skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The primary method of milking cows in the US has been by machine for decades...

And most farms in the US are highly automated: automated sprinklers, automated tractors, automated planters, automated harvesters (of crops that are amenable to machine harvesting).

It's simply that there are a lot of food crops that are trivial for humans to harvest by hand that would require very expensive machinery and technology to accomplish with a machine.
I think it’s the goal of the student loan system, which, as stated above, I have always understood to be a mechanism intended to improve social mobility.

I think I can see what you’re getting at, and I don’t think it’s particularly relevant to my points on student loans. But I’ll ask you a couple of questions. Do you think the study of humanities topics requires the modern university humanities departments? Do you think it requires student loans? Do you think our society even derives any cultural benefit at all from churning out thousands of highly indebted humanities graduates every year, most of which never go on to put their education to any form of productive use?
Presumably that it was the business plan of Reddit to become the trusted alternative.
I went to a normal European uni as well, although it did cost money (inflation corrected tuition fees were around €700 or so, and there was a room to rent and food to buy; but many courses used a syllabus written by the teachers and printed by the uni, costing a few € each, only a few required an expensive book). Nothing that should make me feel scammed.

The networking thing is real, though. It's not everywhere, but if you join the right student society (Am. fraternity), it definitely exists. I worked a (long) while as a researcher and teacher at university, and networking via student societies only seems to have grown in that period.

It never felt to me as useless, as killing time or delaying life. It taught me skills I don't think I could have picked up by myself.
One issue with having your servers not in UTC will be that you're always wondering whether other software e.g. logging software is using UTC or local time. Also, in your database you should always use UTC if you have daylight saving time or else you might have surprising issues where records are out of order by date during time changes. Also, what happens when you start a collaboration with a university in another country and suddenly have users in another time zone. As someone who's worked on many projects with timezones I've seen many people make arguments for not using UTC. Something always comes along that makes them wish they'd used UTC. If you use UTC for everything then you're always sure it's UTC, and it's easy to make the conversion. Otherwise you're always unsure and the costs of uncertainty can be very high indeed.
+1K on this. tail latencies are bad.
How do they prevent trolls destroying everything they built?
Just a remark to writers, when you redact an "introduction to smth" please refrain from writing down the name of your product 50 or more time in the first paragraph. It's totally frustrating and made me run away to just look up wikipedia instead to get a grasp of the general idea.

Example:
You've probably heard of smth thing and wonder how smth differ from smth else. In this article about smth we will dive into smth things to discover how smth is well better suited to do things thanks to smth things and other things that are really specific to smth! The power of smth enable things to things in a way things do things that make smth something you need to learn about.

So during this journey about smth will be cut in four part the first being an introduction.

(...) --sudo click the link for first part

This is the first part of a fourth series about smth to learn more about things and things in smth.

Smth is very specific about things, and that's specifically why smth is well suited for things. Smth is a new way to do something that will make you think more about things and things. Let's now dive into smth...

Smth use things as a things to do the smth things with tings on smth.........

--sudo repeat marketing ad nauseam

No matter of wether the actual product is pure gold or pure garbage you probably just lost 50% of the readers at some point.
Hey there I found modules to be confusing coming from GOPATH too, but they're straight forward, super barebones example:

#!/bin/bash

cd $HOME

# Create project directory
mkdir hellogo

cd hellogo

# Init project modfile
go mod init example.com/hellogo

# Create the main source file
# Uses bash's heredoc
cat << EOF > ./main.go
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
fmt.Print("Hello world")
}
EOF

# Build it
go build

# Run it
./hellogo
Are you saying you would solve all my sw problems for 5€? Deal! Let me send you this project I have... :) Be careful.
Free in the sense that the costs were borne by the government and not by the student.

I'm totally ok with that. However, now that countries are shifting higher education costs off of their books and people are finding out that universities are, in fact, very expensive to run, it's not fair to blame the university.
Quadratic Election Law
DRY is so prevalent that pushing just 2 identical pieces is now rare in my experience.

I want to work where you work.

I've seen literally 4 separate implementations of the same UI component in the last week. It's obvious that they all started out from a common base (e.g. by looking at variable names, function names, etc). However, over time, each component has diverged, as each project that the component was copy-pasted into just made changes willy-nilly to their copy of the component, rather than recognizing that they have a copy of a shared component and refactoring changes upstream or building common abstractions upstream.

