skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a hamster on a road will most likely die, a human with a wingsuit has good chances to survive
Biological data on an important Sufi ritual
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Yeah I think this is definitely a style preference. Planet Money (and other featurey shows, like This American Life) often tries to describe the non-aural qualities of the people in their stories, ostensibly to better humanize them. It's not for everyone but I personally find it to make the subject more engaging.
China has made AI a priority. Hard to say what's going to happen but I would expect the AI arms race between the US and China to have quite an impact.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609038/chinas-ai-awakenin...
The cost of micro-services complexity
You don't know it's garbage. Disqualification is easier than qualification. Funds say "no" to the obviously bad or incompatible. Whether something is a "yes" takes research and is never certain.

The entire game is picking the winners so how much are you going to dedicate to predicting that (which is massively unpredictable) vs just investing in another shot that may be a winner.
Except it has been shown that CEO pay doesn't correlate to better performance.
As has been pointed out by others, the alternate viewpoint is from a GE shareholder.

https://whalewisdom.com/filer/bronte-capital-management-pty-...
I'm using Rust full time for a lot of web dev. Using web frameworks and http clients hasn't been too painful, but asyncio web dev gets hairy because of the rules and syntax governing futures 0.1. Database dev using rust-postgres and extending it using its ToSql/FromSql traits has been very straightforward. Reading through the underlying source of these web frameworks / clients does involve medium/high difficulty, to varying degrees. Excessive use of generics ought to be curtailed, and it does but that seems to happen further down the pipeline as refactoring for readability plays a more important role. I can empathize with the OP, who has struggled to understand code written by others. It's not an issue just for Rust, though. Excessive use of object inheritance does no one any favors -- pick any language that features it and you'll find inheritance hell. Go also seems to have its own category of readability issues that people aren't being forthright about.
> The message claimed that 700,000 records had been stolen and backed up elsewhere and demanded 0.4 Bitcoin (BTC), approximately $4,000 at the time of writing, from the owners.

Not even a full bitcoin.
Anonymity and limited liability exists in all but simplest organisations in some form. It is crucial to organisation is greater than its constituents. For countries, it is the legality; for for-profit organisations, it is the monetary liability.
I don't know. I've found a few discussions on Reddit and elsewhere, but everyone seems to credit this particular Imgur post with no context as the source:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/bikp2u/tom...

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/biixsf/t...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=labEXi5nOso
>The reason I think this is not good is that CEOs are out of touch with what losing a job would feel like to most of their employees.

A million times this. My CEO took 16.6 million in compensation last year, I can retire 20-24x with that (if it were net not gross, hard telling how much in taxes he paid)
but how is the accuracy of your quicker timeline estimates? being faster isnt always the only important factor.

however i disagree with your third paragraph, you have not solved any problems in the problem area you are raising money for, which is AI created software. best i can tell, based on your commentation you are just streamlining onboarding, hiring and estimating. No offense, but none of this has anything to do with AI, IMO. Just a glorified project management and outsourcing company at this point.
Some people certainly do unethical things to keep their investors happy. That's not really a problem unique to investors, though; other companies do unethical things to keep customers happy or keep their employees happy.
Incentives basic as “not getting laid off” cause illegal behavior, so it seems nigh unworkable to me. In any event, it appears to be a rather fundamental change that should not be pursued lightly.
Do what they did on Windows, pick the 4 or 5 most popular. (In that case it was browsers)

I know, I know, what about the less popular search engines?

Well. It's better than Google takes all, and customers get easier access to 5 search engines instead of 1. (Yes they can already choose others. Almost no one bothers)

Maybe they could rotate the last 2 choices between a field of say, 20.

Thing is, if no one's heard of the option, I doubt they'll choose it, so there's not much point offering beyond say, 5 choices.

I'm guessing though.
You're being downvoted, but I hear where you're coming from. Phone scammers make my blood boil like little else does.
Victims are free to quantify their damages and sue FB.

They're still, what's the term Zuckerberg used? Dumb fucks? Yeah that's the one. They're dumb fucks.
> formal organizations shielded from legal liability

You described governments. Corporations are formal organisations shielded from monetary liability.
This is not true at all, and no offense, is a misunderstanding of how NNs can be used in other applications.

For one, what you are modeling itself does not need to be differentiable, only the network itself needs to be.

Second, using neural networks in combination with other techniques for program synthesis is an active area of research currently, and although it is currently at around 50 lines or so, your fundamental assertion here is wrong.

Third, there are a number of ways that deep learning could be leveraged in app development. The easiest way would be to make heuristic-type decisions around UI/UX or to build parts of said GUIs using existing code blocks. This has already been used to some extent in website design (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07962 and https://blog.floydhub.com/turning-design-mockups-into-code-w...). So it's certainly possible that it could be used in conjunction with templates to build common app types.

