skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I think that's arguable. At least in the US, we live in a democracy. That democracy sets up the structures to regulate business. One could argue that if our democracy has not decided collectively that we should not do a certain thing, it is not the place of corporations to regulate that thing by refusing to do business with it.
Nextcloud – is it the closest there is to a full (not simple) private cloud?
When it comes to a cloud, I'm trying to go away from Dropbox and GoogleDrive as I want more privacy and more control over my data.

I've looked into Nextcloud but it's far from being straightforward. I feel most people here are quite technical so they might not realise it.

Is there anything that you could recommend as a substitute to Dropbox that just "works" ? some kind of out of the box private cloud solution?

Thanks!
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And how did you feel about Kapwing recently getting $11 million funding for the same thing?

This is how I felt:

http://www.superanimo.com/animos/mfw-competitor-gets-11-mil-...
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To be fair, I've NEVER been able to configure LUKS manually for full-disk encryption, whereas I got bioctl working on the first try. It really is simple.
My reasoning for the compliment is I admire the logic and calm reasoning not lack of emotion. Yes I meant it as a compliment.

Anyone who can calmly deal with successful or complex situations seems wise to me. And often such calm people are highly educated.
That is the kind of content I was hoping for in this article. The review of double-entry accounting is nice and all, but the scale details would have been nice beyond hand-waving "we left it to Spanner, and so we followed Spanner's rules".

Similarly a quibble about the "immutable" in the headline given that they are still using a mutable field at the book level for balances to make them easier to query. I guess I was hoping they'd have solved a nicer merkle tree balancer or something for balances. Not that I was hoping for a "blockchain" solution, but something smarter than blockchain for "centralized" trust environments like Square.
I think it looks comfortable in the Star Trek universe because Star Trek portrays a society that is not run by mobsters, warlords, delusional ideologues, and sociopaths.

We are still very much savages. Clinical psychopaths and delusional narcissists run our institutions and major decisions are made on the basis of fanatical superstitious ideologies and mindless herd behavior.

In short I won't put an Internet connected microphone in my house and I'm very wary of privacy leakage in general because I don't trust the people who run our world (including both governments and corporations). I don't think this is irrational. Glancing around it seems like a decent number of world government and corporate leaders belong in prisons and mental institutions, not powerful offices.
This is a really cool dashboard. The creator posted a video on youtube showing how he did it. Unfortunately it isn't live data, but requires some manual massaging to get the data in the form needed. Still worth a watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwnHoaY2hEk
But at least they don’t put you in prison.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/-the-amer...
Woo hoo! Let the witch Hunt begin! Like all good laws, the biggest offenders will not be affected.
A hypothetical attack of putting a screen protector on your phone and putting my thumb on it is a super valid attack.
Are we acknowledging a difference between the Nest device he warns about (which is sold as a surveillance device) and, say, an Amazon Echo? (Which the headline mentions as equally problematic, but the body of the article doesn't mention at all.) My understanding of the Echo is that it only records after hearing a trigger word.
True. Also if you have been rejected once too many, the chances of you getting accepted goes down.

Unless you knew why you were rejected and you improve on that.

Ultimately you are wasting time applying and then waiting for results. Every rejection is a step down the morale ladder so be judicious in your applications
Mainly a Nest thermostat looks cool.
reminds me of couchdb apps where you'd use document attachments to store html/public files and serve them directly from couch.

https://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.0.0/couchapp/
I agree, Obama should be in jail.
Small point of clarification, the predictions of newtonian laws are a limit in GR. So, technically speaking, newtonian physics is still following GR for that energy regime.
Like really? You are optimizing your product for (google's spyware) chrome? You are part of the problem.

"some issues in some browsers" - shouldn't fly in 2019, IE6 is gone!
With your line of reasoning, would you prefer a world where all the munitions were held by megavillains, or a world where both megavillains and regular people had access to the munitions?
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50048144

why wouldn't you post the original BBC article, I wonder.
It's even annoying for non-Americans living in other countries who have to declare that they're not American and don't have any tax liabilities to the USA.
If you need to use a lot of APIs, why not rename your source code file from .c to .m and just call them with ObjC syntax then?
I'm very aware. That's kind of my point.
All of these items can be used through using test panels, or even dogfooding. There's no need to violate the privacy of millions of people.
I would say "real time graphics" is one of the niches FP is not well suited for, most business software doesn't need to work at the level of the machine.
$45K median and agile bullshit pair programming? Good luck with that.
Most people who are editing video online are uploading it to some social media sites, and most of those are uploading to YouTube.

And there are free editing apps for every platform, and every digital camera probably comes with one.

