skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if a platform like twitter or facebook have become a "utility" or indispensable to society then they should be heavily regulated and fall under society's control. I replied elsewhere that I am not sure I agree that these platforms have achieved indispensability but leaving that aside if they are integral to society then society should control them.

>you could argue that these american companies have a duty to follow the "spirit of free speech" in our country even if they aren't legally bound to it

I could not personally argue this in any shape way or form because I don't even know what to base this claim on. Free speech has been restricted historically (often during war-time but also for various populations of people.) It has been restricted for pragmatic reasons (like perjury).
Carbon tax kids ?
I probably should have said “geo-political.” Youve noted the contractual aspect, which bubbles up in regional content restrictions.

I was thinking more along the lines of law enforcement as well. Where civil & criminal law, data retention, LEO access, and due process may vary significantly in different countries.
One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swine fever in China
For context, see the 'Great Ejection' starting in 1662: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ejection

I can't find any hard numbers on emigration to America because of this, but it definitely restarted a wave of Puritan emigration that had mostly stopped when Cromwell took power.
Mind you, in the astrophysics' realm of science, the Taylor expansion's error terms can be pretty big sometimes -- eg. dark matter & dark energy.
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"exhibiting suspicious behavior in the wrong place". I need more details to make an informed judgement.
> Modern text editors have higher latency than 42-year-old Emacs. Text editors! What can be simpler? On each keystroke, all you have to do is update a tiny rectangular region and modern text editors can’t do that in 16ms.

Modern text editors have to deal with proportional font, right to left writing, anti-aliasing, and a big bag of Unicode related issues (Arabic is going to break all assumptions you have on language and text editing)

Fantastic read on this subject from few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21384158
I suspect these two things are related. ES2015 more than doubled the size of the spec and each spec since then has continued adding loads of things that take precious kb to implement.

That said, it seems like there are serious code savings to be had with some things like destructuring, template strings, and arrow functions. Generators are probably complex to add, but also don't transpile well (that is, debugging the resulting code is a horrible experience).
Actually crafting your site like you care about performance.

Except the reality is that option has always been on the table. There's a meta problem here about why that option isn't the preferred one.
I would definitely keep jq dependency there, especially if you plan to expand the code base to provide ecs and Fargate commands. You will quickly run into use cases where JMESpath is not capable of parsing json outputs for different tasksdefintion commands.
Even if there was a manual, the darn things keep changing and every unit has it's own set of quirks! =) Sometimes it feels like there is no quality control. You would think that by now someone would require a mandatory recall program, but it hasn't happen yet...

I only have one, but I have heard that a second one could be a hit or miss. In some cases, it will help fix the first one, but in other cases it has resulted in getting spoiled itself.
Thanks :) It was fun to do, as well. Although often tedious.

I played some with triangulation, with no joy.

From the SE thread "Triangulate with Ping [closed]"[0] I get that it's impossible. Latency depends more on device delays than on distance. Within densely populated continents, router/switch count does depend more or less on distance. But there's too much variability.

Or at least, none of the models that I tried converged.

It might be doable, with enough information about Internet structure. So you could deconvolute device count and distance. But that would be a lot of data, and I have no real clue where to get it. The NSA?

0) https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/68619/triang...
re:Invent has gotten very large. And AWS, to their credit, is especially good at doing session videos. I haven't attended in a few years and, if I did, it would be for reasons other than attending sessions. (And, given the size and absent specific booth/meeting responsibilities, I see little reason to go.)

That said, I attend lots of events. But it's mostly for meeting with people and absorbing the general zeitgeist. Breakouts/booths are just the window dressing.
I like versioning things as YYYY.MMDD.HHmm

2020.0102.0345 if you stick to GMT.
Am I the only one who read NRO as National Reconnaissance Office?
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> If a patent clerk is confused by the patent, then it should be rejected not granted.

I think GP means so confused they don't know they're confused.
Making everything about gender equity is tiresome. Emergency service workers such as police, firemen, and paramedics need to drive to respond to incidents. Private citizens can clear the sidewalks in front of their homes and are sometimes mandated to do so.
It seems to me that using your react components to render SVG animations, or to canvas, is just inviting disaster.
Seems that either the NN memoizes all the inputs and outputs until the function is totally mapped - then functions as a memoized lookup table, or the NN has discerned what the mortgage calculation is, and is doing exactly the calculation your {Python} backend does, but migrated into an NN middleware layer instead, which sounds like it would be slower.