Now, this startup is clearly not doing that, but, that doesn't mean that it's a) impossible to leverage AI for app development and b) all of deep learning is "just curve fitting"
This headline only applies to the largest 350 companies in the US. According to BLS data there are 200,000+ people in the US with the job title CEO and the average salary is around $180,000. EPI is constantly publishing updated versions of this report and beating the "CEOs are paid too much" drum like a wind up monkey.
I've read a few biographies and other books about Tesla.
I recommend
Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney
Also the light is nice to have for maintenance, and when "OK google" is active.

It also shows boot status..
Go, for sure.

Python, knowing it since version 1.6, I doubt it very much.
Criminal activity has a real cost to society. That's why we've decided that certain things should be illegal in the first place. This is a measure that would reduce the number of crimes that are committed by increasing the personal costs for criminal activity (both for the would-be criminal, and for the company's leadership). Because we see criminal activity in corporations today, I would argue that the costs of committing the crime aren't currently high enough.

Taking the VW emissions scandal as an example, there's an estimate that suggests that there will be 1200 premature deaths because of the increased pollution [1]. This has an obvious personal cost to the victims & their families, and there is a larger cost to the overall economy because of the decreased worker output. This doesn't even take into account the growing cost of pollution as a factor in global warming.

[1] http://news.mit.edu/2017/volkswagen-emissions-premature-deat...
I don't think they got much traction.
Luring employees with promises of equity and then not delivering sounds like a bait and switch.
Thanks @jonbaer, and lot's more exciting stuff to come!
Has there ever been a time in history when a technology was so ubiquitous with so few people knowing how it actually works?

Cars, television, plumbing all come to mind
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You miss bare bones commands that haven't changed since the 90's?

Brutal speed of Solaris? Compared to what, SunOS 4.x?
This article is a few years old but I doubt the situation has improved much: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=oracle_s...
How is this not true on an encrypted wifi or even an old-school wired office LAN?
This is awesome. Even at a small/mid size startup we struggled with buying software. Wasting so much time across the board from engineering, engineering management, analyst and finance. Brillaint pain point to solve.
Is it any real surprise that policy and legislation in this country is so far behind technology? Of course not - the legislators and constituents are largely unaware of how deep data collection goes, and a lot of the watchdogs have a vested interest in keeping quiet (paychecks, profits).

It doesn't leave much left for the watchdogs who have been screaming our eyeballs out over how pervasive and overstepping this has become.
I hope they had "permission" from both sides of the conversations that they recorded in states that require two-party/all-party consent. Otherwise, this is more than just a privacy issue, it's criminal.
The money would go to Android, to sponsor android development. Would it suffice if Google broke down their financials enough so that it was clear that this money was invested in android, and not in, say, maps?
Still, seriously? 30MB to print "Hello, World"?

I can drive a Hummer H3 the block away to the 7-11 but wouldn't it be better if I at least try to ride my bike up there whenever possible?
I’d say at about half of my jobs (tech) compensation included some equity and at about half it did not. I wouldn’t say it’s expected but it’s nice when you get it.

When employees don’t have an equity stake, it can make for awkward moments. I’m reminded of a company all-hands, where the CEO announced a record quarter, and apparently the company’s stock just went up 60% or something. The handful of senior execs who did have equity cheered and did some lame hi-5’s while the rest of the employees shrugged and silently looked at each other like “should we be applauding now?”

Awk—ward...!
I'm tired of my WeWork. I'm tired of the relentless positivity ("Thank God for Mondays!") and faux corporate cheerfulness.

I freelanced because I wanted out of that corporatism where I'm reminded that I don't just have to work; I have to be happy while doing it.

WeWork's championing of "makers" and "creativity" and all that gobbledock might work for some people, but I just want a space to work out of that has good WiFi and quiet people. I don't need to be told that I have to be happy doing my work, or that my work is important or world-changing.
> He has demonstrated his inability to function as censor in a very visible (and frankly embarassing) way.

How? There have been exactly two cases of "censorship", and that is the Daily Stormer and 8chan. One is an utterly vile peddler of antisemitism (literally named after a Nazi paper) and conspiracy theory, and one was linked to at least three terroristic attacks. If it were not white supremacists but Islamists, it would be closed down in an instant and no one would bat an eye.

If anything, Cloudflare seriously lacks (like Facebook and Twitter) policing their customer base.
They already tried this kind of thing in the late 18th century:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk
Experimenting with Periodic Background Sync
It really depends on the company culture, sector, etc.
There's a lot of dynamics in here.

