skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uncertainty quantification and OOD detection in machine learning. It's on some people's radar, but has the potential to get ML adopted much more widely as people understand what it is actually really good at, and stop giving it things to do that it's bad at.

For a great recent example that get at some of this, see "Does Your Dermatology Classifier Know What It Doesn't Know? Detecting the Long-Tail of Unseen Conditions" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03829

I'm not affiliated with this work but I am building a company in this area (because I'm excited). Company is in my profile.
I always laugh when I see Comcast commercials for "fastest in-home Wifi". An 802.11ac router isn't going to help anything when you can only get 10/10 bandwidth on a good day.
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly and it's not what this site is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
> What if I told you, you can’t have a gas powered car anymore because it’s killing the planet and humans?

I don't have a car, so that's fine. Also there's this thing called "an electric car". You should look it up :)

> What if I said the same thing about all oil powered ships and planes?

I'm not sure where this "it's either A or B" mindset comes from, but it's not a particular intelligent one.

Just because we need to stop destroying our environment doesn't mean we have to stop doing _everything_ that involves fossil fuels. Long term maybe, but not necessarily all at once.

> Because I feel the planet is worth saving, can I force you to abandon all fossil fuels despite the massive financial cost and the limits on things and experiences you can enjoy in the future?

When given the choice between no fossil fuels and no Earth, I think the choice is easy. Fortunately we're not quite there yet, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
It makes painfully obvious the point they don't get it. They really, willingly or not, refuse to understand what the issues here are.
No one demanded he respond to every rebuttal in detail. Every reply presented alternate evidence which stands on its own without characterization. It was an asymmetrical exchange, but because one of the people involved was an authority figure. Aside from the position, everyone involved could equally be considered a "Perl maintainer" (that is, not very much for any of us).
The FSF ran just fine under him before the Selam G. shitstorm. Sure, he irked a lot of people with his rigid stances. But considering how those stances are exactly what made him found the FSF in the first place, I don't see it as a big problem.
This is essentially RMS' point, and it is pretty much a stupid technicality that even his deceitful 'I now know better' non-apology doesn't in fact contradict at all. Sure, the word 'rape' invites images of forcing yourself on someone through explicit violence, when what Minsky did is statutory rape, non-consensual sex with someone by virtue of them being unable to consent (since she was a minor).

But it misses the point that Minsky was an old, intelligent, somehwat rich and powerful man (in his 70s? 80s?) having sex with a sex worker 60 years his junior. That he might not have known she was technically a minor and forced into sex work against her will doesn't entirely excuse his behavior, and his reputation is worth almost nothing compared to the hurt that he caused her, even if unkowingly.

The fact that we don't (and won't ever) know for sure whether he had in fact been aware that she was a minor forced into this situation against her will makes the situation even worse.
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> If you are a core maintainer, and your job is to interact with this code on a regular basis, you're the de-facto expert on its quality (albeit with some personal biases). If you think the code you have to work on is bad, and people don't work on that code are saying you're wrong after just skimming it, it's going to drive you insane.

What you describe is the usual case, so it's a reasonable thing to assume, but if we examine reality we can make a case for concluding in this particular instance it's reversed.

S. is a newcomer, ISTR he started out with XS just a few years before. I just spot-checked the last 200 out of 500 commits, not a single one touches the core C part, it's only documentation and release maintenance. I mention these not because I think they are strong evidence for the case that he is not an expert, but easily verifiable. nwclark, pevans, davem definitely got their fingers dirty with the core of the code base, and were (2 out of 3) also previous release managers, we should consider experts and not "just skimming".

> whether or not code has "cruft" is entirely a subjective manner.

This was not was the argument was about. It was rather: one party claims the cruft is a big impediment against improvements, the other party claims the cruft is not a big deal in that regard.
I have been looking for a useful formulation, or metaphor,

for why the NFT premise feels so [preposterously] wrong to many including myself.

Here is one idea, for how we intuit value:

As a fraction, in which non-fungibility (~= "authenticity") is the denominator; nominal value (whatever that is, a function of context etc.) is the numerator.

In the sports card example, a physical object with a provenance has intrinsic guarantees of uniqueness.

Low uniqueness means high intuited value.

In the NFT case, a hash has non-intrinsic guarantees. They are provable; they are not perceptible.

Uncertain uniqueness means low intuited value.

It's not that it's not provably unique; it's that if we don't perceive it, no one cares.

Perceptible and provable for us monkeys is a serious and real difference.

That's the general idea. The edges are full of corners, for sure, e.g. a counterfeit or reproduction can be exacting enough to create a new game for us to play (I am reminded of the rabbit hole of reproduction collectible watches...)... the quest of authenticity has a fractal quality in the case of mass-produced but limited goods (what edition number? What pressing? The one with the misaligned cyan?)...