And then you're hoping that the NN would act like a JIT compiler/optimiser and run the same code faster. But if it was possible to process (compile? transpile? JIT compile?) the Python code to run faster, then writing a tool to do that sounds easier than writing an AI which contains such a tool within it.

So there's a handwave step where the AI develops its own innate Python-subset optimiser, without anyone having to know how to write such a thing, which would be awesome indeed .. is that possible?
If that's your only motivation, I'm guessing you're not going to do a great job. There are exceptions of course.
In the past year I have probably spent no more than a couple of minutes thinking about my light bulbs, my smoke alarms, my door locks, etc. They just work.

It seems like home automation has a lot of advantages but it would also require me to spend time on it (which products to buy, how to secure them, dealing with malfunctions, upgrades, batteries...), which probably amounts to an overall net loss of quality of life.
> What if I write a program that does that translation agnostically of the specific work being translated?

Then that program will likely produce non-copyrighted output for non-copyrighted input. But it's also likely going to sound pretty bad.

> And what if my program is parametrized by an ML model of unknown training data?

Then its output could be considered a derivative work of every work in that training corpus, and anyone whose creative work went into that training data will have a copyright claim on the results.
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That's a radio group, not a set of checkboxes. Exactly one must be selected--the form isn't valid with none marked.
Yes, it's well worth understanding the licensing before trying it.

Their commercial license is 25¢/unit (no minimum), and their FOSS license is LGPL for the runtime, GPL for the development tools, and Creative Commons for their example code.

For anyone interested in XS specifically or embedded software licensing in general, they do a good job of explaining their rationale here: https://www.moddable.com/license
This "+1" thing is damaging and incorrect.

Depending on the context the model ends up being used in something that appears good may not be. For example the fellowship training thing - these non-fellowship trained radiologists are doing this task now, so it is absolutely reasonable to assess against them to test real-world performance.

It would be interesting to see if the fellowship trained radiologists did actually perform better in all circumstances (in some fields the better trained radiologists end up not using their skills on as broad a range of patients, so their performance is actually worse one some subsets of data).
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Yeah, no. I would use a queue. Capture the picture-enter-viewport event and then 50ms later (sorry I said 250... probably too long) verify it's still in the viewport like in the case of fast scrolling. Denounce so you don't fire timers for events close together. Works cross browsers, doesn't waste resources, will be smooth.
I agree that this article does seem clickbaity (mainly the money picture and the tone). However, I think it does bring up interesting points about the impacts of the food delivery war and perhaps some antitrust issues with the tactics used.
I mean, I'm asking because it's not entirely obvious to me, and smart light switches would be my goto, but you mention color.

I'm not sure why my question was a bad one.
Ask HN: What do you want make progress on in 2020?
A new year starts with a lot of hopes and dreams, and why not, there is usually some energy at this time of the year, and it's a good time to start new things or focus on bettering existing works/hobbies.

What do you want to spend time on in 2020, why and how much time are you going to allocate to it?
> I'll prioritize the 0.005L per 100km car for sure. That means the car can be driven for all its expected lifetime (500k km) in a single tank of gas, filled up at the time of purchase!

It's a nice idea but it wouldn't work. The gasoline would go bad before you could use it all.

Plug-in hybrids already have this problem. Their fuel management systems try to keep the average age of the fuel in the tank under 1 year. The Chevy Volt has a fuel maintenance mode that runs every 6 weeks:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/automobiles/owners-who-ar...

https://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/18/chevy-volts-sealed-gas-t...

Instead of having a "lifetime tank", a car that uses 0.005L per 100km would be better off with a tiny tank. And then instead of buying fuel at a fuel station you'd buy it in a bottle at the supermarket along with your orange juice.
This is just pushing the meaning of "artificial intelligence" farther up the chain because we understand it better. If you told someone in 1950 computers would be able to win 100 times out of 100 against the best humans in the world, they would call that artificial intelligence. Now we just say it's a MCTS system based on heavily tuned heuristics.
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Thanks for your advice, we will update the README ASAP.
Knowing how far we advanced with body parts reporuduction (altho not much in widespred use yet) but 2030 I envision most meat producers will move into printing meat, rather than regular farming. And its not because of growing demand or some personal feelings but because it will be much cheaper to print out part of a cow than raise one.
If that happens then we will stop seeing meat in any processed food because of extreme cost cutting even if people still want real meat.
Huh. I wonder how law enforcement deals with this.

Naively, I'd expect that it's where the VPN service is incorporated that determines that stuff. But on the other hand, they would need to find a server to impound it. So I suppose that PoPs could be used strategically to impede investigations.
> A major reason applications get bloated is because development time costs the company more than client bandwidth and CPU do.