Public companies are generally more prone to this issue, as all the ethics become abstract to shareholders. They are not involved in the dirty work.

A lot of times, companies do the right thing not because of morality, but because doing the wrong thing has a risk (from a PR disaster to a regulatory issue).

If the culture of the company is willing, the whole concept of morality is reduced to a risk/benefit formula. And they start to learn how to reduce risk, and it's a downhill from there.
Of course they are. They're humans. And a society and government of humans should be geared towards the needs of actual, fallible, gullible humans and not towards people who are experts on everything.
Interesting product! I recently used a mind-mapping tool to make a web of everyone (EVERYONE) I've ever known. I started with my family, all of my jobs and all of my schools, added everyone from those places and methodically looked at each person in the list adding people I met through them. Later I added trips like vacations, conferences etc and added everyone I met there. I was a nice nostalgic trip but I was amazed how many people I genuinely liked but haven't talked to in years. The thought crossed my mind to somehow track 'last contact' dates and have something popup to remind me to get in touch with people but it seemed too daunting a task to keep it up to date. I'll take a look a Dex for this now.
At the very least, he ran a scam on his employees, who he lured into the company with the promise of a big payoff if it became successful.

If "everyone knew" what they were getting into, why did he feel the need to give them what amounts to monopoly money to convince them to work their asses off for him?
Even if they claim that they did not know, at their pay scale, it was their responsibility to know and thus they are criminally negligent.

So if you had an employee who was secreting breaking the law, you'd put the CEO in jail?
I suppose we're getting off topic, but this side topic is really interesting to me. I read a lot of Sir Ken Robinson, so of course that colors my opinions. I'm not of the opinion that as an adult you should be disciplined for creativity, and I rebel against rules that don't fit my mental model of the big picture and the things that I value.

But I do believe that in the work place, you are given direction and boundaries, and if you're going outside ethical boundaries or legal ones, then it makes sense that discipline or consequences come into play.

(And I think there's a place to argue whether laws are right or need to be changed!)
They may not be lying, but simply have a different source.

For example:

300ms : https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28728-memory-recall-w...

200ms : https://www.nature.com/news/2000/001130/full/news001130-3.ht...
Yeah. I think an NLP solution would be more accurate in actually analyzing the sentiment of tweets.
> The majority of these positions are things like service jobs not subject to global workforces.

They are subject to automation. If you make service labor more expensive than robots, you'll be buying your Big Macs from robots instead of human cashiers.
It's not that hate speech and violent rhetoric should be tolerated, it's that using the fact that some people say bad things does not justify monitoring all of the internet.

Free speech is a right in the US and having an overlord listening to everything you say is obviously dampening on that right.
Nobody with any capital in significant amounts is going to take this report at face value. They're going to investigate the claims on their own before they make any moves.
This is a good point. There are lots of interesting possibilities with Observable, especially using the OmniSciDB open-source project for analyses that people intentionally do want to share
I just finished this book: https://books.google.com/books/about/Tesla.html?id=5I5c9j8BE...

I thought it was really thorough and quite technical, so if you're interested in the early day of electricity more than just personal anecdotes, then this book might be for you :)
Thanks for additional info.

As far as the pricing model, what you say makes sense for larger companies. I'm thinking of small companies, say 10-20 people. Big enough that they do have some purchasing pain, but not $2k/month worth of it. Setting a low price point for them might get growing companies on board early, becoming larger clients as they grew.

For non-SaaS, I didn't have anything specific in mind. I know that my teams have purchased, at various times, IDE licenses, "Pro" versions of various libraries and tool, and even licenses to run various servers that aren't free/open source. The catch in my mind is that if "procurement-as-a-service" covers all my bases, it may make sense. But if I need an internal procurement person anyway, the value prop of your service diminishes a bit.

I like the idea overall. I'm a believer in hiring for the core product, and outsourcing the rest, and this idea fits in nicely with that philosophy.
Dumping your externalities on others is profitable, but it's not good.
I saw the point where Paul Manafort received a guilty verdict, and it is also one of the lower points. My first thought was that it's still a negative situation, so even if people are happy about the outcome, overall it's still a drag. It still brings back all the things that had to happen to get to that point.
Definitely agree with you about Uber. Here's one clear way to see that Uber is a tech company.

Imagine the senior management was all abducted by aliens tomorrow, and you had to replace them very quickly. Who would you rather bring in. A bunch of senior execs from Google or a bunch of former Taxi company managers? Which group do you think could run Uber better?

Well I think the obvious answer makes it pretty clear that Uber is a company with tech at the very foundation of its DNA.
Buybacks are a more tax efficient vehicle for returning capital to shareholders.
While AI learners are not actually perfect generalizers so to speak, they are also quite clearly not purely statistical correlation machines, and there is a lot of evidence to show for this, such as the surprisingly similarities of ConvNets with low level human perception, etc.

It seems to me that there is a category of people who are eager to dismiss deep learning altogether and say "iT's JuSt stAtIStics" even though there is a good amount of evidence to show that it isn't the case. That isn't real science, it's human bias.
JQuery was a completely different way of looking at things with a huge advantage. It got popular and became the go-to tool of the day.

Backbone and Angular were a completely different way of looking at things with a huge advantage. They got popular and became the go-to tool of the day.

React was a completely different way of looking at things with a huge advantage. It got popular and became the go-to tool of the day.

Svelte is a completely different way of looking at things with a huge advantage.
> I lived in socialist society for 30 yrs and I know what it means and what are the consequences for people.

The only organized societies (at a state level) that have called themselves “socialist” are Leninist or descendants of Leninism; Leninism was (viewed generously) an attempt to adapt Marxist Communism to bypass the necessary (in Marx’s view) development through mature capitalism on which the socialist society, the next stage in the evolution to the communist end-state. Part of that adaptation is moving the development of a broad-based educated distributed ruling class from a prerequisite to the socialist transition to something which was to be built afterwards, with a narrow educated and ideologically pure vanguard assuming authoritative direction of the movement in the interim.

Modern Western forms of socialism, whether rooted in or identifying as Marxist or not (and many of them are neither) almost never are ideologically rooted in Leninism—for which there is no need, even if it worked well in its motivating case, in the developed world—or its descendants (with the exception that some of the far fringes are Maoist, but they are just a fragment of the fringes) and tend particularly to strongly reject vanguardism and authoritarianism in favor of more robust development of the democratic institutions of liberal democratic states. Western socialism is a continuation of the long arc of change in developed Western economies since Marx first described capitalism, not a recreation of the Leninists rejection of development through capitalism.

Whether Leninism is genuinely a socialism is a matter of fairly heated debate among self-styled socialists, but it is very clearly a very different thing than modern Western socialism, and it'd outcomes have limited, if any, value in assessing the merits of modern Western socialisms.
python 3x seems is a milestone, and relatively speaking, python is very readable
That's great from a dev perspective. Not so much from a product perspective, particularly if you operate at AirBNB scale and your issue could be costing lots of money for every second of failed debugging.
It's important to consider whether your requirements include long-term retention and search of data, or only recent search and dashboards. Many of the open-source solutions such as Graylog-free or ELK don't retain information long-term by default, so if long-term data retention is your goal, you should take that into account (Graylog offers it, but only for $$$).

On the other hand, if your primary use-case is near-term searches and reviews of data (e.g. "we just need to see the last 90 days of information for troubleshooting and stats"), you'll be pleasantly surprised with the capabilities in both Graylog and ELK without the additional overhead of Splunk. I'll say, too, that I found working with Filebeat for ingestion to be a lot easier and automation-friendly than working with Splunk forwarders—so much so that we're basically adopting an "only use Splunk for indexing" approach to ingestion and using everything else to get data into it.
if they vote then they did exercise power (even if they vote for lying politician).

If they are not allowed to vote then they didn't exercise power.
~~Hey! OP here. I’m currently sat on a flight so I’ll try my best to push it back live. N.B. At some point, my client will de-whitelist my csswizardry.dev domain from their Cloud.typography account and these demos will stop working.~~

UPDATE: I’ve had to go the opposite way and pull the whole lot. It outs my client and I really don’t want their name against anything. Email me and I’ll fire you a private demo.
A lot of things can be cast as curve fitting! Speech is just a curve of air pressure over time, so a function that takes the curve from a microphone and sends a new curve to a speaker can, if the curves correspond in interesting ways, be a conversational AGI.

Curve fitting in millions of dimensions is qualitatively more interesting than the 2D graph paper exercise people think of.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab31ab

> For planets with sizes 0.75–1.5 R ⊕ and orbital periods of 237–500 days, we find a rate of planets per FGK star of <0.27 (84.13th percentile). While the true rate of such planets could be lower by a factor of ~2 (primarily due to potential contamination of planet candidates by false alarms), the upper limits on the occurrence rate of such planets are robust to ~10%.
Presumably laws are intended to benefit society as a whole. I think that's a reasonable (if not grossly simplified) approximation of the purpose of society. And if laws benefit society, fewer companies breaking them will benefit society.
This is truly an innovative and relevant technology
And we’ve been very happy with their Stream product for about 6 months now. No complaints.