...but in the 80% case, I think it's simply, we monkeys like objects; ideas remain a hard sell.

My own belief is this is so deeply baked into the relationship between our world modeling that it will not be overcome through culture.

A lemma might be, non-fungibility is less important than materiality.

Authenticity for fungible goods, like gold, is persistent, in part because they are fungible. It's their material (perceptible provability) that reassures us.

I believe this is rooted in intuitions about the scale and durability of consensus on value containers, which appears until recently to have been in the long view winner-take-all, in the case of things without pragmatic use-value.
Breaking the site guidelines like this will get you banned on HN, regardless of how you feel about Blockchain or anything else. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post like this again.

Edit: you've mostly been posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments. Can you please not do this? It's exactly the opposite of the kind of discussion we're trying for here. It isn't only that comments like these burn community health points—the greater issue is the example they set for others. It's all too easy for an internet forum to spiral into decay, and we're trying to stave that off if possible.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
You can't, because all the websites they're tracking you on are actually helping Facebook by choice. They didn't plant a GPS tracker on your car, they paid a bunch of amoral civilians to monitor your movements through the city.

Our legal system isn't equipped to handle the majority of free people deciding to act like broad-spectrum stalkers within the span of a few years. Society only works if most people aren't evil or utterly susceptible to evil influence.
Want to cross ref the erp database with that stuff team x has in a lake and join with what team z has in a dwh? You don’t need pipelines and jobs and working out where to store that data... you just need a hub! And you can query it ad hoc too.

We used to have to copy and shuffle data into centralized systems so we can query and join it.

Data hubs do away with all that. Stop needing to think about storage. Instead, it’s just about access.

There have always been fringe tools, eg I once did some cool stuff with MySQL spider engine. But modern systems like Trino (formerly called Presto) make it easy. And, I predict, will hit the mainstream soon.
When did you stop beating your wife?

Minsky did not have sex with an underage sex worker. Allegedly Epstein directed that woman to offer sex to Minsky, but that didn't occur. It is mind boggling how readily some people throw mud here.
Hardly.

Or rather, only if you fall into a small sliver of society.

You are describing startup a "website/app company". There is an entire industry for trying to find the next TikTok. Unfortunately that is the ultimate unicorn. That immediately winnows the crowd down to maybe 10% that have degrees / knowledge of computer science?

There isn't really any other "startup" culture right now except hoodie-wearning Rust/JavaScript/Python programmers interested in machine learning.

It is a monoculture, and if you don't program, you ain't in it. Becoming "rich" isn't even accessible to 90% of the US population.
Developments in the AR/VR space. The haptics stuff coming out is really cool and may be consumer friendly in the near future. Meanwhile headset tech is seeing major investment and light field technology is going to do amazing things for this space.
Yes. The only thing that matters is the quantity of retweets your morally righteous attitudes afford you
TLDR: It’s all Apache 2.0.
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From the announcement: "You should consider the initial code to be at an alpha stage — it is not complete, not thoroughly tested, and not suitable for production use. We are planning to release a beta in the next few weeks, and expect it to stabilize and be ready for production by early summer (mid-2021)."

Given that Amazon announced the fork in January and they don't expect it to be production-ready until summer, I'm guessing they've underestimated the amount of work required to package and distribute a product as complex as Elasticsearch. Given that, I doubt they will be well-equipped to keep pace with new feature development.
You just described the Fediverse.

https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse
Absolutely, everything needs to go.
I have read both RMS’ own statements on age of consent, I have read his statements defending minsky(s/p), and I’ve read firsthand accounts of students creeped out by his advances.
None of those are acceptable for a person in a powerful position.
We have this idea that ownership of land and natural resources is total. After I buy a patch of land, I can absolutely obliterate everything that lives there, on a whim. If I somehow manage to make money by doing that, people consider that moral, since hey, money is great for everyone, right!? Growth growth growth! Rabbits be damned. Suck it, frogs! Trees, you're mine! Oh, there's gold in them hills? Ah, a toxic sludge lake would go so nice right there. Welp, gold's finished. Time to sell of this hunk o junk and retire to the Carribean!
A non-compete, basically.
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> Stallman's bad books the moment he found out he had children.

This is how disparaging internet rumors are spread. You know someone that allegedly experienced this. Do you know them well enough to know the account is factual, or maybe they were just piling on because they had a bad experience with him and decided to frame him in this negative way because it was the 'cool' thing to do at the time?

