skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of a post on here in 2018, "It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (2004)" [1], where many of the commenters rightfully pointed out that instead of turning this into a machine learning problem, you could just implement a PID controller [2] to solve the problem. With control theory you can model a dynamic process like this more directly, and the theories have been around for a long time already.

ML shouldn't be applied where it's not necessary.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16215130

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller
State charts (as a specialisation of state machines) are a really underappreciated tool. Fits in with the modern thinking on immutability: you can't really work without state, but you should herd it into clearly defined locations where you can keep an eye on it.
My suspicion is because:

a) It's $100k for GPL. $200k for MIT. I expect the latter is much more interesting to most people but there's no way to pledge for only that.

b) It's still web based. I think the large file size of Electron apps is only part of most people here's objection to them. There's also the general slowness, jankyness, lack of coherence, bugginess etc.

Still, I would have expected more interest than this.
Naturally those labels are super vague, but sort of:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24799541
Eh yes. Even my TV has an open source acknowledgements section in the menu.
Looks like it'a still an opt-in experimental option at this point rather than the default. Preaumably they'll fix these caveats before recommending it for general use.
Boris Johnson Says U.K. Is Now Preparing for No-Deal Brexit
> Arguing otherwise simply justifies using the rules as a sledgehammer to silence voices you don't like.

Arguably, this is the purpose of every rule ever made in any context (if you follow the chain of reasoning far enough)
Maybe it's a wonderful place for you because your specific speech is not suppressed. Maybe not all your citizens think that way.

Based on the description I would be interested to know which country we're talking about.
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IMO Kruzweil doesn't make predictions, he makes wish lists.

It's useful to consider obvious misses - for example, he failed to predict fake news or the dystopian surveillance and behavioural influencing culture being created by ad tech.

This has obvious implications for practical AI. If the black-hat possibilities aren't considered and mitigated, experience to date suggests they'll dominate.
They run Python codes on the phone, and let a separate microcontroller do car interfacing, in which they do their best to gatekeep the ML output. That “critical” uC part is self certified by them on best effort basis.

And of course that uC unit comes in a 3D printed enclosure so yeah
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I own 2 Maruti vehicles. One more strength that is not highlighted in the article is the large service center base they have around the country.

I drive 60 km a day total, and have been doing so for past 12 years, commuting to work.

I keep meticulous record of my costs,and the average maintenance for the car comes to around .55 Rupees per km. Less than 1 US cent.

Their cars have a reputation of being reliable and their spares are cheap.

Truly a remarkable success story in India.
You could make a similar argument about destroying most small businesses and replacing them with amazon, permanently, for an 'if'.
There were efforts/experiments to try to cure psychopaths with psychedelics.
I don't think you need to give a "thank you" in the announcement to every library you use, but if you have a product that's just a fork of an open source project, then, yes, I definitely think you should thank them in the announcement.
Except OS data is surprisingly badly suited to this.

OS doesn't have a topological (=connected, routable) database of public rights of way. The green lines you see drawn on a Landranger map are just that: lines on a map. I don't need to explain how having a routable database would make a project like Slow Ways so much simpler.

OS, of course, doesn't have accessibility information like stiles, gates, or surface quality, which OSM often has.

I love OS maps, but they are increasingly being marginalised to B2B applications (particularly utilities) and keen walkers. Most UK cyclists have migrated to OSM and, judging from people I see out and about here in the Cotswolds, casual walkers are increasingly going that way too.
> OSS is a great thing that has tremendously benefited the industry

I'm beginning to question this. The proliferation and commoditization of F/OSS is what made SaaS business thrive, and made it so that integration and polish is the only avenue left to make a buck, leading to our paltry attention economy, oligopoly, and platform lock-in by network effects. This after decades of personal computing striving to liberate users from mainframes. F/OSS is also drying out - when was the last time you used a piece of software that truly achieved something useful on its own rather than solving a perceived problem that only exists because of the idiosyncratic nature of the web and cloud stacks? Meanwhile, maintainers of popular F/OSS get nothing in return.
I have the same traumatic association with 5 second delays. 5 second tail latency? Look for SYN retransmits.
This, incidentally, is why I tend to prefer the AGPL for stuff I write myself, as it aligns most closely with this "digital public square" idea. I'd simply rather not have an Amazon use my work in this sort of taking-without-giving way at all.

