skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Would AI be good for training my dog?
I am very lazy to train my dog, but I think that AI could help a lot. I am thinking AI would produce smells for my dog to understand what I want the dog to do. I think the brain of the dog can be enhanced with smell training.

Do you know some attempt in this direction?

Edit: Googling I found (1), but there is not smell involved.

(1) https://disruptivedog.com/ai-dog-training-app-doggo/

(2) https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-has-a-strange-new-muse-our-sense-of-smell/

(3) https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/14/17234570/artificial-intelligence-dogs-research-science-learning

(4) https://readyforai.com/article/imitating-the-human-olfactory-system-to-make-ai-smarter/
I think the example was meant to be hypothetical and a bit absurd so that people can understand the point being made. There are enough real world examples of state intervention for the "common good" gone awry.
>terminated my connection and said "Hey, we don't think this is safe" /

That's not equivalent, equivalent would be doing something you don't realise, the point is about user agency: keeping users uninformed and, for those that get the information out-of-band, unable to exercise their own control over the situation.
I keep hearing similar high pitched sounds in Tokyo in front of some stores as well, so the statement that only people up to 25 years old can hear it sounds incorrect.

The Mosquito youth repellent has even won an Ig Nobel prize: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/oct/06/science.higheredu...

I think this fits the general trend of making urban architecture more and more hostile to the public.
Hello. It was tested on Linux and FreeBSD. Works fine on any of those systems if you have SBCL and dmenu installed, though it might need a few tweaks on program paths of your configuration file.

I plan to migrate this to a more flexible Roswell script in a near future.
Delta CRDTs [pdf]
If this is true, why not name them to help others?
Organization may not be a “business” thing but Trello, Asana, JIRA, and Slack sure are.
But with sexps, if your code suffers some formatting catastrophe (such as all instances of whitespace being reduced to a single space), the sexp code is trivially recoverable/reformattable.

Depending on whitespace and indentation creates such fragile code that I can't understand why the trade-off would be made.
> we still strain credulity to think of a public welfare project where "the state" whimsically decides to "plow through what they can" and rebuild "based on a grid."... they just "decide," "while they're at it," to rezone

The reason this is so incredulous is that it used to happen all the time, at least based on Caro's book "The Power Broker" about Robert Moses. Randomly tearing down neighborhoods to build highways, housing projects, etc. In my hometown of Albany, two neighborhoods were entirely torn down in the 70s to build the massive "Rockefeller Plaza."

The only reason planners no longer do this is that the outrage was so immense in the wake of people like Moses. But it's not "unfathomable", it's history.
I have a related, but different, question about what the classifier is discriminating on. The article quotes Kraemer as saying “in the study, we found that when engineering students looked at images of real-world structures, the students would automatically apply their engineering knowledge, and would see the differences between structures such as whether it was a cantilever, truss or vertical load.” This makes me wonder whether the algorithm is discriminating on knowledge of engineering terminology, rather than what the subjects understand of the physics involved. I am curious as to how the non-engineer subjects who got the answer right compare to the engineers.

Update: on reading the paper, it seems that the goal of the experiment was to distinguish between engineers and novices, and it conflates 'knowledge' with 'understanding', so the claims that the discrimination is on the basis the subjects' understanding of the issues appears to be editorial overreach.
Very interesting, but I don't like the idea of abandoning VSCode to learn some single-purpose IDE
Amazon to Retrain a Third of Its U.S. Workforce
There's also this other BSD derivative out there called Mac OS: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3446231/how-closely-are-...

Depending on your point of view this is or isn't BSD. But either way it undeniably includes a lot of BSD variants of tools (like grep, sed, etc.) and BSD licensed code.

Other than that, I've not really encountered BSD in the wild, ever. I know some companies still use it. It's just that I've never crossed paths with such companies in my career over the last two plus decades. I've encountered some companies sticking with Solaris for unclear reasons (pain in the ass to deal with these days) but that's been a few years.