Now I've been tasked with doing the refactoring work to make these components DRY, and I can already tell that it's going to be far more work than management has anticipated.
Quadratic Election Law (great article)
https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/quadratic-election-law
the small libraries are best compared to stackoverflow code snippets. Instead of reading and copying a solution that may be out of date, you can use a (theoretically) tested solution that receives bug fixes. In many ways it is superior to the copy and paste of lore
5.5% of children under the age of 19 were uninsured

Bear in mind that this paper is a survey, not a study that looks at actual coverage records, and the survey population is not consistent year to year.
How many jobs actually exist that screen for “any college degree”?
Of course, and in practice you basically always need to tweak your FIX layer when connecting to multiple brokers.

Whilst there will be differences, you can rely on a surprising amount being uniform. The general session/authentication flow and serialisation mechanisms will be largely the same. Or the use of standard fields ClOrdID, or OrderQty. Or the "general" meaning of the messages NewOrderSingle or ExecutionReport.

It's somewhat predictable where the differences are going to be: identifying securities (different codes, etc), expressing order types and algo parameters, and subtle differences to order lifecycles.

Again this is a gut feel, but I doubt that if you take 2 proprietary APIs, you'll get that level of uniformity.
> If you dockerize a chrome instance to start an electron app, you can then use it as a miroservice to truncate!

Needs more Kubernetes and a service mesh.
This is really fascinating.
Continuing along the comparison with airplane stocks:

On one hand you have companies that keep flying chairs in the sky filled with people, feeding them every few hours migrating them across continents.

On the other hand, I have a company that can replace my crappy apt bedroom with a fake office background.

Fascinating that VC funded madness has gotten to this point - prioritizing CTRs, engagement, growth rates and so on.
I helped do the same thing for UConn! https://youtu.be/lyqD7X9MBKE

On commencement day we had about 200 users in game and viewing on stream. It was chaotic, but so worth it. I have so many plans for Minecraft UConn, and we had such a great volunteer team spend their off hours making campus picture perfect.

Full stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/616924960 (starts around 0:55:00)
How is the alpaca API, are there any limits? Is it fast?
And it's bad for everything, the environment, our health, the animals and many farmers. I'm sure you've read the Omnivores Dilemma?
in the U.K. the max marginal income tax rate is 45%

That's a big change from years ago, when it was 95% (hence "it's one for you, nineteen for me" in the Beatles' "Taxman").
AMD GCN absolutely supports async compute[1]. Radeon cards for years would only make use of the ACEs in pure compute contexts, as OpenGL and DX11 had no concept of a secondary command queue and could not make use of them. This is a big part of the reason why Vulkan/DX12 require so much boilerplate to get a triangle rendered.

The PS3's SPU definitely counts as async compute especially with how it was used later in the console lifecycle[2] once people had time to familiarize themselves with it.

However, in the current gen consoles, you don't have to deal with a different ISA, command queuing, and shared memory between the GPU and CELL processor. You are only writing HLSL/GLSL/PSSL and setting up an aggressive amount of fencing to transition resources between readable and writable states within the GPU.

[1]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/9124/amd-dives-deep-on-asynch...
[2]: https://www.slideshare.net/DICEStudio/spubased-deferred-shad...
The smaller the library, the better.
There is no other rendering engine on iOS. You can’t “boycott Safari” on iOS in any meaningful way. WebKit is used by all browsers on iOS.
Ethics for AI has roughly the same problems as ethics for corporations. That's not encouraging.
Actually, the official Go Blog has a decent "Hello World" example[0] for go modules - I've used this before, had to double check.
[0] https://blog.golang.org/using-go-modules
I really understand your feelings. A ton of misinformation, disinformation, and fake news, make Twitter a terrible platform. It looks much better than Facebook. Many people are being controlled something to say what some want to hear. Attacking and harassing users is what I see every day.
I don't know where we can find another platform that gives and updates us.
But it does replace the ads on the page, because those ads they serve are related to the pages you visit and that the system is "opt-in" is irrelevant, because that's their business model.

It's racketeering because they piggyback on publishers for serving their ads contextually, while not allowing publishers to run their own ads, forcing publishers to join if they want any revenue from Brave users. Brave wants to be a gate keeper, coercing publishers in the process.

Again, I don't see how this isn't illegal. It's one thing to be a non-profit browser extension developed by a community on GitHub, it's quite another to do build ad blocking products for profit, because the later is clearly copyright infringement at the very least.
Yep, IB is Interactive Brokers. And I hear you about the brokerage rates here!
The coronavirus crisis and the enforced shift to online teaching might very well lead to major changes in higher education.

At the university where I work in Japan, we began teaching all of our classes online a month and a half ago using Zoom. I don't know anyone, teacher or student, who thought that they would prefer online classes, but now that we have been doing it for a while it's clear there are advantages.