Meanwhile, the open source code I write for my employer is Apache 2.0 licensed because the permissive licenses seem to be the most friendly towards large corporations and hence is what they prefer.
i don't see what the issue is. his project is licensed under apache2:

https://tldrlegal.com/license/apache-license-2.0-(apache-2.0...

i mean, as long as they include the license, they don't have to give any credit whatsoever.

remember this, companies do things according to their legal department and i'm almost certain that their legal department said flat out that if they credit the author they could set themselves up for a lawsuit down the line. so they followed the license requirements to the book.

if the author is pissed about a big company using his project and them not giving him a props, he should have used a license that requires an attribution of the original author.
> The guy who discovered Jon Stewart and Bill Maher

So this guy is like a pre-cog for detecting smug assholes? How can we harness this power for good?
Sotheby's to offer Macallan 78 Years Old, oldest Age Statement Whisky at auction
https://archive.vn/RWRvq
They're somewhat yummy but bland and expensive table grapes, and basically flavourless beyond the sugar, which seems to be what consumers like, unfortunately. Still, it's an improvement from the little green unripe acid pellets that most people are buying. With table grapes, consumers demand seedlessness, which means there's quite a low genetic diversity since most trace their breeding back to Thompson Seedless.

I grow wine grapes, and grow in the northeast (Ontario) so I don't grow anything like this. I grow cold hardy hybrids that trace the majority of their ancestry back to wild vines that are native to eastern North America (which is the centre of diversity for the genus, BTW).

The vines I grow for wine mostly come out of the University of Minnesota grape breeding program; they are pretty bulletproof vines. I could probably grow vinifera here, but it would involve bucketloads of pesticides that I can't be bothered with.

Here's a recent podcast interview with the head of the grape breeding program at the University of Minnesota, if you're interested: https://www.organicwinepodcast.com/e/matt-clark-grape-breede...

I have plenty of "weird" grapes here because I hobby breed. I mainly work (play) with a wild species that is rare in Ontario and around the northeast, called vitis aestivalis bicolor. V. Aestivalis is a species of grape that has lower acids, higher tannins, higher disease resistance, and more neutral flavour than most of the wild grapes -- but it's also a pain to work with because it does not propagate from dormant hardwood easily, so it's been neglected in breeding. Bicolor is its northern variant that is hardy up to about latitude 43, around the southern great lakes region. I am trying to cross it with other, more cold hardy, hybrids to produce something with the lower acids, higher tannin, and more neutral flavour that bicolor has but with higher sugars and more cold hardiness. I have a number of vines here from other hobby breeders that I'm playing with as well.

High quality wine from cold hardy and disease resistant hybrids is still a "Work in progress"; growers, breeders, winemakers, and wine marketers have a lot of work to do still. But it's imperative because vinifera is becoming less and less viable every day and it's stupid to be growing it in places like Ontario. And in any case the same thing every day is boring.
I fall asleep quickly (a few minutes at most). If I don't then I code/debug in my head (this is not a joke, I do that and I like to code) and usually sleep within minutes.

Then comes 2 am and I often wake up. If there is no stress then I fall asleep and it's fine. If there is stress then I digest it and cannot fall asleep.

To that I found a solution that sometimes work: I have a pen and paper next to the bed and I write inthe night that thing I am thinking about to not forget it in the morning. My brain acknowledges and I can fall asleep.
> with a clause excluding multi billion dollar companies.

Every multi billion dollar company: runs subsidiary to not trigger legal threshold. They probably do it anyway for tax purposes.
You realize that this also applies to Hacker News, right? Browse with "showdead" on and see what has been killed by centralized and/or community moderation.

(I happen to think the HN team and community do a fine job of it)
Next talk starts at 15 UTC, that is in 2 hours.

I'll be speaking how about how to get Nix to become mainstream.
They are an influencer, but they're deemed a micro-influencer. These are still an important target for marketers to hit, as often micro-influencers have a more supportive and interactive userbase.
Where does it say you don't have the right to work from home? Of course you do. You also have the right to not work from home as well. This isn't about that, it's about the idiot politicians taking power to command private employers who they must employ. Whereas - all other conditions being equal - someone who won't show up at work (!) normally wouldn't get the job, now they will (or else).

State can't give you any right that you already don't have. It can only steal from others or otherwise coerce them so that it can provide privileges through redistribution. With this nonsense legislation State takes away from workers willing to work harder (and show up at work - how old fashioned) and from employers (who are forced to pay the same salary to employees who'd normally have to take a 10-20% cut) to people who won't even show up!

This statist meddling lowers living standards and makes everyone poorer. Including the customers.

Where does that idiocy end, by the way? What is next, the right to get paid for not working from home? Oh, right, that's already in the cards and there are pilot trials all over the place. Forward, comrades!
> Open source software is more than a license and code. It is a community and the digital public square.

I've never found this square.
They can be, when used appropriately.

To give a particular example, the exponential growth of computing power has been a close-enough match to exponential since Kurzweil became famous: It was about 20 years ago that Apple was boasting that their latest PowerMac was banned from export to Cuba because a 1 gigaflops computer counted as a weapon, now they boast their phones do 11 teraflops — compatible with 1.5 year doubling time.