The "it's more secure" argument seems to come up a lot and indeed is a strong value in the BSD community. However, you could legitimately wonder if this is more a case of security through obscurity than a technical reality these days. So few people use BSD these days that hacking it has got to be a pretty specialist skill for a wannabe hacker and probably not worth investing a lot of time in given the limited number of interesting targets. Not necessarily a bad thing if you want to keep hackers out but not exactly a user growth strategy either for any of the BSDs.
it's a very simple tool, to be sure. but come on, it's not like it's steve gibson wares ...

the free version is perfectly adequate. it's simply an information gathering and reporting tool. anyone could write this tool themselves -- the mechanics of it are beyond simple. but like all sysadmin tasks, gathering the requirements is the hard part.
Cristian from Deepstash, here.

We went live a couple of months ago.

We currently have about 100k installs and about 1k awesome reviews in stores. The apps are ad-free and not monetized yet.

To be honest we were quite struck with how successful our launch was. We never expected this kind of reception. Well, at least not this fast.

Would love some quality feedback, criticism or ideas from you guys!

Cheers!
Billion Dollar Startups per Capita
Huffington Post, as recently as 4 or 5 years ago, were writing articles downplaying Polanski's rape of that girl. There is a surprising strain of Polanski apologism among those who are the first to claim the mantle of feminism.

It's a wired hypocrisy.
Erm, that's what I did. You said disagree and then repeated my first point.
Ode to Erlang
I was tired of my Erlang

We'd been together too long

Like a worn out recording

Of a favourite song

So while she lay there spawning

I opened discord in bed

And in a programming server

There was a pasta I read:

"If you like Mix and OTP

And a nice DSL

If you're not into Mongo

(Then you're not going to hell)

If you like Actors and the BEAM

Please do lend me your ear

We'll make such a great team

Come to me, Elixir"

I didn't think about my Erlang

I know that sounds kind of mean

But me and my old Erlang

Had fallen into the same old dull routine

So I joined lemoncluster

Pinned my own post as well

And though it does sound quite vain

I thought it was pretty swell:

"Yes I like Mix and OTP

And a nice DSL

I despise JavaScript

So I won't go to hell

I need to learn you by tomorrow noon

And cut through all this red tape

At "learn X in Y minutes"

Where we'll plan our escape

So I waited with high hopes

And readied my romantics

I knew her platform in an instant

I knew her sweet semantics

It was my own lovely Erlang

And she said "Aw, it's you"

Then we laughed for a moment

And I said "I never knew"

That you like Mix and OTP

And a nice DSL

That you're not into Mongo

So you're not going to hell

That you like Actors and the BEAM

In a tolerant shape

You're the lady I've looked for

Come to me and escape
Only like one bit here and there. Most of "sputnik moment" styled youtube videos about China internetising everything are more or less representative of the state on the ground.

But more than that, that an everyday for an average migrant worker in a big city in China.
This author really practices what he preaches with regards to being vulnerable himself to get others to open up. Check out the about page [0] of his site. It's an honest reckoning of his entire life, not just a list of the highlights, as so many other people's bios are.

[0] https://www.disruptingjapan.com/tim/
Case study of BridgeBio (rare disease platform)
Thanks, so that means the user have to open source their script also.
People confuse academia with credentialism. Credentialism is a parasite that has long infested academia (ever since nobles wanted to send their children to study under the famous Greek philosophers) and now presents as its face. But academia existed long before Universities gave out credentials; in fact, long before Universities had undergraduate programs.

The Universities were, originally, just cloisters of academic scientists doing research (and sharing lab space), that you—as another academic scientist—would visit to exchange knowledge. And, guess what? Universities are still that. You don’t need to have a Ph.D (or the desire to gain one) to travel to any random University campus, walk into a research laboratory, and exchange knowledge with the people there. The core function of academia still goes on, though it is encircled by the parasite of credentialism. Or you can avoid Universities, and just work with academics directly through academic organizations, like one of the many Royal Societies in the Commonwealth, or through “industrial-academic partnership” organizations like the IETF.

