'll known for certain expertise, or have a track record, likely you can post your idea publicly on your blog and no one will ever copy it, even if it's a decent concept.

You say that like it's a bad thing. I don't believe you need to be a celebrity or a world-renowned expert. (I'm neither.) But you do need to have something that's worth the reader's time if you want to have a lot of readers. Otherwise, how are you making the world better?

That being said, it's also totally fine to not have a lot of readers. Everyone starts somewhere and writing not-too-great things for a small number of readers is the first step on the path towards writing better things for more people. The Beatles did not play their first show to a sold out arena, and that's great, because they weren't that good then either.

Your audience naturally grows with your skills. That's the system working as intended.
As far as I'm aware, nobody's succeeded in turning deserts into farm land on a large scale. Various parties keep trying but the water, fertilizer, and maintenance costs are astronomical.
Try yoga at a small studio, communities are often great :>
Yup, sounds about right, decry the death of the multi generational home then decry boomerang kids then decry people living alone.