(That said: while I have met someone who expected the exponential to continue past single atom transistors, I do expect it to stop soon-ish; superconducting/3D/quantum computing may replace classical transistors, but I never expect to see multiple transistors on a single atom).
Very, very, very true. The light of civilization is a flickering candle in the darkness

I often think about the city-states along the Silk Road: healthy, peaceful, cultured, unprecedented prosperity for their time. All defeated when the hordes of Genghis Kahn rode by, many utterly destroyed

The Empire of Mali. The Kingdom of Lithuania. Macedon. Tyre. Babylon. Carthage. Samarkand. Assyria. All once mighty, all gone, perhaps a place-name remains, if that
I think thatguyagain is making a good point about infinite regress. Should we all add a thank you to our github pages, thanking every dependency, library, framework, to Stroustrup, to Stallman, to Linus, and to John von Neumann?
Motivate them to be mindful of the shoulders they stand on. The bad PR is that this at-a-glance anti-Amazon post is at the top of a popular tech forum.
If someone gave you tens of thousands of dollars of valuables would you say thank you? If people gave that to you regularly would you become too bothered to say thank you? especially when your acknowledgement could help the person giving you their wealth?
Umm, you first? How is the "use your brain and your eyes" safety strategy working out so far? Are you against ABS too? Shouldn't people just learn to pump their brakes?

Computers assisting but not supplanting people's natural abilities is one of the utopian visions of how to use technology. GP's idea seems brilliant and the only downside is that 2020 has shown that lots of stupid people would proudly boast how they ignore the warnings or pump the statistics in the wrong direction. They would probably get a catchy name for themselves too.
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Looks nice conceptually! I am getting a lot of jittery glitches with the graph dashboard and especially the CMS (unusable.) On FF 81.0.

I like Airtable for rapid prototyping and small data stores. It seems like this would be more comprehensive for that use case? Unclear on how to approach user login and permissions (of the project and not the canonic platform)
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If MDMA would result in shut-ins then it wouldn't be such a big business, no?

(Though we have to control for how many new users entering the market, how many shut-ins it has already produced, etc. But looking at very rough data about MDMA use and depression prevalence per country, there's doesn't seem to be any correlation. For example Netherlands is at a constant 4% since 1990, but use went up from ~2.3% to 8.4% from 1997 to 2018. https://www.statista.com/statistics/632401/ecstasy-usage-in-... and https://ourworldindata.org/mental-health#depression )
nix work on windows natively yet?
It benefitted the hardware industry in the same way free gasoline would benefit the auto industry.
Looking at the family picture at the bottom of the page it puts the iPad Pro 11" not in a weird spot at all, just completely out of it.
This to me is more of an argument against allowing GMO to be entrenched than any questions of product safety; you wouldn't turn over most of the world's arable land to a single megacorp, so why allow them to take over species?
Wow. I had no idea that both ffmpeg and qemu was two of the things Bellard created. https://smartbear.com/blog/test-and-monitor/fabrice-bellard-...
That mixes a few things together.

Conservatism believes, fundamentally, that existing institutions are necessary for promoting the general welfare. What conservatism fears is people looking for meaning in themselves, finding it and then withdrawing from the social institutions - leading to a general collapse. It links in very neatly with a world-view where meaning is to be found externally to the self.

It isn't anything to do with the fixedness or flexibility of moral truths. Conservativism as a philosophy can handle extreme morally flexible if the institutions require it to survive.
Do you mean New Testament or Old Testament? The New one is mostly pleasant (mostly) but the Old one... oh boy. Casual genocide, god-assisted, even, what's not to love? And even better, the stories of literally defrauding the god (Moses was told by the god he has to keep his arms up for Israelis to keep winning the battle, but he gets tired, so his sons(?) keep them up with their hands for him, yeah, that's totally not against the spirit of the god's challenge).

Honestly, the Greek myths are better in that they weren't at least claiming those gods were omnibenevolent and stuff.
Why so high? Why not, say, $10M? If you want to be paid for your work, why let most of even the Fortune 500 still use it for free?
> he failed to predict fake news

In former days, "fake news" was simply named "propaganda" or "bad/manipulative journalism".
Well since they save a tremendous amount of time and effort by incorporating code that other developers spend their time on it the least they could do. Heck, it's even possible to mostly automate this as a lot of companies already (automatically) check for licences that require attribution or have other conflicts before you release your product.
> If I suggest an idea from a coworker in a meeting as if it was mine, that move would be seen, at the very least, as somewhat rude.

It will be lot more rude if your coworker now hit social media berating you for stealing other people's ideas. If just office ideas were this important may be they need to be submitted with process of academic journals with proper attribution.