Academia still exists even at the heart of purely-industrial think tanks, and government organizations, as long as they hire people with the enculturated mindset of academia. You think you can’t just walk into NASA, or Boston Dynamics, and ask their research scientists stuff? You can. Because they’re academic scientists, and so they will exchange knowledge with you (as another academic scientist) and consider it part of their vocation, whether it counts as paid job-hours or not.
Their CEO was the same guy who felt it was appropriate to get his company involved with a community dispute over if Naomi Wu was a "real" maker or secretly propped up by her boyfriend.

I don't get the impression he is a very good steward of the brand.

It's too bad, too. Maker Fair is one of the most important events in the penninusla. It's hugely important to educational efforts and a major focus for local makers who otherwise won't turn a profit outside of efforts like Bizarre Bazaar, which are quite expensive to attend.
> Shopify is giving merchants an opportunity to differentiate themselves while bearing no risk if they fail.

In addition to this being a great position for Shopify, this is an amazing thing for merchants compared to Amazon's offering; it's the critical difference between "We'll sell your stuff" and "We'll empower you to easily sell your stuff" that leaves power and agency in the hands of individual companies.

Semi-related: For a really insightful conversation about Shopify, personal interactions, and running a good company, I highly recommended The Knowledge Project's interview with the company's CEO, Tobi Lütke: https://fs.blog/tobi-lutke/
An actual job description from Naval Ravikant's new company
That’s exactly why I started putting stickers on mine. I had a personal 2015 Macbook Pro, a 2013 MBP for work, and my wife has a Macbook Air. They all look exactly the same. So I put a sticker from my company on the company laptop and a sticker from a local brewery on my personal laptop and the confusion went away immediately.
Only in your imagination, it seems
> ...time for new players to step up and
> disrupt this market, but not if that means
> a loss for businesses. That's the challenge.

No, that's not the challenge. We've sadly reached the point where "loss of business" is on the table for people who care about ethics. If the only way a newspaper can stay afloat is by displaying junk from taboola/outbrain, perhaps it's time for them to close-up shop?

The "challenge" is to get more people to use adblockers, punish scammers ruthlessly, and demand that the journalism sites which are worth anything at all to screen the the ads they accept and perhaps even face consequences for displaying proven scammer ads.
Reproducing the Linux Builds of Firefox 68
It is used in both situations when context makes it clear, there's no [or very little, at least] context in a title. Ordering disambiguates the intended meaning when context is insufficient.
This is a classic "parade of horribles" argument. I do not find them compelling, personally.

If Apple starts being abusive, they'll get their hand slapped. If they don't, they don't.

There's no better company positioned to do anti-malware than the vendor of the OS itself. Which is why Apple and Microsoft both do it. You can disable updates on both platforms if, for some reason, you don't want anything to change on your system without your explicit action (pros and cons to that, obviously). But for most end users, the tradeoff of control vs. security is a very easy one, since the average user is in no way qualified to secure their own system or audit the code that runs on it.
As Amazon gobbles up more product categories, there may be less viable categories that potential e-commerce startups might venture into on their own.

This could mean over time, more Shopify merchants would be selling overlapping product categories (the ones Amazon has not yet gobbled up yet).

Which would mean that as a Shopify merchant, you would competing with other Shopify merchants (not Amazon).

How do you differentiate, when the Shopify platform makes the same set of selling advantages available to everyone?

You leave Shopify ...
A channel I don't see in this thread is "The Thought Emporium", and I think he deserves at least an honorable mention with all the recommendations for Nile Red, Applied Science and Tech ingredients. Its very much in the same vein.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV5vCi3jPJdURZwAOO_FNfQ
Also consider OpenHAB as it is less configurery and gives you a basic front end and backend ui out of the box. It has a drag and drop ui builder for fancier dashboards, and supports a full backend scripting system. It’s based on java and integrates with tons of automated products. It has a cloud connect function for your own server or their own cloud service. The mobile apps work (but missing functions I would like, such as translating hardware volume controls to automation actions), provide security cam integration, and support internal and external URL’s based on your WiFi.