Quit proliferating unsourced 3rd party accounts.
"Scrolling media" is pretty good. It sounds enough like the existing term to catch on.
Sometimes it is not very subtle. As someone who grew up on well water, the chlorine taste of any city water is unbearable to me.
You are not talking about the bottom 95%, you are talking about 5% of the bottom 95%: tech-educated programmers & engineers. Now look at how many have the skills to be a CEO and that's about another 5% of that. So in reality you are describing 2.5% of the population.
I reject his explanation. Plain and simple.
I have read RMS’ own statements
I have read firsthand accounts of his victims.
I formed my own opinion.
I agree. A rich individual can give their child $0 in inheritance but one introduction, referral or diner party later and they could be set for life. In between this scenario, and the other (handed money) there are countless scenarios that make conclusions very cloudy.
I never read 1984, but generally would not have been able to guess that 1984ing was going to be a grass roots phenomenon.
I've implemented some use-cases for t-mobile, they basically peddle our products as a whitelabel solution to municipalities. One of my biggest beef with nbIoT is that 90% of all the use-cases I designed would have been better of using LoRaWAN instead. The reason why nbIoT is chosen is obviously that it provides the operator recurring revenue via a data-SIM but apart from costs there are other massive drawbacks such as energy draw of an nbIoT enabled sensor when compared to LoRa.

nbIoT is justified if I know that the data volume of my "solution" might increase due to feature/scope creep (and replacing the battery/sensor isn't going to become an annoyance in 2-3 years at end of life).

For most use-case LoRaWAN makes more sense but doesn't have the same marketing budget that is available to T-mobile, Vodafone and Co.
> There is no team without him, you are aware of that, right?

I certainly hope this is not true. Stallman will die one day. I doubt that anyone in FSF simply intends to just pack it in when that happens.
It always astounds me to see what a true genius can do!
Why would Red Hat want to be associated with a group that quietly reinstates him? The board that did it should also go.
I totally agree. But they can't do that. Or at least, it's hard. And they'll lie about it being impossible.
I don't want to derail this too much with personal anecdotes, but I suspect you are much more likely to build wealth with the more established tech companies - and that wealth is "rich enough".

Maybe I am just unlucky or unskilled, but I spent roughly 20 years working at startups or innovation labs. I was "close" to some big events where I could have made big $$ but made 0. Both at my own startup and being at early stage duds. Its kind of like I was the tech guy in 'life of Brian'. However, in the last three years I have built more wealth at a FAANG than I have in the previous 20 years. YMMV.

Back to the thesis, I think pg is saying wealth is built by startups - I am just here to say that's it still really rare unless you get lucky. But maybe you create your own luck by living in SF - I am a Bostonian.
They have a great breakdown on their blog[1] around the high-level request flow, but Workers run independently in each POP/colo. They aren't "faked" / running in some more centralized location.

Traffic only has to leave the edge if you want to fetch from _your origins_ behind it, but any responses the Worker generates itself are local to that edge POP. Return a static response, inspect/validate a JWT, modify something on the way out of the cache: all close to the user.

Disclaimer: used to work at Cloudflare, still think it's a great product.

[1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-cold-starts-with-clo...
Very true. I have to confess to a very leading question there, as I am building exactly this and thinking long and hard about monetisation. I do like the cable analogy and think it's very true.

I think ads can be done better/more ethically than currently as well though - whether that be less of them, less "native" so they don't appear exactly like posts from your family/friends and with less granular targeting - whether advertisers would go for it is another matter entirely though...
> Someone I know who works on pretty much singlehandedly on something that is on the frontpage of GCC said that he entered Stallman's bad books the moment he found out he had children.

I know pretty much nothing about this Stallman person, does he actually dislike people with children?
iOS and OSX are littered with Ads. I've even seen ads in Apple apps (Music for example) where there shouldn't be any (for example, popping up a full screen ad in front of the screen to play a song I already own). I use both Apple and Microsoft OSs on a daily basis. Anyone who thinks Apple doesn't do this stuff isn't paying attention.
I'm even talking vs custom trained models with Kaldi (was working on a startup that was trying to create lessons for public speaking so we could grab enough data to tackle accent remediation/help those with aphasic speech disorders) and again just reiterating, the out of the box performance of Nuance's products are just better than anything else.

Obviously Nuance is more than just speech recognition, but still not sure why people are downplaying how good they were at it.

EDIT: or maybe it's just too prohibitively expensive for people outside of medical/legal fields to know about? And don't get me wrong, I love that things like Talon Voice are widely available for hands free coding, I just hope this means NaturallySpeaking will supplant Windows Dictation.
If you look at the FSF's 990, you will see that the Red Hat contribution amounted to about $7000 USD a year. It was a really negligible amount.
https://ipfs.io/ seems pretty cool. I've been meaning to check it out, but not seen any uptake yet.
Unwanted conditions should be handled before handling the process in a peaceful condition.