It can't be both ways: "Announcing that take my idea / software and run with it" And if someone does, telling them "you are first rate moocher, aren't ya?"
At what time do we decide we have reached the "TRUTH" and decide to stop giving ideas a chance?

If we were to take your argument back in time and apply it, what would we see?

"I mean...heliocentricism, really? Do we have to give Copernicus slosh any thought, we all know that God created the earth and then the heavens so it is only natural that they orbit the earth."

On the front page at the same time is a story about psilocybin and "What if a Pill Can Change Your Politics or Religious Beliefs?".

Right now we accept that sexual orientation is not a choice. What if in the future we find that exposure to chemical/compounds can cause people to become more gender norm conforming? What about less conforming to historical norms?

How would you propose we handle those possible futures? A drug that turns you gay is straight out of Alex Jones. A drug that turns men straight is straight out of conversion therapy.
They also needlessly drive up land value around major roads, and I don't feel much sympathy for companies that subsist off of simply owning said eyesores.
Possibly, but many/most humans would quickly realize the sign was out of place, quickly vanished, etc and not stop the car or swerve too far.

This is a solvable problem. Just another example of where "AI" is lacking a sense of intuition.
£50 a breach. Patheticly small amount.

IAG has £23 billion of revenue last year. Over the last 9 years their total profit was £10,000 million, partly driven from slashing IT costs.

A £1 billion fine wouldn't massively hurt a company that's made ten times that in post tax profit in the last decade, but it would cause companies to take information security more seriously.

This is the equivalent of someone on an average UK salary being fined £20.
As does this - that's what the NOTICES file is for. When I've looked at it on TVs it looks the same: Copyright notice and license terms that they're required to bundle with any redistribution.
Sorry if you got misled by the article - ORC is what you should use if your program has cycles. ORC deals with async just fine.
That’s to be expected then, the legal bare minimum.
There is the same argument that people who want apprenticeship use. They want to work for a company and learn, but company won't hire them because they don't have money to pay for "idle" worker and the overhead to teach them.
But this is for the greater good. In the past you had companies who used their market share in particular city to drive wages down and people had a choice either work for them and starve or move to different city. Minimum wage stops this, at a cost of some people being unable to work for free. I can accept that.

There will be projects for sure that would love their software were used by AWS and other companies without paying them, but that will only create a race to the bottom. We should stop exploitation of engineers by these giant companies.
Kurzwel is making predictions. Extrapolation is like the only method of making predictions.
What is percentage of minimum guaranteed return ?
Where do you buy your source connectivity from?
What is the cost of last mile fabric.
What is approximately the number of customer you can get from each POP.
> The fine is considerably smaller than the £183m that the ICO originally said it intended to issue back in 2019.
> It said "the economic impact of Covid-19" had been taken into account.

Why do I get the feeling, that if £183m would not have mattered much to the bottom line of BA back then and now that it does they get a discount.

Is there any other non-business analogy where you get a discount on a fine, because you hit rough times financially?
That is what I thought initially, but you do get a 120hz screen and 64GB more storage for $200 with the pro 11". If you want 256GB then it's only a $150 difference for the better screen. If you need 128GB but not 256GB then it is $50 since Apple doesn't sell a 128GB iPad Air (probably to leave room for the Pro 11"). It isn't a great deal but if I were in the market for an iPad I think I would go for the pro just for the fluidity, especially since either should last for years and years.
Again, he's not American.

Also, "sought out information".. you're gonna take that as an exception for rights of the press? No publishing about watergate if the editor and journalist "sought out" the information?
So much this. The original question has the cart before the horse. First understand the problem you're trying to solve, then solve THAT problem. Not the one you wish you had. Or, in the words of John Gall:

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system."
> You’re basically suggesting using a smartphone camera to walk around town, when you could just, y’know, use your eyes.

Our brains are kinda specialised to process information at that speed, not at cars speeds.

Having an augmented reality is definitely useful, the same way it's useful for you to have access to maps with realtime location in your phone while walking in the city. Why don't you use your brain and navigate solely through memory? You could still do it, why use a smartphone for navigation? Because it helps.

The same is the case for augmenting information you have, in a car it can be quite useful if you end up missing a sign for the maximum speed (as I've done through Germany in some Autobahn stretches that change speed, most of the times due to construction). The same is the case of giving more spatial awareness through data, who is around you? That is the most basic skill you need as a driver, if there are systems to feed you this data in a quicker and more processable way rather than relying on other people's ability to maintain their attention to be checking their mirrors and keep awareness of their surroundings all the time, so be it. I do it all the time while driving, I don't trust others do the same.

So you know, you could also use that brain a bit more.
I agree with all of your points but why is it Twitter or Facebook's responsibility to check all of those things for every article posted to their platform? Why is the onus not on you as the reader to do your own fact checking?