Also a search for "online video editor" returned plenty of results. I don't know about the quality of capability of those sites, but it doesn't seem like "video editing for amateurs" or "video editing in the browser" were unsolved problems until veed.io came along.
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You're right; the expansion of the universe is not related to photons. It's caused by the pressure of dark energy. There are some hypotheses but no one knows for sure what dark energy is.
Imitation Learning vs. Real Learning
Before this law websites collected my data. After this law, websites collect my data AND I am harassed with notices.

If the intent of this law was to stop websites from collecting user data then it appears to me it has completely failed while also introducing more friction for users.
Some people stopped worrying about not understanding compilers. They're not working on drivers, realtime (esp where low lag & jitter are concerned such as motion control), or high performance software of all stripes, trying to squeeze the most out of the available hardware. It's all about choosing the right tool for the job, and there is no right tool for every job. A guy generating sales reports has very, very different needs from the lady writing a rendering engine.

Michael Abrash (graphics programmer extraordinaire) said it best, and I'll paraphrase: the best optimizing compiler is between your ears. The right algorithm beats the pants off the most optimized wrong algorithm. Or, as i like to say "there is nothing faster than nothing" -- finding a way to avoid a computation is the ultimate optimization.

And managed memory is wonderful, almost all the time. That is, just until the GC decides to do a big disposal and compaction right in the middle of a time-sensitive loop causing that thing that "always works" to break, unpredictably, due to a trigger based on memory pressure. Been there, done that. If it's a business report or a ETL, big deal. If it's a motor-control loop running equipment, your data or machinery is now trash.

For most of the programming world, and I count myself in this group, the highly abstracted stuff is great. Right up until the moment where something unexpected doesn't work then it turns in to a cargo cult performance because it's nearly all black-box below. Turtles, all the way down.

There is value in understanding the whole stack, even today.
Is it an issue if the fingerprint is registered without a screen protector on?

I could imagine it's possibly like putting foggy privacy tint on a window. You can see through clearly before, but after the tint is applied, everybody looks pretty much the same.
I'm having a hard time understanding why someone with HIV or a disability would still be excluded. The US has pretty strong protections for people with disabilities, which makes me feel like we're supposed to honor and include those people. I wonder what the logic is that prevented us from extending that philosophy to immigrants.

HIV is also more of a chronic condition as apposed to a public health hazard these days. It's cost of perpetual treatment isn't significantly different from dozens of other conditions or diseases, and the risk to the public is similar to other diseases like Hepatitis.

Anyone have insight that I'm not understanding?

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Edit: elliekelly gave a well-thought out reply below that makes logical sense, even if I disagree with the policy
Don’t falter that easy. If the law is stated so clearly, then start 3 more LLC’s and offer the news posting service for $10 in your new publications that only publish new LLC’s.
This was my first thought. I just thought that this is how it works.
Yeah, I'm super sorry, but there's 3 of us working on the whole frontend so it's not always easy. we're doing our best to support everything as much as possible
But also easier to order. I've taken more than one waiter outside and pointed at the plastic food.
I observed that "by definition" is on its way to becoming one of these emphasis phrases, like "literally", no longer literally meaning what they used to.
Ooo! Combine this with a sand table, the arm draws in the sand w/ a stylus, and add a little vibration motor to "erase" the "screen".
One thing I can't figure out - where are they dumping all of the heat? AC just moves heat. Where's it all going? It's like trying to cool your house by opening the fridge. All the heat just gets pushed out the back of the fridge and into the house.
Functional programming is not new, it has been around for many decades. The reason it didn't catch on is because it doesn't map very well to how our brain works. Human brains are object oriented, so OOP is very easy to grasp.

The real question is, why are people now taking a second look at functional programming. And the answer is Moore's law. Moore's law is coming to and end, and CPUs are not getting faster. Instead they are adding more and more cores. To take advantage of lots of cores you need concurrency. OOP is not very concurrency-friendly because objects have state, and to avoid corrupting state in a multi-threaded environment you need locks, and locks reduce concurrency. Functional programming doesn't have state, so you don't need locks, so you can get better concurrency.
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Aren’t “OK Google, hey Siri, hey Alexa” all processed/recognized locally? Otherwise, it would be a horrible idea to send EVERYTHING off to the internet for processing. Not even concerning privacy issues, it would just be unworkable that way.

(This is at least true for the iPhone, Hey Siri is recognized locally before anything is sent off to the net)

Re reading your comment, I guess you mean: the sound processing goes through the local microphone no matter what, even if the audio is only forwarded on if they lead with certain keywords, right? In other words, just like how every other voice activated system has to work. The privacy implications are that the equipment could be compromised to actually put the recording in longer term storage, like a bug or something.
I don't agree, the article is unilateral, but it has very sound arguments
Officially, they only store a hash, but this is only a software restriction - I believe it is possible to obtain full images but this may not be possible with the public APIs.