If development time was really the biggest issue then I think we'd be seeing far fewer SPAs and complicated frameworks along with many more drag and drop VB apps or simple cgi sites, especially on internal tooling for small-medium companies. These also generally perform much better.

But between developers wanting to work on more exciting things and PHBs wanting sexier looking apps we end up with the current nightmare.
I've lived in the Bay Area for most of my life and I have zero confidence the situation will improve. It would have happened by now if it was going to.

The transit situation in particular will not improve because people prefer cars. People have little experience with public transit, and the experience they do have was bad, so they don't see themselves using it on a regular basis. They want to live in suburbs and drive cars, and they will try very hard to prevent anyone from increasing the density of housing or transit anywhere near their houses.

Those people vote, so a state government that tries to push for more public transit and housing density would not do well in the next election.
Having a working business is just one way. Many successful people become successful with failing businesses, particularly when venture capital is involved. In fact, you can have many failed businesses, with many bankruptcies even, and still be successful. “Failing up” is a very real thing, and a valid strategy.

Being successful requires you to convince others that society owes you something for who you are. A successful business is just one way to do that.
Optics? Or my very brusk explanation of the limitations of our shared reality?
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Thanks for the list! Several of those look incredibly interesting. Do you tend to prefer fiction or nonfiction more?
the rolling stone article is a joke. not only does it jump randomly over long periods of time, but it actually makes it look like the main character is in fact a terrorist:

> Over a decade later, after some major life changes – he’d converted to Islam and found himself working as a TV reporter in the Middle East under his new name, Bilal Abdul Kareem

> the Syrian office of the controversial Islamist TV network he founded, On the Ground News

> “They were picking off Al Qaeda and Al Nusra members,” he says. “I didn’t pay it much attention. I thought, ‘It’s not the first time I’ve heard a drone.’”
+1 was mostly to indicate whether you should upgrade or downgrade the reported result to be comparable with other studies. I didn't mean to imply whether it improves clinical relevancy.
I seen this posted all the time on various platforms but as someone who has an iPhone and an Android tablet my iPhone is consistently better and has less head aches than any of my prior phones. Can you explain what you mean by this?
Australia is always on fire. More of has burnt many times, many decades ago.

I'm not saying that climate change isn't responsible. I do believe that it has increased the severity of the situation, and that is a big problem. But this is not a doomsday scenario. It's a once every 20 years going back as long as we can measure scenario.

I think your reaction is a perfect example of what the parent comment is talking about.
I don't know the current situation, 30 years ago there was a period where my wife was working on her foreign passport + a letter from immigration. (Which was a total joke as the letter had no anti-tamper measures whatsoever, nor was any verification done against their data. I do not recall the state of technology back then to know how high end a setup you would need to forge it--with modern tech I could easily forge it with the stuff within 3' of me as I write this.)
This VC is a troll indeed
> Machine Learning is driving all of the ad placement on major ad platforms

And the results are, as far as I can see, horrible. I mean yes, if I make a mistake to search for shoes on Google, half of the internet will be showing me shoe ads for the next 6 months (how many feet do you think I have? Do you think I buy shoes in dozens?) - but presenting it as the triumph of ML is IMHO an overreach.

> personalization on all top social/media apps

From what I see, the same apps struggle to not get sued because of the said personalization regularly pushes sex content on kids, triggers on snowflakes and election interference on potential voters. Or at least that's what I hear every time next round of censorship is introduced into the social media. Somehow I am still not seeing a cause for celebration here.

> search ranking for google

Same as above, plus one shouldn't use Google search anyway. Use DuckDuckGo.

> translation, speech recognition

OK, here it got pretty good results, though sometimes it is as good as a very drunk chimp who got into a dictionary store, but in many other times it's decent. You get this one.

> finance, fraud detection

As a consumer, haven't noticed it. 100% of fraud on my cards have been detected by me reviewing my credit card statements. 100% of fraud alerts by banks have been false positives. I do not begrudge that specifically, I'd better have false positives than more fraud, but not seeing much ML-driven progress there tbh.

> In the next decade it will start taking over computer graphics, medicine, manufacturing, surveillance, hardware / software and every other aspect of our lives.

Not sure what "computer graphics" means, medicine probably not, surveillance maybe, but that's exactly the opposite of what I'd want, software definitely not even close, for the rest I'm not even sure what you're talking about.

> here's a ton of recent research showing that you can use machine learning to beat human crafted heuristics in hardware, scheduling, compiler design and query planning.

