skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In short, you make half of your users send you fake data. For individual users it adds privacy, because you can't know which bits of data are real and which are fake. But overall you can adjust your algorithms to filter out the noise, so you still get some useful signal in aggregate.
That also 404s for me...
Why include a significantly upgraded model in the release schedule for v1, though? What's the logic in that? Why would you want to give a fraction of your user base a big CPU upgrade essentially for free?

My reading: they're way behind schedule, and they know people will be upset by the fact that the device they thought would be shipping in Q3 2019 won't actually ship until "Batch Evergreen" in Q2 2020. So they want to give people an incentive to wait -- something they would feel makes the wait worthwhile, something to wait for. And telling them that if you're willing to wait longer than anyone else, they'll throw in a significant hardware upgrade for free, creates that incentive. It gives people a reason to hang on instead of asking for a refund.
Is there a video of this talk available somewhere?

Also can someone tell me what p4 is? Looks like almost every company and a bunch of universities are "contributors" there.
I am curious what inflation would be with universal healthcare, a healthy amount of affordable housing, primarily renewables for energy, and EVs negating the need for gas/oil. It feels like central banks are going to lose against technology deflation, but I'm not an economist so I can't say for sure.
I disagree. Software nowadays is atrocious because it's not optimized. It's just that average users have become more accepting of long load times and bloat.

Here's an example. In the mid to late 90s, gamers would complain a lot about load times for CD ROM games. For some gamers, the load times were a deal breaker. This was one reason Nintendo could get away with using cartridges on the N64.

Fast forward to the present, and load times for many mainstream games is FAR worse than the 1-2x speed CD based consoles of the 90s. And a lot of this is due to sloppy, unoptimized code, e.g. loading assets. And yet no one bats an eye.

Another example is the web. There are so many garbage, unoptimized sites that load on my smartphone as if I were on dial up (I'm looking at you, Gawker). Yes, those pages contain a lot more multimedia content nowadays, but they still load at the same rate as a typical page in the 90s would have on dial up.

And with Moore's Law now ending (ended?), optimization may come back in vogue.
>I'm an anarchist. The license plate on my Jeep is literally "ANARCHY."

Paying the government a premium to say you don't believe in it, that's rich.
I thought the whole point of the $150 million number was to demonstrate that no, daily liquidity doesn't create much trading volume.
Makes sense. It's a very natural progression especially with Square offering the same to its customers. I'm actually surprised it took them this long.
>why should I be confident to pay $6k for “Full Self Driving”

No one should be. Creating a fully self-driving car probably requires creating artificial general intelligence. It will almost certainly not exist for many more decades, if it ever exists. Elon Musk is a con artist.
It's up now! (Sorry about that.)
I guess it might be necessary for marketing reasons, but I'd prefer if they'd just not announce deadlines. You know you're not going to make them, these things always slip, again and again.

I also do not really expect them to be "what the average person would consider a finished product" by Evergreen either. As far as I understand it, this is really aimed at power users and enthusiasts willing to suffer some pain for the ability to tinker and the feeling of control over your device. Which is great, but they might've been a bit clearer on that.

But ah well, I suppose mistakes are inevitable, and there'll be many more - it's a young company.
OP here. The reason I posted this ask is because I recently made a small tweak on our website that has generated significantly more signups (without adding any annoyance — I just changed some existing copy), and which is getting us more useful information for identifying and closing institutional customers.

We offer B2C tools, which we sell to individuals and also to institutions (mostly higher ed and K-12, but some corporate as well). We've had a beta tester signup button for a long time, and we'd get a couple signups every day or two. We gathered information like what platforms they were interested in using our tech on, and we would notify folks when we had a new tool to test out.

Recently, I changed the button [1] to be aimed just at university students. When universities purchase our tools, they are made available to all students at the institution. But selling to universities (and elsewhere) is often a chicken-and-egg problem. We have to convince the institution that a sufficient number of students would use our tools, if they purchased them. In the past, we've tried to do an extended free trial for students, but universities just free-rode on this and told students to go get the free trial.

This new web form has attracted more signups (2x-3x) while simultaneously gathering much more useful information. We ask for the institution and degree type, which allows us to then go to these institutions and tell them that we're getting requests from students. That creates a very different dynamic than simply cold-calling and saying "hi, we're a startup and we think your students would use our tools." We also ask the students how our tools would help them (we have a 2-week free trial, so many signups come from students who have used them already), and we can then reference these testimonials (anonymously, of course) in our discussions with universities.