In practice it may be possible to reverse-engineer the stored hashes but this has not been demonstrated (yet).
What a lovely thought!
My understanding is that OCaml is a decent imperative language when required and that's one reason why it can perform well.

My usual issue with the 'you can avoid the GC by not allocating' claims in any language, is how much of the language is still usable? Which features of the language allocate under the hood? Can I use lambdas? pattern matching? list compression or whatever nice collection is available in the language?

Note that I do agree that even in very high performance/low latency applications, there will be components (even a majority of them) that will be able to afford GC without issues; but then it is important to be able to isolate the critical pieces from GC pauses (for example, can I dedicate one core to one thread and guarantee that GC will never touch that thread?)
I think you can have both. You could start out not knowing what you can do to any noun and through attempting verbs->noun you can build a library of options. Once you know you can apply a verb to a noun that "unlocks" the noun->verb menu.

That would retain the "discovery" aspect of the game while also providing the convenience. You could even spin it into a game mechanic with "confusion" (randomizing your noun->verb options) and "amnesia" (erasing your noun->verb options).
I don't understand what the author means. Maybe someone can help me understand.

> Now, what we do when we want to explain what a galaxy does, or a galaxy cluster, or even the whole universe, is not to plug the matter and energy of every single planet and star into the equations. This would be computationally unfeasible. Instead, we use an average of matter and energy, and use that as the source for gravity.

Does this mean instead of individual objects we make our calculations with x units of mass and energy in every given patch of space and this may be an issue, or am I getting this wrong?
Embrace, extend, extinguish. GNU has stage three well under way.
hey thanks for sharing your thoughts :)

agreed, payroll is hard - we actually mean only the payment part of payroll right now. we'll experiment on ourselves first by paying salaries in fiat+crypto to get a better idea of all the implications.

paying vendors is simpler indeed, and it's even better with crypto because you pay low fees (and not based on the amount you're sending)

we're totally aligned with what you're saying about the "secret sauce" - we actually released a feature called "direct transfers" that aims at doing that (except that it's not with a card atm) https://medium.com/multis/introducing-direct-transfers-a-new...

we need to go deeper in this "corporate bureaucry friendliness" though and have more levels (right now only owners/guests)

cool to see that you get what we're trying to do :)
>disconnected lever

Yes, it's good to know this has a name. Thanks.

This idea, but also extended to include the fact that as AI drives more, humans drive less, and might lose some of that knowledge. If AI is driving 80% if the time, but can't handle 20% of situations, then humans are doing the 20% most difficult driving with 80% less practice. Obviously this is over simplifying things, as lack of fatigue and other things will come into play. But I'm merely stating that both sides of the equation will likely change, not just one.

>Still, AI cars which don't tailgate...ENORMOUS safety advantage

As long as they do this in a way that doesn't create congestion, I agree. But I'm not yet convinced. Overly conservative driving can be just as, if not more dangerous than some aggressive driving.

A lot of the risk might be merely transferred, not reduced. Preventable congestion is the bigger problem, tailgating is usually just a symptom. (Not saying it's ok, just that it's preventable in other, more indirect ways.)

And many solutions to congestion require complicated risk-now vs risk-later evaluations (including some that you listed- id'ing a bad driver or a tire about to blow out). These require more decisive, if not aggressive, driver actions, like speeding for 20 seconds to get away from the bad driver or to clear the passing lane. Or accelerating aggressively on an on-ramp (and not have to stop at the end of it to wait for an opening, which is part of why on-ramp metering has become so popular).

Or if you're on the interstate and it's posted for 45mph, but everyone else is driving 80mph. It's probably safer for you to speed (at least 60+) than to drive 45mph.

That's not really compatible with AI's current approach of being overly conservative with everything.

All this to say, I don't doubt AI will make some aspects of driving safer, but I still have doubts about whether it will improve overall safety, at least in the foreseeable future. Driving and traffic systems are complex.
I can't believe Scientific American published this drivel!

There are outright lies in it from a man who should've been fired years ago. He constantly posts mistruths in some sort of bid for fame or something, I really don't understand why.
There are NO credible scientists or doctors or peer reviewed studies that support his claims.

If you want the real story:
https://medium.com/@tomsparks/is-5g-dangerous-405a19e9ea88
thanks a lot - yes we think that having fiat and crypto side by side can be interesting :)
What form? do you mean just sending letters to my reps?
How would anyone become President?! /joke
What use is it to know when your child stops breathing? Is there anything you can do about it?
I recently set up a Dell workstation with that much memory for a lab at work. The first time I booted it I was afraid that it was dead out of the box. It probably took ~5 minutes to POST and get to the Dell logo. Dells also have this weird thing where they turn on for a couple of seconds after you turn on the power, and it took me half an hour to figure out why it kept shutting down when I tried to boot it.
For home automation usage, Voice UI doesn't need to be in the cloud. Does anybody here have any experience using Mycroft AI or other local solutions?
Really would have helped to order the values in the legend
How many of those are on Bloomberg?
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem

In conjunction with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_covariance

Lorentz invariance has not shown to be violated despite many tries experimentally and from observation.
I see the contrary. The US has started to try to enact its laws outside its boundaries in ways that run counter to international conventions. This is maybe not a strategy, but at least a general trend. The article tries to make that obvious by listing examples that underscore how broad that trend is. You have to look elsewhere for the juicy details. There's a lot to be discovered.
"End of the day, the computer is an imperative device, and your training helps you understand that."

I mean... it's not though, is it? Some things happen synchronously, but this is not the same thing as being an imperative device. Almost every CPU out there is multi core these days, and GPUs absolutely don't work in an imperative manner, despite what a GLSL script looks like.

If we had changed the mainstream programming model years ago, perhaps chip manufacturers would have had more freedom to break free of the imperative mindset, and we could have radically different architectures by now?
I guess if one company was to “eat” Elastic real business, this would be Datadog (logs, analytics) not Algolia
Machines’ Language Skills Just Surpassed Our Own. But Is This Understanding?
> Europe trying to make Americans not to talk about past crimes of EU citizens?
This is just bt
I feel like another motivation is to keep the neural net parameters, AKA the most valuable part of the speech recognition algorithm, off-device. It'd have to be huge otherwise, and could be easily duplicated then used as a starting place for a competing product.
YC is looking at this from the VC/startup perspective. "Does this group of people with this company seem like they can make a billion dollar business in the next ~10 years?" They want founders that target a huge (or growing / potentially huge) market with stars in their eyes and some insight as to how to own it.

If you're content with a small business and growing slowly then you are not a good fit.

You might have a great business in the end, but still not be a fit for the model. Like others have said, YC partners miss big hits. They're not perfect. Keep going and if you have a relentless focus on month over month growth and keep your churn down then you have a chance to get VC-style growth capital. But, if you just want to bootstrap a profitable business you'll be better off doing that on your own and getting bank loans or other risk-adverse capital.
I've noticed this for a few companies as well (https://www.keyvalues.com comes to mind).

Don't get me wrong it's a great company for the founder and maybe a small team, but there's no intent to grow it massively. The founder has even said so.

Not sure why YC makes those exceptions sometimes.
> Star Trek portrays a society that is not run by mobsters

But also portrays societies run by and indeed composed entirely of mobsters (see "A Piece of the Action" TOS S2E17).
> Not marrying my high school sweetheart and having kids right out of high school.

You really dodged a bullet with this one. Kids right after high school? Not in this day and age.
you can turn it on remotely, like when you are on the way home from work, and have a warm house when you get there.

to me, that is the killer reason to have it online.
I've always found myself using `~/projects/` for my development. It's also general enough that I can put not-quite-software projects like this in there: https://github.com/lelandbatey/custom_cpu--ALU
> Human brains are object oriented, so OOP is very easy to grasp.

Can I cite you on this? Because I have only ever seen this explained in Programming 101, where Java is the language they teach.

I wonder where this sentiment comes from. I imagine it came from marketing.
It is a crime in WA and some other states to record conversations without consent of all parties.
Thanks for that link. This is the approach I've been interested in for a long time, it has the ability to play things that a human never could (the size of and number of fingers on the human hand limit the chords you can achieve). But it's pretty decisively the machine playing there. The human participation element in the MIT version is a very interesting addition.

I think a combination of their software and body-side mechanics with the Russian fretboard apparatus could do some really interesting things sonically. But it would still be less fun to play than the MIT guitar in its current form.
Im in the same boat, I find the concepts very fascinating but almost all of it is trying to solve problems that don't even exist for me.

The only thing my friends with IoT devices do are party tricks on voice command with their smart lights. Other than that, I find the so called 'problems' these devices solving are extraordinarily trivial.
One problem at a time please
From my interaction with people from NGOs, mostly from foreign aid organizations, there seemed to be as many people genuinely trying to make a difference as the ones that are only interested in their own agenda. I would like to think the smaller an organization the easer it is to maintain certain standards and not the other way around.
Like Martha?

https://www.thoughtco.com/martha-stewarts-insider-trading-ca...
What a great example of the power of PCA! I absolutely love that you can give it nothing but a set of raw dimensional data, and it will give you back a set of axes that are (often) human interpretable.

I remember the first time I did that for a set of children's ratings data, and got to see games/movies/books spontaneously spread themselves out along fairly clear age and gender lines. I often wonder what other novel applications it can have.