I'll believe it when I see ML-driven code generator doing something useful without tight supervision by humans. I can believe ML doing specific heuristics better (heck, doing exactly that has been part of my job recently) but there's a huge difference between "figure out exactly how much sugar makes the specific cookie recipe taste the best" and "invent whole cookie recipe from scratch and bake the cookie". I am sure ML would be useful for the former, for the latter... I'll believe it when I see it.
Or are you underestimating how many governments should be/are labelled Authoritarian?
Agreed. The ability of the someone/AI to explain their decision making process, is critical in determining whether such a decision has been adequately thought out or not. If a PhD must go through a viva, surely it is also incumbent on anybody pushing "AI" to also be able to "survive" such a viva. Otherwise, we might as well just go back to the days of reading entrails, flipping coins, etc.
[edit: typo on viva]
I sort of agree with what you said.

>My point is simple: nobody knows for sure.

Absolutely. I am suggesting to those who consistently points to doom's day needs better explanation rather than just debt alone.

Edit: Actually it was my understanding that all bubbles, by definition must have some form or irregularities or speculation. After all that is what bubbles means, turns out when I was going to quote wiki for this reply, I discover there are whole set of economic papers suggesting bubbles completely unrelated to its intrinsic value and economic fundamentals. Will Read those paper when I have time.
Yet in these same cities people meet in places, and have the positive experiences we often define as being human. Consider how many of these are currently possible to have through the Internet, and how likely that is to change if social presence and shared spatial awareness are deliverable remotely.

The greatest institutions, large and small (schools, libraries, churches, etc) all orbit the constraints of physical coproximity. If even a modest set of these experiences can have a true digital analog that replicated it decoupled from physical copresence, the opportunity for these kinds of institutions to form at a whole higher level, across great tribal boundaries, seems high.

It’s hard or impossible to make specific, concrete predictions on a ten year timeline. But my view is that the 20’s will see a radical departure from physical copresence mitigating human activity, and we will all agree that this change happened in 2030. I hope that people capitalizing on it build good social systems to bring out the best in people and replicate what we have learned from our best institutions and examples of positive human gathering.
This has nothing to do with the immigration process. My wife is an immigrant, all our headaches with those idiots didn't involve a single I-9 form.
Ah, I can tell you such stories of a stack that evolved solely out of incompetence...
My home automation is setup similar but more as a barter system.

"Would you like an hour of screen time? ... The dog excrement is rather unsightly and requires collection. Post collection, we run a mile together."

"I will give you 15 minutes of screen time for every 5 burpees completed to my satisfaction"

"The $10 dollar bonus this week will be based on the lack of dog excrement in the yard and you packing your own !!Heathy!! lunches!"

"I will give you $10 dollars for every book read with accompanying book report (usually only two paragraph summaries)."

"If we find any clothes that are not in hampers, we deduct $1 dollar from allowance per item."

So on and so forth... the rules are consistent, but do allow for bonuses and cutbacks based on performance. The conservation of electricity and water are biggies!!!
america has an interest in making fracking viable, since it's a technology that not many nations can employ (without the involvement of american firms anyway).

Fracking also allows america to place economic pressure to some countries like Russian (by lowering the price of their primary export).

Given the above, it will be unlikely for interest rates to grow in the next decade - since doing so has no advantages (except inflation, which is kept under control by the dollar's reserve status), and has many dis-advantages (such as causing a shock to businesses borrowing, which can precipitate a depression).
The US has the opposite extreme of this problem, where we get 6 months for the same white collar crime but there's a minimum 5 year sentence if you grow a specific plant to treat your dehibilating asthma symptoms (http://www.hr95.org/pinson.htm).
Six top level comments, and four of them are of the form “whatabout democratic nations doing the same thing, huh?”
Well, it's entirely based on Facebook...
I can't imagine more than 20% of this happening, and even then, it will only be available to super rich people with an interest in this sort of tech, i.e. it's not going to be our lives in 2030.
This happens due to POSIX. Nothing stops people from using direct system calls but they would rather use a C library for portability reasons.

I'd even say the Linux system call interface is better than the POSIX one. Well documented, no errno. I wrote a liblinux in C and Rust and it's been useful for accessing newer system calls with no libc stubs. The more subtle problem: standard C libraries are incompatible with direct system calls. They maintain a lot of global state which will be invalidated if the program calls the kernel directly. For example, clone() cannot be used with glibc.

The ideal solution is to start from scratch and build a new user space without using C at all.
For the author: any tips or recommendations for electric curtains? I'd love to automate that.