I found openHAB much easier to setup with my zwave devices, DCS security integration, stereo controls, and custom actions based on external data (I have security cameras running through OpenCv that fire alerts)

Also openhab supports MQTT so you could even integrate home assistant and openhab together!
The browser does not try another IP if the request fails; it tries the first one only (the DNS server chooses a random order for the response), unless browsers have changed their behavior recently.

DNS round robin is not failover. If one of your four A records points to a dead box, 25% of your customers are SOL.
I have a hard time believing that fruititarianism could be healthy in any way. It seems like getting almost all of your energy from fructose and hardly any fat and protein (two of the 3 core macronutrients) could not possibly work. It makes me think of an article I read in the past 6 months about how zoo animals are having metabolic damage because the fruit we grow commercially is so high in sugar it's no longer healthy.

And this is purely anecdotal, but I watched a youtube video about a guy who went raw fruititarian for a few months, and his before and after photos were not inspiring. He lost some weight, but his skin and hair seemed fragile, and he seemed kind of lethargic and spacey in his after video.
I see you've bought in to the 'earth is a globe' conspiracy :)

What's the tech behind that visualization?
Taking all the visible cream from whole milk that has been left to stand and separate gets you 15 - 20% fat, depending on the breed of cattle and what they've been eating.

That's comparable to what the UK calls "single cream" (18%) and the US calls "light cream" (18% minimum, can be up to 29%).
I know that Plone, which is built on Zope, found its place in a lot of universities and governments. So I imagine Zope lives on with necessary support from its big users.
That's nuts. Things like this should cost company its reputation.
If you're the product owner, when there is demand for fixes or features and the current architecture cannot be evolved to meet it.

If you're a consultant, when the customer has the cash to pay for it.
So, the part I don't get is how you need to have already started working on your startup to get access to the directory. Like, if you find a co-founder on it, won't one or both of the founders have to shut down their start up to work together?
The only technology question is: why?
Nobody is asking you to take into consideration what every single words implied meaning could be.

The only question here is whether using "they" instead of "he" in this case implies something about Woz rather than is just a way for the speaker to be gender neutral in how they are writing about it.

It is already increasingly common to use singular "they" when we don't know the gender - I did it above, when writing about the person who originally used "they" about Woz. The only question then is whether there's any issue with doing so when their gender is relatively well known.

Since singular "they" is already common in English, the only reason why there might be an issue with it in the case of Woz would be because someone concerns themselves with the signalling effect.

We also never use language in the most precise way possible. That is a total strawman. Pretty much everything we write is full of ambiguity, sometimes because easier, but often also very much intentional, e.g. to signal that certain details (such as the gender of the person you're talking about) is irrelevant to what you're saying. And sometimes because it is political, such as to signal that gender does not matter can be.
They also need to change it so that an incoming call doesn’t takes over the entire screen of your phone. I could be doing something on my phone like typing this comment and next thing I know, I’ve answered a call.
Why would anyone believe that? Because there's substantial evidence, perhaps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...
I think something like "categorization" would be less ambiguous though
5000+ ordnances were found: "roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs"

Do you consider it "no WMD"?

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/10/15/356360949...
Shopify is just the next closed-source iteration of WordPress and Magento. WordPress has one of the largest platforms and they've taken over (and open-sourced) blogging, content management, learning management systems, and ecommerce. They and Magento are better examples of a platform than Shopify.

In the long-term, "platforms" like Shopify lose because they don't have nearly enough developers. They have ~3000 "apps" listed in their app store: https://apps.shopify.com/browse/all?pricing=all&requirements...