Perhaps most significant is the fact that teachers and students do not need to live near campus. The students in my undergraduate classes are scattered throughout Japan, and my graduate seminar includes students in Thailand and Indonesia who were unable to enter Japan when travel was shut down in early April. Some of our teachers are also stuck outside the country and are conducting their classes from overseas. Overall, classes seem to be going surprisingly smoothly, and students are able to participate equally in class discussions regardless of their location.

What the author of this post presented as a cost-comparison exercise—get a group of people who want to study the same thing and hire a teacher—is much more feasible when the students and teacher do not have to be in the same geographic area. It will be interesting to see how such possibilities change higher education in the years ahead.
I've learned much more from watching statistics videos from top notch YouTube lectures (I like the Harvard ones) than from statistics at university, although there was a lot of it. That said I regularly need to look up statistics, probabilitiy distributions and hypothesis tests in books when I need them twice a year.

The main problem I see in startups I coach is they think they are "data driven" but marketing, sales and top management lacks the proper statistical understanding to make useful decisions. They forgot what they have learned at university and feel no need to relearn statistics for their job. They make all the rookie mistakes.
I love this topic and have been researching liquid democracy on the side. We need more people researching the implications of this political system.
But how many of those friendships with neighbors really boiled down to friendships of convenience? I’ve always liked the people I live near, but I’ve never felt that I connect to them on a deeper level.

If I couldn’t spend time shooting the breeze with my actual friends on Discord, maybe I’d be more inclined to spend time with my neighbors. Even if we didn’t really connect a deep level, at least we could converse for a few hours.

I have no interest in that though. I have no need for that kind of interaction. If I want to be social, I can contact people that I feel a deep connection to at any time.
In some cases, supply and demand. In the early 2000s, One of my professors in my MBA program made ~$250,000 USD per year for teaching 3 classes per yer, plus whatever else he did. My understanding is that if you want to attract & retain talent of his caliber, you have to compete with they salary that person can make in the business world, too.
Author's point about blogs is that Twitter, Instagram, etc aren't blogs and that's what he wants. Author's failure is that he is wrong, as blogs do still exist, including the Blogger service.
STEM people really struggle with the idea that the humanities are not vocational training - because they are vocational training for the political class, who don't need to understand STEM because they use rhetoric, persuasion, and political manipulation to get what they want.

For these people, scientists and technologists are the hired help. While you're telling yourself that knowing how to compile Linux from source gives you god-like superpowers, they're running astroturfing and media campaigns that win elections and define national policy.

Some of those people have English degrees. Because - why not? (In the UK they're more likely to have a PPE from Oxford, but if they have the connections English or some other non-technical subject is fine too.)

In the same way that you won't understand what high school math is really for unless you put it in context with a STEM degree, you can't understand what the humanities are really for unless you put them in a political context.
> But in the average public university most students you meet are just coasting through it as if it was high school, or as a way to delay real life.

Perhaps that's an unintended consequence of it being free, just like high school.

If you're paying the bill, it's a lot less likely you'll be coasting through.
Can't speak for Berkeley, but for our virtual graduation we just set a server property to put everyone in adventure mode on join. Adventure mode prevents you from breaking blocks or opening chests so the only thing you can do is walk around.
My family has leased land to the same family farmers for 30+ years. I went to school with the kids the are likely to to inherit the business. If I inherit some of my family's land, I have no interest in messing with the deal--they've been great long-term tenants.

These are also the sorts of people and deals where it's you get x% of the crop, a handshake, and a check once per year.
What if it turns out there is reason people discriminate using those features (for example that people of race X tend to fail repaying their loans), and the classifier just learned that reason from the data. Why should we be expected to "fix" the reality for the classifier?
Presumably there are reliable votes on either side that are well known : subtract those from the result and you may have a fair idea whther your puppet obeyed his master. It might not be easy to confidently disobey.
Jitsi works reasonably well on PC, but not on mobile.

Moreover, Zoom has documentation on how to use it, and Jitsi has none. (They have the stubs for documentation, but the content itself is largely missing.

One other thing Zoom has going for it: name recognition. In a crowded market, name recognition is more valuable than the tech.
The “free 1 month trial” they offer requires cancellation 2 weeks before the end of free trial by contacting the customer support.

Cancellation afterwards also requires contacting customer support.
Capital gains is 20% federal plus state (13% in California)

But long term capital gains are not indexed to inflation, so the effective rate is higher for long-held appreciated assets... like real estate. This is part of why turnover of real estate is suppressed in high appreciation areas, even outside of CA.
That's definitely true, but depending on the usecase it might not matter all that much. Also, that problem already applies to an anonymous blog anyway!