Not sure it makes much sense to indent everything within "if" and if you forget to "else", you've just potentially hidden a bug.
I gave both a listen after reading this comment. To my ear, the difference is just that her voice much more mature as a 31 year old than it was when the song released 12 years ago and she was 19, and that naturally makes it harder to believe the small-town highschool themed lyrics. Her voice is too deep to sound like a teenager anymore.
Google acquiring YouTube also had good synergy because it caused bandwidth costs to plummet, which YouTube was having a hard time managing as a startup. The company was bleeding money on bandwidth, because they were an end user who had to pay an upstream ISP for transport [1]. Once Google acquired them, suddenly they're on effectively a backbone network and have settlement-free peering with all kinds of other networks. That drove bandwidth costs down to near zero according to one analysis [2].

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/04/cheaper-bandwidth-or...

[2] https://www.wired.com/2009/10/youtube-bandwidth/
I'm really excited, to the point of distraction by the RISC-V ISA.

Some people say that there's nothing new in it, but to my mind, they're missing the point : the Berkeley Four took what couldn't be appropriated for profit, and built a statement about what computing is... They revealed the Wizard of Oz to everyone, so that anyone with some computing background can build a processor, freely.

And now this freed wizard is working his magic, and will change the computing landscape irrevocably.
Sounds almost like you're describing high-functioning autism. Yes you can learn by emulation and observing inputs and outputs and looking for patterns, but it's not a perfect method.
And would probably have a lot more heirs.
Maybe this comment was too sarcastic but the core point stands. Julia’s main advantages for most ML and Data Science users are still theoretical. The package ecosystem is still way to immature. It’s not just MLJ. I was excited about Julia and made a good faith effort to port a work project to Flux and Zygkte and it was a disaster. There’s nothing wrong with passionate open source tinkerers working to improve the ecosystem, but don’t advertise it as ready for production when it’s not.
There is a pretty low bar for inherited wealth. Simply having a family who is able to support you if everything goes pair shaped (maybe as little as letting you live in your childhood bedroom for little or no rent) gives you a huge advantage over someone who isn't in that position.

Having parents who are able to lend / invest / gift modest sums of money is yet another step up the ladder.

All the way up to having parents with business / political contacts in the industry you are trying to move into.
I agree the quantity is very minimal, and dilution will work - but the thrust of my post was opposing the description of how easy Beta-radiation is to stop (via how much skin it penetrates) - because that skin penetration is exactly why it's dangerous.

It's not IR and the rules are very different. Beta-emitters aren't dumping that energy into thermal heating, they're dumping it into the interior of your cells as a high energy electron or positron. Wherever that thing appears, it's quite likely to blow a hole through whatever substructure happens to catch it, which means despite being low overall energy, the delivery mechanism is quite different.

The reason I quoted "beta burns" is because they act like burns, but they're not thermal. They're the result of cell death happening in deep layers of the skin (or your internal membranes if you ingest/breathe it). It's just the effect is quite similar: cell death in relatively deep skin layers, and the side-effects - susceptibility to infection.
Adjust window size, place it in the center or wherever it's more comfortable, increase text size as needed. That's what I do :D
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Yes, it is 100% idiology.
I think pushing the idea that sex with minors is ok, is morally wrong.
I think defending those who victimize others is morally wrong.
I think victimizing students that you have influence over with poorly thought out advances is morally wrong.

This is my moral opinion on the subject. Infinitely subjective.
How many consultants & I-bankers do you know? You sound like you come from a remarkably entrepreneurial subset of the world.

Where I come from, everyone wants to make MD/Partner, ether in law, finance, or consulting. More generally, MBA applications to top schools have been rising for years.

Besides, if 10x the median individual income isn't enough outside of SF/NYC, you got bigger problems.
I mean for years it has been an open secret that organizations and also people are okay with certain degrees of problematic behaviours. I cannot remember how often I read blog articles linked on HN about HR departments ignoring reasonable complaints. At some point it is then also necessary to have direct words every now and then. Otherwise this system is just passed on and never improved.

I also have serious doubts that toxic behaviour is supposed to be particularly bad in IT orgs. (What about investment banks or construction businesses?) At the same time the sentiment towards IT is "traditionally" really bad.

That said, as long as RMS didn't do anything outside of the law, it might be positive to give him another chance in the FSF world. This would set also an example for a possible way out for other orgs beyond canceling. Although I still think they should put a new person on the top and put RMS next to that person. Also to make the FSF as open as it wants to appear.