I've been really surprised how impactful this small change has been. Because we're asking for more detailed information, and a non-anonymous email address (their university email), I expected we'd get fewer signups. I wish I'd done this sooner!

1: https://www.beelinereader.com
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It's shutting down later this year: https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/43548
Cool idea but I really don't like the booing and the cheering. It's incredibly annoying.
As noted in the talk, Hillis is fascinated by how simpler units form more complex and dynamic systems from which ultimately emerge greater levels of intelligence. He also wonders how we can understand such an emergent intelligence (EI), and whether we can detect it - and if so, how? He believes that it's possible that such EI is already happening.

I would tend to agree with this. But I am not sure if we can detect it - or if we should even try, given the potential consequences.

Let us imagine a scenario unlikely to happen:

What if tomorrow, one of your neurons realized "Hey - I'm actually part of a larger thinking systems - what if instead of firing now - I fire a bit later - or if I do something completely at odds with what I should do? Maybe some of my friends around here would like to help? Hey guys! Guys...!"

...and let's say you - as the higher EI - noticed this happening; that is, a part of your brain "revolting" or at least trying to do something odd - what would you do?

Well - you'd likely try to find a way to stop those neurons, right? Maybe via surgery or some other drastic means, you would do your best to either make sure they stopped asking such questions at the least, or destroy them at the worst.

So - let us imagine right now - that we suspect some larger organization of -us- humans - are actually "processing units" or "processing elements" of a larger "entity". A large corporation could be one such entity; a religion could be another. Or perhaps just the interaction of people on the internet; maybe more than just information or what-not is being passed?

If we started to "poke around" these systems, and somehow attempt to figure out whether we were creating an EI from our social and/or economic interactions (perhaps even aided and abetted by the processing power of our computer and network systems) - do you really think that such a "higher order" intelligence would just sit there and let it happen?

Or do you think you, and perhaps your cohorts in "crime", would die strange and mysterious "random" deaths by accident or maybe adventure?

I also posit that it may not even be possible for us - at this level - to know if such an intelligence is or has emerged from us lower level processing units/elements. We have no idea how this "being" would think, what it's language is, or what timescale it operates on - it could be that "normal time" to it is either much faster or much slower than our timescale; either way, it wouldn't help the situation.

Also - we would be operating on a smaller level, trying to figure out how the greater EI system actually works; akin to trying to predict the weather by following the motion of the winds and other events. While we've had some success, weather prediction is not an exact science; I'd say we'd likely have about the same amount of luck predicting the actions or thinking of an EI.

So does such an EI (or multiple?) actually exist? I don't know. But it may turn out to be an exercise in hubris to attempt to find out...
The thing is, it almost certainly still won't exist later.
Doesn't the "circuit breaker" process on the stock exchange exist for this scenario? To give people time to line up buyers when there is a sudden unexpected repricing?
If the company qualifies as Small Business (see QSBS,, Qualified Small Business Shares) at the time you buy your shares (not vest), then there is no federal taxes at all (up to 10 millions).
I really want to know if that german submarine station in antarctica and the rumored US base under san diego are true.
> This about engineering choices. No doubt a phone can report on traffic without the system as a whole storing which phone it was.

This doesn't prevent fingerprinting. If you send me enough data, even if it is not associated with an ID, I can still use that data to deanonymize or track you. People should read the papers on DP instead of just randomly commenting "you could just do X". The security researchers studying the threat models aren't just doing things in an overly complicated way for no reason.

> ML locally

ML training depends heavy on the training data set. You may not have all of the training data, and the training data may involve other people's private data.

Also, your phone is not the best place to run training for a model that takes 8 hours of training time and gobs of memory. However, you can slice up the problem, and people's phones can work together -- Federated Learning, which goes hand in hand with differential privacy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89BGjQYA0uE
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There are some escape clauses in Vanguard's index funds:

The fund may temporarily depart from its normal investment policies and strategies when doing so is believed to be in the fund’s best interest. ... Vanguard funds can postpone payment of redemption proceeds for up to seven calendar days.

And a lot of index fund investors are buy-and-hold so it's unclear if a recession would even cause a liquidity / redemption crisis.
People who use dating apps usually quickly convert to one of two states: "meet in person" or "stop contacting each other". You're suggesting that people meeting in-person are going to be not truthful with each other in a way different than any other dating app?
If you are at a startup and decide to leave doesn't that also mean that you don't believe in the company anymore? I understand that there are always cases like better position or other personal issues that make people move but for the most part the original statement holds true. So you don't buy out the stock options and move on.
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That's probably a good thing: a lot of people wanting a relatively smooth(er) experience should be waiting for v2 or even v3.[1] v1 of most hardware, especially a Linux phone, is going to involve some bumps and bruises. Keep in mind this is a small team running with a minuscule budget compared to consumer phones so you're not going to have an iPhone or even Samsung device/software experience. They're doing some great work and but it's going to take time to work through the issues.