Consider the usage of semi-anonymous accounts on HN or Reddit or wherever. There's some risk of deanonymization depending on usage style and how determined the attacker is, but it's still quite different from openly publishing things in a manner that links back to you directly.

The issue for me is that (for an anonymous blog) once I decide to publish something to it the article becomes permanently and publicly linked to all the others as well. This means that I can never change my mind in the future without simultaneously changing my mind about all the other content published there. It also means that if I ever slip up (say on a non-anonymous HN account) and reveal that I'm the author then I've inadvertently and publicly tied the entire blog to myself (not just that one article).
My guess is its one of those style over substance articles, like something by David Sedaris. Not really something we're used to on hackernews where we expect the author to argue X is bad, or we need more Y. The point is entertainment or poetry. Maybe I'm wrong and the author wants to achieve some rhetorical goal, but I think its just a blog post for the sake of it.
"Ethical AI" is just another buzzword. Companies are not ethical entities. They exist only to create profit and they will create the maximum amount of profit. Even laws and regulations only factor into it as numbers on a spreadsheet, and any profitable activity will continue as long as it generates maximum profit.
Also "speaking for Australia", or at least my small inner-west Sydney microcosm of it - which is all my own anecdata really covers...

We are quite a way from being "almost back to BAU". This weekend we allowed cafes, restaurants, and food serving areas of bars to reopen, but only to 10 people at a time (so many have not reopened, since only 10 customers is completely unviable financially for many places). Bars (for drinking) and entertainment venues are still closed. The cafe nearest me is playing with fire right now - they have 8 outdoor tables, all more than 2m apart, but had al of them filled with 2, 3, or 4 people around each - easily 20-25 people seated while I was there. And there were still people crowding around the door clearly not "social distancing" waiting for a table to open up, and ignoring the cafe owner's request to spread themselves out to comply with the health advice...

The plan is to get back to "everything open as normal" by the end of July, but it'll only take a serious "second wave" for that plan to be found unworkabe, I suspect...
Investopedia is such a great resource. Their pages are always well written and seem well researched.

And I'm also interested in the answers to your questions :)
A univeraally useful question: What does it take to make it work?

In this case the AI will need to convince all of us to follow the ethical code it designs. It can do this by suppressing information or by making morally defensible decisions.

Having a good track-record of moral decisions key, so AIs need to be public persons and not subject to corporate secrecy.
I’d argue that the only time you shouldn’t use UTC is when you live in UTC. The point is mainly to ensure that your code and institutional processes handle time zones correctly by ensuring nothing accidentally works correctly if they don’t.

Whatever you do pick, you definitely want to avoid Daylight Savings Time because it’s not just twice a year - it’s a different twice a year depending on which years (laws enacted it, and have moved it multiple times).
European countries with free public universities also usually have private, paid colleges. In practice, those are where you really coast through.
You are simply being pedantic.

He said there's no "absolute" obligation, but there are some by virtue of us living in a society.
"Net value taxation" may be the future. How much were you worth last year? How much are you worth today? Net = income. We would need exceptions for things like houses, but such an approach would capture all capital gains in real time.
It's not that simple, but it could be a factor, in my experience. It's probably not one single thing.

Overly generalized, formal education seems to give one more self awareness. Lesser educated peers overestimate their abilities which helps them getting hired and be successful through the first few years. Then a promotion would require a different skill set and they cannot appreciate the complexity of learning it, so they fail.

Peers with a degree often are not confident enough, and overthink. But they can adapt quicker.
I will only give more when we make everyone give more

If everyone took the same attitude towards energy consumption or pollution, we'd make no progress at all.
I feel sorry for you. I got a great deal out of my college experience. It was time and money very well spent. I never would have learned that stuff otherwise, or even have known what to learn.
Not sure what the author meant there but we do have a problem of offloading the ethical burden of our systems onto the algorithms themselves and it should be taken more seriously. Like when Google shipped an AI for moderating hate speech which turned out to be biased against minorities [1]. Google would have been sued if that bias had been coded in procedurally, but because they used "AI" their response was basically "we'll take another look at the training data". The damage caused is the same in both cases though, and it shouldn't take a team of independent researchers to prevent Google from shipping racist products.

[1] https://fortune.com/2019/08/16/google-jigsaw-perspective-rac...
The less there are dependencies, the better.
Sounds fascinating - do you have the lecture / any code samples of that online?
Blog used to be a cool thing for teenagers a long time ago. Since YouTube, fb, insta are coming out, users are more inclined to images and videos instead of text.

Blog can never go back to be the most popular media. However, blogs will continue to specialize in long form articles, e.g. tutorials, how-to, reviews, ebook, courses, etc