WooCommerce has 285 plugins, and WordPress has 54,000+ plugins. Magento has ~5000 plugins.

It would be cool if Stratechery took a look at free/open source on the platform/aggregator spectrum.
> The problem as I see it is that a gym has specific outputs that you want from your time (ie: be stronger, lower heart rate, etc.). Given Bay Area salaries, it's probably always cheaper to just pay someone in the mid west to build something than to do it yourself. So there's no positive monetary output.

Not only is this not true, but it's also not the point. The point is to do it yourself, and the Maker movement has always catered to that. Self-makers have always had to charge more for their crafts than mass produced models, citing scarcity and often component quality (especially true for digital electronics).

> The only advantage I see of a maker space is the community but that's more of a non-profit model rather than a for-profit gym model. Community is much easier to achieve with shared ownership versus renting from someone else. It also doesn't need fancy equipment but just enough for people to come together.

Which maker space was using a non-profit model?
> Google already fixed at least one of the Android exploits used by "Agent Smith," nicknamed Janus, in 2017 but the fix hasn't made its way onto every Android phone. It's a potent reminder that millions of phones around the world are being used without the latest security measures.

Because Samsung (or similar) or even more weirdly, Sprint (or similar) just doesn't fucking update our Android versions for months, or ever.
I have 3 on mine: our company sticker, and 2 satirical ones related to what we do (we audit Fedex and UPS accounts; I have a "FedUp" and an "Oops" stylized like those logos)
Thanks, I checked that link. The "CGAL/Polygon Mesh Processing" package is licensed on GPL: https://doc.cgal.org/latest/Manual/packages.html

And the mentioned other libraries doesn't have the features I want.
The Rise of Automation: How Robots May Impact the U.S. Labor Market
I don't think so. Certainly even if I had a big garage I'd balk at buying a woodshop.
(GitHub Repo) India Startups Companies List
Blockstack wins first-ever SEC approval for a token offering under Reg A+listing
Everyone knows the manager is the most valuable person in the room. They have the ideas. The rest of us are just implementing their vision. So easy.

/s
Don’t know why you’re being downvoted.

Were I to guess, the original comment is at best peripherally related to the topic at hand ("the app", I'll assume, refers to the Walkie-Talkie app). IOW, it doesn't contribute much.
The fact that you can't name them does not mean they didn't get recognized and/or wealthy for their inventions.
Median guarantees that at least half of the population has income increased. Mean is unreliable to make any such guarantees. Bill Gates walks in to bar and everyone is millionaire on average.
...and shows bias by using the term "the party line" so frequently.
More appsec people should start performing threat models, I would definitely recommend the newsletter.

You can read old editions on mailchimp: https://us11.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=b3d749f15634df3ec1...
Oh I don't doubt that fruitarianism is a less than optimal diet, but I don't know that it's fair to claim that fruitarians are generally self-obsessed (at least compared to practioners of other diets and fitness regimes).
It's easy to think platforms are difficult to build. With some of the "platform infrastructure" mentioned, it's very possible to assemble a large majority of a new platform out of large chunks rather than building from scratch. One of the infrastructure components of Shopify missed in the article is Stripe. Stripe makes it possible for them to scale to serve clients in many countries and offer an e-commerce capability. Then there is AWS. I think the article misses some of the depth of platform building capabilities that are out there and available for use.
> I had to install Zoom in school in 2014

This is a good point; we shouldn't act as though users are necessarily making an informed choice or meaningfully consenting to all the software that's on their computers. Lots of people are forced to install software at economic gunpoint (and probably can ill afford a separate computer to isolate it on).

You can't depend on users and the marketplace to select against insecure software. The market is too distorted to function that way; the people forcing others to use shitty software are often isolated from the consequences themselves, so there's no effective feedback loop to stop it. Having the OS vendor step in is really the only good solution in the short term.
Not necessarily useful, but a great read.

https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks