skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they were talking about converting a 1957 corvette. personally, I think that the closest you'll get will either be a Miata conversion or a z3 conversion. realistically, there's not enough room to convert either of those to be more than a novelty at the moment

as for something new, I still hold out hope that Mazda will go electric and come up with a nice new electric Miata, but I'm not holding my breath.
Tenable for what? You are injecting your own ideas. Why would I care about the reasons Facebook is popular. The idea I submitted was to make the process of setting up overlay networks easier, not to try to start a web-based business. Making software easier to use is a tenable idea. The ideas you are introducing might not be tenable. However, they are not my ideas. The pattern I see is you introduce some idea, attribute it to me, then shoot it down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
Took the words right out of my mouth.
You may be thinking of provisional ballots.
>Are mail in ballots for everyone really a "radical alteration" of their voting system? Local governments already have the capacity to send and receive thousands of pieces of mail, and the method of counting ballots is the exact same.

How would you set up this system if you were tasked with it?
It’s cooperate or die. The easy sources are mostly gone... mid level political people and normal workers can be hunted down pretty easily with modern tech, and subject to criminal sanction in some cases.

A close relative was a well known local public official in the 80s and 90s. In those days, the investigative reporters made more than he did and were relentless. In one case, he caught a guy climbing into the plenum over a ceiling tile to try to hear portions of a meeting in executive session.

Now, good reporters aspire to work in PR shops.
fwrite, but yeah.
I'm not making the freedom argument. I'm suggest we sidestep the freedom argument by working to convince people it's a good idea to wear masks rather than telling them they have to wear masks.

Also, all legal requirements are backed up by some sort of punishment. A regulation put in place to wear a mask might affect different groups more than others. If you can't afford to get a mask because the supply is low, then you get fined or go to jail. I don't like regulation where I think a campaign would be much more effective.
That's changing rapidly.
This isn't a question of smart vs raw pointers, it's a question of pointer vs value. A std::vector<T> is considered good code in modern C++ and should often be preferred over a std::vector<std::unique_ptr<T>>.
I think it's important to weigh whether the person you're arguing with is making their argument in good faith. Is Trump making a nuanced argument that weighs the pros and cons of mail-in voting? No, he's clearly not. If you want to have a debate about the pros and cons of mail-in ballots, you can't have it in that context, because the other person isn't trying to debate, they're trying to dominate the discussion and cow the opposition.

Someone should coin a word for the act of getting nerd sniped, but rather than getting distracted by a fun puzzle you're sitting down trying to account for all of the nuances of an argument clearly made in bad faith.
I agree. The second you start censoring $VIEW_X, people will start questioning why you aren't also censoring $VIEW_Y. Are you not censoring $VIEW_Y because you endorse it, Facebook? Is Facebook $VIEW_Y-ist? Rinse and repeat for every fringe view.
The author suggests that AI is _something_.

That is, if you think you have a better idea of what you want to do that isn't the right question. I would say that if you actually get better than an AI based version of a product then it's actually a useful tool and it can be improved to be used.

For example, if you say this is AI because a particular feature that is useful does not exist then you are actually talking about AI because someone is using it, just that it's useful.

But that statement only has a part of what you mean. That is, if your idea isn't useless in the sense that it is useful in a specific way, you are simply asking how you did it.

So to answer the question is: Why is AI useless for business?
Yeah, since what the world needs is more echo chambers.
Elections are run by the states, not by the Federal government. If Washington, the 13th most populous state can conduct elections purely via mail-in ballots, why not any other state?
As part of the public, I would rather my President's tweets not be lies, half truths and flat out nastiness.
Just because you were taught routing in your AI class doesn't make it AI. It is a topic in graph theory and combinatorics. Dynamic programming is a useful technique for solving traditional AI problem formulations, but it isn't AI.

In contrast, your example of the human is like modern AI, specifically unsupervised learning. I'm sure I could get a human doing that kind of pattern matching quite good at it quite quickly.

If I didn't have a learning system I could still write an algorithm for it quite quickly, by computing the Levenshtein distance. But that algorithm would notoriously not understand the context of the sentence, probabilities of words, etc. And indeed Word/Android/iOS spell correct still gets it really wrong much of the time. But the AI used is quite different from old timey backtracking.
I applaud the effort, looks very nice - I will contact you.
Because I feel that the freely accessible HN should not be considered a glorified comment section for another pay-only news site, here is the article archived in full text:

http://archive.is/cSUlh

(See here for general tips on paywall articles on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20313964)

(Edit: apologies, forgot to click on 'More' button to see previously posted archive links.)
This happened at the first start-up I worked at, 3 years in and almost bankrupt, one large customer kept using the product for a different reason ( kinda hacking it all together), so we completely pivoted to survive with this customers needs and it became a huge success. That pivot was towards such a niche market that no one was really in the space, and no one outside it would have really even know about it.
This car was featured in an episode[1] of Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, with guest Melissa Villaseñor.

[1] https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/the-1991-nissan-figaro-...
I mean Facebook doesn't really decide what content I see, I do. I aggressively police my timeline and unfollow people who post garbage content. I don't really need an AI to do that for me...
That's not Twitter's job. There are people who are supposed to do this.
The best thing about technology is that it seems to be getting more and more sophisticated in the industry. It seems like there is some sort of big disruptive force working at this point, but the big innovation seems to be the technology that is being used to create and manage the most values.. For example for a video game I imagine if a team of people working on this game could create games using some AI (maybe with 3D games) to generate the most value and then get some of the benefits of those games out there and then get real value out of it.
In the context of this discussion Solid sounds amazing. I'd be super excited to tune the social web to my own preferences. Sadly however, I couldn't make heads or tails of this garbage jargon laden website. WTF?

https://inrupt.com

"Time to reset the balance of power on the web and reignite its true potential.

When Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the web, it was intended for everyone. The excitement and creativity of its early days were driven from the notion that we can all participate — and the impact was world-changing.

But the web has shifted from its original promise — and it’s time to make a change.

We can still unlock the true promise of the web by decentralizing the power that’s currently centralized in the hands of a few. How? By using the power of Solid.

Solid is the technically potent, open-source platform built to decentralize the web. Inrupt is the company that’s helping to fuel Solid’s success."

What? How will that help me or my grandma?
And by public interest he means the valuation of his company when all the Trump fans revolt and leave twitter.
The existence of the aether isn't borne out by experiments; rather, we have justification in believing in its non-existence.

The algorithms of AI of decades past still work.

That's a big difference.

E.g. SHRDLU can be built today and you can have a conversation with it about its world of blocks.

Algorithms are artifacts of mathematics. To calculate distance between two points, we still use sqrt(dx^2 + dy^2); it doesn't go out of fashion due to advancements in topology.
Or shoot, get a dev team together to write a microblogging platform hosted at whitehouse.gov. Then they could even write a client that was secure enough to run on the president’s cell phone, and they don’t have to worry about third-party interests (if they exist). Just have whatever is posted on that site mirrored to @POTUS on Twitter, and if that get suspended, then the primary source still exists.
Where it's possible, perhaps using a deterministic process that can be easily repeated to verify the groupings haven't been tampered with? (Not to reduce the importance of backups, though they themselves can be attacked, but just as an idea for discussion...)

Here's an idea for how this could work for an example given elsewhere in the thread about the risk of an attacker mislabelling the subjects so the outcomes are unclear or deliberately skewed.

For a binary double-blind placebo trial (one group gets the medication, another gets the placebo), compute the hmac of each subject identifier (name, some participant ID), keyed with a key known to the principal investigator. Everyone whose hash MSB is above 0x80 gets the treatment, and everyone whose hash is below 0x80 gets the placebo. If you need more experimental groups, adjust the thresholds as needed

Clearly this is very restrictive and limited (you might need to ensure a proper demographic and medical/age profile distribution of subjects between both groups), but there are likely ways to achieve this by creating multiple "groups" and doing this process within each demographic balanced group.

You'd get a reproducible outcome, as long as you can recover the patient names or participant ID numbers, and the PI or experimental lead takes careful note of the hmac key used.

Just a straw man idea for how at least the patient to group allocation could be done deterministically. If someone attacked this and muddled patients and groups around, it could be reproduced just from knowing who the subjects are, and the hmac key. Clearly this doesn't scale to results or beyond, but I imagine this is where digital signatures start to help. And with modern ed25519 signatures we aren't talking massive signatures either.
Paywalled... See me next time when I can read the content
Out of curiosity, what do you do your pullups on? I don't have space for something on the floor, and I'm pretty skittish about damaging doorways (having previously, you know, damaged doorways). Do the ones that brace on either side of the doorway work well?
I was speaking more generally. WeChat is monitored and things get said there, the gulags aren't full. There was a lot of outrage over that doctor that died after blowing the whistle about C19, for example.

HK was more of a hot situation, you had protestors waving UK flags and talking about independence. I'm not justifying anything, but that's exactly the 'credible threat' vs 'talking shit' distinction I was talking anout.

In the cases you're referencing, are they still locked up? I'll check out a link if you've got one.
Everything we have ever done in AI is still AI. "AI" does not denote the current fashion in algorithms.
You mean the screen to the left of the home screen? I have noticed a lot of low quality information and some advertising masquerading as articles.
You got downvoted, but I'm not sure why since Trump literally made that accusation two days ago:

"The Democrats are trying to Rig the 2020 Election, plain and simple!"

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12647175457870069...
(I'm reading the comments first)

My first impression was that the article was written by a

man. Calling yourself a 'bitch' would be a self-insult that
could jolt you out of your laziness. I'm pretty damn lazy
though...
This type of thing is nothing new, but it's important to recognize that it doesn't take off because it's illegal.

As soon as Facebook realizes you're a risk, you'll get a C&D ordering you to stop accessing their servers. These typically have the force of law under the CFAA.

You won't access their servers, but just read the page that the user already downloaded? You'll still get nailed under the Copyright Act.

"User agents" in the sense used by the OP are as old as the internet itself. There's an active, serious, and quiet effort to abuse outdated legislation to ensure that they never become a problem.
I think your gut was absolutely right. Look for interesting problems. I would then check the founders out during your interviews (they should be there if its early stage) and check especially if they are down to earth, pragmatic and make sure they wont micro-manage.

I would avoid trying to evaluate startups like a VC would. VC's themselves cant predict success and its their job, so it's unlikely you would be able to. At most you can guage current "rocket ships" by looking out for extremely (relative to round stage and vertical) large raises. I would filter out those startups set up by career finance or well-off folks, as they would be better at raising money anyway so valuation may not be related to traction. However note raising lots of money is not a garuntee of success nor does it mean it will be fun to work there.
Trump is not "wondering". His statement was unambiguous: "There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent."

This is an unproven statement. Numerous elections experts disagree with it. Why is Twitter not within their rights to warn people of this?
Because humans aren't very good at doing what they think they do, and people who have little idea how to do it are going to make a good choice. So, it's a good choice to have something that works on a large scale, even if it is just an AI but that doesn't require that you use it for a lot of other things, you will probably end up with lots of other things just to make the machine go into something less complicated.

If the AI is so good that it can actually be useful for anything, people will probably stop giving it advice on how to do what they want from a simple and simple and simple task; this is the key difference between the AI and humans at work.

In fact, when I asked about what people really want from a simple task and it wasn't really a good one, I was very disappointed because it was so complex. That is why I've come to believe it's really not that useful for anything other than a little bit more automation.
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I'm not sure why you think there's an intended effect here other than "maybe get a few people who are more on the fence to read something real and make it look like Twitter is Doing Something TM." I would hardly be surprised if it succeeded at those things.
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>>He’s claiming that it is a scam by his enemies that will definitely result in massive voting fraud. Is there any evidence for him to make those claims at all?

I think the rationale is that the existing incidence of local ballot fraud points at a widespread, under-reported problem that doesn't inspire confidence in the process.

Voting by mail is pretty normal to me, being in the military and outside of my home state for most of my adult life, but it's about as secure as WEP encryption for your Wi-Fi.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/voter-fraud-philadelphia-ward-...

https://www.dailybreeze.com/2016/11/03/how-more-than-80-elec...

https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/commentary/datab...
Yes, I think we largely see it the same way, but GP stated:

> I'm sure the Mastodon creators wouldn't like it, but they'd have to ideologically support the very idea of allowing them this, as it comes down to free speech.

And I argued that it does not come down to free speech, and that whether "Mastodon ideologically support the very idea of allowing them this" is unclear at best.
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Could not agree more. Thanks for posting your positive response.
No matter what Facebook does, journalists (fake news) will criticize them.
https://lbry.tv/ - they also recently launched paid videos, so you can get paid if you make premium content.
If you can read German and are interested in this topic I highly recommend the book Scheibenkleister by Claus Brod.

http://www.clausbrod.de/cgi-bin/view.pl/Atari/Scheibenkleist...
The reason seems fairly obvious to me. It's the same thing as how we do things and do them in a good manner - and that's very different from other things in the industry. For example, why would a doctor call you if he says you are not doing a diagnosis, but he isn't doing a doctor: you have to be a software engineer. A doctor could go to you and ask a question about the symptoms you are experiencing and find out if the doctor is doing a diagnosis. He has to understand that the doctors use the AI to do everything he can to avoid that problem. His job seems to be to get insurance and medication coverage.

You might think about this a few times - if you are able to make an AI out of the box, maybe you have all of the necessary knowledge to get it out as well. Just as a computer can make a database out of a document. A programmer, however, could do all the necessary knowledge to get that system working. But most software engineer is like a carpenter - no amount of math or programming will change that. They probably also have all of the necessary knowledge necessary to make a car, so how about a car that can take a picture, and a car, that can run the calculations of the wheels
I know for a fact my aunt mails in ballots for her husband, her father and her mother. Claiming that there is no mail-in voter fraud among 300 million Americans is quite absurd in my opinion.
goes down by quite a bit when /if we build a tether (space elevator).

but would still be a stupid idea. everything is recyclable
Are there online dev environments out there that treat shell as the first-class citizen? Where the initial screen is just a command prompt a la Linux without a desktop environment or Windows 3.1 era MS-DOS?

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You can make a genuine case that it's important for the American people to have open proof that their President is an unhinged shitheal actively courting neo-nazis in his bid to undo all progress that has been made in this country in the past fifty years.
You seem to be jumping around in terms of what position you're taking. Is times(a, b) function composition because a and b are functions, or is times(a, b) function composition because it's composition of the addition function, or is times(a, b) function composition because multiplication is a function? Those are very different assertions, with very different implications to the original discussion, and so far as I can tell you’ve made all three of them. Maybe they're all true, maybe one or two of them is true, maybe it's a matter of perspective which are true. But I don't think you're being clear or consistent in which assertion your position is based on.

And no matter what, there's still a difference between composing a with b, and composing b with itself a times, which is what I mean by the distinction between composition and iteration (sort of like the distinction between a brick and a brick wall).

At this point I feel we're going around in circles, so I'll bow out.
I'm still not seeing the edit, but honestly Fox News viewers seeing CBS as substantively representing the left in any capacity is a large part of the problem here. Fortunately not everyone who matters believes only Fox News and nothing else.
"TiVo, but for the browser."
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2.9 here. I suspect the (probably fake) 1-star ratings are still pouring in.
Most of his 'brand' is based on Twitter these days. I would doubt that he will do much of anything. You know all of the posts here on HN about basing your entire company on the platform of someone else? Well, here is a good example.
It's frustrating that you think I'm giving Trump some credibility here. I'm not. He's an idiot, but that doesn't mean it is appropriate for twitter to behave this way.
You have to trust someone because at some point the DNS request is getting made. It sounds like you're just choosing to trust your ISP.
Facebook shareholders try to block encryption plan
Did you read my GP comment? The dibs don't do you any good unless you can get a patent on the new treatment.
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I usually wouldn't care about yet another c++ game framework, but this author's prototypes are so impressive and artistic that it makes me believe he's doing something more than just playing around with technology.
From Twitter's statement:

> Trump falsely claimed that California will send mail-in ballots to "anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there." In fact, only registered voters will receive ballots.

This not "wondering about how susceptible mail in voting is to fraud," it's an outright lie.
This is not going to end well. Every single aspect of life that cannot be rigorously tested under the scientific method is destined to become a partisan topic.

There is no way to be sure if mail-in ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent.
Stanford covers all tuition for parents whose income is $125k or less, and partial tuition for parents making more than that until some cutoff. Regardless, $150k would be getting you a decent bit of financial aid.
It's a violation of copyright under current interpretations of the Copyright Act. Companies like FB are well aware of this and send C&Ds to this effect every day.
This problem is turtles all the way down, there is no trusted apolitical arbiter of the facts, you either believe twitter is making a best-effort attempt to curtail misinformation or you believe they're exercising a political agenda under the guise of curtailing misinformation.
"Hello, FBI? This random guy on the Internet is extorting me."

FBI: 'Go away and come back when you have a name and address, and can prove the guy is under our jurisdiction.'
He retweets racist nonsense constantly. If you want to add "re-tweeted by the President of the United States" to your resume, you just have to keep @-tagging him with conspiracy theories about Biden, and there's a decent chance he'll take the bait.
Trump doesn't have a crystal ball.

"NO WAY (ZERO CHANCE) THE YANKEES ARE GOING TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES!"

Am I making a statement of fact, or stating an opinion here? Should twitter fact check this statement with some ambiguous "experts" who think that the yankees are the best team of them all and WILL win the world series?
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I prefer reading people's take on the particular news on twitter than reading news.

Group sourced news take is better than the drivel journalists write.
Add the awesome https://telescope.ac to that list.
The poor vastly outnumber the rich, so what point are you making exactly?
Some families already have their own slack. chat, post articles, share pics, and even put content in appropriate channels that you're free to join or leave! I already do this with my friends group of about 20 cuz it's more than good enough.
Every time someone write software, someone comes along after-the-fact to try to claim it as "artificial intelligence", no matter how little (or absolutely nothing) the software in question has to do with whatever's being sold that year as "AI".

AI used to be sold as human-like or even superhuman intelligence. Now, it just means "running software".
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