skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@S1mon - I think that is unfair, though he is a first class media hacker and quote giver. He has had a high-ish industry profile from his time as a developer at Atari Research in the early 1980s. He, Thomas Zimmerman and Mitch Altman et al formed one of the first commercial VR companies - VPL Research in 1984 and developed early generations of the data glove, eyephone (VR Headset) and datasuit (body tracking) and a visual programming language (VPL -BodyElectric) for building early VR apps. And its this which propelled him into the press visibility.

He got popular with press because he can give a great quote, hold an interesting conversation / PoV / interview and was accessible and very visible with the first generation of VR hype. VPL Research ended in bankruptcy circa 1991/92 with its patents eventually going to Sun Microsystems. After VPL - he worked on Tele-immersion at Internet 2 - doing remote telepresence over high bandwidth networks and also did some telepresence stuff with SGI. Since then he is probably better known by his books, industry commentary, press quotes (or music depending on your interests). However a bunch of the tools we use today (Occulus/Vive, visual programming in the likes of Unreal, telepresence robots etc) can be considered descendants of some of the stuff he helped pioneer or at least the ideas he helped plant for later generations of developers to run with.

Please see Don Hopkins note below for more history and correct product names :-)
Just seems like a lot of time and money when spending less would just mean losing more (probably much cheaper) aircraft before you get air superiority.
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>getting good students to go to mediocre high schools sounds like an excellent way to improve the average quality of schools

I think there's also a lot of value in giving the local students some peers that are more serious about education too. Ideally every school should offer a non-distracting environment for motivated students
You don’t need to make it server side, but it certainly is easier. But client side is totally doable. You can compress word embeddings and search them with great accuracy.
The democratically elected Salvador Allende would agree with you.

So would Kissinger, I would bet.
see above for a very good answer

I'll give my answer

Fed is printing a lot of 'money' with its printing press

some of it is going to large tech because it is 'safe' and still 'growing'

However, there is $3 trillion of money printed, and even more being printed

So, where does this money get put?

Where can it get A RETURN?

Tesla is one answer. That's why Tesla is 1,000 P/E

Another answer is technology companies

Let's say there is Family X, friends of Fed and its printing press

Fed has printed $50 billion for them

Where can they put this $50 billion, so that it doesn't get killed?

A) Big Tech

B) tech that might become big Tech (like Tesla)

C) new tech IPOs

So any tech company that can IPO, should IPO

All this LIQUIDITY/Free Money/Printing Press Money is desperate to find ANY KIND OF RETURN

Also, they have so much money and no where to put it, their thinking is

17 different SaaS companies - at least 1 or 2 will become trillion dollar companies in 15 years

Invest in all 17

They literally 'printed' the money so it costs them nothing
In the military as bottom of the rung enlisted people, yes. I feel okay saying that, since I was there, and I was one. I had, er, blown some earlier opportunities. It's not an easy life for the first couple of years, and the pay is terrible at first.
> AFAIK, "I’m pretty sure"

But what if you don't know anything about his work in VR?

I mean he has worked his whole live in VR as founder in startups, Atari, Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, National Telepresense initiative, Microsoft Research...

https://patents.justia.com/inventor/jaron-lanier
Mylan Epi-Pen is advertised on TV - that's definitely an emergency drug.
Mozilla Voice STT: an open source speech-to-text engine
It's creepy by modern western norms but it's been a fairly basic drive in rich and powerful men for a long time. Look at the percentage of men who share Y chromosomes from Genghis Khan, or the sultans who kept large harems.
are there any clear cut answers to

“minimum wage should federally be $15/hr for all states“

democrats say yes

republicans say no

hence, two sides

wash, rinse, and repeat for socialized healthcare, student loan forgiveness, and open borders

how can it not be party versus party when there’s no clear cut correct answer?
The only other one at the time that also built a Slack integration was Guru. Confluence didn’t have a Slack integration and HipChat was still alive too, so our bet was that we could be the Confluence equivalent for the Slack/Github/Asana ecosystem. Things have wildly changed since then (e.g. Slack bought HipChat, dozens of new competitors, etc), but we’ve adapted.
I was just confused, why use a generator when you spread it anyway.
> In the military as bottom of the rung enlisted people, yes.

Some people just want to get stuck into the work and tactics rather than all the fuss of being an officer! Being a private soldier in many units can be an extremely challenging and rewarding experience. Yes the pay isn't great for people with other opportunities, but money isn't everything in life.

I know many people who could easily commission but want to stay operators because that's what they enjoy.
Since we’re programming it, we could probably just modify it so that it really enjoys doing work for us, no matter how menial the work is - a lot like the genetically engineered cow in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that wants to be eaten.
You make me music baskets and I’ll find a way to make it pay well.
There is no way you need C-level approval to get a $5 a month subscription.
Of all the kids in my IB class in high school, the kid that played the bassoon got into more schools than any of the rest of us, even with moderately worse grades.
Thanks for this^. I needed a good laugh!
The sky is too big, the distances are too large, and a fighter jet is moving too fast. What are these drones supposed to do, hope the jet flies close enough that the drone can act as a proximity mine?

Plus, the kind of small drone you’re describing can’t operate at the altitude of a fighter jet. As the air thins out you need a lot of speed to keep sufficient oxygen flowing into the jets, and non-jet aircraft can’t operate. So unless the drones are going to be blimps, a drone that can climb to fighter jet altitude is going to be pretty big and look a lot like a fighter jet.
Kim Kardashian brilliantly parlayed a revenge porn incident into fame and money. I'm guessing whoever this guy is, that's not his backstory.
Do you have a link to something that describes this technique in more detail?
I can't find this on their site, but how are they preventing people from taking the gold out of the bills and recirculating them?
> Or are all the extensions patented as well

Yes. So, if you want to reimplement a CPU from 1999, you will probably be fine without any kind of license. If you want to add features or use new methods, however, you may run into infringement issues.
> because Epstein was a criminal

Just random thought: Should will be saying alleged criminal or not since he would never have a trial?
> Her stance is one that sticks in my mind as to why Celebrities should not set out to be influencers.

I fear that the climate of social justice that forefronts slogans, conformist language, shibboleth, woke terms, etc. effectively creates a script for signalling virtue.

The danger, of course, being that psychopaths and actors have an easy script to follow to bask in the praise they get from virtue signalling.

It's a one-way ticket to domination that shuts out opposition.
Yes I can develop and test iOS apps on my Mac without a phone.

And there are online services that provide real-world phones if you do need to test it. Or I can just use Testflight and have beta test users do it.
Yes, electrified trains require far less crew and other workers, which means the current size staff size can operate on a wider timespan for practically the same cost.

Also the acceleration and deceleration will clear the tracks far easier and quicker for the next train to arrive, leaving less congestion during peak hours and less load on the system overall.
> It was revealed on January 22, 2009 that Thain spent $1.22 million of corporate funds in early 2008 to renovate two conference rooms, a reception area, and his office, spending $131,000 for area rugs, $68,000 for an antique credenza, $87,000 for guest chairs, $35,115 for a gold-plated commode on legs, and $1,100 for a wastebasket. Thain subsequently apologized for his lapse in judgment, and reimbursed the company in full for the costs.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thain

"Sorry I got caught. I will work harder to hide next time."
> That's not much of a value gain it would just push the industry further away from ARM.

I think that's the big irony here. It's taken ARM decades to break out of embedded/mobile and get to the point where they're seriously considered for workstation or server use. If Nvidia were to acquire ARM it would likely antagonize everyone to the point where they'd rush back to x86 and Nvidia would gain nothing.
I feel like clojurescript but with all mutable functions removed would be a good option.

You get a cleaner literal syntax than Json, and easily composable functions.

The hiccup list syntax for html in clojure is a joy to work with.
It's fairly well established by now that the most significant drivers of housing unaffordability is the preponderance of zoning regulations that restrict the supply of new housing construction.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w8835

https://research.upjohn.org/up_workingpapers/307/

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/08/la...

https://www.nber.org/papers/w20536

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sHh6BJ8dPoN9VQj-PXTPK5ATa8m...
It's even more common today. eg, Jupyter Lab or Jupyter Notebooks.
> Investors / boards are wanting to get money out before things turn south I feel.

How would you distinguish that motivation from "Investors / boards feeling that the business is in a strong position, and the worldwide uncertainty from the pandemic has stabilized enough to feel confident about continued growth, so they're ready to go public"?

Why assume such a negative viewpoint without giving any reasoning or arguments for it?

One other conflicting thing about your view, is that if filing now investors are still probably a year out from being able to sell their shares. If they thought things were about to turn south, that's a long time to wait. Surely it would be better for them to sell on a secondary offering and get out sooner if they were sure of that?
Quite reasonably the question arises, defense vs what? Even without the US, NATO is still extremely well protected with a giant and extremely advanced military. They even have a strong Nuclear deterrent. Really the US is the only roughly equivalent military force on the planet.
I ran the math on this once.

Just a subscription to The Information is $399/yr. Add a subscription to the Times, and you've already blown past your $500 budget.
So is it safe to eat in a restaurant now Cuomo?
yeah docker is both the best and the worst build tool

best because it's hermetic

worst because it's wasteful and isn't great at any kind of graph-based step caching (even with buildkit graphs, that's not going to integrate well with your package management and build tool)
Is the XBox Store available for anybody to sell in, or do you have to have a relationship with Microsoft?
Hmm, why did the CMS allow for such a setting in the first place? It seems to me that allowing this is the problem... But this might be a structural/org-political that you have to solve then
PS4 games are tied to your account just like iOS.

So yes you can sell your iPhone apps the same way you sell your PS4 games i.e. by selling your entire account.

But in both cases this is against the terms and conditions and so it's likely this account will be terminated.
I dont really understand what people want to happen:

So you “cancel” a guy that doesn't need employment or advertisements to get anything done, by condemning anyone that received money from him.

What do people want to happen to the money instead?

What punishment do people think they are enacting?

Has anyone actually thought that far?
Oh no, my number of imaginary internet points went down!!!!1

There are a indeed a lot of things we could ban in the name of safety. Cars, travel of all sorts, power tools, candles, sports, anything more competitive than checkers. We wouldn't be left with much, I reckon.
Whats really incredible is the AI company behind these wargames(Heron Systems) only has 25 employees[1]. Which to me seems very small considering the engineering behind making this successful.

[1] - https://www.sbir.gov/sbc/heron-systems-incorporated
The negative value of having an pilot paraded around (ala Gary Powers) far supersedes anything that might be gained. The Iranians were perfectly justified in capturing the RQ-180, and the Global Hawks might have been justified. They'd have no qualms or legal issues with defending their airspace from manned flight.
My computer doesn't fit in my pocket.

So by your definition it isn't a computer then ?
With deep learning, using conda environments and environment modules to switch between various tensorflow, pytorch, cuda, and cudnn versions for reproducing/building off of other's results is essential.

It is sort of hilarious how many breaking changes there are even between minor versions of these.

Thank gosh I was able to install a 2 year old version of pytorch (0.4.1) today to reproduce some code from within the last year.
I believe I read that article as well; but haven't been able to find it in a while; it's not pateo11 OR Malcolm Gladwell ;), but does anybody have a link to a blog/article that may have been the original source?
Thx! :)
i think the point the article was trying to make is that good enough is a much more quantifiable metric and randomization after that is better at minimizing bias from those who select who is "special." I think of it more like, everyone with a 1500 sat go into a hat, and we pick 20 randomly, rather than lets put everyone with a sat score of 1000 in a hat because that is "good enough."
> it doesn’t understand anything outside of the context of the game it’s playing.

Yea, and the game is life and death. A military minded AI won't distinguish between surrendering and fighting enemies, won't distinguish between enemies and non-combatents, might confuse a shutdown order with an electronic attack. Just cause AI isn't by definition "smart" doesn't mean its harmless.
not sure why your comment is getting down votes

this flurry of IPOs is to take advantage of all the Liquidity the Fed is pumping into the markets

The IPO is the product

Tesla at 1,000 P/E

If you are running a tech company right now, you would have to be crazy to not IPO

you can raise half a billion or a few billion

that buys you 5 to 20 years of life as a company
The strategy that turns daydreams into reality
Do the FISA courts or National Security Letters count as an open court with opportunity for the media to find out about it?

What if the US State Department uses PRISM or a related program instead?
Appreciate that Tom, and yes the PDF is a more readable summary for those who don't have time to read all the way through the 60+ page Gdoc ;)

And a support group / Slack channel for Software Engineers sounds like a superb idea.
So how are you going to get "hundreds" of drones up to 50K feet where the F-22 operates? And then when he flies around this swarm at Mach 2, your drones are left in the dust?
"unapproved"?

Unapproved by whom? It's obviously been approved by China's National Health Commission (NHC) as they were the ones to announce it.
There’s a joke that drone warfare enthusiasts keep inventing the guided missile. Nobody disputes that swarms of drones are effective against fighter jets once the drone side of the argument has backed up to drone-as-guided-missile. But a drone’s anti-fighter capability just keeps increasing as you strip away everything that makes it a “drone”.
Do you think a company has zero obligations to its users if those users are not paying for the service?

Most of us have never directly paid Google for anything. I think we would still have justification in being upset if there was a central Google flaw that allowed users to view our search or Gmail histories.
I think narrow biases and unpublished results happen to some extent anyway with the politics/beauracracy that arises from having a small subset of established scientists vote on which science gets funding. I don't disagree with the concerns about wealthy donors/corporations, and I do think it is a good idea to have a large portion of funding allocated by other scientists. But I also feel a little diversity in funding sources can give labs breathing room to be more creative.

There's also examples like the development of the original birth control pill- which was largely funded by one wealthy woman. I doubt it could have happened in that time period without someone wealthy with independent interests being able to push development.
The reason you're seeing this story is not because the Pentagon felt like you would enjoy some candor on a whiz-bang AI thing. No, they're way out in front of this issue. This is part of a prolonged PR campaign to prepare the public for reducing or eliminating human-in-the-loop limitations. A wet dream for systems guys since they were children reading sci-fi.

The Pentagon has been using robots to kill robots and other humans since before 9/11. This story has a long arc. We meat bags are the major limitation for machines of war and that limitation will be engineered out.
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Okay, but in that case, is it kind of weird that we keep trying to sell our fighter jets to other countries?
Huh. So, it sounds like your friend is essentially trying to be House, MD, but, hopefully without the surly attitude, the Vicodin addiction, and a tendency to nearly kill patients at least 3 times an hour.
Does it really matter how it's marketed? We know that an XBox is mostly a Windows PC. There's all kinds of software I'd like to load onto an XBox-like device. A PC in the living room connected to a large TV has a lot of potential. I'd like to write software for it and I'm sure I'm not alone.
Please excuse my ignorance, but what is a Shopify micro-SaaS app? Is it just a SaaS product that uses Shopify as the payment processor?
It is an interesting, if ethically difficult, question.

Actually, the US military prepared multiple counter strike options, and the president (eventually) picked one.

He then called off the strike a few hours before the time on target, because a faction in the Whitehouse gave him an estimate that the counterstrike would result in 150 casualties.

See John Bolton's book "The Room Where It Happened" for a very elaborate inside account. He is very open that he would've preferred the strike to go through, and while he believes above casualty estimates were much too high, he was very much aware the number would not be zero.

I can see how any US casualties might've tipped the balance in Trump's mind.

So yes, there might be some value. But where it gets complicated is whether the value is positive or negative:

One could say that the US flying only an autononous aircraft that day saved up to 151 lifes.
And an MQ-9 is incredibly slow, can't maneuver worth a damn, and requires clear communication to control it. I don't understand why this question keeps coming up every time drones are in a news article. Sure something like Loyal Wingman might pan out, but the idea that swarms of cheap drones are going to be able to target something that's stealthy, operating at 50K, and around Mach 2 is just a fantasy.
I hate this so much, if you are posting a question in a q&a forum like stackoverflow, this rule makes perfect sense. But in a conversation it is perfectly normal to gauge interest or ask if is ok to ask a question hoping you will be directed to a better place. Why is online conversation so special? We are not writing a letter with a pen,it's instant just like having a normal talking conversation. Sure,the actual question should be conscise but the norms and etiquettes of conversation pre-exist for a reason.
I'm no fan of Palmer Luckey but didn't he do some actual engineering for Oculus though? I know Jaron Lanier had some success in academia in the '80s but I thought the past 30 years for him has almost exclusively been speaking engagements and interviews and writing think pieces. He was all over the mainstream media during the first wave of VR hype back in the early '90s and he always just seemed to be talking about how neat it would all be someday and how we all have to think about what it means and how it's going to change everything and maybe we should buy his book or go to one of his talks to learn more about his amazing predictions about the amazing future.

To be clear, I'm not down on anyone for being a thinker or a philosopher, we need those people as much or more than we need engineers when it comes to understanding how technology can (and should, and should not) change society. But sometimes people talk about Jaron Lanier as if he's been doing way more tangible, impactful stuff than speaking engagements, interviews, and think pieces over the last 30 years, and so far I haven't found much evidence of anything.
Trucks tend not to deploy at 1,000 knots regardless of terrain over a 1,000 mi range.
Another big reason is to make it easier to do acquisitions.

It's a lot easier (for both sides!) to buy another company with your stock if there is more confidence in the valuation, that way everybody knows what they're getting (or giving away). One way to get a really, really solid valuation is to be publicly traded.
Why do you ask for my mail during sign-up and then continue to only offer oauth with google or apple.
> It goes both ways,

>> They complement one another too.

>> One helps the other. The reverse direction is slower though because it is often held close to the vest for a bit of time.

Glad we agree

> We build planes and tanks not because we need them today, but because we might need the ability to build them tomorrow.

I also agree. I'm not sure why people think I am saying to not build tanks and planes during peace time. I just think we should be funding civilian science more and that the military benefits from such research. I haven't really disagreed with all these people "disagreeing" with me.
And don't forget that these drones are going to need some sort of targeting system that works against stealth aircraft. Oh and they either need really good AI or some communications channel that will be jammed to death.
I don't know a thing about Kim Kardashian, but I've never read anything by Lanier that I thought was worth reading. Whatever people see in his commentary, I don't.
Leading in a Crisis: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
We actually do use this technique in our search (nearest neighbors on document embeddings). Collaboration is a big part of what we want to do as well, so client side encryption gets even hairier. It might be doable, but I think the effort to get that to work properly may not be the best use of time for a small company trying to build a valuable product first :).
The US in not a leader in corruption, but it is an interesting study in creative ways to be corrupt.
Bad schools are made of bad policy, not bad kids.
Look up tf-idf. We used this technique to build a similar product (now open sourced[0]) to Journal actually, building off an improved version of tf-idf called CoSaL[1].

Orbit is actually an insanely ambitious take on this problem space. The CoSaL algorithm is in there, it even runs using a forked version of Spotify’s C optimized algorithm.

[0] https://github.com/motion/orbit

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08493