[1] Would you really want to encourage a bunch of enthusiastic non-technical/unprepared customers with high expectations jumping in on v1 of this?
It's not just you! I have a Facebook (relatively unfiltered, friends-and-comrades-only), a Twitter (kept "academic casual"), and a LinkedIn (kept really stiflingly conformist and corporate). I'm married, so I don't have to worry about dating or dating apps, but dear God, if someone wanted me to use the same persona for every social profile, I'd just shut all of them down.

Hell, I already deleted my reddit account last year just because.
That's great - glad someone is offering this. Any plans to offer Scotland's box?
> One factor for me would be if the company was aggressive enough in its 409a valuations of common stock

Another factor is transfer restrictions. Most companies let their shareholders sell stock in the private markets. Some, however, are curmudgeons. The latter knock shareholders twice: once, by taking away a liquidity option, and again, by producing a selling rush at potential future liquidity events.
This is also valid for any library, gem, module or SDK.
Between the time our first (2011) and last (2017) were born, our hospital (Michigan, US) changed their policy to have the baby sleeping in the room rather than in the nursery. We weren't too thrilled with the change, to be honest—the time the baby was in the nursery allowed us to get some additional much-needed sleep.
I think that has to do with long hours and expectation that you are so passionate, that you spend off time in workplace related social functions.

There is no relevant "out of work" for many people.
> If you are at a startup and decide to leave doesn't that also mean that you don't believe in the company anymore?

No. Companies that are terrible workplaces can be great investments and vice versa.
What macro factors tend to influence the connections/100 citizens? I don't see what Panama, Sri Lanka, Finland, and Saudi Arabia would have in common to have such a high number of phone numbers per capita.
My current ideal is a VM, with Firefox multiprocess disabled, auto play disabled, various container extensions, Adblock, etc.
How about avoiding 4C, or 6C, or worse?

If the US, which is the largest emitter per capita, and the EU, and the other first world countries can get to zero emissions while maintaining a good standard of living, that at least can provide a longer term template for the developing countries that gets is to some stable level, even if it is above 2C.

We can tell developing countries that they have 50 years where they can emit at current first world per capita levels while they raise their standard of living, but then they have to go to zero like the first world has, or they will be subject to sanctions, high carbon tariffs on their products, and things like that. Throw in good aid packages to help them develop and build their zero emissions infrastructure.
More data for FB to consume, and share.
No application and approval process?
This is not fully accurate.

You have to pay AMT on the difference between your strike price and the current 409a price of common. It doesn't have much to do with where preferred is valued, other than the fact that a high preferred value, means that the updated 409a common might be higher.

So let us say, your strike price is $0.50 and you are fully vested after 4 years. The company recently does a round where preferred is at $3.00 per share and the new 409a is $1.25/share. When you leave this is what will happen
- You need to pay the company $0.50 * number of options you have
- You have to pay AMT on (1.25-0.5) * number of shares

With last year's tax law, one good thing is that AMT rules changed, so AMT might not apply. You should, of course, talk to your accountant/tax professional for the proper advice :-)
'Mental rigidity' at root of intense political partisanship
Paper losses that trickle up to parent SOFTBK stock which has been pledged as collateral for loans.
> You describe yourself as extreme, but then say people are evenly split between those who disagree and agree with your stances. So while your position may feel extreme, in consequence it is the definition of moderate.

I think you misunderstand - I'm saying that the professional contacts I've gained through this are about evenly split. Those contacts are not representative of the general population; people who agree with me are very disproportionally represented.

> And obviously you are coming from a specific background and applying for types of jobs where a your contribution is valuable enough to the company that they are willing to overlook potential political issues.

Of course. This applied even before I was a developer, though. For instance: when I was working as an electrician.

> If you were not as skilled, or applying for government, non-profit, banking jobs, or jobs in Red States your experience might have been completely different.

I could never work for government. I've worked for non-profits for the three of the past seven years, and the fact that they were considering accepting federal funding was a factor in my leaving that job.

I live in Arkansas, one of the reddest of Red States. My employer is in California. My previous employers are mostly in Charlottesvlle, Virginia.

> So try to recognize your coming from a privileged position.

I never said I wasn't - everyone here is coming from a privileged position. That's potentially relevant when considering what I say, but it doesn't make my perspective invalid.

> I know my organization checks Twitter accounts when they get resumes, and they will throw away the ones that use foul language immediately. This is bizarre and backward to be sure, and I'm fighting to change that but its still goes on currently.

I'm OK with that, because as I said before I see protecting the company's brand image as part of the employment contract. I wouldn't want someone working for (or with) me that doesn't come across as a reasonably mature adult. I wouldn't disqualify someone for "foul language" in and of itself, but I would absolutely do so if it featured prominently in their speech or if it were being used in an aggressive way.
I use the Hullo buckwheat pillow. It's filled with buckwheat shells, which don't compress like normal pillow fillings do. Extremely firm, yet also comfortable after a few nights of adaptation.

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Venus's surface pressure is 90 atmospheres, the same as at a depth of 1 km down in the Earth's ocean.

Even if the temperature on the surface was comfortable for humans in short sleeves it would still be in insane logistical challenge to do anything on Venus's surface.

But it's not, it's also hot enough to melt lead down there.
Differential privacy doesn't mean privacy via something like encryption. It means that a company can query the dataset without exposing sensitive information about a small population in the dataset.

You still have to trust the company hosting the dataset so distributed solutions lend themselves more naturally to trust.
Imagine all these uncollected taxes that could be used to properly fund public services like healthcare, etc.

These businesses are actively stealing the citizens from their essential services.
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> One issue I have with Clojure is when I have to work with nested datatypes to perform transformations

Out of so many "excuses" to dislike Clojure I've heard over the years, the first time I see something like this, and this sounds wrong for a few reasons. Dealing with nested transformations is not harder or easier in Clojure, it is just different, due to immutable data structures.

Besides, if you need to deal with deeply nested data perhaps it has to be broken down into smaller pieces. Maps are extremely composable in Clojure.

There are libraries that can help you with transformations, you can "walk" the structure, you can use zippers, you can use Specter (a library that I haven't find a use for in over three years of writing Clojure).

Modeling business domains with types is a valid point though. However, I find exactly that is the reason why using Clojure for building real business apps is so much simpler and faster. You are not restricted by the boundaries of whatever type system you use. You don't get stuck in analysis paralysis trying to prototype things in an overly complex type system. At the same time you don't necessarily have to throw the types away. Type systems do help and absolutely have certain benefits, etc. And Clojure has a pretty nice one called Clojure.Spec. In Spec you can for example conform that your function returns specific shape of data. You can use specs to validate inputs, produce human readable error-messages, generate fake data and use it for example for property-based testing. Specs can be shared between different systems, between front-end and back-end, etc.
I assumed he was talking about the futures market. The SP500 and Mini-SP500 contracts. The volumes are high -- I don't know if they're in the trillions (depending on how you count them) -- but they're high.

That would constitute "synthetic indexing" in the sense you are talking about.
The rates don't seem extraordinarily high to me. What would you consider reasonable? It's not trivial to get an apples-to-apples comparison since loan rates are usually given as an APR, not a flat fee. Also, don't confuse their "% of sales to loan repayment" number with a rate - that just determines how much of your revenue they hold back until the loan is repaid.
That's a cheap jab, care to elaborate?
The delicious irony did not escape me: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/8qur2z/...
>I would much rather have the ship date pushed out and get the finalize hardware.

Then isn't this the best of both worlds since they give you exactly that option?
Yes, I've personally seen memorable profiles come back later. It's one way to make the app seem busier with more people.
Have you actually tried to qualify though?
As far as I know, D3 can also render into a canvas, which should eliminate the DOM/SVG nodes overhead.
(disclosure: I work at Square but not on Capital)

Square Capital takes only a few clicks to sign up, and loan offers automatically show up if you're already eligible [1], so this part of the offering is quite similar.

https://squareup.com/us/en/capital
Right, but we tend to be drawn to our inferior functions, and thus the end result of those mirrored stacks can end up being pretty similar. That's what I'm getting at. Should have been more clear.
That is fundamentally how markets work. If everyone sells and no one buys then prices are going down. Whether you are using an active or passive fund or pick stocks yourself doesn't matter.
Livestocks could reverse climate change (2013)
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This is fascinating. Can you please point me somewhere I can learn more about automation increasing employment? When I google it I just get a bunch of highly political pieces about robots stealing jobs.
If there is no void free_result(api_result_t *) in the API, then it probably doesn't allocate.
I've probably missed something, but for how long does the borrower have to pay 9% of their sales? Is the debt paid in full once $15k (+interest?) is paid back? What is that interest rate?
This does seem to be exactly like PayPal Working Capital, down to the application and fee structure.